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Silly Boat Regatta returns to waterfront on weekend

Paddlers in last year’s Silly Boat Regatta show their spirit. This year’s event goes on Sunday at Maffeo-Sutton Park. [DAILY NEWS FILE PHOTO]

Event aids Nanaimo Child Development CentreSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

One of Nanaimo’s old-est and most ridicu-lous events returns to Maffeo Sutton Park this Sunday.

The annual Silly Boat Regat-ta, a fixture in the city since 1984, will be held this Sunday in the waterfront park and 46 teams have so far registered for a chance to win the coveted championship.

The event has teams from across the city meet at 8 a.m. Sunday to prepare for a day of racing in the harbour.

However, there is a catch: the teams must assemble their boats on-site, and the vessels have to be made from used or reusable materials. All the boats have to be powered by paddles.

The results can be, well, silly. Past efforts have seen ships

made of a rickety combination of wood, styrofoam, rubber and basically anything else that floats.

It is a common sight to see the makeshift boats and their crews fall apart or sink before they ever make it back over the finish line.

Still, the mayhem is a flagship fundraiser for the Nanaimo Child Development Centre, which raised just more than $118,000 from the event last year. The NCDC aims to top last year’s total with a goal of $125,000, said spokeswoman Erica Horsfield.

The NCDC will itself enter a seaplane-styled boat into the competition, but Horsfield declined to give away too much detail on the design.

“I believe it will be a human propulsion system and we do plan on using squirt guns to dis-tract the other team,” she said.

Generations Church is aiming to hold onto the grand cham-pionship title they won last year in a slightly more crowded pool of competitors.

The Nanaimo Yacht Club is one of them. ‘Notty Yachty Comedy Team’ captain and formed club commodore Brenda Thompson said they are hoping their system of old dock flotation pieces will sail them to victory.

“We’ve done a test run, so we know it floats,” she said.

But Thompson also noted there are a batch of seasoned contenders also seeking a championship.

“I don’t think we have an edge at all,” she said, despite her club’s nautical background.

Elise Morgan, captain for

the Young Professionals of Nanaimo’s entry, said her team is planning a library-themed boat to recognize the club’s efforts to build a new library for Snuney-muxw First Nation.

It will “look like a book and we’re dressing up as ‘Where’s Waldo’ characters,” she said.

The Silly Boat racers will begin competing in separate heats at 1 p.m. Winners of each heat will face off for the championship trophy.

Horsfield said the NCDC and presenting sponsor Coast Cap-ital Savings have lined up a list of family-friendly activities throughout the day while the races are taking place.

For information, go to sillyboat.com.

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Downtown Slide the City event cancelled by councilDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

A giant water slide will now not come to Nanaimo this summer.

U.S.-based Slide the City needed a permit for a single-day event in August for a 300-metre water-slide on Victoria Road.

Users would pay $20 per slide, or a daily rate.

But city councillors worry about water consumption in the driest summer in recent memory.

While Parksville and other nearby cities’ water restrictions are at Level 4, Nanaimo is only at Level 2 restrictions.

Several councillors said it’s ear-ly summer yet, and the long-term forecast is for more of the same.

Coun. Diane Brennan pre-sented a compromise: Allow the event conditional on the use of a recirculating pump, and pro-vided that Nanaimo’s watering restrictions did not ramp up before Aug. 29, the proposed event date.

A city staff member said Nanaimo’s water supply is cur-rently at 86 per cent of capacity.

But councillors were nervous, and many said Monday they support the concept, just not under the current drought conditions.

“I think people are so con-cerned about our water that just the perception of us agreeing to do something like that gives a bad perception,” said Coun. Wendy Pratt, after the vote.

She and four other councillors voted against Brennan’s motion.

“Disappointing,” said Kim Smythe, Greater Nanaimo Cham-ber of Commerce CEO, of the decision.

“We were in a pitched battle with Victoria and Courtenay to get this thing here, and we seem to have turned on a dime to reject it.”

But it could still happen, said Chris Barfoot, city culture and heritage co-ordinator.

“I wouldn’t say the event is killed. Hopefully next year we’ll not have such dry conditions.”


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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15

6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Vancouver Island Regional Library branches host public community consultation sessions to gather input that will shape VIRL’s direc-tion over the next five years (2016-2020 Strategic Plan) Nanaimo North Library Branch, 6250 Hammond Bay Rd.

THURSDAY, JULY 16

7 - 9 p.m. Nanaimo Theatre Group seeks actors and singers aged 17+ for ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes.’ Auditions at 2373 Rosstown Road, Bailey Studio, Infor-mation: 250-758-7246.

8 p.m. Theo Massop, Brian Hazelbower live at The Longwood Brew Pub.

FRIDAY, JULY 17

7 - 11 p.m. Vancouver Island-born singer/songwriter, Ambre Rippon, rooted in traditional jazz, is at Smoke ‘N Water Res-taurant at Pacific Shores Resort.

SATURDAY, JULY 18

8:30 a.m. - noon Qualicum Beach Farm-ers Market. Memorial and Veterans Way, Qualicum Beach.

10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Parksville Orange Bridge 716 E. Island Highway, in Parks-ville. A public market with a wide variety of talented vendors.

7 p.m. Comedy at The Lantzville Pub with Kortney Shane Williams from Seattle, with special guests. Tickets $20 door, $15 advance at Lucid, The Dog’s Ear, Desire Tattoo, The Lantzville Pub, or ticketzone.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 19

10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Cedar Farmers Market. Next to the fields of the Crow and Gate pub field. A new parking lot has just been added. 2313 Yellow Point Rd, Cedar.

10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Gabriola Sunday Market every Sunday through August at Silva Bay.

1:30 - 4 p.m. Lantzville Farmers Market. St. Phillips Church parking lot, 7113 Lan-tzville Rd.

4 - 6 p.m. Nanaimo Theatre Group seeks actors/singers aged 17+ for The Emper-or’s New Clothes. Auditions at Bailey Studio, 2373 Rosstown Rd., July 26, 7 - 9 p.m.; Information: 250-758-7246.

MONDAY, JULY 20

6:30 - 8 p.m. Nanaimo Concert Band - Summer Concert The Nanaimo Concert Band perform their Summer Concert at the Maffeo Sutton Park.

TUESDAY, JULY 21

10:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Irwin Street work parties. Children and families welcome. 256 Needham St.

THURSDAY, JULY 23

6:40 p.m. Bingo. loonie pot, g-ball, bon-anza and 50/50 draw. Chemainus Sen-iors Drop In Centre. Every Monday, doors

open at 4:45 p.m. everyone welcome.

FRIDAY, JULY 24

5 - 11 p.m. King Neptune’s Bathtub Week-end Launch Party featuring Platinum Blonde, Bif Naked, The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, Kendall Patrick & The Headless Bettys and more. Diana Krall Plaza, Downtown Nanaimo

6 p.m. Beer and burger with live music Nanaimo Navy League Cadet Hall, 750 Fifth St. (on VIU Campus), Tickets $15. includes beverage and burger (chicken and vegetarian option available — please pre-arrange)

SATURDAY, JULY 25

8:30 a.m. - noon Qualicum Beach Farm-ers Market. For fresh fruits, vegetables, berries, plants, cut flowers, fresh baked goods, jams, jellies, fish, chicken and pork, and a range of local crafts. Every week until Sat Dec 19. Memorial and Vet-erans Way Qualicum Beach.

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Supt. Mark Fisher in his office at the Nanaimo RCMP detachment. He made his pitch this week for more officers in the 2016 budget. [DARRELL BELLAART/DAILY NEWS]

Cops make case to hire more offi cers to police cityDARRELL BELLAART DAILY NEWS

Organized crime and rising calls for mental health issues put demands on police to justify hiring more staff, says the officer in charge of Nanaimo RCMP detachment.

Supt. Mark Fisher made a pitch to city council Monday to beef up funding for five additional offi-cers in the 2016 budget.

He reminded council that a study done in 2009 indicated 40 additional Mounties are needed to meet 2008 requirements; yet while council approved 24 new officers, hiring was delayed. Only 15 have been hired to date.

In his report, Fisher high-lighted a need for more staffing to prevent crime, rather than using resources to solve crimes already committed.

He told council mental-health related calls rose more than 20 per cent in the past two years.

“We’ve seen a significant increase,” he said in an interview Tuesday.

“They are high risk calls and they are time-consuming calls.

“It’s not the type of call you can rush, or you’re going to com-promise safety.”

Another challenge is a push by “organized crime figures from metro Vancouver and Edmon-ton” trying to get a foothold in Nanaimo, he said.

He said motorcycle gang make-up is evolving as older members are replaced by younger mem-bers. Gangsters are active in the drug trade “and have been the last several months” in Nanaimo.

He said they are responsible for “extortions and other violent incidents over the past eight months.”

One example: On Nov. 11 two young men were abducted by a group of masked men in a vehicle from the Foundry pub parking lot and held for hours. One was badly beaten until RCMP raided the drug house where he was being held on Jin-gle Pot Road. Cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine, and $14,000 cash was seized.

“I use the word probing,” Fish-er said. “They’re probing and trying to insert themselves here,

including the drug trade, and that’s something you want to stop.”

The painstaking work to inves-tigate rising Internet and other technological crime further stretches resources, and together all those factors have driven up the crime severity index 17.7 per cent, something Fisher reminded council “investors and media” pay close attention to.

Nanaimo’s crime severity index is currently at 103.5, and although lower than in 2011, when it reached 108.9, it reflects a sudden crime spike since last summer.

“That’s a pretty big jump,” Fisher said.

City council usually starts work on its budget in the fall.


WEATHER

Region still very dry despite recent rainsROBERT BARRON DAILY NEWS

Rain on the weekend in the mid-Island region brought the fire rating down from extreme to moderate as of Monday, accord-ing to Environment Canada.

But the fire bans in the region put in place before the weekend’s showers remain in effect.

The Nanaimo area saw 7.8 millimetres of rain fall on Saturday and Sunday, which is approximately one-third of the entire rainfall the city usually receives each July.

But meteorologist Matt Mac-Donald said hardly any rain fell during the first two weeks of July, and while another two to four millimetres are expected Wednesday, the forecast is for the dry and hot conditions to return by the end of the week and remain for much of the rest of the summer.

MacDonald said Nanaimo has received just 20.4 millimetres of rain since the beginning of May, while 123 millimetres has usually fallen by this time of the year.

“The rain we received over the weekend is really not enough to change the drought conditions that the mid-Island, and much of the province, is experiencing,” he said.

“It’s fact, it was just a drop in a very empty bucket.”

Stuart Harrison, a deputy fire chief in Nanaimo, said the city’s fire ban will remain in place until the area has seen signifi-cantly more precipitation.

“It’s still very dry out there and a lot more rain will be needed before that will change,” Harri-son said.

But the weekend rains did assist fire-fighting efforts in a number of areas across the Island, according to Ellie Dupont, a fire information officer with the Coastal Fire Centre.

“The rain and the cooler tem-peratures have helped a lot with the fire at Sproat Lake, and fire fighting crews are currently just dealing with some hot spots in that area,” Dupont said.


“It’s still very dry out there and a lot more rain will be needed before that will change.”Stuart Harrison, Nanaimo Fire Rescue

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Province eyes up dams enforcementRange of responses the province take to council’s decision could cost the municipality millions of dollarsSPENCER ANDERSON DAILY NEWS

Provincial officials were tight-lipped Tuesday following Nanaimo council’s decision to ignore a provincial order to remediate the lower Colliery dam to instead pursue further studies related to the structure.

The range of responses the province take to council’s deci-sion could cost the municipality millions of dollars, the city’s top civil servant said Tuesday.

The province acknowledged Tuesday it had a wide array of possible actions it could take, which include imposing hefty

fines or moving to remove the dam altogether, at the city’s cost.

Greig Bethel, spokesman for the ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Oper-ations, struck a cautious tone.

“It would be inappropriate for the ministry to comment as correspondence from the City of Nanaimo has not yet been received,” he said in an email. Bethel also noted the city still has until next week, July 24, to select a construction option and designs for work to address what engineers have cited as insuffi-cient spillway capacity for the lower dam.

However, it has become clear the deadline will not be met.

“The Comptroller of Water Rights is considering options available in the event of non-compliance with the order,” Bethel said.

Under section 86 of the provin-cial Water Act, the comptroller can order another contractor to carry out work on the lower dam once the deadline has passed, and order the city to pay the costs.

Yet another option at the water comptroller’s would be to seek to have the city charged under sec-tions 93 or 94 of the Water Act.

Section 93 deals with “general offences,” which, if upheld by a court, could see the city pay $200,000 a day for failing to com-ply under the order.

More stringent penalties are available section 94, which can see penalties of up to $1,000,000 a day leveled against the municipality.

A Nanaimo lawyer who has been following the issue said enforcement under section 94 of the act would be “an awfully appealing choice” for the Dam Safety Section and the Crown, given council’s stated intention to ignore the July 24 deadline.

City manager Ted Swabey said penalties may also apply “to indi-vidual councillors or to officers of the city, including myself.”

He said council’s decision not to comply puts the municipality in “a very weird place that few people have experienced.”


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◆ CLARIFICATION

An item in the Daily News of July 13, ‘Mayor’s comment on dams get a big reaction,’ attributed a quote to Coun. Diane Brennan that was not accurate.

For the record, Brennan stated the following at the July 6 special open Committee of the Whole meeting: “And you know, the rumbling of the crowd does nothing to dissuade me from thinking that we need to attend to this business now. And in fact, it never has. It never has.”

The Daily News apologizes to Coun. Brennan.

Man, 25, faces drug charges after vehicle stopped by copsDAILY NEWS

A variety of illegal drugs and $1000 was seized on Thursday afternoon after a vehicle was pulled over on Park Ave.

The 25-year-old man driving the car allegedly had in his posses-sion a black safe that contained nine ounces of powdered and crack cocaine, 3.6 grams of hero-in and OxyContin tablets.

He was arrested a subsequent search of a home in the 400-block of Renfrew Street in Harewood

turned up a bag containing an unknown chemical, which was seized.

A warrant has been requested for the arrest of a 26-year-old man associated to the residence, on one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

The 25-year-old was held in custody on four counts of posses-sion for the purpose of traffick-ing and made an appearance in Nanaimo Provincial court on Monday on drug trafficking charges.

Is that another Orange Crush on the horizon?

It’s a little early to try reading the tea leaves of the

upcoming federal election. But it’s undeniable that the

New Democratic Party is surging in popularity now, just as it did under the late Jack Layton four years ago.

In that 2011 election, of course, the New Democrats made breakthroughs in Quebec and elsewhere, under the likable Lay-ton. The party became the Offi-cial Opposition, with 103 seats to the Liberals’ 34. The wave of support which brought it to these new heights was dubbed “Orange Crush” in reference to the party’s signature colour.

