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By now most people are aware that scam artists lurk ev-erywhere who will try to entice you over the phone and door to door to give up personal infor-mation such as credit card numbers.

However, there is a new one out there and it’s associating it-self with a well-known charity, the United Way.

While police say it hasn’t happened in Kimberley Cran-brook yet, there are several re-ports out of Salmon Arm of door to door canvassing under the guise of raising funds for the United Way.

The RCMP says the sus-pects, who appear well dressed and sincere, offer to sell Tim Horton’s or other gift cards as part of the fund raising.

If the victim agrees to do-nate or purchase a card, the suspect produces what looks like a hand held point of sales machine (debit credit card machine) for payment. Vic-tims are even issued a receipt for the amount paid. Unbe-knownst to the victim, their bank account information is entered into the handheld skimming device, giving the suspect complete access to the victim’s bank account and PIN number.

Several thousand dollars have already been stolen from victims of this scam in the Salmon Arm area alone.

Donna Brady Fields of the Kimberley Cranbrook United Way says that her agency does not do door to door canvass-ing at all in B.C.

“If someone comes to your door soliciting funds they are not from the United Way,” Brady Fields said.

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A vital tourist link between the East and West Kootenay, the Gray Creek Pass, has re-opened. It may be just in time for snows to close it, but nonetheless, Tom Lymbery of the Gray Creek Store on the West Kootenay side of the pass is pleased to see that the For-est Service found the funds to make the

necessary repairs after slides on the East Kootenay side kept the pass closed all sum-mer.

The Forest Service spent $80,000 to clean up six slough areas on the Pass route.

The 85-kilometre Gray Creek Pass was closed earlier this summer because of slides on the Kimberley side. Lymbery began lob-bying almost immediately about the impor-tance of the pass to tourism in the area, and

he is very pleased to see it open no matter how late in the season it is.

“I think the publicity in local newspapers helped us. So did Cranbrook Council sup-porting us. Things like that matter, otherwise there is no pressure to do anything.”

Lymbery isn’t about abandon the cause now that the necessary repairs have been made however. He wants to see the road designated as a tourist resource road, in the

hopes of finding additional funds for ongo-ing maintenance.

The Ministry of Forests acknowledges the need for ongoing maintenance but has not committed funds to it.

“It is a very solid road,” he said. “Aside from this spring there have been no slides in 22 years. But the problem is there is no on-going maintenance program.

See PASS, Page 5

LobbyIng success

Gray Creek Pass is re-opened

Nicole KoraN photo

That is a tasty hotdog. Kimberley firefighter Antoine hangs out with daughter Hannah at the Kimberley Fire Department open House last Thursday. see more Page 3.

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Fall officially began on Sep-tember 22, but it seems trees in the region haven’t gotten the message to turn to the or-anges, reds and yellows sym-bolic of the season. So what gives?

The City of Cranbrook’s ar-borist and horticulturist Mathew Pocock said it’s all in the precipitation, or the lack-there-of.

Leading into fall the Co-lumbia Basin was in a near drought condition, with no rainfall to speak of. Pocock said that combined with warmer temperatures and the lack of a real hard fall frost have all com-bined to slow the trees as they transition for the winter.

“Drought periods can delay fall colour and reduce the brightness of the colour,” he said. “The trees can sort of tell that they’re not getting that cold.”

Each year the trees vary in their brilliance, and Pocock said it’s too soon to tell yet if the East Kootenay is going to miss out this year. The only consis-tent factor is the length of days every year.

“I would say there is no sin-gle conclusive explanation and there are many variables in-volved, being: tree species, temperatures, precipitation, sunny vs. cloudy days, climate change and atmospheric changes on a global level. These variables create a differ-

ent recipe from year to year,” he said. “The drought-like condi-tions and/or temperature ex-tremes will cause dramatic fluctuations in fall colour from year to year but do not repre-sent any long-term trends.”

It has been a warm fall so far and although there have been a couple of days where the temperature dipped to -5 C, Pocock said that frosty cold has to linger for a few days to signal to the trees that it’s time to co-lour up.

“We only got down that cold for one or two nights,” he said.

Pocock has noticed this year that the leaves on some trees are simply curling up and falling while still green. He said the lack of colour will most likely have no negative effects on native species, but orna-mental ones could have a tougher time with a one-year drought. Native species are only effected by longer, multi-ple year dry periods.

“The trees grow into the summer months,” Pocock said, adding that droughts effect trees more at the start of sum-mer than at the end.

Adding to the greener co-

lours in Cranbrook specifically is that many trees in the urban areas are elm, which do not typically turn bright colours in the fall.

Pocock said research is on-going into fall colours and how climate change may be effect-ing their brilliance.

“In Europe and Japan stud-ies have shown later fall colour and leaf drop, so it is likely a global phenomenon,” he said. “It has been shown that in-creased levels of carbon diox-ide in the air causes late fall colour.”

But all is not lost, so keep those cameras ready for that perfect fall foliage shot.

“If I had to guess and sum it up I would say this year the late fall colour and premature leaf drop is likely due to an extend-ed summer and possible drought conditions for the area,” Pocock said.

Pocock said a good blast of -10 C weather would kick the trees into high gear and the long, sunny days will hopefully provide a good amount of light which will enrich the fall co-lours this year. There is rain in the forecast, which Pocock said would be a great help.

“There might just be a burst of colour right away here,” he said. “We might get some really great colours.”

Editor’s note: As of press time, the freshly watered tama-racks were beginning to turn their brilliant yellow after a night of rainfall. Stay tuned.

Looking for the red, yellow and orange

AnnAlee GrAnt photo

A brilliant coloured maple tree at Marysville Elementary School on October 14, 2011.

AnnAlee GrAnt photo

The same tree, photographed a year later on October 15, 2012. DAn Mills photo

A tamarack still tinged with green in late September, 2012.

There might just be a burst of colour right away here. We might get some

really great colours. Mathew Pocock

community snapshotdaily bulletin tuesday, october 16, 2012

Nicole KoraN photos

Koen and Henry dressed for fire prevention at the Kimberley Fire Department Open House last Thursday.

Drayson with firefighter Antoine.

COTR firefighter student Matt helps Landon with a fire extinguisher.

Mason with COTR student Chad.

Firefighter Cam Lomon with Gabe and Lexi.

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Kimberley United Church Wednesday October 17, 7 p.m.

For the Bulletin

“The Kingdom of Mo-rocco” is located in North-West Africa, covering about 450,000 square Kilo-meters. Its capital is Rabat; its present King is Moham-med VI; its population is over 32 million; its bor-dered by the North Atlan-tic Ocean and the Mediter-ranean Sea. Have you ever considered learning about the customs, daily routines and touristy highlights of this unique country?

On Wednesday, Octo-ber 17th, at 7 pm in the Kimberley United Church, Fliss and Dave Klassen of Kamloops, former resi-dents of the Kootenays, will be giving a personal video and vocal presenta-tion of their time in this country. They spent the

greater part of spring visiting their daughter and her family there and gained an insight to their way of life.

In a phone conversation, Fliss said: “we will include our impressions of the histo-ry, scenery , the people and their food, customs and reli-gion (Islam) of this marvel-lous country of Morocco”. While there, they took orga-nized tours of the various parts of the country, stayed four days in a Moroccan home and came to regard many Moroccans as their friends.

During the presentation, an intermission will be called. This will give the at-tendees a chance to taste Mo-roccan treats and to ask ques-tions of the presenters.

All are invited to hear Fliss & Dave and to learn about Morocco. Their daughter, Mi-chelle Fuhge from the Bauern Haus, will be on the welcom-ing committee.

Moroccan travelogue

Enjoy some mint tea and learn about Morocco.

Students see impact of urban

bear conflict first hand

AnnAlee Gr AntTownsman Staff

A bear that was de-stroyed by conservation officers turned into a mobile learning oppor-tunity for Gordon Ter-race Elementary stu-dents on October 12.

Shaunna McInnis, co-ordinator of East Kootenay Wildlife Aware, said the bear was shot and then taken to the school where she happened to be teach-ing Wildlife Aware to the kindergarten and Grade 1 students. While it was sad to see the bear hav-ing to be put down, Mc-Innis said the students got a unique classroom experience.

“It was a really awe-some opportunity,” she said.

The students were given the option of sit-ting out the field lesson, but McInnis said all opted in. The downed bear brought up many great questions and in-terest from the students, and it steeled their drive to do something about it.

