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OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau has launched a new Liberal era with a 30-member cabinet that features predominantly fresh faces, an equal number of men and women and prob-ably the most diverse line-up of ministers in Canadian history.

The newly minted prime minister emerged Wednesday from the formal swearing-in ceremony boasting that he’s put together a cabinet “that looks like Canada.”

Eighteen of the newly minted ministers are rookies who won election for the first time on Oct. 19, including the all-important finance minister, millionaire Toronto busi-nessman Bill Morneau.

The cabinet includes two aboriginal min-isters, two disabled ministers, one openly gay minister, a refugee from Afghanistan and four Sikhs — one of whom was once wrongly accused of terrorism, tortured and detained without trial for almost two years in India.

From the moment Trudeau and his team arrived by bus at Rideau Hall and walked together up the long, tree-lined driveway to the Governor General’s mansion, the swearing-in event was designed to convey openness, optimism and inclusion — a stark contrast to nearly a decade of what the Liberals call the one-man, secretive rule and politics of division of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives.

“We’re a government that wants to earn Canadians’ trust by demonstrating that we trust Canadians,” Trudeau said.

“Openness and transparency” will be a hallmark of his government, he insisted, with the media allowed to hold government to account, MPs empowered to be powerful voices for their communities and public policy based on evidence, not partisanship.

Later Wednesday, government House lead-er Dominic LeBlanc said the government would reconvene the House of Commons

on Dec. 3 to elect an new Speaker, to be followed the next day by a speech from the throne.

Parliament would likely sit for at least another week, allowing the government to introduce a long-promised tax cut for the middle class and a higher tax for the wealth-iest, LeBlanc said.

B.C. regional aboriginal chief Jody Wil-son-Raybould takes on Justice; family doctor Jane Philpott takes Health; economist Jean-Yves Duclos takes Families, Children and Social Development; international lawyer Catherine McKenna takes Environment and Climate Change; highly decorated combat veteran Harjit Singh Sajjan takes Defence; Montreal lawyer Melanie Joly takes Canadian Heritage; former Edmonton city councillor

Amarjeet Sohi takes Infrastructure and Communities; and former Manitoba NDP cabinet minister MaryAnn Mihychuk takes Employment, Workforce Development and Labour.

Former journalist Chrystia Freeland, who won a byelection in Toronto two years ago, will head up International Trade, while Nav-deep Bains, who is back as an MP after being defeated in 2011, becomes minister of innov-ation, science and economic development.

Longtime MPs Marc Garneau and Kirsty Duncan take on Transport and Science, respectively.

Trudeau himself, who has promised to usher in a new era of collaboration with the provinces, takes responsibility for intergov-ernmental affairs and youth.

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Veterans motorcycle group not welcome at Remembrance eventDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Military Veterans who ride with a Ladysmith motorcycle club say they’re not welcome at the town’s Remembrance Day activities, so they’ll go to Chemainus instead.

The Veterans Motorcycle Club is made up of military and ex-military types who enjoy riding and do toy rides and community fundraising events, including for Legion Branch 171 Ladysmith.

That branch welcomed them at pre-vious Remembrance Day parades.

This year they say they were told by the Ladysmith branch they could not participate wearing club vests embla-zoned with patches styled like those worn by outlaw biker clubs.

VMC members still in the mil-itary wear their uniforms in public parades. Veterans wear patches.

“It’s one day of the year, as a veter-ans we should be able to march,” said

Shawn Pertl, a club member.Pertl said some RCMP officers

claim their group has links to outlaw biker clubs, and “maybe they don’t want us to have a positive image in town, because we’re a motorcycle club.”

It is not clear at this point why the Legion is considering asking the club to stay away, or even if they ultimately will follow through with the move. Branch 171 president Gary Phillips declined an interview, refer-ring calls instead to the B.C.-Yukon headquarters.

Inga Kruse, B.C-Yukon executive director, could not confirm Branch 171’s intentions, but said the Legion has no policy against patches at its events.

The group Legion Riders, whose members routinely wear patched vests, is a recognized partner of the Royal Canadian Legion, Kruse said.

The Ladysmith Legion posted a message on its Facebook page.

“The opinions are coming in fast and furious about an issue that hasn’t been decided upon. The final decision will be made later today.”

No further details were announced by late Wednesday afternoon.

Without a clear answer from Legion 171 Wednesday, Pertl said the club will skip the Ladysmith Remem-brance Day ceremony.

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Academics will put the policy, regulation and history of drug use under the microscope at Vancouver Island University this weekend.

Experts will come together at Building 355 at VIU later today to launch what is being called the Alcohol Tobacco & Drug Use History, Policy and Regulation Symposium.

The substances were chosen for the study because they all have potential to yield government “sin taxes,” and are controversial, “because all governments have tried to control them,” said Cheryl Warsh, VIU history professor.

Public portions feature keynote speakers, including retired B.C. Provincial Judge Allan Gould on Friday at 7 p.m., and Philippe Lucas, of Tilray, Nanaimo’s medical marijuana producer, Saturday at 2 p.m.

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Malcolmson ready to get to work in OttawaSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Sheila Malcolmson joins hundreds of new MPs in Ottawa this week.

The MP-elect for Nanaimo-Ladys-mith will be sworn in Monday along with her fellow NDP colleagues who were elected across Vancouver Island.

Malcolmson, who touched down in Ottawa Tuesday night, said she will spend the week meeting with the national NDP caucus, as well as the B.C. MPs that the party elected.

Malcolmson said the main items on her agenda will be to take part in a series of orien-tation sessions for new MPs. The Gabriola Island

resident and former Islands Trust chairwoman captured the newly-formed riding on election night on Oct. 19, beating out the Liberals’ Tim

Tessier, Green candidate Paul Manly and Conservative Mark MacDonald.

She now faces the task of learning how to function as an MP, including how to access information technol-ogy at the House of Commons and how to manage leases and payroll for constituency offices.

“It’s very much orientation, back-to-school stuff,” said Malcolmson.

Once sworn in, the new Nanaimo-Ladysmith MP will head back to the Harbour City on Monday

for Remembrance Day ceremonies. Parliament is set to resume with a throne speech on Dec. 4.

Malcolmson said she will work to open a constituency office once she has been given the authority to do so. She added she was unsure when that would happen and said she was being “careful to manage expectations.”

Malcolmson is not a stranger to Ottawa, having travelled to the city for environmental and industry meetings in the past.

She said she is looking forward to rediscovering the city.

“I did quite a bit of work here in the early ’90s, but not since then,” she said.

Malcolmson said being in Ottawa has allowed the new role to sink in.

“I’m really excited and really hon-oured to do the work.”

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Parents upset about closuresROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Nanaimo parent Mark Robinson wants to know why all three of his daughters are facing the possibility of having to change schools within the next two years.

Speaking to trust-ees and staff from the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district Wednes-day night on the district’s updated long-range facilities plan, Robinson said he has two daugh-ters currently attending Rutherford Elementary School, which is being recommended for closure in 2017.

He also said he has an older daughter studying French immersion at Nanaimo District Sec-ondary School.

Robinson said that she may have to switch to John Barsby Secondary School if the district moves forward with plans to move the French immersion program there.

“I was hoping the new school board wouldn’t alienate people during the public-consultation process, but we feel our contribution has been limited and we don’t feel we have any control of this process,” Robinson said.

Dozens of parents and members of the community were in attendance at the public consultation meeting, and most were there to speak against closing Rutherford school.

The district’s facilities plan is also recom-mending the closure of Woodlands Secondary School and either Wood-bank Primary School or North Cedar Intermedi-ate School.

Norman Blattgerste, from Mount Benson Developments Inc., said that with all the new developments currently being built and those in the planning stages in the north end of Nanaimo, there may be as many as 200 new school-aged children in the area within just a few years.

“I would encourage you to keep schools open in that area of the city because you are going to need them,” he said.

“Closing any schools there would be a mistake.”

Jill Adshead, who has two children attending Rutherford school, said the school is the “heart of the community” and shouldn’t be closed.

“The school has given my children a sense of pride and belonging, and are they less likely to get lost in the crowd at Ruth-erford like they would at a larger elementary school,” she said.

“I ask you to be more forward thinking and consider the long-term impacts of closing the school, rather than the short-term bottom line.”

Parent Tina Bray said she wondered about statements from district officials that students from Rutherford school would still be attending other schools in their neighbourhood if her school closed.

“Rutherford is a distinct community in the north end,” she said.

“The school board doesn’t decide what makes a community, the people do.”

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Some of the more unusual liv-ing situations Fischer has seen include a small home constructed from pallets along the railway tracks near the mill in the south end.

“There was one near Millstone Park along the railway tracks. That one was pretty substantial, just the amount of stuff they brought in there, and it started to undermine the structure of the barrier wall protecting the rail-way. So those big cement blocks were starting to sag because they had dug into the embankment,” he said. “The main idea is to try and address any issues that they are suffering . . . but the main goal is to try and get them off the street. Unfortunately there’s no magic answer that will solve the problem.”

Eight years ago, the majority of Nanaimo’s homeless population typically congregated downtown.

A strategy in recent years has relieved some of the pressure for services to be all in one area, and focused on spreading housing and food services throughout the city, combined with more mobile initiatives such as a homeless action team that actually goes out to where it is needed, said Horn.

A large portion of the chronic-ally homeless have been perma-nently settled in the new low-bar-rier housing projects that have been completed throughout the city, but emergency shelters are still in use, he added.

“We still have individuals who haven’t managed to maintain housing, but it’s certainly not as acute as it’s been in the past,” said

Horn. Remarkable prog-ress has also been made in comparison with other municipalities.

“Victoria has sort of tried to keep up in terms of providing housing but they haven’t had quite as robust a response as we’ve had. If you go down there, there’s a substantial street home-less population evident in their downtown.

“They’re struggling. You hear the mayor of Victoria talking about trying to find money to build supportive housing like we’ve done. Same in Vancouver. . . so we’re lucky that we’re in a small enough city that our efforts to get on top of it have paid off.”

Though he doesn’t have exact numbers, Fischer estimates that Nanaimo has gone from having close to 500 street-entrenched homeless people to about 100 today, though until a count is completed it won’t be know for certain.

The upcoming homeless count will be conducted within the next two months as part of a national initiative with the same method and same questions to build a cross-country picture of the issue.

That means this year it will be done differently, said Horn, which meant wandering around at night trying to find people.

A group of volunteers will instead organize what is known as a “magnet event,” with food, haircuts and other services and the count will be conducted there.

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As the cool weather rolls in, advocates for Nanaimo’s homeless begin to prepare for a new tally of some of the community’s most vul-

nerable members.Until that count is done, the exact

picture of how many people continue to sleep rough in the parks and aban-doned lots of the city remains unclear.

However both the RCMP and city social planner John Horn assert that recently completed low-barrier housing projects, and ser-vices better spread out over the city, have made notice-able progress in reducing the num-bers of homeless congregating down-town and sleeping

outdoors.Despite that progress, a series of

brush fires over the summer believed to have been caused by outdoor encampments — tent cities for the homeless — served as a reminder that the issue is far from resolved.

During a period of five days in late August, scorching heat and dry con-ditions caused three blazes, with at least two taking place in areas known to be used by homeless people. These displaced some of the campers and left scorched furniture and shopping carts at the site.

On Oct. 21, a B.C. Supreme Court judge struck down a municipal bylaw in Abbotsford that prohibited homeless people from camping in city parks.

Though limits were set on permanent encampments, Justice Christopher Hinkson wrote in the 81-page ruling that “allowing the City’s homeless to set up shelters overnight while taking them down during the day would rea-sonably balance the needs of the home-less and the rights of other residents of the city.”

While city parks have yet to be tar-geted in the same high-profile manner, Nanaimo RCMP estimate more than 20 homeless encampments exist through-out the city at any one time.

“Abandoned lots, in behind the Michael’s on the highway, in those wooded areas near residential areas and business areas. There’s a few of them along the Parkway trail by the informa-tion centre off Northfield,” said Const. Jonathan Fischer of the Nanaimo RCMP.

“They’re all over the place, we’ve got lots downtown in around the aban-doned lots and in the parks, not so much in the parks but abandoned areas along the river.”

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Nanaimo RCMP say more than 20 encampments for homeless people exist in areas throughout the city. [DAILY NEWS PHOTO]

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“They’re all over the place, we’ve got lots downtown in around the abandoned lots and in the parks.”

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Residents are being asked to keep their eyes open for a killer whale that was spotted Sunday south of Nanaimo tangled in fishing gear.

Paul Cottrell, the regional marine mammal co-ordinator for DFO, said the whale, which has been identified

as a meat-eating transient orca, was last seen near Thetis Island with what appears to be a rope and fishing float wrapped around its dorsal fin.

He said it’s not known how entan-gled the whale is in the fishing gear or whether it had managed to clear itself of the equipment since it was originally spotted.

“We have a team ready to go if the whale is spotted and is still entangled in the gear,” Cotrell said.

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Interactions in public places are vital, says expert plannerSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Renowned urbanist and research-er Charles Montgomery doesn’t care much for Nanaimo’s Diana Krall Plaza, but he says improve-ments have been made toward becoming a better city.

Montgomery also said Nanaimo is not alone in its challenges and that cities need to do a better job of understanding the intersection of design and infrastructure and residents’ health and well-being.

Montgomery spoke to students and residents Tuesday night dur-ing a lecture hosted by Vancouver Island University as part of a series celebrating international education. Montgomery is the author of the award-winning book Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design has spent the better part of the last decade studying how urban design can impact the feelings, thoughts and actions of people. He said one major piece of the puzzle are features of a city that encourage social interactions in public spaces.

“Nothing matters more to human well-being than social relationships.

Nothing,” said Montgomery.A big part of the problem is urban

sprawl, he argued. He compared slides of two different suburbs out-side of Atlanta; one accessible by walking and public transit, another only accessible by car. The latter community will on average spend twice as much on gas and produce twice as many greenhouse gas emis-sions. But he said there are social impacts as well.

Residents there were less social, less trusting and less likely to be involved in team sports or invite friends and family over, “because their time has been stolen by the

miles,” Montgomery said.Montgomery led a packed Shaw

Auditorium through a live experi-ment, asking two-thirds of the room to turn to the person next to them and talk with them as if they were old friends. He asked the other third of the room to do nothing.

After a few minutes, audience members were asked to fill out a short survey asking them how likely they thought it would be to have a lost wallet returned to them. The results were calculated by the end of the presentation, and the side of the room that were asked to chat to one another scored the overall like-lihood of a returned wallet at 10 per cent higher than the side that did nothing.

Montgomery argued for bet-ter-planned, nicer public spaces, and referred to Diana Krall Plaza as “a disaster.”

“It strikes me as a place that was created with the best intentions,” he said, but added: “More needs to happen there.”

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REAL ESTATE

Sales hit fall lull; prices still upDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Housing sales fell across much of the Island in October, reflecting typical fall conditions, the latest industry report from the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board reveals.

Monthly VIREB reports, on all markets north of the Malahat measured using sales recorded in the industry’s proprietary Multiple Listing Service, shows the greatest sales decline in the Comox Valley, at 29 per cent, and Campbell River at 32 per cent.

“I was surprised to see that much of a drop,” said Cholene Begin, a Campbell River area agent and VIREB board member.

She said the town, which is enjoying an economic boom from the hydro project and renewed tourism, “is crazy busy.”

