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Ukraine’s future in doubt, Putin says The Associated Press LVIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Saturday that Ukrainian statehood is in jeopardy and likened the West’s sanctions on Russia to “declaring war,” while a promised ceasefire in the besieged port city of Mariupol collapsed amid scenes of terror.

With the Kremlin’s rhetoric growing fiercer and a reprieve from fighting dissolving, Russian troops continued to shell encircled cities and the number of Ukrainians forced from their country grew to 1.4 million. By

Saturday night Russian forces had intensified their shelling of Mariupol, while dropping powerful bombs on residential areas of Chernihiv, a city north of Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said.

Bereft mothers mourned slain children, wounded soldiers were fitted with tourniquets and doctors worked by the light of their cellphones as bleakness and desperation pervaded. Putin continued to pin the blame for all of it squarely on the Ukrainian leadership and slammed their resistance to the invasion.

“If they continue to do what they are doing, they are call-

ing into question the future of Ukrainian statehood,” he said.

“And if this happens, it will be entirely on their conscience.”

He also hit out at Western sanctions that have crippled Russia’s economy and sent the value of its currency tumbling.

“These sanctions that are being imposed, they are akin to declaring war,” he said during a televised meeting with flight attendants from Russian airline Aeroflot. “But thank God, we haven’t got there yet.”

Russia’s financial system suffered yet another blow as Mastercard and Visa announced they

were suspending operations in the country.

Ten days after Russian forces invaded, the struggle to enforce the temporary ceasefires in Mariupol and the eastern city of Volnovakha showed the fragility of efforts to stop the fighting across Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials said Russian artillery fire and airstrikes had prevented residents from leaving before the agreed-to evacuations got underway. Putin accused Ukraine of sabotaging the effort.

A third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine will take

place Monday, according to Davyd Arakhamia, a member of the Ukrainian delegation.

He gave no additional details, including where they would take place.

Previous meetings were held in Belarus and led to the failed ceasefire agreement to create humanitarian corridors for the evacuation of children, women and older people from besieged cities. >See INVASION, A2 >First Nations show support, A8 >Plea to U.S. for warplanes, A9

WWF calls for tighter rules on ship dumping DARRON KLOSTER Times Colonist and The Canadian Press

Sid Sidhu in his mini-observatory in the Highlands. Sidhu has had an asteroid named after him after being nominated by the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada for his decades of outreach work. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST

Amateur astronomer can see his name in stars after asteroid named for him PEDRO ARRAIS Times Colonist An amateur astronomer from Highlands who has spent almost four decades peering at the stars and inspiring youth can now train his telescope on an asteroid that bears his name.

The International Astronomical Union announced last month that the asteroid formerly known as 10109 will be named Sidhu in honour of Sid Sidhu — an announcement that came as a complete surprise to the 86-yearold.

The Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, of which Sidhu has been a member since 1985, had ­nominated him for the honour four years ago, but kept it a secret.

Asteroid Sidhu, which is about 9.4 kilometres in diameter, orbits the sun outside the orbit of Mars. For the next three to four months, the asteroid will be visible with the help of a ­telescope. Discovered in 1992 by a ­ stronomers at the Mount Palomar Observatory in California, it can be found southeast between the Virgo and Boötes ­constellations travelling slowly northeast.

“I still don’t believe it — it

hasn’t sunk in yet,” said Sidhu, who was also awarded the national Royal Astronomical Society of Canada’s President’s Award in 2009, the International Year of Astronomy. “It has been an exciting journey and it is humbling to be nominated for this honour.”

Randy Enkin, president of the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, said when Sidhu was informed of the honour, “he kept saying: ‘I don’t believe you! I don’t believe you!’ ” Enkin said thousands of Victorians have got their first glimpse of the moon, planets and distant objects in the universe thanks to Sidhu, including a few who ended up making a career out of astronomy.

“The Victoria Centre unanimously approved the idea of putting Sid’s name forward for this honour, and we are pleased that the International Astronomical Union has joined us in recognizing Sid’s great work.”

Each newly discovered asteroid needs to have its orbit sufficiently documented, a process that takes five to six years at a minimum and up to 10 years, to receive a permanent designation — a unique identifying number.

Once it is designated, the honour

of naming it goes to the discoverer. However, some decline the opportunity and it can remain as a number for years.

Individuals and organizations can put forward a name for ­consideration to the International Astronomical Union, which regulates the naming of asteroids. A special committee made up of a dozen astronomers from around the world reviews the applications once or twice a year.

Sidhu, who attributes his lifelong love of astronomy to his inquisitiveness, has spent decades promoting astronomy in Greater Victoria. He leads the outreach program for the Victoria Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, where he would, pre-pandemic, give more than 70 presentations a year on the subject to students in Grades 1 through 6. He also runs the Victoria Centre’s telescope loaner program.

Sidhu said he first peered into the cosmos for the first time on a family camping trip to Rathtrevor Beach Provincial Park in 1983, igniting a lifelong passion for exploring the universe.

Because his hobby requires observing celestial objects in a dark sky, he and wife Carol Sidhu sold their Gordon Head

house to purchase property in Highlands on a lot with tall trees and no street lights. He then proceeded, with the help of a structural engineer, to build a miniobservatory in his backyard.

On a clear night, he retracts the roof and uses his telescope to explore the stars.

“I can’t think of a more deserving person to receive such an honour,” said Dave Balam, a professional astronomer with the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and the National Research Council since 2007.

“Sid is an easy-going guy who is both humble and extremely competent.”

Balam, who has discovered more than 600 asteroids in his career, said Sidhu’s asteroid is only the 547th with a Canadian connection. While some are named after astronomers or scientific institutions, one is named in honour of the Tsawout First Nation.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, which began in 1868, has more than 5,000 members across Canada. The Victoria Centre was founded in 1914 and currently boasts more than 200 members. Most members of the society are amateur astronomers. parrais@timescolonist.com

As the cruise-ship season starts to ramp up along the West Coast, an environmental group is calling on the federal government to tighten its rules and raise minimum standards around vessels dumping sewage and other waste in protected marine areas.

World Wildlife Fund Canada said in a report this week that all types of ships operating in Canadian waters generate — and potentially dump — 147 billion litres of operational waste each year, the equivalent of 59,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools.

The report said that nearly 10 per cent of what flows overboard goes into marine protected areas and other protected waters. It says one of the most at-risk areas in Canadian waters is the Scott Islands, the first marine National Wildlife Area established by the federal government in 2018.

Covering 11,546 square kilometres off north Vancouver Island, the five Scott Islands are a key ecological breeding and nesting habitat for 40 per cent of the province’s seabirds, including 90 per cent of Canada’s tufted puffins and 95 per cent of Pacific Canada’s common murres.

The area is also teeming with whales and stellar sea lions — and located along the major cruise-ship route to Alaska.

After being shut down for two years because of the pandemic, the route will be active this year, with the large passenger ships plying B.C. coastal waters from early April through to October.

In Victoria, 350 ship calls are scheduled for vessels sailing to Alaska.

WWF-Canada based its report on 2019 data from movements of 5,546 ships in Canadian waters, and the four major waste streams those ships created, where waste is likely dumped and by what types of vessels.

The waste streams in the study include sewage; toxic scrubber wash water; grey water from ship sinks, showers and laundries; and bilge waters that contain fuels and oils. >See SHIPPING, A2

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WWF-Canada said cruise ships are the top producers of the four waste streams, despite making up only two per cent of the ships in its analysis. The analysis involved the movements of several types of vessels, from bulk carriers, oil tankers and cargo ships to ferries, fishing craft and tugboats.

WWF-Canada said the federal government has yet to follow through on a three-year-old commitment to bring in new regulations on what waste ships can release into the oceans, and that lack of progress is allowing ships to keep releasing wastewater.

“We don’t have the kind of regulations we need that would ban this kind of dumping,” said Kim Dunn, a co-author of the report.

Dunn said Ottawa promised in 2019 to draft rules that would define what kind of wastewater could be dumped into oceans and where that would be allowed.

“We don’t yet see that commitment,” Dunn said.

Without clear definitions, releasing many types of waste into seawater remains legal.

Almost all of the wastewater — 97 per cent, according to the report — comes from ship scrubbers, which remove sulphur and other contaminants from smokestacks. That wastewater is acidic

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About two-thirds of the scrubber wastewater that enters Canadian waters comes from cruise ships, the report added.

Ottawa announced in April 2019 new “minimum standards” that prohibit oil and gas activities, mining, bottom trawling and dumping in marine protected areas. But the report said while a ban on dumping may seem straightforward, there is currently no standardized definition of what dumping actually means in the context of marine protection in Canada.

“As a result, dumping from ships in protected areas remains subject to interpretation,” said the report.

Dunn said a comprehensive definition of dumping is needed, so there are minimum standards in all of Canada’s marine protected areas that would prohibit the discharge of operational waste from ships. “We know from the science that all of the waste streams studied in this report are harmful.”

Comment from the shipping industry was not immediately available.

Transport Canada spokeswoman Sau Sau Liu said the government is consulting with industry and other stakeholders on new rules.

“In light of the 2019 federal announcement to establish minimum standards for [Marine Protected Areas], including a prohibition on ‘dumping,’ Transport

Canada is examining the operational and technical feasibility of enhancing existing vessel operational discharge requirements under these regulations,” she said in an email.

Transport Canada said regulations on grey water, sewage and bilge contents in southern waters are aligned with international rules. In the North, the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act prohibits all waste discharge.

While that act does prevent ships from releasing bilge water or other oil-containing water into the Arctic, the report says those rules are ambiguous for other wastes.

“Ships use scrubbers and discharge wash water in the region, but the legality of this practice is an open question due to regulatory inconsistencies and conflicts with accepted practices,” Sam Davin, a co-author of the WWF-Canada report, said in an email. “This inconsistency leaves room for ambiguity in enforcement.”

Davin said grey-water release in the Arctic is in a similar limbo.

“There are no reception facilities in the Arctic capable of handling large volumes of grey water and ships do not generally have the ability to retain their grey water beyond a few days,” Davin wrote. “Additionally, Transport Canada has neither approved nor certified any grey water treatment system for use in the Canadian Arctic.” dkloster@timescolonist.com

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Chaus posted a photo online of what he said was an undetonated FAB-500, a 500-kilogram bomb.

“Usually this weapon is used against military-industrial ­facilities and fortified structures,” Chaus said. “But in Chernihiv, against residential areas.”

In a speech to Ukrainians on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pointed to “the 500-kilogram bombs that were dropped on the houses of Ukrainians. Look at Borodyanka, at the destroyed schools, at the blown-up kindergartens. At the damaged Kharkiv Assumption Cathedral. Look what Russia has done.”

The West has broadly backed Ukraine, offering aid and weapons and slapping Russia with vast sanctions. But the fight itself has been left to Ukrainians, who have expressed a mixture of courageous resolve and despondency.

“Ukraine is bleeding,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in a video released Saturday, “but Ukraine has not fallen.”

Russian troops advanced on a third nuclear power plant, having already taken control of one of the four operating in the country and the closed plant in

In comments carried on Ukrainian television, Mariupol Mayor Vadym Boychenko said thousands of residents had gathered for safe passage out of the city of 430,000 when shelling began and the evacuation was stopped. Later in the day, he said the attack had escalated further.

“The city is in a very, very difficult state of siege,” Boychenko told Ukrainian TV. “Relentless shelling of residential blocks is ongoing, airplanes have been dropping bombs on residential areas. The Russian occupants are using heavy artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers.”

Russia has made significant advances in the south, seeking to cut off Ukraine’s access to the sea. Capturing Mariupol could allow Russia to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.

Meanwhile, the head of the Chernihiv region said Russia has dropped powerful bombs on residential areas of the city of the same name, which has a population of 290,000. Vyacheslav

Chernobyl, Zelenskyy told U.S. lawmakers.

“We’re inflicting losses on the occupants they could not see in their worst nightmare,” Zelenskyy said.

Russian troops took control of the southern port city of Kherson last week. Although they have encircled Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Sumy, Ukrainian forces have managed to keep control of key cities in central and southeastern Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.

U.S. President Joe Biden called Zelenskyy early today, Kyiv time, to discuss Russia sanctions and speeding U.S. assistance to Ukraine. The White House said the conversation also covered talks between Russia and Ukraine, but did not give details.

In Moscow, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with Putin at the Kremlin. Israel maintains good relations with both Russia and Ukraine, and Bennett has offered to act as an intermediary in the conflict, but no details of the meeting emerged immediately. Bennett’s office said he spoke twice with Zelenskyy afterward, however.

In the wake of Western sanctions, Aeroflot, Russia’s flagship state-owned airline, announced

that it plans to halt all international flights except to Belarus, starting Tuesday.

The death toll of the conflict was difficult to measure. The UN human rights office said at least 351 civilians have been confirmed killed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, but the true number is probably much higher. The Russian military, which doesn’t offer regular updates on casualties, said Wednesday that 498 of its troops had been killed.

Ukraine’s military is vastly outmatched by Russia’s, but its professional and volunteer forces have fought back with fierce tenacity. Even in cities that have fallen, there were signs of resistance.

A vast Russian armoured column threatening Ukraine’s capital remained stalled outside Kyiv. Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said Saturday afternoon that the military situation was quieter overall and that Russian forces hadn’t “taken active actions since the morning.”

The UN World Food Program has warned of an impending hunger crisis in Ukraine, a major global wheat supplier, saying millions will need food aid “immediately.”

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Crowdfunding campaign takes flight to create Island’s first eagle sanctuary PEDRO ARRAIS Times Colonist A crowdfunding campaign is underway to create Vancouver Island’s first eagle sanctuary in an estuary near Qualicum Beach.

The B.C. Parks Foundation hopes to buy 18 acres of land in the French Creek estuary to join five acres of existing parks land managed by the Regional District of Nanaimo, creating a 23-acre nature reserve for bald eagles.

The undeveloped property is located between Qualicum Beach and Parksville, bordered by the Island Highway to the south, Columbia Drive to the west, Viking Way to the north and French Creek to the east.

The B.C. Parks Foundation — the official charitable partner of B.C. Parks — is partnering with the Regional District of Nanaimo, Save Estuary Land Society, Friends of French Creek Conservation Society and Qualicum and Snaw-Naw-As First Nations on the effort.

It has already raised 94 per cent of the land’s $5.18-million appraisal value and just has to raise less than $300,000 by April 10. The property, which is mainly forested with large trees, is owned by one landowner.

The B.C. Parks Foundation notes southern B.C. and the Inside Passage sustain most of the eagles of western North America for six or more months each year.

Resident eagles are joined every year by an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 eagles from northern B.C., Alaska and the Yukon. The northern eagles make their way to feeding grounds on Vancouver Island and the Fraser Valley on what is called the Pacific Flyway, a major north-south route that migratory birds take that stretches from Alaska to the Patagonia region in South America.

The birds leave as their food supply freezes, typically arriving here

The B.C. Parks Foundation is hoping to raise the last $300,000 of its $5.18-million goal to purchase 18 acres to create a nature reserve for bald eagles in the French Creek estuary near Qualicum Beach. Eagles in the thousands migrate from as far away as Alaska to join resident eagles to feast on food in the estuary and nearby Salish Sea. MELANIE LEESON PHOTOGRAPHY in early October. They stay over the winter and leave in February.

“We desperately need safe feeding sites for them,” said David Hancock, international eagle expert and founder of the Surrey-based Hancock Wildlife Foundation.

Resident and transient eagles alike feast on a diverse array of food sources in the estuary and the nearby Salish Sea, including herring and hake. At certain times of the year, high winds and surging waves dislodge Gaper clams in the area, tossing them onshore and providing a feast for eagles and other wildlife.

The resident eagles’ survival relies heavily on having a suitable habitat with mature trees for nesting. As mature and towering trees continue to be harvested for lumber or be cleared to make way for residential or commercial development, there are fewer places where eagles can live, according to the French Creek Estuary Society.

The estuary is habitat for other

species at risk, including peregrine falcons, great blue herons, marbled murrelets, northern red-legged frogs, western toads and Townsend’s bigeared bats. Animals such as beavers, otters, owls, deer, bears, cougars and other migratory birds also rely on the area.

Montreal-based Age of Union, a non-profit environmental organization, has pledged $1 million in matching funds toward the project. “This is an exciting and symbolic project, and I am honoured to join other British Columbians, including local First Nations, who are supporting it,” said Dax Dasilva, who heads the organization.

If enough money is raised to purchase the property, the Regional District of Nanaimo will work with the B.C. Parks Foundation to manage the ecological area as a nature preserve in perpetuity.

For more information, or to donate, go to bcparksfoundation.ca. parrais@timescolonist.com

Port McNeill hospital is closed to admissions and emergency visits after one of its three doctors called in sick, an indication of how a B.C.wide doctor shortage hits rural communities especially hard, says the former president of the Canadian Medical Association.

Dr. Granger Avery, the original owner of Port McNeill’s primary care clinic, said it’s been historically difficult to recruit physicians to rural practices in B.C. “It shines a spotlight on how fragile our rural health-care system is,” said Avery, who was president of the CMA in 2016-17. “As soon as one physician gets sick, which is what’s happened this weekend, then the whole thing falls apart.”

It’s a situation being played out in other communities around the province, he said. “That fragility has been there for ages and doctors and others have worked really hard to patch it up.”

Island Health reported this week that Port McNeill Hospital’s emergency department would be closed from 7 a.m. Friday until noon Monday and no new patients would be admitted.

Anyone experiencing a medical emergency was advised to call 911 or, if possible, travel to Port Hardy Hospital, about 40 kilometres away.

The health authority said it was notified Thursday that the physician scheduled to provide hospital coverage for Port McNeill Hospital this weekend would not be available and apologized. “Despite immediate and significant effort from local leadership to find alternate physician coverage, physician coverage has not been secured.”

On Saturday, Dr. Prean Armogam said he is awaiting results of a COVID test. “I felt it responsible to decline my ER shift this weekend, which prompted the ER in McNeill to do a hard closure from Friday to Monday,” he said.

Port McNeill is served by Armogam, Dr. John Fitzgerald and locum Dr. Anas Ahmed Toweir. Toweir is away on a course this weekend and Fitzgerald, who came out of retirement, provides office practice only.

Armogam said this would have been his sixth weekend on call since January while working five days a week doing clinics and outreach.

“There is simply no physician capacity and very poor resource management,” he said.

Avery, who worked in Port McNeill for 40 years, has been suggesting since the late 1980s that doctors in the region collaborate rather than work in isolation and calling for a consolidated northern hospital to serve Port McNeill, Port Hardy and Port Alice.

He would like to see a hospital and clinic at the junction between Port Alice, Port Hardy and Port McNeill, which would put the facility about 15 kilometres away from each.

“The system has to change,” he said. “All the medical practices and the hospital care should be consolidated into one.”

He has also long advocated for integrated team-based care using nurse practitioners — who can provide care without physician supervision — and registered nurses, social workers, drug and alcohol, and mental health workers.

“If we just keep doing the same thing that we did yesterday, we’re going to see the same result as you see today,” Avery said. ceharnett@timescolonist.com

The book sale is back on. Anyone got 400 tables?

JACK KNOX Good news: After a two-year absence, the Times Colonist book sale is back on.

Pandemic willing, of course.

Also, does anyone know where we can find 400 folding tables?

If you’re a regular TC reader, you know about the book drive.

It has operated in the same way every year since its inception in 1998: Good-quality used books donated by readers at a weekend drive-through drop-off are sorted by volunteers and then sold to the public at a two-day sale.

Not only is it a great deal for book buyers (traditionally, the lineup to get in is longer than

the ones at Walmart during the Great Toilet Paper Panic) but all the money goes to literacyrelated programs on Vancouver Island. A total of $6 million has been raised and distributed so far.

Alas, COVID kiboshed the 2020 and 2021 sales. Bummer.

Happily, the sun is s­ tarting to break through again, ­coaxing dormant events out of ­hibernation. The book sale is among them. The drive-through drop-off will take place April 30 and May 1 at the Victoria ­Curling Club at 1952 Quadra St. The sale will be two weeks later, at the same location, on the weekend of May 14 and 15.

Resurrecting it will take a bit of doing. It’s not easy to lurch back to life, Lazarus-like, after two years in a COVID-induced coma. Indeed, organizers are keeping their fingers crossed that the pandemic will trend in the right direction.

In any case, all provincial health orders in effect at the time will be followed, whether

that means wearing a mask, showing proof of vaccination before entry or not crawling over strangers to get at the copy of How To Win Friends & Influence People that you spotted across the table.

The logistics of staging the drive could be interesting. Take, for example, the tables on which the books are displayed. Organizers usually borrow 400 of them from the military, rec centres, schools and other good-hearted supporters for the duration of the book drive.

Unfortunately, Victoria’s table supply dwindled during the pandemic, meaning the hunt is on for more. If you happen to be sitting on a stash that you’d be willing to let go for a month, please contact Ed Kennedy at ekennedy@timescolonist.com.

Tables aren’t the only thing that could be in short supply.

The book sale’s most vital asset is the small army of volunteers, most of whom have no connection to the newspaper, who cheerfully do all the sorting and not so cheerfully do all the

heavy lifting.

Even before the pandemic, some of them were getting long in the tooth (though they were still more useful than those Times Colonist desk jockeys who couldn’t heft anything heavier than one pint without making noises more commonly ­associated with reproduction).

After two years on the ­sidelines, it’s uncertain how many volunteers will still be willing or able to re-enter the game. What’s really needed is an ­infusion of people with strong backs. If that’s you, or if you have a healthy, strapping child you don’t particularly like, please consider the idea.

Otherwise, what’s really needed will be donations of good-quality books on that ­collection weekend at the end of April. No encyclopedias, textbooks, magazines, medical books, outdated reference works, Reader’s Digest condensed books or National Geographics, please.

Also, the sorters will chuck out anything dog-eared, coffee-

stained or in poor condition (and I still have the bruises to prove it). Sorry, there’s nowhere to drop off, or store, donated books in advance.

One final note: Even without sales in 2020 and 2021, community support allowed the Times Colonist Literacy Society to keep money flowing to those literacy programs that depend on it, pandemic or not.

Scaled-down drop-offs in each of the past two summers saw Russell Books not only buy all the donated books sight unseen, but handle the sorting, plus the disposal of books not suitable for sale.

Cheques came in from individual readers and supporters ranging from Golf For Kids to Heirloom Linens. The provincial government funnelled matching funds through Decoda Literacy Solutions.

Profound thanks to all of them. With everything going on (or not) in the past two years, it would have been easy to let the cause wither. jknox@timescolonist.com

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Anti-mandate convoy returns to Victoria CINDY E. HARNETT Times Colonist A weekly protest against pandemic health restrictions filled the front lawn of the legislature and Belleville Street on Saturday.

Saturday’s protest was billed as a “pro-democracy rally” with We Unify Canada and members of the “freedom convoy” movement. Participants were expected to march and drive through downtown Victoria following speeches at the legislature.

Victoria police said an estimated 7,000 people were in the crowd at the rally’s peak.

Officers from several capital region police departments were on the scene.

