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Fund First Nations child welfare properly, advocates tell OttawaKRISTY KIRKUP THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — It will take a lot more than just lip service to put right the years of systemic discrimination and underfund-ing endured by First Nations children, an emotional group of indigenous advocates said Tues-day as their nine-year battle with Ottawa culminated in a land-mark human rights decision.

Money — specifically, at least $200 million more a year in child welfare funding in order to close the fiscal gap — would be a good first start, said Cindy Blackstock, the social worker whose tireless crusade is at the heart of the ruling.

“Why did we have to bring the government of Canada to court to get them to treat First Nations children fairly — little kids?” Blackstock asked during an emotional news conference not far from Parliament Hill.

“Why would it ever be OK to give a child less than other children?”

The long-awaited ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found that children in First Nations communities have long suffered adverse effects as a result of the way federal services are delivered on reserve.

In some cases, government involvement has meant some children have been unfairly denied benefits.

The federal government failed to provide the same level of child welfare services that the

provinces provided off-reserve, the tribunal noted. As a result, countless First Nations children have ended up in foster care, away from their families.

“By analogy, it is like adding support pillars to a house that has a weak foundation in an attempt to straighten and sup-port the house,” the tribunal said.

“At some point, the foundation needs to be fixed or, ultimately, the house will fall down.”

Race and ethnic origin have also been factors, perpetuating the historical disadvantage and trauma suffered by Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples as a result of the residential school system, the tribunal concluded.

Blackstock, the executive dir-ector of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of

Canada, brought the original 2007 complaint to the tribunal, along with the Assembly of First Nations.

Federal funding for child wel-fare is between 22 and 38.5 per cent less than what has typically been provided at the provincial level, she added.

The ramifications of Tuesday’s decision were etched on the face of Charlie Angus, the NDP’s indigenous affairs critic and a northern Ontario MP who knows all too well the tragic legacy of underfunded child welfare in aboriginal communities.

“I was in one of my commun-ities just recently and all the teachers kept leaving the class-room because we had a child on a suicide watch and there was no money,” Angus said, fighting back tears.

“They fired the child welfare workers at the height of a sui-cide epidemic in James Bay — 89 kids, and they fired the child welfare workers to save both the province and the feds money. That’s what it looks like on the ground.”

The Liberal government’s forthcoming federal budget, expected next month, needs to contain significant, tangible financial commitments in order to address the ongoing crisis flagged in the decision, he added.

The government will review the lengthy decision, but it’s unlikely there will be any cause to seek judicial review of the ruling, Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said Tuesday during question period.

Wilson-Raybould and Indigen-ous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett stopped short of provid-ing a dollar figure on how much the government is willing to pro-vide to address the disparity.

“We know we are going to have to significantly increase the dollars that are available for child welfare programs,” Bennett acknowledged.

Wilson-Raybould, a former B.C. regional chief with the Assembly of First Nations, said the tribunal’s decision is “about equity.”

“This is a good day,” she said, citing the now-familiar Lib-eral commitment to reset the relationship between the fed-eral government and Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.

Alberta job losses in last year worse than in 1982, says Statistics CanadaIAN BICKIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Alberta lost more jobs last year than in any year since 1982, when the province was in the throes of a deep recession, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

The government agency released revised figures showing that Alberta had a net loss of 19,600 jobs in 2015, up from the 14,600 job losses it estimated in early January.

That was much higher than the 17,200 jobs lost in 2009 and the most since 1982, when the province shed 45,000 jobs. At that time, the province was reeling from a recession and the federally-imposed national

energy program, ending the year with an unemployment rate of 10.3 per cent.

The figures put into stark relief the damage falling oil prices have left on the province’s econ-omy, which has seen mass layoffs across the energy sector with an estimated 40,000 jobs lost.

At the beginning of last year, crude prices were near the US$53 mark.

They closed Tuesday at US$31.45 a barrel.

The job loss numbers are also a stark contrast to 2014, when Alberta added 63,700 positions — more than half of all jobs cre-ated in Canada that year.

“Alberta is, in effect, ground zero when it comes to absorb-ing a commodity price shock,” National Bank said in a note to clients last week.

“More than any province, it will take the brunt of the expected drop-off in business investment.”

Last year saw the province’s unemployment rate steadily

climb from 4.8 per cent to seven per cent as the anticipated recovery in oil prices failed to materialize.

But ATB Financial is forecast-ing that to edge up to 7.2 per cent and the economy to shrink by 0.5 per cent this year.

In a research note published Tuesday, TD Bank said it expects unemployment in the province heading towards 7.5 per cent by mid-year before some of the oil price shock wears off in the second half of the year.

“This will set the stage for a return to modest growth — and a tapering off in the sharp upward trend in jobless rates — in Alberta and Saskatchewan,” the bank said.

“Alberta is, in effect, ground zero when it comes to absorbing a commodity price shock.”

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Nanaimo ranks among the few and the proud, says Canadian Taxpayers Feder-ation B.C. director Jordan

Bateman.The city’s council has all but

approved a zero per cent increase in property taxes this year, making it one of the few cities in Canada that will do

so this year.However, experts

in taxation and local government policy say muni-cipalities should have more tools in their taxation and revenue-rais-ing kits beyond adjusting property taxes.

J. Rhys Kessel-man is the current Canada Research

Chair in public finance and has advo-cated for progressive, staggered prop-erty tax rates at the municipal level as way to address soaring residential property prices in the Lower Mainland.

Under B.C. laws, municipalities have to assign a single property tax rate for each property class — residential, commercial and others — and set the rates based on how much revenue they need to fund projects and services.

Kesselman says freezing property taxes can act as a “straitjacket” on municipalities, since cities and towns have limited other means of raising revenue. For its part, Nanaimo city hall intends to pay for a property tax freeze

this year and lower rates in future years with substantial spending cuts in the form of a freeze on current fire and police staff levels, as well as elim-inating general manager positions at city hall. The budgetary move received praise from a majority on city council, while Coun. Diane Brennan voiced concerns about the budget cuts.

But Kesselman said a broader issue are limitations placed on municipal-ities to raise revenues through policies like payroll taxes or sales taxes, as some U.S. jurisdictions allow.

He said business properties (which tend to pay proportionately more in property taxes than residential parcels) are often assessed at higher rates because of potential ‘best use’ of the land under the property tax system.

“In the broader sense, to restrict municipalities to property taxes, I don’t know that that’s necessarily a good thing,” Kesselman said.

Benjamin Dachis, a senior policy ana-lyst at Canadian think tank C.D. Howe Institute, said property tax increases

are “probably not a bad thing” if they coincide with increases in services like police.

But he said property tax freezes are just one part of the equation, adding future spending commitments have to be taken into account as well.

Those costs can be passed on through user fees, parking fees or other non-tax costs to ratepayers and can add up, Dachis said.

“Someone always pays,” he said.Dachis said exploring other sources

of revenue, like municipal sales taxes,

should be carefully considered, adding they can lead to “economic distor-tions.” For example, a sales tax could lead to consumers leaving a municip-ality on shopping trips to avoid paying more, he said.

But Dachis said there are other changes worth considering, including allowing municipal governments to provide a lower, single tax rate for all businesses, some of which may be classified as ‘industrial’ or ‘light industrial.’

“These sorts of differences have major economic distortions,” he said.

However, Bateman of the Can-adian Taxpayers Federation called Nanaimo’s 2016 tax freeze “a big accomplishment” in and of itself.

“I can tell you, Nanaimo’s the first (city) we’ve heard of freezing taxes this year, and we’ve looked at dozens,” Bateman said, adding the move “sets (the city) apart.”

As for whether or not tax freezes are sustainable, Bateman said: “It depends on an individual community, but let’s push it as far as we can and find out.”

Bateman said an emphasis on lower taxes is not just a pocketbook issue for ratepayers.

“The other thing that it does is it forces municipalities to focus on the services they are required to provide by law,” he said.

Can a tax increase be useful?Experts say property taxes should be just one tool in municipal toolbox

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Pit bull with chain embedded in neck now wellAARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

A pit bull cross in Ladysmith has been restored to good health after a choke collar embedded into his neck and caused a gruesome infection.

In February, the BC SPCA were notified of a dog in distress on a Ladysmith-area property, owned by Daniel Elliott. SPCA officers found the tethered pit bull cross suffering from an infected wound caused by the collar.

The dog’s owner turned the animal over to the SPCA and faces charges under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

The dog, later given the name Archer, was taken to Island Veter-inary Hospital where the collar was surgically removed.

BC SPCA constable Toni Morrison said the amount of discharge and odour from the infection wound should have been an indication of the dog’s distress.

“It’s a wonderful outcome. We’re so pleased when we have a good result like this with such a happy ending, sometimes it doesn’t go this way. He’s fully healed up, he has a wonderful life now,” said Tina Heary, senior animal protection officer with BC SPCA.

After the dog healed he was adopted to a loving family in the Nanaimo-area.

“We definitely felt strongly to rec-ommend charges in this case due to

the severity of the neglect. It’s awful to see that,” Heary said, adding the BCSPCA strongly discourages people form tethering their dogs on choke chains, or chains in general.

“We are grateful for the members of the public that report to us so we can help animals in the community,” Heary said.

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Bridge to Gabriola too expensive, says studyDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A government feasibility study found it too expensive to build a bridge to Gabriola Island and that comes as no surprise to either bridge supporters or opponents.

The Gabriola Island Fixed Link Feas-ibility Study, released by government this week, pegs the project’s costs at between $250 million and $520 million, depending where it’s built.

The issue deeply divided the island community, and some people involved chose not to comment on the report.

But a spokesman for the bridge opponents said his group is vindicated by the report.

Organizers of the petition to B.C. Transportation Minister Todd Stone for the feasibility study say the government intentionally skewed the results to kill an idea that lacked sup-port on the Gulf Island.

“The study was designed to shut it down — you may quote me,” said Michael Zane, speaking on behalf of the Gabriola Bridge Society.

In June 2014, the society presented the Transportation and Infrastructure ministry with more than 600 signatures on a petition from Gabriolans who sup-port a feasibility study.

The petition followed service disrup-tions from BC Ferries sailings cuts, affecting travel to Nanaimo for school, work and entertainment.

Such support for a bridge was con-sidered a significant shift in attitude,

and Stone then announced the award-ing of the $200,000 contract to study the feasibility of a fixed link.

Then opponents got organized, and last April they presented govern-ment with their own petition, with more than 2,100 signatures from those who oppose the study, much less a bridge.

Reasons to oppose a bridge range from wording in the Islands Trust Act through fears of increased traffic and impact on Mudge Island.

“We thought it was just not a great thing to do,” said Bridge Free Salish Sea spokesman Steve O’Neill.

“We’re delighted that report said no. The only slight concern we had, was government said ‘not at this time,’ but there’s been a number of studies done and Gabriola residents have always been opposed to a bridge.”

Zane said he thinks that’s why the report was sent back by government for further review, before its final release, months later than expected.

“Government decided: ‘What’s in it for (us)? Nothing. Ungrateful population — we may have a fight on our hands getting that bridge built.’”

Zane said one of six spans considered in the report, across Northumberland Channel, made no sense, yet tolls weren’t considered.

“Why not include tolls?”

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BUSINESS NOTESNews from the Nanaimo and area business community

Shoe-repair store makes move to new location

Steve Hansl is spreading his entrepreneurial wings.

Hansl has moved his long-standing Nanaimo Instant Shoe Repair store

to 1 Irwin St. from the Old City Quarter.

He needed the extra space in his new location because he has also begun a new business, called “Steve the Renaissance Man.”

Hansl said that part of the business deals with ornamental iron work, custom-made knives and other relat-ed metal work.

“A friend passed away and left me lots of equipment for the new part of my business,” he said.

“I’ve been working and practicing with it at home for the last 10 years, and have gained a lot of expertise at it.”

Into the Spotlight

The Spotlight Academy has opened a new location for children’s classes at 15 Lois Lane, next to the China Steps in downtown Nanaimo.

Owner Jacqui Kaese, who began the Spotlight Academy in Nanaimo

almost 20 years ago to train actors for television and movies, said she opened the new location so her younger students wouldn’t have to travel far to her studio in Cedar. She said it is also a convenient location for auditions and photo shoots.

“We are sharing space with the Hub City Cinema Society, and that’s a good fit for us,” Kaese said.

New business

A new business, called My Favourite Fabric Store, will open Friday at6 Commercial St. in downtown Nanaimo

Owned by Tanya and Bryan Gruszecki, the store will be geared mainly for those into crafts and quilting.

Tanya said she was a stay-at-home mom for many years and grew to enjoy developing her own crafting creations

So the couple decided to open their own store.

“We’ll have gift bags prepared for our first 25 customers once we open the doors at 9:30 a.m.,” Tanya Gruszecki said.

Modern technology

Modern technology is offering new ways for at least one Nanaimo real estate agent to present homes to customers.

Derek Gillette, a realtor with Re/Max of Nanaimo, is now using virtual reality to give potential home buyers an undistorted viewing of the listing without actually setting foot on the property. Gillette said in the real-estate industry, the one thing that frustrates sellers is the constant showings, requiring them to get their home “ready” each time.

“For years, I have been using my room-planner software and the buyer can move furniture around to decide how they would want to decorate the home,” Gillete said.

Odds and ends

• Lawyers Bradley Durvin and Christine Hepting have been added to the team at Cavan Street’s Fabris, McIver, Hornquist & Radcliffe firm.

• Sun Life Financial is moving to a new office in the Nanaimo North Town Centre on Feb. 1

• Judy Mitchell, who ran the Nanaimo office for the Financial Horizons Group, is now the com-pany’s business development man-ager for Vancouver Island.

• Birrer Sangret Chartered Accountants has opened at 4-100 Wallace St.

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Steve Hansl, owner of Nanaimo Instant Shoe Repair and The Renaissance Man, does blacksmithing in his shop Thursday on

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TRANSPORTATION

WestJet stops daily service to EdmontonDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

WestJet will stop daily service between Nanaimo and Edmonton March 5. The Calgary-based airline plans to mothball the new service, to meet a slumping oil industry and a reduction in air traffic, especially to the Alberta capital.

The service was launched Dec. 15. Mike Hooper, Nanaimo Airport

CEO, said the airline is “making a strategic move, to move a number of flights east” during the downturn, but the change is not intended to be permanent. The flight was started in part to meet a need for oilpatch workers in northern Alberta, as well as to add another hub for regional, national and international travel.

Hooper couldn’t provide capacity numbers for the new service, or pre-dict when it could be reinstated.

“It’s really going to be based on economic conditions,” Hooper said.

The airport has organized the Show Your Love campaign to ask Westjet to reinstate the service.

“We want to be top in mind for flights back into Alberta, when they make those decisions,” Hooper said.

Hooper said twice-daily service to Calgary is unaffected, and could soon

be expanded. Kamloops-Edmonton flights will end, along with service to Calgary from Terrace and Prince George. Penticton-Calgary Service will be curtailed Feb. 15.

A number of Alberta routes are affected too, as WestJet transfers cap-acity to eastern Canada.

“We look at our service based on supply and demand,” WestJet vice-president Richard Bartrem said Monday.

“We’re seeing less demand for trav-el to and from the energy markets and into areas across Canada. We’ve decided that we would move some of that capacity into markets where we’re seeing less of that impact so that we’re actually using the fleet as effectively as possible while minimiz-ing the effect on the guest.”

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◆ POLICE

Reported gunshots were just a ‘Redneck Ruckus’

Reports of gunshots in a south Nanaimo neighbourhood turned out to be a powerful brand of fireworks.

Nanaimo RCMP say the man who didn’t expect the response he got when numerous police officers responded to a report of possible shots fired.

