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‘Castléa3¥ News November 13, 1985

By ROBERT McLEOD
The Press

-Analysts trying to assess why many Canadians are
so reluctant to put money in the stock market like to
argue that it’s because, on mn the whole, we're not much for
taking risks.

They point to the fact that only about 11 per Rare of
Canadians own shares compared with double that
percentage of the perhaps more adventurous Americans.

However, a recent survey by Decima Research
suggests that many Canadians are willing to invest in
Canadian companies but have no idea how to go about it.

Yet buying and selling shares is a relatively simple
process.

The first step is to select a broker with whom to open
an account. The names of all the major ones are listed
under stock brokers in the Yellow Pages.

Goro Hirasawa, director of marketing at Wood
Gundy In., says one of the best ways of finding a suitable
broker is to ask for recommendations from friends,
colleagues or other professionals you deal with.

“It's a very personal thing and therefore must be
attacked in a very personal way,” says Hirase wa:

EXPLAIN SITUATION

Once you have decided on a dealer, the next mab isto
explain your financial circumstances to the branch
manger. who will try to match you up with a suitable

int executive.

For example, it's important to match the kind of
capital you may have. available with the sort of
investment you're going to feel comfortable with.

“We suggest you make sure you ask questions of the

account

executive about, wha)

his own’ investment

philosophies are, how he handles his clients and would he
have the time of day for you and your type of account. If
you are not perfectly satisfied with the answers you get,

you should ask to See another account executive,”

Hirasawa.

Even if you have started working with

says

Investing is easy.

At full service brokers like Bache, commissions on
share purchases or sales are generally between one and
-three. per cent of the value of: small orders — the
percentage varies according to’ the’ order Size and share

price. They are also subject to a minimum charge of about

$40.
For 1

and you find that things aren't working out, go to the
branch manager and ‘tell him you think you might be

better off with someone else.
Gundy, in which clients get

Companies like Wood

advice on which stocks to buy and sell, are known as full

service brokers.

There are also discount brokers, who are not allowed
to provide investment advice under terms of the Bank
Act and will merely handle whatever trades you want to

do.

i. COMMISSION HIGHER

The difference between the two is cost. In return for
advice from full service’ brokers, you will pay higher
conimissions to buy and sell those stocks.

In addition, some brokers like to handle relatively
large accounts while others will accept more modest

accounts.
Charles
Bache Securities Inc.,

Vilmot, general manager of retail sales at

“Normally we like to see

accounts of at least $10,000, preferably substantially
However, Jim Moir, director of the retail
division of Merrill Lynch Canada, said his company “will

take practically anyone.”

Having settled for your broker and sorted out your
8,

aims, that

will buy and sell shares for you.

Wilmot says that to buy 100 shares of

Bell Canada Enterprises at $40 a share through Bache
would cost approximately $60 — 1.5 per cent of the total

value of the deal.

At a discount broker, you will pay less, — for

$36 at the To

Bank's Green Line

investor service and $37 at pranin Brown.

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However, Sandy Grant, vice-president of capital

markets and member regulation at the’ Investment

Dealers Association of Canada, says discount dealers are
not for. the amateur investor.

“What you have to have is a certain

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amount of investor knowledge,” he said.

For those with only a‘small amount of money to
invest in the market, buying selected shares may not be
the best idea because shares are normally traded in lots
of 100 — smaller amoynts cost more in commission.

And that could mean the small investor has too much
of his investment resting in one company.

Grant says a mutual fund may be a better idea.

These are large pools of capital invested in a variety
of selected stocks, in which one can buy units for as little
as $500. That way you still get-to play the market but
your risk is minimized because your money is spread out
over a number of stocks.

GM wants to lead
defence business

LONDON, ONT. (CP) — How well the family Chevy
stands up is no longer the only standard of quality at General
Motors of Canada.

“Mean miles between mission failure” — military jargon
for the distance travelled before a mission has to be
abandoned for mechanical reasons — has become the latest
measure of success at GM, the up-and-coming arms dealer.

No longer satisfied with being the world’s largest

the giant ional wants to
be the world leader in “the defence business” — an aim
stated clearly in its 1983 annual report.