Bowen Osoko, conducting community engagement for Victoria police, said a truck that stopped on Belleville Street was moved along but it temporarily forced officers to reduce traffic to one lane. Entrance to Belleville was halted, essentially shutting down the street.

Once Belleville was closed to new traffic, the street in front of the legislature emptied and crowds were contained to the lawn. The blare of horns and other noise stopped as the speeches started. B.C. Transit buses that normally stop near the legislature were diverted because of the protest.

Officers were pulling over vehicles and warning drivers about noise and other matters.

Police and city bylaw officers can now slap people honking

An estimated 7,000 people gathered in front of the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Saturday during a rally held by We Unify Canada and members of the “freedom convoy.” DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST their horns with immediate tickets for as much as $125, which will be reduced to $75 if paid within 30 days.

Osoko said a few tickets were issued but there were many more warnings.

“Our approach is de-escalate and then enforcement,” he said.

“We may see more tickets issued after the fact.”

No arrests were made during the protest.

Area residents have

complained about persistent honking during recent protests against COVID-19 health restrictions, prompting the city to implement a direct ticketing process for unnecessary horn use — anything that isn’t

intended to warn of a potential danger from a vehicle.

Last weekend, officers issued 10 tickets for offences ranging from excessive noise to obstructing traffic. ceharnett@timescolonist.com

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More than 40 members of the B.C. General Employees Union working as librarians have been without a contract since ­December 2020.

Talks did not start until September 2021 and a mediator failed to bring the parties to a resolution, BCGEU president Stephanie Smith said last week.

The key issues according to the union are wages not keeping up with inflation, ongoing occupational health and safety issues including workplace violence and mental health impacts, and “disrespectful working conditions.”

On Saturday the BCGEU said it has 90 days to take action on

the strike mandate.

So far the only job action taken by members has been a button campaign in which they work their normal shifts and wear buttons to show their solidarity and raise awareness about the job action.

The plan “at this point” for next week is rotating pickets to start on Wednesday “unless there is movement in bargaining.”

A strike is considered the last resort, as it could mean closing some or all branches.

People looking for updates on possible job action can check bcgeu.ca/virl.

The library system has 39 branches. It covers a large area, including Sooke, Sidney, Vancouver Island outside of Greater Victoria, B.C.’s central coast and Haida Gwaii.

Members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees also work for the library.

Russian Community Centre in Vancouver vandalized Vancouver Sun The Russian Community Centre in Vancouver has been targeted by vandals, its doors splashed with the colours of the Ukraine flag.

Sgt. Steve Addison, a spokesperson for the Vancouver Police Department, said investigators were called out to the community centre near Arbutus Street and West 4th Avenue, in Kitsilano, on Saturday morning.

Police had received reports that someone had defaced the building with blue and yellow paint. The vandalism likely occurred overnight, Addison said. No arrests have been made and the investigation is ongoing.

Ariadna McKenna, chair of the community centre’s board, was at the hall Saturday.

“We don’t support what’s going on in Europe,” she said.

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and many of them have friends and family who are in terrible situations. And for them to come here and to experience this [vandalism] in Canada was unbelievable and really uncalled for.”

McKenna added she would ask the vandals why they would do such a thing to an organization “that has done no harm and only does good for our city here.”

The group is non-political, she said, noting its members include Ukrainians. “We don’t choose who comes in here — we accept anybody and everybody.”

St. Sophia’s Orthodox Church in Victoria was also vandalized this week. Victoria police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.

St. Sophia’s, an English-­ language church, includes both Ukrainians and Russians, as well as people of other backgrounds.

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Care-a-van of gratitude visiting Greater Victoria hospitals today A “care-a-van” of support is planned to drive by three Greater Victoria hospitals today to show support for health-care workers who have cared for patients throughout COVID-19.

Darlene Campana said she worked in the emergency department for 32 of her 37 years nursing and felt the need to show support to front-line workers at hospitals.

The result is a convoy that will see vehicles drive by Saanich Peninsula, Victoria General

and Royal Jubilee hospitals.

“We will drive around the hospitals honking some horns and shouting our thanks, and want to make sure as many members of the health-care team know we’re there, and that we support and appreciate all the work they are doing to keep our communities healthy and safe,” Campana said in an email.

The group expects to start at Saanich Peninsula Hospital at 1:30 p.m. and make their final visit at 3 p.m.

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“This is my homeland and my heart is broken,” she said, visibly emotional.

“My husband’s cousin has been living in the subway in Kyiv for days. She finally escaped, she’s on the border [of Poland] right now.”

Chayka was among more than a thousand supporters of Ukraine gathered in downtown Vancouver to protest the Russian invasion.

Just as they did at a mass gathering last weekend at the art gallery, supporters waved blue and yellow Ukraine flags and held signs reading “Close the sky” and condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Many people dressed in blue and yellow. Vinoks, the traditional Ukrainian crown of flowers, could be seen on the heads of women throughout the crowd.

Chayka said it was important to inform the entire world about the war in Ukraine. She has relatives who live in Russia who don’t believe Russia started the war. “Many people in Russia still believe there is no war in Ukraine,” she said. “They are being brainwashed.

“When I call them and tell them there is war in Ukraine and we need to do something they say, ‘Oh, there is no war, Russian troops are doing a peaceful operation saving Ukrainians from Nazis.’

“I have a niece who lives in Moscow,” Chayka said. “She’s

young. She’s progressive. She understands what’s going on. But she says, ‘We are scared to go on the streets and protest. People are being thrown in jail.’ ” Saturday’s rally happened as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepared to head to several European capitals to strategize with allies as fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies.

Trudeau will spend this 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.

“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,” he said Friday.

In Vancouver, Olga Moldon was out with her two children and five grandchildren for the second weekend in a row. Her grandkids were selling bumper stickers with a variety of messages of support for Ukraine to raise money to send to Ukraine.

Her husband’s family was from Khardiv, the city in southern Ukraine that was recently overrun by Russian forces.

“We’re all feeling very helpless,” said Moldon’s daughter, Tamara. “We’re so far away.”

Moldon said she speaks daily with family and friends back in Ukraine, and recently let them know that Canada was accepting Ukrainians fleeing the war but no one was interested.

“None of our friends want to leave Ukraine,” she said. “They want to fight.”

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The call to seek public input on the idea came from the Tla’amin Nation at a meeting of city, regional and Tla’amin governments last May and officially kicked off on March 1.

“The reason being, some in the Tla’amin Nation feel slighted, or pain, when they hear the name Powell,” Dave Formosa, the city’s mayor, said on Friday.

City namesake Israel Powell, B.C.’s superintendent of Indian affairs from 1872 to 1889, helped to ensure that the sale of Lot 450, land that included tiyskʷat village, went through, as well as overseeing the removal of ­children from their homes to be sent to residential schools, and the banning of potlatch, language and other Indigenous customs.

“He implemented what he was told to implement by the government,” Formosa said.

The Tla’amin say, from their research, that Mr. Powell also took it further and came up with his own ideas of what he felt should happen, and did not just followed orders.

“Some [Tla’amin] members feel slighted and find the name offensive.”

Also, according to Tla’amin research, Powell was not involved with the founding of the paper mill or the town, and there is no record of him ever visiting Powell River.

Tla’amin Nation was mourn-

ing the death of two members on Friday and no one was available to speak to the issue, but in a news release the Tla’amin pointed to loss of land, language, culture, and family ties that are still felt today.

“This truth-telling work is difficult for all of us,” Tla’amin spokesman Harmony Johnson sɛƛakəs, co-chairman of the name-change group, said in the statement. “It is hard to talk and learn about these aspects of our shared history. I believe, however, that we can find positivity and meaning in this process by approaching this conversation with humility, kindness, and curiosity.

“We can all make a contribution to reconciliation in action by showing up as neighbours, willing to listen to and learn from one another.”

He and former mayor Stewart Alsgard are co-chairs of a committee that has launched a website and survey to measure public opinion between now and March 25.

Two other Sunshine Coast communities have already changed their names: Wilson Creek (south of Sechelt) is now called ts’uḵw’um, and Saltery Bay (east of Powell River) is now

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Should Powell River’s city council decide to go ahead in the coming months with officially changing the city’s name, it does not necessarily mean it will revert to tiyskʷat or be another Indigenous name, Formosa said.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Fans, dogs and mushers returned in droves Saturday to downtown Anchorage in the midst of a snowstorm for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

The ceremonial start was cancelled last year due to the pandemic. This year, fans attending the 50th running of the race were limited in their interactions with participants but still were able to watch from behind fences as mushers left the starting line two minutes apart.

Mushers took a leisurely jaunt through Alaska’s largest city, waving at fans that lined downtown streets. The competitive race for mushers and their dogs starts today in Willow, about 120 kilometres north of Anchorage, with the winner expected about nine days later in Nome.

Mushers had to show proof of vaccination to race this year, and they will isolate at checkpoints so they don’t bring COVID-19 to the rural, largely Alaska Native villages along the nearly 1,609-kilometre route to Nome.

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Instead, lumber was delivered, and an elaborate tent camp was being built, including new outhouses, race marshal Mark Nordman said.

There are 49 mushers in this year’s race, including defending champion Dallas Seavey, who is seeking to make history as the first musher to win six Iditarod titles. He’s tied with Rick Swenson with five victories apiece.

Also in the race are two fourtime winners, Martin Buser and Jeff King.

King, who last raced in 2019, stepped in just this week to run in the place of Nic Petit, who announced on Facebook he had contracted COVID-19.

Fifteen mushers withdrew before the race started, including 2020 winner Thomas Waerner, who wasn’t allowed to travel to the U.S. from his native Norway.

Moose are a concern for

mushers on the trail this year.

A heavy snow year in some parts of Alaska has made moose aggressive toward people in the backcountry, including mushers.

On a training run last month, rookie musher Bridgett Watkins had four of her dogs seriously injured by a moose, which wouldn’t leave and at times stood over the dogs. The incident only ended when a friend shot the bull moose with a high-powered rifle.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals remains the race’s biggest critic and has caused some financial hardship for the race by targeting big-name corporations, which have dropped sponsorships. The Anchorage hotel that has been the race headquarters for three decades will drop its affiliation next year.

Officials with the Lakefront Anchorage Hotel blamed the change on the pandemic’s effect on business, but the move was announced by its owners, Millennium Hotels and Resorts, a day before PETA planned to protest.

Countering that, Iditarod CEO Rob Urbach told reporters during a pre-race news conference that they have picked up six new sponsors this year.

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N.S. hospital welcomes decline in COVID patients, but remains on guard DANIELLE EDWARDS The Canadian Press On a quiet day in the intensive care unit of the Halifax Infirmary, registered nurse Joan Kearney described the new infection-control measures deployed against COVID-19 and the exhaustion of staff after nearly two years of the pandemic.

“I’m tired, just like everyone.

It’s been a long journey,” Kearney said during a recent interview. “At the very beginning, the changes were coming daily as far as what we were doing and how we were doing it.”

The infirmary is now in the midst of a lull, as hospitalizations from the most recent wave of the pandemic gradually decline. But staff say they’re expecting a new rise in cases, as most public health restrictions in the province are set to lift later this month.

“I don’t think it’s petering off,” Kearney said of the pandemic. “I think once things open up again, we will see another little blip, for sure.”

Provincial health officials announced last month that by March 21, restrictions such as gathering limits, social distancing and masking would end.

Premier Tim Houston has said the province was ready to “make gradual changes.”

On Jan. 19, health officials reported 83 people in hospital who were admitted because of

COVID-19, and by March 3 that number was nearly halved to 46.

The hospital installed new walls to protect staff and patients and planned out new walking pathways through the building to reduce the chances patients are exposed to the disease.

Dr. Sarah McMullen said the past two years have been somewhat “demoralizing” at times.

The pandemic has inflicted an emotional toll on many within the hospital system.

McMullen said now that the Omicron wave has subsided, it might be the best time to roll back restrictions.

“I think now is the time to do it with Omicron, which we know is highly contagious, but we also know it’s not virulent,” ­McMullen said. “There’s going to be ups and downs, but we know how to deal with those.”

Registered nurse Teri Jones said the backlog of surgeries put on hold because of the pandemic could become another “wave” that health-care workers will have to face.

“The acuity is still very high due to COVID and the [backlog] of all the delayed appointments and delayed surgeries … I think people have progressed to being a little bit sicker,” she said.

As restrictions gradually lift, Kearney said that within the hospital, the focus will always be on prevention and on adapting to future challenges.

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Survivor wants children’s home recognized as residential school MICKEY DJURIC The Canadian Press Yvonne Mirasty was nine years old when she was taken.

“When my mom got home from work, we were gone.”

Along with her siblings, Mirasty was placed in the Timber Bay Children’s Home, which the Northern Canada Evangelical Mission and later the Brethren in Christ Church ran from 1952 to 1994.

The home in the northern Saskatchewan hamlet of Timber Bay, near Lac La Ronge, was used for children who attended school elsewhere. Most of them were First Nations or Métis.

Survivors have described it as a residential school for Indigenous children, even though the federal and provincial governments have not designated it as such.

“It wasn’t happy memories at all. I don’t remember anything good out of that place,” says Mirasty, 60, a teacher in Pelican Narrows, Sask.

She says children at the Timber Bay home were treated like prisoners, forced to do hard labour, and would get punished if they didn’t memorize Bible passages.

Many times, Mirasty says, she went to sleep hungry and had to take cold baths.

“I used to cry myself to sleep.

I don’t know if I thought my parents were dead. I used to sing all the time to put myself to sleep.”

Mirasty says she was abused during the two years she spent at

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the home. She says a supervisor took her to his office, where he sexually assaulted her.

“He’d say: ‘Kiss daddy, kiss daddy.’ I can still hear him to this day.”

Mirasty faced the same horrors as many other Indigenous children taken from their homes and forced into governmentfunded institutions, but she’s not entitled to the same compensation from the Canadian government. Nor the recognition.

“They say every child matters, but what about Timber Bay? All I want is to be recognized and hear them say these kids suffered, too.”

The federal and Saskatchewan governments have not recognized the Timber Bay home as a residential school, because it doesn’t fit the legal definition under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

It’s not the only one.

Federal government data shows nearly 9,500 people asked for 1,531 institutions to be added to the agreement between 2007 and 2019.

Of those, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada have recognized seven.

The courts have identified another three.

The government’s website says in 2019 there were 140 eligible residential schools as part of the agreement.

The Timber Bay home received federal government funding and other services, but the courts denied its designation as a residential school.

The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal ruled that children were not placed in the home for the purpose of education and the federal government wasn’t responsible for the residence and care of the children. The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed an appeal of that decision.

In a statement, the office of Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller said it is committed to working with survivors and families to address historical wrongs. It said there are also outstanding claims regarding Indigenous children in educational and care homes not operated by the federal government.

“Addressing historical claims related to harms committed against Indigenous children is a crucial step toward strengthening our relationships with Indigenous Peoples,” the statement said.

Litigation against the Saskatchewan government is before the courts, so the province declined to comment.

Survivors of Timber Bay and their descendants say they will keep fighting.

In February, the Timber Bay home was discussed at a meeting between Miller, Indigenous leaders and the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan.

“There were many horrific experiences within those schools, within those grounds. The children suffered the same abuses, and in some cases even death,”

Yvonne Mirasty, a survivor of the Timber Bay Children’s Home, is advocating for the federal government to designate the home as a residential school so that survivors can receive recognition and ­compensation under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement. YVONNE MIRASTY VIA CP said federation Chief Bobby Cameron.

“It should not be shuffled off to the side, forgotten or ignored.”

Saskatchewan RCMP continue to investigate circumstances surrounding a death that might have happened at the Timber Bay home in 1974. Mounties announced the investigation last year.

“What we went through men-

tally, physically, sexually — I don’t know how we survived,” says Mirasty.

“Don’t forget about us.”

The Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health ­Support Program has a hotline to help residential school survivors and their relatives suffering trauma invoked by the recall of past abuse. The number is 1-866-925-4419.

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MEXICO CITY — Two foreign

divers, either American or Canadian, were killed off Mexico’s resort of Cancun by a dive boat that moved over them, prosecutors said Saturday.

The prosecutors’ office in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo said investigators were still trying to gain access to the divers’ travel documents to verify their nationalities. Some local media reported they were Americans; others reported they were Canadians.

Prosecutors confirmed the ages of the victims, 60 and 65.

They were apparently a man and a woman, part of a group of four foreign divers.

Prosecutors said the divers had deployed a buoy and were ascending after a dive on a popular wreck site just off Cancun on Friday, when a boat from another local dive company ignored warnings and sailed over them.

The company the two were diving with, Squalo Adventures, said in a statement that “we are deeply saddened by the loss of our clients who in time became our friends. However, there is an ongoing investigation and we cannot comment at this time.”

“Squalo Adventures is cooperating fully with said investigation,” the statement continued.

“We extend our deepest condolences to the family and friends of those that were lost.”

The accident occurred near the C-55 Gunship, a U.S. Second World War-era minesweeper that later saw service in the Mexican navy and was intentionally sunk off Cancun in 2000 to provide marine habitat and a dive site.

The prosecutors’ office said a boat from another local company moved over the divers despite the buoy as well as waved and shouted warnings from the dive master. The boaters then tried to rescue one of the divers, but she was already dead.

Traditionally, divers deploy a buoy with a distinctive red and white flag to warn boaters there are divers below the surface.

The buoys are usually connected to ascent ropes divers use to surface slowly and decompress.

The Caribbean coast, Mexico’s top tourist moneymaker, has been hit in the past by allegations of poor safety practices.

More recently, rampant violence has stained the coast’s laid-back reputation.

In January, prosecutors said the killing of two Canadians near Cancun was motivated by debts between international gangs apparently dedicated to drug and weapons trafficking.

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From immersive experiences of the work of beloved Ukrainian painter and writer Taras Shevchenko to performances of the Ukrainian anthem at a local hockey game, Ukrainians in Canada are celebrating their culture as an act of hope.

Others, like Russian-born Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra music director Daniel Raiskin, are speaking out.

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BRITTANY HOBSON The Canadian Press Tania Cameron was watching the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from her home in Kenora, Ont., when she felt the need to express her solidarity with Ukrainians on both sides of the world.

“There are Ukrainian people in our towns and cities that are having a very hard time. They aren’t my people, but we are connected, so I’ll stand with you,” Cameron said.

“If it’s something as simple as wearing a kokum scarf in solidarity, then that’s what I’ll do.

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In Newfoundland, Ukrainians were celebrating their heritage in a different way. Local band the Kubasonics took to the ice at Mile One Centre in downtown St. John’s to sing the Ukrainian national anthem before Friday night’s hockey game between the Newfoundland Growlers and the Adirondack Thunder.

Three of the five members of the Kubasonics are Ukrainian and the band plays what it calls “Ukrainian-Canadian speed-folk.”

In a Facebook post, the band said they appreciated the invitation.

A rally against Russia and in support of Ukraine took place on Saturday outside Vancouver Art Gallery.

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through the art he makes,” Raiskin said in a scathing indictment of his country’s actions posted to his Facebook page Wednesday. “But today, this alone is not enough.”

In Toronto, Valeriy Kostyuk is racing to put together an immersive show featuring Shevchenko’s work. Kostyuk, a Ukrainianborn producer with Toronto’s Lighthouse Immersive art space, said the show was originally set to open in North America this coming September.

But when the Russian army began its advance last week, Shevchenko’s 19th-century work promoting an independent and sovereign Ukraine became urgently relevant, Kostyuk said.

He’s now working with a team at the National Museum of Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv — at night, when they’re not making

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Tania Cameron wears a kokum scarf. TANIA CAMERON aid, then that’s what I’ll do.”

Indigenous people across

Canada have been showing their support of Ukraine by posting photos and videos of themselves on social media wearing what is known in many communities as “kokum scarves.”

Cameron, who is Anishinaabe, sourced the scarves from Indigenous and Ukrainian shops and distributed them Canada-wide at cost. She also held a raffle with proceeds going to the Red Cross.

One Ukrainian senior in Kenora found out what Cameron was doing and asked if it was possible for Cameron to hand deliver some scarves. The two shared their histories over coffee.

“It was an emotional moment when I was welcomed into her home,” said Cameron.

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Zelenskyy makes ‘desperate’ plea for U.S. to send more planes The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Fighting for his country’s survival, Ukraine’s leader made a “desperate” plea Saturday to American lawmakers for the U.S. to help get more warplanes to his military and cut off Russian oil imports as Kyiv tries to stave off the Russian invasion.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy opened the private video call with U.S. lawmakers by telling them this might be the last time they see him alive.

He has remained in Kyiv, the capital, which has a vast Russian armoured column threatening from the north.

Appearing in what is now his trademark army-green shirt in front of a white wall with the Ukrainian flag, he told them Ukraine needs to secure its skies, either through a nofly zone enforced by NATO or through the provision of more warplanes so Ukraine could better defend itself. Zelenskyy has been pleading for a no-fly zone for days, but NATO has refused, saying it could provoke a widespread war with Russia.

The hour-long exchange with 300 members of Congress and their staffs came as Russian troops continued to shell encir-

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a video call with 300 members of Congress on Saturday.

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cled cities and the number of Ukrainians who have fled the country grew to 1.4 million.

“President Zelenskyy made a desperate plea,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

He said Zelenskyy wants the U.S. to facilitate the transfer of planes from Eastern European allies. “I will do all I can to help the administration to facilitate their transfer,” Schumer said.

The U.S. is considering sending American-made F-16s as backfill to former Soviet bloc countries in Eastern Europe that are now members of NATO.

They, in turn, would send Ukraine their own Soviet-era MiGs, which Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly.

There appears to be a logistical problem, however, in sending the F-16s to Poland or other East European allies because of a production backlog. These countries would essentially have to give their MiGs to the Ukrainians and accept an IOU from the U.S. for the F-16s. The situation is further complicated because the next shipment of F-16s is set for Taiwan, and Congress would be reluctant to delay those deliveries as it eyes China.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated the fighter jets are under consideration after meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dymtro Kuleba at the Poland-Ukraine border outside the town of Korczowa.

The U.S. Congress is working on a $10-billion US package of military and humanitarian aide to Ukraine.

When Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell asked about the types of military support his country needs, Zelenskyy said drones as well as planes would be the most helpful.

During the call, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia asked Zelenskyy about the

idea of banning the import of Russian oil to the U.S., according to two people granted anonymity to discuss the private call. They said Zelenskyy indicated such a ban would be effective in putting pressure on Russia.

Republicans and a growing number of Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, back the idea of an Russian oil import ban.

The Biden administration has so far resisted that step, worried about rising prices at the pump.

Zelenskyy urged U.S. lawmakers to sanction Russia’s oil and gas sector, which has so far escaped the mounting sanctions imposed by the Biden administration and other countries. He also urged lawmakers to suspend Visa and Mastercard credit card access in Russia.

Lawmakers are concerned that Zelenskyy will be killed in the Russian invasion. They are also worried that a Ukrainian government under assault will be unable to function and to receive aid.

When one lawmaker asked diplomatically what would ­happen if he was killed, ­Zelenskyy acknowledged the concerns but implored Congress to do whatever it can to help Ukraine fight off Russia’s assault on his country.