Political pundits wondered if this had been a fluke, due to Lay-ton’s uncanny personal charisma and resonance with ordinary voters. Could the party repeat it with a new leader?

Well, yes. Lately, one opinion poll after the other has shown the New Democrats winning a

minority government if the election were held now, with the Liberals in a distant third place.

A new poll from Forum Research, taken in the first week of July, shows the Con-servatives and New Democrats tied in support. That same poll shows New Democratic Party leader Thomas Mulcair in the lead when respondents are asked who would make the best prime minister.

Of course, there are many caveats. Election campaigns can be very volatile, and it has often happened that the most popu-lar party at the outset ends up disappointed after the votes are counted.

But Mulcair has the failure of his rivals on his side. The pub-lic’s honeymoon with Justin Tru-deau is over, showing that the Liberal Party has continued its streak of choosing leaders who find it hard to win the confidence of Canadians.

As for the Conservatives, there’s a sense they are tired and out of touch, with Prime Minis-ter Stephen Harper an increas-ingly isolated figure against the backdrop of the shaky economy he once was credited with man-aging so well. It’s summer, and most Canadians would prefer to spend these scarce warm days with a cold drink and a not-too-demanding book, rather than think about politics.

But now is the time for us to take the measure of Mulcair, his policies, his qualifications and his party.

He is now the person to watch, whether this is because he has successfully manoeuvred his party to a more centrist location, or because Canadians’ political preferences have changed.

We may be witnessing not only a simple blip on the radar, but also a seismic shift in the polit-ical landscape.

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Mob psychology was reason laws were made

It is easy to feel wonderful when 200 people are all chanting words that agree with you at Nanaimo council.

You are so powerful at that moment but that doesn’t make you right. Mob psychology was one of the reasons for forming laws.

We have a councillor prepared to “chain himself to a tree” to defy the law of a higher authority over the dams issue.

A small group of councillors insulted and embarrassed SSS Manhao publicly when they requested a one-year extension for their project. This was voted down with no back up plan in place. SSS Manhao was a deal made in heaven for Nanaimo.

Sympathy to you Mayor Bill Mckay. I guarantee you the 88,000 are sick to their stomach about this small group of councillors and their endless drivel.

Mayor Mckay you need a miracle not a mediator for this mindset.

R.G. BurnettNanaimo

Responsibilty for hotel lies with the company

Our present mayor has decided that everyone except the company that was to build “the” hotel is at fault. All of council gave an extension to the company to

actually start construction. The company’s lawyer declined that extension and preferred to blame us for the company’s non start.

Again, thank goodness we have some intelligent councillors who also have knowledge of business and the world in general.

John ScorgieNanaimo

Lots of questions remain about SSS Mahao hotel

This hotel project cancellation is no surprise to me, but I’m “insulted and embarrassed” by the mayor’s comments. Isn’t he the voice of council? He should pub-licly express the will of council, which voted on this issue.

There’s no place for him to use his position to criticize any faction/segment of council on any issue. I voted for Mayor Bill McKay, but I’m disappointed by his performance on this and his flip-flop on the Colliery Dams issue. I think he should resign. If we could recall him, I’d start the petition and be the first to sign.

Given the number of tourists SSS Manhao was projecting, you have to ask: What could they possibly do here in Nanaimo and environs? I think their plan was to shuttle the tourists to Vancouver on the new foot ferry and use the Vancouver Island Conference Centre for briefings of upcoming activities.

The tourists would stay in

Nanaimo at lower rates than in Vancouver; SSS Manhao could negotiate discount rates for the foot-ferry, which would be faster than BC Ferries, and the tour-ists would then be in downtown Vancouver.

As for “local investment and job creation,” I wonder. When you have a profitable business plan, you don’t throw it away because someone’s been rude or disrespect-ful or makes additional demands. You assess whether your plan is still (sufficiently) profitable or whether it can be profitably modi-fied. If not, then you kill the deal. An excuse of “You’ve been rude to us” is ridiculous.

Maybe the Hilton Hotel on Front Street will go ahead. The proposed Howard Johnson property redevel-opment sounds like a winner, too.

Robert BarrowNanaimo

Dams issue is about more than just the park

Colliery Dams has always been and continues to be about so much more than the park. It mirrors the struggle for control of the mechanisms of power and the direction of the city. It is now basic knowledge that staff initially saw so little value of the park that they promoted its destruction.

Currently the fight is for the right of the city to choose how to best manage this issue. I find it absolutely ironic that council is

being told that there will be heavy consequences if they do not com-ply with the order from the prov-ince directing them to immedi-ately spend millions. The majority are wanting to take time to secure the information required in order to define the problem. It is a logic-al and sensible step.

This issue sets an important pre-cedent in that a duly elected civic government that has committed to taking appropriate steps to deal with this issue is being overruled by the province. It is even more ironic that our mayor and staff appear to be doing everything to ensure that the majority on coun-cil do not succeed.

On July 13, police asked for more officers. This request has previous-ly been denied. We have limited resources and council should have the right to define its priorities. Perhaps they may see that having a few more police officers on the force or improving a dangerous intersection will do more to ensure the safety of our citizens than “fixing” a problem that we are unsure exists.

Jeff SolomonNanaimo

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BUSINESS NOTESNews from the Nanaimo business community

Morgan Carey fi nalist for award

Nanaimo business-man Morgan Carey is a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the

Year award.The founder and CEO of Real

Estate Webmasters was short-listed in the technology category from among his peers in the Pacific region.

“It is a big deal,” said Colleen McMorrow, national director of the global competition, which started in the U.S. 30 years ago.

“We receive 300 nominations across the country on a national basis, and we believe it is the only truly global event.”

Candidates must undergo an interview to gauge skills at innovation, leadership, risk taking and their philanthropic contribution.

“It’s obviously an honour to be nominated,” said Carey, 35, who completed a multi-million dollar deal on CBC’s Dragon’s Den in November, and whose business, REW, did $15 million in revenue in its last fiscal year, ending in June.

At a black tie event McMor-row describes as the “Academy Awards” of business, Carey learns Sept. 24 if he wins the Pacific title.

The national award comes in November.

True to form, Carey is shooting for more than finalist.

“The goal is to win Western Canada, then Canada and then the world.”

Cafe now in new locationServing sit-down meals is just a

small part of business at Ohana’s Cafe.

The bulk of Jim and Roxanne Gain’s business, about 80 per cent, is wholesale food sales to other operators.

But the Gains want to grow

that part of their business, and for the longest time the main obstacle was the Internet.

Now that most people go online to search for businesses, they say they were losing business due to incorrect information on the world’s most popular search engine.

The problem started when they moved from their old location beside Piper’s Meats to another Bowen Road location at Town-site Road.

The couple was “having trouble getting Google to get it right,”

said Jim Gain, who makes all the savoury items to complement Roxanne’s cinnamon buns and other baked goods on their exten-sive menu.

When they moved to 32-1708 Bowen Rd. customers kept say-ing they had a hard time finding them, tucked between First Memorial funeral home and a Shell station.

“When people (went) online they say: ‘Where’s Ohana’s?’ And it comes up with our last location.”

Now their new location does

come up on Google, right behind a U.S. restaurant with the same name.

“Most people have found us,” said Gain, whose cafe is rated 18th of 285 eateries in town by the travel website Tripadvisor.ca.

For those who still haven’t found them, a taste of their mouth-watering soups, stews and other comfort foods, or home-baked cakes, cookies, and even cinnamon buns can be had at Ohana’s storefront facing Townsite Road, near Royal Can-adian Legion #256.

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Roxanne Gain serves up a tray of her famous cinnamon buns. Now customers are starting to find Ohana’s Cafe at its new location, at the foot of Townsite Road. [SUBMITTED/DAILY NEWS]

Cops seek suspect after gun pulled in robberyDAILY NEWS

A man brandishing a handgun robbed a Domino’s Pizza on Saturday and fled with an undis-closed amount of cash.

Upon entering the store, locat-ed on Norwell Drive at 9:15 p.m. the man pulled a gun from his bag and demanded money, the manager told police.

After receiving cash the man fled on a silver and blue moun-tain bike eastbound on Ross Rd.

“We don’t often see firearms produced, but it’s not uncommon to see it,” said Nanaimo RCMP spokesman Const. Gary O’Brien.

“It’s not too often that a firearm is seen and the people believe it to be a real firearm. It does hap-pen from time to time.”

Employees at the Domino’s Pizza were able to see the man as he pedaled along Ross Road and did not see him turn off onto any side roads. Though police were in the area within minutes they were unable to locate the suspect or the bicycle.

The suspect has been captured on surveillance cameras with his face uncovered and is described by police as a white man, more than 200 pounds, approximately 35 to 50 years old, about 6 ft. 1 and has acne scars on his face.

An identifying feature of the man is that he has an unusually high-pitched, raspy voice.

He wore black sunglasses, a black hoodie with a green plaid jacket over the hoodie and grey sweat pants. The suspect also appeared to waddle as he walked.

Anyone with information on this incident is urged to contact Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, text 274637, keyword Nanaimo or go online at www.nanaimoc-rimestoppers.com.

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VICTORIA — A second-de-gree-murder charge has been dropped against a police officer involved in a lengthy armed standoff outside a Vancouver-area casino.

The province’s Criminal Justice Branch has applied for a stay of proceedings against Const. Jordan MacWilliams of the Delta Police Department, saying a comprehensive review of the incident means the case will not continue to a trial set for October.

“(The branch) has deter-mined that the available evidence, considered in its entirety, no longer sup-ports a viable prosecution of Const. MacWilliams for second-degree murder, or any other offence,” the

Justice Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

MacWilliams was one of more than two dozen offi-cers involved in a standoff outside a casino in New Westminster on Nov. 8, 2012, but it ended with the death of 48-year-old Mehr-dad Bayrami following what police described as a domestic dispute.

Police alleged they responded to a report from a Starlight Casino employ-ee who told them he saw a man threatening a woman with a handgun through live security footage in the facility’s parking lot.

Police said they were able to escort the woman to safety but that a three-and-a-half-hour standoff ensued, with MacWilliams fatally shooting Bayrami in the abdomen.

Based on video evidence

that appeared to contra-dict police interviews, the Crown initially approved a second-degree-murder charge against MacWil-liams in October 2014.

However, additional investigation led prosecu-tors to drop the charge.

“Of particular signifi-cance to the analysis was the nature and degree of danger that Mr. Bayrami actually posed to the offi-cers on scene, and their rea-sonable perception of that danger,” the branch said.

MacWilliams also faces a civil lawsuit from Bayrami’s daughter, who has accused the officer of gross negligence and mali-cious misconduct. She said she suffered financial loss as a result of her father’s death. None of the allega-tions have been tested in court.

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Tough times put an end to Raeside’s cartoons

A longtime British Columbia editorial cartoonist who made a career out of skewering pol-iticians has become a victim of budget cuts after more than three decades at the same newspaper.

The Victoria Times Colonist says it no longer has the money to employ Adrian Raeside after 36 years. Editor-in-chief Dave Obee calls Raeside one of the best newspaper cartoonists in Canada, among those still plying their craft in the dailies.

Obee says Raeside’s cartoons have been a focal point of the Victoria paper’s editorial page, but times are changing. Raeside says he saw his days at the newspaper coming to an end when his cartoons went from six days a week to intermittent appearances.

◆ VANCOUVER

Teacher’s union seeks Supreme Court appeal

British Columbia teachers have filed leave to appeal with the Supreme Court of Canada in an ongoing battle with the province over bargaining rights.

The B.C. Teachers Federation is asking the top court to recon-sider a B.C. Court of Appeal decision that ruled in the govern-ment’s favour in April.

The appeal court found the gov-ernment did not violate teachers’ charter rights when it imposed legislation in 2012 that removed their ability to bargain class size and composition.

Union president Jim Iker vowed to seek a Supreme Court appeal immediately after the ruling was announced, and the organization filed the application in late June.

The province has yet to respond. It will be decided at a later date whether the appeal will be heard.

Charges dropped against offi cer in casino standoff

More accountability called for at TransLink LAURA KANE THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — Two top man-agers with Metro Vancouver’s transit authority are out, and the acting chief executive will be replaced following a failed tran-sit plebiscite.

TransLink said Tuesday that bosses Doug Kelsey and Bob Paddon had been removed. When interim CEO Doug Allen’s con-tract ends August 10, CFO Cathy McLay will take over until a permanent replacement is hired.

The troubled authority said Mike Richard had replaced Kelsey as acting president of B.C. Rapid Transit, while Paddon’s position as executive vice-presi-dent of planning had been eliminated.

“Since 2011, staffing costs across the TransLink enterprise have been significantly reduced though downsizing at the management and executive level and the subsequent elimination of positions,” TransLink said in a statement.

The changes come just weeks after 62 per cent of Metro Vancou-ver voters said No to a half-per-cent sales tax hike to fund $7.5 bil-lion in transportation upgrades.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone said the province was not involved in personnel decisions but repeated Premier Christy Clark’s call for more accountabil-ity at TransLink.

“The premier, I thought, was very clear. She went so far as to say not only did people say No to the sales tax, but they said No to any new taxes to go to an organ-ization that people don’t trust,”

he said.“We expect TransLink, moving

forward, to do a better job at how they use taxpayer dollars.”

TransLink refused interview requests Tuesday.

But George Heyman, trans-portation critic for the Oppos-ition New Democrats, said the province is to blame for the transit authority’s lack of accountability.

He said the government dis-solved the TransLink board of elected officials in 2007, and that creating two positions for local leaders earlier this year wasn’t enough.

“The mayors have been clear,”

he said of the 21-member mayors’ council, which advocated for the Yes side in the plebiscite. “They think that in order for TransLink to get back on the rails, they need to have a greater position of influence, including votes on the budget,” he said.

“They’ve said to the trans-portation minister repeatedly, ’Give us more than two token members on the board. Give us a majority.”’

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner are the two mem-bers on the board. They did not immediately respond to calls for comment.

‘Do a better job with taxpayers’ money’ — transport minister

Residents of Metro Vancouver voted ‘No’ in a transit-tax plebiscite to fund $7.5 billion in transportation upgrades. Two managers with Metro Vancouver’s transit authority have since been removed. [DARRYL DYCK/CANADIAN PRESS]

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VANCOUVER — The head of an undercover terrorism inves-tigation says he was unaware that a target of the operation feared death for not following through on a mission to blow up the British Columbia legislature, but that information would have been important.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Vaz Kassam testified he doesn’t recall being briefed about John Nuttall telling his wife that they’d be risking their lives by disobeying orders they believed were com-ing from al-Qaida-affiliated operatives.