This intention became more apparent last June when
GM Canada’s U.S. parent paid $5 billion for Hughes Aircraft.
Founded by famed eccentric Howard Hughes, the company
makes helicopters, satellites, missiles ‘and electronic
components. Four-fifths of its révenues come from U.S.
Defence Department contracts.

While GM has long made jeeps and: other motorized
equipment for the military, it plans to increase non-automo-
tive revenues to 10 per cent of its business by 1990 from the
current four. :

DROPPED BUSES

Although GM Canada's Diesel Division in London
doesn’t make tanks yet, it has dropped buses and heavy
construction equipment from its production lines in favor of
light-armored vehicles, known in the defence game as LAVs.

The LAVs are built — at a rate of one each working day
— for the U.S. Marine Corps on a $625-million contract
calling for 969 units over five years with options for 560
more.

The vehicles, by the way, average 6,840 mean miles

tween mission failure — well above the 1,250 minimum set
by the Marines.

If the entire order is completed, the $1.3-billion arms
deal will be the largest ever awarded_a Canadian export
firm.
The LAV production line consists of computerized
Japanese robots and a skilled workforce of 320 people,
watched over by a 25-man technical services contigent from
the Canadian Defence Department and a team of 40 from the
U.S. Defence Logistics Agency.

While most workers don't mind the link fences and tight
security, a few are uneasy about the hardware they make.

TURNED DOWN JOB

Rollie Parris, a 14-year veteran at GM Diesel, worked
temporarily in the armored division a few months ago. But
he later turned down a steady job there at better pay to
remain a tester of electrical systems on the locomotive line.

“I can't help thinking about where these things are
going, what they're going to be used for,” Parris says.

Ernie Regehr, chief researcher for Project Plough-
shares, a Canadian organization financed by the major
churches, says he has a good idea where the LAVs will end
up.

“It will likely be used in the Third World for major
power interventions,” he says. “We're participating in a
foreign military police and I'm not sure Canadians want
that.”

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INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Ripoffs widespread

TORONTO (CP) — When
asked if he sees

who want to defraud their

himself as the insurance in-
dustry’s Dirty Harry, Robert
Kadwell just laughs.

But nothing makes his day
more than uncovering a case
of fraud among the thousands
of accident and property
claims checked during a year.

Kadwell, manager of Ad-
justers Canada, agrees that
catching a fraud is “a bit like
making a good golf shot,” but
it gives him no pleasure to
know that most insurance
frauds in Canada are not
sophisticated scams for wind-
fall amounts, but are per-
petrated by ordinary” work-
ing people.

“Certainly, there are a
goodly number of claims that
make me suspicious — bodily
injury claims, for example.”
he said. “I find quite a few
difficult to believe.” —

Comprehensive _ statistics
about the quantity and fre-
quency of small-scale ripoffs
are difficult to come by, but
officials in various sections of
the industry say the problem
is widespread.

ETS FIRES

The Iusurance Crime Pre-
vention Bureau of Toronto
reports that between 10 and
12 per cent of the 7,948 arson
fires — costing a total of
about $147 million —> in
Canada in 1983 were set by
policy holders trying to claim
a loss. The industry esti-
mates that 30 per cent of
arson fires are set by people

Kadwell said nearly 25 per
cent of the claims sent to him
by insurance companies are
suspicious or clearly fraudu-
lent.

_ “The fraud we see coming
mostly from individuals. af-

“fects a variety of insurers,”

said Donald Hume, senior
adjuster at Kernaghan Ad-
justers Ltd. of Toronto:
“There is the fellow who de-
cided he didn’t like the color
of his car so he took his key to
the paint job at his insurance
company’s expense.

“It is not a healthy situ-
ation in society. But it seems
to be an accepted form of be-
havior.”

Kadwell suggests’ that
small-time fraud is often
motivated by the belief that
the insurance industry is
huge, wealthy and ripe for
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“Some people just take a
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Playboys beat Checkers

By CasNews Staff

Castlegar Playboys came
out on top 6-4 Sunday night
in a Castlegar Recreational
Hockey League game against
Checkers Pub/Mallards
Sports. ©

In other weekend games,
Hi Arrow Arms tied Sand-
man Inn 5-5 Sunday after-
noon. On Saturday night,
Castlegar Knights blasted Hi
Arrow 10-2.