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America’s top diplomat hears harrowing tales from refugees The Associated Press KORCZOWA, Poland — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday visited a welcome centre set up by Polish authorities in what once was a shopping mall in Korczowa, close to the border with Ukraine, where 3,000 refugees are taking shelter after the Russian invasion of their homeland.

While at the border later, Blinken stepped briefly onto Ukrainian soil to meet Foreign Minister Dymtro Kuleba, who predicted Russia would be defeated, but appealed for more military assistance to lower the cost in lives that he said victory will require.

At the refugee centre, America’s top diplomat heard harrowing tales from mothers and their children who described long and perilous journeys — and the shock of the sudden disruption and the fear for their lives — after fleeing the war.

“Near our home we heard bombs,” said Venera Ahmadi, 12, who said she came with her brother and sister, six dogs and seven cats from Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, more than 600 kilometres away. “We walked to the border, I don’t know how many hours.”

Her 16-year-old sister, Jasmine, said: “I was scared I would die.”

Natalia Kadygrob, 48, reached the centre with her four adopted children from Kropyvnytskyi, almost 800 kilometres by bus on their way to her brother’s home in Germany. Her husband stayed behind.

“There they bombed planes at the airport,” she said. “Of course we were afraid.”

Tatyana, 58, who wouldn’t give her last name, came with her daughter, Anna, 37, and her six- and one-year-old granddaughters, Katya and Kira, from Kharkiv, about 1,000 kilometres away. “They were shooting on the street,” Tatyana said.

Anna said her home had been destroyed by a shell or a rocket.

She was in the basement with her daughters when the explosion happened. “They should be in school,” Anna said. “They are children, they don’t understand.”

Blinken then met with Kuleba

on a visit to the Korczowa border crossing where Polish authorities escorted small groups of refugees — about 20 at a time — across the frontier from the Ukrainian town of Krakovets as sporadic snow flakes fell.

Groups mainly of women, children and elderly men — grimly rolling their possessions in luggage and carrying infants and the occasional family pet — made their way into makeshift processing centres set up in tents on Polish territory.

The foreign minister said he wanted to convey a simple message: “Ukraine will win this war because this is the people’s war for their land and we defend the right course.” He added, “The question is the price, the price of our victory.”

Kubela said that if Ukraine’s allies “continue to take bold, systemic decisions to step up economic and political pressure on [Russia], if they continue to provide us with necessary weapons, the price will be lower.”

Blinken praised Kuleba, President Volodmyr Zelenskyy and other officials for their courage and “inspiring” leadership during the crisis.

Kuleba thanked Blinken for the support so far, but lamented that NATO on Friday had rejected appeals from nonmember Ukraine and others to set up a no-fly zone over the country.

“It is the people of Ukraine who will pay the price for the reluctance of NATO to act,” Kuleba said.

Blinken earlier was in the city of Rzeszow for talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau a day after attending a NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels. The alliance pledged to step up support for eastern flank members such as Poland to counter the Russian invasion. Poland is seeking more U.S. forces on its territory, where there are currently more than 10,000 American troops.

Rau said Poland had already taken in more than 700,000 refugees from Ukraine and that he expected hundreds of thousands more in the coming weeks unless Russia backs down.

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Ukrainians grab documents, pets, photos, then flee for their lives ELDAR EMRIC The Associated Press SIRET, Romania — Life or death

choices leave little time for sentiment. War refugees fleeing Russian ordnance in Ukraine grabbed only the essentials for their journeys to safety — key documents, a beloved pet, often not even a change of clothes.

Lena Nesterova remembers the hour her fate was sealed — Feb. 24, 5:34 a.m., the first explosions in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, that signalled the feared

Russian invasion.

Driven by fear, she said, they took “only daughter, dog, all the documents, and left” Kyiv with only the clothes on their backs.

“We left everything. We have no clothes, nothing,” Nesterova said. “And we don’t know what will be after.”

Her daughter, 18-year-old Margo, cradled the family toy Chihuahua, dressed lovingly in a purple puffer, in the safety of a refugee camp in the border city of Siret, Romania.

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A woman carries a dog while helping people cross a river in the town of Irpin, Ukraine, on Saturday, leading them along an improvised path under a bridge that was destroyed by a Russian airstrike. AP invasion of Ukraine, 1.45 million people have fled the battered country, according to the UN-affiliated Organization for Migration in Geneva.

The UN has predicted that the total number of refugees could swell to four million, to become the biggest such crisis this century.

Most have arrived in Poland and other neighbouring European Union countries, with the bloc granting people fleeing Ukraine temporary protection and residency permits. Some are starting to make their way to countries further afield.

More than 100,000 have reached Slovakia, with many planning to continue to the neighbouring Czech Republic, which has a sizeable Ukrainian community. Czech authorities are creating classes for thousands of children to be taught in their native Ukrainian.

Hundreds arrive daily by train in the German capital, Berlin.

Further away in Italy, 10,000 refugees have arrived, 40% of them children, with the education ministry indicating plans to get

them into classrooms so they can integrate.

Iryna Bogavchuk wanted to be light for the journey to Romania from Chernivtsi, across the Carpathian Mountains in southern Ukraine, just 40 kilometres — and what seems like a lifetime — away. In better times, her home city teemed with young people, drawn by the university whose 19th century architecture won it a spot on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

“I took my daughter,’’ she said, stroking the child sleeping in her lap. “I hope we will be all right.”

Instead of belongings, which would have weighed her down, Bogavchuk brought Polaroids, which she fumbles in her wallet to produce.

Happier times: her daughter’s 10th birthday; a photo with her husband, whom she left behind as Ukrainian men of military age are banned from exiting the country. “I miss him,’’ she said, dissolving into tears.

Ludmilla Nadzemovska travelled to Hungary from Kyiv. She planned ahead for the worst —

buying travelling cages for her four cats a month ago as U.S. intelligence indicated Russia’s intention to invade. But the decision to leave was made in an instant, after hearing her neighbours had been killed by Russian forces.

“I want to go back,” she said, sitting in a camp in Tiszabecs, Hungary, just over the border.

“But my priority is my family and the pets.”

In nearby Moldova, a non-EU nation tucked between Ukraine and Romania, hundreds of Roma families are being welcomed at a sports venue in the capital, Chisinau.

Maria Cherepovskaia, 50, walked the first 15 kilometres from her home in the eastern Russian-controlled enclave of Donetsk. She received help from people, including transport and food, to make the rest of the nearly 900-kilometre journey to Moldova.

“We will be here until the war is over. We don’t know where to go,” she said. “There they are bombing. A lot, too much, what can we do?”

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themselves before the next emergency arrives.

It’s a scene repeated over and over again in Mariupol. Days earlier, hospital workers had pulled a wounded six-year-old girl from an ambulance as her mother stood alone, helpless.

Attempts at resuscitation failed until eventually the frenetic activity stopped and the mother was left with her grief.

A doctor looked straight into the camera of a videojournalist allowed inside. He had a message: “Show this to Putin.”

whose face is obscured by bloodsoaked bandages.

The medics prepare to go out, strapping on their helmets.

They find a wounded woman in an apartment and take her in an ambulance for treatment, her hand shaking rapidly from apparent shock. She yells out in pain as the medics wheel her into the hospital. On the darkening horizon, orange light flashes at the edge of the sky and loud bangs reverberate in the air.

HOSPITAL HAS NO POWER

The resting toddler, perhaps responding instinctively to the sight of a camera, raises an arm and waves. But the mother underneath has tears in her eyes.

They’re lying together on the floor in a gym-turned-shelter, waiting out the fighting that rages outside.

Many families have young children. And as children can do anywhere, some giggle and run around the floor covered with blankets. “God forbid that any rockets hit. That’s why we’ve gathered everyone here,” says volunteer Ervand Tovmasyan, accompanied by his young son.

He says locals have brought supplies. But as the Russian siege continues, the shelter lacks enough drinking water, food, and gasoline for generators.

Many remember the shelling in 2014, when Russia-backed separatists briefly captured the city. “Now the same thing is happening — but now we’re with children,” says Anna Delina, who fled Donetsk in 2014.

Bombardment plays out to scenes of despair and resolve MARIUPOL, Ukraine — A man dashes into a hospital with a desperately wounded toddler in his arms, the child’s mother on his heels. Doctors use smartphone torches to examine patients’ wounds. New mothers nestle infants in makeshift basement bomb shelters. A father collapses in grief over the death of his teenaged son when shelling ravages a soccer field near a school.

These scenes unfolded in and around the Azov Sea port of Mariupol in southern Ukraine over the past week, captured

by Associated Press journalists documenting Russia’s invasion.

With nighttime temperatures just above freezing, the battle plunged the city into darkness late in the week, knocked out most phone services and raised the prospect of food and water shortages. Without phone connections, medics did not know where to take the wounded.

A limited ceasefire that Russia declared to let civilians evacuate Mariupol and Volnovakha, a city to its north, quickly fell apart on Saturday, with Ukrainian officials blaming Russian shelling for blocking the promised safe passage.

Russia has made significant gains on the ground in the south in an apparent bid to cut off Ukraine’s access to the sea.

Capturing Mariupol could allow Russia to build a land corridor to Crimea, which it seized in 2014.

THE PAIN OF MOTHERS A man dashes through the doors of a hospital carrying a desperately wounded toddler wrapped in a pale blue, bloodstained blanket. His girlfriend, the baby’s mother, is on his heels.

Hospital workers surge round, trying to save the life of 18-month-old Kirill, but there is nothing to be done.

As Marina Yatsko and her boyfriend, Fedor, weep in each other’s arms, distraught staff sit on the floor and try to recover

Smoke from shelling rises over a snow-covered residential part of Mariupol as, in the city’s hospital, the bangs send women dropping to the floor for shelter. One raises her arms in prayer.

Doctors use their smartphone torches to examine patients’ wounds, as the hospital lacks electricity and heating.

“We work more than a week without a break, some of us even more,” said doctor Evgeniy Dubrov. “We continue working, everyone on their positions.”

Grappling with the pain of their wounds, Ukrainian soldiers are in shock at the loss of their comrades.

“I don’t understand what had happened, blast, my eyes getting dark and vison blurring,” said Svyatoslav Borodin. “I continued to crawl, but I didn’t understand if I had legs or not. Then I turned and saw my leg.”

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Flashes from shelling light up the medics as they stand in a parking lot waiting for the next emergency call.

In the hospital nearby, a father buries his face into his dead 16-year-old son’s head. The boy, draped under a bloodstained sheet, has succumbed to wounds from shelling on the soccer field where he was playing.

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AMID DEATH, THE JOY OF BIRTH A nurse fits a shirt on a newborn who fusses at first and then cries loudly. It is a joyful sound.

Babies born at a Mariupol hospital are taken down flights of stairs to a makeshift nursery that also serves as a bomb shelter during shelling. New mother Kateryna Suharokova, 30 says: “I believe that everything will be fine.”

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Blazers prove too hot for Victoria Royals KAMLOOPS 2 VICTORIA 1 CLEVE DHEENSAW Times Colonist It could be a torturous stretch drive in the Western Hockey League for the Victoria Royals as the Spokane Chiefs continued twisting the screws on the Royals and Tri-City Americans.

The Chiefs, holding the eighth and final playoff slot in the Western Conference, moved three points ahead of the ninthplace Royals and four up on the 10th-place Americans, who maintain a game in hand on both Spokane and Victoria. That was

the situation after the spray settled Saturday night following Victoria’s 2-1 loss to the Blazers in Kamloops, Spokane’s 3-1 victory over the Cougars in Prince George and Tri-City’s 8-3 loss to the Winterhawks in Portland.

The Royals (15-32-6) did well in holding the Canadian Hockey League nationally No.8-ranked Blazers (39-14-2) to a tight game before 3,353 fans at the Sandman Centre. But with 15 games remaining, such things are meaningless now for the Royals. They need points in the standings.

“There’s no acceptance of a moral victory,” said Victoria coach Dan Price, after the 5-4 overtime loss in Kelowna on

Friday night. “It’s not me saying that, it’s [the players].”

They know the score Royals enter each game now with one eye on the ice and the other on the scoreboard. “The guys are in the moment,” said Price.

Matthew Seminoff of Kamloops, ranked for this year’s NHL draft, opened scoring at 1:25 of the second period with Dallas Stars-signed Canada junior national team player Logan Stankoven making it 2-0 later in the period. Riley Gannon got Victoria on the board in the third period.

In a recurring season theme, Victoria’s goaltending was again stellar with Tyler Palmer named third star with 41 saves. New

York Rangers-signed Blazers goaltender Dylan Garand of Langford, who has twice represented Canada in the world junior tournament, is out with injury.

Garand’s back-up, Dylan Ernst, made 25 saves for Kamloops.

The Royals return to face the Portland Winterhawks on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Memorial Centre.

ICE CHIPS: Three former Royals are among the 16 WHL alumni named to the Canada West all-star teams in U Sports.

Blueliner Ryan Gagnon, who went from captain of the Royals to captain of the Calgary Dinos, was named to the first team and forwards Jared Dmytriw of the

Saskatchewan Huskies and Gary Haden of the Alberta Golden Bears to the second team … The WHL released a statement on the world situation: “The WHL condemns the Russian invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine and wishes for a peaceful and diplomatic resolution soon. The WHL agrees with measures taken by the Canadian Hockey League to cancel the Canada Russia Series, and supports sanctions imposed by the International Ice Hockey Federation and Hockey Canada, suspending Russia and Belarus from international competition and national team events hosted in Canada.”

Vikes men advance to Canada West basketball semis CLEVE DHEENSAW Times Colonist The return to glory motif remained uninterrupted Saturday night. The University of Victoria Vikes, who had so much going for them heading into the Canada West men’s basketball playoffs following a 17-1 regular season and a No. 5 ranking in Canada, followed through in their first playoff game with a 79-55 victory over the Lethbridge Pronghorns in the conference quarter-finals.

The Pronghorns (8-8 in the regular season) were looking to dash those UVic dreams knowing that a single-loss knockout playoff format is good for the underdog because it allows no chance for recovery by the favourite. Lethbridge, which hosted the first-three playoff rounds with Calgary, also had home-court advantage in a city known for its hoops passion and its boisterous fans.

But that didn’t stop UVic from advancing to the conference semifinals in two weeks at the gymnasium of the highest remaining seed, which will be in Edmonton at the home of the conference top-ranked and national No. 2 Alberta Golden Bears.

Graduating UVic point-guard Scott Kellum, who began his fine five-season Vikes tenure as Canada West rookie of the year and concludes it as a first-team Canada West all-star and perhaps the conference MVP in the honour yet to be announced, led all scorers with 16 points.

Vikes sophomore shootingguard Diego Maffia, preparing to inherit the backcourt mantle from Kellum and named to the conference all-star second team, added 15 points. Graduating forward Matthew Ellis also added 15 points to assure this would not be his final game in blue and gold. The kids are alright, too, as guard Elias Ralph from Okotoks, Alta., and forward Ethan Boag out of Claremont Secondary were named to the Canada West all-rookie team and scored 12

and 10 points, respectively.

The future looks bright, but so may the rest of this month.

The Canada West conference had opened the gates to the largest basketball post-season tournament in league history to really put the madness in March with the men’s and women’s teams from all 17 schools qualifying since there was no interdivisional play due to pandemic travel restrictions during the regular season.

The resultant unwieldiness had the Vikes cooling their hightops for several days as one of the three top-ranked teams that received rare first- and secondround byes and free passes into the quarter-finals.

The Pronghorns received a first-round bye and beat UBCOkanagan– upset winners over Manitoba in the first round — in the second round Friday to advance to meet the Vikes.

The UVic Vikes women’s season ended with a 70-58 loss to the University of Calgary Dinos in the Canada West playoff round of 16 in Calgary. The ninthseed Vikes (11-7 in the regular season) trailed the eighth-seed Dinos 15-13 after the first quarter and 28-26 at the break.

The Dinos pushed ahead 49-43 at the end of three quarters and it was still in doubt with six minutes remaining at 58-53 before a spurt down the stretch by Calgary. UVic’s offence couldn’t find its cadence and shot just 29 per cent from the field.

Canada West first-team allstar Ashlyn Day led UVic with 24 points. Graduating guard Calli McMillan closed out her Vikes career with 13 points while graduating forward Aleah Ashlee had a team-high four assists in her final game of varsity.

The Dinos advanced to meet the Canada West top-ranked and U Sports national No. 2-ranked Saskatchewan Huskies (14-2), coached by 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics Canadian head coach Lisa Thomaidis, in a quarter-final match-up today. cdheensaw@timescolonist.com

Rival UNC upsets No. 4 Duke in Coach K’s Cameron farewell DURHAM, North Carolina — North Carolina ignored all the attention surrounding the final home game for retiring Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski, as well as the fourth-ranked Duke’s emotionally charged, rowdierthan-usual crowd.

Instead, the rival Tar Heels walked into Cameron Indoor Stadium and fearlessly spoiled Coach K’s perfect send-off to the postseason.

Armando Bacot scored 23 points and the Tar Heels shot 59% after halftime to upset the Blue Devils 94-81 on Saturday night, a major reversal from a blowout loss in the first meet-

ing that raised questions about UNC’s ability to compete against the nation’s top teams.

First-year coach Hubert Davis had shrugged off the “pageantry” from Krzyzewski’s final home game, saying the team needed to tune out all the extra emotion and do one thing: compete.

“All week, we just talked about our competitive fight,” Davis said, “that we had to do three things: We had to plant our feet, we had to stand our ground and we had to fight. I just felt like, as the game went on, we started to just gain more and more confidence.”

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Szeto leads Grizzlies past Kings Times Colonist Kalen Szeto scored twice as the Victoria Grizzlies defeated the Powell River Kings 6-2 in a B.C.

Hockey League game Saturday night at Hap Parker Arena. Captain Ellis Rickwood and Justin Gibson had two assists each for the Grizzlies.

Vancouver Canucks left wing Tanner Pearson, left, and Toronto Maple Leafs centre David Kampf battle for the puck during the first period in Toronto on Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canucks storm back to defeat Leafs and keep playoff hopes alive

VANCOUVER 6 TORONTO 4 The Canadian Press TORONTO — J.T. Miller hopes

to look back on Saturday as a watershed moment in his team’s push for a playoff spot.

“That’s one of the games you’re going to remember,” said the Vancouver Canucks centre.

“Every game feels like a do or die for us. You don’t want to be in that position, but you’ve got to embrace it.”

And embrace difficult moments on a roller-coaster night is exactly what the Canucks did. Alex Chiasson scored the winner and Thatcher Demko made 34 saves as Vancouver came back from a goal down in the third period to defeat Toronto 6-4.

The Canucks built a 3-1 lead in the second before the Maple Leafs’ high-powered attack flexed its muscles for a 4-3 advantage through 40 minutes.

But Vancouver responded with a tip-in from Tanner Pearson early in the third and Chiasson’s go-ahead goal before Demko held the fort late to secure six of a possible eight points on a four-game road trip.

“It gives us that much more belief,” said Miller, who had a goal and an assist to stretch his point streak to nine games. ‘We have a good thing going right now.”

Pearson, Brock Boeser and Travis Hamonic also had goal and an assist each for Vancouver (28-23-6) before Tyler Motte scored into an empty net as the Canucks moved within three points of the second wild-card

spot in the Western Conference.

“Confidence is a big thing,” said captain Bo Horvat, who chipped in two assists. “We’re confident in our ability. We know what type of team we are, and what type of team we have to be.”

Auston Matthews replied with his 38th and 39th goals of the season for Toronto (35-16-4) to retake the NHL lead. John Tavares, with a goal and an assist, and Nick Robertson also scored for the Leafs.

Jack Campbell, who got his first start in a week after getting pulled in a crazy 10-7 victory last Saturday in Detroit against the Red Wings, stopped 23 shots.

“I’ve got to be better for the team,” the goaltender said after his save percentage dipped to .882 since Jan. 1. “It’s disappointing not getting the win when we played so well. I promise I’ll get out of it and get on a roll again.”

The Leafs grabbed that 4-3 edge through two periods only to have Vancouver respond 63 seconds into the third when Pearson squeezed his 12th through Campbell.

Vancouver, which opens a seven-game homestand Wednesday that will go a long way in deciding the club’s playoff fate, then nudged in front at 6:55 on a broken play where Mitch Marner lost his stick in the Toronto zone.

Horvat threw a puck in front that the Leafs winger tried to kick away with his skate only to have it drop for Chiasson to snap his sixth past Campbell.

“I’ve been pretty hard on myself this year and obviously it’s snowballed a little bit,” said Campbell, who earned his first all-star nod for a lights-out first half of the campaign that now

feels like a distant memory. “I’m trying to chill out a little bit about dissecting my game.”

Toronto’s top-ranked power play got a chance to equalize midway through the period, but Demko denied William Nylander on the Leafs’ best opportunity.

The Vancouver netminder denied Matthews on the doorstep with three minutes left in regulation and Marner with Campbell on the bench for an extra attacker before Motte iced it into an empty net.

“They’re starting to believe in themselves,” said Canucks head coach Bruce Boudreau, who joked after the morning skate no one was giving his team a chance against Toronto. “When you have belief, then anything can happen.

They played a great third period and Demko, in the last five minutes, was incredible.”

The Canucks went up 3-1 at 4:12 of the second on a power play when Boeser scored his 16th off a Miller rebound.

Toronto responded 1:21 later when Robertson – elevated to the second line in his fourth game since being recalled from the AHL – took a pass from Nylander and fired his first regular-season goal past Demko, who made a career-high 51 saves in the Canucks’ 3-2 victory over Toronto on Feb. 12.

He then denied Wayne Simmonds, playing in his 1,000th NHL game, with a stop at full stretch off a Jason Spezza feed.

Sitting third in the Atlantic Division, the Leafs kept coming before an under-pressure Boeser threw an ill-advised clearing attempt up the middle that Matthews one-timed upstairs for his 38th to tie things up at 8:52.

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Hasal steady in goal as ’Caps get first point dream come true.”

Hasal took over as the Whitecaps starter earlier this year when star goalie Maxime Crepeau was dealt to Los Angeles FC in a blockbuster deal due to an unspecified personal situation.

He was previously pressed into action during the 2020 campaign when Crepeau went down with a fractured thumb, but Hasal saw that season cut short by a concussion and a stress fracture in his leg.

“We just have to give him all the confidence,” striker Lucas Cavallini said of the netminder.

“I think before his injuries, he was unbelievable. And I think after his injury, he hasn’t been the same, lacking that confidence.

But it’s normal, I guess. But now he demonstrated who he was before his injury and he’s just getting better game by game.”

Hasal’s best save of the night came in the 89th minute Saturday when Santiago Rodriguez sent a ball into the Vancouver box, where Thiago Andrade redirected it at the ’Caps net.

The Canadian ’keeper leapt up off the goal line, tipping the

VANCOUVER 0 NEW YORK 0 The Canadian Press VANCOUVER — Thomas Hasal proved he’s ready to be the Vancouver Whitecaps’ No. 1 goalkeeper on Saturday.