She said a nine-per cent decline in the average selling price reflects movement at the lower end of the market last month.

In real terms, 38 units sold there in October, down from 56 a year ago.

Sales dipped eight per cent in the Cowichan Valley and Parks-ville-Qualicum Beach saw sales dip six per cent.

Nanaimo sales numbers were flat, at 117 units.

Sales jumped 72 per cent in Port Alberni and western communities, but measured in actual sales, it was a total of 31 sales in that market, up from 18 a year ago.

Port Alberni-west also saw the largest shift in selling price, with the average up 54 per cent, to $266,453, from $173,056. Here again, a few sales can make a

significant difference in average prices.

The home price provides a more accurate estimate of market values, which rose in all markets except the Gulf Islands,(–10.6 per cent) from a year ago.

Greatest increases were in Comox Valley (7.7 per cent), Duncan (6.4 per cent) and Nanaimo (5.18 per cent), with prices up 5.8 per cent across the region.

Even in cities with fewer sales.“Prices are not going down,” said

Begin. “People are paying more than they would expect. I sold a number of listings last month and a lot of them sellers aren’t moving on their price.”

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Ski resort sold to Utah groupSCOTT STANFIELD COMOX VALLEY RECORD

No snow, no problem?There’s no guarantee

that will be the case, but the new owners of Mount Washington Alp-ine Resort certainly have a track record of having their mountains covered.

Mount Washington announced Tuesday it has sold its ski and recreation operations to a subsidiary of Utah-based Pacific Group Resorts.

The company has built and developed facilities and real estate projects at Whistler and various American locations. Mount Washington will be its fourth resort.

Its other resorts in the eastern U.S. have virtu-ally 100 per cent snow-making coverage.

“This year we’re a little bit late in the process to get snowmaking put in, but we may see the ability to put some snow guns in to test it this year,” said Don Sharpe, Mount Washington’s director of business oper-ations. “With this group, it’s (snowmaking) top priority.”

The sale includes most of the development land near and around the base of the resort, which has endured hard times the last couple of seasons due

to a lack of snow. In pre-vious seasons, however, there were times when the mountain had one of the deepest snow bases in the world.

The Canadian Press reported a skiff of snow that fell on the trees dur-ing the weekend, and the mountain’s webcams are showing patches on the ground at the base as of Wednesday morning. Ski season is scheduled to open Dec. 11.

The current owner-ship group will retain two prime development parcels.

“Over the past 25 years, George Stuart and his ownership group have invested a tremendous amount of money and energy into Mount Wash-ington,” Peter Gibson, Mount Washington’s president and general manager, said in a news release. “We are indebted to them for what they have helped us build here.”

Campbell River busi-nessmen Henry Norie and Alex Linton opened the resort in 1979.

They sold their inter-ests in 1989 to Stuart and a group of share-holders who upgraded lifts, added terrain and base area buildings, and invested in infra-structure and roads.

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Pony shot with arrow is recovering, doing wellDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A pony shot through the chest with an arrow last week is now off antibiotics and its prognosis for survival appears good.

An online fundraiser for Bliss, a 3 1/2-year-old Welsh pony, is $200 shy of its $2,000 funding goal, and with other donations the pony’s owner says she expects to be able to pay the veterinarian bills.

“The community has been unbelievable,” said Joy Rudd. “I’ve had people phoning me from Van-couver and sending me money. I’ve had people driving up my driveway, with money.”

She said the outpouring has helped undo an event that showed her the dark side of humanity.

On the night of Oct. 23-24 someone shot the horse where it was standing inside a pen, enclosed entirely by an electric fence, on Rudd’s Rock City Road acreage.

Although the arrow was never found, a bloodstained fence and a shocked pony with entry and exit wounds on its body led investigators to conclude it was likely struck shot by a powerful compound bow or crossbow.

The incident shocked its owner.“It’s been stressful (but) I’m start-

ing to sleep again,” Rudd said.At first she thought the dart some-

how missed the animal’s lungs, but her vet told her blood around the animal’s nostrils suggests lung penetration.

“We didn’t have to sedate her, she was in such shock.”

On Saturday Bliss got her last dose of powerful antibiotics, at a cost of $100 a day and she appeared friendly and happy recovering in her stall on Tuesday.

“We’re still worried about her,” Rudd said.

The plan was to start her up for riding training on Saturday, but “she wont’ go until spring now,” she said.

Rudd said vet bills have totalled $2,200 so far, and support from

friends and members of the public has been “just unbelievable.”

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Bliss, the young Welsh pony, looks better as she recovers from injuries after being a shot with an arrow in October. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

TOURISM

Award recognizes Horne Lake CavesPARKSVILLE QUALICUM BEACH NEWS

The Horne Lake Caves are earning wide recognition as a unique tourism destination.

The Horne Lake Cave Provin-cial Park and Outdoor Centre recently received Destination B.C.’s first-ever Remarkable Experiences Award in front of more than 400 of the province’s tourism leaders at a Vancouver Convention Centre gala.

It recognizes a business that delivers a consistently exceptional visitor experience that exceeded expectations and triggers visitors to share through social media and word of mouth, according to Destination B.C.

This was the second major tour-

ism award for Horne Lake Caves. It received the 2015 Innovator of the Year award from Tourism Vancouver Island for the slides, ramps and ladders they installed in the main cave late last year, explained park director Richard Varela. The aluminum walkways were meant to protect the cave’s crystal formations from foot traffic but as they were design-ing them it became clear “they could also add a wild thrill at the same time as preserving the cave environment,” Varela said.

He added that visitors have been impressed with the new additions, submitting rave reviews which resulted in a num-ber one ranking on the world’s top trip-review site.

“Imagine entering a cave and cutting past a wall of sparkling crystal formations tens of thou-sands of years in the making, scrambling up a series of small waterfalls, then climbing onto a metal slide to descend back down under a rocky ceiling, in the dark, illuminated only by your head-lamp,” Varela said.

“Along with the added thrills, another major benefit is the safer travel with better footing than wet slippery rock.

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The shiny new hardware is part of ongoing restoration which has involved hundreds of volunteer hours.

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Man survives 60-metre tumble

Bob Roth sustained a serious fracture to his vertebra and is awaiting surgery on his right foot after fracturing his heel in five places, according to wife Char Roth.

The 63-year-old Mill Bay resident had fall-en not 30 metres as reported, but about 60 metres off a cliff on his property while clear-ing brush on Oct. 22.

“That makes it even more miraculous that he lived,” Char said of the extra height.

She said her husband remembers the fall.

“There is no paralysis, no head injury, and no internal injuries that we know of,” she said.

“It truly is a miracle.”About 30 rescuers from

three fire departments (Malahat, Shawnigan Lake, and Mill Bay) attended to the injured man after a mix-up with his dog appears to have sent him tumbling.

Char doesn’t believe the dog knocked her spouse off the cliff, although the dog “def-initely had something to do with it,” she said.

Bob Roth came to rest on a little bit of a flat spot but found himself stuck between a tree and the rock face.

“The terrain down there is so full of sur-rounding deadfall, and it was literally a rock cliff he fell down. It’s amaz-ing he didn’t hit any of that.”

It took rescuers some time to get rigged up and over the bank to their patient, and then even more time to get him back up and to the waiting ambulance and off to hospital in Victoria.

First responders were only able to be alerted of the incident because Char insisted her hus-band take his phone with him whenever he worked in the yard.

“What saved him was having his phone with him,” she said. “It didn’t even break in the fall. It’s one miracle after another.”

Char credits Bob’s fitness for his ability to endure such serious injuries.

“He’s extremely fit. He’s very, very healthy. He works out daily,” she said.

“All the doctors have said if he wasn’t in such good physical condition, he wouldn’t have sur-vived the fall.”

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City gets new chief administrative offi cer

Debbie Comis has been appointed as Parksville’s new chief administrative officer.

At a closed meeting on Monday, council unanimously approved the appointment of Comis, the current director of administrative services, as the new CAO effective Jan. 1.

In October, the city announced the retirement of

longtime CAO Fred Manson, effective Dec. 31.

Mayor Marc Lefebvre said: “Mrs. Comis brings many years of senior local government management experience and expertise to the position of chief administrative officer. At

times, she has been the acting CAO, more than proving her capability to council, staff and the community. Council is con-fident in her ability to provide continued good leadership.”

Comis joined the city of Parksville in July 2011 follow-

ing 25 years local government experience with the City of Burnaby and eight years with the Town of MacKenzie.

“It is an honour to be appointed the city’s next chief administrative officer,” she said. — DAILY NEWS

For many, it’s as though the sea-sons have been reversed with spring arriving in November

after a long winter of discontent, to paraphrase Shakespeare.

On Wednesday Justin Trudeau went from being Liberal leader to Canada’s 23rd prime minister heading a cab-inet of 30. Of note is its diversity.

According The Canadian Press, the cabinet includes two aboriginal min-isters, two disabled ministers, one openly gay minister, a refugee from Afghanistan and four Sikhs.

Trudeau said Wednesday that this is a cabinet “that looks like Canada.”

After a decade of government under Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canadians asserted on

Oct. 19 that they had enough of a regime notorious for its secrecy, control and putting party and politics before the interests of Canadians.

Whether accurate or not, those were the perceptions about the Harp-er Conservatives that many Can-adians brought to the ballot box.

Perhaps Trudeau summed up the spirit in which he ran, and the one in which we all hope he governs, when he said on election night that those in other parties are not our enemies; they are our neighbours.

The question isn’t whether Trudeau and his new cabinet and caucus can now live up to the hype. We know they can’t. The question is how he and his government will respond

when the first crisis hits. And given the nature of global and domestic politics, there will be crises.

The Trudeau Liberals of the 21st century still face a formidable Oppos-ition. On Wednesday New Democrat-ic Party leader Tom Mulcair, facing his own crisis of confidence after the NDP saw its caucus shrink in the election, made it clear they remain a factor in the Ottawa political scene.

Stephen Harper was set to address the Conservative caucus today as it looks toward selecting a new leader. They too are not going anywhere and will happily drop into Trudeau’s lap whatever scandals they can as part of ongoing party politics that make Ottawa what it is.

First up for Trudeau, however, is a month’s worth of international meet-ings. And on Dec. 4 it all begins in earnest as a speech from the throne opens Canada’s 42nd Parliament.

Among those who will be watched closely beginning in a month will be Jody Wilson-Raybould, Canada’s first indigenous justice minister. While murdered and missing aboriginal women must figure prominently in her portfolio, her situation echoes a challenge of the new Trudeau government.

There are any number of promin-ent issues that this government can focus on, and this government must focus on governing Canada, not try-ing to make everyone happy.

And let’s be clear, Canada did not exactly suffer under the Harper Con-servatives. But Canadians wanted more optimism and less of the effort to impose a conservative agenda.

Trudeau has selected a cabinet which represents all aspects of Can-ada; women, men, First Nations, business, LGBTQ, immigrants and others. We don’t expect perfection, we do want representation.

“We’re a government that wants to earn Canadians’ trust by demonstrat-ing that we trust Canadians,” Tru-deau said. Let’s hope that happens.

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We are all responsible for city’s collective vision

A new beginning at city hall but will those involved seize the opportunity?

It is only if those engaged in the battle on both sides stop blaming, take responsibility and show positive intent to create a better working environment.

Above all it will require the mayor who is leader to support this transi-tion. Making public statements that continue the battle helps no one, least of all the working relationships on council.

By taking a breath, ignoring what needs to be ignored and putting the public interest at the forefront, will there be any hope that the change will be a good one.

It really is time for all of us to work towards a city that better reflects who we are and what our collective vision is.

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Councillors must look at their own behaviours

It is not often that I find common ground with Kim Smythe and the Nanaimo Chamber of Commerce.

However, watching Monday’s coun-cil meeting I have to say that Smythe was bang on with his comments regarding the attitude, behaviour and progress (or lack thereof) of this present council. What I found more disturbing though was the response from council following Smythe’s presentation. To a councillor, they lined up to say a variation on the same theme: That is, “I fully agree with Mr. Smythe and I am willing to work to see change.” And then there was a “but,” albeit unsaid.

The “but” was clearly that each of them thought that others on council were the ones who had to change. So much for listening, so much for agreeing, so much for the prospects of change.

In order for this council to move

forward in any meaningful way with the important business of governing this city, they all have to be prepared to change, to compromise and to lis-ten to advice from all quarters.

I urge each member of council to do some looking inward and see where they could change something in their practice to bring it in line with a common goal of creating a functioning council.

Jennifer DavidsonNanaimo

Notice smacks of illegal reverse billing process

A recent published municipal Notice to Electorate is written is legalese — almost impossible to understand — and published in the Oct. 22 issue.

The notice is to advise that council needs a new bylaw which would allow

council the right to dispose of any parkland anywhere at any time, and applies to all properties in Nanaimo — at council’s discretion.

There has been no further mention of this in media comment or edi-torials? Why? The necessity of this new bylaw is giving council the right to remove a particular — vaguely identified in the notice — piece of parkland from protection. Who will be the recipient?

The notice advises residents of the city of the necessity of adopting a new bylaw by way approval of the electors by means of an “Alternate Approval Process.”

As this plan has such huge ramifi-cations, it should be clearly explained and solved by referendum. Such an all-enveloping bylaw must have the approval of electorate.

Council’s “Alternate Approval Pro-cess” places the onus on individual electors to obtain a form, by mail or in person; to complete the probably

confusing document — personally signed — return it competed and personally delivered it to city hall or by mail in sufficient time.

Fax and email not accepted, as originally signed documents only. If these stipulation are not met, coun-cil will declare approval.

Such a system smells of activity from the mid 1990s called negative option billing, which has been illegal in Canada since 1999.

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JUSTICE

Man who killed his children should be ‘high-risk’: CrownLaw allowing for designation did not exist until after deaths of Merritt youngstersTHE CANADIAN PRESS

NEW WESTMINSTER — A men-tally ill man who killed his three children should be classified a “high-risk accused” even though the law allowing for the designation didn’t exist until after their deaths, B.C. Supreme Court has heard.

Allan Schoenborn was found not criminally responsible for stabbing his 10-year-old daughter and smothering his eight- and five-year-old sons in their Merritt home in 2008.

Crown prosecutor Trevor Shaw said it would normally be unfair to apply such a label “retrospectively” because people are rational and base their behaviour on anticipated consequences.

But that consideration doesn’t apply to people found not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder because their actions, by definition, are not rational, he said.

“There’s an unfairness of a person rationally deciding whether to com-mit the offence or not based on the penalties as they exist at the time,” Shaw told the court.

“But the NCRMD accused is in a different situation. They have been declared NCRMD precisely because they were not making rational calculations.

“Someone who does not appreciate

the nature and quality of their act, someone who is not appreciating that the act is wrong and doesn’t fall within that zone of unfairness.”

The province’s Criminal Justice Branch announced in September that it had filed a court application to have Schoenborn declared a high-risk accused, a designation which became law in July 2014.

The change means hearings to review Schoenborn’s detention status could be extended to every three years rather than annually and that he could take limited excursions from a psychiatric hospital, mostly for medical reasons.

It would also mean an indefinite suspension of the escorted day out-ings granted to him during his most recent review-board hearing.

Shaw also pointed to the wording of the legislation to argue that legis-lators intended the statute to apply retrospectively — a view shared by Dave Teixeira, spokesman for Darcie

Clark, the mother of Schoenborn’s dead children.

