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Nanaimo residents’ share of the city’s debt inched up by the end of last year, but the city also ended the year with more money in reserves, according to annual financial statements.
The city is required to produce a full account of its finances each year, includ-ing outstanding debt, revenue flows and operating and capital expenses.
A city financial department report of thedocument says the city saw a net increase of $6.5 million in new debt as of the end of 2014, bringing the city’s total outstanding debt to $50.9 million.
That brings the total share of city debt for every man, woman and child to $572, up from $515 in 2013.
The increase is due to the $9.2 million the city borrowed last year to fund con-struction of the new water treatment plant project, said city accounting servi-ces manager Laura Mercer.
Borrowing for the facility represents just over $22 million of the city’s total debt.
However, some smaller pieces of that long-term debt are to be repaid within a few years. The remaining $3.5 million the city owes on borrowing for Nanaimo Aquatic Centre is to be repaid in 2020. Also to be retired is the city’s debt for upgrades to the Harbourfront Parkade. The remaining $1.05 million will be amor-tized in 2020.
The city still has to pay off approximate-ly $21.4 million for construction of the Vancouver Island Conference Centre.
However, the city also closed 2014 with more cash in hand.
The municipality now has a pool of $14.1 million in accumulated operating surplus funds, leftover money that is not set aside for any one specific project.
The city added another $1.7 million to the pool from surplus tax revenues, as well as approximately $253,000 from water revenues, for a total increase of just less than $2 million.
The city also beefed up its equipment reserve by $1 million and added approxi-mately $2.8 million to reserves for infra-structure renewal and replacement.
Mercer said the city is trying to build up reserves to pay for specific projects or unforeseen expenses.
As for 2015 finances, city council has yet to pass a financial plan for this fiscal year. The municipality must pass a financial plan bylaw and tax rates by mid-May.
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Bid goes forward to stay provincial order on dams
Dave Richardson fishes for trout in the lower Colliery dam Tuesday. City council decided Monday to appeal an order for work at the dam by the province last week. [SPENCER ANDERSON/DAILY NEWS]
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The City of Nanaimo will have its solici-tor draft an appeal and a request to halt an order from
the B.C. water comptroller to complete remediation work on the Colliery dams, following a decision by council Monday.
Mayor Bill McKay called Monday’s decision a positive development.
“There’s no doubt we’re under the wire here,” he said. “However, it’s always been my belief that the dam safety (section) wants us to do (remediation) for the dams and this takes a significant step forward.”
Council voted 8-1 Monday to have city hall request to stay the order and launch an appeal so the city could pur-sue detailed designs from U.S. firm GeoStabilization Inter-national to reinforce the areas behind the lower and middle dams with a network of metal
grids bolted in place and lay-ered with cement to prevent erosion.
The city, which now finds itself in contravention of the provincial Water Act, has been grappling over the question of how to address safety concerns with the dams since October 2012.
City staff warned Monday that the technique proposed by GSI has, to their know-ledge, not been applied to dam remediation in B.C. and would therefore require fur-ther review. The Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations appeared to confirm the assertion in an email Tuesday.
“The ministry has not received sufficient information to assess whether the GSI pro-posal is acceptable,” a spokes-man said. “As previously indi-
cated to the City of Nanaimo technical committee, unless the technology has widely been used in dam remediation elsewhere in North America, the province would likely require that the proposal be reviewed by an independent dam safety expert acceptable to the province.”
Coun. Jim Kipp put forward a concept drawing for modifica-tions to the lower dam Monday that included hardening the dam’s edge and using concrete berms to raise the height of the spillway.
A concrete berm that would also include public bench seat-ing was also included in the drawing. Kipp has also pro-posed “beautification” meas-ures to improve the area.
Kipp said GSI informed him that they would be able to complete upgrades to both the lower and middle dam for $3 million — significantly less than the proposed $8.1 million for a new labyrinth spillway at the lower dam or the estimated
$3 million to $6 million cost build an alternate spillway.
However, the city now finds itself facing a time crunch. The order issued by the province gives the city until May 1 to choose between the labyrinth and alternate spill-way options, and until May 22 to submit design and construc-tion plans. The city must also complete physical upgrades to the dam by Oct. 15.
Coun. Diane Brennan was the sole council member to vote against the motion to begin an appeal, raising con-cerns about the potential cost of the process.
The GSI option was origin-ally proposed last year. McKay said he would have preferred that some of the work on the proposal had been done soon-er, but said it was “positive” that council was taking steps to address the province’s order to remediate the dams.
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WEDNESDAY APRIL 15
11:45 a.m. Happy Islanders RV Club meets for its first get-together of the year at the MGM Restaurant. For infor-mation, contact Nick at 250-390-3156.
1 and 6:30 p.m. Nanaimo Quilters’ Guild monthly meeting at Nanaimo Curling Club, 106 Wall St. Guests welcome. Infor-mation: www.islandquilters.ca.
3-6 p.m. Island Roots Farmers Market. Support local growers, producers and artisans year-round. Pleasant Valley Hall, 6100 Dumont Rd.
THURSDAY, APRIL 16
5-9 p.m. The Nanaimo Flea Market offers a variety of vendor goods. 1630 East Wellington, Royal Canadian Legion Hall.
7 p.m. Comedian Derek Edwards, Baloney and Wine. Port Theatre, all seats $42.
8 p.m. Longwood Brewpub live music. Myc Sharratt, Manglewood, a free live concert series happening every Thursday night with great local and touring musicians.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
Noon-4 p.m. NAC Clothesline free cloth-ing giveaway, Nanaimo Alliance Church, 1609 Meredith. Also Saturday, 12-3 p.m.
5 p.m. Spaghetti supper, Trinity United Church, 6234 Spartan Rd.
6-9 p.m. Martini-tapas night at Fairwinds Golf Club. Entertainment: Dave Hart per-forms. For information: 250-468-9915.
7 p.m. Greater Victoria Police Choir, Trinity United Church, 6234 Spartan Rd. Tickets : $5 and $10 at 250-390-2513or 250-585-3177. Contact Alice Akins [email protected].
7 p.m. Wellington Jazz Academy Con-cert. St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 4235 Departure Bay Rd. Featuring the award-winning Wellington Grade 12 Jazz
Band, the Grade 12 Jazz Combos and others. By donation.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
9 a.m. Bastion City Wanderers Volks-sport Club hosts five- and 10-km water-front/Bowen Park Nanaimo walks. Meet in the Howard Johnson Hotel lobby. Registration at 8:45 a.m. For information, call Ethel at 250-756-9796.
9 a.m. to noon VHF radio refresher mor-ning. Nanoose Power and Sail Squadron, in the Seniors Room, at Nanoose Place, 2925 Northwest Bay Rd. Fee: $5, free to members.
9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Think Pink Think Green, Nanaimo Wave Babes Dragon-boat team at Woodgrove Centre near Chevron from to accept old electronics, scrap metal, and bottles, to raise funds in support of new breast cancer screening equip-ment for the Nanaimo & District Hospital Foundation. 10 a.m., noon or 2 p.m. Athletic Schol-
arship Info Sessions, at Vancouver Island University 900 Fifth St. Building 356 Room 111. For further information contact Bill Green 250 702 5071 or [email protected].
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Vancouver Island University’s Milner Gardens-Woodland Shred-it Fundraiser: Upper parking lot, 2179 West Island Highway, Qualicum Beach: Suggested donation: $5/box.
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Free Symphony Community Day, . Musical Instrument Zoo, Meet the Composer, Symphony Rehearsal (Complimentary Tickets must be reserved for the Symphony Rehearsal at 250-754-8550. For more information 250-754-0177 or www.vancouverisland-symphony.com. Port Theatre.
2 p.m. Nanaimo’s inaugural poet laure-ate will be reading from her memoirs, Some Sort of life and discussing memoirwriting at the North Nanaimo Library, 6250 Hammond Bay Rd. This is a free public event.
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BUSINESS NOTESNews from the Nanaimo business community
Mall general manager headed to Tsawwassen
M ark Fenwick, the general manager of Woodgrove Centre since 2008, is
moving on to a new job.Fenwick has been hired to be
the general manager of the new Tsawwassen Mills Mall which is scheduled to open in May 2016.
Fenwick said his last day at Woodgrove Centre will be May 1 and he will spend much of the next year setting up an effect-ive management team for the new mall. He said Ivanhoe Cam-bridge, which owns Woodgrove, is conducting an across-Canada search for his replacement.
“I’m reluctant to leave Nanaimo because it’s a great city, but I’ll only be a short jaunt away in Tsawwassen,” Fenwick said.
Denturist retiresTed Carson, owner of
Nanaimo’s Carson Denture Clin-ic that has been in operation in Nanaimo since 1968, has decided to sell the business and retire.
Carson said he is selling the company to another Island-based denturist, but he’s keeping the details confidential until the deal is complete.
“Nanaimo is a great place to do business and to live, and I intend to continue to be involved in the various community organiza-tions in the city,” he said.
Award winnersThe city’s new Reservoir No. 1
and Energy Recovery Facility, which were completed in 2014, won the Award of Excellence in the “Energy & Industry”
category at the 2015 Awards for Engineering Excellence.
The engineering consultants for the project was Associated Engineering. The 26th annual Awards for Engineering Excel-lence Gala, held last Friday at the Vancouver Convention Centre West, honoured the innovation and technical excel-lence of Association of Consult-ing Engineering Companies Brit-ish Columbia member firms.
“This year’s winners represent
the best and brightest that our industry has to offer, and are a testament to the amazing work of B.C.’s consulting engineers that we have been showcasing on this stage for 26 years,” said Keith Sashaw, President and CEO, ACEC-BC.
Building awardsSome of the top commercial
and industrial buildings north of the Malahat, 35 in total, will
vie for top honours in the 8th Annual Vancouver Island Real Estate Board Commercial Build-ing Awards, to be held April 23 at the Coast Bastion Hotel.
The team of independent judg-es have completed their work, assessing each of the projects in 11 categories. Re/MAX Commer-cial is the platinum sponsor for the event, which is co-ordinated by Business Examiner Vancou-ver Island, with Colliers Inter-national and Coastal Community
Credit Union signing on as gold sponsors.
Tickets for the event, which sold out in two weeks last year, are $95 and are available through www.businessexaminer.ca and click on Events.
For further information, con-tact Mark MacDonald at 1-866-758-2684 Ext. 120, or email [email protected]
Mark Fenwick will leave his job as general manager of Nanaimo’s Woodgrove Centre mall on May 1. [ROBERT BARRON/DAILY NEWS]
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Trustees ready to decide on bus options for CedarROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
Trustees in the Nanaimo-Lady-smith school district are expect-ed to decide if they want to pro-vide busing for students between Cedar and Ladysmith next year, at a cost of approximately $211,000, at its next meeting on
April 21. It’s the more expensive of two options presented to the board, with the other amounting to $110,000.
The cheaper option called for offering bus service only for the approximately 165 Cedar stu-dents who will attend Ladysmith Secondary School next year.
The more expensive option recommended by the business committee would provide busing for approximately 265 Cedar stu-dents, which includes 50 per cent of the Cedar students who are attending John Barsby Second-ary School, to LSS.
The board is also considering
re-opening Cedar Secondary School in 2016, so the considera-tion for busing to LSS is only for next year.
Board chairman Steve Rae said the more expensive busing option was recommended for “budget purposes.”
“If we went with the less expen-
sive option, it would require the exact number of students in the report to be bused, so we felt it was prudent to expect more kids to take the bus to Ladysmith,” he said.
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Extended spring break ponderedSchool district will decide shortly if it wishes to return to two-week format from previous yearsROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS
The Nanaimo-Ladysmith school district will soon decide if it wants to extend spring break from one to two weeks starting next year, among other changes to the school calendar.
Sunday marks the end of the 30-day public consultation period for people to have a say on the proposed changes to the school calendar on a survey that is available on the district’s website at www.sd68.bc.ca.
The Nanaimo-Ladysmith school calendar committee, con-sisting of district stakeholders, made a number recommenda-tions in March to change the
school calendar to help deal with a number of issues, including the lack of consistency of instruc-tional hours in local schools.
Acting superintendent John Blain said in February that it’s
estimated that as many as two-thirds of the district’s schools may not be in compli-ance with the School Act in regard to the minimum require-ments for instructional time.
The School Act requires a min-imum of 853 hours of instruc-tional time for kindergarten stu-dents, 878 for Grades 1-7 and 952 for Grades 8-12 each year, and it’s up to each district to determine how those hours are made up.
The recommendations include making time schedules at all schools are more uniform with each other to help ensure instructional hours are within the guidelines of the School Act.
District spokesman Dale Bur-
gos said that if the board follows the recommendations, there would be enough instructional time built into each school’s instructional days to allow for another week of spring break to be added. The district had pro-posed a two-week spring break when it was preparing its budget for the 2013-14 to save money, but the proposal was not passed by the board. With the district facing another $4-million shortfall for 2015-16, Burgos said extending the spring break to two weeks in future years could be considered as part of the district’s annual budget-building process.
He said that as well as the direct savings that could be
realized, it would also bring Nanaimo-Ladysmith in line with the majority of the province’s school districts, which already have two-week spring breaks.
“Staff will take all the infor-mation and input that has been gathered during the public con-sultation period and present it to the board in the coming weeks,” Burgos said.
“Staff will take all the information and input that has been gathered during the public consultation period and present it to the board in the coming weeks.”Dale Burgos, school district spokesman
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W ith all the hard-hitting talk around the Harper government’s anti-ter-
rorism legislation, Bill C-51, you’d think the Conservatives were actually tough on terror.
But if you follow the money trail, it’s clear the federal gov-ernment isn’t putting its money where its mouth is. And that may put Canadians at risk.
As the Star’s Alex Boutilier reported last week, documents indicate that the RCMP’s anti-terrorism units are shockingly underfunded and understaffed.
That’s partly because they have had to target new resources at anti-terrorism activities as the threat has grown. But it’s also because the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Teams have not received an increase in funding since 2003.
Yes, 2003. Instead, funding has remained static at $10 million a year. That means the RCMP has had to divert funding and resources from other parts of its budget, aimed at fighting other kinds of crime, to fund its anti-terrorism activities. That’s good news for criminals but bad news for Canadians.
Indeed, in 2013-14 the RCMP diverted $22.9 million and 600 staff members from operations fighting organized crime, eco-nomic crime and other national security files to INSETs.
As RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson told a Commons com-mittee in March: “We have enough people who are work-ing these (terrorism) cases, but they’re not doing what they’re supposed to be doing.”
The RCMP isn’t the only secur-
ity agency that is being short-changed in the fight against terrorism. While Bill C-51 would expand the mandate of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to fight terrorism, the government is not allocating any new resources to it. Critics say that while CSIS and other servi-ces spend $1 billion a year pro-tecting us from terrorism, cyber attacks, crime and other threats, their resources are already badly stretched.
In fact, not only are our anti-terror services not getting more money to take on more dut-ies under Bill C-51, they have actually seen their budgets cut in recent years.
CSIS, for example, saw its fund-ing reduced to $496 million in 2013 from $540 million in 2012. Meanwhile, the RCMP’s esti-
mated budget for 2014 was $2.63 billion, a five-per-cent decrease from 2013 and a 15-per-cent drop from four years earlier, Senator Colin Kenny points out.
If that weren’t cause enough for alarm, Public Accounts figures show the departments didn’t even get to spend what they were allotted. Reports say the drive for restraint has had a “chilling” effect, leading agen-cies to underspend.
Since 2007 the RCMP has handed back $1.7 billion and CSIS was unable to spend $180 million. In 2014 alone, the RCMP handed back $158.7 million, the Canada Border Services Agency underspent by $194.2 million, CSIS returned $18.2 million to the treasury, and the Communi-cations Security Establishment returned $25.1 million.
As Kenny has said, “This sad state of affairs is not only com-promising Canada’s anti-terror-ism efforts, it is simultaneously making us more vulnerable to other types of threats as well. Hardly the actions you’d expect from a tough-on-crime government.”
He is right. The Harper govern-ment would do better to increase funding to the RCMP and other security agencies to fight ter-rorism — and other forms of crime — than it would by push-ing through a security bill that threatens to chip away at Canad-ian freedoms.
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City told to fi x dams, but what needs to be fi xed?
A short time ago some mysteri-ous order from the BC Water Rights Controller declared that the Colliery dams system was in imminent danger of failing, caus-ing massive amounts of damage and horrendous loss of life to Nanaimoites. No supporting docu-mentation has ever been estab-lished. However, the bureaucrat declared that this hundred-year structure must be destroyed.
The previous city council used “The Sky is Falling” approach and began a multimillion-dollar study that proved the dam system was safe, and in no danger of expected earthquake.
When this situation was neg-ated, the controller demanded protection of citizens by chan-ging the spillway — even though no notes had ever been made of the existing spillway being over half the need to maintain water control.
Now that the second threat has proven to have no viability the control bureaucracy demand that
the dams be “fixed” — but what needs “fixing?”
When any governmental author-ity is caught with their pants this far down around their ankles their only concern is to save ego and status. These expensive employ-ees of our are only interested in their reputation and the cost to the taxpayer is far down their concern list.
During the last election prom-ises to solve this massively expen-sive and unneeded exercise were made. Now council must stop this charade.
D. F. ConnorsNanaimo
City needed to monitor buildings for problems
Re: ‘Plenty of tax cash needed to replace aging buildings (Daily News, April 2)
It’s too obvious that the City of Nanaimo, when they acquired the 150 buildings, should have realized that some time down the line that
the 150 buildings would require being replaced or upgraded. But now, however, since the barn doors have been left open way too long, it yet again will fall to the now-too-over-burdened taxpayers of Nanaimo to pay for this financial blunder.
In all, there should be have been a lot more of the watchful eye on these 150 buildings.
But still, it has got me wondering just what other city-owned prop-erty is hiding dark secrets.
Al MunroNanaimo
Closing Cedar school a big error by prior board
What is it with Jamie Bren-nan? Of course the decision to reopen Cedar Secondary was “preordained.”
In the local elections of Novem-ber the electorate of Nanaimo overwhelmingly voted in a new board because they wanted change, and the correct decisions to be made regarding the future of
our district schools and their stu-dents. The previous board made a grave error in closing Cedar Sec-ondary in June 2013, and it is dis-appointing that current trustees that were a part of that board will not admit to being wrong about that decision.
Let me remind trustees Bren-nan and Bill Robinson that they only barely managed to be elected to the current board and that to continue to be divisive in this time of change, and in the spirit of moving forward, gets us nowhere fast, and will not be looked upon favourably by the next electorate.
James TripeCedar
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Georgia Avenue is a salmon-friendly schoolLocal aquatic systems and their amazing complexity the focus of several on going school programs
L earning about salmon and the need to respect their habitat is an ongoing endeavor at Georgia
Avenue School. Featured are Salmon in the Backyard learning program from Fisheries and Oceans.
“The young boys were tired of play-ing running games. They were hot and sweaty, so decided to take a dip in the river. But when they got there, so many salmon crowded the water that the boys couldn’t even jump in.
“‘I know,’ said one boy, ‘let’s carve a bunch of pointy sticks and jab them into the backs of these salmon. Then we can watch the sticks swimming up stream.’ ‘Even better,’ suggested another boy, ‘let’s light the sticks on fire and watch the smoke waving around as they swim upstream.’”
So spoke Georgia Avenue aboriginal edu-cation assistant Arlene Deptuck, as she recounted a Nisga’a legend.
“Soon the poor fish burdened with torches in their backs couldn’t swim any farther. They lay in the water unmoving. Earth was very upset to see salmon so misused,” she continued. “Frustration clawed in Earth’s belly, caused a rum-bling deep in the bowels of mountains. Up came the rumbling, up and up until
finally out spewed tons of molten rock lava. The people ran away, very afraid. To this day in Nass Valley by Terrace, B.C., large areas of glassy volcanic rock can be found.”
Local aquatic systems and their amaz-ing complexity are the focus of several on going school programs. Stream to Sea and Life in H2O bring hands on experience to teach students and encourage responsible stream stewardship.
There are two cold-water aquariums at Georgia Avenue.
Each was seeded with 100 fertilized Coho eggs, which hatched into tiny sac carrying alevins in early March.
Positioned in the main entrance hall, one aquarium is easily viewed by passers-
by. A wall-sized mural behind shows salmon migration routes and spawning cycle. A second tank resides in teacher Chris Pagan’s Grade 6 classroom. Stu-dents care for the baby fish which by now have matured into fry. Later in April, a field trip to Nanaimo Fish Hatchery will see the young salmon released into their river of origin.
“It’s fun,” said Pagan. “Students get to name the fry as they release them. We make a second trip to the hatchery in the fall, to observe salmon returning upstream to spawn.”
The autumn excursion also showcases eggs being hand-fertilized, as well as a fish dissection to learn salmon anatomy. About 50 students from Georgia Avenue
participate in Stream to Sea programs. Grade 6 students buddy with Grade 2s to help the younger children participate.
Pagan feels that the hands on approach offers many benefits.
“It teaches responsibility and leader-ship” he said. “Becoming more aware of habitat is very important. Hopefully down the road, this will have a positive impact on salmon revitalization programs.”
Galoway agrees. “The importance to our salmon cannot
be overstressed” she said. “Not only do they feed us, but harvesting and process-ing fish for eating later in winter is a group effort. Family’s work together to can and smoke the salmon. This is a time to reconnect with each other as we cele-brate earth’s bounty.”
Cold water plungeGet those pledges posted to support your
favourite participant in the upcoming Colliery Dam Park Cold Water Challenge 2015.
The action starts at noon on April 26. Lots of excitement planned with a live DJ, local musicians, the Dam Poets and Coun. Gord Fuller’s world famous hot dogs. There’s even a rumour circulating that MLA Doug Routley might pull a Harewood wheelie, and ride a bike right into the pond. Will it happen? Find out on Sunday, April 26 at the lower dam. All proceeds go to build Tillicum Lelum Childcare Centre.
Georgia Avenue school students are learning all about salmon.
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City of Nanaimo fire investigators are warning residents to keep their fire alarms and electrical cords in good con-dition and working after two recent resi-dential fires that displaced a total 16 people.
The first fire gutted a residential build-ing on the 200-block of Nicol Street on Thursday and affected six people. Investigators say the fire started at the rear of the building near a set of stairs leading to a closed-in porch. Investiga-
tors were not able to confirm the cause of the blaze, but “remnants of smoking materials” were found in the area and investigators suspect that the “poorly discarded” materials may have caused the fire. The smoke alarms in the house had also been disabled and removed, say officials.
Investigators also said a separate fire on Fifth Street that displaced 10 people resulted from an electrical power cord connected to a table lamp in an upper floor bedroom. In that instance, the fire alarms activated.
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Canada aids Ukraine troop training effortMURRAY BREWSTER THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The federal govern-ment went to extra lengths Tues-day to make it clear Canadian military trainers will not be in harm’s way when they deploy to western Ukraine to school battle-weary formations in the finer points of combat.
“These Canadian Armed Forces personnel will not be going any-where remotely close to the con-flict zone in eastern Ukraine,” Defence Minister Jason Kenney told a news conference.
The U.S.-led mission is unlikely to raise the temperature of the simmering conflict in eastern Europe, but that could change if Washington, Ottawa and other nations decide to permanently base troops in places like Poland and the Baltic states, which NATO is being urged to do.
Steve Saideman, the chair in international affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa, said Rus-sia will likely make noise about the training mission and milk it for propaganda value, but likely won’t seek to retaliate.
“We still live in a nuclear world, and there are certain things Rus-sia can do, and certain things Russian can’t do,” Saideman said.
“What I think the Russians would care more about was if the United States planted a brigade in Poland and another brigade strewn throughout the Baltics. That would be much more upset-ting to them.”
He says another cautionary line would be crossed if the West decided to ship arms and muni-
tions to Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko’s government.
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, however, says he is very con-cerned by what he calls a dan-gerous precedent and a lack of consultation.
“This is not a NATO mission and yet we’re going to be on the Russian border,” he said during a stop in Rimouski, Que.
“When it came to Mali or Libya, Mr. Harper would consult and try to have the other parties onside. But more and more, he is acting unilaterally . . . and Canadians have the right to be involved and consulted.”
Canada is sending 200 military trainers to Ukraine sometime in early summer, joining the U.S. and Britain in a two-year com-mitment to improve the effective-ness of Ukrainian forces.
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau immediately threw his support behind the mission.
“As a strong friend and ally of Ukraine, we need to make sure we’re doing what we can to help against the unacceptable Rus-sian actions,” Trudeau said.
The Canadians will offer Ukrainian troops their expertise in countering mines and impro-vised explosive devices, skills learned the hard way during Canada’s difficult five-year com-bat mission in Kandahar.
The new mission could also involve instruction on logistics and military policing.
They will be training “recog-nized” Ukrainian army units and not any of the notorious irregular forces, some of whom have been described as far-right neo-fascist groups.
Tension may rise if U.S.-led mission becomes permanent
Ukrainian servicemen guard their position in the village of Berdyanske near Shyrokyne, eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]
JUSTICE
Mandatory minimums for gun crimes nixedMIKE BLANCHFIELD THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada dealt the Harper government’s tough-on-crime agenda a serious blow Tuesday by striking down a law requiring mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes.
The 6-3 ruling, penned by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, said the statute was unconstitutional as it upheld a 2013 Ontario Court of Appeal ruling that labelled the law cruel and unusual.
The court said the manda-tory minimum sentence could ensnare people with “little or no moral fault” and who pose “little or no danger to the public.” It cited as, an example, a person who inherits a firearm and does not immediately get a license for the weapon.
“As the Court of Appeal con-cluded, there exists a ‘cavernous disconnect’ between the sever-ity of the licensing-type offence and the mandatory minimum three-year term of imprison-ment,” McLachlin wrote for the majority.
Justice Minister Peter MacKay said in a statement that the gov-ernment will review the decision to determine “next steps towards protecting Canadians from gun crime and ensuring that our laws remain responsive.”
“Our government will continue to be tough on those who commit serious crimes and endanger our communities.”
McLachlin also took aim at the government’s core justification for tough sentencing laws, which it says is to keep Canadians safer.
“The government has not estab-lished that mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment act as a deterrent against gun-related crimes,” she wrote. “Empirical evidence suggests that manda-tory minimum sentences do not, in fact, deter crimes.”
Eric Gottardi, head of the Can-adian Bar Association’s criminal justice section, applauded the ruling because he said there is no solid evidence that stiffer senten-ces deter crime.
“In a climate where almost every law that is coming out of the government in the past
10 years has had some kind of mandatory minimum sentence attached to it, it is a pretty strong message to the govern-ment that their internal checks for what is constitutional clearly aren’t working.”
The case was focused on gun crimes, and will not affect other mandatory minimum sentencing laws on the books for posses-sion of marijuana plants, sexual assault, child pornography and fraud and theft, Gottardi said.
Justice Michael Moldaver echoed that sentiment in the dis-senting minority opinion.
“In my view, sending our elected representatives back to the drawing board . . . would impede the goals of deterring and denouncing the unlawful possession of deadly weapons and keeping them out of the hands of those who would use them as instruments of intimi-dation, death, and destruction,” Moldaver wrote.
The ruling struck down both the three-year mandatory min-imum for a first offence of pos-sessing a loaded prohibited gun, as well as the five-year minimum for a second offence.
The new gun sentencing rules were enacted in 2008.
The Supreme Court has clashed with the Conservative govern-ment on several key policies, although it recently sided with Ottawa over the destruction of gun registry data, which Quebec sought to preserve.
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FOREIGN POLICY
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OTTAWA — From trade, to energy, to the environment, to security, to culture, Prime Min-ister Stephen Harper will have no shortage of topics to discuss with visiting Indian Prime Min-ister Narendra Modi over the next three days.
Harper will also have an unspoken domestic pol-itical dividend — boosting his party’s standing with Canada’s 1.2 million Indo-Canadians as an October federal election looms.
After a formal meeting Wed-nesday, Harper will accompany the charismatic Modi to Toronto and Vancouver and will have no less than 16 fellow Conserva-tives appearing with them at various events, from cabinet ministers to MPs.
A num-ber of promin-ent fed-eral Con-serva-tive MPs, including
Roland Paris, the founding direc-tor of the University of Ottawa’s Centre for International Policy Studies.
“He can promote deeper eco-nomic and diplomatic links with India while also scoring political points at home with the Indo-Canadian community.”
Harper’s fondness for diaspora politics is well known. His tough talk towards Russia is seen as a way of courting the 1.2 million Canadians of Ukrainian descent, for instance.