Nanaimo RCMP responded to a call from a Haliburton area resident who reported what sounded like rapid gunfire shortly before 1 p.m. Monday

Dispatchers double-checked to be sure the sound wasn’t from a vehicle backfiring.

The caller insisted she was certain she’d heard loud shots, and a num-ber of police officers attended.

When officers found the man responsible, he showed them a box of 16 spent Redneck Ruckus fireworks.

No charges were laid.

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Live site screen taken down from city plaza

The live site screen and sound sys-tem in downtown Nanaimo’s Diana Krall Plaza will be removed and there are no plans for a replacement sys-tem, the city says.

The screen and sound system, located on the side of the Port The-atre facing the plaza, has reached the end of their “useful life,” the city said in a news release, citing “increasing maintenance costs and the inability to source parts.”

Removing the equipment will save the city $15,600 a year in operating costs. LED modules from the screen are slated to be removed and sold off second hand, while the city is looking at converting the sound system into a mobile system that can be used for special events in the city.

◆ BUSINESS

Nanaimo fi rm a fi nalist for enterprise award

The Nanaimo-based Business Examiner Vancouver Island publi-cation was one of the finalists in the 2016 Family Enterprise of the Year Awards.

Victoria’s Wilson’s Transporation is the big winner of this year’s award, which will be presented at a gala event at the Victoria Golf Club on Feb. 11.

The award is given annually by the CAFE Vancouver Island to recognize, celebrate and promote achieve-ments of Vancouver Island family businesses and their considerable contribution they make to both their

local communities and the national economy.

The Business Examiner is owned and operated by Mark and Lise Mac-Donald, and Lise was nominated for the award largely for running the publication for almost a year while Mark was running as the Conserv-ative candidate for Nanaimo-Ladys-mith in November’s federal election.

“It’s a pat on our backs for a job well done. But it’s important to say that our success is not based only on one person, but the team that backs us up,” said Lise MacDonald.

◆ EDUCATION

Mural, plaque consideredto commemorate school

A mural and plaque to commem-orate the closed, 100-year-old Hare-wood Elementary School is being considered.

The Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district is looking at the feasibility and costs of the memorial to the school, the oldest in the district, and is looking for the support of the Harewood Neighbourhood Associ-ation and the city’s heritage commit-tee in its efforts. The district is in the process of choosing a contractor to demolish Harewood school, which closed in 2004 as part of the efforts by the school board to deal with declining enrolment.

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Conservative bile is bubbling as Parliament resumed this week and Prime Minister Justin Tru-

deau’s government gets fully up and running. To hear the Tories and their acolytes tell it, the Liberals are fum-bling and stumbling on every front, getting nothing right.

Rarely has Canada’s political winepress squeezed out quite so many sour grapes so soon after an election.

Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose — who long ago wrote off Trudeau’s “big, activist govern-ment” — now faults it for “blowing” plans to run only modest deficits. During the campaign the Liberals talked up deficits of $10 billion over the next three years, chiefly to fund much-needed infrastructure, prior

to balancing the budget. But given the sharp slump in the economy, they now say that number isn’t set in stone and could run higher.

Conservative immigration critic Michelle Rempel believes the Lib-erals are “flying by the seat of their pants” in coping with 25,000 Syrian refugees, after having “pulled the number out of thin air.” There “really hasn’t been a plan,” she says.

Trudeau even caught flak from Alberta’s right-wing Wildrose Party leader Brian Jean for telling the movers and shakers at Davos that he’d like Canada to be known for its resourcefulness, not just for its resources. The comments “didn’t make any sense,” Jean said. “This is a gentleman I’ve never taken seriously until he became prime minister.”

Canadians can be expected to take all this grousing with a grain of salt.

What’s being lost in the conserva-tive farrago of carping is that the Lib-erals are largely on the right track. Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz effectively handed the govern-ment a licence to stimulate the econ-omy with bigger deficits by holding off lowering the bank’s key lending rate this past week, anticipating “fiscal measures” in the upcoming budget.

Bay Street economists, too, are cheering on bigger deficits. Credible analysts believe Ottawa could run a $25-billion deficit without court-ing ruin. And given the sharp and unexpected hit Canada has taken from low oil and commodity prices, extra stimulus is more than justified.

It’s worth recalling that Stephen Harper chided Trudeau during the campaign for proposing to “run a deficit on purpose,” and stubbornly refused to offer Syrians generous asylum. Now Harper’s party is okay with “a little bit of deficit” but faults Trudeau for not spelling out just how large a deficit he intends to run, and for not resettling refugees faster. There’s no pleasing some people.

As for promoting Canadian resourcefulness over resources at Davos, that just makes sense. Invest-ors aren’t flocking to the Alberta oil-sands when oil is going for $30 a bar-rel. Better to pitch Canada’s plans to invest in the future and to promote our highly educated, diverse popula-tion, advanced infrastructure, health care, social and financial stability.

Trudeau’s early days have not been the fiasco the Tories make out. There’s fresh energy and purpose in Ottawa. For the first time, the cab-inet is gender-balanced. Relations with premiers, First Nations and cit-ies are much better. The Liberals are bringing in more tax fairness, and more support for a greener economy. MPs and scientists are free to speak their minds again. Draconian secur-ity laws are being reviewed.

This is not a government flying by the seat of its pants. It’s the leader-ship Canadians voted for.

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Ship of state now sails with no rudder

Democracy is one of those words easily spoken and casually used, but more

difficult to understand and explain.The ongoing task of clarifying that

concept of democracy has belonged to the daily newspaper.

The work of journalists and editors has been to translate democracy from a sometimes vague concept into a reality that we can all understand, act on and use. It is job so important and so challenging that it must be renewed every day.

When I started at the Daily Free Press in 1993, that process was in full swing. We covered areas where your awareness, understanding and input were vital; at city hall, the courts, school board and health to name a few. We scrutinized areas where those in authority would be held to account in the event that authority was abused.

In the last week various columns have been written and comments made, initially following cuts and changes at Postmedia newspapers, about the importance of a free press in upholding democracy.

Marsha Lederman in the Globe and Mail articulated the issue better than I can. Stephanie Coombs, ex of the Times Colonist and let go from the

Paul WaltonOpinion

Edmonton Journal, has made similar insightful comments.

That such thoughts must now be articulated widely and out loud indicates to me a grave situation in the “Fourth Estate” — the press as distinguished from broadcast and now digital media.

Print journalists watch as the last flickering embers of what was a tremendous blaze that warmed an entire civilization begin to go out.

The principle behind the Fourth Estate is that words have meaning and potentially tremendous impact. Beginning in the late 18th century the first newspapers closed a loophole by which the first two trad-itional estates, the church and the aristocracy, kept the third estate — you and me — from having our say in the exercise of power.

For the last two centuries daily newspapers (in countries where the right to freedom of speech has existed) questioned, probed and gen-erally acted as a gadfly to “afflict the comforted and comfort the afflicted,” as the reporters’ credo goes. More than any other institution

in Western democracies, newspapers have exposed injustices and been a force for greater equality.

But the work of newspapers was never exclusively to attack those to whom we give authority to make and enforce our laws and collect and administer our taxes.

Some misguided souls believe that the role of the press is to be not a watchdog but an attack dog. A responsible press also looks for solutions and supports actions that are in the interest of an entire com-munity, actions that are right, moral and good and uphold community standards.

At times we have been our own worst enemy. At one end is the phone hacking scandal in the United King-dom, at the other are efforts to use newspapers as a means to promote ideology and political bias.

Ideologues on both the right and left have been guilty of this abuse. Using newsgathering as a pretext to peddle ideology of one sort or the other has done more to bring the press into disrepute than any phone hacking scandal could.

Journalists can never be objective — that’s just not possible — but they are called on to be fair, accurate and balanced.

And I have faith that my remaining scribe colleagues — “ink-stained wretches of the Fourth Estate” is intended as a compliment — will continue to adhere to the truth that “if it’s not fair, accurate and balanced,then it’s not a news story.”

But upholding those principles also requires resources, and with adver-tisers now reaching more eyes on social media at no cost, and readers getting news for free on the Internet, the cash is no longer there.

Profit and quality journalism must go hand in hand.

The ship of state now sails on with a broken rudder and the helmsman over the side.

“O nimium coelo et pelago confise sereno, nudus in ignota, Palinure, jacebis arena.”

— Virgil

» Paul Walton is the night editor at the ‘Daily News.’ He can be reached at paul.walton@nanaimodailynews.com

I am attaching a photo that was taken of me in the summer of 1945. I was not quite 11 at the time.

During this summer I was fortunate to obtain a relief job deliv-ering approximately 50 papers to homes in the 200-block from Wal-lace Street to Pine Street. I did not have a bicycle so I walked the route. The papers were rolled up and folded so they could be thrown onto the veranda of the house. In the photo you will see I am rolling a paper. From 1946 to 1948 I delivered the Free Press on a number of different routes in Nanaimo. These were the days when the paper was printed on the press in the back of the building on Church Street. I vividly recall VE and VJ Day as the presses were stopped and reset with new type announcing the end of the war. On these days we did not get our papers off the press until well past 5 p.m., which was about 1 1/2 hours later than normal.

I am disappointed that economics has forced the owners to cease printing the Daily News as I have been a loyal subscriber for many years. I do hope that the Nanaimo News Bulletin will be expanded to provide more local news.

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POLITICS

B.C. mines minister clarifi es comments about TrudeauBill Bennett says he did not intend to be disrespectful about PM’s Davos speechGEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s mines minister is clarifying his position on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s remarks about Canada’s natural-resource economy.

Bill Bennett said the meaning behind a comment he made Tuesday was not that Trudeau might come to regret remarks he made in a speech overseas, but that the media may have misquoted the prime minister.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Trudeau said his predecessor wanted Canada to be known for its resources, but he wants it known for its resourcefulness.

Canada amounts to not just the resources under Canadians’ feet but rather what lies between their ears, the prime minister said in his key-note address.

Bennett originally told reporters that Trudeau may regret the state-ment after being asked about the quotes at a mineral-exploration con-ference in Vancouver.

“I’ve been quoted many, many times in my 15-year career and regretted some of the things that I’ve

said, and just the context that I said them in, so perhaps there’s some ele-ment of that here.”

Bennett said Canada’s resource sec-tor is one of the most technologically advanced in the world and that its workers are well trained and well educated.

He acknowledged the flagging state of the natural-resources economy but insisted the world still needs Canada’s resources and that global commodity prices will eventually rebound.

But Bennett clarified his comments later Tuesday in a phone interview.

“It was in no way a disrespectful comment about the new prime min-ister,” he said.

“I’m actually proud of the fact that the guy is over there representing Canada, and doing a pretty damn good job.”

Bennett was at the conference to help unveil the first phase of results coming out of a $2.4-million project from Geoscience B.C. The organization is using airborne mag-netic surveying technology to map mineral exploration data within a 6,700-square-kilometre expanse in west-central British Columbia.

It’s the first such survey conducted for many areas in that region of the province since the 1960s.

“Finding mineral deposits is a metaphorical hunt for a needle in a haystack. With vast tracks of under-explored terrain, knowing where to start is a major challenge. There are endless haystacks,” said Bruce Madu, Geoscience B.C.’s vice-president for minerals and mining.

The region mapped is between the Smithers, Terrace and Kitimat.

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Pot-related place names

pop up for B.C. mountains

Google users interested in local topography might be surprised to find pot-related place names for our mountains listed by the popular search engine’s mapping software, including Weed Peak, Grow Op Peak, Cannabis Peak and Hydroponic Peak.

“A local photographer used #explorekootenaylake on an image they shared on Instagram,” Nelsonite Britz Robins told the Star. “It was a lovely picture, but I wasn’t quite sure if it was in our region, so I searched for the name of the lake.”

She struggled to find the particular lake using Google Earth, zooming in around the Riondel area to see what she could find.

“I started zooming in on some of the smaller lakes to see if any names would pop up. They didn’t. But I stumbled upon those names instead!”

Robins, who works for both Nel-son Kootenay Lake Tourism and Shambhala Music Festival, took a screenshot of her find and shared it on social media, earning over 800 likes and 69 shares.

“You can’t see them from Google’s default view. I think the only ones that show up at first glance are Loki and another one. But when you zoom in, the pot mountains show up.”

—NELSON STAR

TRUDEAU

SURREY

Syrian refugees happy to be staying in CanadaKEVIN DIAKIW SURREY NORTH DELTA LEADER

Freshly here from the chaos and bloodshed they left behind in Syria, a dozen refugees gathered in a North Surrey hotel this week to describe their experience in Canada.

They were at a press gathering as local grocer Fruiticana donated bags of gro-ceries to the families.

Fruiticana founder Tony Singh com-mitted to provide enough groceries to feed 500 families for seven to nine days.

Ola Katabi has been here just two weeks,and says she loves Canada.

“It’s natural,” the 15-year-old said as she beamed. “It’s beautiful.”

It’s a far cry from where she just left.“In Syria, it’s difficult,” Katabi said.It’s an understatement coming

from a girl fleeing a country gripped in a complex civil war, where mil-lions of innocent people are bombed indiscriminately.

The world, including Canada, has snapped to attention since atrocities have come to light. As part of a federal Liberal campaign promise in last fall’s election, 25,000 refugees are heading to Canada in the coming months.

Many have already arrived and more are to come, with hundreds expected to settle in Surrey.

Scores of them are being housed temporarily at the Sandman Hotel in Guildford, one of the region’s spots for interim housing. One of the biggest

barriers, they say, is becoming familiar with the new language.

Katpahi Abdelrazqe spoke through an interpreter and said language is defin-itely the biggest hurdle he faces.

“So far, I can’t pinpoint any (signifi-cant) challenges,” he said. “Language is definitely the biggest.”

His six children, aged two to 12, are content and are looking forward to get-ting back to school, Abdelrazqe said.

“God willing, they are very happy to be going to school this year and con-tinuing their education.”

The growing refugee contingent was the subject of a public forum in Surrey earlier this week.

On Wednesday night, about 350 people packed Fleetwood Park Secondary School to discuss how they could help refugees heading to the city.

Surrey Coun. Judy Villeneuve said she was delightfully surprised by the large turnout at the event, which was hosted in part by the city.

In addition to the city, officials with the province, immigration workers and police were also on hand to field questions.

Villeneuve, a long-time social advo-cate in Surrey, is pleased with how the refugee settlement is unfolding.

The City of Surrey has been swamped with calls from people looking for ways to help.

The forum was intended to provide clarity on what could be done.

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POLICING

Prosecution of Toronto cop reveals frontline challengeAs use of force by offi cers is questioned, some say mental health services are needed

COLIN PERKEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A guilty finding against a Toronto police officer who gunned down a knife-wielding teen on an empty streetcar suggests the public has become more sensitive toward how police deal with those in crisis, some experts said Tuesday.

At the same time, they said, the prosecution of Const. James Forcillo has highlighted the need to address systemic issues around police train-ing and the funding of mental health services.

“The public no longer has an appe-tite for police simply saying, ‘This is use of force’,” said Frances Jewell, executive director with the Mental Health Rights Coalition in Hamilton.

“The conversation has started but there’s a disconnect between what police are saying has changed and what has changed.”

In what has been described as a “compromise” verdict, a jury acquitted Forcillo on Monday of second-degree murder for shooting Sammy Yatim, 18, but found him guilty of attempted murder for con-tinuing to fire after the dying teen had fallen to the floor.

Forcillo’s union warned the verdict would put officers at further risk by causing them to hesitate before responding to dangerous situations. On the other hand, the lawyer for Yatim’s family suggested too many officers have been literally getting away with murder by claiming self-defence.