In the Playboys’ game
Lawrence Halisheff scored
three goals to power the
Playboys to the win.

The teams were tied 1-1
after the first period. Check-
ers scored Wwice in the ‘sec-
ond period to take an early

- 3-1 lead. The Playboys scored

two goals in the third frame.
Checkers responded with a
goal, before the Playboys
scored two more goals to
make the final 6-4 in its favor.

Besides the three goals
from Halisheff, the Playboys
got other goals from Mike

Byrne with two, and George back to score three more
Roberts with a single. As- goals to tie the game. Kevin
sisting were Terry Halisheff, Kirby scored the tying goal
Randy Martin and Roberts for Sandman Inn with 4:54
with two apiece, and Byrne, remaining in the game.
Bob Essaunce; and Halisheff Kirby scored two goals for
with singles. the Inn team; Liber, Dan
Terry Sanders, Ken Ross, Walker and Bill Cheveldave
Dean McKinnon and Frank added single markers. Wal-
Costa scored the Checkers ker assisted twice, Chevel-
goals. Wayne Popoff got two dave, Perry Klit, Liber and
assists, while McKinnon, Don Dan Markin got singles.
Savinkoff and Sanders as- Nick Voykin scored two
sisted. goals for Hi Arrow, Brandon
In Hi Arrow’s tie with McDonald, Dan Drazdoff,
Checkers, after a scoreless and Rick Shukin also added
first period, Clay Liber open- goals. Assisting were Grant
ed the scoring for Sandman Sookero, Corey Kennedy,
Inn in the second period. Hi Jim Nazaroff, Bruno Tas-
Arrow responded with four sone, Yuri Jmaeff, Grant
goals to lead 4-1 after 40 Sookero and McDonald.
minutes. _. In Saturday night’s game,
Rick Shukin scored Hi Ar- which saw the Knights win,
row's fifth goal 10 minutes Hi Arrow's Brad Makortoff
into the final period. opened the scoring with a
In the third period Sand- goal at 9:42. The Knights re-
man Inn scored a goal early. plied with two goals — one at
in the third period. Hi Arrow 18:39 and one at 21:24 to lead
then answered with its fifth 2-1.
goal. Sandman Innthencame Arrow scoreless in the sec-

The Knights held Hi.

ond period, while adding five

markers to the scoresheet.
Hi Arrow gota goal seven

minutes into the third period,

+ then the Knights replied with

three goals to complete the
scoring.

Scoring for the Knights
were Chief Mercer with four,
Don Deschene with three, Al
Tompkins, Tig Antignani and
Terry Sanders with singles.

Deschene had four assists,
Bob Evans, Antignani and
Martin Sanders had two
apiece, while Wayne Kinakin
and Mercer had singles. .

Brad Makortoff and Jerry
Jacobson scored for Hi Ar-
row. Yuri Jmaeff assisted on
both-markers, while Shukin
got one assist.

Recreational League action
this week sees Sandman Inn
playing the Knights at 10
p.m. Thursday while the
Knights take on the Playboys
at 7:15 p.m. Friday. 2

PELLE LINDBERGH-

Parents say goodbye

STRATEFORD, N.J. (AP) — All usable organs and
tissues were removed by surgeons from the body of
hockey star Pelle Lindbergh affer his parents decided the
body parts transplanted in others might provide “a new

chance at life.”

‘The operation on the standout goalie was delayed so
his parents could say their final goodbyes Tuesday to
their brain dead son, said Philadelphia Flyers “team

physician Edward Viner.

Lindbergh was declared dead at 9:15 a.m., EST,
Monday even though his heart continued to beat through
artificial means, said a nursing supervisor who asked not

to be identified.

“From a purely medical point of view, he’s been dead
since 5:40 a.m. Sunday,”
Lindbergh's existence as “a stage of semi-living.”

“Privately, they (his parents) must hope there could
be a miracle . . . but they're anxious not to lose the
potential of helping others,”
operation at John F. Kennedy Memorial hospital.

Howard Nathan, executive director of the Delaware
Valley Transplant Program, said all usuable organs and
tissues were donated “to help as many people as possible.