“Everyone understood this was a retrospective law,” Teixeira said out-side court.

He was critical of what he saw as the motivations behind Schoen-born’s attempts to fight the high-risk designation.

“(Schoenborn) is not interested — nor are his psychologists and psychiatrists interested — in getting him better. They’re just interested in getting him out of the hospital,” he said.

“Every year he’s scheming on how to get out, and his lawyers enable him to do this, instead of spending time in treatment, and that’s really sad for him.”

Speaking in Schoenborn’s defence, lawyer Peter Wilson said it would be inappropriate for the high-risk label to be applied retrospectively, precise-ly because of what he described as an absence of clarity in the act.

COURTS

Suit says B.C. allows clinics to charge for methadoneTHE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — The British Col-umbia government is allowing private methadone-dispensing clinics to charge recovering heroin addicts for drug treatment by taking money from their income-assist-ance cheques, claims legal action launched against the province.

Documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday advancing what could be a class-action lawsuit claim private methadone clinics demand $18.34 a month from people enrolled in the methadone maintenance pro-gram in exchange for treatment.

Lawyer Jason Gratl, acting on behalf of the representative plaintiff, Laura Shaver, said the money is paid automatically from their govern-ment-provided benefits.

“This scheme is deeply unethical,” he said.

“If the province wants to compen-sate doctors and pharmacists for additional hardship and troubles associated with the methadone pro-gram they’re free to do so but they shouldn’t do so on the backs of those least able to pay.”

The documents claim that Shaver, who is addicted to heroin and unable to pay for treatment or counselling, signed a government-drafted Alcohol and Drug Fee Authorization Agree-ment “unwillingly and under duress” in order to receive methadone treat-ment from Yale Medical Centre in downtown Vancouver.

The fee agreement is $60, reduced by $41.66 through a govern-ment-provided Alcohol and Drug Supplement. The remaining $18.34 is drawn from a client’s monthly sup-port allowance, the documents state.

“This is not OK,” said Adrienne Smith, a lawyer with the legal advo-cacy organization Pivot Legal Soci-ety, which aims to defend society’s vulnerable and marginalized.

“Medically necessary treatment should be provided without user fees.”

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AGRICULTURE

Farm and food product industry still growingBLACK PRESS

B.C.’s farm and food product industry is growing, even though the number of farmers isn’t.

Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick hosted farmers and food producers at the B.C. legislature Tuesday to mark B.C. Agrifoods Day and announce that sales of B.C. food products set a record of $12.3 billion in 2014. That’s up 5.9 per cent from the previous year, which was up 3.5 per cent from 2012.

“Local people are buying local prod-

ucts, that’s a big part,” Letnick said in an interview. “Our exports are increas-ing. We’ve had a record year, just under $3 billion in exports.”

Two thirds of B.C. export sales go to the U.S. China is second with $264 million in sales, and Japan bought $199 million worth in 2014.

“Our number one agri-food product continues to be dairy,” Letnick said. “Number two is farmed salmon, so that might be news to a few people.”

Abbotsford dairy farmer Jared DeJong offered a plea to the next generation of

B.C. residents to stay with their family farms.

“Today there are many multi-genera-tional family farms where the future is in doubt, as the next generation pon-ders what they’re going to do with their career,” he said. “We need to not only secure the current generation of young farmers, but also attract new bright young talent to agriculture and into the thousands of key agriculture jobs across the province in the years to come.”

With family farms and new farmers, is B.C.’s farm base growing?

“We’re holding our own,” Letnick said. “We’re at about 20,000 farm families, which has been pretty steady. There are about 55,000 people employed in agriculture and agrifoods, again that’s pretty steady. We are see-ing higher productivity on the land.”

He said the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement bodes well for B.C. It proposes phasing out tariffs in Asian countries on B.C. salmon, halibut, herring, crab, geoduck, blueberries, fresh and frozen vegetables, pork and icewine.

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U.S. Senate to now probe Valeant stocksROSS MAROWITS THE CANADIAN PRESS

MONTREAL — The political scrutiny of Valeant Pharmaceuticals is heating up as the U.S. Senate formally launched a probe Wed-nesday into skyrocketing prices for three of the company’s prescription drugs.

The Senate’s special committee on aging said it had requested documents and infor-mation from Valeant and three other drug companies.

Also requested were documents from Tur-ing Pharmaceuticals, Retrophin Inc., and Rodelis Therapeutics amid a public outcry over the hikes, most notably Turing’s move to raise the price of Daraprim by 5,000 per cent after obtaining rights to the drug.

The medicine is the only U.S.-approved treatment for a deadly parasitic infection called toxoplasmosis.

Past political focus on Valeant in the U.S. has been on the heart drugs Isuprel and Nitropress. But in a letter to Valeant CEO Michael Pearson, the Senate committee is also seeking information on Cuprimine, used to treat Wilson’s Disease, an inherited dis-order that can cause severe liver and nerve damage.

Cuprimine’s price soared nearly 3,000 per cent to US$26,189 for 100 capsules from US$888 after Valeant purchased the rights to it. Nitropress increased 625 per cent and Isuprel by 820 per cent, the Senate letter said.

Republican Senator Susan Collins and ranking Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill asked for Valeant’s co-operation by turning over analysis, documents and historical financial data.

They also wanted a list of countries where the drugs are sold or are expected to be sold in the next two years and the corresponding prices.

A hearing on the issue is tentatively sched-uled for Dec. 9.

“We need to get to the bottom of why we’re seeing huge spikes in drug prices that seem-ingly have no relationship to research and development costs,” said McCaskill.

Some of the increases resemble “little more than price gouging,” she added.

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In this May photo, former Guantanamo detainee and

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Islam peace activist held in CanadaMourad Benchellali was once held in Guantanamo Bay

COLIN PERKEL THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner turned peace activist who was detained on arrival in Canada as an apparent national security threat will likely be allowed to return to France, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Mourad Benchellali, of Lyon, was being held as a maximum security prisoner after agents refused to allow him to withdraw his request to enter Canada and go home voluntarily.

“It looks like they changed their mind from what I just heard from them,” lawyer Hadayt Nazami told The Canadian Press. “They’re going to let him go.”

Benchellali, 34, was expected to leave Canada as early as Wednesday night.

The French citizen, known for his deradicalization work, was detained at Toronto’s international airport late Tuesday after arriving for a speaking tour. Immi-gration authorities indicated he was deemed to be a security risk.

“It’s absurd. It really is absurd,” Nazami said. “He said he came here to help Canada fight terrorism.”

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A broker looks at his screen at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, on

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Widening scandal puts more pressure on VWDAVID MCHUGH AND GEIR MOULSON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FRANKFURT — The fallout from Volk-swagen’s emissions-cheating scandal intensified Wednesday, as investors bailed out and European regulators pressured VW to quickly disclose the findings of an internal investigation. In the U.S., the company halted sales of seven models that allegedly were part of the cheating.

On Tuesday, VW admitted that it had understated carbon dioxide emissions for 800,000 cars, widening the scope of a scandal that has forced the ouster of a CEO and prompted investigations and lawsuits on several continents.

The company has been unable halt the flow of bad news since mid-September, when the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency said VW installed software on 482,000 cars that enabled them to cheat on emissions tests for nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that contributes to smog and respiratory problems. The software reduced emissions when the car was on a test stand.

Volkswagen acknowledged that 11 million vehicles with small diesel engines worldwide have the software — but only after denying its use for more than a year.

On Monday, the EPA charged that Volkswagen also used cheating software in some cars with larger diesel engines, including Volkswagen’s elite Porsche brand.

Volkswagen has denied that claim, but over the past two days halted sales in the U.S. and Canada of the models involved: the Volkswagen Touareg, Porsche Cayenne, and the Audi A6, A7, A8, Q5 and Q7.

Late Tuesday, VW said it had also found “unexplained inconsistencies” in emissions from some of its vehicles of carbon dioxide. The cars were sold under the Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT and Skoda brands, most of them in Europe and none in the United States.

The company said the carbon dioxide problem could cost it 2 billion euros, on top of 6.7 billion euros it had already set aside to cover the costs of recalls. Ana-lysts say the total costs in fines and lost sales could be several times that.

Amid concerns over the escalating costs, the German carmaker’s ordin-ary shares slid 9.5 per cent to close at 100.45 euros.

The shares have tumbled 23 per cent since the scandal was revealed, and VW’s total value has fallen $26.3 billion to $57.21 billion at Wednesday’s euro-to-dollar conversion rate.

U.S. won’t grant Keystone delay requestALEXANDER PANETTA THE CANADIAN PRESS

WASHINGTON — The U.S. gov-ernment delivered some unwanted news to the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday, informing TransCanada Corp. that it was rejecting its request for a delay in evaluating the project.

The answer came in a letter to TransCanada two days after the Calgary-based company raised eyebrows with its unexpected demand for a timeout in the con-troversy-plagued process.

“We’re not required to pause it based on an applicant’s request. There’s no legal basis to do that,”

said State Department spokesman John Kirby, describing the letter sent to the company.

“We have told TransCanada that the review process is going to con-tinue, and when it’s over, then and when we have something to talk about, we’ll do so.”

The pipeline would carry almost one-quarter of all Canada’s oil exports, but it needs a permit to cross the U.S. border to connect with the southern leg already flow-ing to Gulf of Mexico refineries.

That company request came as a surprise, given that the company and its allies in the Harper govern-ment in Ottawa had spent years urging speedy approval.

The about-face was interpreted by the administration as a political move — aimed at increasing its chance of approval under a possible future Republican administration.

Given the repeated negative com-ments President Barack Obama has made about the pipeline, he’s wide-ly expected to reject a request for a border permit.

The company denies any political calculations were behind its suddenrequest for a delay. In a statement Wednesday, the company repeated its arguments: pipelines are cleanerthan train transport, previous State Department reports agree with their math and Keystone would create thousands of jobs.

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Canadian fi ghting with Kurds reported killed

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says a Canadian fighting the Islamic State group in Syria has been killed in a suicide attack.

The observatory says in a posting on its website that John Robert Gal-lagher was killed in the attack by an IS fighter on Wednesday at a farm near Dalhu village in the predomin-antly Kurdish province of Hassakeh that borders Iraq.

Maclean’s magazine says Gallagher is a former infantryman with the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, who went into Syria in July to fight with a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia known as the YPG.

A Foreign Affairs spokesman said in an email Wednesday night that the department was aware of “reports of the death of a Canadian citizen in Syria.”

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Trial date set in death of girl killed 31 years ago

A date has been set for a new trial in the death of a Winnipeg girl 31 years ago.

Mark Edward Grant is scheduled to be tried on a charge of second-degree murder in January 2017.

Grant was convicted of killing Can-dace Derksen, 13, in 2011, but the Manitoba Court of Appeal overturned the conviction in 2013, and that rul-ing was later upheld by the Supreme Court of Canada.

The higher courts said the trial judge erred in not allowing the defence to present evidence that pointed to another possible killer — an unidentified man involved in a similar attack while Grant was in custody.

Candace’s body was found in a stor-age shed near her Winnipeg home six weeks after she disappeared.

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Woman is alleged fraud victim on dating site

Calgary police have arrested a man for allegedly defrauding a woman he met on a dating websites.

Police say in March, a man con-vinced a woman to give him cash in exchange for a cheque for $550.

The woman was later alerted by her bank that it came back as non-suf-ficient funds, and she never heard from the man again.

Police received similar complaints through unidentified tips that women were approached by a man they met through online dating web-sites and solicited for money.

Dallon Kyle Johnstone, who is 28, is charged with fraud under $5,000.

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JILL LAWLESS AND KEN DILANIAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — British and U.S. offi-cials said Wednesday they have information suggesting the Russian jetliner that crashed in the Egyptian desert may have been brought down by a bomb, and Britain said it was suspending flights to and from the Sinai Peninsula indefinitely.

Intercepted communications played a role in the tentative conclusion that the Islamic State group’s Sinai affiliate planted an explosive device on the plane, said a U.S. official briefed on the matter. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss intelli-gence matters publicly.

The official and others said there had been no formal judgment rendered by the CIA or other intel-ligence agencies, and that forensic evidence from the blast site, includ-ing the airplane’s black box, was still being analyzed.

The official added that intelligence analysts don’t believe the operation was ordered by Islamic State leaders in Raqqa, Syria. Rather, they believe that if it was a bomb, it was planned and executed by the Islamic State’s affiliate in the Sinai, which operates autonomously.

Other officials cautioned that inter-cepted communications can some-times be misleading and that it’s possible the evidence will add up to a conclusion that there was no bomb.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said there was a “sig-nificant possibility” the crash was

caused by a bomb, and Britain was suspending flights to and from the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh indefinitely.

After a meeting of the British gov-ernment’s crisis committee, COBRA, Hammond said Britain was advising its citizens not to go on vacation to Sharm el-Sheikh, which is visited by hundreds of thousands of Britons a year.

Meanwhile, Russian and Egyptian investigators said Wednesday that the cockpit voice recorder of the Metro-jet Airbus 321-200 had suffered sub-

stantial damage in the weekend crash that killed 224 people. Information from the flight data recorder has been successfully copied and handed over to investigators, the Russians added.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s office said British aviation experts had been sent to Sharm el-Sheikh, where the flight originated, to assess security before British flights there would be allowed to resume.

Several British flights due to leave Sharm el-Sheikh for the U.K. Wed-nesday were grounded, leaving hun-

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said late Wednesday that the team’s preliminary report “noted that the Egyptian authorities had stepped up their efforts but that more remains to be done.”

Downing Street said it could not say “categorically” why the Russian jet had crashed.

“But as more information has come to light, we have become con-cerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device,” it said in a statement.

A woman lights a candle on Wednesday at an entrance of Pulkovo airport outside St. Petersburg, Russia, during a day of

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Being a full-time caregiver can be exhausting

Dear Annie: I have been taking care of my mother since I was 17 and she was disabled from a car accident and unable to work.

I am now 47, and Mom is 72. Her health is getting worse, so my hus-band and I recently moved her in with us.

My husband and I both work full time. I have caregivers who come in during the day when we are at work, and we take care of her at night.

Annie, I’m so tired. My husband

and I can’t go anywhere overnight. Our sex life has gone downhill, because we are both so exhausted.

Mom has become mean and combative, which makes our lives miserable.

She doesn’t sleep much at night, which means neither do I. There are no other family members around to help.

I have tried to find a skilled nurs-ing facility or other assisted living place, but am having a hard time finding one that she can afford. I want her somewhere safe, but I also want my life back. I know this sounds awful of me. Any suggestions would be helpful.

– Drained and Frustrated

Dear Drained: Being a full-time caregiver is a tiring job, and you’ve been at it for most of your life.

It is perfectly natural that you are

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But first ask about resources for respite care for yourself. You deserve it.

Dear Annie: A good friend of mine has a very rude daughter. “Susie” got married two years ago and I attended the ceremony and gave her a monetary gift. She never thanked me. Within months, Susie dumped the husband and immediately got pregnant by another man. She had a baby shower, which I attended, and I gave her a nice gift. Again, no thank-you note.

Susie is getting married for the second time and I am invited to the wedding. I have no desire to give her yet another gift that will be com-pletely ignored and unappreciated. What do you say? Do I have to give her something?

— Thank-You’s Still Appreciated

Dear Thank-You’s: If you attend the wedding, you are under an obligation to give a gift, although it doesn’t need to be as generous as the first one. If you do not receive any thank-you note in three to six months, it is perfectly OK to call Susie and ask whether the gift was received.