“The kids I talked to after were really keen to know how to prevent it,”

she said. “It was an awe-some learning opportu-nity.”

There are only a few more weeks before the bears head to hibernate for the winter, but con-servation officers are seeing their calls to deal with wayward bruins spike. CO Joe Caravetta said there is a weak berry crop this year that is

sending bears into town, providing for more human/bear conflict.

“There’s been an in-crease in the number of bears around the periph-eral areas of Cranbrook,” he said.

While Caravetta couldn’t confirm how many bear incidents himself and his fellow of-ficers have attended to,

he said there’s definitely a higher average.

However the solution to keep bears from hav-ing to be destroyed is short and sweet, just like the berry crop this year: “No attractants, no bears,” Caravetta said. “It’s a simple concept.”

“We’re really asking people to be extra dilli-gent,” he continued.

That means residents need to make sure their garbage, fruit trees and pet food are all secured and not left out for bears to get into. There isn’t much time before the bears head to their dens for the winter to hiber-nate, and Caravetta hopes humans and bears can get along until then.

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Downed bear turned into learning opportunity

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Conservation Officer Jeff Scott shows a recently killed bear to a class of schoolchildren at Gordon Terrace Elementary on Friday, October 12.

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Cranbrook has landed another major concert, this one scheduled for early 2013. The Tragically Hip will be performing at Western Financial Place January 19. The concert kicks off their 15-city Canadian tour. Tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 19, at 10 a.m. The Tragically Hip — or The Hip — are a Canadian band from Kingston, Ontario. For more than two decades they have been at the top of Canada’s rock pile. They have released 13 studio albums, including “Now For Plan A,” released this year. They are known for their powerful, energetic live shows. The Tragically Hip consists of Gordon Downie (lead vocals and guitar), Paul Langlois (guitar), Rob Baker (guitar), Gord Sinclair (bass) and Johnny Fay (drums). The Arkells will take the stage as opening act.

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From Front Page

“We do not do door to door. We have been dis-cussing whether we should do it or not, but if it was going to happen, communities would be told well in advance.”

Police remind people to be vigilant in protecting their private information and to be cautious when dealing with people/agencies they are unfa-miliar with. Anyone with information on the sus-pects in these frauds are asked to contact their local police services or Crimestoppers 1800-222-8477.

From Front Page“The Forest Service

has done a good job with their budget, but having the road desig-nated a tourist resource road would provide ad-ditional funds.”

He would also like to continue to work on get-ting the Gray Creek Pass officially designated as a Trans Canada Trail route, feeling that will help secure its status as well. He is seeking someone to help from the Kimberley side on this.

“It is a very popular route for tourists,” he said. “And it is a rela-tively good quality road.”

Right now, the Pass is still open and Lymbery says he has gone over it as late as October 31 with little to no snow. However, after Novem-ber 1, travel on the pass is only advised with chains and four wheel drive. Eventually the snow will prevent pas-sage until next spring.

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From Page 4“The bears are within a couple

weeks of hibernating,” he said. “I know garbage has to be put out but we’re asking that they not put it out the night before.”

COs do not destroy bears unless it’s absolutely necessary, as it was on Oc-tober 12 when the bear wandered into a local yard near Parkland Middle School.

Caravetta said COs were called re-cently when a Grizzly Bear was lurking on the edge of Cranbrook. That bear moved along on its own but was close-ly monitored by COs until the situa-tion dissipated.

McInnis said there’s been signifi-cant activity in the Jim Smith Lake area, and they also remain around T.M. Roberts and Gordon Terrace ele-mentary schools and in the Commu-nity Forest.

Caravetta said bears that show un-usual behaviour like being active in the middle of town in the middle of the day are a safety risk.

“We’re destroying bears that are showing aggression and showing ab-normal bear behaviour,” he said.

It’s been a busy season for bear calls, but Caravetta stopped short of calling it an abnormal year.

“It’s higher than average,” he said. “It’s not insane crazy.”

Living in Cranbrook, Caravetta said bear sightings happen all the time but with the right preparation conflicts can be avoided.

“Remove attractants. It’s not un-common to see bears – we live in bear country.”

Bears that are hanging around and not moving on after attractants have been removed should be reported to the CO line at 1-877-952-7277.

“There’s an expectation that the public needs to do things themselves to prevent the bears from hanging around,” Caravetta said.

McInnis will be doing a free Wild-life Aware presentation for the public on October 24 at the Manual Training School at 7 p.m. The presentation will discuss deer and bears. For more in-formation on East Kootenay Wildlife Aware visit their Facebook page or to request a presentation, call McInnis at (250) 520-0411.

Bear provides learning opportunity

For the Bulletin

A Calgary man was caught carrying marijuana near Cranbrook and ar-rested last weekend.

On Saturday, October 7 two mem-bers of the Cranbrook RCMP were conducting speed enforcement on Highway 3/93 just north of Cranbrook when they pulled a vehicle over travel-ling in excess of 130 kilometres an hour.

A 29-year-old male was the only occupant in the vehicle and a search of the vehicle located more than four kilograms of packaged marijuana with an estimated street value of $16,000.

The driver of the car, a resident of Calgary, was arrested and later re-leased pending a court appearance in Cranbrook Provincial Court on charg-es of Possession of a Controlled Sub-stance for the Purposes of Trafficking.

Man caught with $16,000 worth of pot

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It’s been almost a year since I fin-ished up my series on bullying, but every once in awhile a story

catches my eye that makes me mad all over again.

The story I want to talk about starts with a man named Robin Tomlin, who was bul-lied relentlessly as a high school student. He’s now been out of high school for four decades, but there’s a message left in his graduating yearbook that has haunted him all these years. Someone removed the text he had submitted for his personal message beside his photo and wrote “fag.”

The page passed through editors, teach-ers and school staff and was printed. Robin has never forgotten flipping through those pages and finding the word he was taunted with written there.

Just like I haven’t forgotten about the McKim Middle School yearbook that was printed that had my baby picture with the word “ugly” visibly scratched into it. That book, too, went through editors and no one noticed it.

I was devastated when I saw it. I don’t think I’d ever seen my mother so mad as she roared like a mother bear trying to get the book reprinted. It never was. I never received an apology from the person(s) responsible or the school, to my knowl-edge, even though I know exactly who did it. No one was ever punished for the per-

manent humiliation that was inflicted on me. The yearbook was distributed to stu-dents and local businesses as a happy re-minder of that year, but for me it was any-thing but happy.

My story pales in comparison to an-other tale of bullying that is playing out in national headlines across the country and

world – the story of the beautiful Amanda Todd who was victimized by on-line bullies before killing herself last week.

The girls who defaced my baby picture and Rob-in’s grad address were able to do so anonymously.

They knew they would never get caught. I do know who was responsible, but my voice was never heard. There was no so-called “proof.”

The people who harmed Amanda also had anonymity and they have continued to taunt her and her family after she has died.

The outrage is growing over Amanda’s suicide, and how these online bullies were able to victimize her for years until she fi-nally gave up. Media reports say the schools were aware of the situation and supports were in place, but clearly the help Amanda was offered was not enough. Many people say, “I was bullied and I turned out alright.” Those people are not Amanda, and will never feel what she did in her final days.

Bullying must be taken seriously. It ab-solutely has to be.

I had to borrow my best friend’s copy of our middle school yearbook to see what the “ugly” photo looked like after all these years. It still looked the same. It hurt my feelings even now to see it, but I do not want an apology like Robin received from his school district.

Instead I want girls like Amanda to have a future to look to. I want everyone in con-tact with bullied teens to step up and do something about it, instead of waiting to write it on a memorial Facebook page. The words written there mean nothing, abso-lutely nothing – because Amanda is al-ready gone.

So how do we stop cyber bullying? The truth is we can’t stop all of it, but my wish is that the RCMP investigation will track down the person behind Amanda’s death and they will charge that person to the full extent of the law. Showing these anony-mous internet bullies that they can be found will hopefully turn them off, be-cause it’s no fun when everybody knows who you are.

We have to stop being reactive about suicide and bullying, and instead be pre-ventative, because in 2012 the world is anonymous. Let’s catch up to what we’ve created and intervene when the voices cry for help.

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OpiniOn/EvEnts

It was a sunny Thanksgiving weekend when I took my first all-transit trip from Victoria to Vancouver for a B.C.