TRAN: COMFORT FAMILY

“The organs will be transplanted into patients who
are in the most medical need and those who are a medical
match,” he said. “The family has expressed’a comfort in
knowing that others may be given a new chance at life
through these transplants.”

Dr. Louis Gallo, a staff surgeon at the hospital, said

ISPLANTS

Lindbergh's parents had

his condition.

donation of his organs and had “accepted the finality of

“His fiancee indicated they were very concerned the
organs be used to help someone else,” Gallo
Sigge Lindbergh travelled from Sweden on Monday
to his son's bedside, where the goaltender’s mother,
Anna-Lisa, and fiancee, Kerstin

vigil since the accident.

authorities said.

Lindbergh, 26, was legally drunk when he left an
after-hours bar and drove his red Porsche 930 into a
concrete wall in front of a Somerdale elementary school,

‘Two passengers, Kathyleen McNeal, 22, and Edward
‘T. Parvin, 28, also were injured in the accident.
PASSENGERS HANG ON

McNeal was listed in stable condition today. Parvin

hospital at Camden.
said Viner, who described

been made, Gallo said.

Viner said prior to the

intoxicated when he left.

Asked if there was a possibi
wrong, Viner said, “Sure, there is. We all wanted to avoid
the issue of a number .. I felt forced to reveal a number.

was in critical but stable condition with a skull fracture in

Lindbergh's brain stem and spinal cord were
irreversibly damaged by the crash,
suffered fractures of the hip, leg and jaw, doctors said.

Burial will be in Sweden, although no plans have

in which he also.

Tests taken in the hospital emergency room showed
Lindbergh's blood alcohol content at .24 per cent, more
than twice the .10-per-cent limit at which a New Jersey
driver is considered legally drunk.

Authorities say a person of Lindbergh's weight
would have to consume 15 drinks within four hours to
attain that level, but Flyers’ players who were at the bar
insisted Lindbergh did not appear to be heavily

ity the test could be

“I don't know what he was like at the moment” he

left the club.
signed a release allowing

“Pelle didn't appear intoxicated — I don't care what
the numbers say,” said Flyers president Jay Snider, who

wasn't present Sunday morning at The Coliseum, a bar in

said.

Pietzsch, have kept a Edmonton Oilers.

the sports complex at Voorhees where the Flyers

practice.
The Flyers said a memorial service would beheld at
the Spectrum before a game Thursday night with

“€anad iens extend
winning streak

By The Canadian Press

Montreal Canadiens are starting to connect, thanks toa
well-timed road trip and a big assist from their hotshot
rookies.

si Fortunately, it (the road trip) came at an opportune

1 veteran said

Toataay night following a 3-2 National Hockey League
victory over New York Islanders. “We were struggling at
home and the fans were’ getting on us.

“It affected the kids. It gave us a chance to get h

This (game) was a big test for cus. We've been really
disciplined, like last year.”

Islanders coach Al Arbour thought his team played well
enough to win and was generally happy with the Istaiders
overall performance.

“I have no complaints ab about our. team,” he said. “But
they capitalized around the net, and we didn’t.”

CAPITALS 5 OILERS 2

Playing a man down against Wayne Gretzky and

rt didn't do i much harm, with Dave

to know each other.”
Extending thejr unbeaten streak to five games — ‘four
of them on the road — the Canadiens climbed over .500
behind solid performances from three of their standout
rookies. Stephane Richer, Kjell Damlin and Patrick Roy.
Richer and Dahlin each scored one goal and goaltender”
Roy kicked out 26 shots as the Canadiens improved their
record to 7-6-2 in the Adams Division, following a 4-6-0 start.
In the only other games played Tuesday night,
Washi Capitals Oilers 5-2, and St.
Louis Blues edged Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 in overtime.
Richer scored his ninth goal of the season when he

knocked in a rebound,-following a shot by Chris Nilan, from .

the side of the net at 12:08 of the first period. Dahlin scored
off a good pass from Guy Carbonneau from in front of the net
at 12:57 of the second period, his eighth goal of the season, to
stake the Canadiens to a 2-0 lead.

Pat Flatley’s seventh goal of the season off a rebound of
his own shot at 15:07 of the second period trimmed
Montreal's lead to one goal.