You’d be surprised how often such things are lost or misplaced, espe-cially when the gifts are brought to the wedding instead of sent to the bride’s home.

This includes cards with money inside. And thank-you notes can alsogo astray.

Of course, if Susie did receive the gift and is simply too rude to have sent an acknowledgment of any kind, she deserves to squirm a little when you ask her about it.

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Juno-winning rocker Matthew Good is back with a new record and tour — and he’s incorporating his love for cartography into the mix.

Good, formerly lead singer of the Matthew Good Band, is criss-crossing Canada to promote his latest album, and has put his artistic skills to use by drawing a map including all his tour stops.

The map, which looks like something out of medieval history, is something that was inspired by the game Dungeons & Dragons, a longtime hobby for the Hello Time Bomb singer.

“I played the game for decades, I mean the first time I was exposed to it was in California by my cousin in 1980,” said Good.

“I came home, bought it, played it until I was about 30, but through that, I really kind of got into studying probably something from about 10th century to 16th or 17th century cartography.”

Good said would amuse himself with his newfound love of cartography by drawing fictional settings and places, but his record label got the idea to include the map of Canada Good had hand-drawn on the artist’s website.

It includes castles marking each city the tour stops in, allowing fans the chance to click on each structure for a chance to claim prizes, including D&D starter packs.

The name of Good’s new album, Chaotic Neu-tral, is also a loving reference to an alignment of characters in the game.

Good, who has won acclaim for a career that spans seven solo studio albums, plus four with the Matthew Good Band, also graced the cover of his new record with a striking photo of his son Tom on a beach.

The photo was taken by immediately after the youngster had fallen over, hands covered in mud, with a plaintive expression on his face.

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Title intended to point to new album’s dramatic shifts in toneGOOD, From Page 16

Good chose the image when he and his wife, a photographer, were flipping through photos together.

“She was down at the beach with the kids on a rainy day, and his big thing is flipping over rocks to find crabs,” Good said.

“And I guess what had happened was he had fallen and he did a bit of a header in the mud.”

Good’s wife had been taking photos of their youngest daughter, “and as Tom came towards her, she just turned the camera towards him and just, as the artist she is, just bam! bam! bam!,” Good said, mimicking a camera shutter.

“As soon as I saw that image, I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s the cover of the rec-ord,” he said.

The image is juxtaposed with a calm-er photo of the younger Good inside the album, another nod to the album’s title, which Good said is intended to represent dramatic shifts in tone between songs.

The Burnaby-born singer said the ‘album’ format may be one that is get-ting lost as the music industry chan-

ges, despite its artistic importance.The industry is facing the increasing

dominance of digital downloads and streaming services.

“I kind of think of it very much along the lines of, in this day and age if you handed someone in their 20s (Pink Floyd’s) Wish You Were Here, would they sit through the first four minutes of that song? Like, ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond?’” Good said. “Would they?”

“I understand that the relevance and the importance of ‘the album as a whole. Do I feel that it is something that is getting lost and could very well find some years of absence? Yes I do, I believe that that could happen,” Good said.

“I don’t know, I can’t actually say that there will be inevitably a swing back. I can’t say that. I hope so. I real-ly, really do hope so, because that’s really as far as I’m concerned and art-ist’s bread and butter.”

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There was a time in the late ’90s when the catchy aggressive sounds of pop-punk ruled the day powered by American bands like Blink 182 and Green Day.

The Canadian leader of the move-ment came out Langley in the form of Gob.

Known for hits like I Hear You Calling and Give Up The Grudge, Gob peaked in the first few years of the new millennium with the albums the World According to Gob and Foot In Mouth Disease.

Still active and touring in sup-port of its 2014 release Apt. 13,

Gob will be in Nanaimo tonight for a performance at the Queen’s.

“Ripe with Gob’s now-signature energetic, guitar-driven take on punk rock, Apt. 13 finds the band picking up right where they left off,” the band website states.

“The new offering leans less towards the straight-up pop influ-ence of earlier albums and instead puts focus on a fuller, more layered rock sound that includes sonic ele-ments of decades past. The result is a product with a depth that begs for repeat spins while keeping it as catchy and anthemic as anything they’ve put out before.

The album is Gob’s first full

release in seven years. The band assures its fans this is still Gob — guitar-driven, melodic, and full of pure piss and vinegar but with some fresh new elements tossed into the mix.

“We made a semi-conscious deci-sion to write more upbeat songs than the last record,” Thacker notes. “We’re all pretty stoked on life in general, and this one is morein tune with that attitude.”

Gob hits the stage Nov. 5 with Boids at the Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cresc., in Nanaimo.

Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, or check at ticketzone.com.

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Mangan returns to do-it-yourself musicAARON HINKS DAILY NEWS

Dan Mangan is going back to his roots.

Mangan kept busy this year with his band, Dan Mangan + Blacksmith. The group released their LP, Club Meds, earlier this year. Mangan has decided to take a break from touring with a full band and will be hitting the road by himself.

“I started out playing alone, I loved playing with the band, but on some level I needed to prove to myself after all these years that I could still put on a show just by myself,” Mangan said.

With Mangan’s recent material he has put more emphasis on the lyrical com-ponents of his songs. Every song, he says, has a very specific intention, where as in the beginning he was more or less just stringing words together.

“The thing about these newer songs is that I’m extremely proud of the lyrics and worked so tirelessly to refine and edit them to what they are.

“Sometimes I do fear with a full band people aren’t hearing the lyrics. A nice thing about one voice, one guitar and a mic is the fact that all of a sudden the lyrics really take a forefront place in what’s happening and I can kind of trust that people are hearing every word,” Mangan said.

Mangan will be at the Port Theatre Nov. 18 and will be playing a healthy mix of new and old.

“When I was younger I really just wanted a seat at the table. This big world of music and writing songs, I was doing my darnedest to be among the people that did that kind of thing. I

think there’s an important charm and naivety in my early work.

“I think what you don’t know can be a bit of a benefit. My early work is quite earnest, has a lot of character into it. As it developed I think the songs got a little bit less universal. I think that the newer material is much more pointed,” Mangan said.

He reflected on the lost experience of owning the disc, being able to share it, lend it, as Canadian musicians are struggling to find a way to get com-pensated for their work in the world of illegal downloading and legal streaming.

“I think for me it does come back to the basics, getting in front of people and playing shows and that’s the most important thing to not only get your music out there, but to get it in the mind and hearts of people you’ve been playing for years.

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Reigning Juno winner makes debutROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Four-time Juno Award winner reggae artist Exco Levi will be making his debut appearance on Vancouver Island at The Queen’s in Nanaimo on Nov. 12.

After emigrating to Canada in 2005, the Jamaica-raised and Toronto-based reggae vocalist and musician has taken the Canadian reggae scene by storm, winning four consecutive Juno Awards for “Reggae Recording of the Year” from 2012 to 2015.

Influenced by greats such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Garnet Silk, Levi stays true to the spirit and vibe of the early icons while delivering a modern sound and a commanding stage presence that engages audiences wherever he performs.

Levi’s lyrical content ranges from revolutionary and fiery to loving and celebratory.

As a testament to his relevance in contemporary reggae inter-nationally, Levi was featured on the line up of Jamaica’s renowned Rebel Salute festival just this past January.

This year, for the first time, Levi performed in Africa.

With Jamaica’s dancehall artist Busy Signal, Levi made a guest appearance in Zimbabwe on Oct. 31 and was blown away by thou-sands in the audience singing with him on Jah Nah Sleep, his single, produced and distributed through Europe and Africa.

This is a first time for a Canadian reggae artist on stage in Zimbabwe

where the late Bob Marley per-formed for that nation’s independ-ence on April 17, 1980.

Simon Schachner, a spokesman for Nanaimo Reggae Massive which is sponsoring Levi’s performance in the city, said it was a “big effort” by NRM and the local reggae com-munity to bring Levi here.

“He is a big name in Toronto, Jamaica and Europe and we’re delighted that our efforts to bring Levi here were successful,” Schachner said.

“It’s his first time on the Island and he will also be appearing in concerts in Victoria, Duncan, Cumberlands and Vancouver. We’re always keeping our eyes and ears open for talent to bring to Nanaimo and we’re excited about Levi coming here.”

Schachner said Afrolanders, Nanaimo’s new Afrobeat, pop, and reggae. super group, will open for Levi.

The band is comprised of Vancou-ver Islanders who hail originally from various African and Caribbean countries and share a love for playing music and getting people dancing.

“They have lots of energy and are great live,” Schachner said.

The tickets for the show are $13.50 in advance at the Port The-atre box office, and $12 at the door for university students with IDs from Vancouver Island University.

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Moliere gets the VIU theatre treatmentDAILY NEWS

Tartuffe was written in 1664 France, but Vancou-ver Island University’s theatre program believes the themes of Moliere’s comedy will have no problem res-onating with modern audiences.

This classic is a comic play about a con artist extra-ordinaire who oozes piety and charm while duping a wealthy Parisian patriarch and seducing his wife.

Director Leon Potter calls it a cautionary tale told with star-crossed lovers, a badgering grandma and a plot that could be ripped from the headlines or a Sat-urday night comedy show.

“Will his hypocrisy be discovered before Orgon’s household is turned on its head?” he said.

The play runs at 8 p.m. Thursday Friday and Satur-day of this week and next at the school’s Malaspina Theatre, with 4 p.m. matinees Nov. 10 and 12 and another noon show Nov. 12. Tickets at $10 for students and seniors, and $12 for adults at the door.

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Joel Scott of Chemainus is one of 14 writers, ‘of a certain age,’ to make it onto the first Cedric Literary Awards shortlist.

The Cedric Award is open to B.C. writers over the age of 50. Scott earned his place in the running for his fiction entry titled Arrows Flight.

Arrow’s Flight is the story of a man with a past who unexpectedly inherits an old 12-metre sailing ketch and thinks it will change his life for the better.

Unfortunately ‘such is not the case,’ and after some bad decisions he ends up fleeing for his life down the West Coast and beyond, pursued by unknown assailants.

Marrgitta Maud of Duncan has also made the running with her creative non-fiction piece, Out of Darkness.

Cedric winners — categories are Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Poetry and First Nations — will be announced Nov. 10 at the Roundhouse Community and Recreation Centre in Vancouver.

As well as the honour, each winner will take home a $3,000 cheque.

More than 160 manuscripts were submitted for the award, which “encourages and celebrates the writing talents of B.C. seniors with a lifetime of experience to share.”

“This year’s inaugural competition has surpassed all expectations in terms of participation and interest on the part of writers and those with an interest in writ-ing and publishing,” said Veronica Osborn, executive director of the Cedric Awards.

WRITING COUNTRY

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Lisa Brokop’s career took off when life imi-tated art.

A child prodigy from Vancouver who was singing on stage at the age of seven, Brokop at 19 landed the lead female role in the fea-ture film Harmony Cats. She portrayed a country singer who leaves home in search of a big break in Nashville.

“The final scene of the movie was me being discovered and going off to Nashville,” Bro-kop recalls in an interview from Nashville. “Hoyt Axton plays the part of the big produ-cer who discovers me, and I go off to Nash-ville to become a big star.

“The very next week in real life, I went to Nashville and I did my first showcase and I got my first record deal.”

After signing with Capitol Records, Brokop released two critically acclaimed albums. She has lived in Nashville for the past two decades.

Brokop will perform songs from her new Patsy Cline Project album Nov. 8 at the Sid Williams Theatre.

Brokop says she fell in love as a young girl with Cline’s songs.

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“There was an ache in her songs at times that not every singer is able to do. She’s just right there in the moment. You just can’t help but be moved by the songs.”

One of the most nominated and award-win-ning female vocalists in Canadian country music history, Brokop has released eight studio albums, more than a dozen Top 40 radio hits and achieved certified gold record sales.

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Canucks lose 3-2 as comeback falls shortSidney Crosby ends scoring worries as Pittsburgh jumped out to a 3-0 lead before Canucks started clicking

JASON BOTCHFORD THE PROVINCE

There was a time when the Pittsburgh Penguins coming to Vancouver was an event.

There would be ad campaigns curled around it. Sidney Crosby would host his scrums from a podium in a press conference room. Fans would pay extreme prices to get a glimpse of a hockey god.

Those salad days are long gone. One media outlet bothered to send a camera Tuesday to the only practice the Penguins will have in Vancouver this year. That’s more than you can say for the Vancouver Canucks until it was too late.

As the city shrugged for Crosby’s one visit a year, the Canucks spent two periods shrugging right along with it. That’s partly because the Penguins play an awfully boring brand of hockey. They collapse around the net and block shots like John Tortorella is cracking the bull whip from the bench.

It takes a certain type of player and a certain type of game to cut through that swamp they flood the ice with. The Canucks had neither.

It’s not like nothing happened Wed-nesday. Jannik Hansen was great. He scored and hit a post on a breakaway. Marc-Andre Fleury made what has to be one of the saves of the year, leap-ing like a jack-in-the-box to glove a Brandon Sutter shot. Oh, and Crosby got a goal of his own.

At least Crosby did something. The

Sedins did not. At least not enough. Yes, Daniel scored, re-directing a Matt Bartkowski shot to cut the Pittsburgh lead to 3-1.

But there was no cycle for this one, few scoring chances and they got beat for a shorthanded goal when they were on a third period power play. Sure, it was after Alex Edler broke his stick. But it was still a per-fect representation for how this one went for Vancouver. Not well.

The Canucks are built like this: It’s

the Sedin line and it’s everyone else. It may be unfair, but it is reality.

The “everyone else” can help here and there. But if the Canucks are going to keep their heads above .500, they need the Sedins to be happen-ing. Right now, they are not.

WHAT THIS MEANSIt just may be time to play Jannik

Hansen with the Sedins again.I can’t believe I’m calling for this,

but Wednesday he was pure fire

against Pittsburgh. He had the pen-alty kill shift of the season in the first period when he set up Bo Horvat on a 2-on-1, then stripped Evgeni Mal-kin of the puck, then stripped Phil Kessel of the puck and then nearly set up Brandon Sutter all alone in front of the net. That was all in one freakin’ shift.

Hansen later drew a penalty and set up Horvat on two more score chances. Late in the third, he scored a goal.

He is absolutely flying right now and the Canucks could definitely be getting more out of the Sedin line.

They’ve had Radim Vrbata with them for several games, but without a player working the boards and retrieving pucks, there just hasn’t been enough going on.

This just has not been a great start to the season for Vrbata, who has yet to consistently look like the most

valuable player he was last year.

WHAT WE LEARNEDPlaying well defensively is not

going to be enough to keep Sven Baertschi in the lineup.

Baertschi has been on the ice for one goal against this season. It leads the team. But he was a healthy scratch for the third time this season for Wednesday’s game.

It seems he has to score goals if he wants to stick. There’s some irony there because in Calgary, Baertschi was ripped for only trying to score and not bothering with defence.

Now that he’s dialled that part of of his game in, the team wants him more focused on scoring.

That’s got to be confusing.

IN A WORDWEAKSAUCE: That was Jake Vir-

tanen’s clearing attempt in the first period. His soft attempt to get the puck out allowed the Penguins pos-session and led directly to the game’s first goal.

WEASEL: Phil Kessel cross-checked Derek Dorsett in the second period and then got his stick up as Dorsett came after him. Of course, Dorsett had some not-so-nice things to say about that when they both got to the penalty box.