Lions football game.Despite all the doomsaying about peo-

ple shunning ferries because of some me-dia-determined “tipping point” in fares, you wouldn’t have guessed it that week-end. Articulated buses were jammed coming and going from the Tsawwassen termi-nal to the Canada Line.

Returning to Vancouver Island on Sunday, I was struck by the crowds, and the low cost: Sky-Train, express bus, walk-on passenger fare and express bus to Victoria to-talled about $20. This explains the surge in walk-on traffic.

BC Ferries issued bulletins advising first that Tsawwassen’s parking lot and then Swartz Bay’s were full. The Tsawwassen First Nation’s shuttle parking next door was overflowing, with cars tucked into every level space. And even with hourly sailings, the major route had plenty of vehicle traffic, with all available vessels running.

Now the long, late summer is gone, and the political theatre resumes. Transporta-tion Minister Mary Polak picked up where the retiring Blair Lekstrom left off, remind-ing people that BC Ferries is going to deal with rising costs primarily by ceasing the

practice of running vessels a third full or less.

This comes as “consultation” begins with smaller ferry communities on where and when these sailings will be cut. And it follows the first major price-cap decision by

the newly empowered B.C. Ferry Commissioner, Gord Macatee. He now can deter-mine service levels as well as fares, which are permitted to rise about four per cent in each of the next three years.

The NDP’s ferry critic, North Coast MLA Garry

Coons, has also decided to transition to his government pensions next year. But before he sails away, he has doubled his repertoire of outraged sound bites to two.

Along with every coffee-shop know-it-all on the coast, Coons perpetually reminds us that ferries are “part of our highway system.” He remains convinced that this financially illiterate cliché somehow deals with the fact that even a subsidy approaching $200 mil-lion this year can’t keep all those boats afloat forever.

A family of four on a long driving trip faces similar price increases, when you factor in tolls, insurance, food and other costs beyond the fuel tank. But for some reason the “government” is supposed to provide special relief to those who choose the most inaccessible places to live.

Coons’ latest tack is that BC Ferries has lost its way, trying to be a fancy cruise ship service instead of giving people basic trans-portation at an affordable price.

That would be terrible if it were true. But those amenities on newer vessels are there because they make money, utilizing staff who have to be on board anyway. As every-one but the NDP seems to grasp, the big costs are fuel, maintenance, and minimum crew levels to meet federal regulations, re-gardless of passenger revenue.

I was reminded on the last busy week-end of the year that the new Coastal-class ferries kept vehicle capacity the same while increasing passenger space. This choice anticipated today’s travel reality nearly a decade ago. Good thing somebody was able to understand ferries as a business, as op-posed to a welfare program for the reclusive and the rich.

BC Ferries has already cut sailings on the Tsawwassen-Duke point route. As de-scribed in an earlier column, this needlessly long run is the biggest boondoggle in BC Ferries history, a Dave Barrett-era payoff to the union that continues today.

Changes will now come to other routes that minimize shifts and overtime, rather than inflating them.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and

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Maybe they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union be-cause they couldn’t think of any-

body else who wouldn’t embarrass them. Nelson Mandela already has one. So does Aung San Suu Kyi. Even Barak Obama has one, though what for is not exactly clear. They even gave it to Henry Kissinger once, but we probably shouldn’t go into that. So who’s left? We’ll just give it to the European Union. Nobody’ll notice that.

But they did notice, and some of them were not amused. “A Nobel prize for the EU at a time Brussels and all of Europe is collaps-ing in misery? What next? An Oscar for (European Council President Herman) Van Rompuy?” asked Geert Wilders, the Dutch eurosceptic. “Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence,” warned Nigel Farage, leader of the UK Indepen-dence Party (which wants Britain to leave the Union).

And France’s leading newspaper, Le Monde, asked on its website: “But who will go to Oslo for the EU to receive the Nobel Peace Prize? As trivial as it may seem, the question raises (the legitimacy) of an entity ... whose institutional stops and starts and lack of democratic representation are regu-larly criticised.”

It’s actually not a trivial question at all, because the large EU bureaucracy that is based in Brussels, the EU’s “capital”, was not elected by anybody, and nobody loves it. The member countries are all democracies, but the decisions at the continent-wide level are taken by governmental elites who do not trust their own citizens to vote the right way.

The EU was an elite project from the start, and policy for the 27-member union is still set mostly by politicians and officials, not by citizens. So don’t send a Brussels

bureaucrat to Oslo to collect the prize. Send some ordinary citizen, chosen by lot, to rep-resent the 500 million citizens of EU coun-tries who don’t even have a vote on most EU decisions.

However, don’t throw the baby out with the bath-water. The original purpose of the Nobel Peace Prize was to honour people who worked to put an end to the terrible

wars that have repeatedly devastated the European continent (and much of the rest of the world as well) over the past four centuries. The EU has made a major contribution to that task, but that is not its greatest achievement.

It has been 67 years since there was a major war in Europe. Indeed, there have been no wars in Europe at all, apart from the various civil wars in the 1990s in former Yugoslavia (which was not a EU member). More importantly, a war between any of the EU’s member countries is now quite un-thinkable.

“This started after the (Second World) war — putting together former enemies,” said EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso in an interview with the BBC. “It started with six countries and we are now 27, another one (Croatia) is going to join us next year and more want to come. So the EU is the most important project for peace in terms of transnational, supernational co-operation.”

That’s a bit over the top. The United Na-tions surely has more to do with 67 years in which no great powers have fought each other. So do two generations of American and Soviet officials and politicians who showed great restraint and managed to avoid a nuclear war that would have devas-tated the whole world. You could even give some credit to nuclear weapons them-selves, which forced the great powers to behave more prudently than usual.

The great virtue of the European Union, despite its “democratic deficit” at the Brus-sels level, is that ALL its member countries must be fully democratic, relatively uncor-rupt, and fully observant of civil and human rights. Not only has this prevented some members from backsliding into intolerance and authoritarianism in times of great stress; it has also been a huge incentive for prospective members to clean up their act.

Would Greece, Spain and Portugal all have ended up as full democracies after overthrowing their old dictators, and in the latter two cases as relatively honest ones as well, if not for the changes they had to make to qualify for EU membership?

Would the nine ex-Communist coun-tries of Central Europe that emerged from the long night of Soviet tyranny in 1989 have created modern civil societies practically overnight without a great deal of aid from the EU? Would they even have bothered, without the incentive of future EU member-ship?

Would Turkey have striven so hard to entrench respect for civil rights in the law and force the military to retire to their bar-racks permanently if it had not been offered the prospect (sadly betrayed) of EU mem-bership?

The Nobel Peace Prize is a misnomer. It should actually be the Nobel Democracy and Human Rights Prize. Occasionally it goes to some person or organisation whose main purpose is building international peace, but much more often it goes to people like Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, and most recently Liu Xiaobo, whose accomplishment, or at least goal, has been to make their own countries democratic and respectful of human rights.

And if that is the real criterion, then the European Union truly does deserve the prize.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London.

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CHRIS JOHNSTONCanadian Press

TORONTO — The key negotiators in the NHL’s collective bar-gaining talks will look to start bridging the gap on economic issues when they resume negotia-tions.

A meeting between the league and union is scheduled for Tuesday morning where the sides will discuss “ideas for moving the process forward on the main is-sues,’’ according to dep-uty commissioner Bill Daly.

Beyond that, there is no set agenda.

The session will fea-ture the Big Four in-volved in talks _ com-missioner Gary Bettman and Daly for the NHL, and executive director Donald Fehr and special counsel Steve Fehr for the NHL Players’ Asso-ciation.

The sides have main-tained a frequent dia-logue since the lockout was enacted on Sept. 15,

but haven’t reported much progress. Meet-ings have largely cen-tred on secondary issues such as drug testing and grievance procedures, and the league has been pushing for the NHLPA to deliver a new propos-al on the system for di-viding up revenues.

“We understand that they’ve been working on some concepts, some ideas _ we’ve suggested to them just make the proposal,’’ Daly said last week after a bargaining session in New York. “Any movement is bet-ter than no movement at all. Hopefully we’ve moved it forward, but even if we move back-wards it might be better than where we are now.

“That was our mes-sage to them.’’

The union has main-tained that the league could also make the next proposal.