Dorothy Cotton, a forensic psych-ologist in Kingston, Ont., said the verdict is a sign attitudes toward the mentally ill — and police account-ability — have shifted.

“The significance of this whole trial is really in the fact that there was a trial and he was found guilty of any-thing at all,” said Cotton, who has

worked with the Canadian Associ-ation of Chiefs of Police and the Men-tal Health Commission of Canada.

“In contrast to attitudes we had in the past toward people who appear to be crazy or out of their minds, society as a whole is saying that this is not the norm and we can’t tolerate this any more.”

Statistics Canada data show about one million interactions between police and people in some kind of mental health crisis each year. The vast majority end without serious incident. For others, however, the result is what advocates consider an unnecessary fatality as well as trauma for both the families and offi-cers involved.

Advocates have long called for bet-ter police training for dealing with people in crisis.

They insist officers should do every-thing possible to defuse a volatile situation before resorting to Tasers or firearms.

For their part, police insist they are doing what they can to help. In B.C., new and seasoned officers are required to undergo training on deal-ing with the mentally ill. Other servi-ces say their training does emphasize de-escalation techniques.

Jewell, however, was skeptical, not-ing Forcillo barked orders and shot Yatim dead less than one minute after arriving on scene.

“Where on earth did they get the message that was a de-escalation technique?” she said. “I must say I’m jaded in that we hear that the chan-ges will happen and yet they don’t.”

Still, training and accountability issues aside, mental health advocates

say the Yatim killing — and others like it — demonstrate a crying need for more funding of supports for the mentally ill to avert potentially dead-ly confrontations with officers in the first place.

All too often, they note, people find-ing themselves on the wrong end of an officer’s gun had tried unsuccess-fully to find help for their worsening mental health.

A few years ago, for example, Richard Kachkar went on a rampage with a stolen snowplow, prompting Toronto police Sgt. Ryan Russell to open fire in an effort to stop him. In that tragic case, Russell was run down and killed.

Kachkar, who for weeks had sparked concerns about his deterior-ating behaviour, was found not crim-inally responsible.

Police officers block Las Vegas Boulevard at the scene of an officer-involved shooting on Friday in Las Vegas. The conviction

of a Toronto police officer is raising questions about how police respond in such emergencies. [LAS VEGAS SUN VIA AP]

ENVIRONMENT

Federal agency slow to ban pesticides: ReportBRUCE CHEADLE THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The federal Pest Management Regulatory Agency is taking years to remove confirmed pesticide risks from the marketplace while failing to evaluate many other products, according to a new audit.

The latest annual report from the environment commissioner’s office, tabled Tuesday in Parliament, also found that conditionally registered pesticides, fungicides and herbicides

which have not been fully vetted have in some cases been in use for more than a decade.

The Liberal government moved last week to stop the practice of conditionally registering the prod-ucts, effective this June, but com-missioner Julie Gelfand’s report indicates problems in the system run much deeper.

“We’ve recommended to the agency that once they’ve decided that a pesticide has unacceptable risks for

all uses, that it should remove them from the market as soon as pos-sible,” the commissioner told a news conference.

“And that if they can’t remove it right away, they should give more information to the public.”

Gelfand’s audit found the pest agency took an average of five years, and up to 11 years, to get dangerous pesticides off store shelves — and that the stalling mechanisms are built right into the law.

The act governing pesticides allows the minister to keep a harm-ful product in circulation if it’s deemed there are no readily available alternative products. It also allows manufacturers to sell their existing stock of pesticides that are found to be harmful before the product is de-registered.

“If Canadians feel there should be a change, that’s up to Parliament to make that change in the law,” said Gelfand.

Tory bill on public labour unions to be nixedANDY BLATCHFORD THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The Liberals are poised to abandon the Conservative hardline approach to contract talks with pub-lic labour unions, a move that could cost the federal balance sheet nearly $1 billion this fiscal year.

The Liberal government has con-firmed it will repeal Tory legislation that allows Ottawa to impose chan-ges to short-term disability and sick leave in the public service.

The Treasury Board recently signalled to federal unions that it would make withdrawing a provision in Bill C-59 “one of its first orders of business.”

The action is expected to have fiscal consequences.

The Conservatives booked $900 million in savings to the gov-ernment’s bottom line in last year’s budget, even though negotiations were still ongoing with the unions.

The Harper government’s account-ing decision helped its election-year budget forecast a $2.4-billion sur-plus, including the contingency reserve.

By booking that figure, it means the 2015-16 balance sheet could be another $900 million deeper in the red.

Since coming to power, the Liberalsupdated the 2015-16 budget pro-jection in November to a $3-billion shortfall.

Internally, however, the govern-ment is aware that more could be shaved from the public books because of the accounting around the short-term disability and sick leave regime.

“If the (short-term disability plan) is not implemented this fiscal year, then the $900 million in savings in 2015-16 will need to be unwound,” said briefing material on “urgent issues” provided to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shortly after he took office.

The briefing said the matter could require action or a decision within 50 days of the October election.

Regardless of the outcome of con-tract talks, the government won’t ever see the $900 million in esti-mated savings realized in actual dol-lar terms, said Debi Daviau, president of the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada.

That’s because the value is a booked liability, she said.

“They can remove the liability from their books, but the Canadian public needs to understand it’s a liability that would have sat there to forever-ness without ever actually having to be paid out,” Daviau said.

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CARIBBEAN

Men load suitcases on the top of a car after travellers arrived at the Jose Marti

International Airport in Havana on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

U.S. embargo on Cuba loosened upMICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HAVANA — The Obama administration is loosening the U.S. trade embargo on Cuba with a new round of regulations allowing American companies to sell to Cuba on credit and export a potentially wide range of products to the Cuban government for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

The changes are President Barack Obama’s third attempt to spur U.S.-Cuba commerce despite an embargo that still prohibits most forms of trade with the island.

U.S. travel to Cuba has exploded since Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro declared detente in 2014. But U.S. hopes of building wider trade between American businesses and Cuba’s private sector have been largely frustrated by Congressional reluctance to end the embargo itself and by the island’s labyrinthine restrictions on imports, exports and private business.

Obama says he hopes to visit Cuba before he leaves office but a trip would depend on the progress being made in relations between the two countries. Tuesday’s move appears designed to jumpstart commerce between the two countries and remove some of Cuba’s biggest excuses for not opening its economy to trade with the U.S.

“Just as the United States is doing its part to remove impediments that have been holding Cubans back, we urge the Cuban government to make it eas-ier for its citizens to start businesses, engage in trade, and access information online,” National Security Council spokesman Ned Price said.

Among a host of other measures, the new regulations allow U.S. firms to offer Cuban buyers credit on sales of non-agricultural goods, addressing a longstanding Cuban complaint about a ban on credit.

The vast majority of Obama’s new regulations have been aimed at spurring U.S. trade with Cuban entrepreneurs instead of with the state-run firms that

dominate the economy. The Cuban government says that U.S. focus on private business is partly responsible for the island not opening its economy in response to the U.S. loosening of the embargo.

The U.S. Commerce Department said Tuesday that it would now allow U.S. exports to Cuban government agencies in cases where it believed the Cuban people stood to benefit. It cited agricul-ture, historic preservation, education, food processing and public health and infrastructure as government-con-trolled sectors that it would not allow to receive goods from the U.S. on a case-by-case basis, potentially open-ing up a huge new field of commerce between U.S. business and the Cuban government.

“You would expect that this would open up a lot of areas where there should be enhanced trade,” said James Williams, head of the anti-embargo U.S. group Engage Cuba.

He said that while Obama’s initial exceptions to the embargo were criticized for not reflecting a deep understanding of Cuba, the new regu-lations were much more attuned to the peculiarities of Cuba’s state-controlled economy.

Cuban officials issued no immediate comment on the changes and state media made only brief mention of them in the first hours after the U.S. announcement. Anti-Castro figures in the U.S. have long argued against Obama’s opening with Cuba, saying it empowers the state rather than the Cuban people and Tuesday’s announce-ment gave them ammunition.

The new changes make the tourism ban even harder to enforce by expand-ing the number of credible reasons that an American could be in Cuba. The new measures also contain a number of technical changes designed to allow regularly scheduled flights between the U.S. and Cuba, a potentially massive change agreed upon by the two coun-tries late last year.

RELIGION

FRANCES D’EMILIO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis held talks with Iran’s president at the Vatican Tuesday, calling on Tehran to play a key role in stopping the spread of terrorism as Iran tries to improve its image in the global arena fol-lowing an agreement on its nuclear program.

The pontiff warmly clasped the hand of President Hassan Rouhani in the first official call paid on a pontiff by an Iranian president since 1999. They held 40 minutes of private talks before Rouhani met with other top Vatican officials.

The talks “delved into the conclusion and application of the nuclear accord, and the important role that Iran is called upon to play, together with other countries of the region, was highlighted,” the Holy See said.

It added that that role should “foster adequate polit-ical solutions to the issues plaguing the Middle East, fighting the spread of terrorism and arms trafficking.”

The “cordial” talks also stressed common spiritual values, the statement said.

Usually it’s the pope who asks his audience to pray for him. This time, after the two men spoke with the help of Italian and Farsi language translators, it was the guest who asked the pope for prayers. “I ask you to pray for me,” Rouhani said.

The Vatican meeting was a key part of the Iranian effort to take a more prominent place on the world stage after the nuclear deal with Western powers.

Iran, which agreed to limit its nuclear activities in exchange for an end to economic sanctions, is eager to carve out a bigger role in mediating Middle East con-flicts. Francis’ papacy has emphasized mediation and conflict-resolution, including his role in helping Cuba and the United States to normalize their relations.

Rouhani heads to France Wednesday on his four-day European trip seeking to boost Iran’s image abroad as well as to rehabilitate economic ties with a continent that had been a big trade partner before the sanctions.

Francis gave Rouhani a medal depicting St. Martin giving his cloak to a poor man in the cold, describing the saint’s act as “a sign of unsolicited brotherhood.”

Rouhani brought a gift of a hand-made rug that he said was made in the Iranian holy city of Qom.

Before going to the Vatican, Rouhani told a forum of business leaders in Rome that “Iran is the safest and most stable country of the entire region.”

Italy also sees Iran as a potential peacemaker in Syria’s civil war, as the Italian government fears the warfare will further destabilize Libya — just across the

Pope calls on Iran’s presidentto fi ght spread of global terror

Mediterranean from southern Italy — fuel terrorism and jeopardize energy security.

“Italy has always backed the role of Iran as a regional player in resolving tensions in the area, starting with the Syrian crisis,” Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said after meeting his Iranian counterpart, according to his office.

Rouhani has described the political talks leading to the nuclear deal as a potential blueprint for pursuing peace in the Middle East.

His European trip was originally planned for Novem-ber but postponed because of the attacks in Paris.

Pope Francis, right, and Iranian President Hassan

Rouhani share a laugh during their meeting at the

Vatican on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]

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◆ HALIFAX

Woman wins $50K over fi rearms defamation

A woman who was wrongly impli-cated in possible criminal activity by a provincial employee after she applied for a firearms licence has been awarded more than $50,000 in damages by a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge.

Court documents show that when Laura Doucette applied for the licence as part of a policing and cor-rections course, provincial firearms investigator David Grimes looked at her application in 2012 and became suspicious.

During his investigation, he approached some of Doucette’s instructors and warned them she may have been involved in an armed robbery when she was working at a Tim Hortons in 2009.

Judge Denise Boudreau, in a ruling released Monday, said Grimes — a former police officer — didn’t say where he got the information and didnot bother to check if it was true.

◆ MONTREAL

CN Rail expects further workforce reductions

Canadian National Railway says it could shed more employees in 2016 if freight volumes fall again this year as expected.

The country’s largest railway saw its workforce decrease by nine per cent or 2,300 last year, with about 1,150 employees laid off at year’s end.

CN Rail, with about 25,000 employ-ees, said its natural attrition rate of close to eight per cent annually gives it flexibility to hire or not depending on market conditions.

Unlike CP Rail, which last week estimated its workforce would be down close to 1,000 this year, CN Rail didn’t put a number on the potential job cuts.

CN Rail expects volume will be soft again in the beginning of 2016 beforestabilizing later in the year.

◆ TORONTO

Interim assisted dying guidelines for Ont. MDs

Ontario doctors will be permitted to provide assistance in dying to eligible patients within Canada who qualify for publicly funded health care as the federal government works to legislate doctor-assisted suicide.

The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario on Monday approved its interim guidelines for doctors who are approached by patients seeking help in dying before doctor-assisted suicide becomes legal nationwide on June 6.

The guidelines were amended fol-lowing 30 days of consultations with doctors and Ontario residents.

An earlier draft limited physicians to providing the service only to Ontario residents.

Other changes include a clarifica-tion that conscientious objectors do not have to assess whether a patient is eligible for doctor-assisted death before referring them to another physician.

NATIONAL DEFENCE

MIDDLE EAST

UN chief calls on Israel to freeze building West Bank settlementsJewish state’s UN envoy does not address issue; shows ‘terror dolls’ used to teach hate

CARA ANNA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Progress toward peace between Israel and the Palestinians requires that Israel freeze its settle-ment-building in the West Bank, the UN secretary-general said Tuesday, calling the settlement activities “an affront to the Palestinian people and to the international community.”

Addressing the UN Security Coun-cil’s periodic Middle East debate, Ban Ki-moon also urged both sides to act now “to prevent the two-state solution from slipping away forever.”

He condemned rocket fire from militant groups in Gaza into Israel but focused his strongest comments on Israel’s settlement-building.

“As oppressed peoples have dem-onstrated throughout the ages, it is human nature to react to occupa-tion,” the UN chief said.

Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war. Palestin-ians demand the territory as part of their future state. Last week, Israel approved the expropriation of some 150 hectares of land in another part of the territory.

Most of the international commun-ity views Israeli settlements in the territory as illegal or illegitimate.

Dozens of people on both sides have died in four months of violence, which Israel blames on Palestinian incitement. Palestinians say the attacks stem from frustration at nearly five decades of Israeli military rule.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Ban’s comments “give a tail wind to terrorism,” and he said the UN “long ago lost its neutrality and its moral strength.”

Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour later told reporters that all

15 council members acknowledged that Israel’s settlement building is “the main obstacle to any meaning-ful political process,” and he said the Palestinians are meeting with all council members to assess their readiness to act this year.

French Ambassador Francois Delat-tre said the international community should create a “specific and credible political horizon” for a solution to the tensions in the region.

Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi said Israel should take the lead in calm-ing tensions, and he said the Security Council “should seriously consider

the question of providing inter-national protection to the Palestinian people.”

He gave no details, but Mansour said new council member Egypt would take the lead in explor-ing that issue.

Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, did not address settlement-building.

He instead showed reporters what he called “terror dolls” that he said are used to teach hatred to Palestin-ian children.

The comments by Ban and others came after Netanyahu this week said

his government is committed to West Bank settlements. Ban said he was “deeply troubled” by new reports that Israel’s government has approved plans for more than 150 new homes in settlements in the West Bank.

U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told the council that the United States “strongly opposes settlement activity” but added that “settlement activity can never in itself be an excuse for violence.”

Israel says the fate of the settle-ments should be resolved in peace talks, along with other core issues like security and borders.

Military feeling the pain of reservist shortageMURRAY BREWSTER THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — The bottom appears to have fallen out of the country’s mil-itary reserves.

The latest government figures, con-tained in federal departmental per-formance reports for the last budget year, show a shortfall of 5,293 part-time soldiers, sailors and aircrew.

The numbers also show the mil-itary’s medical branch has 367 unfilled positions — both uniformed and civilian. The department noted there’s a national shortage of health-care professionals and military sys-tem is backstopped by its contract with the private company Calian.