“Obviously they’d feel that they would have no choice in doing this operation,” Kassam said Tuesday. “Otherwise, they’d be killed.”

Last month, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Nuttall and Amanda Korody guilty of terror-ism-related charges, and their lawyers are now arguing that police entrapped the vulnerable couple.

Kassam took over as lead-er of the police sting a week before Nuttall and Korody were arrested on Canada Day in 2013 for plotting to detonate home-made pressure-cooker bombs in downtown Victoria.

On Tuesday, Kassam defended the RCMP’s use of confrontation to gauge how serious the pair was about carrying out a terror-ist plot.

He described the technique as a “stimulating tactic” and said it was effective in flushing out a suspect’s true intentions and risk to public safety.

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Nuke accord with Iran now open to criticism and praiseIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a ‘stunning historic mistake’JULIE PACE, MATTHEW LEE AND GEORGE JAHN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIENNA — Overcoming decades of hostility, Iran, the United States, and five other world pow-ers struck a historic accord Tues-day to check Tehran’s nuclear efforts short of building a bomb.

The agreement could give Iran access to billions in frozen assets and oil revenue, stave off more U.S. military action in the Middle East and reshape the tumultuous region.

The deal sets in motion a years-long test of Iran’s willingness to keep its promises to the world — and the ability of international inspectors to monitor com-pliance. It also sets the White House up for a contentious fight with a wary Congress and more rocky relations with Israel, whose leaders furiously opposed the agreement.

Appealing to skeptics, Presi-dent Barack Obama declared that the accord “offers an oppor-tunity to move in a new direc-tion. We should seize it.”

Under terms of the deal, the culmination of 20 months of arduous diplomacy, Iran must dismantle much of its nuclear program in order to secure relief from biting sanctions that have battered its economy. Inter-national inspectors can now press for visits to Iran’s military facilities, though access is not guaranteed. Centrifuges will keep spinning, though in lesser quantities, and uranium can still be enriched, though at lower levels.

In a key compromise, Iran agreed to continuation of the U.N.’s arms embargo on the coun-try for up to five more years and ballistic missile restrictions for

up to eight years. Washington had sought to keep the arms ban in place, while Russia and China joined Iran in pushing for an immediate suspension.

On the streets of Tehran, Iran-ians honked their horns and cele-brated in the city’s main square. President Hassan Rouhani said a “new chapter” had begun in his nation’s relations with the world, even as he denied Iran had ever pursued a nuclear weapon.

While the U.S. partnered in the talks with Britain, France, Ger-many, Russia and China, the dec-ades of tensions between the U.S. and Iran put the two countries at the forefront of the negotiations.

Whether the nuclear rap-prochement will spark a broader thaw is unclear. Nearly 40 years after Iran’s Islamic revolution and the hostage-taking at the

U.S. Embassy in Tehran, the country’s hardliners remain hostile toward Washington. The U.S. and its allies also have deep concerns about Iran’s support for terrorism in the Middle East and its detention of several Amer-ican citizens.

Israeli Prime Minister Benja-min Netanyahu, who lobbied unceasingly against a deal, called it a “stunning historic mistake” and warned that his country would not be bound by it. Netanyahu strongly hinted that Israeli military action to destroy Tehran’s nuclear pro-gram remains an option.

Obama and Netanyahu, who have long had a cool relation-ship, spoke by phone Tuesday. White House officials said Obama also called King Salman of Saudi Arabia, one of the many

Sunni Arab rivals of Shiite Iran who have expressed concerns about the deal.

On Capitol Hill, Republicans accused Obama of making too many concessions. House Speak-er John Boehner of Ohio said lawmakers “will fight a bad deal that is wrong for our national security and wrong for our coun-try.” GOP presidential hopefuls also panned the deal, some vow-ing to scrap it if elected to suc-ceed Obama.

The deal comes after years of international diplomacy that until recently were defined by failure. Breaks in the talks some-times lasted for months, and Iran’s nascent nuclear program expanded into one that Western intelligence agencies saw as only months away from weapons capacity.

In this Dec. 22, 2014 file photo, an Iranian oil worker rides his bicycle at the Tehran’s oil refinery south of the capital Tehran. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

CRAIG WONG THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA — Canada’s big banks may resist the urge to pass on to borrowers the full benefit if the Bank of Canada decides to reduce its key interest rate on Wednesday, a reluctance that could anger borrowers.

CIBC analyst Robert Sedran suggested a 25-basis-point cut in the central bank’s overnight rate could be followed by only a 10-basis-point reduction in the prime rate by the big banks.

“Either way, we would not expect an overnight rate cut to be met with a full reduction in bank prime rates,” Sedran wrote in a report Tuesday on the eve of the Bank of Canada announce-ment that is hotly anticipated this time around amid concerns the economy is in a recession.

If the Bank of Canada cuts interest rates, it will be an effort to jumpstart the economy by making it cheaper for consumers and companies to borrow money.

But a cut by the central bank won’t automatically trigger a similar cut in the prime rate at the country’s big banks. That rate is currently standing at 2.85 per cent.

Moves in the prime rate affect variable rate mortgages as well as home equity lines of credit and other variable-rate forms of borrowing.

When the Bank of Canada unexpectedly cut the rate in January by a quarter of a per-centage point, the big banks cut their prime rates by 0.15 — but only after a week of hand-wring-ing about what to do.

Mortgage broker Frank Napol-itano said if the banks don’t pass on the full amount in the event that the Bank of Canada once again opts to cut its key interest rate, they will face the wrath of angry borrowers.

Sedran noted the banks are trying to protect their margins by not passing on the full cut to their customers.

Woman given six-month conditional jail term for indecent act aboard fl ightKEITH DOUCETTE THE CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX — A 26-year-old woman has been sentenced to a six-month con-ditional sentence for committing an indecent act on a Halifax-bound flight in 2014.

Alicia Elizabeth Lander appeared in Dartmouth provincial court Tuesday where she was also handed a nine months probation. Charges included assaulting a police officer, commit-ting an act of mischief and causing a disturbance at Halifax Stanfield Inter-national Airport. Lander was found guilty of the offences in May.

A flight attendant testified that Lander and a man used a coat to cover their laps and then fondle each other.

Judge Timothy Gabriel told Lander that he was concerned that young chil-dren were in close proximity during the flight. He also characterized her behaviour at the airport, where she kicked a sliding door off its runner and also kicked a hole in the wall of an interview room while being combative with police, as “disgraceful.”

“It could be described as the action of a spoiled 12-year-old who is used to getting her own way,” said Gabriel. “I think you understand . . . that your actions were childish but you are an adult and in the adult world actions have consequences.”

The conditional sentence involves a curfew. Lander is confined to her home from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Lander must submit a DNA sample and perform a total of 60 hours com-munity service.

She was also ordered to pay Halifax Stanfield International Airport $426.65 within 14 months for the damage she caused to the wall.

Lander testified during her trial that she drank more than a dozen shots just before and on the flight, and didn’t remember what had happened. That explanation was dismissed by Gabriel, who said he didn’t believe it.

Jason George Chase was previous-ly given 18 months’ probation and a conditional discharge after pleading guilty in January to committing an indecent act in connection with the same incident.

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◆ OTTAWA

Public service union campaign criticizes cuts

The Public Service Alliance of Canada is dropping $2.7 million on a pre-election ad campaign that takes aim at Conservative cuts to the bureaucracy.

The union said its “Vote to Stop the Cuts” campaign will include billboards, posters, radio seg-ments and online content, but it does not plan to air TV ads.

PSAC said government sup-port for veterans, search and rescue, employment insurance, border security and food safety have been affected by the Tory belt-tightening efforts since 2006.

The union, which represents more than 170,000 public sector employees, is the latest group to capitalize on the lack of rules governing pre-writ advertising.

◆ REGINA, SASK.

Evacuees told to wait, be wary of social media

Thousands of fire evacuees in Saskatchewan are anxious to return home, but officials are urging them to be patient and ignore rumours.

They say word on social media that an evacuation order will soon be lifted for Montreal Lake is incorrect.

They say there has been some rain but not enough to change the size or scope of the wildfires.

About 13,000 people remain out of their homes in 50 commun-ities north due to a higher than average number fires and haz-ardous smoke.

More than 1,500 firefighters are in the region, including military.

Evacuees from one reserve were allowed home on the weekend.

◆ CALGARY

Lottery winner says she always thought she’d win

A Calgary woman says she’s believed for years she would win big in the lottery.

That belief became fact for Nabila Batarseh, who won $12.5 million in the June 5 Lotto Max draw.

The new winner says she was at home playing cards with her family when she decided to check her ticket numbers on her phone.

Batarseh’s ticket was one of four that shared the $50 million LOTTO MAX jackpot.

The others were sold in Edmon-ton, British Columbia, and Ontario.

She says she will use her win-nings to buy a house, help people and quit working.

◆ CHELSEA, QUE.

Canada and Ukraine sign free trade agreement

Canada has reached a trade agreement with Ukraine that will eventually see a near elimin-ation of duties on goods coming into Canada from Ukraine.

Prime Minister Stephen Harp-er announced the free trade agreement as he met today with Ukraine’s prime minister, Arseniy Yatsenyuk.

The two met in a windowless room at a government-owned house overlooking picturesque Meech Lake in Quebec’s Gati-neau Park, about a 20 minute drive from Parliament Hill.

Once in force, the agreement would eliminate 99.9 per cent of tariffs on current imports from Ukraine into Canada, and 86 per cent of Ukrainian tariffs on Can-adian products.

Iran nuke deal won’t hurt Alberta oil, says NotleyIAN BICKIS THE CANADIAN PRESS

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley downplayed con-cerns Tuesday that a lifting of Iranian sanctions would harm the province’s energy sector, though experts warned the Islamic republic’s nuclear agree-ment could result in an increase in global oil supply, thereby pushing back any recovery.

The historic deal reached between Iran and six world pow-ers has opened the possibility that Iranian oil could again be flowing freely on world markets after increased sanctions in 2012 cut a million barrels a day from the country’s exports.

Notley said it’s possible the lifting of sanctions for Iran could have “a bit of a suppressing effect on oil prices for a period of time.”

“Like many Albertans, we talk about oil prices much like we talk about weather. And in both cases, we’re used to change,” she said in a teleconference call from Quebec City, where she met earlier with Premier Philippe Couillard.

“Alberta’s a province that has been built on dynamic commod-ity prices and we’ve seen oil go up, we’ve seen oil go down and throughout it all, we’ve seen the resilience of our economic infrastructure.”

But Laura Lau, senior portfolio manager at Brompton Funds, said the deal could cause oil com-

panies to scale back investment plans.

“It’s definitely not good,” said Lau. “I think it’s difficult for any North American (oil producer), whether it be Canadian or U.S., and I think they’re going to have to rethink their capital spending programs and their production growth.”

Lau said she doesn’t expect a significant drop in oil prices because the Iran deal had already been priced into the market, and Iranian oil won’t hit global markets until at least ear-ly next year.

But she said with Iran holding millions of barrels of oil ready to be shipped, and upwards of 500,000 barrels a day of produc-tion ready to start up, projections are already showing slower oil price increases.

Iran, which holds the world’s fourth-largest proven oil reserves and second-largest proven gas reserves, could also ramp up pro-

duction further with increased capital investments, Lau added.

Aston Hill Financial portfolio manager John Kim said the short-term effects of potential Iranian oil exports weren’t a great threat to the Alberta oilpatch.

“This is a 93 million barrel a day global market, so another 400,000 is half a per cent, so it’s not like it’s a big number,” Kim said. “But it just doesn’t help the cause.”

He said Saudi Arabia, which had record June production, is greater cause for concern.

“I think the bigger concern for people is that Saudi production seems to keep going up all the time,” said Kim. “It doesn’t seem to want to come down or even stabilize.”

“A lot of things . . . are going to happen internationally that have impacts on the price of oil, both good and bad, but we know generally speaking that market access has to improve,” she said.

The nuclear deal with Iran announced Tuesday was nego-tiated by the U.S., Britain, Ger-many, France, China and Russia.

In a statement from Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson said Canada appreci-ates efforts to reach the agree-ment, but said that Iran “con-tinues to be a significant threat to international peace and security” and that Canada will judge Iran by its actions, not its words.

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◆ ATHENS

Austerity deal meets with strikes, dissent

Greece’s government launched a frantic 24-hour effort late Tues-day to push more austerity meas-ures through parliament and meet demands from European creditors as it faced down mount-ing anger at home.

The belt-tightening measures were agreed upon with eurozone leaders to prevent the Greek economy from collapsing, and as part of planned third bailout worth $93 billion.

It means recession-hit Greeks will have to pay more for most goods and services by the end of the week.

◆ VATICAN CITY

Pope urges Colombia to embrace peace process

Pope Francis is calling for the peace process in Colombia to go ahead and is offering the Holy See’s assistance if it might help.

Francis said he was concerned about the negotiations and that “it would be an ugly thing” if the talks do not go ahead.

Colombia’s right-wing gov-ernment and leftist rebels announced Sunday that they had agreed to accelerate peace negotiations and will attempt to negotiate a cease-fire even before reaching an agreement to bring an end to the country’s five-dec-ade-old conflict.

◆ BERLIN

Discovery of new class of particles is asserted

A new kind of subatomic par-ticle called the pentaquark has been detected for the first time, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said Tuesday.

The lab, known by its French acronym CERN, said the find-ings were made by a team of scientists working on the LHCb experiment, one of the four at its Large Hadron Collider.

Previous claims to the detec-tion of pentaquarks, containing four quarks and an anti-quark, have been refuted. But experts said the new results appear credible.

◆ JOHANNESBURG

Desmond Tutu admitted to South Africa hospital

Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has been admitted to a Cape Town hospital for a persis-tent infection, his South African foundation said Tuesday.

The foundation, which is named after 83-year-old Tutu and his wife Leah, quoted their daughter Mpho as saying the family hopes the Nobel Peace Prize laureate will be able to return home in a “day or two.”

Desmond Tutu has been treat-ed for prostate cancer for many years. He announced his retire-ment from public life in 2011 but has still travelled widely.

◆ WASHINGTON

Estimated 2015 budget defi cit lowered in U.S.

The White House predicts this year’s budget deficit will register at $455 billion, less than it forecast in February and the lowest yet of Barack Obama’s presidency.

The new figure is slightly less than 2014’s deficit of $483 billion. In February, the administration predicted a deficit of $583 billion.

During Obama’s first term, defi-cits topped $1 trillion each year. That reflected a severe financial crisis and the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The 2015 budget year offi-cially ends on Sept. 30.

◆ BEIJING

China media call rights lawyers troublemakers

China’s state media on Tuesday accused more than two dozen human rights attorneys round-ed up in recent days of being troublemakers intent on illegal activism, as foreign governments and rights groups expressed con-cern over the crackdown.

The Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group said 21 human rights law-yers and civil activists had been detained or have disappeared since last Thursday. Another 125 people have been warned not to speak up or act on behalf of those detained.

In this photo provided by Mexico’s attorney general, authorities inspect the exit of the tunnel they claim was used by drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman to break out of the Altiplano maximum security prison. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Mexico drug lord escape needed help of insidersCHRISTOPHER SHERMAN AND ELLIOT SPAGAT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALMOLOYA, Mexico — The kind of tunnel that led Mexico’s most powerful drug lord to freedom would have been more than a year in planning. The digging would have caused noise. The entrance would have to be in a place beyond the view of secur-ity cameras at Mexico’s toughest prison.

As authorities hunted Monday for any sign of Mexico’s most powerful drug lord, it was clear that Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s escape must have involved inside help on a grand scale.

Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said as much Monday night. He announced that three prison officials had been fired, including Valentin Cardenas, director of the facility known as Altiplano, a maximum

security prison 90 kilometres west of Mexico City.

“They had something or a lot to do with what happened, and that’s why we made that deci-sion,” Osorio Chong said.

Still, he did not say who exactly is suspected of aiding the escape. Nor did he talk about rooting out the kind of corruption that led to the escape.

The prison has the same high-security standards as those in the U.S. and Canada, he said, and Guzman was given extra sur-veillance, including a tracking bracelet, although it worked only inside the prison.

Osorio Chong said the 1.5-kilo-metre (1-mile) tunnel had been dug 19 metres (about 62 feet) below the surface and called it a “high-tech” breach of the pris-on’s extensive security measures, including 750 cameras and 26 security filters.

The Mexican government announced that it is offering a

$3.8 million reward for Guzman’s recapture. An Interpol alert was sent to 10 countries and at least 49 people have been questioned by the government’s organized crime unit, including more than 30 prison employees.

A tunnel of such sophistication — with lights, air venting, and a customized motorcycle rigged up on a rail line — would normally take 18 months to two years to complete, said Jim Dinkins, for-mer head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Home-land Security Investigations.

“When it’s for the boss, you probably put that on high speed,” he said.

If anyone was capable of pulling off such a feat, it was Guzman, who is believed to have at least a quarter-century of experience in building large, sophisticated tunnels to smuggle drugs under the U.S.-Mexico bor-der and to escape from hideouts as authorities closed in.

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Bring your own meals when on your summer vacation

When planning your sum-mer vacation, the last thing you want to worry

about is what and where you will eat. Eating in restaurants for a few days won’t hurt, but for longer vacations it can be very unhealthy and expensive to eat all of your meals out.

If you have children, it is cheaper and easier to bring

small, healthy snacks to offer when hunger sets in. Nothing ruins a holiday faster than hav-ing to stop in a strange town to look for somewhere to eat with hungry children. You will have a much happier experience with children if they are not too hungry or too tired when you sit down to a meal.

If you are driving for long dis-tances, it is a good idea to stop, stretch and rest every few hours. Often travellers will push them-selves to reach a destination and put off eating for too long. This can lead to low blood sugar and stressed cranky behaviour. Being too hungry by the time

you eat can also lead to overeat-ing which can be uncomfortable when you are sitting for a long time. If you are travelling by car and have a cooler, it is easy to prepare your own meals to avoid costly trips to restaurants. Packing healthy food along is also one of the best ways to feel your best. When you have a cooler with a variety of healthy foods, you can eat when you are hungry without having to stop for long.

Collapsible coolers are avail-able that can fold flat and be tucked into your suitcase when flying for use when you arrive at your destination.

Many hotel rooms have small suites that include a refriger-ator. It is a good idea to call the hotel or check out their website to find out what amenities will be available to you. Even if your accommodation does not provide a refrigerator, almost all hotels and motels have ice machines that make it easy to keep coolers chilled.

Fill your cooler with foods like low fat yogurt, low fat milk, individual cereal boxes, fresh, dried or pre-packaged fruit, indi-vidual tins of tuna or salmon with pull off lids, cheese, nuts and seeds, peanut butter, cut up vegetables, muffins, crackers,

or whole grain bagels or buns. These foods are great for break-fast, lunch and between meal snacks.

Include extra water in your cooler to keep the family well hydrated as you travel. Not drinking enough fluids especial-ly during the hot weather may lead to miserable, cranky and even sick travelling companions. The extra water also comes in handy for those quick cleanups along the way.

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RECIPES

Lemon chicken in a bag will delightSometimes, we just need to get dinner on the table; it doesn’t have to be fancy but it should be goodMELISSA D’ARABIAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Life is busy. We don’t always have the luxury of thumbing through our favourite cookbooks, marking

recipes with sticky notes for din-ners sometime off in the future when we will somehow have time to salt-cure a cod or dry-age a side of beef in our garage fridge. Sometimes, we just need to get dinner on the table. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but it should still be tasty and nutritious.

Often overlooked by the healthy cook due to its higher fat con-tent, dark chicken meat is under-appreciated. Dark meat has a few more grams of fat than the white meat of the breasts (a 3 1/2-ounce serving of breast meat has about 4 grams of fat, while the same amount of dark meat has just under 6 grams).

And the higher cholesterol of the dark meat means the breast probably still should be in your rotation. But chicken legs and thighs are luscious in texture and full of flavour and protein (about 28 grams per serving).

They also are much lower in saturated fat than most cuts of red meat, and they offer more iron per serving than chicken breasts. Perhaps most important of all for the busy weeknight cook is that bone-in dark meat chicken is very forgiving in

terms of cooking time. Which is to say, it is very hard to overcook dark chicken meat.

On weeknights when my hus-band and I both have to work and one daughter has dance and the other three have soccer, lacrosse and more soccer, I appreciate the forgiveness offered by dark meat.

One of my favourite weeknight chicken leg and thigh strategies

is to put them in a plastic bag in the morning, dump in some veg-gies and a quick marinade, then just toss the whole thing into the refrigerator to sit all day.

After work, I dump the con-tents of the bag into a baking dish and pop it into the oven while I change into something more comfortable (by which I mean sweats). Dinner, done!

WEEKNIGHT LEMON CHICK-EN DINNER-IN-A-BAG

Start to Finish: 1 hour, plus marinating

Servings: 4Eight bone-in chicken drum-

sticks or thighs, or a mix1/4 cup lemon juice1/4 cup olive oil3 cloves garlic, minced2 teaspoons dried thyme

1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes (optional)

Kosher salt and ground black pepper

1 large red or yellow onion, cut into 8 wedges

4 medium red potatoes, halvedUsing a paper towel in each

hand to help grip the chicken pieces, remove and discard the skin by pulling it off.

In a two-gallon zip-close plastic bag, mix lemon juice, olive oil, garlic, thyme, red pepper flakes (if using), and a hefty pinch each of salt and pepper. Add the chick-en, onion and potatoes, seal the bag and gently turn over several times to evenly coat the contents with the marinade. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes or up to 12 hours, turning the bag once or twice if convenient.

When ready to cook, heat the oven to 375 F. Coat a rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray. Dump the contents of the bag onto the pan, spread into an even layer, then bake uncovered until the chicken registers 175 F at the thickest parts, about 40 minutes. If the potatoes and onions brown too quickly on one side, turn them for more even cooking.

Nutrition information per serving: 610 calories; 220 calories from fat (36 per cent of total cal-ories); 25 g fat (5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 240 mg choles-terol; 540 mg sodium; 40 g carbo-hydrate; 5 g fibre; 5 g sugar; 55 g protein.

Weekend lemon chicken dinner in a bag. Chicken legs and thighs are luscious in texture and full of flavour and protein. They also are much lower in saturated fat than most cuts of red meat, and they offer more iron per serving than chicken breasts. This dish is from a recipe by Melissa d’Arabian. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

Homemade nut butters a healthier way to goSARA MOULTON THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

For many parents, back to school time means back to pack-ing lunch for the kids. And that means it’s time to revisit that old lunchbox mainstay, the peanut butter sandwich.

The star ingredient tends to come one of two ways — heavily processed or ultra-natural. The more processed peanut butters generally are pumped up with added fats (as if peanuts don’t have enough!), sugar and salt. Not a happy choice.

Meanwhile, natural peanut but-ters may shed the added ingredi-ents, but they often make up for it with gains in price. Ouch!

I’ve decided there is a better way. Homemade! Do-it-yourself peanut butter is not only health-ier (you control what goes in it), it’s also way cheaper. And it’s a snap to make.

You start with the recipe’s only required ingredient: peanuts, raw or toasted. I prefer using toasted peanuts. You can buy them toasted or get raw and toast them at home in the oven.

Either way, you just pour the toasted peanuts into a processor or sturdy blender and let it rip until they’re ground.

The grinding involves two stages. First, the peanuts turn into a fine powder. If you keep going, they then turn into a smooth paste.

Keep in mind that food proces-sors and blenders tend to over-heat if they’re forced to run for a long period. That’s why I prepare peanut butter in small batches, grinding only 1 1/2 cups of nuts at a time.

I also like to add 1 tablespoon of a neutral oil. My preference is grapeseed, but sunflower or saf-flower also work.

The oil makes it easier to grind the nuts, which keeps both the machine and the nut butter from becoming too hot. If you like your peanut butter chunky, start this recipe by pulsing about 1/3

cup of additional nuts in the processor.

Once they’re nicely chopped, dump them out of the proces-sor and set them aside. When the rest of the nuts have been ground to a paste, transfer to a bowl and stir in the chopped nuts.

Flavourings? You might add 1/4 teaspoon of fine salt in the beginning. Other options are vanilla extract or paste, honey, cinnamon or whatever suits your fancy. Just hold off on adding these until you’re otherwise finished processing. Once you

have the consistency you want, then mix in any flavourings.

The beauty of this recipe? You don’t have to limit yourself to peanuts. Almonds and cashews work great, too. And whichever nut you use, your homemade nut butter will keep in a sealed jar in the refrigerator for up to three months. But I’m pretty sure it’ll be eaten well before then.

HOMEMADE NUT BUTTERSToasted peanuts, almonds and

cashews taste best. If you buy them raw, they are easy to toast at home. Spread the nuts on a

rimmed baking sheet lined with kitchen parchment and bake on the oven’s middle shelf at 350 F for 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly browned and fragrant.

For a lighter, smoother almond butter, look for blanched almonds, which lack the skin.

Start to finish: 10 minutesMakes about 1 cup1 1/2 to 1 3/4 cups raw or toasted

peanuts or cashews1 tablespoon neutral vegetable

oil, preferably grapeseed1/4 teaspoon fine salt (optional)In a food processor, combine

the nuts, oil and salt, if using. Process until very smooth, scrap-ing down the sides several times, 1 to 4 minutes.

Transfer to a glass jar with a lid and chill until ready to use. The nut butters will keep for up to three months in the refrigerator.

Nutrition information per serving (based on 8 servings) using peanuts: 180 calories; 140 calories from fat (78 per cent of total calories); 15 g fat (2.5 g sat-urated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 60 mg sodium; 6 g carbohydrate; 2 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 7 g protein.

Nutrition information per serv-ing (based on 8 servings) using cashews: 160 calories; 120 cal-ories from fat (75 per cent of total calories); 14 g fat (2.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 0 mg cholesterol; 65 mg sodium; 8 g carbohydrate; 1 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 4 g protein.

Homemade nut butters, from left clockwise, peanut butter, cashew butter and almond butter in Concord, N.H. This dish is from a recipe by Sara Moulton. [THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]

» Eileen Bennewith is a registered dietitian in the public health program for Island Health. She can be reached at [email protected].

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ROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS

The Nanaimo Timbermen lost for the 11th straight game on Tuesday night after a 13-10 loss to the Victoria Shamrocks at Frank Crane Arena.

The Shamrocks, Western Lacrosse Association defending champions and No.1 team in the league, outshot the Timbermen 51-34 as things continue to look bleak for the hosts.

The visitors also raced into a five-goal lead without reply just over six minutes into the first period before the first Timbermen goal scored by Eli McLaughlin.

McLaughlin ended up with three goals and an assist while Randy Jones had two goals and an assist.

Cody Bremner had a goal and two assists, while Conrad Chap-man had a goal and an assist as did Cayle Ratcliff.

“Early we struggled,” said head coach Kaleb Toth. “They got to open areas but then after the timeout we composed ourselves and fought back and we did a real good job of doing that.

“That’s a great team over there, they have a lot of talented players. When you bring in 15 imports, you’re bound to have a good team. There was a couple things I thought we could’ve done better but overall, I was pleased with the game.”

Toth admits the five-goal start for the Shamrocks was key but says he will look back with pride on the way his team has per-formed against “the best team

in the league this year” once the season is over. The Timbermen’s only two wins have come against the Shamrocks on the opening weekend.

“We’ve had success against them because obviously we want to be there. We want to be a top team in this league and to get

to the top, you’ve got to beat the guys at the top. It’s been unfortu-nate the 11-game losing streak now and it’s something that this team just needs to figure out how to do and that’s win.

“We’ve been in tight games, games we should’ve won that we somehow managed to lose and a

lot of it has to do with the guys’ confidence and learning how to win.”

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Nanaimo Timbermen lose 11th straight at home to ShamrocksKaleb Toth’s team come out on the wrong side of a 13-10 scoreline at Frank Crane

Ryan Sage of the Nanaimo Timbermen is left floored after a fight broke out with Ben McCullough (20) of the Victoria Shamrocks during the third period on Tuesday night. [ROSS ARMOUR/DAILY NEWS]

CYCLING

Froome takes control of Tour de FranceJOHN LEICESTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LA PIERRE-SAINT-MARTIN, France — Over the earpiece tucked below his helmet, Chris Froome’s team sent word that his panting Tour de France rivals were struggling in the thinning air of the high Pyrenees, on the first skyward climb of this year’s race.

Clearly, they were having a bad day. So Froome decided to make it even worse.

Reprising the formula that carried him to victory in 2013, Froome barked an order to three teammates leading him up the punishing ascent: speed up. Shat-tered by the fierce uphill pace, trailing riders scattered behind them, their bluffs called and hopes dashed.

The first A-lister to crack was none other than last year’s cham-pion, Vincenzo Nibali.

Sweat beading off his chin, the Sicilian was cooked.

The biggest high-profile loser of Stage 10 shed more than four minutes to Froome, all but end-ing his Tour defence.

Next, Alberto Contador dropped from the by-now shriv-eled group of the Tour’s hardiest, most pain-resistant climbers.

The 2007 and 2009 champion zigzagged across the steep tarmac as Froome’s trusty lieu-tenant Richie Porte applied yet more speed.

That doomed the Spaniard’s chances of adding the 2015 Tour to the Giro d’Italia title he won in May.