Last year Harper highlighted the pre-eminence of Indian immigration during a major speech in Toronto.
“Today, India is Canada’s top source country for immigrants,” he said.
“And this explains why Can-ada’s Indo-Canadian community is over 1.2 million strong and continuing to grow.”
But Kasi Rao, a vice president of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, said the Indo-Canadian community is no more uniform in its voting habits than any other segment of Canadians.
“The Indo-Canadian commun-ity has made strides in all parties in Canada, federally and provin-cially and I think the community has now deepened in Canada,” he said.
It is exactly those deep roots that can allow progress in a number of key economic areas, including boosting trade and investment as well
as ever-expanding post-second-ary education exchanges, he
said.Finalizing a deal — now two
years in the making — that would
see Saskatchewan’s Cameco Corp export peaceful nuclear material to India will also be a major priority.
Paris said economic progress between the two countries can’t come soon enough for Canada.
“A successful visit isn’t enough. After nearly a decade in office, the Harper government has missed many opportunities to deepen Canada’s links with the emerging powers of Asia,” he said.Others urge the two leaders to do more on tackling climate change.
Louise Comeau, executive dir-ector of Climate Action Network Canada, would like to see Modi and Harper prod each other to make strong commitments to reduce greenhouse gases ahead of the UN climate conference in Paris in December.
“Neither country is performing to its best potential,” she said. “We have a very large population in Canada with connections in India — we have opportunities for trading in clean energy.”
Modi’s visit is the first to Can-ada by an Indian prime minister since Indira Gandhi was hosted in 1973 by then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
The visit will also give Canad-ians their first glimpse of Modi, who swept to power last May.
Modi is expected to get a rock star welcome at a Toronto arena on Thursday night.
But another group — calling themselves Sikhs for Justice — wants Modi indicted on tor-ture charges while in Canada, alleging he was complicit in the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Indian PM in Ottawa for three-day visit
ENVIRONMENT
Premiers ask feds to act on climateMeeting declaration also shows how divided the provinces are on the issue of how to fi ght climate change
GIUSEPPE VALIANTE THE CANADIAN PRESS
QUEBEC — Provincial leaders from across Canada reaffirmed their commitment to fight cli-mate change on Tuesday even as a meeting revealed major dif-ferences among them on how to achieve the objective.
Some premiers also lamented what they called a lack of leader-ship from Ottawa in co-ordinat-ing the provinces’ strategies to reduce man-made greenhouse gas emissions, the leading driver of climate change according to scientists.
Provinces including Quebec and Ontario want to cap and trade carbon emissions and have set hard targets to reduce green-house gas emissions.
Others such as Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and Alberta have less clearly defined targets to reduce carbon emission. Saskatchewan says Canada’s priority should not be on putting a price on carbon or setting a strict target for green-
house gas emissions, but rather on investing in innovative pro-jects that will help make burning coal cleaner.
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall noted that Canada accounts for less than two per cent of the world’s annual greenhouse gas emissions.
“One-third of the world’s emis-sions come from coal,” he said after his brief presentation to his fellow premiers. “And coal is expanding. As citizens of the world, if we’re not committed to finding the technological solu-tions to clean up coal, then we’re kind of playing on the margins.”
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne told reporters shortly after Wall’s comments she rejects “part of that argument.”
“Yes, we are a small country in terms of our population and absolute emissions, but we are heavy emitters per capita and that actually gives us more of a responsibility to innovate and create technology that allow us to deal with the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions,” she said.
Wynne said Ontario’s decision to join Quebec in a cap-and-trade system will reduce the province’s emissions and spur the innova-tion that Wall mentioned.
Wall replied that “showing leadership matters, signals mat-ter, examples matter, but the numbers are the numbers. Less than two per cent of world emis-sions come from Canada.”
Tuesday’s meeting included all leaders except Alberta’s Jim Prentice, Nova Scotia’s Stephen McNeil and Prince Edward Island’s Wade MacLauchlan. Pre-
mier Christy Clark joined part of the discussions by telephone.
The premiers did not agree to any specific goals in their joint declaration — only to “adopt” and “promote” ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and “advance” new technologies.
The final declaration also repre-sented how divided the provinces are on the issue of how to fight climate change.
A draft document included a reference to the ministers agree-ing to “put a price on carbon or adopt other structuring initia-tives” to help reduce greenhouse gasses.
The final declaration only stated that premiers agreed to “make a transition to a lower-carbon economy through appro-priate initiatives.”
Tuesday’s meeting ended with renewed calls for the federal gov-ernment to show greater initia-tive in addressing the issue.
The Conservative government argues that any effort to price carbon is an economy killer.
No coalition if Mulcair is NDP leader: TrudeauTHE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he would “maybe” be more open to the idea of forming a coalition with the NDP if Tom Mulcair was not running the party.
Asked on Tuesday whether having someone other than Mul-cair as leader would change the dynamic in terms of a coalition between the two parties, Tru-deau replied: “I don’t know . . . . Honestly, I don’t want get into hypotheses. Maybe, but maybe not.
“There are no problems in terms of personality,” he told The Canadian Press in an inter-view from Oakville, Ont. “Mr. Mulcair is a veteran politician who has proven himself.
“His style is anchored in the old way of practising politics. Pol-itics needs to be about rallying. And we have very different per-spectives on how politics should be practised.”
On Tuesday, Trudeau cat-egorically rejected the idea of a coalition.
“I’m not interested at all in any formal arrangement,” said the Liberal leader. “On the contrary, I find that wanting to make arrangements with other parties is putting the desire for power ahead of the interests of Canadians.
“What Canadians are inter-ested in is having a coherent government.”
Defence Minister Jason Kenney and Employment Minister Pierre Poilievre, were on hand to greet the Indian prime minister when his plane touched down Tuesday in Ottawa.
“This seems to be a win-win situation for Harper,” said
Thousands of people march for a better environment in advance of the meeting of Canadian premiers this week in Quebec City. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
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B.C. paparazzo denies claims around Ryan Reynolds incidentGEORDON OMAND THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-area paparazzo reportedly arrested follow-ing an alleged confrontation with actor Ryan Reynolds has had run-ins with other Hollywood stars.
Vancouver police are recommending a charge of intimidation against a man whose vehicle allegedly struck Rey-nolds in an underground parking lot.
Police have not identified the man they arrested, but The Vancouver Province and Vancouver Sun said he is Rik Fedyck, a 52-year-old celebrity photographer.
Fedyck told the Canadian Press via text message on Tuesday that the stor-ies circulating in the media of him hitting Reynolds with his vehicle in the lot of a downtown luxury hotel on
Friday evening are “100-per-cent false.”In 2007, Fedyck filed a lawsuit claim-
ing he was verbally and physically assaulted by Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards, who were in Rich-
mond shooting the film Blonde and Blonder.
He dropped the suit fewer than three months later.
Fedyck said in the brief text conversa-
tion that he didn’t believe he would be going to court over last week’s alleged confron-tation with Reynolds.
He was released with a promise to appear in court on April 28, said
Vancouver police spokesman Brian Montague.
The conditions of his release are that he is not to be in Vancouver other than for his court appearance and he is not to have contact with Reynolds or his family, Montague added.
Fedyck maintained his innocence in an interview published in The Vancou-ver Province on Monday.
“All I’m going to say is Ryan Reynolds was not hit by a car,” Fedyck said, denying that any pictures were taken.
He recounted spending 14 hours in a “pretty scummy” jail before his release.
None of the allegations have been proven in court.
The Vancouver-born movie star is in the city filming his new movie Deadpool.
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Pilots found dead after crash north of Vancouver KEVEN DREWS THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — Search and rescue crews have found the bodies of two pilots in and around the wreckage of a cargo plane that crashed in heavily treed mountains north of Vancouver.
The discovery came a day after the Sweringen SA 226 aircraft disappeared from the radar screen while on its way from Vancouver to Prince George, B.C.
Navy Lt. Paul Trenholm of the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre said one pilot’s body was found in the front portion of the aircraft Tuesday morning and the body of the second pilot was dis-covered nearby a few hours later.
“Both pilots are deceased, unfortunately,” Tren-holm said from Victoria. “We wish that this had turned out a different way.”
The plane was in pieces.“Our ground crews first came across portions of
the wing, then finally the main body, and the tail was later identified,” he said, adding the front part was eventually found.
Cpl. Richard De Jong of the North Vancouver RCMP said the bodies of the 33- and 35-year-old pilots have been removed from the wreckage. He did not identify them but said they lived in the Van-couver area and their families have been notified.
Trenholm said the crash site is located southeast of Crown Mountain, directly south of Cathedral Mountain, and on a northeast bearing from Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver.
The site was discovered thanks in part to the work of Nav Canada, the civil air navigation agency that provides air traffic control services.
Trenholm said Nav Canada identified a “high probability zone” where search and rescue teams could focus their efforts.
Pilots operating at about 1,350 metres faced near-zero temperatures and turbulence Monday, while ground crews reported snow depths that made it difficult to get around, he said.
Coroner Barb McLintock said two coroners, one from the Metro Vancouver office and another from the special identification unit, were flown close to the crash site, before hiking in.
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A man drives a taxi past a building with the word ‘Cuba’ on it, in Havana on Tuesday. President
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Cuba to be removed from U.S. terror list
JULIE PACE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Pres-ident Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of ter-rorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries.
The terror designation has been a stain on Cuba’s pride and a major stum-bling block for efforts to mend ties between Wash-ington and Havana.
In a message to Congress, Obama said the govern-ment of Cuba “has not provided any support for international terrorism” over the last six months. He also told lawmakers that Cuba “has provided assurances that it will not support acts of inter-national terrorism in the future.”
Cuba will officially be removed from the terror list 45 days after the pres-ident’s message was sent to Congress. Lawmakers
could vote to block the move during that window, though Obama would be all-but-certain to veto such a measure.
Tuesday’s announcement comes days after Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro met on the sidelines of a regional summit in Panama. The historic talks marked the first formal meeting between the lead-ers of their countries in a half-century.
The U.S. has long since stopped actively accusing Cuba of supporting ter-rorism. When Obama and Castro announced a thaw in relations in Decem-ber, the U.S. president expressed his willingness to remove Cuba from that list.
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The president’s final decision followed a State Department review of Cuba’s presence on the list.
Removing Cuba from the terror list could pave the way for the opening of a U.S. Embassy in Havana and other steps. Adminis-tration officials said they were optimistic about the prospects of opening the embassy, but did not pro-vide any specific updates in timing.
Cuba was designated a state sponsor of terror in 1982 because of what the White House said was its efforts “to promote armed revolution by organiza-tions that used terrorism.”
Cubans say the list-ing has badly damaged their ability to conduct international financial transactions by frighten-ing banks away from doing business with the com-munist government. Those who do businesses with state sponsors of terror are vulnerable to lawsuits in U.S. courts.
Lawmakers could vote it down, but face a veto
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Hope wanes year after girls abducted by Boko HaramMICHELLE FAUL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LAGOS, Nigeria — They have been gone a year now, the hundreds of girls abducted by Islamic mil-itants from their school in northeastern Nigeria.
And while the cry to “Bring Back Our Girls” remains a worldwide cause, the new president Tuesday would not repeat his predecessor’s failed promise to find them — only that they won’t be forgotten.
A solemn march was held to remember the 219 girls seized from their board-ing school in Chibok by gunmen from the Boko Haram extremist group. In Nigeria’s capital of Abuja, 219 girls paraded in the streets, with each carrying
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“We believe the girls are still alive,” said Dr. Allan Manasseh, the brother of missing 18-year-old Mary-amu Wavi, in an interview with The Associated Press.
But it was clear that hope has dwindled a year after the April 14-15 mass abduction.
President-elect Muham-madu Buhari said he must be honest about the prospects of getting the missing girls back to their families.
“We do not know if the Chibok girls can be res-cued. Their whereabouts remain unknown,” Buhari said in a statement. “As much as I wish to, I cannot promise that we can find them.”
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Still, some of the march-ers Tuesday held the new leadership accountable.
“We are here to appeal to the government to do bet-ter. We want our girls now and alive,” said Solamipe Onifade, 16.
The gunmen initially seized 276 girls, but several dozen managed to escape as the militants transport-ed them to the Sambisa Forest, with some clinging to the branches of trees from a moving open-back truck.
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EileenBennewithNutritionNotes
Unplug and eat together to enjoy meals
We live in a world of electronic gadgets designed to keep us engaged all day
long. The greatest loss that results
from this form of constant communication is that no one has time to talk to one another anymore.
The family meal is an ideal time to sit face to face and share not only good food, but good conversation.
Good conversation involves active listening and thoughtful response.
If every sentence is being interrupted by a text message chime, a loud television com-mercial, or the ringing of some-one’s cell phone, it is impossible to communicate effectively.
When preparing to sit together for a family meal, turn off all devices and focus on the most important people in your life, your family.
When children are at the table this is an excellent place to teach manners.
Children learn not just man-ners around eating, but how to communicate and engage in conversation. Children will learn to listen and should be encouraged to share ideas at the table.
Longer conversations with children lead to a greater vocabulary and may improve school performance.
The family table is where you pass along your values and have important discussions about making wise choices. Studies have shown that frequent fam-ily meals may reduce the risk that a teen will smoke, drink or use illegal drugs.
Teen girls who eat regular family meals in a structured and positive environment are less likely to use extreme weight control measures such as chron-ic dieting or diet pills. Family meals are even attributed to lower suicide risk.
Family meals are not the time to discipline your children. Chil-dren and teens are more posi-tive about eating together as a family if they do not view meals as a time when they will be criti-cized or punished.
Nutritionally, both children and their parents eat better when they eat family meals together.
Research shows that family meals tend to provide a better intake of fruits, vegetables and milk.
This translates into a better intake of calcium, iron, vita-mins and fibre.
There may also be a lower intake of fried foods and soft drinks that are often associated with the rise in obesity.
At the table, children learn to enjoy a variety of foods by watching what parents eat. They may not try a new food the first time, but if they see it at the family table over and over again, it will be recognized as a family food and will slowly become accepted.
Try to eat together as often as possible.
Whether it is breakfast, lunch or dinner, take time to relax, enjoy each other’s company and savor the good food of a shared family meal.
Don’t forget to unplug the outside world by shutting off all distracting devices.
B.C. wines are some of the best in the world, and our best wines are found in the Okanagan
T he economic boon of B.C.’s growing wine industry is only matched by our
delight in the wines we drink from our province. Folks always like to support locally grown products, and local wine buying is a natural.