The 22-year-old Canadian made four saves, backstopping the ’Caps to a 0-0 draw against New York City FC and collecting his first clean sheet of the season.

It was a special performance for Hasal because his mom, dad and brother were sitting in the stands. “It feels really cool, having them come and watch,” the young ’keeper said.

When Hasal was part of Whitecaps academy, his family would come out to Vancouver from Saskatoon and they would all attend Major League Soccer games together.

“For me as a young player, it was a huge spectacle,” he said.

“So having them go from sitting in the stands, watching it with me, to now being in the stands and getting to watch me, it’s a

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Vancouver Whitecaps goalkeeper Thomas Hasal looks on as teammate Florian Jungwirth collides with New York City FC’s Alexander Callens on Saturday. THE CANADIAN PRESS shot up and over the crossbar to preserve the 0-0 draw. The tie means the ’Caps (0-1-1) picked up their first point of the season.

“This is what we have to bring and we have to bring more and more. This is a game that we have to build off,” Hasal said.

Both sides were coming off losses, with the ’Caps suffering a 4-0 drubbing to Columbus Crew SC on opening day. New York

dropped a 1-0 decision to the L.A. Galaxy in its first outing of the MLS campaign.

Goalkeeper Sean Johnson registered a single save for NYCFC (0-1-1) on Saturday.

New York, the reigning MLS Cup champions, overwhelmed Vancouver during long stretches of the match, outshooting the home side 19-11 and 4-1 in shots on target.

After a chaotic start, though, Vancouver settled in and began to limit the visitors’ chances, blocking seven shots across the match.

“At the end, we were facing the MLS Cup champions,” said Whitecaps head coach Vanni Sartini. “They had two, three great chances but we had two, three great chances, too. I think the tie is a fair result at the end.”

Historic upsets galore in Island junior hockey playoffs Panthers-Islanders series was in progress at press time Saturday night in Kerry Park. The second and third games are Monday and Friday nights at the Panorama Recreation Centre.

The VIJHL Jamie Benn MVP Award and Clayton Stoner Award for top defenceman, both named after NHLers, went to Panthers players Riley Braun and Matthew Seale respectively.

The Islanders know they must guard against the upset of the Cougars “being” their season.

“We realize we couldn’t get too high with that series win because that was just a step. Our ultimate goal is the league championship and we had to get ready

league No. 2 and annual powerhouse Victoria Cougars 4-0 in the opening round of the playoffs.

The Cougars were 35-11-3 in the regular season on 73 points to the Islanders’ 22-26-2 on 46 points.

“Everybody was expecting us to lose and so we felt we had nothing to lose,” said DeMelo, 17, an affiliate goaltender with the Victoria Grizzlies of the B.C. Hockey League.

“We were really motivated and didn’t let up. It’s amazing.”

The South Division No. 2 and league No. 4 Peninsula Panthers defeated the Westshore Wolves 4-2 in the other opening-round South Division series. The first game of the best-of-seven

CLEVE DHEENSAW Times Colonist When your name is Dryden, your position in hockey seems destined. “My dad named me after Ken Dryden. It was meant to be,” said Dryden DeMelo.

Uncannily so, harkening to the former Montreal Canadiens goaltending great, whose rookieseason heroics led the Habs to upset after upset in the 1971 Stanley Cup playoffs.

The Kerry Park Islanders, backstopped by DeMelo, recorded perhaps the biggest upset in Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League history by sweeping the South Division top-seed,

right away for the next series,” said DeMelo.

“The Panthers are really good and we respect how they play.

We can’t let up.”

The Panthers are 31-14-6 in the regular season.

The Port Alberni Bombers, meanwhile, are trying to eclipse the Islanders with an even bigger upset — and all in the same round in the same year.

The annual powerhouse Campbell River Storm (40-4-2) won the Andy Hebenton Trophy, named after the former NHL Ironman record holder and Victoria pro-hockey great, as regular-season champions.

But the Bombers (19-28-3) —

who finished 41 points behind the Storm — are on the verge of a massive upset and lead the series 3-2 heading into Monday night’s sixth game at Weyerhaeuser Arena in Port Alberni.

If required, Game 7 will be Tuesday night at Rod Brind’Amour Arena in Campbell River.

Another upset was brewing with the Comox Valley Glacier Kings (28-20-1 in the regular season) leading the North Division No. 2 and league No. 3 Oceanside Generals (33-14-2) 3-2 in their opening-round series heading into Game 6 that was in progress at press time Saturday night. cdheensaw@timescolonist.com

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

SL GF GA 1 222 159 2 191 146 3 200 171

Pt 85 70 67

GP W L Calgary 54 33 14 Los Angeles 56 30 19 Vegas 56 31 21

OL 7 5 3

SL GF GA 0 190 133 2 166 160 1 182 166

Pt 73 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

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

Saturday’s results N.Y. Islanders 2 St. Louis 1 Philadelphia 4 Chicago 3 Arizona 8 Ottawa 5 Florida 6 Detroit 2 Vancouver 6 Toronto 4 Washington 5 Seattle 2 Montreal 5 Edmonton 2 Boston 5 Columbus 4 (SO) Nashville 8 San Jose 0 Calgary 4 Colorado 3 (OT) 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)

VANCOUVER 6, TORONTO 4

First Period 1, Vancouver, Miller 22 (Hamonic, Pearson), 7:48.

2, Toronto, Tavares 18 (Rielly, Marner), 9:49 (pp).

3, Vancouver, Hamonic 2 (Horvat, Hunt), 19:30.

Penalties — Highmore, VAN (Slashing), 9:20.

Second Period 4, Vancouver, Boeser 16 (Miller, Hughes), 4:12 (pp).

5, Toronto, Robertson 1 (Tavares, Nylander), 5:33.

6, Toronto, Matthews 38, 8:52.

7, Toronto, Matthews 39 (Liljegren, Bunting), 12:06.

Penalties — Dermott, TOR (Interference), 3:57; Simmonds, TOR (High Sticking), 12:45.

Third Period 8, Vancouver, Pearson 12 (Myers, Boeser), 1:03.

9, Vancouver, Chiasson 6 (Horvat, Podkolzin), 6:55.

10, Vancouver, Motte 7 (Pettersson, Ekman-Larsson), 19:40 (en).

Penalties — Schenn, VAN (Delay of Game), 10:03.

Shots on goal by Vancouver Toronto

OL 4 4 0

EASTERN CONFERENCE

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 56 40 11 St. Louis 53 32 15 Minnesota 53 32 18

12 11 6—29 10 12 16—38

Goal — Vancouver, Demko (W,2516-2). Toronto, Campbell (L,23-9-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver 1 of 2; Toronto 1 of 2.

Attendance — 17,534.

MONTREAL 5, EDMONTON 2

First Period 1, Montreal, Caufield 8, 10:58.

2, Edmonton, Kane 8 (Draisaitl), 11:20.

3, Montreal, Gallagher 5 (Wideman, Suzuki), 19:21 (pp).

Penalties — Kane, EDM (Hooking),

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

Dallas 4 Winnipeg 3 (OT) Vegas 5 Anaheim 4 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.

Monday’s games Florida at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at Boston, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Columbus, 4 p.m.

Colorado at N.Y. Islanders, 4:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 6:30 p.m.

17:39.

Second Period 4, Edmonton, McLeod 6 (Hyman, Bouchard), 5:37.

5, Montreal, Suzuki 13 (Caufield, Wideman), 10:17 (sh).

Penalties — Montreal bench, served

by Caufield (Delay of Game), 5:37; Foegele, EDM (Hooking), 8:25; Hoffman, MTL (Holding), 11:22; Chiarot, MTL (High Sticking), 19:48.

Third Period 6, Montreal, Lehkonen 11 (Kulak, Suzuki), 10:15 (sh).

7, Montreal, Hoffman 11 (Chiarot, Gallagher), 16:11 (sh).

Penalties — McLeod, EDM (High Sticking), 6:17; Edmonton bench, served by Shore (Delay of Game), 8:12; Gallagher, MTL (Unsportsmanlike Conduct), 9:06.

Shots on goal by Montreal Edmonton

9 10 10—29 10 12 8—30

Goal — Montreal, Montembeault (W,6-11-4). Edmonton, Smith (L,58-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Montreal 1 of 4; Edmonton 0 of 4.

Attendance — 18,258.

NHL SCORING LEADERS

Not including Saturday’s games

G Connor McDavid, EDM 29 Leon Draisaitl, EDM 38 Jonathan Huberdeau, FLA 18 Auston Matthews, TOR 37 Kirill Kaprizov, MIN 26 Nazem Kadri, COL 22 Johnny Gaudreau, CGY 21 Alex Ovechkin, WSH 33 Mikko Rantanen, COL 26 Kyle Connor, WPG 33 Matthew Tkachuk, CGY 27 Steven Stamkos, TBL 27 J.T. Miller, VAN 21 Cale Makar, COL 18 Artemi Panarin, NYR 15

A PTS 50 79 40 78 57 75 31 68 42 68 46 68 47 68 32 65 39 65 29 62 34 61 34 61 40 61 41 59 44 59

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

W 43 39 39 39 38 36 34 32 31 32 28 25 22 17 16

L 22 24 25 25 27 27 29 32 32 33 34 38 43 47 49

Pct GB .662 — .619 3 .609 3½ .609 3½ .585 5 .571 6 .540 8 .500 10½ .492 11 .492 11 .452 13½ .397 17 .338 21 .266 25½ .246 27

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

GOLF

HOCKEY

W 51 44 43 39 39 37 36 34 28 27 25 24 24 20 15

L 12 21 21 23 25 26 29 31 35 36 38 40 42 43 48

Pct .810 .677 .672 .629 .609 .587 .554 .523 .444 .429 .397 .375 .364 .317 .238

GB — 8 8½ 11½ 12½ 14 16 18 23 24 26 27½ 28½ 31 36

Saturday’s results Dallas 114, Sacramento 113 Charlotte 123, San Antonio 117 Memphis 124, Orlando 96 Miami 99, Philadelphia 82 Minnesota 135, Portland 121 L.A. Lakers 124, Golden State 116 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 Phoenix 115, New York 114 Sunday’s games Brooklyn at Boston, 10 a.m.

Phoenix at Milwaukee, 12:30 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 3 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 4 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 4:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 5 p.m.

New York at L.A. Clippers, 7 p.m.

Monday’s games Atlanta at Detroit, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 4:30 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

LA Lakers at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 6 p.m.

New York at Sacramento, 7:30 p.m.

NBA SCORING LEADERS

Not including Saturday’s games GP FG FT PTS Embiid, PHI 50 470 Antetokounmpo, MIL53531 James, LAL 45 490 DeRozan, CHI 60 619 Young, ATL 58 544

474 438 195 406 366

1481 1560 1297 1684 1625

AVG 29.6 29.4 28.8 28.1 28.0

LACROSSE NLL

Saturday's results Halifax 14 Vancouver 12 Toronto 12 New York 9 Buffalo 12 Albany 11 (OT) Ft. Worth 17 Saskatchewan 16 (OT) Friday's results Georgia 17 Rochester 16 (OT) San Diego 9 Calgary 4

WHL

BCHL

WESTERN CONFERENCE

INTERIOR DIVISION

B.C. DIVISION GP W L OL SL x-Kamloops 55 39 14 2 0 Kelowna 51 33 14 1 3 Vancouver 50 20 27 3 0 Pr. George 51 19 29 2 1 Victoria 53 15 32 5 1 x — clinched playoff berth.

GF 231 203 138 135 146

GA 139 158 171 181 225

Pt 80 60 43 41 36

Saturday’s results Edmonton 6 Calgary 1 Moose Jaw 6 Brandon 5 Prince Albert 3 Winnipeg 2 (OT) Lethbridge 5 Regina 4 (OT) Saskatoon 5 Red Deer 2 Medicine Hat 2 Swift Current 0 Kamloops 2 Victoria 1 Seattle 4 Everett 3 Kelowna 5 Vancouver 3 Portland 8 Tri-City 3 Spokane 3 Prince George 1 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 4 Prince George 3 Seattle 3 Tri-City 1 Kamloops 4 Vancouver 3 (OT) Sunday’s games Kelowna at Vancouver, 4 p.m.

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

WHL SCORING LEADERS

Not including Saturday’s games Bains, RD Crnkovic, SAS King, RD Stankoven, KAM Williams, EDM Guenther, EDM Bedard, REG Firkus, MJ Savoie, WPG

G 30 35 43 31 30 36 34 30 25

A PTS 52 82 46 81 37 80 45 76 41 71 34 70 35 69 39 69 43 68

CURLING THE BRIER

At Lethbridge, Alta.

PRELIMINARY ROUND

Saturday’s results SECOND DRAW Northern Ontario 5 Wild Card (3) 3 Manitoba 10 British Columbia 3 Nova Scotia 11 Northwest Territories 5 Wild Card (1) 9 Quebec 3 THIRD DRAW Yukon 13 P.E.I. 7 Alberta 14 Newfoundland & Labrador 3 Wild Card (2) 7 Ontario 6 Canada 6 New Brunswick 4 Sunday’s games FOURTH DRAW, 7:30 A.M. Wild Card 1 vs. Nunavut, Northwest Territories vs. Quebec, British Columbia vs. Northern Ontario, Manitoba vs. Wild Card 3 FIFTH DRAW, 12:30 P.M. Ontario vs. Alberta, Wild Card 2 vs.

Yukon, Newfoundland & Labrador vs. New Brunswick, Saskatchewan vs. P.E.I. SIXTH DRAW, 5:30 P.M. British Columbia vs. Northwest Territories, Northern Ontario vs.

Wild Card 1, Quebec vs. Wild Card 3, Nova Scotia vs. Nunavut

GP x-Penticton 48 x-Salmon Arm 47 x-P. George 50 x-W. Kelowna 46 x-Cranbrook 47 x-Vernon 47 x-Wenatchee 44 x-Trail 45 Merritt 45

W L OL 39 7 0 34 8 4 25 14 3 29 16 1 25 18 2 23 17 4 17 22 4 17 24 2 3 39 2

SL 2 1 8 0 2 3 1 2 1

GF 225 183 153 184 145 127 125 152 82

GA PT 108 80 114 73 116 61 141 59 142 54 131 53 147 39 182 38 273 9

GF 175 163 180 187 188 150 145 134 134

GA PT 132 68 147 65 148 58 137 57 155 54 153 48 193 38 220 34 193 31

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

GP 49 49 46 46 48 47 46 48 48

W L OL 32 13 3 31 15 1 28 16 1 27 16 1 27 21 0 24 23 0 16 24 1 13 27 7 13 30 4

SL 1 2 1 2 0 0 5 1 1

x — clinched playoff position. Note: one point for a loss in OT or SO. Saturday’s results Penticton 8 Trail 2 Salmon Arm 9 Merritt 3 Cranbrook 4 Wenatchee 2 Victoria 6 Powell River 2 Chilliwack 7 Cowichan Val 1 Alberni Valley 3 Surrey 0 W. Kelowna 5 Prince George 0 Friday’s results Victoria 3 Powell River 2 (SO) Surrey 8 Cowichan Valley 5 Nanaimo 6 Chilliwack 3 Penticton 3 Prince George 2 Vernon 9 Merritt 0 West Kelowna 5 Trail 2 Coquitlam 4 Langley 2 Sunday’s games Surrey at Nanaimo, 2 p.m.

Chilliwack at Alberni Valley, 4 p.m.

Cranbrook at Wenatchee, 6 p.m.

VIJHL

FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7)

NORTH DIVISION CAMP RIVER VS. P ALBERNI (Port Alberni leads series 3-2) Friday’s result Port Alberni 3 Campbell River 2 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 3-2) Saturday’s result Oceanside at Comox Valley Wednesday’s result Comox Valley 5 Oceanside 2 Sunday’s game x-Comox Valley at Oceanside, 7 p.m.

SOUTH DIVISION KERRY PARK VS. VICTORIA (Kerry Park wins series 4-0) PENINSULA VS WESTSHORE (Peninsula wins series 4-2)

SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7)

SOUTH DIVISION PENINSULA VS KERRY PARK (Series tied 0-0) Saturday’s result Peninsula at Kerry Park x — played only if necessary.

PGA-ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL

LPGA-HSBC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Talor Gooch Billy Horschel Viktor Hovland Scottie Scheffler Gary Woodland Chris Kirk Graeme McDowell Rory McIlroy Corey Conners Matt Fitzpatrick Russell Henley Tyrrell Hatton Charles Howell III Sungjae Im Nick Watney Will Zalatoris Christiaan Bezuidenhout Keegan Bradley Sam Burns Tom Hoge Max Homa Beau Hossler Martin Laird Jon Rahm Aaron Wise Tommy Fleetwood Patton Kizzire Troy Merritt Sebastian Munoz Taylor Pendrith J.J. Spaun Cameron Young Paul Casey Lucas Herbert Stephan Jaeger Si Woo Kim Jason Kokrak Kyoung-Hoon Lee Taylor Moore Ian Poulter Adam Scott Cameron Champ Rickie Fowler Lanto Griffin Nick Taylor

In Gee Chun Jin Young Ko Jeongeun Lee6 Danielle Kang Atthaya Thitikul Amy Yang Brooke Henderson Pajaree Anannarukarn Hannah Green Nasa Hataoka Megan Khang Minjee Lee Yealimi Noh Su-Hyun Oh Perrine Delacour

At Orlando, Fla. Third Round — Par 72

69-68-72—209 67-71-71—209 69-66-75—210 70-73-68—211 70-72-70—212 69-76-68—213 68-76-69—213 65-72-76—213 72-73-69—214 73-71-70—214 70-72-72—214 69-68-78—215 68-73-74—215 68-77-70—215 74-72-69—215 68-77-70—215 73-74-69—216 71-75-70—216 72-69-75—216 78-69-69—216 69-74-73—216 67-74-75—216 72-69-75—216 72-70-74—216 69-73-74—216 74-73-70—217 69-72-76—217 71-72-74—217 72-74-71—217 71-72-74—217 67-75-75—217 70-71-76—217 71-70-77—218 73-71-74—218 70-73-75—218 69-76-73—218 73-74-71—218 70-76-72—218 71-75-72—218 68-75-75—218 68-76-74—218 70-75-74—219 70-73-76—219 70-73-76—219 70-77-72—219

PGA-PUERTO RICO OPEN At Rio Grande, Puerto Rico Third Round — Par 72 Ryan Brehm Michael Kim Tommy Gainey Max McGreevy Andrew Novak Chad Ramey Kiradech Aphibarnrat Christopher Gotterup Callum Tarren Brandon Wu Scott Brown Brice Garnett Spencer Ralston Aaron Baddeley Bill Haas Mark Hensby Jim Herman Matthias Schwab Chase Seiffert Brian Stuard Dawie Van der Walt Greg Chalmers Sung Kang Chan Kim Kurt Kitayama Ben Kohles Justin Lower Kyle Stanley Vaughn Taylor Richy Werenski Kevin Yu Patrick Flavin Nate Lashley Josh Teater Jared Wolfe Joseph Bramlett Rafa Cabrera Bello Rafael Campos Derek Ernst Satoshi Kodaira David Lingmerth Cameron Percy Peter Uihlein Also — Michael Gligic

66-67-68—201 65-69-70—204 69-67-69—205 70-64-71—205 69-67-69—205 69-68-68—205 67-69-70—206 68-68-70—206 70-65-71—206 69-69-68—206 71-69-67—207 70-68-69—207 71-68-68—207 67-72-69—208 72-66-70—208 70-67-71—208 76-66-66—208 70-66-72—208 65-72-71—208 71-69-68—208 72-66-70—208 68-71-70—209 69-68-72—209 70-70-69—209 76-66-67—209 68-70-71—209 69-70-70—209 71-69-69—209 68-72-69—209 69-71-69—209 73-66-70—209 68-68-74—210 69-72-69—210 71-68-71—210 70-71-69—210 72-69-70—211 69-71-71—211 70-68-73—211 72-69-70—211 68-66-77—211 72-69-70—211 72-68-71—211 68-72-71—211 70-72-71—213

At Sentosa Island, Singapore Third Round — Par 72 70-68-66—204 69-67-69—205 70-70-65—205 68-71-68—207 69-68-70—207 69-67-71—207 69-68-71—208 69-69-71—209 74-69-66—209 72-71-67—210 69-68-73—210 71-69-70—210 75-64-71—210 69-70-71—210 70-72-69—211

CHAMPIONS-HOAG CLASSIC At Newport Beach, Calif.

Second Round — Par 71 Ernie Els Cameron Beckman Retief Goosen Lee Janzen K.J. Choi David Toms Stephen Ames

66-68—134 64-71—135 68-67—135 69-66—135 69-67—136 67-69—136 68-69—137

Darren Clarke Bernhard Langer Doug Barron Alex Cejka

66-72—138 65-73—138 70-69—139 69-70—139

Also — Kevin Baker Mike Weir

72-70—142 69-73—142

SOCCER MLS

Saturday’s results New England 1 Dallas 0 NY Red Bulls 4 Toronto 1 Kansas City 1 Houston 0 Philadelphia 2 Montreal 1 Columbus 3 San Jose 3 DC 1 Cincinnati 0 Orlando 0 Chicago 0 Nashville 1 Minnesota 1 Colorado 3 Atlanta 0 Salt Lake 1 Seattle 0 New York City 0 Vancouver 0 LA Galaxy 1 Charlotte 0 Sunday’s games Miami at Austin FC, 1 p.m.

Portland at Los Angeles FC, 7 p.m.

EPL Saturday’s results Leicester 1, Leeds 0 Aston Villa 4, Southampton 0 Burnley 0, Chelsea 4 Newcastle 2, Brighton 1 Norwich 1, Brentford 3 Wolverhampton 0, Crystal Palace 2 Liverpool 1, West Ham 0 Sunday’s matches Watford vs. Arsenal, 6 a.m.

Man City vs. Man United, 8:30 a.m.

TENNIS

DAVIS CUP QUALIFIER

CANADA VS. NETHERLANDS (Netherlands wins 4-0) At The Hague, Netherlands Saturday’s results Doubles Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, def. Peter Polansky, Thornhill, Ont., and Brayden Schnur, Pickering, Ont. 7-5, 6-3.

Reverse Singles Robin Haase, Netherlands, def.

Steven Diez, Toronto, 6-1, 6-2.

S P O RTS

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SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 2022

Gold, silver and bronze for Canada at Paralympics The Canadian Press

Gorge FC goalkeeper Nick McCue grabs the ball in front of Powell River Villa’s Richard Murphy in their Jackson Cup quarter-final clash at Hampton Park in Victoria on Saturday. Gorge won 2-0 and will host Nanaimo United in the semifinals. DARREN STONE, TIMES COLONIST

Horschel and Gooch ahead at Bay Hill The Associated Press ORLANDO, Florida — Billy Horschel got a rare break at Bay Hill on a day that punished so many others, leading to a birdie on the 18th hole Saturday for a 1-under 71 that gave him a share of the lead with Talor Gooch in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

Horschel was buried in deep rough behind the 18th green and facing a fast chip down the hill.

His foot was on a sprinkler head and he received a free drop.

From the collar, he was able to use putter and his 30-foot putt trickled into the cup.