TRAP: That was Jacques Martin in the Pens dressing room between per-iods. He’s a special advisor to their head coach. Wondering what’s wrong with Sidney Crosby? Start there.

Pittsburgh Penguins centre Sidney Crosby, right, tries to get a shot past

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BOXING

Nanaimo club will get competitive againWith the return of Team B.C. head coach Bob Pegues to his hometown, boxing set to thrive in Nanaimo

SCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS

Don’t call it a comeback — the Nanaimo Boxing Club has been here for years.

But with Bob Pegues back in the fold, it is primed for

a resurgence in competitive boxing.“It’s a bonus for the kids to have a

coach of his calibre in Nanaimo,” said boxing club head coach Barry Creswell.

“It’s huge to get a person to commit like that. He’s living boxing.”

Pegues is the head coach of the B.C. boxing team, a group of provincial champions fighting on the national and international scales.

He grew up in Nanaimo, fighting out of the club alongside his friend, Cre-swell, under then-coach Les Varro.

A career move, however, pulled Pegues and his family to Prince George, where he would later open up the Inner City Boxing Club.

Decades later, he’s back in Nanaimo, and is ready to help put a competitive team together at the Nanaimo Boxing Club.

“One of the really attractive things about this club is that all the infra-structure is already in place,” Pegues said.

“This is such an insanely busy club.”Pegues arrives at a time when the

local boxing club’s numbers are exploding.

“It’s always been growing,” Creswell said. “It’s a blessing and a curse. There’s only so much you can do. And that’s where more coaches come in handy.

“Just lately we’ve been getting help, but for the longest time it’s been me. Once you become head coach, every-thing is on you. You have to fix the plumbing, you’ve got to be the car-penter, electrician and all that, plus be a coach.”

On any given night, groups of junior and senior boxers can reach up to 50 people. With limited resources, Creswell was simply unable to take the time to train competitive boxers, especially as numbers at the club grew.

“I’ve had lots of competitors, but I’ve been hurt,” Creswell said.

“I got into a car accident that really slowed me down, and it’s just lately that I’ve been able to get back into it. And when Bob said he’s going to come down, I said that’s great. I know his calibre of coaching. We were coached by the same coach.”

Now, local boxers such as 17-year-old Alex Wisniewski have one of the top coaches in the country at their disposal.

“I never had such a high-level coach with me, and it’s nice to have someone

like that,” Wisniewski said as he took a break from training Wednesday night.

“I knew I could go far in boxing, but just having him here, he can give me more input and really drive me to hit that higher level.”

Three years ago, Wisniewski was new to the sport, but when he was asked by Creswell if he wanted to fight an exhib-ition bout, he jumped at it.

“That was on a Wednesday, and the fight was a Friday,” he said. “I had a good time, and I wanted to do it again.

“It kid of snowballed from there.”It’s attitudes like his that Creswell

believes, with Pegues in the fold, more young athletes coming to train at the club will look to get competitive in the sport.

Years ago, when Creswell was training competitive boxers out of Nanaimo, he took 13 of them to Prince George for matches at Pegues’ gym.

“That was in the better years when I had so many kids, and so many kids who wanted to compete,” Creswell said.

“But when two or three of them get trophies, then all of them want a tro-phy. Now they all get hungry and they all want to box.

“The kids start training and start improving, and they like it. It sort of spreads, and they want you there all the time. You can’t get away after a while, because everybody wants the skills that their buddies learned.”

But it’s not easy to fight competitively. On top of being at the gym three nights a week, fighters need to prepare beyond what their opponents are doing.

“It’s a huge commitment,” Creswell said, “and it’s hard to get kids who are going to school or working to commit like that. You have to really live, breathe and eat boxing, and that’s what they’re doing.”

Pegues’ role with Boxing B.C. is already paying dividends for Nanaimo, as well. On Feb. 27, the provincial team will host the Irish national team in the Harbour City — more details will be available soon.

“It’s going to be amazing, high-calibre boxing,” Pegues said.

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Alex Wisniewski, left, trains with Bob Pegues at the Nanaimo Boxing Club on Wednesday. [SCOTT MCKENZIE/DAILY NEWS]

“When two or three of them get trophies, now they all want trophies.“

Barry Creswell, Nanaimo Boxing Club

NBA

Raptors win again, move to 5-0CLIFF BRUNT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

OKLAHOMA CITY — DeMar DeRozan scored 10 of his 28 points in the fourth quarter, and the Toronto Raptors over-came an eight-point deficit in the final six minutes to beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 103-98 on Wednesday night and remain undefeated.

Jonas Valanciunas had 17 points and 12 rebounds and Kyle Lowry added 17 points for the Raptors (5-0), who beat Dallas the night before. Toronto shot 42 per cent from the field, but benefited from 19 Oklahoma City turn-overs. Russell Westbrook scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half and finished with 16 assists.

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COLLEGE SOCCERJUNIOR B HOCKEY

Samantha Rodgers was a key contributor to the VIU Mariners during her five years with the team. [SUBMITTED]

Longtime Mariner’s career comes to endEARLE COUPER COMOX VALEY RECORD

All good things must come to an end. For Royston’s Samantha Rodgers, a great thing came to an end Saturday when she helped guide the Vancouver Island University Mariners women’s soccer team to a silver medal at the PacWest conference championships.

In her fifth and final season with VIU, Rodgers was named top defender at the four-team tournament, held in Burnaby. The defending PacWest champion and No. 2 seed Mariners defeated the Quest Kermodes 1-0 in the Friday semifinals then fell 2-0 to the top-ranked Douglas College Royals on Saturday. Rodgers was tournament MVP when VIU won the title in 2014.

It was a bitter-sweet ending to her stellar university career.

“I am still a little stunned the season is over,” said Rodgers, a G.P Vanier grad. “My five years at VIU have had many highs and lows with soccer and school. This past season was the fastest one yet and felt unbeliev-ably quick, and that is saying a lot as I have gotten used to the quick two-three month season these past five years.

“Going into the provincials this year it was hard for me, knowing the amazing feeling of winning provin-cials last year as well as the possibility that I could be playing the last games of my university career.

“Also, I was shocked to receive the defender of the tournament this year as well as the MVP last year. I wouldn’t be half the player I am without the amazing players, coaches and family on and off the field around me.”

One of those players is her sister, Katie, who is in her third year with the Mariners.

“(She) has been a huge supporter throughout my university career as well as this year,” Rodgers said.

As for other family, they were out in force in Burnaby.

“My parents Mike and Tammy, brother Austin and our current exchange student from Germany, Sebas-tian, made it to the tourney. I have been so thankful of the support from my family throughout my life as well as through university. They have always been my No. 1 fans and I couldn’t have asked for anything more,” the Nursing program student said, adding, “I consider my teammates past and present as part of that family and support system too.”

While her provincial MVP and top defender honours were a shock for Rodgers, they were much less of a surprise to VIU head coach Anup Kang.

“Samantha has been a starter for us from day one. She was our captain for two years, and over the five years Sam has consistently been one of the top players in PacWest conference,” he said.

“She has been a perfect role model for our commun-ity and with her hard work, she’s been a great example for our younger players.

It will be very difficult to replace Sam as she’s set the bar so high.

“She deserves all the accolades.”

Bucs roll into tonight’s home gameDAILY NEWS

Nanaimo Buccaneers captain Jordan Leves-que was named as the Vancouver Island Jun-ior Hockey League’s player of the week this week, racking up nine points in three wins.

And as Levesque begins to roll along, so too are the Bucs ahead of their home game tonight at the Nanaimo Ice Centre at 7:15 p.m. against the Kerry Park Islanders.

The Bucs (12-5-1-1) have taken over top spot in the VIJHL North Division, four points clear of the defending league, provincial and western Canadian champion Campbell River Storm.

They’re also just three points behind the Victoria Cougars for first place in the VIJHL.

Right now, Levesque is leading the Bucs surge that has saw them win three straight games, and four of their last six.

He is the team’s all-time leader in virtually every offensive statistic in his fourth and final year in the organization, and this year ahs become a prime offensive threat.

Heading into tonight’s game, his 34 points off 11 goals and 23 assists are fourth best in the VIJHL, and first among all players not playing for the Cougars.

Eighteen-year-old winger Trent Bell is also

making positive strides this season, and is sixth overall in league scoring with 25 points off 14 goals and 11 assists.

After a dissappointing finish last season saw them eliminated in the first round of the playoffs against the Comox Valley Glacier Kings last spring, the Bucs ownership com-mitted to winning this season.

They parted ways with head coach Derek Bachynski and brought in Dan Lemmon. They also recruited well, bringing in local players with Junior A and major junior hock-ey experience, such as Nick Gomerich, Zach Funk and Jake Calverley. So far, it seems their commitment is paying off.

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NHL McDavid will miss ‘months’ with injuryDEAN BENNETT THE CANADIAN PRESS

Edmonton Oilers rookie phenom Connor McDavid was expected to undergo surgery Wednesday to repair a broken left collarbone, with a recuperation period expected to stretch into months.

“He’ll be out indefinitely,” Oilers general manger Peter Chiarelli told a news con-ference at Rexall Place.

“We’re talking about months. We don’t have a particular time frame, but as I said, plural, months. There will be plates and screws involved (in the surgery).”

McDavid was injured Tuesday night in the Oilers’ 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers.

Racing down the left wing toward the Flyers goal late in the second period, with Flyer defenders Brandon Manning and Michael Del Zotto beside him, McDavid appeared to lose the edge on his skate.

The trio fell and plowed hard into the end boards.McDavid struggled to his feet and skated slowly to

the bench.“He didn’t have much to say (after the game),” said

Chiarelli.“He was upset. He loves to play the game and he

won’t be playing it for a while.”He said McDavid has age and character on his side.“The silver lining is that he’s young, he’s a strong kid

mentally and physically, he’s still developing so he’ll come back probably even stronger,” Chiarelli said.

“In my experience with these significant injuries with younger players they come back stronger.”

McDavid went down in the 13th game of his rookie season, but in that time he had already established himself as one of the key players and catalysts on the Oilers.

McDavid has five goals and 12 points in 12 games this season. He was named rookie of the month for October.

The Oilers are 5-8 and fighting to return to the play-offs for the first time in a decade.

McDAVID

During long career, Pronger reached Cup fi nals three times Feared defenceman will enter Hall of Fame after a concussion ended his career STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

Chris Pronger helped get the Edmonton Oil-ers get one win away from the Stanley Cup final in 2006, but with

his family unhappy living there, general manager Kevin Lowe went about trying to trade him.

At the following NHL draft, Oilers assistant GM Scott How-son put a piece of paper on four teams’ tables. The one on the Anaheim Ducks’ table listed a first-round pick, Ladislav Smid and Joffrey Lupul for Pronger, and immediately GM Brian Burke agreed.

Without enough salary-cap space for the next season, the trade was delayed until July, which extended negotiations.

“(Lowe) said, ‘If I do this, I’m punching your ticket to the finals,”’ Burke recalled. “He knew what he was trading to us as an asset.”

For a stretch of his career, Pronger was a human ticket to the Cup final. He helped the Oil-ers get close in 2006, was a key piece of the Ducks’ champion-ship in 2007 and then led the Philadelphia Flyers to another impressive run to the Stanley Cup final in 2010 before they lost Game 6 to Chicago.

Counting world-junior gold for Canada in 1993 and Olympic gold in 2002 and 2010, Pronger was a winner throughout his career that will culminate in his Hall of Fame induction on Mon-day. Few players could match the Stanley Cup playoff impact of the big, bruising defenceman.

“Whoever is playing against you, it changes their outlook,” Burke said by phone. “If you’re preparing for a team that has Chris Pronger, your playoff prep-aration’s very different than if you’re preparing for a team that doesn’t have him.”

The Oilers knew that because coach Craig MacTavish had played with Pronger on the St. Louis Blues. The price of defenceman Eric Brewer and prospects Doug Lynch and Jeff Woywitka was well worth it, and

so was the new US$31.5-million, five-year contract.

Edmonton was a budget team, but when Lowe told Cal Nichols the cost, the team’s chairman gave the green light.

“He clearly, knowing the game and knowing what an impact player like that can mean not only to our team at the time but the city of Edmonton bringing in a top-ranked player and still at a relatively young age, it would make the team better and it would really make a statement to people around hockey that we got our sign out: We’re in busi-ness,” Lowe said by phone.

Lowe didn’t think that trade would help the Oilers get all the way to Game 7 of the Cup final. Acquiring Dwayne Roloson for a first-round pick helped, too, but after the goalie’s injury in Game 1 against the Carolina Hurri-canes, Pronger easily could’ve

been the Conn Smythe Trophy winner as playoff MVP had the Oilers won.

Burke called Pronger Ana-heim’s “biggest hurdle” to a Cup, and he was that in the Western Conference final. When Lowe said that Pronger was going to get the Ducks to the Cup final, Burke agreed to send an extra conditional first-round pick to Edmonton.

“We knew it was a high price and a steep price, but to me how can you overpay for Chris Pronger?” said Burke, who’s now president of hockey operations for the Calgary Flames.

With Pronger and Conn Smythe defenceman Scott Niedermayer leading the way, the Ducks cruised through the playoffs and polished off the Ottawa Senators in five games.

“Everybody almost to a man had career years and had fantas-tic seasons and ultimately that’s what it takes,” Pronger said on the Hall of Fame conference call in June. “We could play the physical game, we could play the finesse game. It kind of fit my personality perfectly.”

Nothing fit Pronger’s person-

ality more perfectly than playing for a team known for the “Broad Street Bullies.” With Pronger’s contract coming to an end, the Ducks looked to trade him and the Flyers tried to acquire him, but the teams couldn’t work any-thing out at the 2009 deadline.

At the draft, the Flyers followed the same template as the 2006 deal, sending Lupul, a young defenceman (Luca Sbisa) and two first-round picks to the Ducks for an older but still for-midable Pronger. Then-GM Paul Holmgren wanted Pronger after being eliminated from the play-offs two straight years by Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

“The opportunity to acquire Chris intrigued us because we thought if we’re going to get to the Stanley Cup finals, we probably got to go through Pitts-burgh at some point,” Holmgren said by phone.

Just like in 2006 and 2007, Pronger averaged 30 minutes of ice time and played all situations for the Cinderella Flyers. Lead-ing scorer Daniel Briere said Pronger’s presence was notice-able because “You always felt like everyone was afraid of him.”

Injuries derailed Pronger’s career, and an accidental stick to the eye from Mikhail Grabovski caused concussion problems that forced him to stop play-ing. Now working in the NHL’s department of player safety, he’ll go into the Hall technically as an active player and technically with the Arizona Coyotes, who acquired his contract over the summer.

But when hockey people remember Pronger’s career, they’ll remember him winning the Norris and Hart Trophies, gold medals and, of course, the Stanley Cup.

“Chris is unique, and not just from the size and physical toughness standpoint,” Holm-gren said. “He could handle the puck, he could defend, he could shoot the puck, he could do it all. I think he was one of the greatest defencemen to ever play our game.”

Anaheim Ducks Chris Pronger hoists the Stanley Cup after defeating the Ottawa Senators in Game 5 of the NHL Stanley Cup hockey finals in Anaheim on June 6, 2007. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]

“You always felt like everyone was afraid of him.“

Daniel Briere, former teammate

Jets glad Byfuglien can continue his physical playSTEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS

Dustin Byfuglien wasn’t sure what kind of day was in store as he awaited word from the NHL on whether he was getting suspended for a hit on Brendan Gallagher.