Two down, one major rival to go. Froome took down Nairo Quintana himself. Rising from his saddle with six kilometres (four miles) still to climb to the La Pierre-Saint-Martin ski resort, Froome accelerated away, head down, legs pumping.

The bill for Quintana, who rode in third behind Froome and Porte at the top, was very costly: one minute and 10 seconds lost overall to the British race leader, who is now firmly in control of cycling’s showcase race.

“When we got up onto that last climb and we heard the big names that were struggling and getting dropped . . . I turned to the guys who were still with me at that point — it was Wouter Poels, Richie Porte and Geraint Thomas — and just said, ’Guys, come on let’s on push on here. We’ve got them in trouble,”’ Froome said.

“I couldn’t have asked for it to go any better.”

For his rivals, it couldn’t have been much worse.

“Froome has landed a hammer blow on the Tour,” said Nibali, the Astana team leader now a whopping 6:57 behind Froome overall in 10th place. “I have no more to give. I’m not even the younger brother of the Nibali from last year.”

Closest to Froome is still Tejay van Garderen, the American leader of the BMC team.

But he’s two minutes, 52 seconds behind overall. Quin-tana, runner-up to Froome in 2013, trails by 3:09, in third. Con-tador slipped back to sixth over-all, 4:04 behind.

“Froome rode away and showed his authority,” Contador said. “I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t get my legs to work. It really was a bad day.”

There are still two more climb-ing days in the Pyrenees, fol-lowed by ascents in the Alps.

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TORONTO — Organizers for the Pan Am Games say more than 900,000 tickets have now been sold for the multi-sport event taking place in Toronto and sur-rounding communities.

Ticket sales had initially been somewhat of a concern as only about 800,000 of 1.4 million tickets had been sold before the Games officially began last Friday.

But as the event entered its first full week, organizers said nearly 25,000 tickets were sold on Monday — a record-breaking fig-ure for a single day of sales.

Ticket sales are expected to cover about $40 million of the Games’ $2.5 billion budget, with the rest coming from the federal, provincial and local govern-ments. Saad Rafi, CEO of the TO2015 organizing committee, says organizers fully expect to sell at least a million tickets before the Games are done.

He says walk-up sales — where

spectators purchase their tickets at kiosks rather than online — have been significant since the Games began.

“People are clearly getting out for the Games and there are lots of great ways to make your own Pan Am memories,” Rafi said “The next major milestone of course to reach is a million tickets and we’re confident we’ll get there.”

Steady ticket sales are antici-pated over the rest of the week as competitions in popular sports like basketball, soccer, baseball and athletics get underway, Rafi said, noting that crowds at events so far have been very sup-portive of all athletes.

“They’re singing anthems loud and proud and they’re showing up in droves and there are flags of every colour imaginable,” he said. “They clearly want to see top athletes in pursuit for a medal.”

The Games, the largest inter-national multi-sport event ever held in Canada, run until July 26.

LACROSSE

Senior B Timbermen start playoffs tonightROSS ARMOUR DAILY NEWS

The Nanaimo Senior B Timbermen are in confident mood ahead of the West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association playoffs tonight.

The team face the Langley Warriors at Frank Crane Arena in Game 1 of a best of five semi-final series.

Mike Maughan’s team finished in first place at the end of the regular season after a strong 15-8

win over the Ladner Pioneers last Saturday and the head coach wants to carry that form into tonight’s game.

“We’re excited and all the guys are too and they’re looking for-ward to getting through to the end of what is always a long hard season,” he said.

Maughan set out a goal at the start of the year for his team to top the standings, which they did, and he says that has now changed to winning the playoffs.

If they are successful, the aim will then turn to the President’s Cup.

“We’re feeling pretty good. Obviously you don’t want to get too high or over confident but we’re excited.”

The Timbermen are led by cap-tain Jon Diplock who finished the season second in the league in scoring with 34 goals along-side 39 assists.

Diplock also had the highest points per game average in the

WCSLA with 5.21.Maughan is hopeful a big crowd

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PAN AM GAMES

Canadian rowers, paddlers combine for fi ve gold and eight total medalsTHE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — A large contingent of family and friends braved the rain to watch local rower Carling Zeeman dominate the competition.

Zeeman won the women’s sin-gle sculls race at the Pan Amer-ican Games on Tuesday, finish-ing more than seven seconds ahead of her closest competitor.

“It’s kind of a special moment for me,” she said. “And it really touches me that everyone is com-ing out to watch. It is a rainy day but it’s certainly not dampening any spirits at the finish line. The momentum they have going down there is just, it’s unbeliev-able. I love it. It just adds to the fun of racing.”

That win set the stage for another huge day for Canadian rowers at the Royal Henley course in St. Catharines, Ont. Canada won three rowing gold medals to increase its total to seven — five golds and two bronze — with one more day of racing to go.

It was also another multi-medal day for Canada’s paddlers com-peting a few kilometres down the highway at the Welland Flat-water Centre.

The host country’s canoeists and kayakers won five medals Tuesday, including two gold, giving them 10 overall in sprint events. Zeeman, from nearby Cambridge, Ont., kicked things off for the rowers, winning the women’s sculls in seven minutes 30.86 seconds, easily outdistan-

cing Katherine McFetridge of the United States.

“It was my plan to go out hard and stay out in front,” she said.

That victory was followed with a gold medal in the women’s lightweight double sculls by Vic-toria’s Liz Fenje and Katherine Sauks of Owen Sound, Ont.

Fenje and Sauks won with a time of 6:57.23. The held off a late charge from the Cubans, who took silver in 7:00.36.

“We actually didn’t have the greatest first couple of strokes in our race, but suddenly we just locked into it and felt ourselves pulling away,” said Sauks.

Gold medallist in the women’s single sculls Canadian, Carling Zeeman (centre) celebrates with silver medallist, American, Katherine McFetridge (left) and bronze medallist, Soraya Jadue of Chile (right) at the Royal Henley course. [AP PHOTO]

Paddlers de Jonge and Lapointe win goldTHE CANADIAN PRESS

WELLAND, Ont. — Canada’s paddling team continued its medal haul Tuesday at the Pan Am Games.

Canadian kayaker Mark de Jonge kicked off the day with a gold in the K-1 200 metres.

The 31-year-old from Halifax crossed in 35.733 seconds, .506

seconds ahead of Brazil’s Edson Isaias Freitas da Silva.

De Jonge won the world cham-pionships in the event last year and captured bronze at the 2012 London Olympics.

De Jonge and Pierre-Luc Poulin also earned a bronze in the men’s K-2 200-metre final, earning a tie with Brazil.

Argentina won gold in the

event, with Cuba taking silver.Later in the morning, canoeist

Laurence Vincent Lapointe of Trois-Rivieres, Que., dominated the women’s C-1 200 event to take gold.

She finished in 49.685, 2.313 seconds ahead of Ecuador.

A day after fans baked in the sun at the refurbished Welland Flatwater Centre, paddlers

warmed up in a torrential downpour, and it poured inter-mittently throughout the morning.

Jason McCoombs of Dart-mouth, N.S., added a silver in the C-1 200 metres, finishing behind Brazilian winner Isaquias Que-iroz Dos Santos, while Michelle Russell of Fall River, N.S., won silver in the women’s K-1 200.

PAN AM GAMES

Whitecaps ready to spend bigJOSHUA CLIPPERTON THE CANADIAN PRESS

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps say they’re willing to spend. It just has to be on the right player.

Sitting tied atop Major League Soccer’s ultra-competitive West-ern Conference with 14 games left in the regular season and the transfer window open until Aug. 6, co-owner Jeff Mallett says the money is there if the club’s soccer brain trust can find a move that fits into Vancouver’s overall plan.

“It’s their call to bring forward what they think can make a difference,” Mallett said this week during a media roundtable discussion. “But you have to be totally (committed) to it, got to believe in it, really committed to it, really think it’s going to happen.

“It’s up to them — we (owners) actually have the easy part.”

Vancouver has three desig-nated players in striker Octavio Rivero and midfielders Pedro Morales and Matias Laba, but other teams in MLS are going much deeper into their pockets, with Steven Gerrard signing on with the Los Angeles Galaxy, and Frank Lampard and Andrea Pirlo joining New York City FC in big-money deals.

It’s unlikely Vancouver would go in a similar direction, but with the recent announcement that MLS teams will be allowed to use targeted allocation money to acquire more top-end talent, Mallett said the funds are there if required.

The Whitecaps like to trumpet their academy system and ability to bring homegrown talent into their senior squad — part of the roundtable with club executives was an update on construction of a new training facility at the University of British Columbia — and any new player would have to jive with that model.

“We’re realistic about what our market can bear,” said Mallett.

“We don’t go in with a fixed (monetary) number.”

FOOTBALLCFL

West W L T Pts PF PAWinnipeg 2 1 0 4 81 101Calgary 2 1 0 4 60 72BC Lions 1 1 0 2 51 59Edmonton 1 1 0 2 57 43Saskatchewan 0 3 0 0 98 107

East W L T Pts PF PAToronto 2 1 0 4 88 76Ottawa 2 1 0 4 64 78Hamilton 1 1 0 2 75 50Montreal 1 2 0 2 70 56

Full results, Week 3Yesterday’s resultCalgary 25, Toronto 20

Last Friday’s resultsWinnipeg 25, Montreal 23 BC Lions 35, Saskatchewan 32 Last Thursday’s resultEdmonton 46, Ottawa 17

Week 4 schedule (with odds by Oddsshark)

Favourite Line (O/U) Underdog Home team in CAPSThursday, July 16, 6 p.m.Hamilton 3(54) MONTREAL

Friday, July 17, 4 p.m.Edmonton 3.5(49) OTTAWAFriday, July 17, 7 p.m.SASKATCHEWAN 3(50.5) BC Lions

Saturday, July 18Winnipeg at Calgary (No line available)

Week 5 Friday, July 24Calgary at Ottawa, 4 p.m.Toronto at BC, 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 25Winnipeg at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Sunday, July 26Hamilton at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

TENNISDavis Cup QuarterfinalsFriday, July 17-Sunday, July 19

Argentina vs. Serbia at Bueos AiresAustralia vs Kazakhstan at DarwinGreat Britain vs. France at The Queen’s Club, London.

Belgium vs. Canada(Last Davis Cup match 1913. Canada won 4-0)Sportpark Krokodiel, Middelkerke (Ostend), Belgium.

Matches begin Friday, July 17, 4 a.m.Saturday, July 18, 6 a.m.Sunday, July 19, 4 a.m.

Canadian teamCaptain: Martin LaurendeauFrank Dancevic, 29, Niagara Falls, Ont. World ranking: 272Filip Peliwo, 19, Vancouver. World ranking: 491Daniel Nestor, 42, Toronto. World ranking (doubles): 24Adil Shamasdin, 33, Pickering, Ont., Canada. World ranking (doubles): 65

Belgian teamCaptain: Johan Van HerckDavid Goffin, 24, World ranking:14Steve Darcis, 31, Ranking: 76Ruben Bemelmans, 27, Ranking: 95Kimmer Coppejans, 21, Ranking: 102

Current tournaments

ATPHall of Fame Tennis Champion-ships, July 13-19Newport, Rhode Island.Surface: Outdoor, grass. Purse: $549,230

Singles - Round 1Rajeev Ram, United States, def. John Isner (1), United States, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 7-6 (8).Jack Sock (4), United States, def. Radek Stepanek (96), Czech Republic, 6-2, 6-0.Sam Querrey (6), United States, def. Matthew Ebden, Australia, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (1).Jan Hernych, Czech Republic, def. Tim Smyczek (8), United States, 6-3, 6-4.Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, def. Ante Pavic, Croatia, 6-2, 4-6, 7-5.Dustin Brown, Germany, def. Adrien Bossel, Switzerland, 7-6 (4), 6-3.Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, def. Niels Desein, Belgium, 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.Yuichi Sugita, Japan, def. Ryan Harrison, United States, 6-1, 5-7, 6-3.Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, def. Blaz Kavcic, Slovenia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles - Round 1Nicholas Monroe, United States, and Mate Pavic, Croatia, def. Robert Farah, Colombia, and Santiago Gonzalez (1), Mexico, 6-3, 7-5.Jonathan Marray, Britain, and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (3), Pakistan, def. Wes-ley Koolhof, Netherlands, and Matwe Middelkoop, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-3.Marco Chiudinelli, Switzerland, and Frederik Nielsen, Denmark, def. Eric Butorac, United States, and Colin Flem-ing (4), Britain, 7-6 (1), 6-3.Ryan Harrison, United States, and Mark Philippoussis, Australia, def. Tatsuma Ito, Japan, and Lukas Lacko, Slovakia, 6-3, 6-4.Fabrice Martin, France, and Purav Raja, India, def. Malek Jaziri, Tunisia, and Frank Moser, Germany, 7-6 (6), 7-5..

WTABucharest Open, July 13-19Bucharest, RomaniaSurface: Clay. Purse: $226,750

Singles - Round 1Monica Niculescu (3), Romania, def. Ana Bogdan, Romania, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2.Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (7), Slovakia, def. Reka-Luca Jani, Hungary, 6-1, 6-2.Andreea Mitu, Romania, def. Annika Beck (8), Germany, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.Danka Kovinic, Montenegro, def. Petra Martic, Croatia, 6-3, 6-4.Denisa Allertova, Czech Republic, def. Cristina Dinu, Romania, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.Shahar Peer, Israel, def. Kateryna Bondarenko, Ukraine, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def. Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russia, 6-2, 6-4.Kristina Kucova, Slovakia, is tied with Teliana Pereira, Brazil, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 5-5, Suspended.

Doubles - Round 1No matches played Tuesday.

Collector Swedish Open, July 13-19Bastad, SwedenSurface: Clay. Purse: $226,750

Singles - Round 1Barbora Strycova (3), Czech Republic, def. Grace Min, United States, 6-4, 6-2.Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, def. Carina Witthoeft (5), Germany, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.Yulia Putintseva, Kazakhstan, def. Tatjana Maria (8), Germany, 6-4, 6-1.Olga Govortsova, Belarus, def. Anett Kontaveit, Estonia, 5-7, 6-4, 6-1.Maryna Zanevska, Ukraine, def. Laura Siegemund, Germany, 7-6 (8), 3-6, 6-2.Alize Lim, France, def. Lourdes Domin-guez Lino, Spain, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Arantxa Rus, Netherlands, 7-5, 4-6, 6-4.Rebecca Peterson, Sweden, def. Mandy Minella, Luxembourg, 6-4, 2-6, 6-4.Lara Arruabarrena, Spain, def. Sofia Arvidsson, Sweden, 6-2, 6-1.Klara Koukalova, Czech Republic, def. Susanne Celik, Sweden, 7-6 (8), 6-3.Anna-Lena Friedsam, Germany, def. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 6-1, 6-2..