“To make that putt on 18, to shoot 1-under on a really tough day is really satisfying,” he said.

It was a happy moment and

those were hard to find in a third round where Viktor Hovland lost a four-shot lead at the turn, Matt Jones heaved his putter into the water and Rory McIlroy lost momentum with a tee shot that went out of bounds.

After missing three straight par putts from six feet or closer to cap off his front nine, Scottie Scheffler made three birdies and a 20-foot eagle for a 31 on the back for a 68, matching the low score of the day.

He started the day eight shots behind. He ended it two shots out of the lead. The final group was making the turn when Scheffler finished and he was asked if his round put him back into the tournament.

“I didn’t really feel out of it at

the beginning of the day,” Scheffler said.

He and everyone else had an idea of what to expect on a course that is a strong test in any condition. Add a gusty wind and greens so baked by the sun there was barely any grass, and this was all the best players in golf could handle.

Gooch, the Oklahoman who won his first PGA Tour title in the final event of last year, was up to the task He rolled in a 35-foot birdie putt on the tough 15th, followed with a 15-foot birdie on the next hole and was in the lead until a tee shot into ankle-deep rough on the final hole kept him from reaching the green.

Gooch and Horschel were at 7-under 209.

Canada’s Mollie Jepsen crouched in the start gate on Saturday knowing her four years of Paralympic preparation had not gone nearly as planned.

After capturing four medals in a stunning Paralympic debut in 2018 in Pyeongchang, Crohn’s disease sidelined her for all of the following season, saw her in and out of hospital and robbed her of precious muscle strength.

Then, finally in remission, the COVID-19 pandemic struck, grounding Canada’s Para ski team for the better part of two seasons. But the 22-year-old from West Vancouver saw the silver linings in her forced break, and turned them into gold on Saturday, racing to both Canada’s first medal and victory of the Beijing Paralympics.

“Being able to spend a lot of time training at home was actually hugely beneficial,” Jepsen said of the past two years. “I’ve raced a lot in my life because I was racing able-bodied before I went onto the Para circuit, and so I felt comfortable taking a step back, and training in the pandemic allowed us to go very far back to basics.

“I think on race day, it was all that trust and confidence in yourself, knowing that you’ve really put in the work. I saw a lot of great silver linings in what’s happened and came out a lot

SINGAPORE — In Gee Chun shot

a 6-under 66 Saturday to lead a trio of South Korean golfers at the top of the leaderboard after three rounds of the LPGA Tour’s HSBC Women’s World Championship.

Chun had a 54-hole total of 12-under 204 on the Sentosa Golf Club’s Tanjong course. She had a one-stroke lead over Jeongeun Lee6 (65) and No. 1-ranked Jin Young Ko, who shot 69.

American Danielle Kang (68), Atthaya Thitikul of Thailand (70) and another South Korean

player, Amy Yang (71), were tied for fourth. Canadian Brooke Henderson was seventh after a 71, four strokes behind In. Australian Hannah Green also shot 71 and was tied for eighth, five strokes from the lead.

Chun hasn’t won on the LPGA Tour in more than three years.

“I tried to make good focus on the putting green because I have spasm in my neck, so I didn’t try to hit hard,” said Chun, who tweaked a muscle in her neck during Thursday’s first round and contemplated withdrawing.

“I think it went really well on the putting green, and then

I could really bring the greens really well. That’s how I made a good score today.”

Chun’s last win was at the 2018 LPGA KEB Hana Bank Championship in her home country. Her first two career victories were major titles at the 2015 U.S. Women’s Open and the 2016 Evian Championship.

Lee6’s 65 was Saturday’s low round of the day that included a chip-in eagle at No. 13 and six birdies in her first seven holes.

“I’m very satisfied with my results,” said Lee6. “My swing is getting better these days. So I played comfortably.”

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Jepsen’s gold was the first of three medals for Canada on Day 1 of the Games. Mac Marcoux of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., captured silver in the men’s downhill, while Mark Arendz of Hartsville, P.E.I., opened his busy Paralympics with a bronze in the men’s six-kilometre biathlon.

Jepsen recorded a time of one minute 21.75 seconds on the Yangqing Alpine Centre course.

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

The four-foot-eight skier, who was born missing three fingers on her left hand, began skiing with her family at age two, but it has been a rocky career. She broke a wrist as a child, and then tore the anterior cruciate ligament twice in her left knee as a teenager.

The Canadian team was in Norway when the pandemic struck in early 2020. The skiers were sent home. It would be months before they’d be back on snow training.

Jepsen set up a gym in her family’s home in Whistler. She and her teammates didn’t compete again until this season.

The emergence of Omicron a few weeks ago had Jepsen and the rest of Canada’s Paralympic athletes worried they’d even get to the starting line.

“Honestly, I said if we get there as a team, safe and healthy, that’s a win in itself,” she said.

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RCR heads into Vegas confident win within reach The Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Tyler Reddick led 51 laps in NASCAR’s seasonopening exhibition, and when a mechanical problem knocked him out of the race he climbed into the stands to high-five fans.

Austin Dillon, meanwhile, went on to finish third and salvage the day for Richard Childress Racing. But the race didn’t mean anything, so nothing to see here, right?

Not so fast, said reigning NASCAR champion Kyle Larson, who before the Daytona 500 listed Reddick as a driver to watch this season.

“I think Tyler Reddick is going to have an amazing season,” said Larson, who praised Reddick for leading the pack during offseason testing.

“I feel when I watch him, I am watching myself just because we are both really aggressive and he seems to be even a little more aggressive and keeps things in control better than I could,” Larson added. “He’s the guy that I look at this year that I feel like is going to have the breakout season and win a lot of races.”

Dillon and Reddick didn’t show much in the Daytona 500, but when NASCAR shifted last week to Auto Club Speedway in California, RCR was again very good. Reddick led a race-high 90 laps last Sunday — a career high for Reddick — and won the first two stages of the race before he was doomed by a flat tire; Dillon was runner-up to winner Larson.

Now as NASCAR rolls into its third race of the season today at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the RCR cars really do seem much improved. So much so that Richard Childress expects to be making multiple trips to victory lane this season.

“I know we can win,” Childress said this week. “We are going to win.”

Childress is a NASCAR Hall of Famer who has fielded Cup Series cars for 49 years, tallying six championships with the late Dale Earnhardt and 109 victories. But the last decade has been lean with only four wins over the last eight seasons.

Dillon, his grandson, scored the last RCR victory at Texas in 2020 and RCR has not been a credible championship contender for years. But the organization has high hopes for NASCAR’s new Next Gen race car and the early commitment to that effort from Chevrolet and ECR Engines.

“We definitely tried to be the guys to embrace this new car the earliest in the process.

I think some of the teams probably didn’t embrace it as much as we did,” Dillon said. “This new car is going to level the playing field. That’s what it was kind of built for. Everyone has pretty much the same stuff, it’s just how you assemble it and the set-up choices you make going into the race.

“There’s a lot being learned at a high rate right now, so we’re trying to take in all that data the best we can – as our company can – and make the best decisions going into the race so that we can adjust and make our car a little bit better than the other guys.”

It took reigning NASCAR champion Kyle Larson only two races to get back into victory lane with his win last weekend in California. He’ll try to make it two-in-a-row at Las Vegas, where he’s the defending race winner.

“Hopefully we get on a little streak,” said Larson.

Larson used streaks a year ago to win his first NASCAR championship and was the fourth different driver in Cup history to win three or more consecutive races multiple times in a single season.

American coach Jesse Marsch has been hired by Leeds as the club hopes a late-season change in manager can help to preserve its English Premier League status. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Marsch starts his new life at Leeds with loss as Liverpool closes on City The Associated Press Jesse Marsch gathered his Leeds players in a huddle in the centre circle at the end of the match and delivered what appeared to be an impassioned speech.

So what was the American’s message to his new team after his first match as an English Premier League manager?

“It was real simple,” Marsch said, “that this was very positive and a big step in the right direction.” Problem was, it was still a loss. Another one.

OK, Leeds played surprisingly well in the 1-0 defeat to Leicester on Saturday, especially since Marsch spent only five days with the team after replacing Marcelo Bielsa — a “living legend,” as Marsch described the Argentine — as manager.

Leeds responded immediately to Marsch’s tweaks in tactics and formation, looking a lot tighter than the team that

conceded a record amount of goals in February to effectively push Bielsa to the exit after 3 1/2 years at Elland Road. Leeds’ 19 shots, compared with Leicester’s seven, also told a story.

That counted for little, though, when Harvey Barnes scored what proved to be the winner in the 67th.

“This is maybe the American in me,” said Marsch, a former U.S. international following in the footsteps of countrymen Bob Bradley and David Wagner in managing in England’s top league, “but I’ve learned that sometimes our sport isn’t the fairest. But it doesn’t matter, you’ve got to do what you can in this sport to manage. In a sport like basketball you score a lot more points and usually the better team manages to emerge.”

Not this time for Leeds, which has lost five straight in the league and is only two points above the relegation zone with

11 games left.

That’s the task Marsch is facing in the final two and a half months of the season.

Liverpool just isn’t letting up in its pursuit of Manchester City.

A 1-0 win at home to West Ham — secured by Sadio Mane’s 27th-minute goal — moved second-placed Liverpool to within three points of the leader, which plays a derby match against Manchester United today.

Lose that and City is within direct range of Liverpool, which will have a game in hand and currently has a superior goal difference of four. Liverpool has won seven straight in the league.

Chelsea is getting increasingly marooned in third place — 10 points behind Liverpool and six ahead of fourth-placed Man United — after a 4-0 win at Burnley.

Reece James and Christian Pulisic scored either side of a double from Kai Havertz.

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BAINS, Bildave (Billy) 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 Bains-Wood and his nephew Rumi Guzder of Montreal.

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.

Bob loved his all his family dearly, known as a character with a great sense of humour, 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.

Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow I am the sunlight on ripened grain BRAIN, Darlene A.

December 20, 1943 - December 23, 2021 With incredible sadness, Darlene took her last breath while her devoted husband of 55 years, Bill Brain, and two adoring daughters, Terri Gold (Brain) and Karen Brain sat by her bedside holding her hands. Her stoic heart, strong till the end, finally succumbed to her extended journey with Alzheimer’s. Darlene, born to her parents Teresa and Howard Noble, grew up in Victoria along with her beloved sister Bonnie Howard (Noble), all predeceased. She leaves behind a deep void in her family’s hearts, including her husband, daughters, son-in-law Rob Gold, and cherished grandsons Dean, Matthew, and Nicholas Gold.

Family was Darlene’s ultimate passion in life, and she constantly extended her generous, loving personality to all her in-laws, cousins, nieces, and nephews. An incredibly devoted friend, Darlene maintained dear friendships from her Vic High school days and enjoyed being involved with her high school reunions.

Letters found from 1966 revealed her intention to “marry that Bill Brain”, including her idyllic dream of having a family and a full life with him. Years later she fulfilled her dream, affirmation of her incredible capacity to love, optimistic outlook, and fierce protective instinct that occasionally came out like a lioness. At the heart of Darlene’s passion was time spent with loved ones: from her own loving childhood and adventures with school friends, to family reunions in Lake Cowichan, holidays in Palm Desert, boating, Hawaii, horse events, and much more. She loved her people.

She was truly a rare soul, benefitting all committees and organizations she volunteered for with her sincerity, generosity, integrity to uphold fairness and equality, belief in the benefit of the groups’ mandate, and her keen eye for detail and organization. She created a fairy-tale home life and made every holiday special with gifts and goodies, and expressions of love in every handmade card. Darlene will be deeply missed by not only her family and friends but by all who experienced her genuine kindness. Behind her, she leaves the world a better place. She leaves beautiful memories in the minds of those who love her, and precious snapshots of the community members she was proudly part of. We say goodbye and at the same time we say thank you. Forever dance mom, you bequeathed us such joy and childlike innocence ‘til the very end, and we will always hear you in our minds, “happy, happy, happy!” We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to Dr. Sheikh, Saan-Penn Hospital extended care staff, Peninsula Community Health Services, and the Mt. Newton Center.

You all made a lasting impact on Darlene’s last years and final days. Bless you all. A casual service to gather in Darlene’s memory will be held May 15, 2022, from 12:00 pm-4:00 pm at the #2 covered venue at Centennial park.

Family and friends are welcome to come celebrate in her memory.

I am the gentle autumn’s rain.

When you awaken in the morning’s hush I am the swift, uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight; I am the soft star that shines at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.

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.

DREWRY, Neil Thomas

January 23, 1922 - February 24, 2022 Neil passed peacefully and gracefully, at home, surrounded by his family, just weeks after joyfully celebrating his 100th birthday. In his many years, he always wanted to choose quality of life over quantity, but managed to achieve both, for which we are deeply grateful.

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.

Dad was predeceased by his six siblings, and by his beloved wife Doris in 2009, and son David (survived by Joan Backus) in 2016. He is survived by his beloved and devoted family, daughter Donna Field (Rick Gonder), sons Alan and Glen, and granddaughters Alison Field and Celebration of life will be on March 20, 2022 Stephanie Field. from 1:00-4:00PM for more information please contact granbergfam3@gmail.com Neil was born on a homestead farm west of Condolences may be offered at Herschel SK (Sec 31, Tp 30, Rge 18, W3), the https://carefuneral.com fifth of seven children. It was a rugged subsistence life and he epitomized the strength and grace of prairie stock. Neil moved to Victoria in 1941 in search of new opportunities. He met Doris, also from SK; they married in 1944 and grew a strong and loving partnership of 65 years, raising four children. Neil joined the army in 1943, serving overseas for the remainder of WWII. When we asked “Weren’t you scared?” he responded in his typically honest manner, “scared to death”, and this cemented our understanding of his Following his retirement, Peter and Elizabeth quiet courage and sense of duty. moved to Pender Island where they became involved in the community. He organized In 1948, after completing a BSc degree from sailing instruction for juniors; served on the UBC, Neil began a 33-year challenging and executive and as chairman of the Fall Fair rewarding career with the provincial Committee; served on the executive of the government, beginning with Land Utilization Royal Canadian Legion including the position and travelling every corner of his well-loved of President; participated in local political rural BC. In 1967 he became Supervisor of affairs as a member of the Advisory Planning Assessors for the Surveyor of Taxes, ending Commission and for six years as an elected his career as a Director of the newly-formed Islands Trustee. In later years Peter devoted BC Assessment Authority. Retirement in 1981 much of his time to the preservation of the afforded him over 40 years of enthusiastically history of the Pender Islands through the embracing new interests and experiences. He establishment of the Pender Islands Museum took his pilot’s licence and explored the great and Archives. beyond. He and Doris enjoyed many wonderful travels together, and they continued their lifeAfter twenty years of living on Pender Island, long love of bridge, and the longstanding Elizabeth and Peter moved to Oak Bay. There friendships they had. Neil treasured wonderful for four years he acted as the Treasurer of the friends at Uplands Golf Club and was able to Canadian Club of Victoria. Peter was a passionately enjoy golf until nearly 100. Dad member of the Naval Association of Canada, and Mom shared their great love of immediate Vancouver Island Branch; a Life Member of the and extended family. Neil was the unofficial Pender Island Yacht Club and a Life Member of patriarch of a large number of devoted nieces the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 239 and nephews; he took a great interest in their (Pender Island). families and was so grateful for their affection.

The greatest pleasures in Peter’s life were his We wish to thank all our family and to express family and friends. He loved nothing more than our special gratitude to nieces Bev and Linda, hosting a family dinner or dinner party and the who kept Dad mesmerized and joyfully discussions that ensued. Peter made an connected with steadfast weekly calls. “Nana impact on many lives, none more so than on and Grandad” devoted themselves to their those of his children and grandchildren. They beloved granddaughters from day one, and all remember the Razor Point report cards were cherished always in return. where A stood for Awful and F for Fantastic.

Since the 1950’s, Neil and Doris were faithful Peter enjoyed the traveling that his naval members of First United (now First career offered, and after retirement Elizabeth Metropolitan United) Church, where Neil and he continued to explore both Canada and fulfilled many volunteer roles and maintained points farther afield. In 71 years they traveled genuine connections with his church family. by naval ship, steamship, cruise ship, airplane, He was a quietly charitable, generous and bus, train, 27’ sloop, Impala station wagon, and helpful man who valued community. He Jeep with Boler trailer. enjoyed a long and stimulating membership with the Round Table Club of Victoria, and over The family wishes to thank Dr. Kevin Wylie of 30 wonderful years surrounded by a host of the Oak Bay Medical Clinic for years of care, friendly condo neighbours at The Rudyard the staff of Berwick House where Peter and Kipling.

Elizabeth have lived for the last two years and the doctors, nurses and health care aides on Dad taught us so much, without “telling”. He the SW wing of the fifth floor of the Royal was an extraordinary “everyday” kind of man.

Jubilee Hospital.

Above all, he was courteous, kind and gentle.

He readily accepted others as they were, and In Peter’s memory please consider making a life as it was, but always did what he could to donation to a charity of your choice. No service make things better. He was keenly intelligent by request, a gathering will be held at a later and curious, principled but pragmatic and date, to be announced. practical. He was an enthusiastic, welcoming Condolences may be offered to the family at and relaxed host; others just felt good in his www.mccallgardens.com presence. He was humble and modest (except at bridge). Without guile, he was honest, transparent (except at poker) and uncomplicated in relationships. His discipline and fitness regimes were well-known, his humour was delightful. He had an irrepressible HALLETT, Bonnie good and positive nature, and just a wee bit of July 18, 1946 - December 15, 2021 the inner rebel. To know him was to love him, Bonnie passed away peacefully in the company and we and many others did. of family. She is survived and dearly missed by Neil will be deeply missed by his dear friend daughter Alison, sister Magee and grandson Joy Message, who, together with long-time Torin. friends Gem Templeman and her late husband Peter, developed a strong and enduring circle, Born in 1946 to Pat and Hugh, Bonnie’s early filled with fun and friendship, following the loss life was shaped by her dad’s airforce career, Doris. Our family is so grateful for these very which brought them around Canada and All obituaries placed in the Times of overseas.

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2022. In lieu of flowers, if desired, donations began working at the law library at UVic, which may be made to Victoria Hospice, Kidney was the start of a 35 year career at the university. Bonnie was quickly promoted to If you are unable to access your Foundation of Canada or Our Place Society. acquisitions supervisor, and she later held fond memories of her days in the law library. loved one’s announcement at Condolences may be offered at She completed a Masters degree in Public www.mccallgardens.com www.legacy.com/obituaries/ Administration at night school while working timescolonist please contact us at full time at UVic. In 1991, she moved to the Human Resources Department as an advisor.

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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.

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REMEMBERING HASHKA, Joyce Viola (nee Brotherston)

October 28, 1937 - February 26, 2022 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.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Victoria Hospice Society at 250-370-8715.

A private family service to be held.

RANGEL, Julian (Jay) R.J.

September 26, 1934 - February 17, 2022 Cdr. (RCN Ret’d) Julian Roland James “Jay” Rangel, CD With profound sadness, our family announces the death of this beloved father and grandfather, who went to his reward on February 17th, 2022 He is survived by his 3 children, Greg (Nicci), Christopher (Beth) and Julianne, together with his 5 treasured grandchildren Kennedy, Presley, Payton, Alexis and Ashton, his cat Casey, his first wife Suzanne, extended family members, Norman, Pam, Mark, Minette, Sarah and Dana and many friends and accomplices.

The youngest of 5 children, Jay was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1934 to Maria Quinha (nee Gordo) and Vincent Rangel. Pre-WW2, the Rangels lived in Yokohama where Jay attended school at St. Joseph’s College, where he made many lifelong friends.

Post-war, Jay emigrated to North America to live and finish his schooling in Santa Barbara, California. After graduation, he joined his Aunt Lila, Uncle Sid Cole and cousin, Jessica Grant, in Victoria where he worked at The Bank of Montreal and on the weather ships.

Jay was accepted into the first class (September 1954) at “HMCS Venture” Junior Officer Training Establishment. At Venture he acquired friendships that lasted his lifetime.

Following a long and fascinating career as a Naval Officer, Jay became involved in his passion for BC politics. Jay was an active participant in many civic activities - not the least of which was serving as Councillor (197981) and Mayor (1981-83) of North Saanich.

Among his many accomplishments, he was proud of having established an Environmental Advisory Commission. In 2000, he received an Honourary Citizen Award from the City of Victoria for having developed and maintained Victoria’s Twin City relationship with Morioka, Suzhou and Khabarovsk. Jay loved to travel particularly to the Far East - and with “Jay’s Journeys”, he delighted in leading tours to Japan, China, India and Nepal. Listeners to CFAX used to enjoy his many reports and travel discussions with his friend Terry Spence.

Jay’s love of all animals big and small was a very important part of his life. With the heart of a true animal lover, Jay contributed and supported to any animal charity or cause.

Exceptionally wise, intelligent, eccentric, wellread, travelled & informed, Jay was a man of strong views, who never failed to express them. With a great sense of humour and a quick wit, Jay could laugh and be positive in even the most difficult situations. His positive outlook on everything in life was a source of light for everyone he knew. To the end, Jay loved staying in touch with his “Venture brothers”, his political allies and cohorts, dear friends and family members. He had a great life, and lived it on his own terms. He will be sorely missed by so many!

VANDONSELAAR, Jentje (Jenna) April 1933 - February 2022

Jenna passed away peacefully in her sleep at home in Victoria on February 4th. She is survived by her 4 children, 10 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. She is sadly missed and lovingly remembered by her family, her partner, Dan Brown and her best friend, Danny Mount. Jenna immigrated to Canada from Holland with her former husband and two small children in 1959. She was a strong and independent person who worked as a nurse, lifeguard, yoga instructor and realtor, all while raising her family in Edmonton. She was active in a variety of sports and hobbies all her life and until very recently, loved to play bridge.

Jenna will be remembered for her courage, her love of Victoria, the ocean, flowers, and beautiful things.

Rest In Peace, Mom

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.

BOWLIER, Leonard Lawrence

January 30, 1938 - March 6, 2021 I have lost my soul companion A life linked with my own And day by day I miss him more As I walk through life alone Miss you so much Your wife Connie and family

Condolences may be offered to the family at www.mccallgardens.com

A Roman Catholic Funeral Mass and celebration of life will be announced at a later date through memorial page at www.Mcallgardens.com

WORMELL, Tyler

July 29, 1997 to March 7, 2020 We remember Tyler for his thoughtfulness, positive outlook and dedication to those he loved. Tyler taught us what it meant to show up. He never let cancer dictate how he was going to live and continued doing what he enjoyed most with the people who were important to him until the very end.

Your life was a blessing and you are loved beyond words and missed beyond measure.

Love mom, your family and friends.

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together...there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart... I’ll always be with you.”

WEBB, Stephen

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 of God. Predeceased by son Wayne and brother Zigfrid. Survived by his wife Marie, sister Elfrida Pujena in Latvia, son Patrick Ten Have (Jean), daughter Katrina Reda (Tony), son Garry Ten Have (Sherri), grandchildren, greatTHOMSON, Lena (nee Souchuk) grandchildren; and by other relatives in Latvia.