National Defence says 35 of these vacancies are in the mental-health section, which was the subject of an

intense recruiting campaign follow-ing a string of suicides by combat veterans in late 2013 and early 2014.

Gary Walbourne, the military ombudsman, sounded exasperated upon hearing the figures, saying his

office repeatedly pushed the previous Conservative government on the issue of health care for both full-time and part-time members.

“This comes down to desire. If you have the desire to fix the problem, you’ll fix it,” Walbourne said in an interview.

“We don’t need any more studies or any more reports. Enough is enough. It comes to a leadership issue and someone has to decide that this is going to get fixed.”

The country’s top military com-mander, Gen. Jonathan Vance, has made caring for the troops one of his signature efforts.

The records did note that military health-care system easily met its per-formance targets for wait times and treatment.

Defence officials blame the dimin-ished reservist ranks — 21,707, all told — on a higher-than-expected departure rate and challenges in meeting recruiting quotas.

Retired colonel John Selkirk of the group Reserves 2000, which lobbies on behalf of part-time soldiers, says the problem has been building for years and reflects a slashing of the training budget by the Conservatives, a change in how reservist trades are selected and a dysfunctional recruit-ing system that leans towards sign-ing up full-time members.

Many reservists are young people who use their service as part-time income for school and the absence of large summer training exercises has meant they’ve had to go elsewhere to find work, he said.

VANCE

Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon on Tuesday displays what he called ‘terror dolls’ that he says are being used to teach

hatred among Palestinian children. [AP PHOTO]

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NEWS IN BRIEFThe Associated Press

◆ ATHENS

Protests escalate against Greek pension reform

Greece’s prime minister defended his unpopular pension reform plans Tuesday, pledging to avoid new cuts, as protests against the creditor-de-manded measures escalated.

Alexis Tsipras told a special parlia-mentary session that the financially struggling country’s pension system faces collapse unless swift corrective action is taken.

He insisted that the reforms will see no new reductions in core pen-sions — which have been repeatedly slashed since the start of Greece’s financial crisis.

The pension overhaul has been demanded by Greece’s bailout credit-ors, whose rescue loans have kept the country afloat since mid-2010.

The proposed changes will lead to large increases in social security con-tributions, mostly affecting self-em-ployed professionals and farmers, who say that they will end up paying more than three quarters of their income to pension funds and tax authorities.

◆ PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI

Cruise line restarts Haiti port calls after protest

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. on Tuesday re-established port calls to its fenced-in site and beach attrac-tion in northern Haiti after sus-pending visits just over a week ago.

The Miami-based company sus-pended cruise ship stops to the Labadee port on Jan. 19 when one of its ships encountered people staging a protest in small boats.

There were conflicting reports about the reasons for the recent pro-test in the bay. Cruise ship passen-gers don’t leave the fenced-in area, long a source of frustration to area residents.

Spokeswoman Cynthia Martinez says the company has been in close communication with Haitian officials and is now “comfortable that there will not be any significant impact” on passengers.

◆ BUENOS AIRES

Argentina government fi ghts plague of locusts

Argentina’s agricultural inspection agency said Thursday that it is keep-ing up efforts to control a locust infestation threatening crops in at least three states.

The agency said in a statement it has controlled 31 new outbreaks of the insect in the states of Catamarca, Santiago del Estero and Cordoba.

The plague today affects some 700,000 hectares, said the Rural Confederations of Argentina in an emailed statement. It is the worst infestation since 1954, said Juan Pab-lo Karnatz, president of a farmers’ association in Santiago del Estero.

Time is of the essence, the farmers say. If the fumigators don’t find the young insects before they mature in 10 days, they will form swarms of locusts in search of food. The other challenge is discovering unsighted pockets of locusts.

MEDIA

Postmedia CEO says hunt on for new revenue streams at papersChain faces debt obligations that are due in next few years at astronomical amounts

DAVID FRIEND THE CANADIAN PRESS

Paul Godfrey doesn’t need to be prompted to talk about the troubled state of Canada’s media industry in the midst of a steady

stream of bleak news — the Post-media CEO raises the topic himself.

Just a few minutes after stepping into his office at the company’s head-quarters in downtown Toronto, God-frey is already expounding on how he sees an industry in strife.

“There’s no doubt the business models for newspapers, magazines and conventional television are all being disrupted,” said the 77-year-old executive, stating what’s become painfully obvious for Canadian news outlets.

Godfrey points to technology giants like Google and Facebook as behe-moth competitors who are luring away longtime advertisers by selling audience reach and metrics that traditional media companies simply cannot offer.

Canada’s media industry is indeed facing widespread turmoil — hun-dreds of pink slips have been handed out already this year, and two daily newspapers are closing down perma-nently — but Postmedia is sitting with its own unique time bomb of financial constraints.

The country’s largest newspaper chain, owner of the National Post and city dailies like the Ottawa Cit-izen and Vancouver Sun, is operating under debt obligations that come due over the next few years at astro-nomical amounts.

This year, Postmedia owes $25.9 million of long-term debt,

and that figure jumps to a stunning $302.7-million in 2017, according to its annual report filed last November.

If Postmedia is unable to repay those debts, or find a solution to refinance what it owes, the com-pany is almost certain to wind up in bankruptcy.

Godfrey stops short of trying pre-dict Postmedia’s future, saying that any suggestion its days are numbered is “a guess.” But he clearly identifies where the potential pitfalls lie.

“We have bills to pay called mort-gages — first-lien and second-lien notes,” he said.

“When you own a house with two mortgages, you’re still bringing in income every week, but if your rev-enue starts to fall and you can’t pay off your mortgages, what are you going to do? You’re going to keep cutting your costs or someone takes your home away from you.”

Godfrey said one of the biggest challenges in repaying those debts.

“What’s really hurtful to us (is the) second-lien notes are all in U.S. funds,” he said. “With the Canadian dollar falling the way it’s falling, that’s almost like a noose around your neck.”

Others share those concerns, including Moody’s Investors Service, which last week further downgraded its ratings on the company over its refinancing prospects.

Some analysts find it surprising Postmedia’s newspapers have sur-

vived this long after sitting in limbo during the Canwest bankruptcy pro-ceedings before they were bought in 2010 by an investment group backed by New York hedge fund Golden Tree Asset Management for $1.1 billion.

The acquisition was contested by some, including Unifor, formerly the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, which urged the federal government to reconsider the consolidation of so many newspapers, especially under a U.S. participant.

Golden Tree has remained a stick-ing point for media critics, with some suggesting the firm is sapping Postmedia business — particularly its valuable real estate assets — for as much as it can get.

Godfrey disputes those assertions.“Golden Tree is an equity player,

not a debt player,” he said.“If it wasn’t for Golden Tree Asset

Management, this chain may not be in existence today because there were no Canadians who stepped up to buy (the papers) . . . . People should be happy that at least somebody (bought the newspapers) and kept a lot of people employed.”

In early 2010, the Toronto Star’s parent company bid for Canwest’s newspaper and digital business in partnership with Fairfax Financial Holdings. Sources familiar with the proceedings say executives halted those negotiations after the price tag became too high. Eventually the papers were bought for $1.1 billion and formed into Postmedia.

Over the coming months, Godfrey

will reshape Postmedia even further in preparation for lender negotia-tions he hopes will lead to refinan-cing the first-lien notes by August 2017.

The latest round of cuts are “para-mount,” he said, to making Post-media’s business model attractive for investors who hold the keys to financial relief.

The company recently announced it was merging newsrooms and cutting about 90 jobs as part of a large-scale effort to save $80 million by the mid-dle of next year. The newsroom cuts only get the company “part way” to the goal, Godfrey said.

Beyond its journalists, he said executives are considering many

avenues of change. Those include whether money can be saved in how the newspapers are laid out each night, whether printing the paper half an hour earlier would be cheaper and if there’s a way to have fewer delivery people on the street.

“We’re going to do our very best adjusting the cost base so that people who are potential investors in the debt see we are doing everything we can to be able to repay the debt,” he said.

“Is it a pleasant thing to do? Obviously it’s the most painful thing to do, to disrupt your own company. You know you’re hurting certain people’s lives.”

At the same time, executives are on the hunt to create new revenue streams.

One of them took shape on Monday when Postmedia announced a three-year partnership with Mogo Finance Technology Inc. that will see it pock-et a portion of revenues generated by the short-term loan provider.

Godfrey said the Mogo agreement is a snapshot of what’s to come.

“This one area seemed to be a nat-

ural,” he said. “We have two or three others we are working on.”

Postmedia has also abandoned ven-tures it found didn’t deliver results — including an evening tablet edi-tion once trumpeted as a major area of growth for the company. Godfrey said Postmedia bailed on the tablet experiment when it was clear it wasn’t going to deliver a profit.

He suggested the Toronto Star — which has invested millions

of dollars on its Star Touch tablet platform — reconsider its devotion to the tablet as well.

“They’re way off base and they spent a fortune,” he said, pointing to mobile phones as the smartest bet for media companies.

“Our philosophy here is fail fast. I don’t think they recognize that. You tried it, everybody’s got to experi-ment, but they keep spending and spending like crazy on it.”

Godfrey is confident owners of the Star will eventually reach the same conclusion: a tablet-specific business model isn’t profitable.

“They’re going to realize it sooner or later,” he said.

Torstar has said the Star Touch has been downloaded more than 100,000 times, though it also laid off 10 members of the tablet team earlier this month.

Some media critics have called on the federal government to step in and give the country’s newspapers finan-cial assistance that could get them through the next few years.

Godfrey said he’s not interested in asking for the government’s help at this point.

“As far as I’m concerned I’m run-ning a business right now,” he said. “The preferential route is to explore all options we can do by ourselves first. I haven’t even thought about that.”

Postmedia President and CEO Paul Godfrey in his Toronto office on Monday. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

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On February 15, 2016, minimum downpayment rules are changing in Canada – for homes worth more than $500,000. The change is

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How much difference could it make? Here’s a simple example:

Right now, you could get a mortgage for a $750,000 home with a downpayment of $37,500: a simple 5% of $750,000. Once the new rules kick in next month, you’ll need $50,000 or a 6.7% downpayment for the same house: 5% for the first $500,000 ($25,000), plus 10% for the $250,000 over the limit (another $25,000),

The change was announced in mid-December by the new Liberal Finance Minister, Bill Morneau. While most Canadian homebuyers will be unaffected, the move is designed to protect Canadian homeowners by ensuring a stronger equity footing in their homes.

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JASON KELLER THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — James Neal scored late in the third period to give the Nashville Predators a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.

Craig Smith also found the back of the net for Nashville (23-18-8), which played its third game of a four-game Western road swing. The trip has included 4-1 wins in both Winnipeg and Edmonton and will finish Wed-nesday in Calgary. Predators goalie Pekka Rinne stopped 28 shots.

Brandon Sutter scored for the Canucks (20-19-11), who played their last game before the all-star break. Vancouver just returned from a 10-day, six-game road trip that resulted in a 3-2-1 record.

Ryan Miller made 17 saves in his first home start since Dec. 9 for Vancouver.

The Preds broke through with 4:44 left in the game on a bad Canucks line change. Neal took a pass from defenceman Barrett Jack-man and fired the puck from the faceoff dot, beating Miller glove side for the go-ahead goal.

Vancouver had a power-play chance to end the game, but couldn’t force overtime.

Nashville jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead less than two minutes in when Mike Fisher set up Smith, who lifted the puck over Miller’s shoulder after easily getting around Canucks defenceman Ben Hutton.

Sutter, thrust into the centre pos-ition on the top line due to Henrik Sedin’s injury, found immediate chemistry with Daniel Sedin. Sutter took a beautiful return pass from Sedin and one-timed it passed Rinne to tie the game at 11:39. It was Sut-ter’s first game since sustaining a sports hernia on Nov. 10.

Sutter had a glorious chance on a breakaway minutes later, but missed the open net with Rinne out of position.

The Predators shot sparingly in

the first and second. Even with two power plays, including a tripping call on Matt Bartkowski midway in the second, Nashville had only 11 shots going into the third compared to Vancouver’s 24.

However, Rinne was tested more often, especially during a Canucks power play with five minutes left in the second when he made saves on Sedin and Sven Baertschi to keep the score deadlocked.

Nashville came out with increased intensity in the third and began firing more shots at Miller, including a dangerous-looking Miikka Salomaki attempt from in the slot.

Notes: Vancouver forward Brandon Prust was a healthy scratch for a third straight game. . . . Henrik Sedin missed his fourth straight game with a upper-body injury.

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Canucks’ goalie Ryan Miller is showered with ice shavings as he makes a save against the Nashville Predators during the second period in Vancouver on Tuesday.

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Neal scores winner late to lift Preds over CanucksSutter scored for Vancouver, who played their last game before the all-star break

TECHNOLOGY

Baseball off ers help with new hockey appsTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Major League Base-ball is debuting a new website and apps — for ice hockey.

Under a deal reached last summer, baseball’s digital business has taken over streaming and app development for the National Hockey League.

On Monday, the NHL will start offering a cheaper subscription pack-age, NHL Premium, with six-minute recaps and live video for the final five minutes of most games, plus any overtime and shootouts. Premium will cost $3 a month, compared with $25 for full games.

In both cases, hometown games will typically be unavailable to pre-serve television rights.

The NHL is also boosting video quality to 60 frames per second, double the standard 30 frames, though you’ll need a streaming TV device, a game console, an iPad or one of the larger, Plus models of the iPhone. Officials say that 60 frames will be ideal for fast-moving action such as hockey, as it will make puck movement look smoother. Bob Bow-man, baseball’s president of business and media, says he plans to bring that to baseball, too.

Among other features:— Beyond choosing a team or

two as favourites, you’ll be able to “follow” rival teams. Those teams will show up higher on league scoreboards, but you won’t clut-ter the screen with as much news about those teams as you would for favourites.

— Composite views will mix the main action with alternative angles, such as cameras looking straight down on each goalie. Gone will be the ability to choose alternative angles individually, as video didn’t always sync correctly.

Officials are hoping to address that by offering the composite view with pre-selected angles as a single stream.

Although baseball is now running hockey’s digital services, you won’t get the type of real-time tracking available for baseball. For instance, one graphical feature for baseball shows where and how fast each pitch lands. There’s nothing comparable yet with hockey.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said the league has been exploring various puck- and player-tracking technologies, but hockey is harder to track “than baseball or football because it’s non-stop action and an incredible speed, particularly with the puck.”

Under the partnership, MLB Advanced Media bought streaming rights for out-of-market games from the NHL.

Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

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Ducks forward Horcoff suspended 20 gamesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Anaheim Ducks forward Shawn Horcoff was suspended for 20 games Tuesday for violating the terms of the NHL’s performance-enhancing substances program.

The 37-year-old Horcoff acknow-ledged his mistake in a statement issued by the NHL Players’ Asso-ciation. He claimed he tried an

unspecified treatment to speed up his recovery from an injury last fall.

“Although I was unaware that this treatment was not permitted under NHL rules, that is no excuse whatsoever,” Horcoff said. “I should have done my research, and I should have checked with the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substan-ces Program’s doctors. I accept full responsibility for my actions, and I am sorry.”

Horcoff is the third player to be suspended under the program approved by the league and union in the most recent collective bargaining agreement. Zenon Konopka of the Buffalo Sabres and Carter Ashton of the Toronto Maple Leafs were sus-pended in 2014.

Horcoff will lose $357,526.88 of his $1.75 million salary during his suspension. The veteran forward is in his first season with the Ducks after

13 years in Edmonton and two more with Dallas.