Not all of the great B.C. wines would qualify for Nanaimo’s 100 Mile Diet, but if we knocked out those Strait of Georgia ocean miles, we’d be close.
Amazingly, with more than 131 licensed wineries, the Oka-nagan Valley produces 90 per cent of the wine in B.C.
Large Okanagan producers like
Prospect Point, Sumac Ridge, Peller Estates and Mission Hill create enough wine to satiate B.C.’s everyday, weeknight and casual kinds of wines.
But then we have the small estate and boutique wineries making what might be called “weekend wines”, i.e. wines you’d serve when your entertain-ing company.
And most Okanagan wineries have a top level as well, of lim-ited-production, luxury wines for special occasions.
The Okanagan Valley is div-ided into five distinct viticulture regions.
The most northerly region is in and around Kelowna, which pro-vides cooler temperatures and a shorter growing season. The cool climate grapes best suited to Kelowna’s growing conditions include Pinot Noir, Gewürztrami-ner and Riesling.
Cedar Creek Winery is located near Kelowna and its Pinot Noir is a perfect example of a cool cli-mate wine. The bouquet is a fruit salad of blueberries, cherry and plum. The silky medium body delivers tastes of strawberry and blueberry.
The complexity of this little winner is enhanced by some aging in French oak and a touch of wild yeast, all contributing to a lingering finish. The Cedar Creek Pinot Noir would be the perfect weekend wine to go with a salmon BBQ.
At the other end of the Okanan-gan Valley we see big Bordeaux-like red wines and lush fruity whites. The Osoyoos region in the southern tip of the valley has an almost desert-like climate. Its grapes and wines reflect the soil and sun of the area.
The Osoyoos region is home to the Hester Creek Winery located
in Oliver. Their Character Red Blend is an excellent example of a warm-climate wine.
Petit Verdot, Syrah, Merlot and Malbec grapes are all used in this Meritage blend. The aromas of plum, cherry and coffee will get your saliva flowing. Generous fruit, hints of mocha and smoky spice are present and offer lin-gering flavours. This wine has a rich weight and good structure. Decant it, for about an hour before serving, for optimal enjoy-ment with BBQ beef.
Join us at Lucky’s Gourmet Mezzanine at the Country Club Center on Monday, April 30 as we explore some of B.C.’s best wines.
As always, small bites will be expertly paired with the wines. For more information on how you can join us in this limited seating event please call us at 250-585-2275 or visit us at www.luckysliquor.ca.
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» Eileen Bennewith is a registered diet-itian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at [email protected]. Her column appears Wednesdays.
Healthy, fast casual food chains get celebrity helpMore people are choosing foods based on benefi ts rather than what’s left outKELLI KENNEDY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
They want it fresh. They want it cheap. They want it fast. And most important-ly, they don’t want it
to taste like it’s good for them.That’s a tall order for the new
crop of healthy fast-casual res-taurant chains, a segment that has struggled in the past but now is flourishing thanks to celebrity chef backings and the popular farm-to-table trend.
“Make it better for me, but I don’t want to give anything up. I want less salt, no antibiot-ics, no trans-fats, more fruits, more veggies. I don’t go out to restaurants to give stuff up; I go to restaurants to be tantalized,” Greg Dollarhyde, CEO of Santa Monica-based chain Veggie Grill, said by way of summarizing the typical consumer.
More Americans are choos-ing foods based on the benefits — antioxidants, polyphenols, omega-3s — rather than based on what’s being left out — fat, sodium and carbohydrates, according to industry analysts. It’s a switch from an avoidance diet to an add-in diet.
And these new chains are capitalizing on that change, giv-ing vegetables and good-for-you grains top billing at the centre of the plate.
But they’re careful not to label themselves as vegan or vege-tarian, which could alienate customers. Instead, Veggie Grill — which has 28 restaurants on the West Coast — says its biggest growth has been among the typ-ical meat-eating consumer, and maybe the occasional flexitarian (semi-vegetarians) looking to eat more whole, unprocessed vege-tables and grains.
Which is why the restaurants prefer buzzy terms like
veggie-centric.It’s a marketing message that
resonates as the number of people who say they’re trying to get more protein in their diet overall has been declining, says food industry analyst Harry Balzer, of the Chicago-based consumer research firm NPD Group. “We’re not trying to get more protein. We’re trying to get different sources of protein . . . Generally, they’re cheaper plant-based sources,” he said.
Sales at healthy fast casual chains totalled about $384 mil-lion in 2014, up almost 30 per cent from 2013, according to preliminary data from Techno-mic. And locally sourced meats and produce and minimally pro-cessed natural ingredients were
among the top five menu trends for 2015, according to a survey by the National Restaurant Association.
And plenty of restaurant chains are jumping into the pool. Sweetgreen’s popular build-a-bowl concept has spawned more than two dozen locations in six states, with two California res-taurants opening soon.
And this month, Cava Grill announced a $16 million cash infusion to expand its Mediter-ranean-style big bowl fare on the West Coast. They currently have eight locations around Washing-ton, D.C.
Meanwhile, Lyfe Kitchen — a chain operated by Art smith, Oprah Winfrey’s former personal chef — has opened more than a dozen restaurants in California, New York and Illinois since first opening in Palo Alto in 2011. And chef Jose Andres recently opened veg-centric Beefsteak on the George Washington Univer-sity Campus in Washington, D.C., and already is planning a second location.
All four offer meats that include “unfried” chicken,
salmon and lamb meatballs, but their focus is on veggies, tofu, beans, nuts and Greek yogurt-based sauces.
“You have to make it approach-able. You have to make it familiar. When people get too dogmatic or strict about it, that’s when you turn people off,” says chef Tal Ronnen, who prepared the meals for Winfrey’s 21-day cleanse and now runs the upscale Los Angeles vegan res-taurant Crossroads.
That’s why these chains offer a lot more than salads. There’s sweet potato fries and crispy cauliflower — and yes, they’re fried, not baked at Veggie Grill. Everything at Lyfe Kitchen, where Ronnen also is a consult-ing chef, clocks in at under 600 calories, including the stuffed “pizzadillawich” with cheese, veggies and a tomato dipping sauce.
“We don’t have many choices for good food fast. A lot of fast food, maybe. But not good food
fast created by a chef, not a cor-poration,” said Andres.
T he chains might be pros-pering, but is the Meatless
Monday crowd strong enough to give these healthy chains staying power on a national scale?
“It will be harder for them to become McDonald’s. I don’t think it will be harder for them to sur-vive . . . They may have a hard time becoming a national force,” said Balzer. “The country is a meat eating country. We want things that we like in new ver-sions of it.”
Healthier fare also requires ser-ious prep time to peel and chop all that fresh produce. Veggie Grill goes through 42,000 pounds of vegetables a week at its chains. It would be easier to use frozen butternut squash in their soup at Veggie Grill, but Dollar-hyde says consumers know the difference.
“Our goal is to get it out in six minutes. This food doesn’t sit well until the heat lamp,” said Dollarhyde.
Chef Franklin Becker, centre, watches the preparation of a dish at The Little Beet at the restaurant in New York. Becker, who’s opening seven more restaurants in the New York area this year, says the demand is growing. [AP PHOTO]
BCHL PLAYOFFS
Vees pull even with ClipsSCOTT MCKENZIE DAILY NEWS
T he Fred Page Cup final between the Penticton Vees and Nanaimo Clip-
pers is now down to a best-of-three series.
The Vees made sure of that Tuesday night in Nanaimo, beat-ing the Clippers 8-5 in Game 4 of the series to continue the trend of the road team winning each game thus far.
Now tied 2-2, both teams have a three-goal road win under their belts, as well as a 2-1 overtime victory in enemy territory.
“If anything, it gives us confi-dence that we can win Game 5
in their building,” said Clippers head coach Mike Vandekamp.
“We just won some games there a few days ago.”
On Tuesday night, the Clippers gave up the first goal but Devin Brosseau and Sheldon Rempal both scored to put their team up 2-1.
In the second period, however, the game got away from the Clip-pers as they were called on four straight penalties in the frame and gave up four goals.
“We didn’t come out the way we wanted to,” Brosseau said of his team’s second period effort.
“We weren’t as sharp and we took some bad penalties. The
officiating, it is what it is. We had to kill those penalties and we didn’t.”
Down 5-3 in the third, the Clip-pers did add two goals, which would have been enough to tie the game had they not allowed two more and an empty netter.
Through it all, Vandekamp said he didn’t think his team lost composure.
“I think certain people in the building thought we lose compo-sure,” he said. “But I don’t think so at all.”
Clippers goalie Guillaume Decelles had his poorest per-formance of the playoffs — he has played all 21 of his team’s
games and hadn’t allowed more than four goals since Game 3 of the first round. On Tuesday, he allowed seven goals on 39 Pentic-ton shots.
“I’m not worried about (Decelles) at all,” Vandekamp said. “He’s played well all play-offs, and all year. It wasn’t his best game either. He’ll bounce back, no question.”
The Clippers and Vees both head to Penticton Thursday night for Game 5, before return-ing to Nanaimo on Friday night for Game 6.
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Series:Tied 2-2 (best-of-seven)
Results:Game 1: Nanaimo 5 @ Penticton 2Game 2: Nanaimo 2 @ Penticton 1 (OT)Game 3: Penticton 2 @ Nanaimo 1 (OT)Game 4: Penticton 8 @ Nanaimo 5
Schedule:Game 5: Thursday @ Penticton, 7 p.m.Game 6: Friday @ Nanaimo, 7 p.m.Game 7: Sunday* @ Penticton, 6 p.m.
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Leaders:1. Sheldon Rempal (NAN): 4G, 1A2. Tyson Jost (PEN): 3G, 1A3. Brett Roulston (NAN): 1G, 3A4. Gabe Bast (PEN): 1G, 3A 5. Nic Gushue (NAN): 4A
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Montreal Canadiens’ defenceman P.K. Subban stretches during the team’s practice on Tuesday in Brossard, Que. The Canadiens meet the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs.. [CP PHOTO]
Wide-open playoffs says it’s anyone’s Stanley CupSTEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS
In the final weeks of the regu-lar season, New York Rangers coach Alain Vigneault talked to plenty of colleagues around the NHL and came away with a con-sensus about these Stanley Cup playoffs.
“Everybody’s sort of got the same theme: Pick your poison,” Vigneault said recently at Madi-son Square Garden. “Any one of the 16 teams that gets in has really a legitimate chance of win-ning the Cup, they do. There’s so little separating teams.”
The defending-champion Los Angeles Kings and defending Presidents’ Trophy-winning Boston Bruins didn’t make it. There are seven new teams going for the Cup in 2015 that didn’t qualify a year ago.
Put it all together and this is the most wide-open, unpredict-able NHL post-season in recent history.
“Can you sit here and hon-estly pick the four teams that are going to play in the confer-ence finals? I can’t,” St. Louis Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said as recently as last month in Toronto.
“This is the first time in my life I can’t honestly pick anybody that you’d say, ‘Man this team is for sure a lock,’ because it’s just so close.”
Montreal Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher called it “nuts.”
“It’s pretty hard to believe, actually,” he said. “It’s great for the league, it’s great for the game.”
The name of the game is par-ity, something commissioner Gary Bettman touts as one of the strengths of the league in the salary-cap era. Seven different teams have won in the nine sea-sons since the cap was instituted, with the Kings and Chicago Blackhawks the only ones to do it twice.
With Patrick Kane back early from a broken clavicle, the Black-hawks have to be considered one of the favourites, especially given their wealth of depth and playoff experience.
But Chicago doesn’t even have home ice in the first round against the Nashville Predators, and those teams are part of a
brutal Central Division bracket with the Blues and red-hot Minnesota Wild.
“The way Minnesota’s playing now, they can knock out any team in the league,” Blackhawks defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson told reporters in Chicago last week.
Only one of St. Louis, Chicago, Nashville and Minnesota can reach the Western Conference final. Any of those teams could then win the Cup, but the start may be just as difficult.
“It doesn’t really matter who you play in the first round,” Hjal-marsson said.
“All the teams are so even now with the salary cap. The first round is probably going to feel like a conference final, every single matchup.”
Out West, the Jets are in the playoffs for the first time since moving to Winnipeg and open against the conference’s top seed, the Anaheim Ducks.
The fearless Calgary Flames face the more experienced Van-couver Canucks in one of two all-Canadian series.
“We feel just lucky to be here, but at the same time, we’re not backing off from any challen-ges,” Flames coach Bob Hartley said Monday. “That’s in our DNA.”
The Canadiens, armed with all-world goaltender Carey Price, face Andrew Hammond and the Ottawa Senators in the other all-Canadian matchup. Montreal hasn’t matched up well against Ottawa recently, but players said they’re not worried about that looking ahead.
“The playoffs, it’s a new game,” forward Lars Eller said. “It’s 50/50. We’ve seen so many times in the past that records in the regular season don’t necessarily mean a lot.
“We kind of come in with a fresh mind-set, but at the same time understanding what made us successful during the regular season.”
No team had more regular-sea-son success than the Presidents’ Trophy-winning New York Ran-gers, who open up against Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Pen-guins. Pittsburgh needed to win on the last day of the season just to get in.
The Senators needed that, too, after becoming the first team in NHL history to be 14 points back of a playoff spot at any point to get in.
The winner of their series will face the winner of the other Atlantic Division matchup, the Tampa Bay Lightning against the Detroit Red Wings.
In the other Metropolitan Div-ision series, the Washington Cap-itals face the New York Islanders for the first time since 1993.
Capitals first-year general manager Brian MacLellan told reporters Monday outside Wash-ington that he believed this team is more suited to win in the play-offs than in the past.
So many teams can say that, making it anyone’s Cup to win.
“You look at the route to the Stanley Cup and the teams, it seems like the league’s more bal-anced than it’s been in a long, long time,” Canadiens defence-man P.K. Subban said. “Every-body’s got a chance.”
Most unpredictable NHL post-season in the league’s history
NHL PLAYOFFS
‘Stale’ core written off last year Canucks back in the playoffsJOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS
VANCOUVER — Prior to get-ting axed after one disastrous campaign with the Vancouver Canucks, John Tortorella didn’t mince words when assessing the club’s veteran core.
“I felt from Day 1 that it’s stale,” the team’s soon-to-be fired head coach said on April 14, 2014, after Vancouver missed the playoffs for the first time in six years. “That’s not their fault. This is a group that has been together for a long time.”