No service by request.

Lena passed away peacefully surrounded by Condolences may be offered at family on February 23, 2022, at the age of 86, www.sandsvictoria.ca 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.

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.

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 in touch. When it came to her personal life, Lena was fortunate enough to see many generations of her own family grow. She will be deeply missed by many, and her legacy will live on in those who knew her and loved her.

The family would like to thank her physicians and the incredible Island Health staff at the 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.

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WRIGHT, Joyce (Mesher) March 1925 - March 2022

It is with profound sadness that our family announces the passing of our mother and best Nana, Joyce Hilda Wright (97 years young), who was born and raised in Victoria. Her family spent 6 months, of each of her growing up years, living in Klemtu, where her dad repaired fish nets. She learned to do this as well. Her dad was from Labrador and of Inuit heritage and her mom immigrated from England.

The energy of this extraordinary creative and highly intelligent matriarch has been passed onto her three daughters: Vikki (Rob); Judi (Roger); Wendy Kate (Brian); and only son, Bill (Colleen); her very treasured grandchildren: Stephen, Chris, Jakki, Melanie, Scott, Nicole, Darcy, Chase and Lindsay; 14 greatgrandchildren, and one great great-grandson, Lucas. Also her sister-in-law, Pat (Don).

She was predeceased by her three sisters: Pearl, Ruthie, Pat, and her brother, Bud. The love of her life, Bill Wright, who she married at 18, died July, 2015, after 72 years together.

She was extremely social in her younger years belonging to the I.O.F, the Lion’s Club, and the Social Credit party. She loved politics and CNN. She was the last surviving member of a 50 year long card club of 30 women. She also volunteered for over ten years at both the Broadmead Lodge and the Victoria General Gift Shops. She loved to dance, and in her final months of dementia, we often heard her singing songs. It always made us smile.

She worked for Hall and Company at 18, a factory in Bastion Square, sewing soldiers’ jackets. She did alterations at Lyle’s Ladies Wear and then worked for the Hudson Bay Company in the drapery department. Because of her quick mind, she loved working as a Constituency Secretary for Lyall Kahl (S.C. MLA for Esquimalt). His wife, Donna, became a lifelong friend.

Her constant passion, however, was her family, and she was loved so much as a Nana. She always took the time for hugs, kisses, playtime, conversations, sleepovers, and going to all their special or sports events. The huge family dinners and celebrations were her favourite. These were the times she absolutely glowed and was the happiest.

She never looked her age and she drove until she was 96. She did not know the words sit or relax.

She will be so missed, but we are happy that she is with our dad now, and she gave life, and her family and friends, one hell of a ride.

A very special thanks to the hard working, and caring staff, at Sidney All Care, where she spent her last 5 months.

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BIRTHDAY SUNDAY: The intensity of your feelings will surprise you this year and not only will you rock a few boats but you’ll sink a few as well. Let everyone know that from here on in you will always be true to what comes from the heart - and mean it.

BIRTHDAY MONDAY: The world you experience on a daily basis is a reflection of the thoughts and feelings that flow through your head and your heart. Tell yourself on your birthday, and every day from now on, that life is good and about to get even better - and it will.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Mars, your ruler, is moving in your favor now and making it so much easier to develop friendships that benefit you on both a personal and a professional level. Your drive, determination and leadership abilities will be much in demand this week.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20): You seem to be of the opinion that a friend is keeping something from you and it’s eating you up to think you’re the only one not in the know.

Most likely they are just having a bit of fun at your expense. They know how your mind works.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): The influence of Venus in the career area of your chart over the next few days will turbocharge your efforts to move up in the world. Your popularity will soar and your opinions on the major issues of the day will be much in demand.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21): A matter that has been worrying you on and off for several weeks will be resolved to your satisfaction over the next few days, so stop worrying and channel your emotional energy into activities that bring smiles rather than frowns and tears.

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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21): Make it your aim over the next few days to get more involved in group activities. This is no time to play the lone wolf and go your own way, it’s time to show your leadership qualities, of which you have plenty.

Trust yourself to do the right thing.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21): You will come face-to-face with a situation you would prefer to avoid today but the circumstances are such that you’ll have no choice but to take the initiative and strive to turn the poor hand the universe has played you into a good one.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23): Don’t just think about changing your life for the better, do things that will make that happen. At this time of year your intentions have a great deal of power, maybe more than you realize, so set yourself goals that seem challenging - you’ll reach them with ease.

LEO (July 24 - Aug. 23): Partnership issues are under excellent stars now and over the next few weeks there will be no end of opportunities to strengthen relationships on both a personal and a professional level. You haven’t been this popular for quite some time!

LEO (July 24 - Aug. 23): You may feel a bit hard done by at the moment, having been left out of social and professional activities you were hoping to take part in, but don’t waste time brooding about it. A positive outlook will make all the difference over the next few days.

VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23): Your ability to get past what others say and identify what they actually mean will impress a lot of people this week. However, the fact that you seem able to read their minds could make some of your colleagues a little bit uncomfortable!

VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23): You don’t need other people to tell you how special you are, you are well aware of your own worth, but they will tell you anyway and you’ll secretly enjoy it. Self-image is everything and the image you have of yourself now is of a serious mover and shaker.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23): Cosmic activity in the most positive area of your chart will sweep away negative thoughts and feelings and make life fun again. Once you’ve got a smile back on your face make it your mission to lift others out of their dark moods as well.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22): Everyone makes mistakes, even a Scorpio, so stop beating yourself up about a wrong call you made and resolve to make the right one next time. The key to long-term success is momentum, so don’t waste time analyzing what no longer matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21): You should have no trouble finding the words to express your love for someone this week and if you want to get in their good books you must woo them and leave no doubt about it. The force of your personality will impress and excite them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20): Tell yourself that no matter what setbacks you may face over the next few days you won’t give up and you will reach your ultimate goal. Yours is a sign that never knows when it is beaten, so keep fighting and expect to start winning soon.

PISCES (Feb. 20 - Mar. 20): Stand back from what is going on around you and strive to see life from both a higher and deeper perspective. At all times and in all situations keep reminding yourself that there is a cosmic plan behind everything that happens - because it’s true.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22): You have total and utter self-belief and with so many positive cosmic influences working in your favor at the moment that confidence won’t be fading any time soon. Nothing will be beyond you over the next few days, so long as you want it enough.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 21): Changes you made around the turn of the year should make it easier for you to cope with upheavals on the home front this week. Try to stay on good terms with loved ones and relatives but don’t betray your principles just to please them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 20): Your communication skills are sharp at the moment and later in the week, when Mercury changes signs, they will get sharper still. Try to recognize though that not everyone can be on the same high level as you. Make allowances for slower minds and twisted tongues!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19): You appear to be in one of your allor-nothing moods at the moment and while it’s unlikely to do any harm today it could create problems for you later in the week. Try to be a bit more flexible. Bend a little so no one can break you.

PISCES (Feb. 20 - Mar. 20): This could be and should be an extremely good week for you. With the Sun, Jupiter and Neptune, your ruler, all moving through your sign it will feel as if the universe is effortlessly guiding you. Sit back and let it happen. Enjoy the ride.

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CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

• Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

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16,378 ACROSS 1.One guilty of a grave offence? (4,8) 7.Churchman providing vehicle after six (5) 8.I’ve an arrangement that’s innocent (5) 9.That left as a tip? (3) 10.A carrier of note? (9) 11.Not dense as a press could be (6) 12.How one marches on foot? (6) 15.Explained once beaten (9) SOLuTION TO PuZZLE NO. 16,377

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17.Are going back in time (3) 18.Tired out, but made an effort (5) 19.Speak for the country? (5) 21.A notable usherette?

(7,5) DOWN 1.Suckers buy them (6,6) 2.So unhealthysounding? (3) 3.Stop and take into custody (6) 4.Worried about business with the editor (9)

5.Looking at some turnkey in gaol (5) 6.He’s clearly seen as likely to succeed (4,8) 7.It’s still produced in Russia! (5) 10.Erring, having been badly directed (9) 13.Possibly three in that place (5) 14.Inventor seen sideon, perhaps (6) 16.The arrogance of lions? (5) 20.Tool used in breaking the law (3)

Across: 4 Skittle; 8 Utopia; 9 Sea coal; 10 Tartan; 11 Spades; 12 Ice cream; 18 Complete; 20 Portal; 21 Wander; 22 Compass; 23 Modern; 24 Degrade.

Down: 1 Curtail; 2 Courses; 3 Mid-air; 5 Keeps mum; 6 Tic-tac; 7 Leader; 13 Enclosed; 14 Needles; 15 Hearing; 16 Morose; 17 Stupor; 19 Pharos.

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Popular Japanese tempura has a surprising origin story Breaded deep fried veggies, fish were first served in Japan by Portuguese missionaries in 16th century

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f the produce drawer in your refrigerator is well stocked with vegetables, do what I did and use some up by making tasty tempura.

It’s a Japanese dish where vegetables and other items, such as mushrooms and prawns, are dipped in batter, fried and served with a dip. The Japanese have been making tempura for hundreds of years. How it became part of their cuisine is an interesting story.

According to several sources, in the 16th century, Portuguese missionaries came to Japan, bringing their traditions and cuisine with them. One of those traditions was observing Ember Days, Qautuor Tempora in Latin, the four feast days of the Catholic calendar, during which meat is off the menu.

On those days, lore suggests the missionaries prepared fish and vegetables in a way they did at home, coating them in a batter and frying them. This technique was new to Japan at the time. But it eventually became very popular and became known as tempura, derived from the Latin word Tempora.

According to Lesley Downer’s book At the Japanese Table, the Japanese improved on the technique, devising a lighter batter and cooking with lighter oil. They clearly came up with something people liked, because tempura is now a staple of their cuisine and served and enjoyed in Japanese restaurants around the world.

As with any dish that has been made for centuries, how tempura is prepared can vary from cook to cook, recipe to recipe, mainly in how the batter is prepared.

In the dozen or so recipes I looked at, some batters were simply made with flour, eggs and water. Others used egg yolks instead of whole eggs. In some recipes, lower-in-gluten cake flour was called for. In others, a mix of all-purpose flour and cornstarch was used to create that lower gluten content, said to yield a crispier, less doughy batter when fried.

In some recipes I read, including some of my own in the past, leaveners, such as baking powder, and bubbly soda water, instead of still water, were mixed in, with the goal of making the batter puff up when fried. And, in some other recipes, the batter was mixed until smooth, while many others were left a little lumpy.

There were other differences, such as how thick the batter should be. But one thing that was agreed upon in all the recipes I read was that the tempura batter should be very cold. Because when that cold batter hits the hot oil, it causes a bigger reaction, making it crisp and light.

In today’s recipe, I opted to go with a tempura batter that was still a little lumpy after mixing. When fried, it creates appealing, jagged edges on the vegetables. Speaking of those vegetables, many different types can be used to make tempura, as noted in my recipe ingredient list. Simply choose the ones that appeal

Deep fried tempura, made with a mix of vegetables and mushrooms.

ERIC AKIS

asparagus spears or green beans, thin diagonal slices Japanese-style eggplant, thin slices or sticks of zucchini, and/or thin slices of squash • vegetable oil for deep-frying

to you. Mushrooms, such as shiitakes, can also be used.

Vegetable Tempura Serve this tempura as a snack or appetizer, or as a main-course, with rice and a salad, such as a Japanese-style slaw.

Preparation time: 40 minutes Cooking time: three to four minutes, per batch of tempura Makes: two generous (10 to 12 piece) servings For tempura dip (see Eric’s options) 1/2 cup + 2 Tbsp dashi (see Note 1) 2 Tbsp mirin (see Note 2) 2 Tbsp soy sauce 1/8 tsp ground ginger, or 1/4 to 1/2 tsp finely grated fresh ginger For tempura 3/4 cup + 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour (divided) 1/4 cup cornstarch 1/2 tsp salt 1 large egg 3/4 cup cold water 20 to 24 pieces of fresh vegetables and mushrooms, such as small broccoli florets, medium shiitake mushrooms (stems removed) or small white mushrooms, thin slices of yam, rings of onion, trimmed

Prepare tempura dip by combining its ingredients in a small pot. Bring to a simmer over medium heat. Remove from the heat and set aside until needed.

Set a wire rack over a baking sheet.

Set vegetables on a second baking sheet, sprinkle with the 1 Tbsp flour, and toss lightly to coat each piece. Heat the oil in your deep fryer to 350 F (see Eric’s options). Preheat your oven to 200 F. Thoroughly combine the 3/4 cup flour, cornstarch and salt in a bowl. Set a second bowl in a larger bowl of ice (this will help make the batter very cold). Add the egg and beat well. Now beat in the water.

Add the flour mixture and mix with a fork until a slightly lumpy batter forms.

To fry vegetables and mushrooms, working in two or three batches, dip and coat them in the batter, and then carefully set in the hot oil. Deep-fry them until light golden, about three to four minutes.

Set the cooked vegetables and mushrooms on the wire rack; keep warm in the oven until the rest are fried. Arrange the tempura vegetables and mushrooms on a serving tray, or in two individual shallow bowls or dinner plates, and serve with a

bowl of the tempura dip.

Note 1: Dashi is a stock made from bonito — dried, fermented tuna flakes.

Packets of powdered bonito you can use to quickly make dashi are sold at Japanese food stores, such as Fujiya at 3624 Shelbourne St., and at some grocery stores. I bought a packet of Hondashi brand bonito soup stock in the Asian foods aisle at Fairway market. Mix 1/2 tsp with 1/2 cup plus 2 Tbsp boiling water to yield the dashi you need for the tempura dip.

Note 2: Mirin, a sweet, sake-based condiment, is sold in the Asian foods aisle of most supermarkets and at Japanese food stores.

Eric’s options: If making your own tempura dip is too much bother, you can buy bottles of ready-to-use tempura dip, such as Kikkoman brand, in the Asian foods aisle of some grocery stores. If you don’t have a deep fryer, set four or so inches of vegetable oil into an eight-inch or so wide pot. Set over medium-high heat and warm oil to 350 F. Adjust the heat as needed to maintain that temperature.

Carefully fry the tempura, in batches, as described in the recipe. eakis@timescolonist.com Eric Akis is the author of eight cookbooks.

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“To have one of your largest, highly qualified workforce on the fence of leaving, I think that is something that should be alarming all of us.”

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OTTAWA —South Asian women have

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faced some of the biggest job challenges during the pandemic in Canada, and a new study looks more deeply at this group and offers insights into their experiences in the workplace.

More than half of South Asian women respondents to a survey by CulturaliQ and the Pink Attitude Evolution said they are planning to leave their jobs for other opportunities.

This share is higher than any other group of women in Canada, and 19 per cent more than the average of all women surveyed.

CulturaliQ is a Toronto-based cultural market research company.

Founded in 2015, Pink Attitude Evolution is a Canadian non-profit organization that supports South Asian women across several industries.

Among South Asian women’s motivations for leaving their current role, 48 per cent identified unsatisfying work as a major reason, compared to 35 per cent of all women and 32 per cent of all men.

The second most-cited reason for leaving their job was poor management, at 37 per cent.

“For this to change, it’s not just the work of South Asian women or

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women. This is everybody’s work,” said Puneet Maan, who is in the midst of a job switch, starting a new position as a vice-president for Laurentian Bank next week.

Maan said that a big force in achieving her own career success was receiving workplace support and sponsorship. Sponsorship refers to a relationship between a protégé and someone of higher authority in the company who can help advocate for career opportunities.

When she returned from maternity leave, Maan said she noticed that those she relied on for support had left the company.

“I’ve had road bumps where I haven’t had sponsorship, I’ve had periods where I’ve had sponsorship, and those two times in my career felt very different,” she said.

Conducted from September to December 2021, the survey included responses from 2,200 women and men of various backgrounds, of which 700 were South Asian women, 400 were white women, and 158 were South Asian men compared to 300 white men.

The survey cannot be assigned a margin of error because online panels are not considered truly random samples.

Sixty-five per cent of South Asian women said they are considering going into business themselves, compared to 46 per cent of all

women saying so.

The study also suggested that the pandemic has created more challenges for South Asian women.

Almost half surveyed said they plan to quit their jobs due to the pandemic, a higher proportion reporting so than all other groups of women.

Sixty-five per cent said the workload in their household has increased since the pandemic began, more than any other group of women surveyed.

South Asian women were most likely to say they lowered their salary expectations in the last few years, with 64 per cent saying so compared to the 50 per cent average of all women, and 45 per cent of all men.

Ruby Dhillon, CEO and founder of Pink Attitude, said on Wednesday that paying attention to this group is especially important as the Canadian labour force continues to shift and the country relies almost entirely on immigration for population growth.

“To have one of your largest, highly qualified workforce on the fence of leaving, I think that is something that should be alarming all of us,” she said.

South Asian women are also one of the highest educated groups compared to other visible minorities, according to the 2016 census.

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Ties that bind all powerful in coming-of-age drama LAURIE HERTZEL Tribune New Service The Sisters Sweet

by Elizabeth Weiss; The Dial Press How do you grow up and make your own life when you’re tethered to others? Even harder if the people you’re tethered to are both needy and slightly bonkers.

In her debut novel, The Sisters Sweet, Minneapolis writer Elizabeth Weiss has spun a fascinating coming-of-age novel around this question, even imagining a literal tether. The result is a highly original, engrossing story about family secrets, hypocrisy and betrayal.

Set in the 1920s and ’30s in

Chicago, the novel is narrated by Harriet, twin to Josie, daughter to Maud and Lenny. Maud once was a Vaudeville performer, with a voice so beautiful “light pours from her throat” when she sings. Lenny was a talented designer of sets and costumes who won Maud’s heart by carving exquisite tiny animals out of pilfered bars of soap.

But hard times have hit — diva Maud can no longer perform, and dreamer Lenny has started to drink. They have twin toddlers to care for, and no income. It’s Lenny who hits on the clever scheme to truss the girls together, tell the world they’re conjoined twins, and put them on the stage.

For 10 years, between the ages of five and 15, the girls are a hit, singing and dancing in one big dress with two holes for their heads. Josie is a natural, the one with the talent. Harriet’s skill is melting into her sister, becoming one with her. “For the duration of the show, it wasn’t a lie; it was simply a different sort of truth. I was Josephine and Harriet both.”

I won’t tell you exactly how Josie rebels — that scene is too audacious to spoil — but afterward the burden of everything falls on Harriet, who at 15 now must be the good girl, the wageearner, and, eventually, the perfect woman who will marry a fortune and thus provide for her mother’s future. Harriet is

a wonderful, full character — wise, observant, torn between duty to her feckless parents and a desire to live her own life. It’s not surprising when she tries to maintain a dual existence — isn’t that all she has ever known? But it’s also not surprising when the centre will not hold.

The Sisters Sweet has a couple of jarring structural oddities.

It’s bookended by brief chapters when a reporter ambushes an aged Harriet to find out her story. The device of nosy journalist is a tired one, and, in this case, neither necessary nor believable. (“I called up your publisher and got your address,” the bubbly reporter says.)

And Harriet’s narration, the

bulk of the novel, is interrupted by third-person chapters set deeper in the past. They tell the story of Maud and Lenny, but names are withheld and it takes half of the book for the reader to understand who these people are. While they provide important back story, the chapters are unnecessarily confusing.

But these are quibbles. The Sisters Sweet is fiendishly well imagined, a powerful family story about selfishness and duty, sacrifice and freedom. As all around her the people who would use Harriet get what they want in various ways, the reader hopes madly that she will finally figure out a way to undo those ties that bind.

Member of ‘Merry Pranksters’ recalls drug-fuelled bus trip JOHN ROGERS The Associated Press Cronies

by Ken Babbs; Tsunami Press Author Ken Kesey, flush with cash from the publication of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, filled an aging, broken-down school bus with friends in 1964 and led them on a drug-fuelled drive across America, later recounted in vivid detail in Tom Wolfe’s 1968 bestseller, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

More than a half-century later, Kesey’s longtime consigliere has weighed in with his own account of that memorable journey and numerous others.

Cronies is not Ken Babbs’ first book and perhaps not his best.

But it will likely serve as a mustread for aging hippies, admirers of Kesey and anyone who wondered whatever happened to that group calling itself the Merry Pranksters, whose members gave each other nicknames like Stark Naked, Anonymous, Hassler, the Cadaverous Cowboy and Zonker.

Age, illness and death have caught up with some, including Kesey, who died of cancer in 2001. A few others have grown old gracefully and, in some cases, surprisingly successfully. All are remembered quite fondly.

Babbs, now 83, was second-incommand to Kesey during that coast-to-coast adventure in a bus named Further that was painted top-to-bottom in psychedelic colours and filled with copious amounts of marijuana and LSD. Travelling through the South, Further was sometimes mistaken, Babbs writes, for a bus carrying young people known as Freedom Riders, who risked their lives to register Black voters. Alarmed southerners often called the police, he says, and one cop advised the Pranksters to fly a Confederate flag for their own protection. Instead, they unveiled a banner

Cronies will likely serve as a must-read for aging hippies, admirers of Ken Kesey and anyone who wondered whatever happened to the group calling itself the Merry Pranksters. TSUNAMI PRESS proclaiming, “A Vote For Barry is a Vote For Fun,” a tongue-incheek endorsement of Republican senator Barry Goldwater, who was running for president that year.

He also confirms Wolfe’s description of driver Neal Cassady as a maniac behind the wheel who terrified everyone aboard with his high-speed

manoeuvres on narrow mountain roads as he kept up a nonstop patter over a loudspeaker on whatever topic came to mind.

Cassady, the Pranksters’ most tragic figure, died in Mexico three years after the bus trip, having been found barely alive on railroad tracks outside the town of San Miguel de Allende.

He had taken a bet that he could

run from one town to another on a frigid winter night while counting the number of railroad ties. His last words, Babbs says, included the number 64,968.

Wolfe’s book largely concludes with Kesey’s return to California after the bus trip, followed by a series of “acid tests” he and Babbs organized in which the Grateful Dead would perform for people high on LSD. Babbs’ book, like the bus, takes the adventure further, and the result is that some of the freshest and most amusing stories are found in its second half.

Anonymous, the 15-year-old runaway who jumped aboard the bus in Canada and wouldn’t get off, was eventually returned to her family and, as an adult, moved to Oregon to be near Kesey and his wife, Faye, who had befriended her. Although Babbs alters her real name slightly, it’s not hard to confirm she really is living in a small Northern California town now and has made little effort to hide her past.

Babbs, who lives in Oregon with his wife, a retired English teacher, goes into little detail about himself, other than to note he was a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot during the early years of the Vietnam War, a fact he says defused several tense situations between police and Pranksters. He met Kesey in a graduate writing seminar at Stanford University.

He makes little mention of his own novel, Who Shot the Water Buffalo, based on his Vietnam War experiences, or the halfdozen slim literary volumes called Spit in the Ocean that he co-edited with Kesey.

In the end, this book is not so much a memoir as an affectionate remembrance of years spent raising hell with his best friend and taking others along for the ride.

As he quotes Kesey: “I live, and we all live, to breathe our own special note into this world.”