“We’re always work-ing on ideas to contrib-ute to proposals, and Bill knows that because

I’ve told him that on a regular basis,’’ Steve Fehr said last week. “We hope they’re doing the same thing. Nobody should stand on cere-mony.’’

Neither side has for-mally tabled an offer since Sept. 12, when they each put one on the table. Both of those ex-pired when the lockout started.

The union put for-ward a five-year deal that would see the play-ers’ share in revenue fall from roughly 54 per cent to 52 per cent during the contract. The league’s offer was over six years and would see the play-ers start with 49 per cent and fall to 47 per cent.

The players received 57 per cent in the final years of the last CBA.

The talks are set to resume just days before the next batch of regular season games is expect-ed to be wiped out by the lockout. The NHL has already cancelled 82 games through Oct. 24

and will likely take more off the schedule by the end of the week.

Daly recently esti-mated the work stop-page has already cost the league almost $250 million in revenue.

The players have

started to feel the pinch as well. Had the regular season started as sched-uled, they would have received their first pay cheque on Monday. It’s one of just 13 they would have been given during the 2012-13 season.

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Hockey Hall of FameDALLAS — Mike Modano made his mark long

before he and the Minnesota North Stars relocated to Dallas and brought hockey to the Sun Belt.

Once he got there in 1993, he didn’t miss a beat.Modano, the highest-scoring U.S.-born player in

NHL history, joined longtime New Jersey Devils presi-dent and general manager Lou Lamoriello, and play-er-turned-broadcaster Ed Olczyk, as the newest in-ductees to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame on Monday night.

Modano lived up to his billing after being chosen with the first pick of the 1988 NHL draft.

By the time he retired in 2011, the Livonia, Mich., native was the Stars’ leader in games played (1,459), goals (557), assists (802) and points (1,359). He also holds franchise records with 145 playoff points in a club-high 174 games.

Modano, who played his final NHL season with the Detroit Red Wings, leads U.S.-born players in goals (561) and points (1,374).

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Giants earn 7-1 win over Cardinals in Game 2 of NLCS

JOSH DUBOWAssociated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Marco Scutaro an-swered Matt Holliday’s hard takeout with a big hit of his own to help the San Francisco Giants end their home slide.

Scutaro hit a two-run single in San Francisco’s four-run fourth inning before leaving with a hip injury and the Giants got their first home win this post-season, 7-1 over the St. Louis Cardi-nals on Monday night that tied the NL champi-onship series at one game apiece.

“It shows you how tough he is,’’ Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “It’s a shame some-body got hurt. It was more of a roll block. We’re hoping he comes out of this OK. He got hit pretty good.’’

Scutaro left after the fifth because of his dam-aged left hip. X-rays were negative, and he’ll likely get an MRI on Tuesday. There was no word on his future sta-tus.

“You’re trying to get to the second baseman and obviously try to knock him down so he can’t turn a double play,’’ Holliday said. “As long as you’re in the baseline, it’s within the rules.’’

The series now shifts to St. Louis for three games, starting with Game 3 on Wednesday

when San Francisco ace Matt Cain takes on Kyle Lohse of the Cardinals.

Things got off to a testy start when Holli-day barrelled into Scutaro at second base to break up a potential double play in the first inning. The play riled up a crowd that had seen three straight losses by the Giants so far this post-season.

There was plenty to cheer all night for the Giants. Ryan Vogelsong pitched seven strong in-nings, Angel Pagan hit a leadoff homer to give San Francisco its first home lead this post-sea-son, and Scutaro broke the game open with his single off Chris Carpen-ter.

Making Scutaro’s hit even sweeter for the Gi-ants was the fact that Holliday misplayed the ball in left field, allowing a third run to score on the error.

The rally started in-nocently enough with a bloop, opposite field double by Brandon Belt and a chopper over third baseman David Freese by Blanco. Craw-ford then hit a bouncer between the mound and first base that Car-penter fielded and threw away toward first base. It appeared Craw-ford may have impeded Carpenter by running inside the baseline but the Cardinals did not argue the play.

Peyton Manning’s heroics spur Broncos comeback that

stuns Chargers 35-24SAN DIEGO — Peyton Manning threw three

touchdown passes in the second half and Tony Carter and Chris Harris scored off turnovers by Philip Rivers as the Denver Broncos overcame a 24-0 halftime deficit to stun the San Diego Chargers 35-24 on Monday night.

Manning was 13 of 14 for 167 yards in the second half for the Broncos (3-3) who tied the Chargers atop the AFC West.

Rivers was intercepted four times — three in the fourth quarter — and lost two fumbles.

Manning’s 21-yard touchdown pass to Brandon Stokley gave Denver its first lead of the game, 28-24 with 9:03 left. Stokley outleaped defensive back Marcus Gilchrist to catch the ball, and then got both feet down before tumbling out of the end zone.

Harris sealed the victory with a 46-yard intercep-tion return for a touchdown with 2:05 left. It was his second pick of the night.

Manning finished 24 of 30 for 309 yards with one interception.

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SportSCanadian soccer team prepares for match with Honduras

Neil DaviDsoNCanadian Press

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Canadian midfielder Julian de Guzman knows what to expect when he emerg-es onto the pitch at the Estadio Olimpico Met-ropolitano in Honduras under a searing sun Tuesday.

“You’re going to ex-pect hell,’’ said the vet-eran of three World Cup qualifiers.

“This is their lives, this is all they have for them,’’ he added of the soccer-crazy Hondu-rans. “This is what we have to make it for our-selves too ... It’s come down to the stage where it’s become the most important game not just for ourselves but the en-tire country (of Cana-da).’’

De Guzman and the Canadian team will emerge Tuesday after-noon out of a battered tunnel that looks like something out of ``Mad Max Beyond Thunder-dome.’’

A yellow metal mesh door topped with poles bars entry when the tunnel is not in use. Barbed wire at the top is there to dissuade fans

from trying to climb the fence or moat that sur-rounds the pitch and its neighbouring track. But penned in the stands, those around the tunnel will bang the metal roof and walls to create an unholy din as the visi-tors walk below.

Two teams will enter Tuesday. Likely only one will leave to contin-ue its World Cup quali-fying campaign.

Canada (3-1-1) just needs a tie or win to ad-vance to the final round of qualifying in CONCA-CAF, which covers North and Central America and the Carib-bean.

The Hondurans (2-1-2) have to win.

Panama (3-1-1) plays in Cuba (0-5-0) at the same time. A shock

upset win by Cuba could mean that Cana-da could still lose and advance, depending on goal difference. More likely Panama and ei-ther Canada or Hondu-ras will move on.

Coach Stephen Hart calls Tuesday’s match “massive.’’

“The biggest game of my career,’’ said Canadi-an captain Kevin McK-enna, who said he got goosebumps just talking about it.

“This decides a lot of things,’’ said de Guz-man. “For myself, my future, the future of football in Canada.’’

It speaks volumes about Canadian men’s soccer that a game of such proportions is just for a chance to play in another round of World Cup qualifying. Ten more matches await if Canada succeeds Tues-day.

The last time Canada made the final round was in 1997 when it fin-ished last in the six-team group with a 1-6-3 record. And Canada’s record of participation at the World Cup has been stuck at one for 26 years.

Hondurs has made

the World Cup twice _ in 1982 and 2010.

Mexico has already qualified for the final round of CONCACAF qualifying and will be joined by five others.

Three teams will emerge from the so-called ``hex’’ qualifying round to represent CONCACAF at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The fourth-place team will challenge the Ocea-nia winner in a playoff to determine who joins them in the final field.

On Monday, a na-tional holiday in Hon-duras, workers put to-gether the advertising hoardings around the pitch and looked to dress up the crumbling stadium. Music blared as the Canadians worked out _ in prepa-ration for the lengthy tailgate party that will surround the game.

Built in 1997, the sta-dium looks like it hasn’t been touched since. Today it is almost a post-apocalyptic vision. One look at the Caballeros or men’s washroom is a sphincter-tightening ex-perience likely to trigger an immediate exit.

Tuesday, the sun-drenched venue could

be full of as many as 40,000 screaming Hon-durans and a handful of hardy Canadians.

Savage heat, a hostile crowd and a cage-like arena sound like a reci-pe for severe stress. But Hart wants his players to savour the moment.

He had two messag-es for his team.

“One, we’ve very sel-dom been in this posi-

tion so enjoy it,’’ he said. “And two, it’s like a final.’’