“I was just kind of wondering what kind of afternoon it could

turn (out) to be: a grumpy one or one that you’re just getting prepared for a game,” Byfuglien said.

Fortunately for Byfuglien and the Winnipeg Jets, Tuesday turned out to be a day of prep-aration. The league decided the big defenceman didn’t make enough contact to the small

Montreal Canadiens forward’s head to warrant more discipline, so Byfuglien and the Jets move forward knowing his game is a lot about playing on the edge.

“I’ve got to play the way I play,” Byfuglien said Wednesday as he prepared to face the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“That’s who I am. I just go out

there, I play hard and do my job and just keep it simple.”

Byfuglien has a history with the NHL’s department of player safety.

He was suspended four games late last season for a cross check on New York Rangers forward J.T. Miller and had been fined three previous times.

NHL FOOTBALLCFLEAST DIVISION GP W L T PF PA Ptx-Ottawa 17 11 6 0 420 426 22x-Hamilton 17 10 7 0 502 347 20x-Toronto 17 9 8 0 417 488 18Montreal 17 6 11 0 364 372 12

WEST DIVISION GP W L T PF PA Pty-Edmonton 18 14 4 0 466 341 28x-Calgary 17 13 4 0 450 339 26x-B.C. 17 7 10 0 430 458 14Winnipeg 17 5 12 0 342 481 10Saskatchewan 17 2 15 0 400 539 4x — clinched playoff berthy — clinched divisionWEEK 20

Winnipeg at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Hamilton at Ottawa, 4 p.m.Calgary at B.C., 7 p.m.

Saskatchewan at Montreal, 1 p.m.END OF REGULAR SEASON

NFLAMERICAN CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PANew England 7 0 0 1.000 249 133N.Y. Jets 4 3 0 .571 172 139Buffalo 3 4 0 .429 176 173Miami 3 4 0 .429 154 173

SOUTH W L T Pct PF PAIndianapolis 3 4 0 .429 147 174Houston 3 5 0 .375 174 205Jacksonville 2 5 0 .286 147 207Tennessee 1 6 0 .143 125 159

NORTH W L T Pct PF PACincinnati 7 0 0 1.000 198 132Pittsburgh 4 4 0 .500 168 147Cleveland 2 6 0 .250 167 216Baltimore 2 6 0 .250 190 214

WEST W L T Pct PF PADenver 7 0 0 1.000 168 112Oakland 4 3 0 .571 178 173Kansas City 3 5 0 .375 195 182San Diego 2 6 0 .250 191 227

NATIONAL CONFERENCEEAST W L T Pct PF PAN.Y. Giants 4 4 0 .500 215 208Washington 3 4 0 .429 148 168Philadelphia 3 4 0 .429 160 137Dallas 2 5 0 .286 133 171

SOUTH W L T Pct PF PACarolina 6 0 0 1.000 162 110Atlanta 6 2 0 .750 213 173New Orleans 4 4 0 .500 213 234Tampa Bay 3 4 0 .429 163 199

NORTH W L T Pct PF PAGreen Bay 6 1 0 .857 174 130Minnesota 5 2 0 .714 147 122Chicago 2 5 0 .286 140 202Detroit 1 7 0 .125 149 245

WEST W L T Pct PF PAArizona 6 2 0 .750 263 153St. Louis 4 3 0 .571 135 125Seattle 4 4 0 .500 167 140San Francisco 2 6 0 .250 109 207

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Cleveland at Cincinnati, 8:25 p.m.

Tennessee at New Orleans, 1 p.m.St. Louis at Minnesota, 1 p.m.Green Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m.Washington at New England, 1 p.m.Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.Oakland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m.N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay, 4:05 p.m.Denver at Indianapolis, 4:25 p.m.Philadelphia at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Arizona, Baltimore, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Seattle

Chicago at San Diego, 8:30 p.m.

HOCKEYWHLEASTERN CONFERENCEEAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtPrince Albert 17 12 3 1 1 64 50 26Brandon 16 11 3 0 2 66 42 24Moose Jaw 16 8 5 2 1 59 48 19Saskatoon 16 7 6 3 0 54 62 17Regina 14 7 6 1 0 39 49 15Swift Current 16 6 8 2 0 41 50 14

CENTRAL DIVISIONRed Deer 17 12 5 0 0 66 50 24Lethbridge 15 10 5 0 0 64 48 20Calgary 18 9 8 0 1 50 63 19Edmonton 17 5 9 3 0 43 58 13Medicine Hat 13 5 6 1 1 48 53 12Kootenay 17 3 12 2 0 38 71 8

WESTERN CONFERENCEB.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA PtVictoria 18 12 5 0 1 58 36 25Kelowna 16 11 5 0 0 62 49 22Prince George 14 8 6 0 0 39 37 16Kamloops 14 6 8 0 0 46 50 12Vancouver 15 4 8 2 1 43 63 11

U.S. DIVISIONSeattle 15 9 5 1 0 54 39 19Spokane 17 7 7 2 1 48 63 17Portland 14 7 7 0 0 41 34 14Everett 11 6 4 0 1 24 25 13Tri-City 16 6 9 1 0 49 56 13

Edmonton 4 Seattle 2Prince Albert 3 Calgary 2Victoria 5 Moose Jaw 2

Calgary 6 Saskatoon 3Kamloops 5 Spokane 4 (OT)Kelowna 3 Tri-City 1Red Deer 4 Seattle 3Victoria 3 Swift Current 1

No Games Scheduled.

Red Deer at Prince Albert, 6 p.m.Regina at Swift Current, 6 p.m.Moose Jaw at Saskatoon, 6:05 p.m.Victoria at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.Seattle at Lethbridge, 7 p.m.Edmonton at Calgary, 7 p.m.Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.Kamloops at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.Prince George at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

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

BCHLISLAND DIVISION GP W L T OL GF GA PtCowichan Valley 18 10 5 1 2 70 96 23

Powell River 19 10 9 0 0 58 51 20Alberni Valley 17 6 9 1 1 40 59 14Victoria 19 5 12 0 2 44 61 12

INTERIOR DIVISIONPenticton 19 18 1 0 0 84 36 36Salmon Arm 18 11 4 2 1 77 51 25West Kelowna 18 11 5 0 2 63 55 24Vernon 19 9 9 0 1 102 55 19Merritt 20 6 13 0 1 65 91 13Trail 17 6 11 0 0 51 74 12

MAINLAND DIVISIONWenatchee 19 11 5 2 1 69 45 25Chilliwack 18 10 5 1 2 67 49 23Langley 17 11 6 0 0 63 45 22Coquitlam 18 7 8 1 2 47 70 17Prince George 18 5 12 0 1 38 73 11Surrey 18 4 14 0 0 42 86 8

Surrey at Langley, 7:15 p.m.

Vernon at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.Langley at Chilliwack, 7 p.m.Salmon Arm at Surrey, 7 p.m.Cowichan Valley at Victoria, 7 p.m.Merritt at West Kelowna, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.Prince George at Powell River, 7:15 p.m.

at Trail, 7:30 p.m.

Salmon Arm at Langley, 6 p.m. at Penticton, 6 p.m.

Prince George at Alberni Valley, 7 p.m.Vernon at Cowichan Valley, 7 p.m.Coquitlam at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.Trail at Merritt, 7:30 p.m.

NBAEASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBToronto 5 0 1.000 —Atlanta 5 1 .833 1/2Cleveland 4 1 .800 1Detroit 3 1 .750 11/2Washington 3 1 .750 11/2Chicago 3 2 .600 2Miami 2 2 .500 21/2Indiana 2 3 .400 3Milwaukee 2 3 .400 3New York 2 3 .400 3Boston 1 3 .250 31/2Charlotte 1 3 .250 31/2Orlando 1 4 .200 4Philadelphia 0 4 .000 41/2Brooklyn 0 5 .000 5

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GBL.A. Clippers 4 0 1.000 —Golden State 4 0 1.000 —Minnesota 2 1 .667 11/2Oklahoma City 3 2 .600 11/2Phoenix 3 2 .600 11/2Portland 3 2 .600 11/2Memphis 3 2 .600 11/2San Antonio 3 2 .600 11/2Dallas 2 2 .500 2Denver 2 2 .500 2Utah 2 2 .500 2Houston 2 3 .400 21/2Sacramento 1 4 .200 31/2New Orleans 0 4 .000 4L.A. Lakers 0 4 .000 4

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Charlotte 130 Chicago 105Atlanta 98 Miami 92Indiana 94 Detroit 82Orlando 103 New Orleans 94Toronto 102 Dallas 91Memphis 103 Sacramento 89Denver 120 L.A. Lakers 109

Oklahoma City at Chicago, 8 p.m.Miami at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Charlotte at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.Utah at Denver, 9 p.m.Memphis at Portland, 10:30 p.m.

Toronto at Orlando, 7 p.m.Philadelphia at Cleveland, 7:30 p.m.L.A. Lakers at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.Washington at Boston, 7:30 p.m.Milwaukee at New York, 7:30 p.m.Atlanta at New Orleans, 8 p.m.Miami at Indiana, 8 p.m.Detroit at Phoenix, 9:30 p.m.Denver at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.Houston at Sacramento, 10:30 p.m.

SOCCERMLS PLAYOFFSCONFERENCE SEMIFINALS

EASTERN CONFERENCENEW YORK (1) VS. D.C. (4)

New York 1 D.C. 0

D.C. at New York, 3 p.m.

COLUMBUS (2) VS. MONTREAL (3)

Montreal 2 Columbus 1

Montreal at Columbus, 5 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCEDALLAS (1) VS. SEATTLE (4)

Seattle 2 Dallas 1

Seattle at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

VANCOUVER (2) VS. PORTLAND (3)

Vancouver 0, Portland 0

Portland at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE

FIRST ROUNDT

GROUP A

Real Madrid 4 3 1 0 7 0 10Paris St-Germain 4 2 1 1 5 1 7Shakhtar Donetsk 4 1 0 3 4 8 3Malmo 4 1 0 3 1 8 3

Real Madrid (Spain) 1, Paris Saint-Germain (France) 0Shakhtar Donetsk (Ukraine) 4, Malmo (Sweden) 0

Malmo vs. Paris Saint-Germain, 2:45 p.m.Shakhtar Donetsk vs. Real Madrid, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP B

Manchester United 4 2 1 1 5 4 7Wolfsburg 4 2 0 2 4 4 6PSV Eindhoven 4 2 0 2 6 6 6CSKA Moscow 4 1 1 2 4 5 4

Manchester United (England) 1, CSKA Moscow (Russia) 0PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 2, VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) 0

CSKA Moscow vs. Wolfsburg, NoonManchester United vs. PSV Eindhoven, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP C

Atletico Madrid 4 2 1 1 7 2 7Galatasaray 4 1 1 2 5 7 4Astana 4 0 2 2 2 8 2

Astana (Kazakhstan) 0, Atletico Madrid (Spain) 0

(Turkey) 1

AstanAtletico Madrid vs. Galatasaray, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP D

Manchester City 4 3 0 1 8 5 9Juventus 4 2 2 0 5 2 8Sevilla 4 1 0 3 5 7 3Moenchengladbach 4 0 2 2 2 6 2

Borussia Moenchengladbach 1, Juventus 1Sevilla (Spain) 1, Manchester City (England) 3

Borussia Moenchengladbach vs. Sevilla, 2:45 p.m.Juventus vs. Manchester City, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP E

Barcelona 4 3 1 0 8 2 10Roma 4 1 2 1 10 10 5Bayer Leverkusen 4 1 1 2 11 10 4BATE 4 1 0 3 4 11 3

Barcelona 3, BATE Borisov 0Roma 3, Bayer Leverkusen 2

BATE Borisov vs. Bayer Leverkusen, NoonBarcelona vs. Roma, 2:45 p.m.

ATP BNP PARIBAS MASTERS

Andy Murray (2), Britain, def. Borna Coric, Croatia, 6-1, 6-2.

Roger Federer (3), Switzerland, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-1, 6-1.

Tomas Berdych (5), Czech Rep., def. Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5.

Kei Nishikori (6), Japan, def. Jeremy Chardy, France, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (6), 6-1.

Rafael Nadal (7), Spain, def. Lukas Rosol, Czech Rep., 6-2, 6-2.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (9), France, def. Roberto Bautista Agut, Spain, 6-2, 6-2.

Richard Gasquet (10), France, def. Leonardo Mayer, Argentina, 6-2, 7-5.

Kevin Anderson (11), South Africa, def. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).

Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, def. Marin Cilic (12), Croatia, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2).

John Isner (13), U.S., def. Aljaz Bedene, Britain, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Viktor Troicki, Serbia, def. Feliciano Lopez (15), Spain, 6-7 (7), 7-5, 6-4.

Lajovic, Serbia, 6-2, 6-2.

, & Jack Sock, U.S., def. Paul-Henri Mathieu & Benoit Paire, both France, 6-3, 5-7, 10-5.

Bob & Mike Bryan (1), both U.S., def. Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, Pakistan, & Gilles Simon, France, 6-1, 2-6, 10-7.

Jean-Julien Rojer, Netherlands, & Horia Tecau (3), Romania, def.

, & Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, 6-4, 6-2.

TENNIS

EASTERN CONFERENCEATLANTIC DIVISION

Montreal 14 11 2 1 0 51 26 23 5-0-1-0 6-2-0-0 7-2-1-0 L-1Ottawa 12 6 4 0 2 37 37 14 1-3-0-2 5-1-0-0 4-4-0-2 W-1Tampa Bay 14 6 6 1 1 34 36 14 2-3-0-0 4-3-1-1 3-5-1-1 L-1

METROPOLITAN DIVISION

N.Y. Rangers 12 8 2 1 1 36 23 18 6-1-1-0 2-1-0-1 6-2-1-1 W-3N.Y. Islanders 13 7 3 2 1 38 31 17 5-2-2-0 2-1-0-1 6-2-1-1 W-1Washington 11 8 3 0 0 36 28 16 4-2-0-0 4-1-0-0 7-3-0-0 L-1

WILD CARD

Pittsburgh 12 8 4 0 0 27 22 16 4-2-0-0 4-2-0-0 8-2-0-0 W-5Boston 11 6 4 1 0 42 36 13 1-4-1-0 5-0-0-0 6-3-1-0 L-1Detroit 12 6 5 1 0 30 31 13 3-3-0-0 3-2-1-0 4-5-1-0 W-2New Jersey 12 6 5 0 1 29 31 13 2-3-0-1 4-2-0-0 6-3-0-1 L-1Florida 11 5 4 2 0 32 23 12 3-2-1-0 2-2-1-0 4-4-2-0 L-2Carolina 12 5 7 0 0 26 34 10 1-3-0-0 4-4-0-0 5-5-0-0 L-1Buffalo 12 5 7 0 0 28 35 10 3-4-0-0 2-3-0-0 5-5-0-0 W-2Philadelphia 12 4 6 2 0 24 37 10 3-2-1-0 1-4-1-0 4-5-1-0 L-5Toronto 12 2 8 0 2 26 40 6 1-4-0-1 1-4-0-1 2-6-0-2 L-1Columbus 13 3 10 0 0 30 48 6 0-5-0-0 3-5-0-0 3-7-0-0 W-1

WESTERN CONFERENCECENTRAL DIVISION

Dallas 13 10 3 0 0 46 37 20 5-1-0-0 5-2-0-0 8-2-0-0 W-1St. Louis 13 9 3 1 0 36 31 19 4-1-1-0 5-2-0-0 7-2-1-0 W-1Winnipeg 13 8 4 1 0 40 35 17 3-2-1-0 5-2-0-0 6-3-1-0 W-1

PACIFIC DIVISION

Los Angeles 12 8 4 0 0 29 25 16 4-3-0-0 4-1-0-0 8-2-0-0 W-1Vancouver 13 6 3 4 0 38 29 16 2-3-3-0 4-0-1-0 4-3-3-0 L-1San Jose 12 6 6 0 0 33 33 12 2-3-0-0 4-3-0-0 4-6-0-0 L-1

WILD CARD

Minnesota 11 7 2 2 0 35 32 16 5-0-0-0 2-2-2-0 6-2-2-0 L-1Nashville 11 7 2 2 0 32 25 16 4-0-1-0 3-2-1-0 6-2-2-0 L-2Chicago 13 7 5 1 0 33 32 15 6-1-1-0 1-4-0-0 5-4-1-0 L-1Arizona 11 5 5 1 0 30 32 11 1-3-0-0 4-2-1-0 4-5-1-0 L-2Edmonton 13 5 8 0 0 36 41 10 3-4-0-0 2-4-0-0 5-5-0-0 W-1Colorado 12 4 7 1 0 33 36 9 2-4-1-0 2-3-0-0 3-6-1-0 W-1Calgary 13 3 9 0 1 30 56 7 1-5-0-0 2-4-0-1 2-7-0-1 L-1Anaheim 11 2 7 1 1 14 29 6 2-2-0-1 0-5-1-0 2-6-1-1 W-1

a team winning in overtime or shootout gets two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout gets one point in the OTL or SOL columns.