English novelist pens a seductive 1960s tale ANN LEVIN The Associated Press Free Love

by Tessa Hadley; HarperCollins The 1960s are an easy punching bag. In her 1968 essay collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion borrowed a line from W.B. Yeats’ poem The Second Coming to evoke the sense of apocalyptic doom that she associated with the era.

By contrast, the English novelist Tessa Hadley has a far more nuanced view of the decade in her brilliant, sensual, seductively plotted new novel, Free Love. The title is ironic since the great love affair at its centre exacts a heavy toll on both of the families involved.

When the novel begins, it is 1967. Phyllis, a 40-year-old homemaker with two children in suburban London, is getting dressed for dinner. She and her

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husband, Roger, a high-ranking civil servant in the Foreign Office, are expecting Nicholas,

the 20-something son of an old friend. Phyllis dabs on L’Air du Temps, slips into a green chiffon empire-waist dress with bold red and orange stripes.

Hadley, a baby boomer who was born in 1956, gets all the period details completely right — the menu includes pork terrine in aspic and charlotte russe cake, Nicholas is reading R.D. Laing and Claude Levi-Strauss.

But more importantly, she captures the emotional weather of a turbulent era forever linked to Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock and the mod fashions of Carnaby Street, one whose social and political repercussions are still being felt today.

Moving forward and backward in time from that fateful night, Hadley, who has written seven previous novels and three short story collections, has devised an intricate plot that unfolds with the terrible inevitability of a Greek tragedy. At

the same time, it manages not to take itself too seriously in large part due to the uncanny good humour and common sense of its very English main characters.

Just as Didion did, Hadley pulls back the curtain on the naïve illusions — some would say delusions — of the peaceand-love generation. But she also gives the underlying intellectual arguments their due. Still, it would be a big mistake to think of Free Love as a sociological tract masquerading as a novel.

Hadley has written an extraordinary story about love and transformation with a woman in early middle age at its centre who is willing to sacrifice virtually everything to achieve what Hillary Clinton memorably described in her 1969 commencement speech at Wellesley as “more immediate, ecstatic and penetrating modes of living.”

This is a novel that will stay with you for a long time.

The Paris Apartment has several first person narrators and short chapters designed to leave you hanging. WILLIAM MORROW

Everyone’s a suspect in ‘beach read’ thriller ROB MERRILL The Associated Press The Paris Apartment

by Lucy Foley; HarperCollins It seems the pandemic has altered the publishing calendar as well. That’s at least one plausible explanation for why a juicy beach read like The Paris Apartment is dropping during the coldest month of the year.

But whether you pack it away for a trip to warmer weather or read it indoors by a fire, the pages were most definitely written to be turned quickly.

In her third thriller (following The Guest List and The Hunting Party), Lucy Foley keeps you guessing with several first person narrators and short chapters designed to leave you hanging. The star of this twisted tale is Jess, arriving in Paris from London to visit her half-brother, Ben. “I’ve never let a closed door stay closed for long,” she narrates, while standing in his swanky Paris apartment building near a mysterious door marked, “Cave.” Turns out Ben is missing and Jess can’t get any answers from the denizens of number 12, rue des Amants.

The back cover of the book splashes short descriptions of the characters like they’re the stars of Gilligan’s Island.

There’s Sophie, “the socialite;” Nick, “the nice guy;” Antoine, “the alcoholic;” Mimi, “the girl on the verge;” and “the concierge.” Of course, they’re all suspicious and can’t be trusted, even when they’re narrating their own chapters. But our plucky heroine Jess not only likes to open doors, she’s quite the amateur detective, piecing things together like a much younger and more fashionable Miss Marple.

Fans of whodunits may very well sleuth it out before the denouement, but that doesn’t make the journey any less enjoyable.

Given the popularity of stories like these on streaming platforms, don’t be surprised to see it on Hulu or another app someday soon.

Until then, read the source material.

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Why it can be difficult to hear people talking on TV RICH HELDENFELS Tribune News Service You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: It seems that on pretty much every show there is “music” in the background, I would prefer to call it noise. The “music” often drowns out the speech and makes it difficult to hear and is very frustrating. Is there a cure for this, please?

A: This question is asked more than any other here (including in several letters lately), and I have been answering it often for close to 20 years. And your dilemma doesn’t just involve TV. Not long ago, Ben Pearson of SlashFilm wrote a detailed discussion of why movie dialogue can be hard to hear in theatres as well as on your home screen. Some of the reasons Pearson covered included filmmakers deliberately making the sound difficult for artistic reasons, mumbling actors trying

If the dialogue on a TV show is hard to hear, the sound may have been hastily and imperfectly mixed. DREAMSTIME to be naturalistic, how the sound team is treated when a movie is being made, filmmakers’ lack of knowledge about getting good sound, ever more complicated movie technology, and the differences needed when mixing a movie’s sound for theatres, streaming and home theatre systems.

All those problems can affect your TV, too. And with music,

keep in mind that the show has paid for that music and wants to highlight it, and the show’s makers often believe the music adds to the drama of a scene.

Considering the speed at which TV shows are often made, the sound may have been mixed hastily and imperfectly. Or the broadcaster may not have been careful with its audio settings.

Then wonder about the audio quality in your TV set, since it’s long been argued that some TV speakers are not up to the task of modern sound. Or you may need to look at the TV settings.

Suppose, though, that you have a home theatre or other external speakers but still have difficulties. A decidedly lowtech solution may be moving the speakers in relation to where you sit, so you’re not getting too much sound from a too-near source. Hey, it helped at the House of Heldenfels.

The music vs. dialogue problem also declined when we made the switch from speakers to a sound bar. When I talked about this once before, a reader recommended a speaker from Zvox called the Accuvoice, which uses a hearing-aid type technology to pull dialogue out of the soundtrack. (Again, it may be that your TV also has a setting like that.) But even with a home

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SUNDAY Children’s Programming

7 a.m. + PAW Patrol Animated. A baby bat decides to take a nap hanging from the Town Hall’s bell and Mayor Goodway can’t ring it.

3 Molly of Denali Animated. Molly and her family’s berry-picking is cut short by mosquitoes; Molly wants to visit her cousin.

7:20 a.m. + Wolf Joe Animated. Joe fakes an illness to avoid a lacrosse game.

7:30 a.m. + Hero Elementary Animated. The Sparks’ Crew use their five senses to track Fur Blur; a giant blob causes chaos at school.

3 Wild Kratts Live action/animated.

Chris and Martin help a lion get past obstacles and get back to his pride, which is under siege.

G Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Animated. The trolls get lost in a series of wormholes, each leading to an alternate world; DJ Suki unveils a new song that proves to be a little too catchy.

8 a.m. 3 Hero Elementary Animated.

Turbo Tina is excited to see her first snowfall; a T-ball championship game is jeopardized.

G Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Animated. To make her dad feel useful again, Poppy asks her friends to bring him small problems to solve; Branch gets an unwanted roommate, Cloud Guy. 8:20 a.m. + Dog Loves Books Pug makes a kite but he doesn’t know how to fly it; he and Dog go to China and they meet two squabbling pandas looking for bamboo shoots.

8:30 a.m. 3 Alma’s Way Animated.

Alma chooses between a baseball game and Bomba show.

G Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir Animated. Marinette and her friends protest against the deforestation of a square.

8:40 a.m. + Astroblast! Animated.

Radar gets obsessed with the new karaoke machine.

9 a.m. + Let’s Go Luna! Animated.

Leo learns about Tesla while in Dubrovnik, Croatia. (N) 3 Curious George Animated.

George befriends a baby dinosaur, and the two have so much fun they don’t realize they’re lost.

G Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir Animated. Reflekta locks herself into a bottomless abyss of guilt, Ladybug calls on an optimistic ally.

9:30 a.m. + Geronimo Stilton Animated. Geronimo gets invited to a martial arts championship.

3 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Animated. Volunteer firefighters make a special visit to school; Daniel gets a new doll.

G Spirit Riding Free: Riding Academy Animated. A swift new recruit joins the school’s racing team, jeopardizing Lucky’s dreams; Pru and Abigail clash over a class project.

10 a.m. + Wild Kratts Live action/ animated. The Tortuga is overtaken by skunks.

3 Donkey Hodie Live action/animated. Duck Duck builds a book swap box but has trouble giving away her books; party for Tater Buddy dolls.

G Dorg Van Dango Animated. The gang chases a giant runaway pickle jar; Dorg gets a job rounding up stray shopping carts.

10:30 a.m. + Dino Dana When Dana, Saara and Uncle Ravi go go-karting together, Dana learns helpful techniques from a nearby Stygimoloch to help as they rach one another; Dana is doing Dino Experiment 624; Saara deals with her first pimple.

3 Cyberchase Animated. The CyberSquad investigates a mysterious creature that tramples over Crestwood Park.

G The Boss Baby: Back in Business Animated. With the Templeton men away on a dudes weekend, Staci and Jimbo join forces to return a blankie to its rightful owner.

11 a.m. + PAW Patrol Animated.

A world of dinosaurs is discovered; Mayor Humdinger wants to take dino eggs back to Foggy Bottom.

11:20 a.m. + Odo Odo becomes a detective to solve the mystery of the stolen biscuits.

11:50 a.m. + Minuscule Animated.

A caterpillar turns into an ugly butterfly.

2 p.m. G American Ninja Warrior Junior Twelve new junior ninjas (ages 9-14) compete in the fourth qualifier of the tournament.

3:30 p.m. G Just Add Magic The girls create a spell to get RJ to give back the cookbook.

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7 a.m. ` Cityline Health expert Bryce Wylde; clothing one should never buy new; psychotherapist Marci Gray.

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Our Community Community gardens approved in Vic West, South Jubilee

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parrais@timescolonist.com The City of Victoria has approved the creation of two new community g ­ ardens — one in Vic West and one in South Jubilee — in recognition of Year of the Garden.

The gardens will allow residents to grow their own vegetables, fruit and flowers while fostering social ­connections and interactions in the community.

In Vic West, the garden will be in Alston Green, near Bay Street. With the help of local residents, the Orca Rescue Society will build and maintain ­allotment beds, food trees and commons areas planted with native and p ­ ollinator plants. It aims to promote local food security through access to plots and ­demonstration gardens, while also ­raising awareness about resident orcas.

South Jubilee Neighbourhood ­Association volunteers will create and maintain a community garden in R ­ edfern Park, on Redfern Street between Bourchier Street and Leighton Road.

The design includes curved demonstration beds, food trees and common gardens planted with edible perennials

Kathleen Laird, left, and Erin ­Renwick at the site of the future Redfern Community Garden.

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and native and pollinator plants. Other features include an accessible p ­ athway and seating areas, wayfinding and ­educational signage, a picnic table, and a pergola with a living roof and an arbour.

Year of the Garden, proclaimed by the Canadian Garden Council, is a ­celebration of everything garden-related across Canada that officially kicks off March 20, the first day of spring. The City of Victoria has designated June 18 as Garden Day.

“We are delighted to join other ­ unicipalities across Canada in m ­proclaiming 2022 as the Year of the ­Garden,” said Mayor Lisa Helps in a statement.

“Victoria is proud to be a ­garden-friendly city and is known for its amazing plant and flower displays, ­progressive urban food initiatives and innovative horticultural practices that help our community adapt to a ­changing climate. Gardens and gardening ­contribute to quality of life, increase local food security, clean the air and water, and create welcoming places where people can come together.”

The city plans to host a variety of gardening education programs, starting

with Growing in the City workshops.

The next one is a Seedling Starting webinar on March 17, with information on which seeds need to be started indoors, how to start seeds, how to care for baby plants, and how and when to harden them off and transplant for maximum harvest.

That’s followed by Fruit Tree Pruning 101 on March 26. An 11-part ­MeadowMakers program on making your yard and boulevard a t­ hriving ­ecosystem, alive with birds, pollinators and other wildlife, is also planned.

• For more information, go to ­victoria.ca/growinginthecity.

Register online or call 250-361-0732.

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Our Community Four lectures on the canvas at Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Learn more about Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria’s Sunday Art Lecture Series, featuring Cosmopolitan Impressionisms: Modern Art in the Making.

This is the eighth year of the ­illustrated lecture series, presented by the gallery’s associates. Proceeds from the series go toward supporting ­exhibitions and programs.

The Sunday Art Lecture Series

takes place on Zoom over four Sunday afternoons: March 6, 13, 21 and 27, and includes four illustrated talks.

• March 6. Impressionists and Japonisme: Early International Influences, by Dr. Melissa Berry, adjunct assistant professor, Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria.

• March 13. Breaking Boundaries: ­Canadian Women Impressionists Abroad and at Home, by Katerina Atanassova,

senior curator, Canadian Collections, National Gallery of Canada.

• March 20. American Impressionism: What is It?, by Dr. Rachel Boate, visiting assistant professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, ­University of British Columbia.

• March 27. African and Oceanic ­Traditional Arts: Contributions to ­Post-Impressionism, by Dr. Daniel Mato, professor emeritus of Art History,

­University of Calgary.

• Tickets for individual lectures are $25 for art gallery members and students or $30 for non-members. The series costs $75 for art gallery members and students or $90 for non-members. Each lecture runs from 2 to 4 p.m. via Zoom.

Tickets available at eventbrite.ca/e/sunday-art-lectureseries-2022-tickets-230508486087.

>>> Silver Threads launches indoor walking program

>>> Maritime Museum launching Float the Boat campaign

>>> How a dozen roses could lift charities, projects

Silver Threads Service has launched a weekly, indoor walking program for older adults at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.

The year-round program, run in partnership with RG Properties Ltd., will allow adults 55 years and up to walk around the building’s concourse, ­keeping them cooler in the s­ ummer and warm and dry in the winter.

The program is ideal for those who use a mobility device or walking poles, with no worries about cracks in the ­sidewalks or where the nearest washroom is. There will be leaders on hand to provide support, with blood-pressure testing available monthly.

The cost is $2 for Silver Threads members and $5 for non-members. The program runs 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesdays.

Paid parking is available off Caledonia Street behind the Victoria police s­ tation or street parking. The entrance is through Gate 3.

The Maritime Museum of B.C. is hoping the public will join in the fun at its Float the Boat fundraising campaign.

The campaign’s concept is simple: a boat is placed at the bottom of an empty glass tank. As the museum receives donations, it will put water in the tank.

As the tank fills up, the museum will post updates of the boat floating higher and higher.

This campaign has a goal of $25,000 and will run until April 30.

Proceeds will go toward the museum’s collection, public programming and engagement initiatives.

“We’re so excited about the plans for this year, including a diverse roster of evening speakers, new communitybased exhibits, and expanded in-person programming,” said Brittany Vis, executive director at the museum.

“As COVID restrictions lift, we look forward to welcoming more people to take part in these activities.”

Give someone a bouquet of roses and help Harbourside Rotary raise $15,000 for local charities and international projects during the Roses from Rotary campaign, taking place now.

The campaign was moved to the spring from its traditional delivery in late fall.

For $40, you can order a dozen roses and have them delivered by a volunteer Rotarian to someone from Sooke to Sidney on March 19 or 26.

The fundraiser is limited to 700 dozen roses, with a choice of six colours.

Bouquets can include a personal message from you.

• Call 250-388-4268 for more information and to book a space.

• To donate, go to mmbc.kindful. com/?campaign=1179486.

• Order online at harboursidestore.ca. parrais@timescolonist.com

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Cover Victoria astronomer Tyrone Woods. The James Webb Space ­Telescope, an international ­collaboration between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, has a 6.5-metre-wide mirror made up of 18 gold-coated ­segments, each of which can be focused independently.

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New space telescope promises to take astronomers back in time

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earching the cosmos for distant objects is made a little tougher when what you’re looking for is beyond the scope of human ­experience.

Victoria astronomer Tyrone Woods said that is just what’s in store for him and others using the James Webb Space Telescope, a $10-billion international project that has been more than 20 years in development.

Faraway stars, billions of light years away, are a key part of what will be studied, he said.

“One of the things I’m involved in is trying to find some of the first stars ever born in the universe — really massive objects,” he said. “Of course, since we’ve never seen them before, one of the biggest issues is what do they actually look like?

“Mainly I’ve been working on the theoretical side, so I do numerical simulations and computer simulations to try to ­understand what these things are that we’re going to be looking at.”

That way, once things get started, “we know how to find those needles in a haystack,” Woods said.

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What can the oldest galaxies tell us?

Continued from Page 5 Victoria has established a strong connection to the James Webb Space Telescope through people like Woods and fellow astronomer Chris Willott, who both work at the Herzberg Astronomy and ­Astrophysics Research Centre on Little Saanich Mountain, off West Saanich Road.

The six-metre-long telescope was launched on Christmas Day from French G ­ uiana and is now in operation about 1.6 million ­kilometres from Earth — four times the distance from Earth to the moon.

A five-layer shield the size of a tennis court protects it from the heat of the sun.

A combined effort of the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency and NASA, the Webb is intended to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Webb, however, will orbit much deeper in space and be anywhere from a hundred to a million times more sensitive.

“You would be able to point at a human hair from a couple [of] kilometres away,” said Jean Dupuis, a senior mission scientist with the Canadian Space Agency. “It’s pretty much pushing the limit of what can be done.”

It’s designed to study the nature of planets beyond our solar system and what the oldest galaxies around can tell us about the birth of the universe.

Willott spends much of his time with the project at the Herzberg centre, but has also made many trips to the mission’s operations centre in Baltimore.

Canada has played a role since the project’s early stages, he said — it has contributed almost $200 million since the project began in 1996.

“We were involved very early on, in the late 1990s, in actually having Canada become a p ­ artner in the project,” he said. “We did some work on thinking about some of the science instruments that are required on the telescope, and did some preliminary designs.”

He said Canada ended up providing one of the four specialized instruments being used, along with a fine-guidance sensor. The sensor is “a very important component” that will be used with every observation the telescope makes and be part of aligning its 18 hexagonal mirrors, Willott said.

“Those 18 segments have to get lined up to act as one single mirror,” he said.

It will take a number of weeks — possibly until the summer.

The sensor is so far performing well and has been able to zero in on a target star.

“It’s extremely satisfactory seeing everything coming into place,” Dupuis said. “It’s a sense of amazement and happiness.”

Canada’s contributions have guaranteed it five per cent of the telescope’s observation time. ­Willott is helping to set up what that will entail.

One Canadian instrument being used, known as NIRISS — Near-Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph — helps analyze light the telescope observes, and will be deployed to observe a range of objects, including distant galaxies.

It has been referred to as Canada’s “cosmic time machine,” and Willott said NIRISS will be used to look back to “the earliest phases of the universe.”

“We’re going to be looking 95 per cent of the way back toward the Big Bang.”

Engineering teams celebrate at the Space ­Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore as the second ­primary mirror wing of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope unfolds, before beginning the ­process of latching the mirror wing into place, in early January. The last ­portion of the 6.5-metre mirror swung into place at flight controllers’ command, ­completing the unfolding of the James Webb Space Telescope, the riskiest part of the ­mission.

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“It’s an extraordinary time to be alive as an astronomer.

I just feel really, really lucky.”

Tyrone Woods, a Plaskett fellow at the The idea is based on the fact that there is a finite travel speed of light, Willott said. Light takes eight minutes to get to Earth from the sun, but it takes exponentially longer if it leaves a distant galaxy billions of years ago.

“It’s an interesting concept, but it is actually remarkably simple,” he said. “Because it takes time for light to travel, it takes that long for that light to get there. So the further away we can find galaxies, basically the further back in time we’re looking.”

Willott said he took over his current position with the project in 2012 from John Hutchings, who retired after several years with the research team.

He is one of two Canadians on the project’s main oversight committee.

“We’re basically looking at how the whole development of the telescope happened at every

stage, trying to determine whether the design is appropriate for getting the science out.”

The steep price tag for the telescope comes from how long it took to create, Willott said.

“Many thousands of people have worked on it during that time.”

Woods said the initial estimate for the ­telescope’s longevity was five to 10 years, but it could last as long as 20 years.

“It’s an extraordinary time to be alive as an astronomer,” he said. “I just feel really, really lucky.”

Chris Gainor, a local historian of astronomy, said he has been following the project with great interest.

“This is a big, big deal for Canadian astronomy,” he said. “It’s exciting that we’re right in the middle of it.

“Victoria really punches above its weight in

­Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre, is trying to find some of the first stars born in the universe.

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the world of astronomy.”

That includes not only those on Little Saanich Mountain but staff at the University of Victoria, Gainor said.

Also happening at the Herzberg centre is an initiative to create a 30-metre-long telescope — for use on the ground — with advanced capacity for super high-resolution images. jbell@timescolonist.com — With files from the Canadian Press Another photo on Page 8

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Herzberg Astronomy and ­Astrophysics Research Centre on ­Little Saanich ­Mountain, off West Saanich Road.

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I s l a n d Vo i c e s Deer problems?

Put a few coyotes on the job

LAWRIE McFARLANE Watching what’s going on in our yards and our fields, the lyrics of Home on the Range come to mind. A slightly modified version: “Oh give me a home, where the Canada geese roam, and the deer and the black bears play, where seldom is heard a courageous word, and the skies are cloudy all day.” The Saanich peninsula to a tee.

Instead of perfectly futile efforts to rid Greater Victoria of thousands of deer by neutering a handful, and hoping to clear a sky-full of geese by addling a few eggs, I have a suggestion.

Some time back, I wrote a piece ­puzzling over why there are no foxes or coyotes on Vancouver Island. They’re now endemic in the Lower Mainland.

Indeed, you can’t eat a sandwich in ­Stanley Park without a coyote trying to muscle in.

The answer I was given by a wildlife specialist is that there likely were such critters on our green and pleasant isle some ways back. But they ate their way out of hearth and home, and disappeared like snow in a Saanich spring.

I found that a bit odd. After all, we have squirrels and raccoons, marmots

A dozen or two coyotes could put a serious dent in the deer population, writes ­Lawrie McFarlane.

JONATHAN HAYWARD, THE CANADIAN PRESS

and even the occasional wolf. So why no foxes and coyotes? And particularly now, when the capital region is practically a smorgasbord all ready to be served.

It’s not like these predators steer away from human habitation. While some of the continent’s larger denizens have retreated in the face of advancing human habitation, grizzly bears most notably, foxes and coyotes thrive in city environs.

My sister in London, England, has a fox

living in her backyard.

So here is my suggestion. Import a few dozen foxes and coyotes from the ­mainland, and let them loose in our ­pastures and woods.

American research shows that a pack of three to four coyotes can eat up to 120 pounds of venison a month. Since the average blacktail deer (the sort found munching our veggies) weighs less than 100 pounds, much of which is inedible hide and bones, a dozen or two coyotes could put a serious dent in the deer ­population.

And foxes? While their diet varies — they’ll happily eat rats, mice and other small pests — geese are definitely on the menu, especially the younger ones.

At a rough calculation, 30 or so foxes

could conceivably rid our fields of, say, six geese a day, or a couple of thousand per year. That would definitely be a start.

I’m guessing these are high-end ­estimates. But we’re in this for the long haul, and at the rate our goose population is surging, outdoor farming will become increasingly unprofitable as time passes.