“I want players to enjoy the moment,’’ he added. “They can play the game, they have the ability. It’s to bring it out in a relaxed, concentrat-ed form.’’

Hart, a native of Trin-idad who is no stranger to heat, did admit he hopes for some more

cloud Tuesday. The 30-degree-plus heat was tolerable when cloud concealed the sun. It was brutal when the sun had the sky to itself.

“It’ll be tough,’’ said Hart. “The environ-ment’s going to be the biggest challenge.’’

“It’s hot but we’ve got to deal with it,’’ added McKenna. “They’ve got to deal with it too.’’

GreGory stroNGCanadian Press

TORONTO — The post-Olympic hang-over lasted a long time for Kevin Martin’s curling rink.

The team was drained after criss-crossing the country for speaking engage-ments and events in the year after winning gold at the Vancouver Games. After such a glorious high it was difficult to get the edge back last season, espe-cially playing a re-duced schedule.

Martin’s team trained hard over the summer and is back in form this season, play-ing with a renewed focus and intensity.

“You can see there’s energy again,’’ Martin said Monday. “There was very little energy last year. We were just a bunch of burnt-out guys.’’

The Edmonton skip won Olympic gold with Ben Hebert, Marc

Kennedy and John Morris. The rink took parts of last season off to recharge and is off to a solid start this sea-son at 12-2.

“This year you can tell that everybody _ in their eyes — they’re enjoying it, getting on the ice and playing,’’ Martin said.

The veteran skip made a promotional stop at an east-end curling club Monday for the release of his new Kevin Martin Curling App. He’ll re-turn to Edmonton on Tuesday for a coaching assignment before heading to Portage la Prairie, Man., for this weekend’s Canad Inns Prairie Classic event.

Martin said while he’d like to see a de-cent winning percent-age this season, his main goal is to build up the team’s skills and performance leading into the 2013 Olympic trials in Win-nipeg.

“I would like to see us get stronger as the year goes on,’’ he said. “And play really solid, consistent ... whether we win or not that doesn’t matter be-cause our goal is Sochi.

“What we win this year is insignificant but in order to win there, you’ve got to be getting better and bet-ter and better, trying to peak next year at the Olympic trials.’’

Martin made it to the semifinals at the Point Optical Classic in Saskatoon last month and followed it up with a win at the recent Westcoast Curl-ing Classic in New Westminster, B.C.

The team will have a busy schedule this season. And Martin likes the hunger his teammates are show-ing early on.

“It’s no different than a horse before a horse race,’’ he said. “You can tell by the look of the horse if

they’re ready to go or not. You can tell that with an athlete too ... by the look in their eye and how they’re act-ing, how they’re walk-ing, how they’re mov-ing and how they’re eating pre-game. You can tell by all of that.

“You can tell that our team is ready to go again. We were not ready to go last year. You could tell, we were just not mentally sharp and you just have to be. Finally I can see that (look) again, which is good.’’

Martin already earned a coveted qual-ification spot at the Olympic trials by win-ning the Canada Cup last year.

Eight men’s and women’s rinks will battle for the Sochi spots at the trials — the Tim Hortons Roar of the Rings — from Dec. 1-8, 2013.

“We’re trying to ramp up,’’ Martin said. “And in an exact way.’’

DaN r alphCanadian Press

TORONTO, ONTAR-IO — The CFL’s mud-dled playoff picture could clear up signifi-cantly this weekend.

The B.C. Lions and Montreal Alouettes can cement top spot in the West and East Divi-sions, respectively, with outright victories. That would give both teams opening playoff byes and the right to host their conference finals Nov. 18.

The conference champions will meet in the historic 100th Grey Cup on Nov. 25 at Rog-ers Centre in Toronto.

The Toronto Argo-nauts and Calgary Stampeders could also both nail down second spot in their respective divisions, with a little help. That would essen-tially leave third in the East and West Division still up for grabs head-ing into the final two weeks of the 2012 cam-paign.

B.C. heads into its home game Friday against Edmonton with a CFL-best 11-4 record,

and the defending Grey Cup champion can ce-ment first in the West for the second straight year with a win over the Eskimos.

But the Eskimos (7-8) have plenty to play for. They’re fourth in the tight West Divi-sion but just two points behind third-place Sas-katchewan (8-7) and four points in back of second-place Calgary (9-6).

An Edmonton victo-ry would also solidify its crossover bid. In the CFL, if the fourth-place team in one division has a better record than the third-place finisher in the other conference, the fourth-place squad crosses over and as-sumes the third playoff seed in the rival divi-sion.

Montreal (9-6) visits Saskatchewan on Sat-urday and would take first in the East Division with a victory. The Alouettes lead second-place Toronto (7-9) by four points and have cemented the season series.

The Argos host Win-nipeg on Friday night. A Blue Bombers’ victory would give Montreal top spot in the East for the fourth time in five seasons under head coach Marc Trestman and ninth time in 13 years overall.

Trestman has guid-ed Montreal to three Grey Cup appearances, winning consecutive ti-tles in 2009 and 2010.

A Toronto victory Saturday, combined with Calgary beating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, would give the Argos second in the East and home-field advantage for the divi-sion semifinal Nov. 11.

Calgary would need to beat Hamilton and have Montreal down Saskatchewan to secure second in the West Di-vision.

Gr aham DuNbarAssociated Press

GENEVA — FIFA President Sepp Blatter plans to speak with Cuban officials after three national team play-ers defected in Canada ahead of a World Cup qualifier last week.

The players disap-peared nine months after two players with the Cuba women’s team fled to the United States fol-lowing a match against Canada in Vancouver.

Blatter said Monday that the defections had become “a presidential question’’ for FIFA and not just an issue for the

competitions depart-ment.

“This we cannot let just stand there _ it will not work,’’ he told report-ers at a briefing.

Blatter will study FI-FA’s reports into the lat-est incident in Toronto last Thursday before act-ing.

The FIFA president said he will personally contact “the sports au-thorities in Cuba, but giv-ing them a copy to give to their political authori-ties.’’

Cuba had just 11 play-ers available to face Can-ada on Friday and lost 3-0.

Cuba was already eliminated from conten-tion in its group, and sent an inexperienced squad to Canada _ prompting suggestions that top players were left at home to prevent them defect-ing.

“As with any Cuban sport team that travels around the world, they’re all chasing the American dream,’’ Cuba coach Al-exander Gonzalez said after the match about the missing players. “And it’s difficult to try to keep the team together. Obviously it’s a difficult situation for the team and it’s tough for me to talk about it.’’

FIFA president to investigate Cuban soccer defections

“It’s come down to the stage where it’s

become the most important game not

just for ourselves, but the entire

country (of Canada)”Julian de Guzman

Curler Kevin Martin looking to earn another Olympic berth for Sochi Games

CFL playoff picture emerging


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ARIES (March 21-April 19) What could be complicated be-comes significantly less so because of a discussion. When you state your feelings, others also are more likely to open up. You could be do-ing a lot of questioning right now. Sorting through a lot of informa-tion takes time and determina-tion. Tonight: Hook up with a key person. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Defer to someone who might be eminently more capable and who has the ability to look at situations quite differently from you. This person’s mind is always active. He or she understands you and the situation well and will be able to come up with an effective solution. Tonight: The only answer is “yes.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Your patience and ability to gain clarity -- even in the most difficult situations -- opens many doors. Additionally, your optimism helps others sometimes get past their issues. Remember, at this point in time, you are like a cat with nine lives; go for what you want! To-

night: Do not push yourself. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Your libido energies are high. Re-member, it is your choice as to how you direct them. You are far more upbeat than in the past, and this affects a project, a difficult interac-tion or even a budding relationship. Just avoid not doing anything with this special energy. Tonight: Not to be found. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) You are most comfortable in a homey environment. If you are working, you could leave early and bring more work home or, if you can, take the day to work entirely from home. Some of you even might consider starting a home-based business. Express your feel-ings directly and compassionately. Tonight: Happy at home. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You continue to express your feel-ings in a way others can relate to. Your willingness to verbalize your emotions is substantially increased. Avoid embellishing or elaborating details when dealing with some-one who often doesn’t have the ability to focus for any length of time. Tonight: Visit with a friend. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