But fast-forward one year and Tortorella is a distant memory, while that “stale” nucleus of older players — the one that led Vancouver to two Presidents’ Trophies and within a game of winning the 2011 Stanley Cup before stumbling badly in 2013-14 — has the Canucks back in the post-season and buoyed at the chance for another run.
“For us personally, it was tough to miss the playoffs last year,” said Canucks defenceman Kevin Bieksa.
“It was just really tough to sit on the sidelines and watch. A team that was so used to being in the playoffs, and not only being there, but competing, we were hungry. We wanted to get back and do whatever it took.”
What it took for Vancouver, which opens its first-round series with the Calgary Flames at home on Wednesday, were bounce-back campaigns from a number of veterans.
Daniel and Henrik Sedin returned to form after tough offensive seasons to record 76 and 73 points, respectively, Alexandre Burrows stayed rela-tively healthy to score 18 goals, and Jannik Hansen found new life on a line with rookies Bo Horvat and Ronalds Kenins. On defence, Alexander Edler put an NHL-worst minus-39 season behind him to lead the Canucks with a plus-13 rating, while Bieksa and Dan Hamhuis battled through injuries to contribute down the stretch.
“You have to believe in your-selves to play this game at a high level,” said Bieksa. “This year we’ve been tested, we’ve overcome a lot of adversity (and) we’ve bounced back.”
Tortorella was one of many voices calling for the Canucks to go into rebuild mode, but the team’s brain trust led by president of hockey operations Trevor Linden and general man-ager Jim Benning saw things differently.
Rookie head coach Willie Des-jardins brought in fresh systems and a renewed belief in the club’s leaders, while the players were
determined to make amends for a lost season.
“As a person, whatever you do, when people don’t expect you to do good I think you want to show them that they’re wrong,” said Daniel Sedin. “No one expected us to make the playoffs. We weren’t supposed to have bounce-back seasons, but we all showed that we can still play.”
Tortorella said in his final press conference that the veterans needed to be surrounded with some youth, and that’s what happened to a certain extent with the emergence of Horvat and Kenins, while the easy-going Eddie Lack moved into the No. 1 goalie job after Ryan Miller got hurt in February.
Other parts of the retool includ-ed Ryan Kesler getting dealt to the Anaheim Ducks for Nick Bonino and Luca Sbisa, with Mil-ler and Radim Vrbata, who led Vancouver with 31 goals, added in free agency.
“I’ve always felt like we have a very tight group in here,” said Lack, who looks poised to get the nod in Game 1. “I feel like we’re a more happy group this year and everyone seems to be buying into roles.”
Like the Canucks, the young Flames weren’t expected to be in this position back in October. Calgary is making its first play-off appearance since 2009, with the Sedins the only holdovers from the teams’ last post-season meeting, which the Flames won back in 2004.
With that rivalry set to be renewed, the Canucks and their veteran core are eager to show there’s still plenty of gas left in the tank.
“We’ve been questioned a lot over the years. We were really disappointed last year. No ques-tion about that,” said Henrik Sedin. “(Motivation) has got to come from inside. You can’t look at what other people are saying. It was a tough summer after last year with what happened. We came back and we felt good about this team.”
‘Daily News’ predictionsVancouver Canucks vs.
Calgary FlamesDaily News sports editor Scott McKen-
zie: Canucks in six games; Daily News managing editor Philip Wolf: Canucks in six.
Anaheim Ducks vs. Winnipeg JetsSM: Ducks in 7; PW: Ducks in 6
St. Louis Blues vs. Minnesota WildSM: Blues in 5; PW: Blues in 6
Nashville Predators vs. Chicago Blackhawks
SM: Hawks in 7; PW: Hawks in 6
Montreal Canadiens vs. Ottawa Senators
SM: Habs in 7; PW: Sens in 6
Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Detroit Red Wings
SM: Lightning in 5; PW: Bolts in 6
New York Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Penguins
SM: Rangers in 5; PW: Rangers in 6
Washington Capitals vs. New York Islanders
SM: Isles in 6; PW: Caps in 7
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HOCKEY
McLellan to coach young Canadian team at worldsSTEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS
Todd McLellan will coach a young but talented Canadian team at the world champion-ships next month in Prague.
McLellan on Tuesday was named coach of Canada’s team, which will feature forwards Tyler Seguin, Claude Giroux and Nathan MacKinnon and defence-man Aaron Ekblad.
The 47-year-old McLellan, a native of Melville, Sask., just finished his seventh season behind the bench for the San Jose Sharks. He was an assistant
at the world juniors in 2000 but will be coaching Canada at this tournament for the first time.
Assisting McLellan are former New Jersey Devils coach Peter DeBoer, Carolina Hurricanes coach Bill Peters and Sharks assistant Jay Woodcroft. Like Canadian general manager Jim Nill, McLellan, Peters and Wood-croft all have connections to the Detroit Red Wings.
“This is a coaching staff with extensive experience in the NHL and knowledge of the inter-national game, as well,” Nill said in a statement.
Fans to guess citiesTHE CANADIAN PRESS
MONTREAL — A NASA astronaut currently aboard the International Space Station has issued a challenge to fellow baseball fans — including supporters of the Toronto Blue Jays.
Terry Virts has been taking photos of all 28 cities with a Major League Baseball stadium and posting them on his Twitter and Instagram accounts.
His challenge is to get baseball lovers to look at the pictures and guess the cities.
Some of the locations are being presented in groups of four with fans having to guess which is theirs.
A NASA spokeswoman says Blue Jays fans should get their chance on Wednesday.
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Yesterday at Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre
Rockets 4, Royals 2First Period1. Victoria, Forsberg 3 (Magee, Carroll) 1:032. Kelowna, Draisaitl 3 (unassisted) 8:18 (SH)3. Kelowna, Merkley 2 (Martin, Chartier) 14:10 (PP)
Penalties: Southam Kel (kneeing) 6:27; Quinney Kel (interference) 9:21; Brown Vic (hooking) 13:42; Chase Vic (goalie interference) 16:38
Second Period4. Victoria, Chase 6 (Walker, Soy) 0:545. Kelowna, Quinney 4 (Baillie) 9:026. Kelowna, Bowey 4 (Baillie, Draisaitl) 15:16 (PP)
Penalties: Hicketts Vic (roughing) 6:47; Merkley Kel (hooking) 11:09; Magee Vic (high sticking 4 min, 14:29; Gagnon Vic (tripping) 17:46
Third PeriodNo scoring
Penalties: Soustal Kel (high sticking) 3:12; Merkley Kel (charging) 17:26; Draisaitl Kel (slashing) 19:56
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd TKelowna 11 17 8 36Victoria 12 5 13 30
Goaltending summary:Kelowna: Whistle (28/30) Victoria: Vollrath (24/28), Paulic (8/8)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Kelowna: 0 of 0, Victoria: 0 of 0
Att: 5,517
HOCKEYNHL
PlayoffsRound 1, Games 1-4All series best-of-seven
Today’s schedule (Games 1)Ottawa at Montreal, 4 p.m.Regular season series: Senators lead 3-1-0
NY Islanders at Washington, 4 p.m.Regular season series: Series tied 2-0-2
Chicago at Nashville, 5:30 p.m.Regular season series: Blackhawks lead 3-1-0
Calgary at Vancouver, 7 p.m.Regular season series: Series tied 2-2-0
Thursday, April 16 (Games 1)Detroit at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.Regular season series: Lightning lead 3-1-0
Pittsburgh at NY Rangers, 3 p.m.Regular season series: Rangers lead 3-0-1
Minnesota at St. Louis, 6:30 p.m.Regular season series: Series tied 2-2-0
Winnipeg at Anaheim, 7:30 p.m.Regular season series: Ducks lead 3-0-0
Friday, April 17 (Games 2)Ottawa at Montreal, 4 p.m.NY Islanders at Washington, 4 p.m.Chicago at Nashville, 6:30 p.m.Calgary at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 18 (Games 2)Detroit at Tampa Bay, noonMinnesota at St. Louis, noonPittsburgh at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.Winnipeg at Anaheim, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 19 (Games 3)Washington at NY Islanders, 9 a.m.Nashville at Chicago, noonMontreal at Ottawa, 4 p.m.Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Monday, April 20 (Games 3)NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.St. Louis at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Anaheim at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 21 (Game 3)Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 21 (Games 4)Washington at NY Islanders, 4:30 p.m.Nashville at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.Vancouver at Calgary, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, April 22 (Games 4)Montreal at Ottawa, 4 p.m.NY Rangers at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.St. Louis at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.Anaheim at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 23 (Game 4)Tampa Bay at Detroit, 4 p.m.
Dates, times of additional games to be determined as necessary
NHL.com staff picksCorey Masisak VancouverBrian Compton CalgaryDan Rosen VancouverMike Morreale VancouverShawn Roarke CalgaryAdam Kimelman CalgaryJohn Kreiser VancouverDavid Satriano VancouverArpon Basu CalgaryMatt Cubeta Calgary
Consensus picksOther teams in the Western DivisionAnaheim vs. Winnipeg Ducks 8-2St. Louis vs. Minnesota Blues 6-4Chicago vs. Nashville Blackhawks 9-1
Eastern DivisionNY Rangers vs. Pittsburgh Rangers 9-1Montreal vs. Ottawa Canadiens 6-4Tampa Bay vs. Detroit Lightning 10-0Washington vs. NY Islanders Capitals 7-3 - Courtesy NHL.com
Western Hockey League
PlayoffsAll series best-of- seven*=if necessary
Yesterday’s results (Games 3) Kelowna 4, Victoria 2 (Kelowna leads series 3-0)Regina 3, Brandon 2 (Brandon leads series 2-1)
Today’s schedule (Games 4)Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.Calgary at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m. (Calgary leads series 2-1)
Thursday, April 16 (Game 3)Everett at Portland, 7 p.m. (Everett leads series 1-0)
Friday, April 17 (Games 5)Medicine Hat at Calgary, 5 p.m.Regina at Brandon, 7:30 p.m.Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.*(Game 4) Everett at Portland, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 18No games scheduled
Sunday, April 19 (Games 6*)Calgary at Medicine Hat, 5 p.m. Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.Kelowna at Victoria, 7:05 p.m.(Game 5) Portland at Everett, 4:05 p.m.
Monday, April 20 (Game 7*)Medicine Hat at Calgary, 6 p.m.
Tuesday, April 21 (Games 7*)Regina at Brandon, 7 p.m.*Victoria at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.*(Game 6) Everett at Portland, 7:00 p.m.
Wednesday , April 22 (Game 7*)Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.
B.C. Hockey LeagueFred Page Cup PlayoffBest of Seven series
Yesterday’s resultPenticton 8, Nanaimo 5 (Series tied 2-2)
Thursday, April 16 (Game 5)Nanaimo at Penticton, 7 p.m.
Friday, April 17 (Game 6)Penticton at Nanaimo, 7 p.m.
How they got hereRound 1 resultsWestern ConferenceKelowna vs. Tri-CityKelowna won series 4 - 0
Victoria vs. Prince GeorgeVictoria won series 4 - 1
Everett vs. SpokaneEverett won series 4 - 2
Portland vs. SeattlePortland won series 4 - 2
Yesterday at Frank Crane Arena
Vees 8, Clippers 5First Period1. Penticton, Steen Cooper (Cam Amantea) 1:522. Nanaimo, Devin Brosseau (Nicholas Gushue) 8:203. Nanaimo, Sheldon Rempal (Brendan Taylor, Nicholas Gushue) 11:26 (PP)Penalties: Bast Pen (Tripping) 0:55; Taylor Nan (Slashing) 1:07; Taylor Nan (Roughing) 5:51; Carrier Nan (Rough-ing) 10:22; Conroy Pen (Slashing) 10:45; Rempal Nan (High-sticking) 16:10
Second Period4. Penticton, Gabe Bast (Dakota Conroy) 3:205. Penticton, Mike Lee (Dakota Conroy, Dante Fabbro) 6:33 (PP)6. Penticton, Demico Hannoun (Dakota Conroy, Gabe Bast) 12:58 (PP)7. Penticton, Steen Cooper (Connor Chartier) 13:39 (PP)8. Nanaimo, Spencer Hewson (Brett Roulston, Cole Maier) 17:46Penalties: Alferd Pen (Misconduct) 0:00; Renwick Nan (Misconduct) 0:00; Carrier Nan (Slashing) 4:35; Decelles Nan (High-sticking) 9:28; Roulston Nan (Tripping) 11:29; Team Nan (Unsportsmanlike) 11:29; Hannoun Pen (Tripping) 14:35
Third Period9. Penticton, Tyson Jost (Demico Han-noun) 1:2510. Penticton, Jordan Bellerive (Connor Chartier, Dakota Conroy) 4:2411. Nanaimo, Sheldon Rempal (Jacob Hanlon) 11:0912. Nanaimo, Brendan Taylor (Nicholas Gushue, Sheldon Rempal) 17:3713. Penticton, Tyson Jost (Gabe Bast) 19:26 (EN)Penalties: No penalties
Shots on goal 1st 2nd 3rd TPenticton 15 16 10 41Nanaimo 13 10 15 38
Goaltending summary:Penticton: Hunter Miska (33/38); Nanaimo: Guillaume Decelles (33/40)
Power Play Summary (PPG / PPO):Penticton: 3 of 6, Nanaimo: 1 of 3
Att: 1,654
American Hockey League
Yesterday’s resultsLehigh 4, Hershey 1Hamilton 5, Oklahoma 3Texas 3, San Antonio 2Toronto 5, Iowa 2
Today’s gamesSyracuse at Albany, 4 p.m.Utica at Binghamton, 4:05 p.m.Charlotte at Rockford, 5 p.m.
BASKETBALLNBA
Playoffs and Wildcardsz-Clinched conference titley-Clinched divisionx-Clinched playoff spot
Yesterday’s resultsBoston 95, Toronto 93Indiana 99, Washington 95LA Clippers 112, Phoenix 101
Today’s scheduleLast day, regular seasonCharlotte at Toronto, 4 p.m.Atlanta at Chicago, 5 p.m.Boston at Milwaukee, 5 p.m.Detroit at New York, 5 p.m.Miami at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.Oklahoma City at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Orlando at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.Portland at Dallas, 5 p.m.San Antonio at New Orleans, 5 p.m.Utah at Houston, 5 p.m.Washington at Cleveland, 5 p.m.Indiana at Memphis, 6:30 p.m.Denver at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.Sacramento at LA Clippers, 7:30 p.m.