Horcoff has six goals and four assists this season while playing in 45 of the Ducks’ 46 games, providing solid veteran depth.

Ducks general manager Bob Mur-ray signed Horcoff to a one-year deal in the off-season during a shakeup of his roster. Anaheim finished one game short of the Stanley Cup Final last season, losing Game 7 of the

Western Conference finals at home to eventual champion Chicago.

“The Anaheim Ducks organization fully supports the NHL/NHLPA Per-formance Enhancing Substances Program,” Murray said in a state-ment. “We will also continue to sup-port Shawn as a player and person throughout this process.”

The Ducks were in Boston on Tues-day for their final game before the All-Star break.

NBA

Clippers star Griffi n breaks hand in altercation with staff memberTeam says ‘conduct has no place in our organization’; forward out up to six weeksTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

INDIANAPOLIS — Blake Griffin fractured a bone in his right hand while throwing a punch in an alter-cation with a member of the Los Angeles Clippers’ staff on the road and will be out at least a month.

The team said Griffin underwent a procedure on his hand Tuesday after being sent back to Los Angeles from the Clippers’ five-game road trip. They are in Indianapolis to play the Pacers on Tuesday night.

In a joint statement, Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and coach Doc Rivers, who is also president of basketball operations, said Griffin threw the punch last Saturday in Toronto.

They said Griffin has a spiral frac-ture of the fourth metacarpal in his hand.

“This conduct has no place in our organization and this incident does not represent who we are as a team,” the statement said. “We are conducting a full investigation with assistance from the NBA. At the con-clusion of the investigation, appro-priate action will be taken.”

Rivers is expected to discuss the incident before Tuesday night’s game.

Griffin had X-rays on Monday that revealed the injury. His recovery time is expected to be four-to-six

weeks, meaning he will miss the All-Star game on Feb. 14 in Toronto, where he could have been picked as a reserve.

The altercation occurred just as Griffin was nearing a return from another injury. He has been out since

Dec. 26 with a partially torn left quadriceps tendon.

Last fall, Griffin was involved in an altercation at a Las Vegas nightclub. A man accused the All-Star forward of taking his cellphone and grabbing him after the man photographed

Clippers players inside the club. The misdemeanour battery case later was dropped after prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence.

The Clippers are 11-3 in Griffin’s absence and in second place with a 28-16 record in the Pacific Division.

Los Angeles Clippers star Blake Griffin will miss four to six weeks of the NBA season after breaking his hand in an

altercation with a team staff member. [AP PHOTO]

NBA

Win streak for Raptors now stands at nineLORI EWING THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — It’s nine and counting for the Toronto Raptors.

All-star starter Kyle Lowry poured in 29 points as the Raptors matched their franchise-best nine-game win-ning streak, beating the Washington Wizards 106-89 on Tuesday.

DeMar DeRozan added 17 points for the Raptors (30-15), who swept their four-game series with Washing-ton. Terrence Ross added 15 points, while Jonas Valanciunas had 13 points and a game-high 12 rebounds, and Cory Joseph chipped in with 10 points.

The Raptors tied the franchise-high nine consecutive games they set March 22 to April 9, 2002. They were ousted in the first round of the play-offs that season by Detroit.

Lowry shot an efficient 8-for-14, and added four rebounds and four assists, but there were some tense moments late in the fourth quarter when the two-time all-star made a beeline for the locker-room with what looked to be a left hand injury.

The team said post-game that Low-ry had a sprain in his left wrist and X-rays were negative.

John Wall scored 18 points to top the Wizards (20-23), who were missing Bradley Beal. Beal has a broken nose and concussion after being hit in the face by Boston’s Mar-cus Smart a night earlier.

The Raptors were swept by the Wiz-ards in the first round of last season’s playoffs, and are keen to show they’re a more solid team this season.

Playing Game 5 of a seven-game homestand, the Raptors took a 77-70 advantage into the fourth quarter. Then they put the Wizards away for good.

When DeRozan drove to the basket, and drew a foul, on a floating jumper with 4:40 to play, his three-point play put the Raptors up 95-78, in front of a capacity crowd that included six-time Olympian Clara Hughes and retired Canadian NBA veteran Rick Fox.

Valanciunas cut to the hoop for a basket that put Toronto up by 14 points early in the second, but the Wizards cut the Raptors’ lead to 53-50 at the halftime break.

TENNIS

Review coming for sport’s anti-corruption groupTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Responding to reports that pos-sible evidence of match fixing was not properly investigated, tennis’ governing bodies are setting up an independent review of the sport’s anti-corruption group, a person fam-iliar with the plans tells The Associ-ated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the review of the Tennis Integrity Unit had not yet been announced.

The official word is supposed to come at a news conference on the grounds of the Australian Open on Wednesday. ATP Executive Chairman and President Chris Kermode, Inter-national Tennis Federation President

David Haggerty and Wimbledon Chairman Philip Brook are scheduled to attend.

Those three are members of the Tennis Integrity Board, with Brook as chairman, which is a rotating position.

The review will be run out of Lon-don, according to the person familiar with the plans.

As the year’s first Grand Slam tour-nament began last week in Australia, the BBC and BuzzFeed News pub-lished reports saying tennis author-ities failed to thoroughly pursue evidence of match fixing involving more than a dozen players who have ranked in the top 50 over the past decade.

No players were named.

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DOPING

Wider Russian probe soughtTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

U.S. Olympic athletes sent a letter to lead-ers of the International Olympic Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency this week, urging them to expand the investigation into Russian doping to sports beyond track and field.

The letter came in response to the two-part report detailing doping inside Russia’s track team, the sport’s international governing body (IAAF) and allegations the government participated in the fraud.

The letter, sent Monday to IOC President Thomas Bach and WADA President Craig Reedie and obtained by The Associated Press, said that while other sports federations might do their own inquiries, WADA and the IOC should take the lead to make sure all Russian sports are investigated.

“With evidence of state-supported doping across the whole of sport in Russia, with a corrupt and ineffective ... testing system, and with athletes and insiders coming forward at great personal risk, now is exactly the time to investigate thoroughly,” the letter said. “The clean sport movement is at a cross-roads. The athletes of the world are watching and waiting.”

The letter was signed by Sarah Konrad, an Olympic biathlete and cross-country skier who is chair of the U.S. Olympic Committee athletes’ advisory council. The council, which represents 47 Olympic and 10 Paralympic sports, ratified the letter last weekend.

“I think it’s pretty clear from the independ-ent commission report that the corruption was countrywide,” and it didn’t just involve one sport, Konrad said.

The IOC did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

A WADA spokesman referred to Reedie’s response letter to Konrad, also obtained by AP.

In the letter, Reedie spelled out the actions WADA took in the aftermath of the report, including declaring both Russia’s track team and its anti-doping agency out of compli-ance. The track team is in a race to regain

compliance before this year’s Olympics. Reedie wrote that the suspension of the anti-doping agency has sparked reforms within the agency and given WADA a chance to examine the anti-doping corruption beyond track and field.

“Any evidence implicating other sports brought forward to me as a result of the meetings that WADA experts are holding with Russian representatives will allow me to make a considered decision on whether or not to initiate further investigations,” Reedie wrote.

In his reports, Dick Pound, who led the WADA independent commission into the Russian doping, made mention of violations that could spread into sports outside track. But he made no recommendations on those

because he was tasked to specifically look at athletics.

When first pressed to expand the probe, Reedie said it was something the agency needed to consider, but also had to find ways to pay for. WADA operates on an annual budget of about $26 million, half of which is provided by the IOC.

Konrad said it’s important for athletes outside the United States to also press WADA for an expansion of the inquiry beyond track. She also said she’s well aware Russia isn’t the only country with drug cheats.

“This is an opportunity to come down hard-er on this issue,” Konrad said. “Sometimes, it feels like we’re bashing our heads against a brick wall. But sometimes, if you bash long enough, a brick will fall out.”

CURLING

Nunavut earns its fi rst-ever win at juniorsTHE CANADIAN PRESS

STRATFORD, Ont. — Nunavut finally has a win at the Canadian junior women’s curling championship.

Skip Sadie Pinksen snapped a provincial 32-game losing streak with a 7-3 win over Zoey Walsh of the Northwest Territories on Tuesday night. It’s the first victory for Nuna-vut since joining the national junior cham-pionship four years ago.

“It was definitely a long journey to this point, but we stayed really strong and we’ve taken a lot from every game we played up until now, and that definitely was a factor in the way we played today,” said Pinksen, who’ll be the alternate for the Nunavut women’s team at next month’s Scotties Tour-nament of Hearts.

Nunavut finished the preliminary round with a 1-5 record in Pool A, and will play in the seeding pool to determine the final rankings for next year’s Canadian juniors in Victoria.

The top four teams in each pool advanced to the championship round for a further four-game partial round robin from Wednes-

day through Friday, with their earlier records carried forward.

Meanwhile, the six teams of each gender that didn’t qualify for the championship round meet in the seeding round.

New Brunswick’s Justine Comeau (5-1) clinched first in Pool A earlier Tuesday with a win over Manitoba’s Abby Ackland. Ack-land (5-1) came back in the evening draw to nail down second place with a 9-6 win over Alberta’s Selena Sturmay (4-2), who will also go to the championship round.

Quebec’s Laurie St-Georges (4-2) grabbed the fourth championship berth with an 11-5 victory over Northern Ontario’s Megan Smith (2-4).

In Pool B, B.C.’s Sarah Daniels finished the preliminary round unbeaten with an 8-4 win over Ontario’s Courtney Auld (3-3). Ontario finished fourth to move into the champion-ship round.

Nova Scotia’s Mary Fay (5-1) finished second, while Saskatchewan’s Kourtney Fesser (4-2) was third. Both Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan had byes on Tuesday night.

In the other Pool B game, Prince Edward Island’s Katie Fullerton (2-4) downed

Yukon’s Alyssa Meger 11-5. Both teams will be joined by Newfoundland and Labrador’s Brooke Godsland in the seeding round.

In men’s play, Manitoba’s Matt Dunstone finished a perfect preliminary round in Pool A with a 9-3 win over Quebec’s Felix Asselin (4-2), who finished second in the pool.

Ontario’s Doug Kee (4-2) secured third in the pool with a 7-4 victory over Nova Scotia’s Matthew Manuel, while Alberta’s Karsten Sturmay (3-3) was fourth.

Nova Scotia will be joined by Newfound-land and Labrador’s Greg Smith and Nuna-vut’s Arthur Siksik in the seeding round.

B.C.’s Tyler Tardi finished on top of Pool B at 6-0, while Northern Ontario’s Tanner Hor-gan (5-1) was second.

New Brunswick’s Alex Robichaud (4-2) clinched third after topping Saskatchewan’s Jake Hersikorn 10-6. Saskatchewan earned the last championship round berth.

Prince Edward Island’s Matt MacLean (2-4) knocked off the Yukon’s Brayden Klassen (0-6) 10-4 in the other Pool B game. Those two teams, along with Matt Miller of the Northwest Territories, will play in the seed-ing round.

In this June 29, 2012 photo Russia’s Irina Maracheva, right, competes beside her teammate

Yelena Arzhakova, second right, who was disqualified later from the gold-medal position for

doping in the women’s 800m final at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

[AP PHOTO]

Kerber and Konta get wins at Aussie OpenTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MELBOURNE, Australia — Angelique Kerber and Johanna Konta advanced to the Australian Open semi-finals Wednesday on another day when the integrity of tennis was part of the tournament conversation.

The first Grand Slam of the season has been over-shadowed from the start by media reports alleging that tennis authorities had failed to thoroughly inves-tigate evidence of match-fixing.

On Wednesday, just as Kerber began her 6-3, 7-5 win over two-time champion Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals, the governing bodies of tennis announced they will commission an independent review of their anti-corruption unit to restore “public confidence in our sport.”

It will be Konta’s first semifinal at a Grand Slam, and it ended a seven-match winning streak, including three in qualifying, by Zhang. The 27-year-old Zhang entered the Australian Open with an 0-14 record in Grand Slam matches.

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SOCCER

Sinclair one of veterans set to play in qualifi erTHE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — While not dismissing the first three teams Canada will face at next month’s Women’s Olympic Qualifying Championship in Texas, coach John Herdman acknowledges it all boils down to Game 4.

A win in the semifinal and Canada is headed to Rio, looking to add to the bronze it won in heroic fashion four

years ago in London.Herdman has retooled his squad for

the Olympic qualifier, shedding 10 members of his 23-woman World Cup roster last summer for a trimmed-down 20-player roster.

Captain Christine Sinclair and six other veterans of 2012 Olympic team remain for the Feb. 10-21 qualifier. But Herdman has infused youth into the squad with seven players 20 years old

and under.Players range in age from 16-year-old

midfielder Deanne Rose to 34-year-old forward Melissa Tancredi.

Playing in Group B, 11th-ranked Canada opens against No. 89 Guyana on Feb. 11 before facing No. 48 Trini-dad and Tobago on Feb. 14 and No. 76 Guatemala on Feb. 16.

Group A play, featuring the top-ranked Americans, No. 26 Mexico, No.

34 Costa Rica, and No. 108 Puerto Rico, takes place in Frisco outside Dallas.

The top two teams in each group play in the crossover semifinals Feb. 19 with the winners booking their ticket to Rio de Janeiro as representatives of North and Central America and the Caribbean. The championship game goes Feb. 21.

“The game we have to be freshest

for is Game 4,” Herdman told a media conference call Tuesday. “Whether that’s the U.S., Costa Rica or Mexico. We have to get through the other games and put ourselves in a good pos-ition to be at our best for that fourth game.”

Herdman has divided his team into three groups: the veterans, inbetween-ers and new faces. He’ll dig into each talent pool for the opening games.

NHL HOCKEYWHLEASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtBrandon 47 30 13 2 2 180 132 64Prince Albert 47 26 16 4 1 153 148 57Moose Jaw 48 24 17 6 1 163 151 55Regina 48 20 21 3 4 150 173 47Saskatoon 48 17 27 4 0 140 198 38Swift Current 47 15 27 4 1 117 159 35

CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtLethbridge 48 36 12 0 0 207 135 72Red Deer 49 31 15 1 2 182 141 65Calgary 48 28 18 1 1 160 153 58Edmonton 49 19 23 6 1 129 153 45Medicine Hat 48 19 25 3 1 155 191 42Kootenay 48 8 36 4 0 100 205 20

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtKelowna 47 33 11 3 0 174 132 69Victoria 49 29 15 2 3 172 119 63Prince George 49 29 18 1 1 176 150 60Kamloops 47 22 18 4 3 157 153 51Vancouver 50 18 27 3 2 144 180 41

U.S. DIVISION GP W L OL SL GF GA PtEverett 46 28 14 2 2 124 99 60Seattle 46 26 17 3 0 144 132 55Portland 48 25 21 2 0 158 150 52Spokane 46 22 19 3 2 153 158 49Tri-City 47 20 25 2 0 152 178 42Note: Division leaders ranked in top 2 positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout gets 2 pts. & a victory in the W column; team losing in overtime or shoot-out gets 1 pt. in OTL or SOL columns.