Become more aware of yourself and what you offer to others. You do not want to pull back, but giving too much has its liabilities. Try to detach from situations that might appear difficult or impossible to resolve. A little detachment goes a long way. Tonight: Treat someone to dinner. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Beam in what you want, as others are flexible. Someone appreciates your verbal and direct communica-tion. A partner lets you know how much your thoughtfulness and caring means to him or her. You will have a long-overdue heart-to-heart talk with this person as a re-sult. Tonight: With a special person. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Assume a low profile, especially if you do not want to maintain the lead in a key situation. Genuinely try to understand your liabilities, yet know when to accept an offer. Your words blend together with your feelings, both negative and positive. You will have a lot to think about. Tonight: Do for you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Meetings are far more important than you might realize. You are in sync with others, and this causes

opportunities to knock on your door. You might feel excessive in your emotions and/or your financ-es. Those around you will open up as a result of your being less-than-perfect. Tonight: Where the fun is. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Put your best foot forward. Others respond to your efforts and ad-mire your willingness to take the lead and accept responsibility. You might be quite playful and full of fun; however, you will want to sup-press that side when dealing with authority figures. Tonight: Split town as soon as you can. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) You could be pushing the enve-lope. You also might want to do necessary research and create your own alternatives. Change the time of a meeting or be willing to miss it. Once you start exploring ideas and making calls to experts, you will not want to be distracted. Tonight: Listen to a great piece of music. BORN TODAY Textbook pioneer Noah Webster (1758), actress Angela Lansbury (1925), actress Suzanne Somers (1946) ***

Dear Annie: I am a 64-year-old man in ex-cellent health. The problem is, I never have had much luck with the ladies. I adore all kinds of women: tall ones, short ones, aver-age ones and even plump ones. The only la-dies I do not find attractive are the grossly fat ones and those who smoke, drink too much or use drugs. But, Annie, women don’t seem to like me at all, and I don’t know why. I am well read and easy to get along with and try to help people when I can. I don’t drink or smoke. I exercise a lot and eat healthy food. I am mostly bald, and so I shave off the few hairs that still grow on top of my fully functional solar cell. I am not a sports nut. I don’t go to bars because the music is too loud, and most of the women I meet there like their booze too much. My brother has always been popular with the ladies. I don’t know what he has that I don’t. I’ve tried online dating sites, but they haven’t worked for me. I would like to meet some decent women. What am I doing wrong? -- Lonely in Nova Scotia Dear Lonely: We don’t know. A well-read, helpful, decent guy who is in excellent health and interested in nearly all kinds of women should be a catch for someone. Are you looking for women in the right age bracket? Do you lecture them on their ex-ercise, smoking or drinking habits? Are you clean and decently dressed? Join an organization or do an activity that you enjoy. It’s a good way to meet people with similar interests. Tell your friends and relatives that you are looking. Ask your brother what he thinks the problem might be -- and pay attention to his answer. Dear Annie: Our son graduated from col-lege more than two years ago. He has not looked for a job, nor does he have a resume. He claims that he can’t put a resume to-gether because he didn’t participate in any school activities and has no job experience, although he has done quite a bit of volun-teer work at his church. He spends much of his time playing video games. Currently, he plays all night. He goes to bed when other people are just waking up and then sleeps until late afternoon. We have never pushed him hard. He helps some around the house, but my wife and I like to do things ourselves. Our son is intel-ligent and moral, does not drink or smoke, and is well liked. But I worry about his lack of ambition. He refuses to talk to a counselor to determine whether something is holding him back. I’ve told him that unless he shows some initiative, he eventually will be too old for anyone to want to hire him. He doesn’t want any of the part-time jobs that are easily available, because he says he cannot learn anything from them. I’ve said he should at least show he is willing to work. Do you have any suggestions? -- Frustrated Dad Dear Dad: Stop waiting for your son to show initiative and give him some motiva-tion. Tell him he has three weeks to get a job because you will be charging him rent. And make the amount large enough to require an income. Don’t back down. If he doesn’t like it, he can mooch off of someone else. Offer to help him put together a resume. Two years of lazing around playing video games is not going to inspire confidence in his work ethic, but the longer he waits the harder it will be. Dear Annie: I’d like to respond to the let-ter from “Fleas a Crowd in Hawaii,” whose friend gave her a great massage, but after-ward she was covered in fleabites. It may be that these are not bug bites of any kind, but rather an allergic reaction to the lotion or oil used during the massage. -- C. Dear C.: You could be right. Itching can result from a great many things. But if she saw actual bite marks, as opposed to irrita-tion, itching or a rash, the assumption is that something bit her. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mail-box, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Her-mosa Beach, CA 90254. To find out more about Annie’s Mailbox and read features by other Cre-ators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM

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Colin PerkelCanadian Press

TORONTO – Federal correction-al authorities are trying to stop pub-lic disclosure of videos and docu-ments during a fight over the scope of an Ontario inquest into the pris-on death of a deeply troubled teen.

The motion to seal the materials – which a lawyer for the family of Ashley Smith called a “pure and simple state coverup’’ – threatens to further delay the already long-de-layed probe.

“This is a classic example of the method of doing business by Cor-rectional Service of Canada,’’ Julian Falconer, the Smith family lawyer, said Monday.

“Their first instinct is to seal up and hide from public view.’’

Smith, 19, choked to death five years ago, in the Grand Valley Insti-tution in Kitchener, Ont., after re-peated bouts of self-harm. She had spent much of her final year in soli-tary confinement being shunted from one prison to another.

The inquest under Dr. John Car-lisle, slated to begin early in the new year, is actually the second one

into Smith’s death. The first was aborted last year when the presid-ing coroner, Dr. Bonita Porter, an-nounced her retirement after months of acrimony and bruising legal battles.

Those battles included a chal-lenge to release of graphic jail-house videos, which, among other things, show Smith being forcibly restrained and injected with anti-psychotic drugs in a Quebec pris-on.

Carlisle has said the probe needs to look at areas including the role of her mental-health care and how authorities managed her.

In its new motion, Correctional Service argues for sealing the video and other materials, which have been filed as part of a battle over Carlisle’s ability to have doctors from outside Ontario testify at the inquest.

Keeping the materials under wraps – at least until they are pre-sented to the coroner’s jury – is needed to “protect the integrity’’ of the inquest and prevent a “serious risk’’ to the administration of jus-tice, the motion argues.

Falconer accused the govern-ment of trying to prevent the public airing of an “indefensible’’ position – that the inquest should exclude Smith’s experiences in prisons out-side Ontario.

“If the information that we’re arguing about were public, it would render their position absurd,’’ Fal-coner said.

In May last year, an Ontario court ruled the events shown in the videos likely had affected Smith’s state of mind and were therefore relevant to the inquest.

Falconer said CSC had learned nothing from that legal fight, and said the new motion shows “CSC is an institution out of control.’’

A call to Don Head, commis-sioner of Correctional Service of Canada, seeking comment was re-ferred to media relations, which did not immediately respond.

Backed by Correctional Service, two psychiatrists and a general practitioner in Ontario – Loys Li-gate, Carolyn Rogers and Sam Swaminath – are arguing Carlisle’s jurisdiction ends at the provincial border.

Lawyer alleges ‘state cover up’ at probe into teen’s death

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Ashley Smith is shown in this still image taken from a coroner’s video.

At a hearing late last month, Fal-coner said the jurisdictional objec-tion was in fact from three out-of-province psychiatrists who treated Smith – Jeffrey Penn, of Truro, N.S., Renee Fugere, of Montreal, and Ol-ajide Adelugba, of Saskatoon.

Carlisle wants to issue sum-monses to them to testify.

A lawyer for the inquest would not comment, but said Carlisle will hear the sealing motion along with arguments over scope and jurisdic-tion Oct. 23 and 24.

James kellerCanadian Press

VANCOUVER – Inderjit Singh Reyat is asking the Su-preme Court of Canada to overturn a perjury convic-tion for his testimony at the Air India bombing trial, fur-ther prolonging a saga that began with the deaths of 329 people in the skies over the Atlantic Ocean nearly three decades ago.

Reyat, who himself pleaded guilty to man-slaughter for his role in the bombing, was convicted of perjury in September 2010 and later sentenced to nine years in prison – believed to be the longest perjury sen-tence in Canadian history.

He was accused of lying 19 times during the 2003 trial of Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, who were acquitted of mass murder and conspiracy in the bombing of Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985. The bombing killed 329 people, mostly Canadian citizens, while another ex-plosion at an airport in Tokyo killed two baggage handlers.