Moreover, there is no political will to be directly responsible for euthanizing large numbers of cute Bambies and ­turning even cuter goslings into orphans.

Ain’t gonna happen.

Sure there’s a downside. Look what happened when some idiot introduced European starlings to our continent.

Nevertheless, if we want to take back our gardens and help out our farmers, I say bring on the foxes and coyotes.

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Watershed initiative timely, given recent severe droughts and flooding

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Monique Keiran writes that a chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on climate-change impacts and risks in North America reads like a general summary of our experience in B.C. over recent years, which has included drought, flooding, melting glaciers and wildfires. Shown here are the effects of a fire in Monte Lake in the Interior.

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MONIQUE KEIRAN Living things need water to survive.

That includes us, our pets, our flowers and lawns.

Trees. Birds. Bees and all other crawly critters. Bacteria, fungi, and at some stages of their lives, viruses, too.

Cows, pigs, tomatoes, wheat, yeast and the other ingredients in pizza. Potatoes, cod, barley and everything else that goes into beer-battered fish and chips. ­Seaweed, rice and salmon. Corn, soya, and whatever else makes up Doritos.

Grapes for eating and eventual drinking.

Chocolate. Sugar.

Pretty much everything that lives — including much of what supports our ongoing good (and bad) health and w ­ ellbeing — needs water.

So when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes with very high confidence that “terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems are being ­profoundly altered by climate change across North America,” we should be ­concerned.

But we don’t need the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report to tell us that. ­Chapter 14 of the report deals with climate-change impacts and risks, ­vulnerability, and so on, in North ­America. It reads much like a general

summary of our experience here in B.C. over recent years.

“Glaciers have retreated over the past half-century at high elevation,” and “reduced snowpack and earlier runoff have adversely affected aquatic ­ecosystems and freshwater availability for human uses.”

Researchers at UNBC and the Hakai Institute just published a study showing that B.C.’s glaciers have been melting about seven times faster over the past decade than in previous decades, thanks largely to warming climate.

The smaller glaciers here on ­Vancouver Island are shrinking even faster.

The resulting diminished ice and snow stores affects water flow and supply throughout the year across much of the province.

We’ve all dealt with summer water restrictions here on the south coast, where our water supplies collect both rainwater and runoff from the ­disappearing and much-diminished annual mountain snowpack.

Residents of the Gulf Islands, where a year’s winter snowfall is maybe a one- or two-day event, face an even more dire situation.

A friend who sits on one of the 13 boards governing water use from Mayne Island’s aquifers monitors available water levels in the storage tanks for his part of the island daily. In July and

August, it can come down to whether people have enough water to drink and cook with, so forget about watering the petunias.

Salmon and steelhead populations are suffering from creeks receiving smaller inputs of cold glacier-fed water ­during the summer. The impacts on those e ­ conomically important species ­reverberate through communities.

In coastal waters, even sea stars and eelgrass are dealing with increased disease spreading because of warmer waters.

“Recent severe droughts, floods and harmful algal and pathogen events have caused harm to large populations and key economic sectors,” Chapter 14 continues.

We know about drought, and ­November’s floods affected 18,000 B.C. residents, with an estimated $7.5 billion in insured losses. Some farmers and their crops face years of recovery.

Regarding climate-related pathogens, harmful microbes have hit the east Island’s shellfisheries repeatedly in the past decade.

“Warm and dry conditions associated with climate change have led to tree ­die-offs and increased prevalence of catastrophic wildfire with an increase in the size of severely burned areas.”

Last year, B.C. spent $565 million on fighting about 1,600 wildfires that burned 868,203 hectares. In 2017, $649 million was needed to fight about 1,350 wildfires.

Much of Chapter 14 deals directly or indirectly with how climate change is affecting water supplies and availability, and what that could mean for e ­ cosystems and human systems in the coming ­decades.

Given that, the B.C. government’s watershed security initiative is timely.

The proposed Watershed Security Strategy focuses on freshwater, i­ncluding both ground and surface water, and is the next chapter toward i­ mplementing B.C.’s Water Sustainability Act. Key themes include governance, climate change, ecosystems and sources of d ­ rinking water, as well as community and economic stability.

The document defines “watershed security” as implying “the a ­ vailability of good-quality water for healthy ­ecosystems and communities.” I­ ncluding the term in the strategy’s title i­ ndicates a willingness to address the issue ­holistically — which is needed for ­watersheds to be secure.

But even as we become more ­familiar with heat domes, collapsing fish ­populations, and catastrophic wildfires and floods, it’s early days for the ­strategy’s development. The government released its discussion paper in January for public input.

The deadline for submitting f­ eedback is March 18. See gov.bc.ca/water to ­submit. keiran_monique@rocketmail.com

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The things that make children happy are not things at all

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Child psychologists have found that social ­relationships and the amount of confidence and optimism about the future that kids experience, along with a sense of belonging to something larger than oneself, are major sources of happiness — much more than things that can be bought, writes Geoff Johnson.

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GEOFF JOHNSON When Yale cognitive scientist Laurie ­Santos developed her course P ­ sychology and the Good Life in 2018, she could not have predicted that her so-called ­“happiness” lectures would become one of Yale’s all-time most-popular courses.

The first year she ran the course, nearly a quarter of the ­undergraduate student body enrolled, according to a ­ Santos interview with the New York Times.

In the same interview, Santos ­speculated that Yale students were ­flocking to her classes because, in high school, they had to “deprioritize their happiness” while chasing high grades to get into Yale, adopting harmful life ­habits that have led to what she called the “mental-health crises” we’re seeing at post-secondary schools such as Yale.

Under a new title, The Science of ­Well-being, the 10-week class was offered free on the Coursera platform and ­garnered over a million new subscribers in the first few weeks alone.

Nor could Santos have foreseen that her subsequent podcast The ­Happiness Lab would become one of the most ­heavily subscribed in the history of ­podcasts.

So what is this sudden search for “­happiness” all about?

That apparently depends to some degree on your age and personal

s­ ituation. An April 2019 survey of 2,500­Canadian adults conducted by the Gandalf Group found that 67 per cent of Canadians reported being “generally happy.”

The most powerful overall factors for adult happiness and satisfaction with life were mental health and “having a sense of purpose.”

So far so good, but the same report found that younger Canadians are ­substantially less likely than older ­Canadians to say they are satisfied with their lives.

This finding was also reflected in a 2016 UNICEF report in which only 55 per cent of children in Canada reported a high level of life satisfaction, with 27 per cent feeling sad or hopeless for long ­periods of time.

A third of respondents in the fourto-18 age range reported weekly indicators linked to mental distress, including ­headaches and stomach aches.

Fast forward to a 2020 news release from the B.C. Office of The ­Representative for Children and Youth that cites a research report from Simon Fraser University’s Children’s Health Policy Centre.

That report concluded that w ­ hatever the situation before COVID, the impact of the pandemic on children and the daily news reports of illness and death

r­ esulting from the pandemic created a critical need for government to invest more in B.C.’s over-stretched and ­underfunded child and youth mentalhealth services system.

That need, says the SFU report, ­certainly increased with the r­ estrictions necessitated by COVID, which created a breeding ground for anxiety, ­post-traumatic stress, depression and behavioural problems — all indicators of “unhappiness” in young children as well as children in their teenage years.

Beyond the impact of COVID on the mental health of adults and kids, Santos — who her students have named “the happiness professor” — has some other theories as to why contemporary notions of “happiness” or the perceived lack of it has created such a need for courses and podcasts like hers.

“We’re also fighting cultural forces that are telling us you’re not happy enough; happiness could just be around the corner,” she says, adding: “There’s an enormous culture that’s telling us to buy things which will make you ‘happy.’ ” In other words, adults and kids alike are assailed every day with what the ad industry calls “joy marketing,” meaning “our product can make you much h ­ appier than you are now,” using images that relate the product or service to love, joy and adventure, where everyone looks like

they’re having the best day ever, all the time.

But, says Santos: “Our minds lie to us. We have strong intuitions about the things that will make us happy, and we use those intuitions to go after that stuff, whether it’s more money or changing circumstances or buying the new iPhone.

But a lot of those intuitions, the science shows, are not exactly right — or are deeply misguided.”

Studies throughout the U.S. and Europe that have looked at measures of children’s social and emotional ­well-being corroborate that opinion and have ­concluded that the things that really make children happy are not, as some kids might think, “things” at all.

Child psychologists also agree that social relationships and the amount of confidence and optimism about the future kids experience, along with a sense of belonging to something larger than oneself, are major “happiness” ­factors.

Or maybe we should simply pass on to kids Mahatma Gandhi’s advice to us all: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in ­harmony.” gfjohnson4@shaw.ca Geoff Johnson is a former ­superintendent of schools.

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When it feels like the pandemic is dragging on forever, it’s important to remember how far we’ve come, and be grateful that we can now go to restaurants, movies and ­concerts, writes Charla Huber.

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Getting back to normal — are we there yet?

CHARLA HUBER

The dreaded question on a car trip with children is “Are we there yet?”

As we are all yearning for the end of the pandemic, our destination is still beyond the horizon. When a child says “Are we there yet?” many parents would respond with: “Look out the window and see what’s around.”

As eager as we are for this to be over, it can be worthwhile to reflect on how far we’ve come. For weeks, my daughter has been a ­ sking about trying hot pot because she’s been watching videos on TikTok. I am teaching an entrepreneurship course at Royals Roads University and some of my students were writing about Chinese ­cuisine and hot pots. So I was convinced to try it out.

We found a hot-pot restaurant online, made a reservation, and tried s­ omething new. On our drive to dinner, my d ­ aughter said to me: “Remember when all the ­restaurants were closed?” It was a simple statement that reminded me to a ­ ppreciate the opportunity to find s­ omething new and make an occasion out of it.

It’s March 2022, and two years since our world was tipped upside-down.

What was once foreign to us is now routine.

I remember the first time I wore a mask in a grocery store and how strange the experience was. It felt weird wearing a mask to work, or running into friends wearing masks. Now it’s nothing for most of us.

Many of us have experienced m ­ oving between in-person and Zoom meetings, depending on the number of active COVID-19 cases. When things switch back to in-person meetings, the small talk starts with: “Hopefully we can do this for while before it goes back online.”

It’s pretty incredible how this ­pandemic has forced many of us to become more comfortable being flexible.

It’s also helped me gain appreciation for outings and experiences that I once took for granted.

In the past couple of weeks, I attended a concert at Mary Winspear Centre and a play at McPherson Playhouse, and enjoyed watching a film in a movie ­theatre.

I’ve been going to gyms and swimming pools regularly, and it feels great to get back into a routine.

These are things that two years ago I could not have done.

We all remember what life was like

when all of these options were taken away from us, to keep us safe.

I remember during lockdown, l­ eaving my house to go for a drive and f­ inding it depressing because the drive just reminded me of everything that was closed.

A couple of weeks ago, I was sitting at home on my computer and read an article in the Times Colonist about a Bif Naked concert happening that evening. Within minutes, I’d bought tickets, and a couple of hours later, we went to the show.

It felt like such a treat to enjoy live music, and a privilege to have the option.

It feels like eons ago when schools closed for spring break 2020, and then stayed closed for months.

The pandemic has been a time of ­transition for many, including myself, and we’ve had moments of struggle, loss and frustration.

When we look back on these past two years, we can read ourselves a laundry list of grievances, or we can seek to i­ dentify opportunities for growth, ­triumph and strength.

We may not be there yet, but we are getting somewhere.

Charlahuber@outlook.com

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Here’s how you can help Ukraine — and the world

TREVOR HANCOCK I write my weekly columns a week or so before they are published, and submit them five days ahead. So when I wrote my column last week, while there was always the possibility of Russia i­ nvading Ukraine, there was still some hope that the Madman of Moscow would not ­actually do so.

But as I write this, the invasion is in full swing. Who knows what the situation will be when it is published, but it does not look good.

I cannot possibly write a column right now about anything else to do with the health of the population, when we are faced with one of the gravest threats to peace I have seen in my 73 years.

A threat to peace is not only a threat to health but to life itself, whether locally or, in the event of nuclear war, g ­ lobally.

Which is why peace is listed first in a short list of prerequisites for health in the 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health ­Promotion, which is the key founding document for the work that has been the focus of my career.

What is happening in Ukraine is ­horrifying, as is all war. Indeed, we should not forget that there are equally horrifying international wars underway in Yemen and Ethiopia and numerous other smaller or internal wars around the world.

Emergency service personnel inspect damage inside the city hall b ­ uilding in Kharkiv, Ukraine, this week. ­Trevor Hancock writes that what makes the Ukraine war so troubling is that Russian President Vladimir Putin has compounded his war crimes by fairly explicitly threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

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But what makes the Ukraine war so troubling is that Russian President Vladimir Putin has compounded his war crimes by fairly explicitly threatening the use of nuclear weapons.

I was 14 at the time of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and recall the real fear we all had that nuclear war would be unleashed. While we avoided it then, the fear was omnipresent, and was ­crystallised by a 1966 mock-documentary called The War Game, which I saw in my final year of high school.

It graphically depicted the run-up to and aftermath of a nuclear attack on ­Britain and it made me a supporter of nuclear disarmament.

Fifteen or so years later, as a public-health physician working for the City of Toronto’s Department of

­ ublic Health, I helped the department P ­undertake a health-impact assessment of a o ­ ne-megaton nuclear airburst above Toronto, as part of an international ­project co-ordinated by International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).

The findings were horrific, as one would expect, and were, of course, the same around the world. The public awareness that resulted helped move the U.S. and Russia toward some degree of nuclear disarmament, and won the IPPNW the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

These large global geopolitical issues, this violence on the other side of the world, can leave us feeling overwhelmed and helpless, fearful and anxious — although it is of little import compared to the enormity of the fear and stress Putin has imposed on the people of Ukraine, of course, nor the stress experienced by their families and friends around the world.

So on the basis that the antidote to our fear and anxiety — and our outrage — is action, what can we do at a personal level to help the people of Ukraine, and in the process help ourselves?

Here are some ideas. Attend rallies in support of Ukraine. Boycott all ­Russian goods until Russia withdraws

— and beyond that. Donate to recognized disaster-relief charities — check with the Ukrainian Congress Canadian or donate through Canada Helps, which manages donations for thousands of legitimate charities: canadahelps.org.

Write, phone or email your MP and the prime minister insisting the government support Ukraine in every way possible, including by supplying lethal armaments, and that it seek to brand Putin a war criminal and hold him accountable.

If you have friends or contacts in Ukraine, ask them what you can do. And if you have friends or contacts in Russia, help them understand what Putin is doing and how the world is reacting, because he is keeping them in the dark.

If you are a member of an o ­ rganization of any sort with international links, see if there are ways to work through that organization to support Ukraine and to reach out to and inform ordinary ­Russians about what is happening.

Because there is no health without peace. thancock@uvic.ca Dr. Trevor Hancock is a retired ­professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy.

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NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PARDON MY FRENCH By Victor Barocas / Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS 1 Tobacco plug 5 Manipulate 10 Graduates of Quantico, informally 14 Taller roommate of 15-Down 18 Showgirl in the 1978 hit “Copacabana” 19 Boomer’s kid, maybe 20 Declare 21 Snack item with approximately 53 calories 22 Positive thinker’s motto?

25 Textbook section 26 FireWire alternative 27 Letter between November and Papa in the NATO alphabet 28 It might be set at sea 29 When a prime-time drama might air 31 Reason-based belief in God 33 Repeated sound that’s hard to get rid of 34 Means of becoming a god?

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53 Quarrel 54 It matures quickly, in brief

55 Angled to get attention: Abbr.

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65 Holy water?

70 Excites 72 “Salus populi suprema lex ____” (motto of Missouri) 73 Charade 74 One of 17 in Monopoly: Abbr.

77 One with pressing work 78 Feed the guests, maybe 79 Dish that’s cooked underground 80 Feb. 14 81 673 parts of the Louvre Pyramid 82 “Old man” 83 Answer to “What is Roquefort or Brie?”

86 Offed 87 Go the wrong way 88 Green-lit 90 Like drunken speech 91 Announcement on National Coming Out Day 93 Inappropriate 95 Early bird?

96 Spilled milk?

100 Front of a semi 102 Ubiquitous advertiser with an acronymic name 106 Seeing as

107 Weight of an empty container 108 What’s clothed in summer and naked in winter, per an old riddle 110 China’s largest ethnic group 111 What BankAmericard became in 1976 112 The queen with her pets?

116 School where some of “Shakespeare in Love” was filmed 117 Annual Memorial Day race, informally 118 Red Sox’ div.

119 Bit of sports equipment that may be electrified 120 Casino tool 121 Philippine money 122 Fleas and flies 123 What’s left on a map?

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30 Shirt or blouse 32 Bit of magic 35 Projecting front 37 Temporarily replace 39 Most likely to win at Trivia Night, maybe 41 Long-billed wader 42 Parent company of Facebook 43 Game starter 44 Home for Holmes 48 One who sees what you’re saying?

49 Berliner’s “old” 50 Sight on winter roads 52 Sign of overuse 53 “All ____!”

54 Prefix that’s mega mega?

58 Not merely annoyed 59 Split 60 BuzzFeed staple 64 Wide ties 66 Netflix series set at Green Gables 67 Manipulates 68 Place to go on a ship 69 Them’s the breaks!

70 List in “The Idiot’s Guide to ... “ 71 Neighbor of Siberia, in Risk 75 Common still-life prop

76 Looked at 78 Architectural columns in the form of sculpted female figures 80 Threshold 82 Gunslinger’s command 84 Schools 85 Held tight 87 A narcissist may go on one

88 Shockingly bizarre 89 What the quadriceps muscle connects to 92 N.Y.C. commuting inits.

94 Bugs 96 Where bile is produced

97 Loos who wrote “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” 98 Casual response to an apology 99 Panasonic subsidiary 101 Orchestra section 103 “If my luck holds out ... “ 104 Pens 105 Beginning

109 Rhinitis treater, in brief 113 Phoenix-toAlbuquerque dir.

114 Bottle labeled “XXX” in the comics 115 “Do the ____” (soft drink slogan)

By Myles Mellor 61 “Beat it!”

63 Seafood dish 68 “If it ___ broke ...”

69 Burst in 70 “Splendor in the Grass” Oscar winner 71 Texas border city 72 Bambi’s kin 73 Hebrides isle DOWN 1 Whiskey cocktail 2 Story telling, HI dance 3 Sweet potatoes 4 Pulse 5 Spa treatment 6 Elle in “Legally Blonde” 7 Cuttlefish ejections 8 Cap’n’s mate 9 Sigourney Weaver film

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32 Russian pancakes 33 Order pizza 34 Actress Garbo 37 Dogs 38 Cookies 39 Class grade factor 41 Acquire

42 Begin 43 Spanish city 47 NFL coaching great Don 48 Broken 49 Breathing problem 51 Panel 52 Begins to like 53 Broadway’s Mame 54 Aider and ____ 58 Mutt’s malady 59 Caustic substances 61 Expressed 62 Movie house 64 Long haul 65 They created the Color ID brand 66 Unadulterated 67 News agcy. founded by Scripps

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By Maryellen Uthlaught

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24 *Fruity dish that imparts a healthy glow?

27 Significant Civil War concern 29 Run-throughs 30 Buzzers 31 Nuisances 33 Ball-bearing peg 34 *Blended drinks that leave something to be desired?

39 Resort area attractions 43 Certain something 44 River to the English Channel 45 Online message 46 Used (up) 47 Music : verse :: poetry : __ 50 Rule, briefly 51 Indecent matter 53 Bring upon oneself 55 Casually shod 57 *Shortbread that doesn’t crumble under pressure?

59 Shell-covered edible 60 Small valley 61 Tastes 62 Canada’s most populous prov.

63 Snorkeling spot 65 *Pastry that doesn’t live up to its hype?

69 Disney souvenir feature 73 Airport abbr.

75 Buds 76 Long, long time 78 Magna __ laude 79 *Slice that’s easy to make?

84 “What’s done is done,” e. g.

86 Implanted 87 Rich deposit 88 __ constrictor 89 Cookware coating 90 Flock female 91 End of many a hammer 93 Kuhling of “Chicago Med” 95 For fear that 96 Thigh-length outer garment 98 *Triangular confections that are a credit to their baker?

102 Tolkien creature 103 Is right for 104 “The __ Must Be Crazy”: 1980 comedy film 105 Thin-sliced, browned bread 109 Turkey choice 114 *Dish that’s a metaphor for life?

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94 Sponsorships 97 Spider’s network 98 Things beaten in searches, with “the”

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Gear Essentials for the New Runner: Tackling TC 10k Training in Style

By K.A. Curtin

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ew runners face a paralyzing number of choices when they step into the world of athletic gear. One way to make decisions on properly fitting footwear and athletic clothing is to think about your running goals. Where you run, the season, and the distance you are training for dictate the specifics of what you will need. To use the local RunSport Society TC 10k as an example - since many first time runners choose this event as their goal race - you would need footwear to take you through several weeks of training and technical clothing that performs well in our winter climate since run clinics and plans typically start in January.

Participants in the TC 10k will either be walking or running so the first thing to decide on is footwear. If you need extra

Measuring on the Brannock Device at New Balance Victoria.

Runners race in a wide variety of athletic gear seen here. support, room for orthotics, or width options, a walking shoe will give you that stability and rigidity; however, a running shoe is usually lighter, more responsive, and flexible and can be used for both walking or running. People new to running are not yet used to the repetitive impact so choose a shoe with great cushioning, arch support, and a durable outsole. The typical training cycle for a race like the TC 10k is 16 weeks, during which you need shoes that will both ease you into running and reduce your chance of injury.

Within the genre of running shoes there are variations, from stability, which helps level out over-pronating arches via a firm posting on the medial side, to neutral which has the same density of foam throughout.

How do you know which one you need?

Running specialty stores like locally-owned Frontrunners or New Balance offer in-depth fittings, from old-school measuring with the metal Brannock Device to 3D scanning (only at New Balance) to performing a gait analysis. Ultimately it is up to you to decide what feels most comfortable, but generally

the fit should feel snug but not tight and have about a half inch between your longest toe and the end of the shoe.

The key dress code for west-coast winters is: layers. Start off cozy while doing your warm up and then shed a layer as you begin to sweat. The three types of workouts people do to prepare for the TC 10k will vary in difficulty and duration. For example, for the speed or hill workouts, you will generate a lot of heat in a short amount of time due to the higher intensity. Wearing too much inhibits your performance. The long run can be done with more layering because you are out in the elements longer, moving at a slower pace. Look for details like reflectivity for visibility and handy pockets to stuff your hat and gloves if you get too warm. Athletic clothing is made of materials that are breathable, wick sweat away from your skin, and dry quickly.

Waterproof jackets and shoes work well for walkers but may cause runners to overheat.

Race day is not the time to break out new shoes or clothing. Wear the tried and true gear you have been training in and treat yourself to a finisher prize of new shoes afterwards! Getting off on the right foot, literally, and dressing for comfort and performance avoids chafing, bruised toes, and blisters – all of which detract from a satisfying running experience when your main focus should be on the journey itself!

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