WPittsburgh 3 Vancouver 2St. Louis 6 Chicago 5 (OT)Winnipeg 4 Toronto 2Florida at Anaheim

Dallas 5 Boston 3N.Y. Islanders 2 New Jersey 1N.Y. Rangers 5 Washington 2Ottawa 2 Montreal 1 (OT)Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 1Los Angeles 3 St. Louis 0Edmonton 4 Philadelphia 2Colorado 6 Calgary 3Columbus 5 San Jose 2

Boston at Washington, 7 p.m.Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 7 p.m.Winnipeg at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.NY Islanders at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.Nashville at Minnesota, 8 p.m.Philadelphia at Calgary, 9 p.m.Colorado at Arizona, 9 p.m.Columbus at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.Florida at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Dallas at Carolina, 7 p.m.Chicago at New Jersey, 7 p.m.Detroit at Toronto, 7 p.m.NY Rangers at Colorado, 9 p.m.Pittsburgh at Edmonton, 9 p.m.Columbus at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

1. Pittsburgh, Perron 1 (Dumoulin, Kessel) 4:53

— Hutton Vcr (tripping) 5:28, Plotnikov Pgh (holding) 17:31.

No Scoring. — Bonino Pgh (hooking)

3:39, Scuderi Pgh (delay of game) 9:10, Bartkowski Vcr (holding) 14:50, Kessel Pgh (cross-checking), Dorsett Vcr (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:52.

2. Pittsburgh, Crosby 2 (Kessel, Letang) 7:17 (pp)3. Pittsburgh, Fehr 2 (Scuderi, Lovejoy) 10:12 (sh)4. Vancouver, D.Sedin 4 (Bartkowski, H.Sedin) 13:595. Vancouver, Hansen 3 (McCann) 18:53

— Fehr Pgh (roughing) 6:08, Dorsett Vcr (roughing) 6:08, Tanev Vcr (hooking) 6:27, Cole Pgh (tripping) 9:07, Cracknell Vcr (high-sticking) 12:03, Per-ron Pgh (interference) 12:03.

Pittsburgh 7 7 9—23Vancouver 6 7 7—20

— Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 7-4-0); Vancouver: Miller (L, 5-4-0).

— Pittsburgh: 1-3; Vancouver: 0-4.

— 18,570 at Vancouver.

1. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 3 (Perreault, Enstrom) 3:412. Toronto, Parenteau 2 (Bozak, Phaneuf) 8:22 (pp)3. Winnipeg, Scheifele 5 (Enstrom, Perreault) 8:59

— Burmistrov Wpg (holding) 7:37.

4. Toronto, Komarov 5 (Polak, van Riemsdyk) 12:17

— Toronto bench (too many men) 17:14.

5. Winnipeg, Burmistrov 2 (Wheeler, Little) 17:556. Winnipeg, Little 6 (Wheeler) 19:34 (en, sh)

— Komarov Tor (delay of game) 4:16, Burmistrov Wpg (holding stick) 15:47, Byfuglien Wpg (holding) 19:24.

Winnipeg 10 10 13—33Toronto 13 8 5—26

— Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 4-3-1); Toronto: Reimer (L, 2-2-1).

— Winnipeg: 0-2; Toronto: 1-3.

— 19,113 at Toronto.

Fir1. Chicago, Dano 1 (Hartman) 2:082. St. Louis, Steen 6 (Parayko, Tarasenko) 3:023. Chicago, Shaw 1 (penalty shot), 4:374. Chicago, Teravainen 4 (Daley) 6:355. St. Louis, Fabbri 2 (Backes) 15:126. Chicago, Seabrook 4 (Kane, Teravainen) 17:097. Chicago, Kane 8 (Seabrook, Shaw) 17:52 (pp)

— Lehtera StL (tripping) 9:54, Kane Chi (hooking) 10:25, Backes StL (interference) 17:44.

8. St. Louis, Steen 7 (Parayko, Bouwmeester) 3:119. St. Louis, Bouwmeester 1 (Brouwer, Gomez) 17:12 (pp)10. St. Louis, Backes 3 (Pietrangelo, Fabbri) 19:26

— Bouwmeester StL (interfer-ence) 8:02, Teravainen Chi (interference) 16:40

No Scoring. — Steen StL (tripping) 1:02,

Steen StL (hooking) 3:43.

11. St. Louis, Tarasenko 7 (Pietrangelo) 3:54

— None.

St. Louis 8 12 7 2—29Chicago 18 8 14 3—43

— St. Louis, Elliott

— St. Louis: 1-2; Chicago: 1-5.

— 21,676 at Chicago.

LATE TUESDAY

1. Columbus, Saad 5 (Dubinsky, Connauton) 6:11 (pp)2. San Jose, Pavelski 7 (Braun, Thornton) 18:56

— Tierney SJ (slashing) 1:39, Dillon SJ (holding) 4:23, Brown SJ,

3. Columbus, Hartnell 5 (Johansen) 8:544. San Jose, Pavelski 8 (Donskoi) 11:565. Columbus, Jenner 7 (Hartnell) 18:326. Columbus, Murray 2 (Johansen, Saad) 19:01

— Tyutin Clb (hooking) 3:04, Columbus bench (too many men) 6:11, Johnson Clb (high-sticking) 14:37.

7. Columbus, Calvert 2 (Campbell, Murray) 18:21 (en)

— Dubinsky Clb (cross-checking) 7:33.

Columbus 13 8 3—24San Jose 10 15 18—43

— Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 3-8-0); San Jose: Jones (L, 6-4-0).

— Columbus: 1-2; San Jose: 0-4.

— 15,491 at San Jose, Calif.

NHL SCORING LEADERS G A PtBenn, Dal 10 10 20Seguin, Dal 8 12 20Kane, Chi 7 9 16Hall, Edm 6 10 16Krejci, Bos 7 8 15Wheeler, Wpg 6 8 14Zetterberg, Det 3 11 14Turris, Ott 8 5 13Ovechkin, Wash 6 7 13MacKinnon, Col 5 8 13

GROUP F

Bayern Munich 4 3 0 1 13 3 9Olympiakos 4 3 0 1 6 6 9Arsenal 4 1 0 3 6 10 3Dinamo Zagreb 4 1 0 3 3 9 3

Bayern Munich 5, Arsenal 1Olympiakos 2, Dinamo Zagreb 1

Arsenal vs. Dinamo Zagreb, 2:45 p.m.Bayern Munich vs. Olympiakos, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP G

FC Porto 4 3 1 0 9 4 10Chelsea 4 2 1 1 7 3 7Dynamo Kiev 4 1 2 1 5 4 5Maccabi Tel Aviv 4 0 0 4 1 11 0

Chelsea 2, Dynamo Kiev 1Maccabi Tel-Aviv 1, Porto 3

Maccabi Tel-Aviv vs. Chelsea, 2:45 p.m.Porto vs. Dynamo Kiev, 2:45 p.m.

GROUP H

x-St. Petersburg 4 4 0 0 10 4 12Valencia 4 2 0 2 5 5 6Gent 4 1 1 2 4 5 4Lyon 4 0 1 3 2 7 1

advanced to second round

Gent 1, Valencia 0Lyon 0, Zenit St. Petersburg 2

Zenit St. Petersburg vs. Valencia, NoonLyon vs. Gent, 2:45 p.m.

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NFL

Manziel to start for Browns tonight against Bengals TOM WITHERS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND — Welcome to The Jungle, Johnny.

With starting quarterback Josh McCown unable to play because of a painful rib injury, Johnny Manziel will start Thursday night against the Cincinnati Bengals, who treated him so rudely as a rookie on the road last year and now get him on their home turf. In his first NFL start last season, Manziel was chased, sacked, inter-

cepted and taunted by the Bengals in a 30-0 embarrassment.

Now, Manziel’s facing one of the league’s four remaining unbeaten teams on short notice. McCown was unable to practice Tuesday night because of his ribs — and sore shoul-der — and Browns coach Mike Pet-tine announced the decision to start Manziel on Wednesday before the team left for Cincinnati.

“On the short week we realized that Josh just wasn’t going to be able to

get to the point where he could go,” Pettine said. “Johnny has worked hard to prepare himself. He is excited about his opportunity and we are all looking forward to the challenge we face in a good Bengals football team.”

McCown played through severe pain in the second half Sunday in a 34-20 loss to Arizona. The 36-year-old quarterback said Tuesday he was having difficulty breathing and sleeping because his ribs were so sore. If he’s not able to play at all, the

Browns will have third-stringer Aus-tin Davis active to back up Manziel against the Bengals. This will be the second start this season for Manziel, who won against Tennessee in Week 2 when McCown was sidelined with a concussion sustained on the season’s opening drive on Sept. 13 against the Jets. Manziel replaced McCown late in the second half the past two weeks.

The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner, who is also being investigated by the

NFL for a recent domestic dispute, will be able to show a prime-time TV audience his improvement since his rocky rookie season. The Browns have been pleased with Manziel’s dedication and progress following a rough first year, which was followed by a lengthy stay in a rehab facility for an unspecified problem.

Manziel won that lone start this season, completing 8 of 15 passes for 172 yards and two touchdowns in a 28-14 victory over the Titans.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 5

2-7 p.m. Mid Island Abilities & Independent

Living Society open house . Support and com-

munication for people with disabilities at 3999

Victoria Ave. 8 p.m. Doors open for GOB, with

Boids at The Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres. Tickets

$20 plus charge in advance, $25 at the door

and on sale at Lucid, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tat-

too, The Queen’s or at ticketzone.com.

8 p.m. Longwood Brew Pub presents Scott

Brown and Paul Mitchell. Live At Longwood.

8 p.m. Doors open for GOB, with Boids at

The Queen’s, 34 Victoria Cres. Tickets $20 plus

charge in advance, $25 at the door.

and on sale at Lucid, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tat-

too, The Queen’s or at ticketzone.com.

FRIDAY, NOV. 6

10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Nanaimo Pottery Co-op’s

November Show and Sale at Country Club

Centre 3200 North Island Highway, Nanaimo.

Show continues Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

and Sunday 11 a.m. yo 5 p.m.

2 p.m. Yonatan Shapira, From Air Force Pilot to

Peace Activist, at St. Andrews Untied Church.

311 Fitzwilliam St. Free admission. MidIsland-

ers for Justice and Peace in the Middle East. For

information, 250-758-0966.

SATURDAY, NOV. 7

10 a.m. Bastion City Wanderers Volkssport

Club invites you to a 6-km or 11-km walk at

Christie Falls, Ladysmith. Meet at the end of

Christie Rd in front of red TimberWest gate.

Park on the side of the road. Registration

at 9:45 a.m. For information, call Ethel at

250-756-9796.

10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Annual World Craft Bazaar

at Knox United Church, Ethical, exotic gift

choices and Fair Trade goods. Lunch available.

Free admission. Co-sponsored by Karios and

Knox Church. Pym at Humphrey streets, Parks-

ville. For information call 250-248-0310.

Noon-4 p.m. A variety of carvings of takes

place at the Annual Woodcarving Show, at

the Seniors Centre, 500 Bowen Rd. Entry $2,

put on by the Harbour City Seniors Mid-Island

Woodcarving Club. For information, or to

show carvings, call Don Olsen, 250-758-6898

or [email protected].

6:30 p.m. Sweets and Songs fundraiser: Even-

ing of food, drinks music and bake sale. All

proceeds support Mission Team in CamCam,

the Philippines in January. Departure Bay

Baptist Church. 3510 Departure Bay Rd. For

information: 250-758-9334.

SUNDAY, NOV. 8

2-5 p.m. Salt Spring Island’s Sky Valley jazz

quartet, led by bassist Alan Wardroper with

saxophonist Patrick Byrne, pianist Frank

Huether and drummer Randall Miron, plays

jazz standards, Latin and some original tunes

at the Crofton Hotel Pub, 1534 Joan Ave. in

Crofton. Admission: $15. Information: 250-324-

2245 or http://croftonhotel.ca.

MONDAY, NOV. 9

7:30 p.m. Matthew Good with guest: Scott

Helman play The Port Theatre. Tickets $45 at

The Port Theatre Box Office, www.porttheatre.

com or call 250-754-8550.

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SUDOKU

ARIES (March 21-April 19) You’ll

feel as if the time has come to take

control of a difficult situation. This

is likely to cause a commotion for

some, but a resolution for you. Trust

your efforts when it comes to your

work ethic. You make a big differ-

ence. Tonight: A partner has a nice

way of saying “thank you.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Despite someone else’s attitude,

which might hurt you on a deep

level, you’ll keep it together. You

succeed because of your resource-

fulness. Pressure builds because

you would like to be acknow-

ledged. Give it up, and refuse to

push. Tonight: Let your imagination

take the lead.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) A mat-

ter revolving around your home

might keep you grounded, perhaps

even more than you would like.

Know that, despite the demanding

nature of what is going on, your

home life will be a source of hap-

piness in the near future. Tonight:

Avoid complications.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) You

come up with the right words at

the right time. Communication

could be overwhelming. You might

be more optimistic and positive

than you realize. You’ll be able to

melt any resistance from a dear

friend or loved one. Tonight: In the

thick of things.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Balance

your checkbook before you take a

risk. The gamble might be worth

it, but be aware of the implications

involved. A close associate could

challenge your decision. Listen to

what is being said, as there is likely

to be some validity here. Tonight:

Indulge a little.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You

could be challenged by a loved

one. This person might give you

the cold shoulder or do something

that he or she believes will draw

you in. Let him or her know what

your plans are, but express your

appreciation nonetheless. Tonight:

Whatever knocks your socks off.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You

might act as if you have a secret

that might be too big or too won-

derful to keep to yourself. Stay

mum. Focus on routine matters,

and try to infuse them with more

energy and creativity. Don’t hesitate

to share your ideas. Tonight: Vanish

quietly, then do what you want!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You

can’t help but succeed with all the

support, ideas and energy around

you. You could do well, even with-

out others’ help, as you are unusual-

ly creative and dynamic right now.