Reyat fought his perjury conviction at the B.C. Court of Appeal, but that case was rejected this past July. Reyat is now asking the country’s highest court to hear the case.

A notice of application, filed on Sept. 27, repeats

Reyat’s argument that the judge made a mistake in his instructions to the jury.

Reyat’s lawyer has argued the judge was wrong to tell the members of the jury they didn’t have to agree on which specific lie Reyat told, as long as they each agreed that he lied during the trial.

“The necessary elements or ingredients for the of-fence of perjury are entirely consistent among the 19

particulars to the indict-ment, and there was evi-dence on which the jury could have found each to have been proven,’’ the court said in its decision, dated July 19.

It’s not clear when the Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether it will hear the case, or if it does, when the case might pro-ceed.

Neither Reyat’s lawyer

nor the B.C. prosecutor in the case could be reached for comment.

Reyat was a Crown wit-ness at Malik’s and Bagri’s trial, when he insisted he knew nothing about the al-leged conspiracy. The judge in that case later described Reyat as an “unmitigated liar.’’

The testimony was part of a deal that saw Reyat plead guilty to manslaughter in the bombing of the plane and receive a controversial five-year sentence. He also served an earlier 10-year sentence for manslaughter for the deaths of two airport baggage handlers in Tokyo.

It’s believed a suitcase bomb was loaded onto a plane at Vancouver Interna-tional Airport, then trans-ferred to the Air India flight, which touched down in Montreal before continuing on towards London. The bomb exploded off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 pas-sengers and crew.

An hour later, a bomb destined from another Air India plane exploded in Tokyo.

The Crown’s theory was that British Columbia-based Sikhs hatched the plot to take revenge against govern-ment-owned Air India after the Indian army stormed the Golden Temple - Sikhism’s holiest shrine - in June 1984 to oust Sikh separatists.

Air India bomb maker asks Supreme Court to review perjury conviction

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Inderjit Singh Reyat, the only man ever convicted in the Air India bombings of 1985, waits outside B.C. Supreme Court during a fire drill which forced everyone in the building outside prior to the start of the second day of his perjury trial in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday, September 10, 2010.

C anadian Press

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – A B.C. man has pleaded guilty at the start of his trial in Ab-botsford, B.C., for the death of a traffic flagger.

Thor Michael Shay has admitted to a single count of driving without due care and attention in connection with the July 15, 2010 death of Don Cain.

Cain was controlling traf-fic at a construction site along the Lougheed High-way in Mission, 60 kilome-tres east of Vancouver, when

he was hit by a passing vehi-cle.

The father of two died after being dragged by the vehicle.

A spokeswoman for the flagging association says some members of Cain’s family believe the single criminal code driving infrac-tion does not reflect the se-verity of the incident.

Diane Herback says her association is supporting Cain’s family during the legal proceedings.

Man pleads guilty in the death of traffic flagger

C anadian Press

VANCOUVER – A Surrey, B.C., man has been arrested after a standoff with police in a downtown Vancouver hotel for almost 10 hours Monday morning.

Officers were called to the Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel at about 2:30 a.m. when an armed man walked in, showed his handgun and then sat down and waited.

Vancouver police depart-ment spokesman Sgt. Randy Fincham says the man wasn’t threatening anybody

and negotiators spent the morning trying to determine what the man wanted.

The Vancouver Police Emergency Response Team took the 28-year-old into custody just after noon.

Police say he was taken to hospital with minor injuries and could potentially face weapons-related charges.

Pedestrians and vehicles were diverted from around the hotel during the inci-dent, while hotel guests were either evacuated or told to remain in their rooms.

Police arrest man with gun in downtown Vancouver hotel

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Claude H. Willis

1936 - 2012It is with great sorrow that the family of Claude H. Willis announces his passing on Wednesday, October 10th, 2012 at his home in Cranbrook, British Columbia at 76 years of age.

Claude was born on July 11th, 1936 in Jamaica to Eustace and Linda Willis. Claude was a loving father, grandfather, friend and

proud Rotarian who will be greatly missed by all that knew him.

Claude is survived by his daughter, Melanie L. Frier (Darrell Flynn) and his son, Mark-David R. Willis (Jessie-Lee Kwiatkowski); his grandchildren, Brandon, Kiana and Vanessa; his sisters, Joy Hutchinson and Brinella (Anthony) Knight, as well as four nephews and several great nephews and nieces. Claude was predeceased by his parents Eustace and Linda (nee Jacobs) Willis.

A visitation for Claude will be held at McPherson Funeral Home in Cranbrook on Thursday, October 18th, 2012 from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm. His memorial service will be held in the McPherson Funeral Home Chapel in Cranbrook on Friday, October 19th, 2012 at 11:00 am. Those wishing to make a memorial donation in honour of Claude may do so to the charity of their choice.

Claude’s family would like to extend a special ‘thank you’ to Dr. Robert & Jill Cutler and Kent and Janice Saxby who have always held a very special place in Claude’s life and heart.

Arrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service. Condolences for the family can be offered at:

www.mcphersonfh.com

WALKER, D. Gillian (nee Taylor)

February 10, 1949 – October 10, 2012

Gill Walker died after a long battle with cancer on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at the age of 63 years. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 42 years, Allan Walker; three sons;

two daughter-in-laws; three grandchildren; one brother; one sister; and many more family and friends. She was predeceased by her parents Dorothy and Robert Taylor. A Celebration of Gill’s life will be held at the Marlborough Park Community Hall, 6021 Madigan Drive NE, Calgary, on Friday, October 19, 2012 from 12:00 – 3:30. Messages of condolence may be forwarded to the family at www.piersons.ca.

Arrangements are in care of PIERSON’S FUNERAL SERVICE. Telephone 403 235-3602.

Stanley P. Shayler

“Grumpsie”

Born: July 30, 1920

Passed Away: October 9, 2012

We would like to take today and forever to honour and celebrate the life of Stanley P. Shayler.

Stanley was known by most for his gentle, kind and loving spirit. He greeted everyone he passed with a

hello, nod of the head and a warm, genuine smile. To his family he was not only a husband, father, brother and grandfather but an amazing man that you aspired to be like; a man that you couldn’t help but love.

As a family we would ask that you remember Stan for the incredible man he was, and will be forever in our hearts.

He will be greatly missed and always loved.

The Miskows and ShaylersArrangements entrusted to McPherson Funeral Service.

Condolences for the family can be offered at: www.mcphersonfh.com

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The Guilbault/Dreger families would like to thank the following for their love,

support & friendship of our dear Mother:Cecile Andreas and all medical staff from

the Cranbrook Hospital, care givers & support staff from Joseph Creek and the many friends & family that visited Mom.

She appreciated and valued all of her friends & loved ones.

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With very heavy hearts and great sorrow we wish to announce the passing of our beloved James (Jim) Douglas.

Jim leaves behind his loving wife Grace (Terry), having spent 52 precious years together, his children Pamela (Scott Liddle and his children, Brodie and Braiden) and Clinton (Jennifer Bjarnson and her children, Desirae & Donald). He was an amazing father, friend, mentor and guardian angel. Jim also leaves behind Pamela’s two children, Nicholas and Jordan van Essen along with his “Japanese grandson”, Toru Nanami. He was so incredibly proud of them and was heavily involved in everything they did. “Grandpa Jim” was known to many and well loved by all, children and adults alike.

His easy going nature endeared him to everyone who knew him as he always had a smile on his face and a hearty laugh on his lips. He would always be the first person to lend a helping hand to those in need.

He is also survived by his brother Charlie Gillies (Anna) and his sister Catherine McIntosh and their families, all of which still reside in Scotland.

Jim at age 12, was predeceased by his mother Rebecca Douglas, his father, James Douglas and stepmother, Isabelle Douglas, along with his sister, Jean Atten. Most recently he lost his brother in law, Sandy McIntosh.

Jim came to Canada from Paisley, Scotland in 1956 and in the years that followed worked as a miner and shift boss for Eldorado Nuclear LTD, Teck Cominco and Giant Yellowknife mines. He loved to work and was respected and well liked by his crews and colleagues.

His life long passion was being a Freemason having belonged to the Uranium City Masonic Lodge and the Selkirk Lodge in Kimberley. He was very proud of earning his 32nd Scottish Rite Degree.

Jim leaves us with a legacy of love, laughter, friendship and compassion for his fellow man. We are truly blessed with such good fortune to have had him in our lives.