Medicine Hat 6 Prince George 4

Prince George at Swift Current, 6 p.m.Saskatoon at Regina, 6 p.m.Prince Albert at Calgary, 7 p.m.Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.Kootenay at Red Deer, 7 p.m.Moose Jaw at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.Vancouver at Kamloops, 8 p.m.Lethbridge at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.Seattle at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.Everett at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

BCHLINTERIOR DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtPenticton 45 39 5 1 0 196 91 79West Kelowna 46 27 16 1 2 183 152 57Salmon Arm 44 24 13 4 3 174 136 55Vernon 46 20 23 0 3 186 158 43Trail 47 19 26 0 2 140 194 40Merritt 45 15 26 1 3 156 195 34

ISLAND DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA Pt

Powell River 46 26 18 0 2 167 134 54Cowichan Vally 45 22 17 3 3 153 188 50Victoria 44 20 20 0 4 134 121 44Alberni Valley 45 16 23 3 3 124 164 38

MAINLAND DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtChilliwack 43 27 10 2 4 170 112 60Wenatchee 44 24 15 3 2 143 111 53Langley 45 25 17 1 2 172 147 53Coquitlam 45 20 20 1 4 150 174 45Prince George 46 11 31 1 3 107 201 26Surrey 44 6 36 2 0 110 227 14

West Kelowna 8 Trail 1

at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.Wenatchee at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.Penticton at Merritt, 7 p.m.

Chilliwack at Prince George, 7 p.m.

West Kelowna at Cowichan Valley, 7 pm.Victoria at , 7 p.m.Trail at Penticton, 7 p.m.Wenatchee at Surrey, 7 p.m.Salmon Arm at Vernon, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Powell River, 7:15 p.m.Langley at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

Wenatchee at Langley, 6 p.m.Surrey at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.Merritt at Prince George, 7 p.m.Vernon at Salmon Arm, 7 p.m.Alberni Valley at Victoria, 7 p.m.West Kelowna at Powell River, 7:15 p.m.Penticton at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

1. Pittsburgh, Crosby 17 (Hornqvist, Letang) 15:27 (pp).

— Crosby Pgh (holding) 9:31; Palmieri NJ (tripping) 14:48; Letang Pgh (holding) 17:27.

2. Pitt, Kessel 15 (Hagelin, Pouliot) 15:21.—Maatta Pgh (interference) 16:37.

No Scoring. — Stempniak NJ (interfer-

ence) 9:27; Maatta Pgh (tripping) 16:59.

New Jersey 11 6 8 —25Pittsburgh 7 16 8 —31

— NJ: Schneider (L, 22-15-5); Pitt: Fleury (W, 19-11-5). (goal-chances) — NJ: 0-4; Pittsburgh: 1-2.

— 18,442 at Pittsburgh.

1. Ott, Karlsson 11 (Zibanejad, Neil) 6:42.2. Buffalo, Kane 11 (unassisted) 11:12.

— Smith Ott, Bogosian Buf

(hooking) 15:06.

3. Ottawa, Ryan 18 (Ceci, Prince) 10:03.4. Buffalo, Eichel 15 (Lehner) 13:48 (pp).

— Hoffman Ott (slashing) 12:02.

5. Buffalo, Eichel 16 (unassisted) 1:08. — McGinn Buf (holding) 2:38;

Weber Buf (hooking) 19:37.

Buffalo 13 7 2 —22Ottawa 7 7 21 —35

— Buffalo: Lehner (W, 1-3-0); Ott: Anderson (L, 20-15-4). (goal-chances) — Buff: 1-2; Ottawa: 0-2.

— 16,815 at Ottawa.

NFL PLAYOFFS

FOOTBALL

Florida 5 Toronto 1Columbus 5 Montreal 2Anaheim 6 Boston 2Pittsburgh 2 New Jersey 0Carolina 5 Chicago 0

Buffalo 3 Ottawa 2Nashville 2 Vancouver 1San Jose 6 Colorado 1

Columbus 5 Montreal 2NY Rangers 6 Buffalo 3Dallas 2 Calgary 1

Boston 3 Philadelphia 2Detroit 4 NY Islanders 2

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 8 p.m.Nashville at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

All-star game at Nashville, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.Montreal at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.Ottawa at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.Toronto at Boston, 7 p.m.NY Rangers at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Florida at Washington, 7:30 p.m.Dallas at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.St. Louis at Nashville, 8 p.m.Columbus at Edmonton, 9 p.m.Chicago at Colorado, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

LACROSSE

EASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION

Florida 49 29 15 4 1 135 108 63 16-7-2-0 13-8-2-1 6-3-1-0 W-3Detroit 49 25 16 5 3 122 124 58 11-10-3-2 14-6-2-1 6-3-0-1 W-1Boston 49 26 18 4 1 147 131 57 11-13-2-0 15-5-2-1 5-4-1-0 L-1

METROPOLITAN DIVISION

Washington 46 35 8 2 1 155 100 73 18-3-1-0 17-5-1-1 7-2-0-1 W-2NY Rangers 49 27 17 3 2 142 129 59 18-5-2-0 9-12-1-2 6-3-1-0 W-1NY Islanders 47 25 16 3 3 130 118 56 15-8-2-1 10-8-1-2 5-4-0-1 L-1

WILD CARD

Tampa Bay 48 26 18 1 3 129 117 56 14-8-0-2 12-10-1-1 8-2-0-0 L-1Pittsburgh 48 24 17 4 3 121 120 55 14-7-1-3 10-10-3-0 5-2-3-0 W-3

New Jersey 50 25 20 1 4 114 118 55 11-10-1-2 14-10-0-2 5-5-0-0 L-1Carolina 51 23 20 7 1 123 135 54 12-9-4-1 11-11-3-0 7-2-1-0 W-2Montreal 50 24 22 3 1 136 134 52 12-10-2-0 12-12-1-1 2-7-1-0 L-2Ottawa 50 23 21 2 4 139 155 52 12-8-1-3 11-13-1-1 4-6-0-0 L-1Philadelphia 46 20 18 4 4 105 124 48 11-7-2-3 9-11-2-1 5-4-0-1 L-3Buffalo 50 20 26 1 3 114 136 44 9-15-1-1 11-11-0-2 5-5-0-0 W-1Toronto 47 17 21 4 5 114 133 43 7-8-4-3 10-13-0-2 2-6-1-1 L-3Columbus 51 19 27 3 2 133 163 43 9-11-3-1 10-16-0-1 4-4-1-1 W-2

WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISION

Chicago 53 33 16 4 0 147 122 70 21-5-1-0 12-11-3-0 7-3-0-0 L-1Dallas 50 31 14 3 2 162 133 67 19-6-0-0 12-8-3-2 3-6-1-0 W-1St. Louis 52 28 16 5 3 129 128 64 16-8-3-0 12-8-2-3 5-2-1-2 L-2

PACIFIC DIVISION

Los Angeles 48 30 15 1 2 126 109 63 15-8-0-1 15-7-1-1 5-4-0-1 W-1San Jose 48 26 18 3 1 142 129 56 10-12-1-1 16-6-2-0 8-0-1-1 W-1

WILD CARD

Minnesota 49 23 17 7 2 121 115 55 14-8-2-1 9-9-5-1 2-6-1-1 L-2Colorado 51 26 22 3 0 139 139 55 12-10-3-0 14-12-0-0 6-4-0-0 L-1

Nashville 49 23 18 7 1 127 130 54 13-7-2-1 10-11-5-0 4-5-1-0 W-3Anaheim 47 22 18 5 2 101 111 51 14-8-3-1 8-10-2-1 7-3-0-0 W-3Vancouver 50 20 19 9 2 122 139 51 9-9-4-0 11-10-5-2 5-3-2-0 L-2Winnipeg 49 22 24 1 2 126 140 47 13-10-1-0 9-14-0-2 4-5-0-1 W-1Calgary 47 21 23 1 2 125 144 45 14-9-0-0 7-14-1-2 4-5-0-1 L-2Edmonton 50 19 26 4 1 122 149 43 13-10-1-0 6-16-3-1 3-5-1-1 L-3Note: the winning team is credited with 2 points and a victory in the W column; a team losing in overtime or shootout receives 1 point in the respective OTL or SOL column.

ATP-WTAAUSTRALIAN OPEN

Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Kei Nishikori (7), Japan, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4.

Pablo Cuevas, Uruguay, and Marcel Granollers (16), Spain, def.

, and Jack Sock (9), U.S., 5-7, 6-1, 6-2.

, and Radek

Huey, Philippines, and Max Mirnyi (14), Belarus, 6-4, 6-4.

Serena Williams (1), U.S., def. Maria Sharapova (5), Russia, 6-4, 6-1.

def. Carla S. Navarro (10), Spn., 6-1, 6-3.

, def. Mu Tao, China, 6-2, 6-1.

, def. Petra Hule, Australia, 6-4, 6-2.

, def. Destanee Aiava, Australia, and Lucie

1. Boston, Trotman 1 (Krejci, Beleskey) :40.2. Anaheim, Perry 20 (Perron) 7:54.3. Anaheim, Theodore 2 (Perry, Vatanen) 14:27 (pp).

— Stewart Ana, Krug Bos

Krejci Bos (holding) 8:42; Bergeron Bos (tripping) 12:35; Despres Ana (tripping) 17:21.

11:06.5. Anaheim, Bieksa 2 (Silfverberg, Kesler) 17:13.

— Lindholm Ana (interference) 1:52; Trotman Bos (roughing) 12:12; Chara Bos, Maroon Ana (roughing) 19:17.

6. Boston, Chara 7 (Spooner, Beleskey) 2:04.

-berg) 19:05 (en).8. Anaheim, Santorelli 5 (Garbutt) 19:28.

— Santorelli Ana (holding) 2:20; Trotman Bos (delay of game) 14:41.

Anaheim 16 12 11 —39Boston 13 12 9 —34

— Anaheim: Anderson (W 8-8-5); Boston: Gustavson (L 9-3-1).

(goal-chances) — Ana-heim: 1-4; Boston: 0-4.

— 17,565 at Boston.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCECleveland 31 12 .721 —Toronto 30 15 .667 2Atlanta 27 19 .587 51/2Chicago 25 19 .568 61/2Boston 25 21 .543 71/2Miami 25 21 .543 71/2Detroit 24 21 .533 8Indiana 23 22 .511 9Charlotte 22 23 .489 10New York 22 25 .468 11Washington 20 23 .465 11Orlando 20 24 .455 111/2Milwaukee 20 27 .426 13Brooklyn 12 34 .261 201/2Philadelphia 7 39 .152 251/2

WESTERN CONFERENCEGolden State 41 4 .911 —San Antonio 38 7 .844 3Oklahoma City 34 13 .723 8L.A. Clippers 29 16 .644 12Memphis 26 20 .565 151/2Dallas 25 21 .543 161/2Houston 25 22 .532 17Portland 21 26 .447 21Sacramento 20 25 .444 21Utah 19 25 .432 211/2Denver 17 28 .378 24New Orleans 16 28 .364 241/2Phoenix 14 32 .304 271/2Minnesota 14 32 .304 271/2L.A. Lakers 9 37 .196 321/2

Philadelphia 113 Phoenix 103L.A. Clippers 91 Indiana 89Miami 102 Brooklyn 98Toronto 106 Washington 89Oklahoma City 128 New York 122 (OT)Milwaukee 107 Orlando 100Portland 112 Sacramento 97Dallas at L.A. Lakers

Cleveland 114 Minnesota 107Boston 116 Washington 91Miami 89 Chicago 84Houston 112 New Orleans 111Memphis 108 Orlando 102 (OT)Detroit 95 Utah 92Atlanta 119 Denver 105Charlotte 129 Sacramento 128 (2OT)Golden State 120 San Antonio 90

Phoenix at Cleveland, 7 p.m.Denver at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Philadelphia at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Houston at San Antonio, 8 p.m.L.A. Clippers at Atlanta, 8 p.m.Charlotte at Utah, 9 p.m.Dallas at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Indiana, 7 p.m.Denver at Washington, 7 p.m.Sacramento at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Milwaukee at Memphis, 8 p.m.New York at Toronto, 8 p.m.Chicago at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

TENNIS

1. Tor, Kadri 10 (Holland, Gardiner) 17:35. — Spaling Tor (interference)

2. Florida, Barkov 13 (Campbell, Luongo) 3:49 (pp).3. Florida, Trocheck 14 (Jokinen, Camp-bell) 7:40 (pp).4. Florida, Jokinen 9 (Smith) 14:13.

Matthias Tor (hooking) 6:20; Rielly Tor (tripping) 10:03; Jokinen Fla (hooking) 14:54; Froese Tor (hooking) 18:02.

5. Fla, Smith 16 (Gudbranson, Trocheck) 3:52.6. Florida, Petrovic 1 (unassisted) 7:43.

— Thornton Fla (trip) 13:16; Clune Tor, Thornton Fla (roughing) 19:49.

Toronto 5 10 8 —23Florida 7 15 5 —27

— Toronto: Reimer (L, 8-8-6); Flor-ida: Luongo (W, 22-13-4). (goal-chances) — Tor: 0-2; Fla: 2-5.

— 14,585 at Florida.

1. Columbus, Jenner 17 (Wennberg, Jones) 10:51 (pp).2. Columbus, Hartnell 17 (Foligno) 19:19 (pp).

— Hartnell Clb (delay of game) 8:02; Mitchell Mtl (holding) 10:43; Jones Clb (holding) 13:51; Pacioretty Mtl (tripping) 17:32.

3. Montreal, Smith-Pelly 4 (Mitchell, Subban) 5:22.4. Colum, Dubinsky 11 (Atkinson) 10:40.

— Galchenyuk Mtl (holding) 0:22; Karlsson Clb (slashing) 10:53; Calvert Clb (holding) 13:00; Murray Clb (tripping) 15:38.

5. Montreal, Galchenyuk 11 (Subban, Beaulieu) 3:45 (pp).6. Colum, Atkinson 17 (Dubinsky) 17:07.7. Columbus, Saad 19, 18:39 (en).

—Murray Clb (cross-check) 2:45.

Columbus 11 8 7 —26Montreal 9 12 9 —30

— Columbus: Korpisalo (W, 5-5-2); Mtl: Scrivens (L, 0-4-0). (goal-chances) — Colum: 2-3; Mtl: 1-6.

— 21,288 at Montreal.

1. Carolina, Skinner 18 (McClement, Lindholm) 2:12.2. Carolina, Nash 3 (Slavin) 13:05.3. Car, Liles 5 (Versteeg, E. Staal) 15:23.

— Shaw Chi (interference) 6:11; McClement Car (holding) 8:26; Shaw Chi (high-sticking) 19:30.

4. Carolina, Nordstrom 5 (Jo. Staal, Nestrasil) 10:51.5. Carolina, Nash 4 (Skinner) 12:24.

— Di Giuseppe Car (hook) 7:26.No Scoring.

Chicago 5 9 10 —24Carolina 16 9 14 —39

— Chicago: Crawford (L, 28-12-2); Carolina: Lack (W, 9-9-3). (goal-chances) — Chic: 0-4; Carol: 0-2.

— 14,588 at Carolina.

1. Winnipeg, Ehlers 10 (Byfuglien, Wheeler) 6:55 (pp).2. Wpg, Ehlers 11 (Wheeler, Scheifele) 13:53.

(high-sticking) 19:37.

3. Wpg, Byfuglien 13 (Thorburn) 6:00.4. Winnipeg, Ehlers 12 (Wheeler) 14:31.

6. Wpg, Byfuglien 14 (Myers) 17:43 (sh). — Chiarot Wpg (holding)

16:07; Trouba Wpg (high-sticking) 16:22.

— Peluso Wpg (hooking)

Wpg (cross-checking) 9:13; Vermette

Winnipeg 11 14 12 —37

9-5-3)(25-20), Lindback (start 3rd; 12-12); Wpg: Hellebuyck (W, 12-9-1).

— 15,294 at Winnipeg.

PRO BOWL

Team Rice vs. Team Irvin, 7 p.m.

SUPER BOWL

Denver vs. Carolina, 6:30 p.m.

NCAA BOWLSSENIOR BOWL

North vs. South, 2:30 p.m.