Doubles - Round 1Kiki Bertens, Netherlands, and Johanna Larsson (4), Sweden, def. Marina Mel-nikova, Russia, and Ana Vrljic, Croatia, 6-4, 6-0.Mona Barthel, Germany, and Laura Siegemund, Germany, def. Jocelyn Rae, Britain, and Anna Smith, Britain, 6-1, 6-0..

CYCLING102nd Tour de France, July 4-26, 3,360 km in 21 stages.

Canadian entries: Svein Tuft (Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEdge)Ryder Hesjedal (Victoria, Cannondale-Garmin Pro Cycling Team)

Today’s schedule: Stage 11 - Pau to Cauterets-Vallee de Saint-Savin, 188km, high point of the Pyrenees, short climb to Cauterets

Yesterday’s ride: Stage 10 - Tarbes to La Pierre Saint-Martin, 167km. First climbing day.

Yesterday’s results1 Christopher Froome, England, Team Sky, 4 hours, 22 minutes, 7 seconds2 Richie Porte, Australia, Team Sky, 4:23:063 Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas, Colombia, Movistar Team, 4:23:114 Robert Gesink, Netherlands, Lotto NL-Jumbo, 4:23:405 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte, Spain, Movistar Team, 4:24:086 Geraint Thomas, Scotland, Team Sky, 4:24:087 Adam Yates, England, Orica GreenEDGE, 4:24:118 Pierre Rolland, France, Team Europcar, 4:24:119 Tony Gallopin, France, Lotto Soudal, 4:24:2910 Tejay van Garderen, United States, BMC Racing Team, 4:24:3711 Alberto Contador, Spain, Tinkoff-Saxo, 4:24:5812 Rafael Valls, Spain, Lampre-Merida, 4:25:1613 Jakob Fuglsang, Denmark, Astana Pro Team, 4:25:1614 Serge Pauwels, Belgium, MTN-Qhubecka, 4:25:2615 Warren Barguil, France, Team Giant Alpecin, 4:25:2616 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez, Spain, BMC Racing Team, 4:26:0717 Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Trek Factory Racing, 4:26:1618 Jacques Janse van Rensburg, South Africa, MTN-Qhubecka, 4:26:1619 Eduardo Sepulveda, Argentina, Bretagne-Seche Environment, 4:26:2320 Tanel Kangert, Estonia, Astana Pro Team, 4:26:3221 Vincenzo Nibali, Italy, Astana Pro Team, 4:26:3222 Laurens Ten Dam, Netherlands, Lotto NL-Jumbo, 4:26:3223 Mathias Frank, Switzerland, IAM Cyling, 4:26:5124 Louis Meintjes, South Africa, MTN-Qhubecka, 4:27:4525 Jean-Christophe Peraud, France, Ag2r La Mondiale, 4:27:45

Canadian results45 Ryder Hesjedal, Victoria, Team Cannondale-Garmin, 4:30:57177 Svein Tuft, Langley, B.C., Orica GreenEDGE, 4:45:28

Overall standings after Stage 101 Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) 35hr 56min 09sec2 Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) at 2min 52sec3 Nairo Quintana (COL/MOV) 3:094 Alejandro Valverde (ESP/MOV) 4:015 Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) 4:036 Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) 4:047 Tony Gallopin (FRA/LOT) 4:338 Robert Gesink (NED/LNL) 4:359 Warren Barguil (FRA/GIA) 6:1210 Vincenzo Nibali (ITA/AST) 6:5711 Bauke Mollema (NED/TRE) 7:1512 Rigoberto Uran (COL/ETI) 7:2213 Jakob Diemer Fuglsang (DEN/AST) 8:4114 Jean Christophe Peraud (FRA/

GOLFUpcoming tournamentsTour money leaders

MajorThe Open Championship, July 16-19aka British Open. St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, the Old Court. Par 72, 6721 yards. Purse: $9,200,000. 2014 cham-pion: Rory McIlroy

Tee timesThe British Open begins late tonight Pacific time. Here are the tee times for the first two rounds. Candian entries Graham DeLaet and David Hearn in boldface.

Tonight10:32 p.m. - Thomas Bjorn, Greg Owen and Rod Pampling10:43 p.m. - Todd Hamilton, Paul Dunne and James Hahn10:54 p.m. - Graham DeLaet, Weyburn, Sask., Brian Harman and Russell Knox11:05 p.m. - Matt Every, Alexander Levy and David Lingmerth11:16 p.m. - Joost Luiten, Matt Jones and Robert Streb11:27 p.m. - Anthony Wall, Byeong-Hun An and Jordan Niebrugge11:38 p.m. - Sandy Lyle, Charley Hoff-man and Kevin Na11:49 p.m. - Retief Goosen, Shane Lowry and Kevin StreelmanMidnight - Carl Pettersson, Luke Donald and Hunter Mahan

Thursday morning12:11 a.m. - Ross Fisher, Victor Dubuis-son and Billy Horschel12:22 a.m. - Graeme McDowell, Webb Simpson and Oliver Schniederjans12:33 a.m. - Ernie Els, Tom Watson and Brandt Snedeker12:44 a.m. - J.B. Holmes, Brendon Todd and Shinji Tomimura1 a.m. - Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel and Bubba Watson1:11 a.m. - Sergio Garcia, Lee West-wood and Patrick Reed1:22 a.m. - Darren Clarke, Matteo Manassero and Romain Langasque1:33 a.m. - Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama and Jordan Spieth1:44 a.m. - Paul Lawrie, Ryan Palmer and Kevin Kisner1:55 a.m. - Tiger Woods, Louis Oosthui-zen and Jason Day2:05 a.m. - John Senden, Tadahiry Takayama and Brooks Koepka2:17 a.m. - David Duval, Stewart Cink and Ben Curtis2:28 a.m. - Mikko Ilonen, David Howell and Greg Chalmers2:39 a.m. - Raphael Jacquelin, David Hearn, Brantford, Ont., and Eddie Pepperell2:50 a.m. - Tyrell Hatton, Scott Arnold and Paul Kinnear3:01 a.m. - Adam Bland, Gary Boyd and Daniel Brooks3:12 a.m. - Scott Hend, Jonathan Moore and Ryan Fox3:33 a.m. - Mark Calcavecchia, Marcel Siem and Jaco Van Zyl3:44 a.m. - Thomas Aiken, David Lipsky and Jonas Blixt3:55 a.m. - Soren Kjeldsen, Morgan Hoffmann and Danny Lee4:06 a.m. - Richie Ramsay, Pablo Lar-razabal and Cameron Tringale4:17 a.m. - Steven Bowditch, Hiroshi Iwata and Ben Martin4:28 a.m. - George Coetzee, Anirban Lahiri and Rafael Cabrera-Bello4:39 a.m. - Padraig Harrington, Liang Wen-Chong and Marc Warren4:50 a.m. - John Daly, Miguel Angel Jimenea and Jason Dufner5:01 a.m. - Zach Johnson, Bernd Wiesberger and Tommy Fleetwood5:12 a.m. - Thongchai Jaidee, Danny Willett and Gary Woodland5:23 a.m. - Geoff Ogilvy, Francesco Molinari and Bill Haas5:34 a.m. - Mark O’Meara, Russell Henley and Gunn Yang5:45 a.m. - Bernhard Langer, Tom Lehman and Justin Leonard6:01 a.m. - Stephen Gallacher, Hiroyuki Fujita and Ryan Moore6:12 a.m. - Adam Scott, Martin Kaymer and Jimmy Walker6:23 a.m. - Jamie Donaldson, Yuta Ikeda and Keegan Bradley6:34 a.m. - Matt Kuchar, Phil Mickelson and Henrik Stenson6:45 a.m. - Nick Faldo, Justin Rose and Rickie Fowler6:56 a.m. - Jim Furyk, Paul Casey and Branden Grace7:07 a.m. - Harris English, Ashley Chesters and Andy Sullivan7:18 a.m. - Koumei Oda, Marc Leishman and Kiradech Aphibarnrat7:29 a.m. - Edoardo Molinari, James Morrison and Romain Wattel7:40 a.m. - Pelle Edberg, Daniel Berger and Mark Young7:51 a.m. - Brett Rumford, Tom Gillis and Ben Taylor7:02 a.m. - Marcus Fraser, Scott Strange and Alister Balcombe7:13 a.m. - Taichi Teshima, Robert Dinwiddie and Rikard Karlberg

Round 2Thursday night, Friday morning10:32 p.m. - Mark Calcavecchia, Marcel Siem, Jaco Van Zyl10:43 p.m. - Thomas Aiken, David Lipsky, Jonas Blixt10:54 p.m. - Soren Kjeldsen, Morgan Hoffmann, Danny Lee11:05 p.m. - Richie Ramsay, Pablo Larrazabal, Cameron Tringale11:16 p.m. - Steven Bowditch, Hiroshi Iwata, Ben Martin11:27 p.m. - George Coetzee, Anirban Lahiri, Rafael Cabrera-Bello11:38 p.m. - Padraig Harrington, Liang, Wen-Chong, Marc Warren11:49 p.m. - John Daly, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Jason DufnerMidnight - Zach Johnson, Bernd Weisberger, Tommy Fleetwood

Friday morning12:11 a.m. - Thongchai Jaidee, Danny Willett, Gary Woodland12:22 a.m. - Geoff Ogilvy, Francesco Molinari, Bill Haas12:33 a.m. - Mark O’Meara, Russell Henley, Gunn Yang (a)12:44 a.m. - Bernhard Langer, Tom Lehman, Justin Leonard1:00 a.m. - Stephen Gallacher. Hiroyuki Fujita, Ryan Moore1:11 a.m. - Adam Scott, Martin Kaymer, Jimmy Walker1:22 a.m. - Jamie Donaldson, Yuta Ikeda, Keegan Bradley1:33 a.m. - Matt Kuchar, Phil Mickelson, Henrik Stenson1:44 a.m. - Nick Faldo, Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler1:55 a.m. - Jim Furyk, Paul Casey, Brendan Grace2:06 a.m. - Harris English, Ashley Chesters (a), Andy Sullivan2:17 a.m. - Koumei Oda, Marc Leish-man, Kiradech Aphibarnrat2:28 a.m. - Edoardo Molinari, James Morrison, Romain Wattel2:39 a.m. - Pelle Edberg, Daniel Berger, Mark Young2:50 a.m. - Brett Rumford, Tom Gillis, Ben Taylor (a)3:01 a.m. - Marcus Fraser, Scott Strange, Allister Balcombe (a)3:12 a.m. - Taichi Teshima, Robert Dinwiddie, Rikard Karlberg3:33 a.m. - Thomas Bjorn, Greg Owen, Rod Pampling3:44 a.m. - Todd Hamilton, Paul Dunne (a), James Hahn3:55 a.m. - Graham DeLaet, Brian

GOLF (Continued)

Tee times (Friday morning, cont’d)

3:55 a.m. - Graham DeLaet, Brian Harman, Russell Knox4:06 a.m. - Matt Every, Alexander Levy, David Lingmerth4:17 a.m. - Joost Luiten, Matt Jones, Robert Streb4:28 a.m. - Anthony Wall, Byeong-Hun An, Jordan Niebrugge (a)4:39 a.m. - Sandy Lyle, Charley Hoff-man, Kevin Na4:50 a.m. - Retief Goosen, Shane Lowry, Kevin Streelman5:01 a.m. - Carl Pettersson, Luke Donald, Hunter Mahan5:12 a.m. - Ross Fisher, Victor Dubuis-son, Billy Horschel5:23 a.m. - Graeme McDowell, Webb Simpson, Oliver Schniederjans (a)5:34 a.m. - Ernie Els, Tom Watson, Brandt Snedeker5:45 a.m. - J.B. Holmes, Brendon Todd, Shinji Tomimura6:01 a.m. - Ian Poulter, Charl Schwartzel, Bubba Watson6:12 a.m. - Sergio Garcia, Lee West-wood, Patrick Reed6:23 a.m. - Darren Clarke, Mateo Manassero, Romain Langasque (a)6:34 a.m. - Dustin Johnson, Hideki Matsuyama, Jordan Spieth6:45 a.m. - Paul Lawrie, Ryan Palmer, Kevin Kisner6:56 a.m. - Tiger Woods, Louis Oosthui-zen, Jason Day7:07 a.m. - John Senden, Tadahiro Takayama, Brooks Koepka7:18 a.m. - David Duval, Stewart Cink, Ben Curtis7:29 a.m. - Mikko Ilonen, David Howell, Greg Chalmers7:40 a.m. - David Hearn, Raphael Jacquelin, Eddie Pepperell7:51 a.m. - Tyrrell Hatton, Scott Arnold, Paul Kinnear (a)8:02 a.m. - Adam Bland, Gary Boyd, Daniel Brooks8:13 a.m. - Scott Hend, Jonathan Moore, Ryan Fox

Money leadersPGABarbasol Championship (inaugu-ral), July 16-19Robert Trent Jones at Grand National, Opelika, Alabama. Par 72, 7,139 yards. Purse: $3,500,000

Leading money winnersThrough July 14Player 2015 Winnings1 Jordan Spieth $8,709,838.002 Dustin Johnson $4,326,104.003 Rory McIlroy $4,147,849.304 Jimmy Walker $4,127,615.005 Bubba Watson $4,098,118.006 J.B. Holmes $3,240,721.807 Brandt Snedeker $3,238,792.308 Kevin Kisner $3,103,576.309 Justin Rose $3,071,549.5010 Charley Hoffman $3,049,871.5011 Robert Streb $2,944,984.5012 Hideki Matsuyama $2,848,510.3013 Patrick Reed $2,806,686.0014 Rickie Fowler $2,758,848.3015 Danny Lee $2,741,521.8016 Jason Day $2,635,828.5017 Paul Casey $2,631,478.0018 Steven Bowditch $2,485,467.0019 Ben Martin $2,420,033.0020 Gary Woodland $2,377,840.50Canadian leaders58 David Hearn $1,341,149 77 Nick Taylor $1,006,51982 Graham DeLaet $965,018113 Adam Hadwin $688,905200 Roger Sloan $111,320

Canada (MacKenzie Tour)Staal Foundation Open, July 16-19Whitewater Golf Club, Thunder Bay, Ont. Par 72, 7,293 yards. Purse: $175,000. 2014 champion: Wes Homan