He can never be forgotten as he gave us too much to remember.

Thinking of him is easy, we do it everyday, but missing him is the heartache that never goes away...

A Memorial Service for James Ralston Douglas was held on Oct 13, 2012 at 4:00 pm at the McPherson Funeral Home, 1885 Warren Avenue in Kimberley, B.C.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Jim’s name may be made to the Salvation Army or the Kimberley Food Bank.

James Ralston DouglasApril 25, 1935 - October 7, 2012

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BIRMINGHAM, England _ A teenage Pakistani activist shot in the head by the Tali-ban arrived in Britain on Monday to receive special-ized medical care and pro-tection from follow-up at-tacks threatened by the mili-tants.

The attack on 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai as she was returning home from school in Pakistan’s northwest a week ago has horrified peo-ple across the South Asian country and abroad. It has also sparked hope that the Pakistani government would respond by intensifying its fight against the Taliban and their allies.

Malala was targeted by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education and criticiz-ing the militant group’s be-haviour when they took over the scenic Swat Valley where she lived. Two of her class-mates were also wounded in the attack and are receiving treatment in Pakistan.

The Taliban have threat-ened to target Malala again until she is killed because she promotes “Western thinking.’’

Malala, who had been re-ceiving treatment at a Paki-stani military hospital, ar-rived at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham in central England on Monday afternoon. Doctors believed Malala “has a chance of making a good recovery,’’ said Dave Rosser, the hospi-tal’s medical director.

The hospital, which is

also home to the Royal Cen-ter for Defence Medicine, has extensive experience handling British soldiers in-jured in battle and advanced equipment that would help Malala’s treatment, Rosser said. He said he had not seen Malala, and declined to pro-vide details of her condition, citing respect for her privacy.

The Royal Center is the primary receiving unit for military casualties returning from overseas, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital is designated as one of the country’s 16 major trauma centres which specialize in treating severe gunshot wounds, major head injuries and road accident victims.

Pakistan’s military had said a panel of doctors rec-ommended that Malala be shifted to a centre in the United Kingdom that has the ability to provide “integrat-ed’’ care to children who have sustained severe inju-ries.

“It was agreed by the panel of Pakistani doctors and international experts that Malala will require pro-longed care to fully recover from the physical and psy-chological effects of trauma that she has received,’’ the military said in a statement.

Malala was flown out of Pakistan on Monday morn-ing in a specially equipped air ambulance provided by the United Arab Emirates, the Pakistani military said.

Video footage handed out by the military showed Ma-lala being wheeled out of the

hospital on a stretcher, cov-ered in a white sheet and surrounded by uniformed army officers. She was placed in the back of an ambulance and driven to the airport, where she was put on a plane.

The plane stopped for several hours in the Emirati capital of Abu Dhabi on the way to the United Kingdom, said Pakistani Ambassador to the UAE Jamil Ahmed Khan. The ambassador visit-ed Malala during the stop and said she appeared to be in stable condition. Her par-ents were not on the plane with her, he said.

Pakistani doctors at a mil-itary hospital earlier re-moved a bullet from Malala’s body that entered her head and headed toward her spine.

The military has de-scribed her recovery as satis-factory and said she was able to move her legs and hands several days ago when her sedatives were reduced. It has not said whether she suf-fered any brain damage or other permanent damage.

On Monday, the military said damaged bones in Ma-lala’s skull will need to be re-paired or replaced, and she will need “intensive neuro rehabilitation.’’ The decision to send the girl abroad was taken in consultation with her family, and the Pakistani government will pay for her treatment.

Pakistanis have held ral-lies for Malala throughout the country, but most have

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only numbered a few hun-dred people. The largest show of support by far oc-curred Sunday when tens of thousands of people held a demonstration in the south-ern port city of Karachi orga-nized by the most powerful political party in the city, the Muttahida Quami Move-ment.

“The U.K. stands shoul-der to shoulder with Pakistan in its fight against terrorism,’’ British Foreign Secretary William Hague said in a statement sent to reporters. “Malala’s bravery in standing up for the right of all young girls in Pakistan to an educa-tion is an example to us all.’’

Late Sunday night, more than 100 Taliban militants at-tacked a police station in the small town of Matni, 20 kilo-metres (12 miles) south of the main northwest city of Peshawar. The heavily armed militants killed six police-men, including two who were beheaded, said police officer Ishrat Yar.

The police engaged the militants in a gunbattle that lasted for several hours, but the insurgents escaped after burning the police station and four police vehicles, said Yar.

One of the policemen who was beheaded was a se-nior official who command-

ed several police stations in the area and was leading re-inforcements against the at-tack, said Yar. Another 12 po-licemen received gunshot wounds.

A Pakistani Taliban spokesman, Mohammad Af-ridi, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying the po-lice were targeted because they had killed several mili-tants.

The Taliban have carried out hundreds of attacks throughout Pakistan but the attacks rarely include such a high number of militants as in the assault on the police station in Matni.

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A Pakistani female supporter of the political party Muttahida Quami Movement shouts slogans Sunday during a protest in Karachi against last week’s assassination attempt by the Taliban on 14-year-old child activist Malala Yousafzai.

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OTTAWA _ Despite a slight recovery from August, home sales in September fell 15.1 per cent from a year ago due to tighter mortgage lending rules and an uncer-tain economy, the Canadian Real Estate Association said Monday.

The association said sales adjusted for seasonal trends in September were up 2.5 per cent from August _ the first month-to-month gain since March.

Compared with Septem-ber 2011, however, the num-ber of deals across the coun-try last month was down sharply, due in large part to a slowdown in Vancouver.

And sales activity in the market is expected to remain

lower than year-ago levels for the remainder of the year, as potential buyers reassess how much they can afford after stricter mortgage rules took effect in July, said Greg-ory Klump, CREA’s chief economist.

“To the surprise of no one, following the introduc-tion of the most recent rule changes, sales activity ratch-eted down,’’ he said.

Finance Minister Jim Fla-herty announced in July that the maximum amortization period for government in-sured mortgages would be reduced to 25 years from 30 years.

Using an interest rate of three per cent, Ottawa esti-mated it would increase monthly payments by $184

on a $350,000 mortgage, but save the borrower $33,052 in interest over the life of the loan.

It was the fourth time Fla-herty tightened mortgage re-quirements in four years, but the measure was regarded as the one likely to be the most effective.

This round of changes impacted the market differ-ently than in previous rounds of tightening because there was less time for buyers to act in between the an-nouncement and the imple-mentation, which “priced many people out of the mar-ket,’’ Klump said.

A report from RBC Eco-nomics suggested the chang-es will continue to exert in-tense downward pressure on

home sales, which will dissi-pate by year-end.

TD Bank economist Fran-cis Fong said the month-over-month gain only par-tially offset August’s drop with sales off their peaks in most markets across the country.

“The Canadian housing market has clearly lost some of its lustre,’’ Fong wrote in a note to clients.

“That being said, with in-terest rates remaining suffi-ciently accommodative, we do not anticipate any pre-cipitous decline in housing activity in the near term.’’

The sales report came as the Conference Board of Canada said that most Cana-dian cities are facing lower housing starts in the coming

years as markets slow, with only 10 of the 28 cities show-ing positive long-term ex-pectations.

CREA said Monday there was still a balance between the number of homes for sale and the number of buy-ers in September, but condi-tions have eased.

Even though sales were down from a year ago, the national average home price was up 1.1 per cent to $355,777 in September from a year earlier.

The association said Van-couver, the country’s most expensive residential real-estate market that is also cooling off quickly, skewed the national results.

Excluding that city, the national average price was

up 3.4 per cent from a year ago.

But the MLS HPI home price index, which also takes into account other factors, showed its smallest gain since May 2011, rising by 3.9 per cent in September.

The MLS HPI in Vancou-ver posted a 0.8 per cent de-cline year-over-year in Sep-tember. In contrast, Calgary had a 6.5 per cent increase in the index, the Toronto area was up 5.7 per cent, the Montreal area was up 2.2 per cent and the Fraser Valley in southern British Columbia was up 2.1 per cent.

Regina had the biggest in-crease among markets mea-sured by the HPI, with a gain of 14.2 per cent from Sep-tember 2011.

September shows revival in Canadian housing sales, but down from last year

Kimberley Daily Bulletin, October 16, 2012

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