NLLEAST DIVISION

New England 3 2 1 .667 36 22 —Rochester 3 2 1 .667 38 28 —Buffalo 3 2 1 .667 36 30 —Georgia 3 1 2 .333 33 34 1Toronto 4 0 4 .000 25 48 21/2

WEST DIVISION

Colorado 4 4 0 1.000 61 48 —Saskatchewan 2 1 1 .500 21 21 2Calgary 3 1 2 .333 26 28 21/2Vancouver 3 1 2 .333 25 42 21/2

Georgia at Toronto, 8 p.m.Colorado at Saskatchewan, 8:30 p.m.

Buffalo at New England, 7 p.m.Georgia at Rochester, 7:30 p.m.Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

CANADIAN JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

MEN

Manitoba (Dunstone) 6 0Quebec (Asselin) 4 2

Alberta (K.Sturmay) 3 3Nova Scotia (Manuel) 2 4N.L. (Smith) 2 4Nunavut (Siksik) 0 6

B.C. (T.Tardi) 6 0Northern Ont. (T.Horgan) 5 1New Brunswick (A.Robichaud) 4 2Saskatchewan (Hersikorn) 3 3P.E.I. (M.MacLean) 2 4NWT (Mat.Miller) 1 5Yukon (B.Klassen) 0 6

British Columbia 8 New Brunswick 2Northern Ontario 7 Saskatchewan 4Northwest Territories 8 Yukon 4

Quebec 8 Alberta 4

Manitoba 9 Quebec 3New Brunswick 10 Saskatchewan 6 (EE)

Nova Scotia 4P.E.I. 10 Yukon 4

Manitoba 7 Nova Scotia 2Saskatchewan 10 P.E.I. 3

British Columbia 10 Yukon 2Manitoba 9 Alberta 4New Brunswick 7 P.E.I. 4

Northern Ontario 13 Northwest Terr. 3

Alberta 9 Nova Scotia 8 (extra end)New Brunswick 12 Northwest Ter-ritories 1

Quebec 11 Nunavut 0Saskatchewan 8 Yukon 3

WOMEN

New Brunswick (J.Comeau) 5 1Manitoba (Ackland) 5 1Alberta (S.Sturmay) 4 2Quebec (L.St-Georges) 4 2Northern Ont. (Smith) 2 4Nunavut (Pinksen) 1 5NWT (Walsh) 0 6

B.C. (S.Daniels) 6 0Nova Scotia (Fay) 5 1Saskatchewan (Ko.Kesser) 4 2

P.E.I. (Fullerton) 2 4Yukon (A.Meger) 1 5N.L. (Godsland) 0 6

British Columbia 7 Nova Scotia 4New Brunswick 8 Manitoba 6Northern Ontario 13 Northwest Terr. 3Saskatchewan 7

British Columbia 8 Manitoba 9 Alberta 6Nunavut 7 Northwest Territories 3P.E.I. 11 Yukon 5Quebec 11 Northern Ontario 5

Alberta 9 Northern Ontario 3 P.E.I. 5

British Columbia 7 P.E.I. 6 (extra end)Manitoba 13 Northwest Territories 4New Brunswick 6 Alberta 5 (extra end)Nova Scotia 12 Yukon 2

Manitoba 15 Nunavut 5New Brunswick 8 Northern Ontario 5

Yukon 4Quebec 15 Northwest Territories 4

CURLING

SOCCERAUSTRALIAMelbourne Victory 1 Sydney 0

ENGLANDCAPITAL ONE CUP

Liverpool 0 Stoke 1(aggregate 1-1; Liverpool advances

6-5 on penalty kicks)NATIONAL LEAGUEAltrincham 3 Woking 1Braintree Town 1 Wrexham 0Southport 0 Forest Green Rovers 1

FRANCE

Lille 5 Bordeaux 1

ITALY

Alessandria 0 AC Milan 0

NETHERLANDSWillem II 1 FC Groningen 1Ajax 0 Heracles Almelo 0

SCOTLANDFA CUP

Forfar Athletic 0 Linlithgow Rose 1 (ET)

Dundee 3 Falkirk 1

GOLFPGA

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8. Jason Dufner 700 $1,380,0259. Emiliano Grillo 620 $1,261,74210. Jordan Spieth 586 $1,353,75011. Jason Bohn 560 $1,227,736

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HAGAR HI AND LOIS

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27

12:30-2:30 p.m. Getting to Know Dementia,

free Alzheimer Society of B.C. workshop, Alz-

heimer Resource Centre, 200 - 1585 Bowen

Rd., Nanaimo. Pre-registration required. Jane

Hope, 250-734-4170, jhope@alzheimerbc.org.

7 p.m. Open Mic Acoustic night with Dave

Marco, every Wednesday at Smoke ‘n’ Water

Restaurant, Pacific Shores Resort,

1-1600 Stroulger Rd., Parksville.

7 p.m. On The Dock with Cory Frisenhan,

Brandon Stone, Christina Lemmon at Dinghy

Dock Pub 8 Pirates Lane, Nanaimo Tickets $20

in advance   Tickets from the artists, Dinghy

Dock Pub, or online at ticketzone.com.

7-9 p.m. Divorce Recovery Program, 13-week

course at First Baptist Church 1650 Wadding-

ton Rd. Nanaimo. This is a free program, $20

workbook available. More information, call

250-753-0241. Every Wednesday through

March.

THURSDAY, JAN. 28

7 p.m. Sunshine and Whiskey, Mark Bunt, Live

At Longwood A free live concert series every

Thursday at Longwood Brew Pub, 5775 Turner

Rd., Nanaimo.

8 p.m. Sunshine & Whiskey, Mark Bunt at

The Longwood Brew Pub, 5775 Turner Rd.,

Nanaimo BC

FRIDAY, JAN. 29

7-10 p.m. The Cedar Farmers Market hosts a

20 year celebration. Ken Hamm and Friends

entertain on Friday January 29th 7-10pm at

the Cedar Community Hall, 2388 Cedar Rd.

Tickets $20 on-line at www.cedarfarmers

market.org or at the door. For more informa-

tion contact Carolyn Herriot 250 924 4478 or

e-mail thegardenpath@shaw.ca

SATURDAY, JAN. 30

1 p.m. Theatre One’s Just Kidding Series pre-

sents Mimi La Diva Malbouffa. For information

contact: Eliza Gardiner, 250-754-7587, www.

theatreone.org.

4:30 p.m. Beer and Burger/silent auction to

support Syrian refugees, Jan 30. 4:30-7:30, Well

Pub, at the Wellington Hotel, 3956 Victoria Ave,

Nanaimo. Tickets $15; 250-729-0198.

9 p.m. Don’t Tell Julie rock the Well Pub, at the

Wellington Hotel, 3956 Victoria Ave, Nanaimo.

MONDAY, FEB. 1

10 a.m. 5 p.m. Nanaimo Museum lauch of

Characters, Con Men & Celebrities. Explore

the lives of intriguing people from Nanaimo’s

past. This unusual exhibit includes both the

famous and virtually unknown. Petty thieves,

murderers, crooked cops and a cult leader

rub shoulders with politicians, a nationally

renowned poet and a brew master. You be

the judge of who is a character, con man or

celebrity. Ends May 7.

TUESDAY, FEB. 2

10 a.m. to noon. Nanaimo Museum Toddler

Tuesdays. Bring your preschool aged child

or grandchild to visit the museum!. Activities

are geared towards children 3-4 years old

but younger or older siblings are welcome.

Caregivers must be present for drop-in pro-

gram. Cost is included in regular admission.

Tuesdays, to Feb. 23.

6-7 p.m. Learn how to meditate. A free

course at the Hammond Bay Library, 6250

Hammond Bay Rd., Tuesdays through Feb. 23.

Mmaster stress, improve health and achieve

balance. For more information call 250-954

5040 or visit www.freemeditation.ca.

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SUDOKU

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’ll

slow down by choice. A demand-

ing boss might put the kibosh on

a heartfelt project. Once you cool

off some, you will put greater effort

into a different, more meaningful

venture. You refuse to let anyone

push you in a certain direction.

Tonight: Get some exercise.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Someone enjoys tossing you his or

her problems, because he or she

believes you have the creativity to

sleuth right through them. Your

ability to get past present thinking

and break away from patterns

allows you to see situations in a

very different light. Tonight: Out on

the town.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You

are likely to express a clarity that

is unique to you. You’ll recognize

where you have created a problem

for yourself in a domestic situation.

The question remains: How do

you fix this issue? A discussion

with a partner will be the first step.

Tonight: A cozy night at home.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Don’t

do nothing. If someone is disagree-

able, make a point of initiating a

talk with him or her. You are big

on having conversations to clear

up problems, but not everyone is

responsive to this. Know that you

might get nowhere with this per-

son. Tonight: Out on the town.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) After a risk

has backfired, you might choose to

lie low for a while. Good idea! You

might believe that an overly confi-

dent associate is probably wrong.

How you convey this information to

this person will make all the differ-

ence in its reception. Tonight: Count

your change.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) The

Force is with you! You might experi-

ence a momentary backfire, but

you’ll manage to turn it around into

a success story. Use your intuitive

and creative senses, and you will

come up with a very successful

idea, project and/or interaction.

Tonight: Be more spontaneous.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) The

smart move is to acknowledge that

you don’t feel up to snuff. Playing

it low-key works. You have a lot to

do involving a family member and

a surprise, which you won’t want

to disclose as of yet. No one will

know unless you reveal it to them.

Tonight: Be secretive.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You

tend to express yourself in a fiery

way. As a result, you could cause

yourself a problem; people are not

used to this type of behavior and

self-expression from you. Once you

get past a hurdle and focus on the

bottom line, you will be a sure win-

ner. Tonight: As you like it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

You might feel encumbered by a

professional situation. Tap into your

imaginative streak. Your resource-

fulness is one of your assets, but

you often don’t count it as one.

You know how to successfully turn

around a difficult situation. Tonight:

A force to be dealt with.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

You’ll ask yourself why you are hold-

ing back in a dynamic situation. You

can transform others’ perceptions,

yet you might refuse to. What do

you gain by not helping others

see the big picture? Open doors

-- not only for you, but also for

those around you. Tonight: Watch

a movie.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) To

your credit, you are discovering

how easily you can relate on a one-

on-one level. In fact, a discussion

about how you view certain situa-

tions, specifically with a key person,

is likely to open doors you didn’t

even realize existed. Tonight: Cele-

brate this particular relationship.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You

might feel bombarded by several

associates or loved ones. The cost

of popularity is high! Be willing to

respond as much as you can, yet

still honor your priorities. How you

say “no” or “I can’t” will be instru-

mental in your interactions. Tonight:

Get on the phone and return calls.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Jan. 27) This

year you might decide that being

totally independent isn’t as import-

ant as being in a valid relationship.

You derive more pleasure from

relating to others than you have

in a long time. If you are single,

many potential suitors land on

your doorstep. Pick and choose

with care. If you are attached, you

might create considerable tension

between you because of a need for

greater closeness. Avoid throwing

off the equilibrium of your bond.

Hopefully your significant other also

will discover the positives of such

closeness. VIRGO can be very diffi-

cult despite all your efforts.

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Program: The Nanwakolas Council, which consists of a number of First Nations located on northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland, is looking for a Regional Forestry Advisor who will be responsible for continued implementation of ecosystem based management (EBM) in the Nanwakolas First Nations’ territories located in the Great Bear Rainforest. The work will primarily focus on ecological related aspects of EBM, but may also involve elements of the human wellbeing side of EBM. In carrying out this work the Regional Forestry Advisor will be required to engage with the individual member First Nations to receive information and input from them, engage and work with senior Nanwakolas Council representatives on related strategic and policy issues, and interact routinely with provincial government and stakeholder representatives. The Regional Forestry Advisor will report to the Nanwakolas Council Executive Director. The position will be based in Campbell River – with frequent travel to other locations.

Please visit www.nanwakolas.com to download a complete job posting for this position.Resumes will be accepted until 4:00 on February , 2016 and may be submitted to:

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FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENTS

IN MEMORIAM

IN Loving Memory of James Dolling MAY 20, 1969----January 27, 2002 The gift of time we cherish, The gift of life goes fast, The gift of love will never end, As long as memories last. Sadly missed, never forgotten Mom, Ray, Diane and family and Grandma Hackwood

In Loving Memory ofJAMES RICHARD

DOLLINGMay 20, 1969 to

January 27, 2002When someone you

love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasureLoved and missedDad, Betty, Quince,

and family.

DEATHS

BERTHA THOMAS (nee Boehler) June 13 1920 -

January 21, 2016Bertha passed away peacefully at Stanford Place Residential Care Facility in Parksville, BC. She was pre-deceased by her husband Elved and survived by her 4 daughters Arley House (Ron), Trudy Worth (Doug), Judy Timmins (Leonard), Nola Wilson. She had 5 grandchildren Leah, Randle, Michelle, Graham and Eric plus 6 great grandchildren.

✱At Bertha’s request their will be no funeral service.

MARLENE TULAKThere will be a celebration of

life held for Marlene on Sunday, February 7th at the 256 Royal Canadian Legion

1630 Wellington Rd. 2pm to 4pm

For all that knew and loved her.

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PLUMBING

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE

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Prison escapes rock California communityHundreds of offi cers focus on neighbourhoods where the trio charged with violent crimes could be hiding

AMY TAXIN AND GILLIAN FLACCU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Unlike similar escapes where dangerous inmates fled into rural areas, the three men who broke out of a South-

ern California lockup escaped into densely populated suburban com-munities where they have close ties.

Hundreds of officers are focusing on neighbourhoods where the trio charged with violent crimes could be hiding among friends, family or fellow gang members, particular-ly among Orange County’s huge Vietnamese population, authorities said Tuesday, the fourth day of the manhunt.

It is just a few kilometres from the jail where the trio broke out Friday, and two of the inmates, Jonathan Tieu, 20, Bac Duong, 43, have deep ties to the community, which is among the largest in the U.S.

Sheriff’s officials put out a call in both English and Vietnamese on Monday for help in finding them. The two “may be embedded” there, said sheriff’s Lt. Dave Sawyer, who is lead-ing the investigation.

“We sincerely need input from the community to help us,” Sawyer said.

Tieu, Duong and Hossein Nayeri, 37, are considered dangerous and all were awaiting trial for separate vio-lent felonies, authorities said. They have now each been charged with the escape.

Tieu had been held since 2013, accused of murder and attempted

murder. Duong faced attempted murder and assault charges in the shooting of a man on his front porch. Nayeri was arrested in 2014 on charges including kidnapping and torture. Authorities said he abducted a marijuana dealer, burned him with a blow torch and cut off his penis because Nayeri thought the man had buried money in the desert.

Duong was ordered deported to Vietnam in 1998 but remained in the country and racked up a lengthy criminal record, immigration offi-cials said Tuesday.

Duong came to the United States legally in 1991 but was ordered removed seven years later, Immi-gration and Customs Enforcement

said in a statement. The order came shortly after he served time in state prison on a 1997 burglary conviction, state records show.

The case is one of thousands involving immigrants convicted of crimes who federal authorities want to deport but haven’t been able to because their native countries wouldn’t take them back.

Immigration officials said they took Duong into custody in 2003 and released him the following year. He continued to check in with author-ities as required until 2014, the state-ment said.

During that time, he also faced a series of charges involving burglary

and drug possession and did stints in state prison. Last year, he was charged with attempted murder and assault in the shooting of a man out-side a home in Santa Ana.

Federal officials can’t keep immi-grants locked up indefinitely

while they await deportation. Most must be released after six months, except those accused of posing a terrorist threat or deemed especially dangerous.