B.C. Premier LeagueTeam W L Pct GBAbbotsford Cardinals 1 0 1.000 -Victoria Eagles 3 1 0.750 -Okanagan Athletics 3 1 0.750 -Nanaimo Pirates 2 1 0.667 .5Whalley Chiefs 1 4 0.200 2.5Langley Blaze 0 1 0.000 1Parksville Royals 0 2 0.000 2Coquitlam Reds 0 0 0.000 -North Delta Blue Jays 0 0 0.000 -Parksville Royals 0 0 0.000 -Victoria Mariners 0 0 0.000 -North Shore Twins 0 0 0.000 -
Yesterday’s resultAbbotsford 6, Whalley 1
Thursday, April 16North Shore at Coquitlam, 7 p.m.
Saturday April 18Whalley at North Delta, 11 a.m.Abbotsford at Parksville, 12:15 p.m.Okanagan at White Rock, 1 p.m.Vic Eagles at Langley, 1 p.m.North Shore at Vic Mariners, 1 p.m.Whalley at North Delta, 1:30 p.m.Abbotsford at Parksville, 2:45 p.m.North Shore at Vic Mariners, 3:30 p.m.White Rock at Okanagan, 3:30 p.m.Vic Eagles at Langley, 3:30 p.m.
Sunday April 19Langley at CoquitlamNorth Shore at Vic Eagles, 11 a.m.Abbotsford at Nanaimo, 11 a.m.Okanagan at White Rock, 11 a.m.Vic Mariners at Parksville, 12 p.m.North Shore at Vic Eagles, 1:30 p.m.White Rock at Okanagan, 1:30 p.m.Abbotsford at Nanaimo, 1:30 p.m.Langley at Coquitlam, 1:30 p.m.Vic Mariners at Parksville, 2:30 p.m.
BASEBALLMLB
Yesterday’s resultsBoston 8, Washington 7Detroit 2, Pittsburgh 0Baltimore 4, NY Yankees 3Tampa Bay 3, Toronto 2Chicago Sox 4, Cleveland 1Miami 8, Atlanta 2NY Mets 6, Philadelphia 5Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 2Texas 8, LA Angels 2Oakland 4, Houston 0San Diego 5, Arizona 1Seattle at L.A. DodgersColorado at San Francisco
Today’s scheduleMiami at Atlanta, 9:10 a.m. Haren (0-0) vs. Stults (0-0)Chi. White Sox at Cleveland, 9:10 a.m. Danks (0-1) vs. Bauer (1-0)Washington at Boston, 10:35 a.m. Gonzalez (0-0) vs. Miley (0-0)L.A. Angels at Texas, 11:05 a.m. Santiago (0-0) vs. Holland (0-0)N.Y. Yankees at Baltimore, 4:05 p.m. Eovaldi (0-0) vs. Norris (0-0)Detroit at Pittsburgh, 4:05 p.m. Simon (0-0) vs. Locke (0-0)Tampa Bay at Toronto, 4:07 p.m., Buehrle vs. TBAPhiladelphia at N.Y. Mets, 4:10 p.m. Williams (0-0) vs. Niese (0-0)Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, 5:05 p.m. Marquis (0-0) vs. Wood (0-0)Oakland at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Pomeranz (0-0) vs. McHugh (0-0)Kansas City at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m. Volquez (1-0) vs. Gibson (0-1)Milwaukee at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. Peralta (0-0) vs. Lynn (0-1)Arizona at San Diego, 6:10 p.m. Anderson (0-0) vs. Morrow (0-0)Seattle at L.A. Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. Walker (0-0) vs. Anderson (0-0)Colorado at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m. Matzek (0-0) vs. Lincecum (0-0)
English Premier LeaguePosition/Club W D L GF GA Pts1 Chelsea 22 7 2 64 26 732 Arsenal 20 6 6 63 32 663 Man United 19 8 5 59 30 654 Man City 18 7 7 65 34 615 Liverpool 17 6 9 47 36 576 Southampton 17 5 10 44 22 567 Tot Hotspur 16 6 10 50 46 548 Swansea 13 8 11 38 40 479 West Ham 11 10 11 42 40 4310 Stoke City 12 7 13 36 40 4311 Crystal Pal 11 9 12 42 43 4212 Everton 9 11 12 40 43 3813 Newcastle 9 8 15 33 51 3514 West Brom 8 9 15 30 46 3315 Aston Villa 8 8 17 24 45 3216 Sunderland 5 14 13 25 48 2917 Hull City 6 10 16 29 45 2818 QP Rangers 7 5 21 38 59 2619 Burnley 5 11 16 26 50 2620 Leicester 6 7 18 32 51 25
English FA Cup - SemifinalsSaturday, April 18Reading vs. Arsenal, 9:20 a.m.
Sunday, April 19Aston Villa vs. Liverpool, 7 a.m.
Premier LeagueSaturday, April 19Crystal Palace vs. West Brom, 7 a.m.Everton vs. Burnley, 7 a.m.Leicester vs. Swansea, 7 a.m.Stoke vs. Southampton, 7 a.m.Chelsea vs. Man United, 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, April 19Man City vs. West Ham, 5:30 a.m.Newcastle vs. Spurs, 8 a.m.
TENNISATPWorld rankings1. (1) Novak Djokovic, Serbia, 13,205 points2. (2) Roger Federer, Switzerland, 8,8953. (3) Andy Murray, Britain, 6,0604. (4) Kei Nishikori, Japan, 5,2805. (5) Rafael Nadal, Spain, 5,2556. (6) Milos Raonic, Canada, 5,0707. (7) David Ferrer, Spain, 4,6708. (8) Tomas Berdych, Czech Republic, 4,5109. (9) Stanislas Wawrinka, Switzerland, 4,40510. (10) Marin Cilic, Croatia, 3,360
Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Surface: Clay Purse: €3,288,530 (€1=CDN$1.33)
Singles - Round 2Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-1, 6-4.David Ferrer (5), Spain, def. Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, 6-2, 2-0, retired.Marin Cilic (8), Croatia, def. Florian Mayer (96), Germany, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria, def. Bernard Tomic, Australia, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-4.
Round 1Grigor Dimitrov (9), Bulgaria, def. Fernando Verdasco, Spain, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.Gilles Simon (10), France, def. Benjamin Balleret, Monaco, 6-4, 6-2.Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (11), France, def. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, 6-4, 6-4.Gael Monfils (14), France, def. Andrey Kuznetsov, Russia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.Tommy Robredo (16), Spain, def. Andreas Seppi, Italy, 6-3, 1-6, 6-4.Jeremy Chardy, France, def. Diego Schwartzman, Argentina, 7-5, 6-2.Lucas Pouille, France, def. Dominic Thiem, Austria, 6-4, 6-4.Juan Monaco, Argentina, def. Jiri Vesely, Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-2.Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Adrian Mannarino, France, 6-3, 6-0.Viktor Troicki, Serbia, def. Martin Klizan, Slovakia, 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2.
WTAWorld rankings1. (1) Serena Williams, United States, 9,981 points2. (2) Maria Sharapova, Russia, 7,8903. (3) Simona Halep, Romania, 7,5714. (4) Petra Kvitova, Czech Republic, 6,0605. (5) Caroline Wozniacki, Denmark, 4,6756. (6) Ana Ivanovic, Serbia, 4,2007. (7) Eugenie Bouchard, Canada, 4,1228. (8) Eekaterina Makarova, Russia, 3,4209. (9) Agnieszka Radwanska, Poland, 3,38510. (10) Carla Suarez Navarro, Spain, 3,335
Copa ColsanitasBogota, Colombia. Surface: Clay. Purse: $250,000
Round 1Monica Puig (2), Puerto Rico, def. Cindy Burger, Netherlands, 6-2, 6-3.Alexandra Panova, Russia, def. Ajla Tomljanovic (3), Croatia, 6-4, 6-1.Teliana Pereira, Brazil, def. Francesca Schiavone (4), Italy, 6-1, 6-4.Yaroslava Shvedova (5), Kazakhstan, def. Maryna Zanevska, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-2.Mariana Duque-Marino, Colombia, def. Timea Babos (7), Hungary, 6-4, 6-7 (10), 6-3.Irina Falconi (8), United States, def. Sorana Cirstea, Romania, 6-4, 6-1.Sachia Vickery, United States, def. Kristina Kucova, Slovakia, 6-0, 5-7, 6-4.Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, def. Patricia Mayr-Achleitner, Austria, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.Nicole Gibbs, United States, def. Anasta-sia Rodionova, Australia, 6-3, 7-5.Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, def. Maria Paulina Perez Garcia, Colombia, 6-4, 6-1.
SOCCERMLS
Today’s scheduleChicago at New England, 4:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 16Philadelphia at NY City FC, 4 p.m.
Friday, April 17San Jose at NY Red Bulls, 4 p.m.
Saturday, April 18Chicago at Montreal, noonHouston at DC United, 4 p.m.Orlando at Columbus, 4:30 p.m.Toronto at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.Seattle at Colorado, 6 p.m.Vancouver at Salt Lake, 6:30 p.m.Sporting KC at Los Angeles, 7:30 p.m.
Eastern LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GADC United 10 5 3 1 1 5 4NY Red Bulls 8 4 2 0 2 7 4Orlando 8 6 2 2 2 6 5N. England 8 6 2 2 2 4 6Chicago 6 5 2 3 0 5 7Columbus 5 5 1 2 2 5 5NY City FC 5 5 1 2 2 4 4Philadelphia 5 6 1 3 2 7 10Toronto 3 4 1 3 0 6 8Montreal 2 4 0 2 2 2 6
Western LeagueClub PTS GP W L T GF GAVancouver 13 7 4 2 1 9 7Dallas 10 6 3 2 1 7 8San Jose 9 6 3 3 0 7 7Salt Lake 9 5 2 0 3 6 4Sporting KC 9 6 2 1 3 6 6Houston 8 6 2 2 2 5 3Los Angeles 8 6 2 2 2 6 6Seattle 7 5 2 2 1 6 4Colorado 6 5 1 1 3 4 2Portland 6 6 1 2 3 6 7
LACROSSEBC Junior A Lacrosse League
Last night’s resultBurnaby Lakers vs. New Westminster Salmonbellies, 8 p.m.
W L T OT PtsBurnaby 0 0 0 0 0Coquitlam 0 0 0 0 0Delta 0 0 0 0 0Langley 0 0 0 0 0Nanaimo 0 0 0 0 0New Westminster 0 0 0 0 0Port Coquitlam 0 0 0 0 0Victoria 0 0 0 0 0
Yesterday’s result (Exhibition)Nanaimo Timbermen vs. Victoria Shamrocks
Sunday, April 19Burnaby Lakers vs. Langley Thunder, 8 p.m. (Exhibition)
Friday, April 24 (regular season)Langley Thunder vs. Port Coquitlam Saints, noon (Exhibition)
Saturday, April 25Burnaby Lakers vs. Delta Islanders, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday April 26Nanaimo Timbermen vs. Coquitlam Adanacs, 2 p.m.New Westminster Salmonbellies vs. Victoria Shamrocks, 5 p.m.Port Coquitlam Saints vs. Burnaby Lakers, 7 p.m.
National Lacrosse LeagueWest W L GB Pct GF GAxEdmonton 10 5 - .667 199 143xColorado 8 7 2 .533 179 182Vancouver 5 10 5 .333 180 221Calgary 5 11 5.5 .313 188 198
East W L GB Pct GF GAxToronto 12 4 - .750 205 166xRochester 10 4 1 .714 156 134Buffalo 8 7 3.5 .533 179 180Minnesota 5 10 6.5 .333 154 188New England 4 9 6.5 .308 142 170
x=Clinched playoff spot
Friday, April 17New England at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.Rochester at Colorado, 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 18Calgary at Minnesota, 5 p.m.Colorado at Edmonton , 6 p.m.Rochester at Vancouver, 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 25Vancouver at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.
AUTO RACINGNASCARFood City 500Sunday, April 19, 10 a.m.Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Ten-nessee. 500 laps, 266.5 milesQualifying Saturday, April 18, 6:45 a.m.
Driver standings Pts Winnings1 Kevin Harvick 306 $2,991,6752 Joey Logano 280 $2,702,3313 Martin Truex Jr. 266 $1,447,5034 Brad Keselowski 246 $1,547,5675 Kasey Kahne 230 $1,144,4356 Jimmie Johnson 216 $2,028,0237 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 213 $1,808,5458 Denny Hamlin 205 $1,492,0439 Aric Almirola 195 $1,210,89710 David Ragan 194 $1,190,679
Formula OneGrand Prix of BahrainSunday, April 19, 8 a.m.International Circuit, Sakhir, BahrainQualifying Saturday, April 19, 8 a.m.