Order of Merit (Canadian dollars)* denotes CanadianPlayer 2015 Winnings1 Drew Weaver CAD$44,4502 J.J. Spaun $38,7633 *Albin Choi $37,8574 *Kevin Spooner $36,5755 Cheng Tsung Pan $32,7296 Michael Letzig $32,0867 *Adam Svensson $24,6178 *Benjamin Silverman $23,0429 Sam Ryder $21,74810 Robert Karlsson $21,40711 Clark Klaasen $18,91312 *Riley Wheeldon $17,63113 Talor Gooch $16,24214 *Eugene Wong $15,60415 Jason Millard $15,17116 *Mackenzie Hughes $14,90917 John Ellis $14,29218 Charlie Bull $13,52919 Vince Covello $13,47520 Ross Beal $12,779

LPGAMarathon Classic, July 16-19Highland Meadows Golf Club, Sylvania, Ohio. Par 71, 6,428 yards. Purse: $1,500,000. 2014 champion: Lydia Ko

Player 2015 Winnings1 Inbee Park $1,689,5722 Stacy Lewis $1,178,8623 Sei Young Kim $1,140,6734 Amy Yang $1,110,7845 Lydia Ko $1,090,5486 Morgan Pressel $805,3477 Na Yeon Choi $748,2748 Brittany Lincicome $743,9529 Anna Nordqvist $725,81610 Hyo Joo Kim $639,78411 Cristie Kerr $616,86012 So Yeon Ryu $582,30513 Lexi Thompson $545,10014 Suzann Pettersen $524,78115 Mirim Lee $502,46616 Minjee Lee $486,35917 Shanshan Feng $419,00918 Ha Na Jang $375,599Canadian golfers88 Alena Sharp $70,638133 Sue Kim $15,129

Champions TourNo tournament this week. Next:The Senior Open Championship, July 23-26Sunningdale Golf Club, Berkshire, England. Par 70, 6,627 yards. Purse: $2,100,000. 2014 champion: Bernhard Langer

Player 2015 Winnings1 Colin Montgomerie $1,448,7002 Jeff Maggert $1,400,0653 Bernhard Langer $1,118,8034 Joe Durant $886,2065 Kevin Sutherland $734,2916 Bart Bryant $710,2967 Esteban Toledo $700,8758 Billy Andrade $682,9009 Olin Browne $672,64910 Lee Janzen $660,84711 Tom Pernice Jr. $660,03512 Tom Lehman $636,36813 Paul Goydos $600,30514 David Frost $576,44615 Marco Dawson $569,94316 Michael Allen $568,55517 Ian Woosnam $526,22318 Kirk Triplett $520,31419 Russ Cochran $494,37120 Woody Austin 82,524

Web.com TourStonebrae Classic, July 16-19TPC Stonebrae, Hayward, California. Par 72, 7,200 yards. Purse: $600,000. 2014 champion: Tony Finau

Player 2015 Winnings1 Patton Kizzire $274,699

League leadersTeams - OffenceRank Y/Game Rush Pass1 SSK 508.7 164.3 344.32 BC 396.5 67.5 329.03 HAM 387.5 49.5 338.04 TOR 372.7 93.7 279.05 CGY 355.7 79.3 276.3

Teams - DefenceRank Y/Game Rush Pass1 OTT 295.3 88.7 206.72 HAM 303.0 74.5 228.53 CGY 327.3 79.0 248.34 MTL 344.0 85.0 259.05 EDM 352.5 81.0 271.5

Passing yardsKevin Glenn, SSK 868Trevor Harris, TOR 837Bo Levi Mitchell, CGY 810Henry Burris, OTT 731Travis Lulay, BC 658

Rushing Yards Rush Avg Yds1 Tyrell Sutton, MTL 50 5.56 2782 Jer. Messam, SSK 31 7.87 2443 B Whitaker, TOR 28 7.86 2204 Jon Cornish, CGY 39 4.74 1855 Anthony Allen, SSK 25 7.36 1846 Paris Cotton, WPG 32 5.44 1747 Chevon Walker, OTT 46 3.72 1718 Andrew Harris, BC 25 4.72 1189 Ken. Lawrence, EDM 12 6.58 7910 Henry Burris, OTT 13 5.54 72

Receiving Yards Rec Avg Yds1 S.J. Green, MTL 15 19.00 2852 Ryan Smith, SSK 11 22.82 2513 Nick Moore, WPG 19 12.84 2444 Chad Owens, TOR 18 11.61 2095 Eric Rogers, CGY 13 15.77 2056 Weston Dressler, SSK 14 14.57 2047 Brad Sinopoli, OTT 18 10.56 1908 Jeff Fuller, CGY 13 14.00 1829 A Bowman, EDM 11 16.45 18110 Chris Williams, OTT 13 13.85 180

BASEBALLMLB - Results and standingsStandings at the All-Star break

Yesterday’s resultsNo games scheduled, All-Star game

Sunday’s resultsNY Mets 5, Arizona 3Miami 8, Cincinnati 1Tampa Bay 4, Houston 3Oakland 2, Cleveland 0NY Yankees 8, Boston 6Washington 3, Baltimore 2Minnesota 7, Detroit 1Kansas City 11, Toronto 10Chicago Cubs 3, Chicago Sox 1San Diego 2, Texas 1San Francisco 4, Philadelphia 2Colorado 11, Atlanta 3LA Angels 10, Seattle 3LA Dodgers 4, Milwaukee 3Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 5 (10 innings)

Regular season resumesFriday, July 17Kansas City at Chi. Sox, 11:10 a.m. Volquez (8-4) vs UndecidedSeattle at N.Y. Yankees, 4:05 p.m. Undecided vs., Tanaka (5-3)Miami at Philadelphia, 4:05 p.m. Fernandez (2-0) vs. Morgan (1-2)L.A. Dodgers at Washington, 4:05 p.m. Pitchers undecidedTampa Bay at Toronto, 4:07 p.m. Pitchers undecidedBaltimore at Detroit, 4:08 p.m. Jimenez (7-4) vs Sanchez (8-7)Cleveland at Cincinnati, 4:10 p.m. Bauer (8-5) vs Leake (6-5)Chi. Cubs at Atlanta, 4:35 p.m. Hendricks (4-4) vs Teheran (6-4)Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 5:10 p.m. Liriano (5-6) vs Fiers (4-7)Texas at Houston, 5:10 p.m. Pitchers undecidedKansas City at Chi. White Sox, 5:10 p.m. Young (7-5) vs undecidedN.Y. Mets at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m. Syndergaard (4-4) vs Lynn (6-5)San Francisco at Arizona, 6:40 p.m. Undecided vs Ray (3-4)Minnesota at Oakland, 7:05 p.m. Santana (0-0) vs UndecidedBoston at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m. Pitchers undecidedColorado at San Diego, 7:10 p.m. Pitchers undecided

Saturday, July 18 (Early games)Seattle at NY Yankees, 10:05 a.m. Undecided vs Pineda (9-5)Tampa Bay at Toronto, 10:07 a.m. Pitchers undecided

All-Star GameGreat American Ball Park, Cincin-nati, Ohio

Final resultAmerican 100 020 210 6 7 2National 010 001 001 3 6 0

B.C. Premier LeagueTeam W L Pct GBNorth Shore 30 9 .769 -Victoria Eagles 29 12 .707 2Langley 28 13 .683 3Nanaimo 26 14 .650 4.5Okanagan 21 17 .553 8.5Whalley 20 20 .500 10.5North Delta 19 21 .475 12Abbotsford 15 24 .385 15White Rock 16 26 .381 15.5Coquitlam 14 25 .359 16Victoria Mariners 13 26 .333 17Parksville 9 33 .214 22.5

Yesterday’s resultsNorth Delta 5, Okanagan 2North Delta 7, Okanagan 2Langley 6, White Rock 5

Today’s scheduleOkanagan at North Delta, 2 p.m.North Delta at Okanagan, 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 16Whalley at North Shore, 6:30 p.m.

American LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkNY Yankees 48 40 .545 - W1Tampa Bay 46 45 .505 3.5 W3Baltimore 44 44 .500 4.0 L2Toronto 45 46 .495 4.5 L1Boston 42 47 .472 6.5 L1Central W L PCT GB StrkKansas City 52 34 .605 - W1Minnesota 49 40 .551 4.5 W3Detroit 44 44 .500 9.0 L3Cleveland 42 46 .477 11.0 L2Chicago Sox 41 45 .477 11.0 L1West W L PCT GB StrkLA Angels 48 40 .545 - W1Houston 49 42 .538 0.5 L6Texas 42 46 .477 6.0 L2Seattle 41 48 .461 7.5 L1Oakland 41 50 .451 8.5 W2

National LeagueEast W L PCT GB StrkWashington 48 39 .552 - W2NY Mets 47 42 .528 2.0 W4Atlanta 42 47 .472 7.0 L5Miami 38 51 .427 11.0 W2Philadelphia 29 62 .319 21.0 L5Central W L PCT GB StrkSt. Louis 56 33 .629 - L3Pittsburgh 53 35 .602 2.5 W3Chicago Cubs 47 40 .540 8.0 W1Cincinnati 39 47 .453 15.5 L2Milwaukee 38 52 .422 18.5 L1West W L PCT GB StrkLA Dodgers 51 39 .567 - W1San Fran 46 43 .517 4.5 W3Arizona 42 45 .483 7.5 L3San Diego 41 49 .456 10.0 W2Colorado 39 49 .443 11.0 W4

West Coast League

Yesterday’s resultsBellingham 4, Cowlitz 2Kitsap 4, Yakima Valley 1Corvallis 6, Klamath Falls 2Wenatchee 6, Kelowna 3Victoria 8, Medford 2

Today’s scheduleBellingham at Cowlitz, 6:35 p.m.Victoria at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Yakima Valley at Kitsap, 6:35 p.m.Klamath Falls at Corvallis, 6:40 p.m.Kelowna at Wenatchee, 7:05 p.m.

Thursday, July 16Bellingham at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Kitsap at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Wenatchee at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Bend at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m.Corvallis at Yakima Valley, 7:05 p.m.Cowlitz at Klamath Falls, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, July 17Bellingham at Victoria, 6:35 p.m.Kitsap at Medford, 6:35 p.m.Wenatchee at Kelowna, 6:35 p.m.Bend at Walla Walla, 7:05 p.m.Corvallis at Yakima Valley, 7:05 p.m.

SOCCERCONCACAF Gold Cup 2015

x-Advance to knockout stagey-eliminatedGroup A W D L GF GA Pts1 x-USA 2 1 0 4 2 72 x-Haiti 1 1 1 1 2 43 Panama 0 3 0 3 3 34 y-Honduras 0 1 1 2 3 1

Group B W D L GF GA Pts1 Jamaica 2 1 0 4 2 72 Costa Rica 0 3 0 3 3 33 El Salvador 0 2 1 1 2 24 Canada 0 2 1 0 1 2

Group C W D L GF GA Pts1 x-Trinidad 2 0 0 5 1 62 x-Mexico 1 1 0 6 0 43 Guatemala 0 1 1 1 3 14 y-Cuba 0 0 2 0 8 0

Yesterday’s resultsat Sporting Park, Kansas City, MissouriHaiti 1, Honduras 0Panama 1, United States 1

Yesterday’s resultsGroup Bat BMO Field, TorontoJamaica 1, El Salvador 0Canada 0, Costa Rica 0

Today’s schedule (Final gorup games)At Charlotte, North Carolina Cuba vs. Guatemala Mexico vs. Trinidad

PAN-AM GAMESToronto, July 10-26

Rank/Country Gold Sil Bro Tot1 Canada 25 22 17 642 United States 19 19 22 603 Cuba 14 11 16 414 Colombia 14 6 11 315 Brazil 12 8 21 416 Mexico 9 7 19 357 Argentina 5 11 8 248 Chile 3 2 3 89 Ecuador 2 7 5 1410 Peru 1 2 2 511 Dominican Rep. 1 1 4 612 Guatemala 1 0 0 113 Venezuela 0 6 1 714 Bahamas 0 0 1 1 Bermuda 0 0 1 1 El Salvador 0 0 1 1 Puerto Rico 0 0 1 1

Yesterday’s Canadian highlightsG=Gold S=Silver B=Bronze

SwimmingWomen’s 100m FreestyleG- Chantal Van Landeghem, CanadaS- Natalie Coughlin, United StatesB- Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, Bahamas

Women’s 200m ButterflyG- Audrey Lacroix, CanadaS- Katherine Mills, United StatesB- Joanna Maranhao, Brazil

Women’s 4x100m Freestyle RelayG- CanadaS- United StatesB- Brazil

Men’s 100m FreestyleG- Federico Grabich, ArgentinaS- Santo Condorelli, CanadaB- Marcelo Chierighini, Brazil

Men’s 200m ButterflyG- Leonardo De Deus, BrazilS- Mauricio Fiol, PeruB- Zack Chetrat, Canada

Men’s 4x100m Freestyle RelayG- Brazil, S- Canada, B- United States

MLS

Today’s scheduleColumbus at Chicago, 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 17San Jose at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Pacific Coast Soccer League W D L GF GA PtsVancouver Utd 11 2 3 41 19 35Victoria 8 6 1 33 17 30Mid Isle 9 2 3 23 14 29Khalsa 7 3 5 32 23 24Van Tbirds 5 6 4 31 24 21Kamloops 6 2 6 23 25 20Abbotsford 2 5 7 16 23 11Tim Hortons 3 1 9 23 40 10FC Tigers 0 3 13 16 53 3

Weekend resultsAbbotsford 1, Kamloops 1Van United 3, Kamloops 2Khalsa at Tim Hortons (score n/a)Mid Isle 1, FC Tigers 0

Tuesday, July 14Abbotsford at Van Tbirds, 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 18Mid Isle at Abbotsford, 2 p.m.Tim Hortons at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

BC Junior A Lacrosse League

Playoffs

Series are best-of-5*=if necessary

Sunday’s resultDelta 7, Victoria 6 Delta leads series 2-0

Today’s schedule (Game 3)New Westminster at Coquitlam, 7:30 p.m. Coquitlam leads series 2-0

LACROSSEWestern Lacrosse AssnWLA Senior A

Standings GP W L T PtsVictoria 15 12 3 0 24New Westminster 12 7 5 0 14Langley 14 7 7 0 14Burnaby 12 6 6 0 12Coquitlam 12 6 6 0 12Maple Ridge 13 6 7 0 12Nanaimo 12 2 11 0 4

Yesterday’s resultsVictoria 13, Nanaimo 10Maple Ridge 11, Coquitlam 6

Today’s scheduleNew Westminster vs. Langley, 7:45 p.m.

Thursday, July 16Coquitlam vs. N Westminster, 7:45 p.m.