For many years, Vietnam did not honour U.S. government requests to repatriate deportees. In 2008, Viet-nam agreed to provide travel docu-ments for deportees but only those

who entered the U.S. since July 1995.Duong and the two other inmates

were gone for as long as 16 hours before officials noticed they were missing from the common dorm they share with more than 60 other inmates at Orange County Central Jail. An attack on a guard delayed a Friday night head count further.

The trio sawed through a quarter-inch-thick grill on a dormitory wall, got into plumbing tunnels and then sawed through half-inch-thick steel bars as they made their way behind walls to an unguarded area of a roof atop a five-story building. There, they moved aside razor wire and rappelled to the ground using a bed linen.

The sheriff’s department has been slow to add more rooftop security cameras at the jail despite a grand jury’s recommendations for eight years straight, according to a report Monday in the Orange County Register.

The department has said since 2008 that budget constraints prevented upgrades to the camera systems at the five county jails.

The escape was eerily similar to one last year in New York, where two inmates cut through a portion of a wall hidden under a bunk bed and used piping and tunnels inside the facility to get out. But the search for the pair focused on nearby woods instead of a dense urban population.

A major question for California investigators will be how the

men could plan and execute their escape with such precision, said Kevin Tamez, a managing partner for MPM Group, a Philadelphia-based firm that consults on prison security, management and infrastructure.

There is no evidence so far that the trio had help from the inside, but authorities know it’s a possibil-ity, Orange County sheriff’s Lt. Jeff Hallock said.

Authorities have detected some problems with how inmates were counted at the jail, Hallock told reporters Tuesday. Twice a day, in the morning and evening, jail personnel match photos to each inmate. At three other times, they check that the number of inmates matches jail records, he said.

“The sheriff is extremely troubled by the length of time it took to determine the three inmates housed in a maximum-security jail were unaccounted for,” he said.

It was the first escape in nearly three decades from the California facility built in 1968. It holds 900 men and is in Santa Ana, about 48 kilometres southeast of Los Angeles.

Hallock said the jail’s general policy is to do walk-throughs every hour to check on inmates. More thorough searches are done randomly, he said, declining to give more details.

Federal and county authorities are offering a combined $200,000 for information leading to their capture.

Orange County sheriff’s deputies investigate early Saturday morning after three jail inmates charged with violent crimes

escaped from Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. [AP PHOTO]

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Outpouring of support for baby needing kidney transplantALISON AULD THE CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX — A New Brunswick woman who was told she can’t donate her kidney to her ailing baby boy says she has been touched by an outpouring of support and offers of help from around the world, even as she presses health officials to reverse a “frustrating” decision on her suit-ability to be a donor.

Ashley Barnaby said Tuesday that she has received overtures from

people as far away as Columbia who say they are willing to donate a kidney to help her son, 18-month-old Zaccari Buell, who suffers from congenital nephrotic syndrome — a kidney condition — and heart issues.

“It’s unbelievable to know that someone is willing to go through all of that workup and surgery and the risks that come with surgery for someone they don’t even know and have just been following on Facebook,” she said about the social

media site called Little warrior Zaccari.

“It’s a blessing. You can’t describe how nice it feels to know that some-one else wants to help you and save your son.”

The young mother said people from the U.S., Canada and her community, Moncton, offered to begin the screen-ing process to determine whether they could be donors in October after the little boy was cleared of a life-threatening infection and could

be added to the transplant list.She said others reached out recent-

ly after she revealed that staff at the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Hali-fax rejected her application to be her son’s donor because of her history of high blood pressure and gestational diabetes during pregnancy.

The 28-year-old, who also has a sev-en-year-old son, said she was told she runs the risk of developing diabetes in the future if she gives her organ to her little boy.

Barnaby said she disclosed her pre-vious health issues and First Nations ethnicity in a questionnaire at the beginning of the process, but was told months later that those traits made her ineligible.

“I feel like we wasted three months of precious time,” she said.

“If I was told back in October that there was going to be too many red flags to move forward, then I could have looked at all those other people who want to start. It’s frustrating.”

GENEROSITY

A t no other time in history has the importance of being thin been promoted more. Every-

where we turn there is media cover-age of the obesity epidemic. Parents fear that their children will gain weight and they will be seen as bad parents. Children in turn are taught to be afraid to eat because gaining weight may lead to obesity. In our ardent zeal to solve the obesity prob-lem, we may be swinging the pen-dulum too far creating a whole new epidemic of eating disorders.

Increasing social pressure on youth to be thin has been associated with disordered eating behaviours. Studiesshow that an estimated 15 to 30 per cent of youth engage in disordered eating behaviours. Many of these youth are within a healthy weight range. With parents being concerned about obesity, the pressure to be thin is no longer just peer and media driv-en, but increasingly it comes from within the home.

Some experts are concerned that insensitive approaches to obesity prevention may escalate rates of disordered eating in children and adolescents. It is important for health care providers to be careful how they discuss an infant or child’s growth with the parent or caregiver. Even when a child is not overweight, if parents perceive that there might be cause for concern, they tend to make changes in the care of that child which will set the child up for a lifetime of weight issues.

Because of several decades of dieting misinformation, most people believe that if overweight is the problem; restricting food must be the solution. Repeated studies have shown that food restriction causes weight gain, not weight loss. Chil-dren that do not get enough to eat at dependable times become pre-occupied with food. Food deprived children will sneak food, hoard food and overeat whenever an oppor-tunity arises. As they become more independent, they will make up for the deprivation by eating high cal-orie foods whenever they can. This disordered eating behaviour leads to weight gain, which in turn leads to dieting and further disordered eating behaviour. It becomes a vicious cycle.

If children are allowed to serve themselves from a variety of foods with no pressure or comments and they are encouraged to play outside daily, they will probably grow to their genetic potential.

Teach children to love their bodies and to love themselves so they can have the resiliency, self-esteem and healthy body image to live well.

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Beer enthusiasts have a treat in store for them at this year’s Parksville Untapped event.

The list of vendors in Parksville’s Beach Club Resort on Feb. 18 includes all the local favourites as well as more obscure craft breweries from around B.C.

The Vancouver Island brews being sampled will come from Hoyne Brewing, Lighthouse Brewing, Drift-wood Brewery, Moon Under Water, Phillips, and good ol’ Vancouver Island Brewing. Local suds will be on offer from Nanaimo’s Longwood and Wolf Brewery.

The only real challenge will be to save some room for the off-Island beers and the cider for dessert.

Moon Under Water Brewery in Vic-toria is only one of the local favour-ites at Lucky’s. Here are some of the great suds they will be sampling at Untapped.

At the top of my list is the Hip As Funk Farmhouse IPA. Pale yellow with a rich foamy head, this IPA wafts plenty of dry floral notes from the use of strong citrus-like tropical hops. Unique white wine aromas and funky earthy smells come from two special yeasts that Moon Under Water uses to ferment this not-too-bitter IPA.

Tropical hops, the dual yeasts and pilsner malts earn this inspired brew the title of “hybrid”, a compliment to the forward thinking style of brew-master Clay Potter.

The Moon’s Tranquility IPA has recently been tweaked. If you found this beer one-dimensional in the past, give it another go.

It’s a true Northwest style IPA, but is now more balanced, with a creamy malty background. Bold aromas of piney hops are accented with orange peel, grapefruit and freshly baked bread, leading to a smooth, mouth-feel experience.

A lasting dry, bitter finish on the Tranquility IPA makes this brew an excellent food pairing choice, cleans-ing the palate of flavour-numbing fats so the next bite can be fully sav-oured. This IPA is your foody friend. Try it out with a big beef steak, a rich stew or a bacon cheeseburger for the perfect pairing.

My choice for a desert beer would be the Moon’s Creepy Uncle Dunkel, a traditional dark German lager with added wheat designed to impart just a hint of vanilla.

A Dunkel delivers a load of malty goodness in a beer that’s not heavy. This lager is loaded with flavours and aromas of raisin pie, caramel, choc-olate, nuts and cereal without being overly sweet.

It works as a liquid dessert unto itself or an accompaniment to your favourite chocolate dessert.

Lucky’s carries all the Moon Under Water ales and we consider ourselves artisan beer specialists, selling craft beers from Nanaimo to California and even from New Hampshire. But our main focus and most of our shelf space is allotted to Vancouver Island quaffables.

In order that local craft beer enthusiasts can enjoy both the Lucky’s Four Winds Beer Club and Parksville Untapped, the Four Winds

Beer Club is will take place on Feb. 11.

Although this is our last column, we’d like to firstly thank all of our readers for following us over the years and invite you to sign up for our newsletter at www.luckysliquor.ca to keep abreast of current trends in the amazing world of food and beverages and all of the great events we host here at Lucky’s.

Until our paths cross again, we want to wish you all continued good health and happiness. From all of us at Lucky’s Liquor Store at Country Club Centre in Nanaimo, cheers and salut!

LynetteBurns

The LuckyGourmet

» Lynette Burns is the managing leader for Lucky’s Liquor store in Nanaimo. She can be reached at 250-585-2275.

» Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at eileen.bennewith@viha.ca.

Obesity fear an issue itself

Parksville Untapped will be real treat for Island beer enthusiasts

The only real challenge at Parksville Untapped on Feb. 18, at the Beach Club Resort, will be to save some room for the

off-Island beers and the cider for dessert.

FAST FOOD

McDonald’s bumps up sales with breakfastCANDICE CHOI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — McDonald’s says offering breakfast around the clock helped jolt its sales.

Sales at the world’s biggest ham-burger chain rose 5.7 per cent in the U.S. for the final three months of 2015, boosted by unseasonably warm weather and the launch of an all-day breakfast menu in October.

That marked the second straight quarter of domestic growth as McDonald’s fights to win back cus-tomers, and the best showing since early 2012. Globally, sales rose 5 per cent at established locations.

McDonald’s, which has more than 36,000 locations around the world, is working to turnaround its busi-ness under CEO Steve Easterbrook, who will mark one year on the job in March. The Oak Brook, Illinois, company has conceded that it failed to keep up with changing tastes, and that order speed and accuracy suffered as its menu grew more expansive.

Despite the encouraging finish to the year, McDonald’s has a long way to go. For all of 2015, U.S. customer visits fell 3 per cent at established McDonald’s locations. That followed a 4.1 per cent drop the previous year.

Guest counts declined globally as well during the period.

In a call with analysts, Easterbrook cautioned that the company wanted to see another quarter or two of positive results before shifting gears from turnaround mode to a focus on growth.

The launch of all-day breakfast has been one of the company’s most high-profile manoeuvres under Easterbrook.

The decision to make select items like the Egg McMuffin available around the clock generated a surge of national media coverage. Fans of McDonald’s breakfast had long com-

plained of being unable satisfy their cravings later in the day.

As the initial fanfare settles down, Easterbrook said McDonald’s would keep momentum going by focusing on areas like improving order accur-acy and a recently launched mobile app. In early January, McDonald’s also introduced a “McPick 2 for $2” menu intended to draw bargain hunters.

The quarterly performance may also have gotten a boost from a culling of underperforming stores. McDonald’s finished the year with 14,259 stores in the U.S., a decline of 91 stores from the previous year.

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If ex is actually stalking you, inform police

Dear Annie: Several years ago, I had a much talked about affair with an older married man at my office. It lasted for several years. I was single at the time, and I met him at a very low period in my life. He told me I was smart, pretty and fun to be with. He showered me with flowers and gifts. He led me to believe his mar-riage was loveless and his only happiness was seeing me at work and talking to me on the phone. We did everything leading up to sex, but never actually com-pleted intercourse due to religious reasons.

After a few years, I met the man I am now married to. The older man became very angry and began harassing me, emotionally and verbally. I reported him to my supervisors several times, but it only made matters worse. He has finally retired, but I still feel him watching me. I can’t prove anything, and I can’t tell my husband because he has no idea how involved we were. Aside from warning other women to beware of married men bearing love and gifts, what can I do?

— Learned My Lesson

Dear Learned: If your affair did not include inter-course and it happened before you met your husband, he may be more understanding than you think. Everyone makes mistakes. Also, if the people in your office are aware of the relationship, your husband may find out about it anyway. A loving spouse can be a tremendous source of support, and your husband may be perfectly willing to forgive this lapse in judgment. Nonetheless, it will help you to talk to someone, and if your husband is not the right person, please consider discussing your fears with a counsellor or clergyperson. The more serious problem is the possi-bility that the ex is stalking you. If you ever catch him watching your home, car or office, or following you anywhere, please notify the police immediately and, if necessary, get a restraining order.

Dear Annie: I have read many letters in your col-umn from mothers-in-law who don’t understand why they have a strained relationship with their daugh-ters-in-law. May I add a perspective from the other side? We lived a couple of miles from my in-laws. We had a good relationship until our children were born. Then my MIL dropped in unannounced at least once a day. She refused to call in advance, despite numerous requests to do so. Her attitude was overbearing and critical. She had nothing positive to say, and criticized our house, child rearing and financial decisions. She loudly and repeatedly accused me of putting my kids in front of the TV all day, which was blatantly untrue. A new job across the country helped separate me from her venom.

Her terrible behaviour and her efforts to hang on to her son cost her a decent relationship with my hus-band and any connection to her grandchildren. Per-haps the letter writers need to honestly examine their own behaviour to determine the cause of their family strife. It isn’t always the daughter-in-law.

—Been There, Survived

Dear Been: How sad for everyone. We hope all estranged family members will make a genuine effort to consider whether their own actions need adjusting before placing the blame on the other person.

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‘Barney Miller’ character actor Vigoda dies at 94THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Character actor Abe Vigoda, whose leathery, sad-eyed face made him ideal for playing the over-the-hill detective Phil Fish in the 1970s TV series Barney Miller and the doomed Mafia soldier in The Godfather, died Tuesday at age 94.

Vigoda’s daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, told The Associated Press that Vigoda died Tuesday morning in his sleep at Fuchs’ home in Woodland Park, New Jersey. The cause of death was old age. “This man was never sick,” Fuchs said.

His death brought to an end years of questions on whether he was still alive — sparked by a false report of

his death more than three dec-ades ago.

Vigoda worked in relative obscurity as a supporting actor in the New York theatre and in television until Francis

Ford Coppola cast him in the 1972 Oscar-winning The Godfather.

Vigoda played Sal Tessio, an old friend of Vito Corleone’s (Marlon Brando) who hopes to take over the family after Vito’s death by killing his son Michael Corleone (Al Pacino). But Michael anticipates that Sal’s suggestion for a “peace summit” among crime families is a setup and the escorts Sal thought were taking him to the meeting turn out to be his executioners.

“Tell Mike it was only business,” Sal mutters to consigliere Tom Hagen, played by Robert Duvall, as he’s led away. In a statement, Duvall said Tuesday it was “great working

with Abe in The Godfather and won-derful to have him among us. We had some great memories together and he will really be missed.”

The great success of the film and The Godfather Part II made Vigoda’s face and voice, if not his name, recognizable to the general public and led to numerous roles, often as hoodlums.

But it was his comic turn in Barney Miller that brought Vigoda’s greatest recognition.

Vigoda remained a regular on Bar-ney Miller until 1977 when he took the character to his own series, Fish.

He remained a popular character actor in films, including Cannonball Run II, Look Who’s Talking, Joe Ver-sus the Volcano and North.

His resemblance to Boris Karloff led to his casting in the 1986 New York revival of Arsenic and Old Lace, playing the role Karloff originated on the stage in the 1940s.

For 30 years, he worked in the theatre, acting in dozens of plays in such diverse characters as John of Gaunt in Shakeseare’s Richard II (his favourite role) and Abraham Lincoln in a short-lived Broadway comedy Tough to Get Help.

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