Drivers’ Standings(After 3 of 19 races) Points1 Lewis Hamilton 682 Sebastian Vettel 553 Nico Rosberg 514 Felipe Massa 305 Kimi Raikkonen 246 Valtteri Bottas 187 Felipe Nasr 148 Daniel Ricciardo 119 Romain Grosjean 610 Max Verstappen 6
GOLFThis week’s events
PGA TourRBC Heritage, April 16-19Harbour Town Golf Links, Hilton Head, South Carolina. Par 71, 7101 yards. Purse: $5,900,000. 2014 champion: Matt Kuchar
Official winnings 2015Player Official Winnings1 Jordan Spieth $4,958,196 2 Jimmy Walker $3,509,349 3 Dustin Johnson $2,991,117 4 J.B. Holmes $2,942,520 5 Bubba Watson $2,720,950 6 Patrick Reed $2,344,556 7 Charley Hoffman $2,228,407 8 Ryan Moore $2,171,580 9 Hideki Matsuyama $2,156,046 10 Jason Day $2,047,528 11 Brandt Snedeker $1,986,007 12 Sang-Moon Bae $1,917,411 13 Robert Streb $1,791,267 14 Brooks Koepka $1,747,981 15 Ben Martin $1,682,453 16 Bill Haas $1,621,386 17 Paul Casey $1,565,580 18 Henrik Stenson $1,537,100 19 James Hahn $1,490,639 20 Kevin Na $1,458,022 Canadian golfers46 Nick Taylor $913,506 88 David Hearn $511,731 117 Adam Hadwin $381,522 195 Mike Weir $72,800
LPGA TourLotte Championship, April 15-18Ko Olina Golf Club, Kapolei, Hawaii. Par 72, 6,383 yards.Purse: $1,800,000. 2014 champion: Michelle Wie
Official winnings 2015Player Official Winnings1 Stacy Lewis $648,730 2 Lydia Ko $608,810 3 Brittany Lincicome $497,758 4 Amy Yang $470,755 5 Sei Young Kim $429,735 6 Inbee Park $426,326 7 Hyo Joo Kim $347,014 8 Mirim Lee $335,001 9 Na Yeon Choi $314,599 10 Cristie Kerr $303,597 11 Ariya Jutanugarn $255,656 12 Anna Nordqvist $254,749 13 Ilhee Lee $240,022 14 Ha Na Jang $227,340 15 Morgan Pressel $212,545 16 Jessica Korda $198,649 17 Carlota Ciganda $191,247 18 Shanshan Feng $178,981 From Canada79 Alena Sharp $27,127
Champions TourGreater Gwinnett Championship, April 17-19 (54 holes), TPC Sugarloaf, Duluth, Georgia. Par 72, 7,259 yards.Purse: $1,800,000. 2014 champion: Miguel Angel Jimenez
Official winnings 2015Player Official Winnings1 Bart Bryant $406,632 2 Mark O’Meara $342,725 3 Paul Goydos $338,975 4 Marco Dawson $329,308 5 Miguel Angel Jimenez $325,832 6 David Frost $299,404 7 Lee Janzen $277,520 8 Colin Montgomerie $266,610 9 Kevin Sutherland $236,200 10 Tom Pernice Jr. $229,575 11 Gene Sauers $225,229 12 Michael Allen $219,581 13 Scott Dunlap $210,141 14 Olin Browne $208,399 15 Tom Lehman $206,484 16 Esteban Toledo $198,515 17 Rocco Mediate $196,717 18 Wes Short, Jr. $194,484 19 Fred Couples $163,890 20 Jeff Sluman $142,860 Canadian golfers35 Rod Spittle $86,151 43 Stephen Ames $53,344 78 Jim Rutledge $13,895
Web.com TourEl Bosque Mexico Championship, April 16-19, El Bosque Golf Club, Leon. Par 72, 7,701 yards. Purse: $700,000. 2014 champion: Carlos Ortiz
Official winnings 2015Player Official Winnings1 Peter Malnati $164,607 2 Patrick Rodgers $160,102 3 Andrew Landry $144,372 4 Dawie van der Walt $123,400 5 Mathew Goggin $118,577 6 Kelly Kraft $113,414 7 Harold Varner III $97,267 8 Steve Marino $91,813 9 Erik Barnes $81,810 10 Steve Allan $77,775 11 John Mallinger $73,379 12 Miguel Angel Carballo $72,863 13 Rhein Gibson $71,500 14 Henrik Norlander $69,261 15 Abraham Ancer $68,135 From CanadaT84 Roger Sloan $11,660
European TourShenzhen International, April 16-19Genzon Golf Club, Shenzhen, China. Par 72, 7,145 yards. Purse: $3,000,000.
Official winnings 2015Player Official WinningsNote: €1=CDN$1.33 1 Rory McIlroy €1,224,6702 Danny Willett €1,118,6913 Justin Rose €927,9724 Ross Fisher €753,5125 Anirban Lahiri €749,0026 Bernd Wiesberger €727,9427 Branden Grace €692,2798 Louis Oosthuizen €666,0719 Gary Stal €529,852Canadian golfer98 Richard T Lee €73,858
Orioles 4, Yankees 3 (Cont’d)
NY Yankees 000 001 020 3 Baltimore 101 100 10x 4
HR: BAL - A. Jones (4). 2B: NYY Beltran (3, Gonzalez, M), Young, C (2, Gonzalez, M), Teixeira (2, Gonzalez, M). 3B: BAL Joseph (1, Sabathia). GIDP: BAL Pearce, Machado, M. HR: BAL Jones, Ad (4, 1st inning off Sabathia, 0 on, 2 out). Team Lob: NYY 5; BAL 4. DP: NYY 2 (Gregorius-Drew-Teixeira 2). E: NYY Sabathia (1, throw), Gregorius (1, field-ing); BAL De Aza (1, fielding).NY Yankees IP H R ER BB SOC Sabathia (L, 0-2) 7.0 7 4 4 1 7C Martin 1.0 0 0 0 0 2Baltimore IP H R ER BB SOM Gonzalez (W, 1-1) 7.0 4 1 1 1 10K Gausman 0.2 2 2 1 0 0Z Britton 1.1 0 0 0 0 0
Time: 2:29. Att: 19,283.
Red Sox 8, Nationals 7Washington Boston ab r h bi ab r h biEscobar 3B 5 0 2 0 Betts CF 5 0 1 2Werth LF 4 1 0 0 Pedroia 2B 4 1 3 1Harper RF 5 1 1 0 Ortiz DH 5 0 1 0Zim’man 1B 3 1 0 0 Ramirez IF 5 2 1 0Rob’son DH 5 1 1 1 Sand’val 3B 2 0 0 0Ramos C 4 0 0 1 Victorino RF 0 1 0 0Desmond SS 4 1 3 2 Napoli 1B 4 2 1 0Espinosa 2B 2 2 1 0 Nava RF-LF 3 0 1 1Taylor CF 4 0 2 3 Craig PH-LF 0 1 0 0Totals 36 7 10 7 Hanigan C 4 0 1 1 Holt SS 4 1 2 1 Totals 36 8 11 6
Washington 010 060 000 7 Boston 022 100 30x 8
SB: WSH Taylor (2, 2nd base off Masterson/Hanigan); BOS Betts (3, 2nd base off Stammen/Ramos, W). 2B: WSH Desmond (3, Masterson); BOS Betts (2, Strasburg). 3B: WSH Taylor (1, Ogando). GIDP: BOS Ortiz, D. HR: BOS Pedroia (3). Team Lob: WSH 7; BOS 8. DP: WSH (Espinosa-Desmond-Zimmerman). E: WSH Desmond (6, fielding), Treinen 2 (2, fielding, throw); BOS Masterson (1, pickoff).Washington IP H R ER BB SOS Strasburg 5.1 10 5 5 0 5C Stammen 0.1 0 0 0 1 0M Thornton 0.2 0 2 0 0 0B Treinen (L, 0-1) 1.2 1 1 0 0 0Boston IP H R ER BB SOJ Masterson 4.2 8 7 7 3 4A Ogando 1.1 1 0 0 0 2E Mujica (W, 1-0) 1.1 0 0 0 0 2J Tazawa 0.2 1 0 0 0 1K Uehara 1.0 0 0 0 0 2HBP: Werth (by Masterson), Sandoval (by Strasburg).
Time: 3:23. Att: 35,258.
Celtics 95, Raptors 93
Boston MIN PT RB A ST B TOTurner 31:20 14 7 9 1 1 7Bass 28:15 13 9 1 0 0 0Zeller 26:22 12 8 1 0 1 0Bradley 21:16 14 3 2 0 1 3Smart 30:29 9 5 3 1 2 1Thomas 27:12 11 1 6 0 0 1Olynyk 12:46 3 4 0 0 0 0Crowder 20:50 9 4 0 2 0 1Jerebko 16:38 4 7 1 1 0 1Datome 05:43 0 0 0 1 0 0Sullinger 13:59 4 2 1 0 1 0Pressey 05:10 2 0 0 1 0 0Totals 95 50 24 7 6 14
Toronto MIN PT RB A ST B TORoss 27:40 12 3 0 2 2 2Hansbrough 23:27 0 6 0 2 0 0Valanciunas 29:24 10 8 0 1 2 4Vasquez 32:16 11 5 7 1 0 1Lowry 34:34 16 6 4 1 0 2Williams 30:36 16 5 3 1 1 4Patterson 27:04 10 1 0 0 1 2Johnson 15:50 8 8 2 1 2 1Johnson 19:09 10 1 1 0 1 2Totals 93 43 17 9 9 18
Boston 19 27 27 22 Toronto 26 27 17 23
3 FG: Boston 6-27, Toronto 9-24. FT: Boston 13-15, Toronto 14-20. Fouled Out: None
Technicals: Celtics: Thomas
Att: 18,624 Time of game: 2:17
Rays 3, Blue Jays 2Tampa Bay Toronto ab r h bi ab r h biGuyer LF 2 0 1 0 Reyes SS 5 0 1 1Kiermaier CF 2 0 1 0 Pompey CF 4 0 1 0Souza Jr. RF 5 2 3 1 Bautista RF 3 0 0 0Cabrera DH 5 0 0 0 En’acion 1B 4 0 0 0Longoria 3B 1 0 0 0 Don’son 3B 4 1 2 0Jennings OF 2 1 0 1 Navarro DH 3 1 1 0Forsythe 2B 3 0 1 0 Martin C 4 0 0 0Rivera 1B 4 0 0 0 Pillar LF 4 0 2 1Beckham SS 3 0 0 1 Travis 2B 4 0 1 0Wilson C 4 0 1 0 Totals 35 2 8 2
Totals 31 3 7 3
Tampa Bay 110 000 010 3 Toronto 000 200 000 2
SB: TB Jennings, D (4, 3rd base off Norris, Da/Martin, R), Forsythe (1, 2nd base off Norris, Da/Martin, R), Guyer (2, 2nd base off Norris, Da/Martin, R), Souza Jr. (2, 2nd base off Castro, M/Martin, R). 2B: TB Guyer (2, Norris, Da); TOR Reyes (3, Yates). HR: TB Souza Jr. (1)Team Lob: TB 9; TOR 8. E: TOR Martin, R (1, throw).Tampa Bay IP H R ER BB SOM Andriese 3.2 5 2 2 1 2K Yates 2.0 3 0 0 0 2S Geltz (W, 1-0) 1.1 0 0 0 0 0G Balfour 1.0 0 0 0 0 0K Jepsen 1.0 0 0 0 0 0Toronto IP H R ER BB SOD Norris 5.0 2 2 2 3 4L Hendriks 1.2 1 0 0 1 3M Castro (L, 0-1) 1.1 2 1 0 1 2J Hynes 1.0 2 0 0 0 2HBP: Jennings, D (by Norris, Da), Bautista (by Andriese).
Time: 3:06. Att: 17,264.
Orioles 4, Yankees 3NY Yankees Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h biEllsbury CF 4 1 1 0 Cabrera SS 2 1 1 1Headley 3B 4 1 1 0 Mach’do 3B 4 0 1 0Beltran RF 4 0 1 1 Jones CF 3 1 1 2Teixeira 1B 4 0 1 1 Pearce 1B 4 0 0 0McCann C 4 0 0 0 Young RF 4 1 2 0Jones DH 3 0 0 0 Lough LF 0 0 0 0Petit PH-DH 1 0 0 0 Davis DH 3 0 0 0Young LF 4 0 1 0 Schoop 2B 3 0 0 0Drew 2B 2 0 0 0 Joseph C 3 1 2 1Rod’guez PH 1 0 0 0 De Aza OF 3 0 0 0Gregorius SS 3 1 1 0 Totals 29 4 7 4
Totals 34 3 6 2
LA Angels 000 000 110 2 7 0Texas 130 004 00x 8 11 1W: N. Martinez (2-0) L: D. Rucinski (0-1)HR: LAA - None TEX - E. Andrus (1), R. Chirinos (1)
Oakland 100 002 001 4 7 0Houston 000 000 000 0 8 0W: K. Graveman (1-1) L: B. Peacock (0-1) HR: None
Miami 301 101 020 8 11 1Atlanta 000 200 000 2 8 0W: T. Koehler (1-1) L: T. Cahill (0-1)HR: MIA - None ATL - F. Freeman (2), A. Pierzynski (2)
Eastern ConferenceAtlantic W L OT SL GF GA PtsManchester 48 16 6 3 233 167 105Providence 40 24 7 2 200 176 89Worcester 40 27 4 2 213 187 86Portland 37 27 7 2 193 181 83St. John’s 31 33 8 2 176 228 72
Northeast W L OT SL GF GA PtsHartford 41 23 5 4 214 207 91Syracuse 41 23 9 0 210 204 91Springfield 37 28 8 1 185 202 83Albany 34 28 5 6 185 197 79Bridgeport 27 38 7 1 206 239 62
East W L OT SL GF GA PtsHershey 44 22 5 3 210 178 96W-B/Scranton 43 23 3 4 202 154 93Lehigh Valley 33 32 7 1 190 223 74Binghamton 32 33 7 1 229 250 72Norfolk 26 38 6 4 160 212 62
Western ConferenceNorth W L OT SL GF GA PtsUtica 45 20 6 2 208 172 98Toronto 37 27 9 0 196 198 83Hamilton 34 28 12 0 195 198 80Adirondack 34 31 6 2 223 228 76Rochester 28 39 5 1 202 240 62
Midwest W L OT SL GF GA PtsGrand Rapids 44 21 6 2 238 173 96Rockford 44 22 5 2 212 173 95Chicago 39 27 6 1 201 186 85Milwaukee 33 28 7 6 201 211 79Lake Erie 33 28 8 4 197 228 78
West W L OT SL GF GA PtsSan Antonio 45 22 6 1 243 215 97Texas 38 22 13 1 235 211 90Oklahoma City 39 27 5 3 217 210 86Charlotte 30 36 6 1 163 221 67Iowa 23 47 2 2 170 238 50
Eastern ConferenceAtlantic W L PCT GB L10y-Toronto 48 33 .593 - 6-4x-Boston 39 42 .481 9.0 8-2Brooklyn 37 44 .457 11.0 6-4Philadelphia 18 63 .222 30.0 1-9New York 17 64 .210 31.0 3-7
Central W L PCT GB L10y-Cleveland 52 29 .642 - 7-3x-Chicago 49 32 .605 3.0 7-3x-Milwaukee 41 40 .506 11.0 6-4Indiana 38 43 .469 14.0 7-3Detroit 31 50 .383 21.0 4-6
Southeast W L PCT GB L10z-Atlanta 60 21 .741 - 6-4x-Washington 46 35 .568 14.0 6-4Miami 36 45 .444 24.0 3-7Charlotte 33 48 .407 27.0 3-7Orlando 25 56 .309 35.0 3-7
Western ConferenceNorthwest W L PCT GB L10y-Portland 51 30 .630 - 5-5Oklahoma City 44 37 .543 7.0 3-7Utah 38 43 .469 13.0 7-3Denver 30 51 .370 21.0 3-7Minnesota 16 65 .198 35.0 0-10
Pacific W L PCT GB L10z-Golden State 66 15 .815 - 8-2x-L.A. Clippers 56 26 .679 11.0 9-1Phoenix 39 43 .481 27.0 1-9Sacramento 28 53 .346 38.0 2-8L.A. Lakers 21 60 .259 45.0 2-8
Southwest W L PCT GB L10x-San Antonio 55 26 .679 - 10-0x-Houston 55 26 .679 - 7-3x-Memphis 54 27 .667 1.0 4-6x-Dallas 49 32 .605 6.0 5-5New Orleans 44 37 .543 11.0 7-3
American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkBoston 6 2 .750 - W2Tampa Bay 5 3 .625 1.0 W4Baltimore 4 4 .500 2.0 W1Toronto 4 4 .500 2.0 L2NY Yankees 3 5 .375 3.0 L1Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 7 0 1.000 - W7Detroit 7 1 .875 0.5 W1Chicago Sox 3 4 .429 4.0 W3Cleveland 2 5 .286 5.0 L4Minnesota 1 6 .143 6.0 L3West W L PCT GB StrkOakland 5 4 .556 - W2Texas 4 5 .444 1.0 W1Seattle 3 4 .429 1.0 L1Houston 3 5 .375 1.5 L2LA Angels 3 5 .375 1.5 L1
National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkAtlanta 6 2 .750 - L1NY Mets 5 3 .625 1.0 W3Philadelphia 3 5 .375 3.0 L3Miami 2 6 .250 4.0 W1Washington 2 6 .250 4.0 L2Central W L PCT GB StrkCincinnati 5 3 .625 - W1Chicago Cubs 4 3 .571 0.5 L1St. Louis 3 3 .500 1.0 L1Pittsburgh 3 5 .375 2.0 L1Milwaukee 2 5 .286 2.5 W1West W L PCT GB StrkColorado 5 2 .714 - W1LA Dodgers 4 3 .571 1.0 W2San Diego 5 4 .556 1.0 W1Arizona 4 4 .500 1.5 L1San Francisco 3 5 .375 2.5 L4
SCOREBOARD
Blue Jays second baseman Devon Travis, left, forces out Tampa Bay’s Evan Longoria at second base. [CP PHOTO]
B4 | DAILY NEWS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015 SPORTS
Rays extend streak by topping Jays 3-2GREGORY STRONG THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Steven Souza Jr. homered and later scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly to give the Tampa Bay Rays a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre.