Go off and manifest what you want

to happen. Tonight: A little extra

oomph goes a long way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Your attitude could be a real game-

changer. People respond much

better to positive energy. If you feel

isolated, hold up the mirror. Only

you can change how you present

yourself. Ask friends for some feed-

back to help you turn the corner.

Tonight: Burn the candle at both

ends.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) If

you back off and take a long, hard

look at what is going on, you might

like what you see. There could be a

profound disagreement between

you and another person. One of

you is far more imaginative than

the other. Learn how to comprom-

ise. Tonight: Consider a getaway

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) A

partner or loved one will pull you

away from a problem. You could

be awestruck by this person’s

suggestions. You’ll see a plethora

of options as a result. Slow down

before committing. Sit on your

impulsiveness a little longer.

Tonight: Time to be with a favorite

person!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You

might not intend to be as critical

or as challenging as you are today.

You could hear a comment or two,

which you probably would prefer

not to acknowledge. Rather than

create any uproar, ignore the com-

ment. Watch the other party’s reac-

tion. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (Nov. 5) This

year you open up to a world full of

potential. Some of these oppor-

tunities come from the people you

know, whereas others are a result

of you being in a lucky period. You

can practically wish upon a star and

have your wish come true. Know

what you want, and go for it. If you

are single, you will have to fight to

keep that status and choose not

to commit. However, recognize

that others see you as being highly

desirable. If you are attached, you

and your significant other will hap-

pily proceed down the path you

both have laid out.

BORN TODAY TV personality Kris

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(1941), actress Tatum O’Neal (1963)

HOROSCOPEby Jacqueline Bigar

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BLONDIE

The Canadian dollar traded Wednesday after-

noon at 76.01 cents US, down 0.61 of a cent

from Tuesday’s close. The Pound Sterling was

worth $2.0242, Cdn, up 1.08 of a cent while the Euro was

worth $1.4289 Cdn, down 0.20 of a cent.

Canadian Dollar

➜

Barrel of oil

$46.32

-$1.58

➜Dow Jones

17,867.58

-50.57

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NASDAQ

5,142.48

-2.65

➜S&P/TSX

13,661.82

-50.57

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Together with his immediate family, Walter is sur-vived by his grandchildren, Keegan (Stephanie), Erin (Roger), Joe (Haley), Jesse and Jim. He was great-grand-pa to Walker and Ascher.

Walter's career took him all over western Cana-da and into the far north. He worked in school ad-ministration, with the federal government depart-ments of National Health and Welfare and Fisheries and Oceans, and fi nally as planning offi cer for the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. In 1987, he retired to tend "the farm" and travel extensively with Thelma.

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With great sadness we announce the passing of Tracey. She was prede-ceased by her father Ken White, and her grandmother Marguerite Phillips and grandfather Harold White.

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Impressive Soul has a dedicated followingSOUL, From Page 31

Unlike the other ‘cube’ cars that have failed to gain traction in the marketplace, the Soul has a dedi-cated following today that embraces

everyone from ‘eight-eens’ to ‘eighties’.

Maybe it’s the ham-sters? It takes a lot of tongue-in-cheek confidence to identify your prod-uct with a bunch of little hip-hop rodents. But it is exactly that light-hearted

approach that makes the Soul stand out from the flood of serious-mind-ed promotions that focus so much on ‘zero per cent’ financing and cash incentives. The hamsters tell you that apart from its practical character, you can have fun in a Soul. Another reason the Soul has remained a best seller is because

Kia designers have kept it fresh with funky colour combinations, unique wheel designs, lighting features and customizing accessories that let you ‘personalize’ your Soul.

Affordable and fuel efficient, the Soul comes in three trims (plus the EV electric plug-in) starting with the Base model (starting at $17,195), Urban and Sport. You can choose either the 130 horsepower, 1.6-litre or the 164 horsepower, two-litre, four-cylinder engine, mated to either a six-speed manual transmission (1.6-litre only) or the six-speed Sport-matic Automatic (optional on 1.6-litre models and standard on Urban and Sport). Our two-litre Urban model sported a snappy Cappuccino body col-our that was offset nicely by the black trim for the A pillars, front and rear

bumpers, window frames and the bold, lower mesh air intake flanked by stan-dard fog lights. The steeply raked wind-shield and tapering roofline — with standard roof rails — remove any hint of ‘boxiness’ while ensuring impres-sive interior cabin space that’s easy to access through the wide-opening lift-gate. Slim, projector-style headlamps with LED running lights flank the characteristic Kia ‘tiger shark’ grille while unique 18-inch alloy wheels with painted black inserts add to the Soul’s funky style.

The low step-in to the cabin is one of the Soul’s feature benefits as is the commanding seat position and excellent all around driver visibility. Luxury touches you don’t expect at this price include the front, heated, leather bucket seats, leather-wrapped,

heated tilt-telescoping steering wheel and leather-wrapped gearshift. Backlit white-on-black main gauges flank a central information screen that lets you scroll through various functions including instant and aver-age fuel economy, range and other programmable data. The fit and finish throughout is excellent with soft touch surfaces on armrests and dashboard plus piano black framing for the centre stack and door sills, giving the cabin a very upmarket feel. The power pan-oramic sun roof that lets the outside in for both front and rear seat passen-gers is another plus feature you don’t expect at this price. Maybe that’s why J.D. Power gave it the Highest Rank-ing in Initial Quality in the Compact Multi-Purpose Vehicle category.

The Soul inspires driver confidence with its sure-footed suspension featur-ing vertical ‘dual path’ shock absorbers that tame the bumps and dips plus Electronic Stability Control, Vehicle Stability management, four-wheel power disc brakes with ABS, EBD (electronic brake force distribution) BAS (brake assist) and HAS (hill assist prevents roll back when restarting on a hill). The responsive electric power steering has three modes; Comfort, Normal and Sport that let you choose how much feedback you want. Tipping the gearshift forward or back lets you select gears manually or just let the automatic do all the work. Pushing the

ECO button on the dash for optimum economy adjusts shift points, moder-ates acceleration and shuts down the engine when you come to a halt. Don’t worry, it restarts automatically when you release the brake pedal.

Staying in touch with the digital world is no problem with your UVO (Your Voice), multi-function, eight-inch colour touch screen in the centre stack. Bluetooth, hands-free connectivity and voice-activated audio that includes three months compli-mentary Sirius XM radio, plus auxiliaryand USB ports let you connect with your other devices. The screen also doubles as your rear-view camera.

The Soul is packed with standard features including remote entry with push-button start/stop; automatic cli-mate control; power folding and heatedoutside mirrors; power windows and door locks; rear wiper/washer plus 6 airbags and the LATCH child seat anchor system.

“The KIA Soul represents the for-ward thinking vision of Kia,” says General Sales Manager Roy Berent-sen. “It’s a vehicle that truly spans the multiple generations in today’s marketplace. Whether you’re looking for practicality, economy, style or technology, the Kia Soul has it all and whether you are a Boomer, Gen X’r, or Millennial, the Kia Soul offers incredible value that fits almost any lifestyle.”

The Kia Soul has luxury touches you don’t expect at the price, such as front,

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Self-driving car can recognize pedestriansTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO — Being a passenger in a self-driving car is similar to being driv-en around by a very cautious person, maybe your grandmother.

Requiring neither hands on the steer-ing wheel nor a foot on the gas pedal or brakes, the Nissan Motor Co. car mak-ing its way on Japanese public roads is instead packed with radars, lasers, cam-eras and computer chips.

Nissan’s “intelligent driving” feature is smart enough to navigate intersections without lane markers. It also brakes safely to a stop without crashing into the vehicle in front, and it knows the difference between a red light and a tail-lamp.

Reporters were given a half-hour test ride in the prototype vehicle Tuesday on a scenic but pre-programmed course on Tokyo roads, which included stopping at traffic lights, making turns, changing lanes and crossing a bridge across the bay.

The car was painstakingly careful, like someone extra cautious on the road.

It always stayed within the speed limit. And it slowed down, appearing to be “thinking” at slightly complicated situations, such as cars coming from another lane.

The system is designed to recognize people and if a pedestrian jumped out onto the road, the car should come to a stop.

Nissan, which also makes the Infiniti luxury model and the March subcom-

pact, is preparing the autonomous driving option for vehicles going on sale in 2020.

It plans to have abbreviated versions of the technology starting from next year, such as keeping a safe distance from the car in front on congested roads.

The car experienced by The Associ-ated Press is still unable to deal with unexpected situations, such as moving to the side of the road if an ambulance approaches.

At one point, the human driver, who was in the seat for the whole test ride, had to intervene because the car didn’t properly recognize an unclearly drawn lane. Otherwise, it did fine.

Nissan General Manager Tetsuya Iijima, who was the human driver for the test ride, acknowledged the system needs fine-tuning. But he was confident it was the way of the future, delivering better safety, because more than 90 per cent of traffic accidents are caused by driver error.

When compared with a human, Nis-san’s prototype is only three or four years old, maybe six at most, and the goal is to help it mature to a 20-year-old, he said.

“It’s like a kid,” said Iijima, emulating a child walking slowly, a step at a time. “We need to make it understand the world — the severe world.”

The system was shown in Nissan’s Leaf electric vehicle, meaning it was not only intelligent but also zero-emission.

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Automaker maintains strong profi t margins in third quarterTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FRANKFURT — BMW beat expect-ations with a 20 per cent increase in third quarter net profit from a year earlier, as the luxury automaker maintained rich profit margins despite slowing demand in China.

The company said Tuesday that demand in China appeared to be “stabilizing” after a slowdown in the economy, which is expected to keep a lid on profit increases for the rest of this year.

The maker of the X5 SUV and 7 Series sedan said profits rose to 1.58

billion euros from 1.31 billion euros in the year-earlier period, when the company had to deduct charges for the changed valuation of financial derivatives.

Revenues rose 14 per cent to 22.34 billion euros, helped by tail winds from currency exchange rates.

Earnings per share of 2.39 euros beat analyst expectations for 2.20 euros per share compiled by financial infor-mation provider FactSet.

BMW AG said it achieved a profit margin of 9.1 per cent before interest and taxes, within its target range of 8-10 per cent.

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The company reaffirmed its forecastfor increased sales and profit for the full year.

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Canadian auto industry has best-ever October salesTHE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — New car sales surged again in October as the industry con-tinues to race towards its best year ever, according to figures from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants.

DesRosiers says Canadians bought 163,053 light vehicles in October, a 5.1 per cent increase over last year’s previous all-time high for the month set in 2014.

Last month was a particularly satis-fying one for luxury nameplates, with

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DesRosiers says other brands that enjoyed double-digit sales growth in October included Nissan (up 24.4 per cent), Infiniti (up 22.8 per cent),

Honda (up 14.7 per cent), Volvo (up 12.3 per cent) and Subaru (up 11.7 per cent).

Volkswagen posted an 8.3 per cent gain to 5,715 vehicles sold.

General Motors took the sales title for October for the first time

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“As we continue to close in on year end, setting a record year in 2015 is looking less like a possibility and more like a reality,” DesRosiers said.

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◆Total Price including freight, excluding Road Ready Package and Taxes. PAYMENTS based on total price including freight and taxes less 10% down (or equivalent trade). Variable interest rate at the time of calculation 6.99% on approved credit (OAC), amortized over *520 bi-weekly pymts/5/20 term. Zero down option available on request (on approved credit). ▲Total Price including freight, excluding Road Ready Package and Taxes. PAYMENTS based on total price including freight and taxes less 10% down (or equivalent trade). Variable interest rate at the time of calculation 6.99% on approved credit (OAC), amortized over *390bi-weekly pymts/5/15 term, **520 bi-weekly pymts/5/20 term, ***260bi-weekly pymts/5/10 term, ****130bi-weekly pymts/5/5 term. Zero down option available on request (on approved credit).

YEAR-END RV INVENTORY

$0 Down and Don’t Pay ‘til May 2016 oacis on now at our 5 Vancouver Island locationsLIQUIDATION SALE

2015 Chateau Citation 22E Class CSleeps 4-5 adults w/queen bed, cab-over bunk & large U-shaped convertible dinette. Step-up rear bed/bath, 8000lb. Hitch, power awning w/LED lights.

STK# S15N11416MSRP $109,340

YEAR-ENDLIQUIDATIONSALE PRICE◆

$77,480$394*BI-WEEKLY

OAC

2016 Keystone Bullet 220RBI TTHow DID they pack so much style into a 22’ RV? Come and find out! Opposing slide-outs, kitchen island, RVQ grill, innerspring mattress, thermal package.

STK# M16N1626MSRP $36,571


$29,986$132*BI-WEEKLY

OAC

2016 Forest River Surveyor 243RBS TT82 1/2” barreled ceiling, ducted air, HUGE rear bath, gel-coat, diamond plate, wood-planked vinyl floor, flip-down bike/utility rack, tank pad heaters.

STK# S16N11439MSRP $43,629


$33,496$157*BI-WEEKLY

OAC

2015 Heartland Sundance 2880RLT 5th W.Rear leather recliners by large view window, peninsula kitchen, FS dining, large landing at stairs to master suite w/bathroom, large bedroom closet, lots of storage.

STK# P15N891MSRP $60,190


$48,982$217*BI-WEEKLY

OAC

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2016 Island Vibe 272BHS Travel TrailerSpacious bunk model with warm & stylish décor. U-shaped dinette & sofa in slide, outdoor kitchen, centre entertainment, underbelly pass-thru storage, electric awning.

STK# 16N1868MSRP $49,852


$36,496$179*BI-WEEKLY

OAC

2016 Springdale 282BH Travel TrailerSpringdale - best-seller for a reason! Check it out - dual entry w/rear bathroom entrance, rear bunks, brand-name appliances, electric jacks & awning, slide, +++

STK# A16N2737MSRP $39,980


$32,448$144*BI-WEEKLY

OAC

2008 Kingston 36GB 5th WUNIQUE Bunk Design! 4 slide-outs plus many upgrades and amenities make this an incredible Liquidation deal.

STK# DS08C10256WAS $33,980

YEAR-ENDLIQUIDATIONSALE PRICE▲

$31,980

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2010 Trail Sport 27QBSS Travel TrailerKitchen/Sofa SLIDE! Sleeps 7 w/bunks & convertible dinette and abundant storage.

STK# D11N1298AWAS $16,980


$14,980$85***BI-WEEKLY

OAC

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2003 Mirada 340MBS Class AOnly 34,300 original miles! Head south in style in this meticulous A class with one slide, spacious walk-around queen, awesome kitchen!

STK# DA13N2269CWAS $38,980


$36,980

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2016 Wildcat Maxx 24RG Travel Trailer“AS NEW” condition, Liquidation priced! Easy tow, dual entry, touchscreen remote, power jacks, slam-latch baggage doors.

STK# 16N1886AWAS $38,990


$35,900$133**BI-WEEKLY

OAC

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2008 Adventurer 200WR Class CSave $$$! Rear kitchen floor plan w/ all the creture comforts of home and under 21’.

STK# M08C575WAS $39,990


$37,250

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