American 6, National 2American League National League ab r h bi ab r h biTrout, CF 3 2 1 1 McC’chen, CF 3 1 1 1Holt, LF 1 1 0 0 Frazier, 3B 3 0 0 0Don’dson, 3B 0 0 0 0 Harper, RF 3 0 0 0Machado, 3B 2 1 1 1 G’schmidt, 1B 3 1 1 0Moust’as, 3B 1 0 0 0 Posey, C 2 0 0 0Pujols, 1B 2 1 0 0 Rizzo, DH 2 0 0 0Cruz, DH 2 0 0 0 Tulo’tzki, DH 1 0 0 0Fielder, DH 1 0 1 2 Braun, PH 1 1 1 0Cain, RF 3 0 2 1 Peralta, SS 1 0 1 1Jones, LF 2 0 0 0 Crawford, SS 1 0 0 1Gardner, CF 2 0 0 0 Pederson, LF 2 0 0 0Perez, C 2 0 0 0 LeMahieu, 2B 2 0 0 0Altuve, 2B 2 0 0 0 Molina, C 1 0 1 0Escobar, SS 2 0 1 0 Grandal, C 1 0 0 0Iglesias, SS 2 0 0 0 Bryant, LF 1 0 0 0Vogt, C 1 0 0 0 Panik, 2B 2 0 0 0Martin, C 1 0 0 0 Pollock, CF 1 0 0 0Kipnis, 2B 1 0 0 0 Arenado, 3B 1 0 0 0Dozier, 2B 1 1 1 1 Upton, RF 1 0 1 0Teixeira, 1B 2 0 0 0 Gonzalez, 1B 1 0 0 0Martinez, RF 1 0 0 0 TOTALS 33 3 6 3TOTALS 34 6 7 6

AL Batting: 2B - M Machado (1); L Cain (1)HR - M Trout (1); B Dozier (1). RBI - M Trout (1); M Machado (1); P Fielder 2 (2); L Cain (1); B Dozier (1). SF - P Fielder (1) AL Baserunning: SB - B Holt (1); L Cain (1)NL Batting: 3B - R Braun (1)HR - A McCutchen (1) RBI - A Mc-Cutchen (1); J Peralta (1); B Crawford (1). SF - B Crawford (1)NL Baserunning: SB - J Upton (1)

American IP H R ER BB SODallas Keuchel 2.0 2 1 0 0 1 Felix Hernandez 1.0 0 0 0 0 1David Price (W) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2Chris Archer 1.1 1 1 1 1 1Zach Britton 0.2 1 0 0 0 1Dellin Betances 1.0 0 0 0 1 1Wade Davis 1.0 1 0 0 0 2Glen Perkins 1.0 1 1 1 0 0National IP H R ER BB SOC Young (L, 7-5) 6.0 5 3 3 2 4Zack Greinke 2.0 1 1 1 1 4Gerrit Cole 1.0 0 0 0 1 1M Bumgarner 1.0 1 0 0 0 1Clayton Kershaw (L) 1.0 3 2 2 1 1Jacob deGrom 1.0 0 0 0 0 3Francisco Rodriguez 1.0 1 2 2 1 0Mark Melancon 1.0 1 1 1 0 2Aroldis Chapman 1.0 0 0 0 0 3

Time: 3:02. Att: 43,656

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Maxim Tissot of Canada heads the ball against Costa Rica’s Celco Borges in Toronto on Tuesday. [CP PHOTO]

Canada exits Gold Cup after 0-0 tieNEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Canada exited the Gold Cup early for the third tournament in a row Tuesday, departing in a 0-0 tie with Costa Rica that extended its scor-ing drought at the CONCACAF championship to six games.

Canada did put the ball in the net in the 68th minute but Marcus Haber’s goal was ruled off-side. The Costa Ricans cleared the ball off the goalline in the 81st minute in a wild scramble after goalie Esteban Alvarado spilled the ball try-ing to corral a free kick.

The game ended with Canada sending everyone up for a last-ditch unsuccessful corner.

It was a harsh ending for the 103rd-ranked Can-adian men, who played very well against No.41 Costa Rica and lost just once in three games at the tournament. But the inability to convert chances left goalless Canada (0-1-2) fourth in Group B.

Jamaica (2-0-1) defeated El Salvador 1-0 in the earlier game at BMO Field to win Group B and move into the quarter-finals. Costa Rica (0-0-3) joined them as group runner-up.

El Salvador, which had the same record and minus-one goal difference as Canada, took third in the group on goals scored (one to Canada’s zero).

The Central Americans are likely to join the Canadians on the sidelines once Group C play is completed Wednesday.

The top two teams in the three groups plus the two best third-place team teams make the quarter-finals.

Canada came into the game needing a win to advance. Given the earlier result, anything other a 0-0 tie gave it a chance to finish third in the group but that would probably have not been enough, with Guatemala likely to add to its points total Wednesday against Cuba in Group C and join Group A’s Panama (on three points) as the third-place finishers to advance.

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West placed the seven of hearts on the table as declarer topped the

queen with the king. A heart was continued to dummy’s ace, drop-ping the jack to East’s chagrin. The play of the ten of hearts fetched the deuce of diamonds from East. South then played diamonds from the top and could claim the grand slam when both opponents followed to two rounds of the suit.

West should not lead a heart versus the grand slam, a begin-ning that gave the show away. East was visibly upset that partner had started with a heart and had carelessly discarded a diamond presenting South with the contract.

South had sniffed out that the club king was offside. West’s fail-ure to lead a club suggested that his rounded suit holdings were not equal. West would surely have selected a club as an open-ing lead with nothing of value in the suit.

Declarer could have tested dia-monds at trick three and fallen back on a club finesse for success when diamonds proved 4-2.

North had forgotten that Flan-nery was in their bidding toolkit. Therefore, when he reversed into spades, South had every right to believe that partner owned 17+ HCP. South then employed Black-wood and sailed into a grand slam when the response revealed three aces. The display of the dummy was a huge disappoint-ment but South capitalized on sloppy defense. 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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Toronto captain Caldwell retires NEIL DAVIDSON THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Former Toronto FC captain Steven Caldwell, a hard-nosed defender who was a leader on and off the field, retired Tuesday midway through a second straight injury-plagued season.

The 34-year-old Scot had not played since March, sidelined by recurring leg injuries.

Caldwell’s teammates and employer paid tribute to their former captain for his profession-alism, leadership and counsel.

“A massive role model for us,” said young winger Daniel Lovitz

“A proper man,” said general manager Tim Bezbatchenko.

“A true leader,” added coach Greg Vanney.

Caldwell is staying in the fold.His new role is that of director

of corporate development with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertain-ment, the parent company of Toronto FC.

New job aside, it was clearly a day Caldwell had hoped not to see for several years.

“Obviously it’s very difficult and sad, retiring and stopping playing the game that I love,” Caldwell told reporters. “But also I’m very excited about my new role with MLSE . . . and proud and privileged to be lucky enough to have played for so many magnificent clubs in some of the best stadiums in the world.”

Englishman Raheem Sterling joins Man City for $76 millionROB HARRIS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Raheem Sterling became the most expensive English footballer ever on Tuesday after joining Manchester City from Pre-mier League rival Liverpool in a drawn-out move costing $76 million.

The England winger signed a five-year deal at City after forcing his way out of Anfield following several fractious months, during which he rejected a new contract and publicly questioned the club’s ambitions.

“I’m just glad it’s all over and done with and I can’t wait to get on the training field,” the 20-year-old Sterling told City’s website. “The thing that excites me the most is the world-class squad we have and knowing we have a team that is capable of winning things year in, year out.

“The more quality players that are around you, the more quality it brings out in you, so I can’t wait to get started and play alongside them.”

The transfer fee eclipses the previ-ous record for an English player — then $56 million — which Liverpool paid Newcastle for striker Andy Carroll in 2011.

Although Sterling only made his Premier League debut three years ago, City believes the skilful, quick forward, is already a top talent and worth breaking the record for.

Sterling is an established member of the England team after making his debut in 2012, scoring once in 16 appearances.

“Raheem Sterling is one of the best attacking players in world foot-ball, and I am very much looking

forward to him joining our squad out in Australia later this week,” City manager Manuel Pellegrini said from the pre-season tour.

“He is a young player with out-standing ability, and I am sure the Manchester City fans will be very excited about seeing him in action for the team.”

Sterling leaves Liverpool after scoring 23 goals in 129 appearances but without any winners’ medals.

Sterling came close to winning the Premier League in 2014 but Liver-pool lost out to City and faltered last season to finish sixth, never looking like winning the title for the first time since 1990.

City’s 2014 title was its second Premier League success since the club’s fortunes were transformed by the influx of Abu Dhabi investors in 2008.

Breaching UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules led to limits on City’s spending last year, but those restric-tions have been lifted after losses were cut at the Etihad Stadium - enabling the club to invest so much in signing Sterling.

Sterling joined Liverpool aged 15 from the Queens Park Rangers academy and the London club is reported to be due a 20 per cent cut of City’s payment to Liverpool under the terms of that 2010 deal.

In this Sunday, June 14, file photo, England’s Raheem Sterling, bottom, is challenged by Slovenia’s Ales Mertelj during a Euro 2016 qualifying match. [AP PHOTO]

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CANCER (June 21-July 22)Others listen to what you have

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)You might want to get away

from the wild interactions hap-pening around you. Your temper could flare up and catch you and others off guard. Sort through any angry feelings that keep bubbling up, and process them before sharing. Tonight: Get some distance from others.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Emphasize what is going on

with a group of friends. Main-tain a caring position, especially with a dear friend. A power play is likely to occur around a loved one. Know that you cannot interfere or protect this person, despite your desire to help. Tonight: Join your friends.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Understand what is happen-

ing with a family member. You might experience some pressure from someone who is in charge. Your responsibilities demand attention, and there is no way around it. Expect a tantrum from

a loved one. Tonight: Home is where the heart is.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Your beliefs could trigger quite

a response. You might need to use other words to communicate what you feel. Express your thoughts in a meaningful way. A friend could shock you with his or her actions. Tonight: The fun begins when you decide it does.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) One-on-one relating will help

make your path easier through-out the day. You might have difficulty believing that, though, as you feel someone has his or her eye on a situation that’s near and dear to you. You would be well-advised to back off. Tonight: Use self-discipline.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)You might feel unusually

ornery, and could unintention-ally take it out on others. A little restraint would make your life substantially easier during the next few days. A loved one will want to have a new beginning or say goodbye to a problem. Tonight: Be cool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)You might want to stay home or

dive right into work. The object-ive remains the same: Avoid the myriad personalities in your life who could be reacting to the New Moon. High energy and uproar will surround you. Tonight: Get away from the raving crowds.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)You might enjoy some of the

ups and downs of your day. Tap into your ingenuity when some-thing falls apart or when a friend seems to change his or her atti-tude toward you. Keep an open mind, and don’t take comments so seriously. Tonight: Be with your favorite person.

YOUR BIRTHDAY (July 15):This year you experience life

more intensely. You also have an opportunity for a new beginning in your life. You are unusually creative and dynamic. Others count on you for solutions. If you are single, romance will knock on your door anytime from Sep-tember on. This person might be very important to your life’s history. If you are attached, as a couple you might decide to do a special seminar together or take a long-desired trip. This event will add a great deal of depth to your relationship.

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this humiliating incident

Dear Annie: The real estate agent who sold me my home nine years ago periodically phones my house, asking whether I plan on selling, and offering his assistance. We have a courteous, professional relationship. I never had a problem with him or his company.

Recently, I was a guest at a large customer appreciation event sponsored by this real estate company. I sat quietly by myself. One of the company’s main employees ridiculed me loudly, making a spectacle of me, pointing me out to others, mak-ing fun of my looks and my hair.

I am a neat, clean, conservative senior citizen. She even walked past me and laughed loudly in my face. I had never met this woman before. I was so horrified that I said nothing and left.

I do plan on selling my home.

However, after my horrific treatment at the “customer appreciation” event, I will not be using that real estate company. If my former real estate agent asks me why I have listed my home with another company, what should I tell him? No num-ber of promotional events will ever bring back a customer who has been so terribly mistreated by an employee. — Ridiculed in Rapid City

Dear Ridiculed: We cannot imagine any company allowing an employee to behave like this in front of potential clients. Was she drunk? Are you certain she worked there? Did others notice?

Please don’t wait until the real estate agent contacts you. Call him or his company and report this incident. Explain exactly what happened and give as many details as possible. They need to know that this woman is out of control and is costing them business.

Dear Annie: A few months ago, my niece announced her wed-ding date for next summer. She selected the wedding dress and the venue and put down deposits.

The couple recently decided they cannot live apart and had a

small civil ceremony with only their parents present. They have announced that they will still have the full wedding next year for the rest of their family and friends.

While we have not seen any invitations yet (it’s early), we are not sure how to handle a gift for a wedding that is a year after the actual ceremony. I would prefer to send the couple a gift now to help them start their married life together, but I wouldn’t then send a second gift in a year.

I’m also not sure I will attend the second wedding, since it’s so long after the fact. It seems inappropriate. Tell me, Annie, is this how weddings are done these days?

— Confused Family MemberDear Confused: No. Most wed-

dings are still done in a more traditional fashion, although, we admit, there seem to be many more variations these days. Nonetheless, if invited, you are obligated only for one wedding gift, whether you send it now or later. (Either is fine.) And please don’t judge the couple so harshly by not attending the second wed-ding. Think of it instead as a big party to celebrate their marital bliss and enjoy yourself.

Kathy Mitchell & Marcy SugarAnnie’s Mailbox

Ian McKellan co-stars with bees in Holmes fi lmCASSANDRA SZKLARSKI THE CANADIAN PRESS

TORONTO — Ian McKellen admits he had more than a few qualms about working with the tiny co-stars of his latest film, Mr. Holmes — a colony of honey bees.

The veteran actor says he initially balked at sharing the screen with the buzzing insects when he learned his character was an avid apiarist.

“It was the one thing I was tentative about and said — that I am not going to work with bees,” says McKellen during a phone interview from London earlier this year, recalling a conversa-

tion with director Bill Condon.“I thought there would be a

way around it but Bill said, ‘No. You have got to open that hive, pick up that frame, have a look at those bees and we’ll film it.’ So we did and I wasn’t hurt, nor were any of the bees.”

The bees are a little-known ele-ment of the legendary Sherlock Holmes story, which picks up here after the 93-year-old detec-tive has retired from sleuthing to relax at his remote seaside cot-tage and care for his honey bees.

The 76-year-old McKellen needed a fair bit of makeup to appear 93, but says faking those imagined aches and pains was easy. It was tougher to portray

Holmes at age 60 in flashbacks, when his body was more spry and responsive. But the most challenging age? McKellen’s own.

“It’s difficult often playing your own age because you’re not depending on any disguise — you are what you are and that can be much trickier.”

Mr. Holmes is based on the 2005 novel A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin, and reimagines Sherlock as a real person whose cases were turned into best-selling novels by his friend and partner Dr. John Watson.

Mr. Holmes opens Friday in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

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