In the eighth inning, Souza Jr. reached on a bunt single, stole second base and took third when Toronto catcher Russell Martin’s throw was low for an error. Desmond Jennings lifted a fly ball into centre field off reliever Miguel Castro (0-1) to bring Souza Jr. home and help the Rays earn their second straight win.
Kevin Jepsen worked the ninth inning for his first save. Tampa Bay (5-3) has won four games in a row.
Souza Jr. opened the scoring by launching a solo shot that reached the third level above the centre-field wall and nearly hit the stadium’s large video scoreboard. It was his first homer of the season.
The Rays touched up Toronto starter Daniel Norris for another run in the second inning. Jen-nings was hit by a pitch, moved to second on a passed ball and raced to third on a double steal after Logan Forsythe walked.
Tim Beckham’s sacrifice fly was deep enough to score Jennings.
The Blue Jays opened the bottom half of the frame with a Josh Donaldson infield single and a Dioner Navarro walk. Tampa Bay’s Matt Andriese — making his first major-league start — left them stranded by getting Martin on a strikeout, Kevin Pillar on a flyout and Devon Travis on a groundout.
In the fourth, Pillar drove in Toronto’s first run after Donaldson and Navarro hit back-to-back singles. Travis hit a grounder that forced out Pil-lar at second base but his hard slide prevented a double play and left runners on the corners.
Kirby Yates came on in relief and Jose Reyes greeted him with a double that scored Navarro with the tying run and moved Travis to third.
HI AND LOIS
HAGAR THE HORRIBLE
SHERMAN’S LAGOON
BLONDIE
BABY BLUES
BC
ARCTIC CIRCLE
CRANKSHAFT
ZITS
ANDY CAPP
WORD FIND
CROSSWORD
CRYPTOQUOTE
BRIDGE
SOLUTION: HAPPY NEW YEAR
Sacrifice Dealer: West E-W vulnerable
NORTH ♠76543 ♥J ♦KQ73 ♣642
WEST EAST ♠ ♠KQ10 ♥Q874 ♥A1096 ♦A9654 ♦J1082 ♣AQ53 ♣K10
SOUTH ♠AJ982 ♥K632 ♦ ♣J987
W N E S 1♦ Pass 1♥ 1♠ 2♥ 4♠ dbl All Pass Opening Lead: ♥4
East won the ace but switched to the king and ten of
clubs as partner scored two tricks to play a fourth club. Declarer ruffed in dummy but East overruffed with the ten and was still entitled to a trump winner. The contract finished down three, N-S -500. The save was a profitable undertaking because East will corral ten tricks in the heart game to score +620. This action applied the pressure and the vulnerability was favorable. East’s penalty double disclosed that he had no interest in an advance to the five-level and West abided by this decision despite holding a spade void.
South is confronted with a difficult opening lead. Would he select the ace of spades, a fourth best club or a heart? Declarer is faced with foul breaks in the red-suits and would appear to have three certain losers - a trump and two diamonds. However, a club lead would allow declarer to bring home eleven tricks. South would manage two spade ruffs, one a ruffing finesse, draw trump and will dispose of two diamonds on the ace and queen of clubs. The ace of spades will be an ineffective beginning but the defense will score three tricks.
A trump lead is best where declarer will be in a world of trouble when he fails to put up dummy’s queen. Author: Dave Willis - visit his website at www.insidebridge.ca
Questions on bridge can be sent with a stamped, self-addressed envelope to The New Canadian Bridge c/o Torstar Syndication Services, One Yonge St., Toronto, M5E 1E6.
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CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Controversial penalty sees Juventus beat Monaco 1-0 DANIELLA MATAR THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TURIN, Italy — A controversial penalty handed Juventus a nar-row 1-0 win over Monaco in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal on Tuesday, leaving everything to play for in next week’s return match in the principality.
Arturo Vidal scored his first goal of this season’s competi-tion in the 57th minute of an entertaining match after Ricardo Carvalho was judged to have fouled Alvaro Morata in the pen-alty box.
Monaco had been denied a pen-alty of its own in the first half when Anthony Martial tangled with Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini.
Juventus, which leads Serie A by 12 points and is in the Italian Cup final, remained on course for a treble under new coach Massimiliano Allegri.
In the night’s other match, Real Madrid drew 0-0 at Atletico Madrid.
The home side was looking to preserve an impressive home record which had seen it lose just one of 16 European matches at the Juventus Stadium, winning three out of four matches in Turin this season.
The two-time Italian champion was slight favourite but knew it would be tough against a Monaco side which had conceded just two goals in four away games in the Champions League this season, as well as winning 3-1 at Arsenal in the first leg of its last-16 tie.
The match got off to a frantic start and it was end-to-end action for the opening 15 minutes.
Juventus was boosted by the return of Andrea Pirlo from injury after a three-week absence and the playmaker set up the first chance of the match with a
delightful ball over the top which Morata volleyed over — although the lineseman’s flag was up for offside.
Carlos Tevez went close to scor-ing the opener in the seventh minute but Monaco goalkeeper Danijel Subasic dived smartly to his right to deny the Italian league’s leading goalscorer.
Monaco, which was without key midfielder Jeremy Toulalan through injury, had its first opportunity moments later when Layvin Kurzawa sent a long-range effort narrowly over the crossbar.
Monaco appeared content to sit back and hit Juventus on the counter and it should have taken the lead in the 10th minute when Martial’s pace took him past Leonardo Bonucci on the left flank and he picked out an unmarked Yannick Ferreira-Car-rasco. But the midfielder fired
straight at Gianluigi Buffon, allowing the Italy goalkeeper to make a crucial save.
Buffon was called into action again moments later to fingertip Ferreira-Carrasco’s deflected effort around the left post.
Juve began to up the intensity again after a spell of Monaco pressure and Tevez wasted a golden opportunity when Claudio Marchisio found him unmarked with a delightful cross but the Argentine’s effort was weak and straight at Subasic.
Vidal also wasted good chances, including right on the stroke of halftime when he beat the offside trap to go through one-on-one but blasted over from close range.
Patrice Evra had also blazed over the bar from just outside the area after good work from Rob-erto Pereyra to cut it back from the far byline.
Juventus’ Arturo Vidal scores on a penalty kick during the Champions League, quarterfinal, first leg soccer match between Juventus and Monaco, at the Juventus Stadium in Turin on Tuesday. [AP PHOTO]
Ask bride if bringing wedding guest is OK
Dear Annie: How much can I ask my host about etiquette for her overseas wedding?
I live in Canada. The bride is French. I met her when she was briefly living in my hometown. She went back to France two years ago, and now she’s getting married there. The wedding invi-tation was sent to my name only, and there was not any kind of RSVP card that I’m accustomed to seeing. So I’m unsure whether I am welcome to bring a guest, since attending would involve a rather lengthy journey.
Would it be acceptable to email the bride and ask her whether I can bring my boyfriend? I don’t want to put her on the spot, but I also don’t want to bring my date to a country where he doesn’t speak the language and then stick him by himself for the day, only to find out later that they had expected me to bring him. — Beaucoup Baffled
Dear Baffled: Did the invitation appear to be formal or informal? If informal, it is perfectly OK to ask the bride whether you can bring a guest. If it is formal, however, you’d have to be more circumspect. Email the bride and say that you would love to attend her wedding, but you aren’t cer-tain you are up to making such a long journey by yourself. If she wants you to bring a guest, she will then tell you so. But if she doesn’t make such an offer, you can assume that her guest list is limited, sorry.
Dear Annie: After reading the letter from “Holding My Breath,”
whose spouse has terrible breath, I had to respond.
My husband had terrible breath, but he also had a very rigorous oral care routine, which made me wonder what else could be going on. Having been a dental assistant, I was aware of various odors from different oral diseases.
The smell was not from what he ate. I ate it, too, and didn’t have such an odour. It was the worst thing I had ever smelled, and I just knew it was metabolic in nature.
His dentist simply told him it was “not dental in nature.” The doctor told him he was “fine.” Finally, after three months of worsening gastrointestinal symptoms, his doctor gave him a blood test, and a colonoscopy showed a fist-sized tumor.
He underwent chemotherapy and was graced with a lovely ostomy bag. But during this time, the breath issue went away. When it recurred, it was because the lesions on his liver had spread. He passed away two months later.
I would get that man in for a full physical, including a colon-oscopy. It could save his life. — Been There
Dear Been There: Halitosis is often a result of poor dental hygiene, but it also can be due to oral problems, throat issues, gum disease, infection, certain foods and sometimes gastrointestinal difficulties. Some of these, as you have pointed out, can be quite serious.
Please, folks, we want you to stick around for a long time. You must be an advocate for your own health. If you suspect some-thing is wrong, be persistent.
Annie’s Snippet for U.S. Income Tax Day (credit author Arthur C. Clarke): “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.”
Kathy Mitchell & Marcy SugarAnnie’s Mailbox
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Your words do draw a response
from someone you care about. Go within and acknowledge your feelings. Be aware of what is hap-pening between the two of you. People might seem a little off later in the day, and someone is likely to change his or her tune. Tonight: Not to be found.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Be more forthright when deal-
ing with others, and you will get a different reaction. You also could get a better understand of what is happening around you. Accept additional responsibility, as you will want to be in control of a project. Tonight: Find your friends.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You cannot stay in the world
of your imagination forever. It’s important is to take a stand and express your different thoughts and ideas.
Be aware that the responsibil-ity to carry them out also could
fall into your lap. Are you ready to be even busier? Tonight: A must appearance.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)One-on-one relating touches
others on a much deeper level. Even when dealing with associ-ates you barely know, a direct gaze into someone’s eyes will show that person that you’re interested in what he or she has to say.
Try to tame your mind! Tonight: Be near good music.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) A partner demands your atten-
tion. You easily can fulfill this person’s request, as long as you can concentrate. You might want to carefully assess your work schedule. If you’re feeling pres-sured, just take a walk. Fresh air does wonders. Tonight: Count on being in demand.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Others will notice that you
seem a bit spacy, and might see you in a new light. A friend will tap into your mindset and encourage you to continue in
this vein of thinking. Allow your imagination to soar, and you will be amazed by what comes up. Tonight: Say “yes.”
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)You’ll get a lot done quickly, as
a partner might be demanding your time. Though you will want to go your own way, if you are smart, you will make time for this person. In the long run, it could prevent a crisis that results in a time-consuming issue. Tonight: Listen to a suggestion.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Relate to a loved one directly.
Others seek you out, and you could feel a bit uptight. You might want to be responsive to everyone, but you need to be selective with your time.
You will approach a situation very differently as a result. Tonight: Go with someone’s suggestion.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)You could find yourself in a
situation that you would prefer not to be in. A matter involving your domestic life demands a
lot of attention. You could feel pushed and become testy. Say “no” rather than put yourself in a tizzy. Tonight: Observe a ten-dency to close down.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Initiate a conversation with
someone who does not listen well. Try to cut the judgments about this person. Be more open and forthright about where you are coming from. Ask questions. Return calls, as you’ll need to hear from a key person. Tonight: Be more serious.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)How you see a money matter
might be quite different from how someone else sees it. You will be able to gain more under-standing if you can tap into his or her thinking.
Sometimes the issue is the same, even if the approach is dif-ferent. Tonight: Let someone else treat.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)People gravitate toward you
and make the impossible pos-sible. Someone whom you’ve
wanted to have a conversation with suddenly might become available. You could see some closing down or withdrawal if this person is not ready. Tonight: Dream it up.
YOUR BIRTHDAY (April 13)This year you might opt to head
in a different direction. You often overthink situations and replay certain scenarios time after time.
At least when you make a deci-sion, you know that you are sure. Your intuition will guide you; however, use care should you decide to take financial risks.
You will have a tendency to overspend. If you are single, you are in a period where you could meet Mr. or Ms. Right. If you are attached, the two of you often like spending time alone as a couple.
These periods are an excellent time to bond on a deeper level. PISCES makes an excellent heal-er for you.
BORN TODAYArtist Leonardo da Vinci (1452),
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HOROSCOPEby Holiday Mathis