But Mats Naslund clilnched the win for Montreal with a
wrist shot from inside the blue line on power play at 5:42 of
the third period: Mark Hamway scored his fourth goal of the
season ona power play with 37 seconds left in the game after
the Islanders had pulled goalie Billy Smith.

“The last five games, we've been playing our game,”
said Montreal defenceman Chris Chelios. “Now I think
everybody knows what he has to do.

“Before we were playing selfishly and it didn’t work.

Christian getting two short-handed goals and Mike Gartner
adding third to set a club record.

The Capitals, who never trailed in the game, took a 1-0
lead 2:09 into the contest when Alan Haworth scored his
11th goal of the season. The game was the ninth straight in
which he has scored a goal, a league-leading streak.

Gartner's 11th of the season, at 10:12 of the opening
period, made it 2-0.

Glenn Andi 's 14th brought
at 4:55 of the second period.

Christian got the first of his short-handed goals at 2:30
of the third period. But Gretzky scored his 12th just 30
seconds later to make it 3-2.

A power-play goal by Bob Carpenter and Christian's
second short-handed tally closed the scoring in the third
period.

within a goal

BLUES 4 MAPLE LEAFS 3

Toronto, which broke a 19-year-old team record by
failing to win for the 12th straight time, dropped a
heartbreaker when Joe Mullen scored at 2:57 of overtime.

The victory vaulted St. Louis over idle Chicago Black
Hawks into first place in the Norris Division.

Rick Vaive had scored at 11:24 of the third period to
give the Leafs 3-3 tie and send the game into overtime.

Ron Flockhart scored twice and Mark Hunter added a
goal for the Blues.

Toronto scored on its third shot of the gathe Wake a 1-0
lead at 2:24 of the first period when Dan Hodgson tapped in
a rebound. Gary McAdam had the other goal for the Leafs.

Gibson hot in baseball
free agent market

By The Associated Press

Kirk Gibson. of Detroit
Tigers figures to be the
hottest item in a free-agent
market that some basebell
executives say lacks quality.

Operating under a new
free-for-all system adopted
during contract talks this
summer, a record 62 free
agents will be available to
any team with enough money
and the inclination to sign
them.

While Gibson's agent,
Doug Baldwin of Seattle,
says he already has been ap-
proached by a: number of
clubs about the power-hitting
outfielder, he adds there
have been no talks “of any
sort of substahce” with any
teams, including the Tigers.

“The last time we talked to
the Tigers, except to say
hello, was four weeks ago,”
Baldwin said Tuesday. “They
made a proposal involving
three years.”

Baldwin said he told the
Tigers then that if they
wanted Gibson, the team
should offer a five-year deal.

Last season, the left-hand-
ed hitting Gibson, 28, batted
.287 with 29 home runs and

Season

TORONTO (CP) —. The
Canadian Football League
management council approv-
ed a proposal Tuesday to ex-
tend the league's regular-
season schedule next year to
18 games from 16 and to trim
its exhibition format to two
games from four.

CFL commissioner Doug
Mitchell told a news confer-
ence’ the r

97 runs-batted-in, while scor-
ing 96 runs and stealing 30

Ss.

‘Also included among the
free agents are: relief pit-
chers Donnie Moore and Al
Holland of California Angels,
and starting pitchers Phil
and Joe Niekro of New York
Yankees, Bruce Kison of

"Boston Red Sox, David Pal-

mer of Montreal Expos, Don
Sutton. of the Angels and
Tommy John of Oakland A's.

FILE

Others who filed for free
agency were: catchers Car-
Iton Fisk of Chicago White
Sox, Butch Wynegar of the
Yankees, Steve Nicosia of
Toronto Blue Jays and Steve
Yeager of Los Angeles Dod-
gers; infielders Tony Berna-
zard of Cleveland Indians,
Tom Brookens of Detroit,
Rod Carew and Bobby Grich
of California and Rich Dauer
of Baltimore Orioles; out-
fielders Cesear Cedeno of St.
Louis Cardinals and Garry
Maddox of Philadelphia Phil-
lies, and designated hitters
Al Oliver arid Jeff Burroughs
of Toronto and Hal McRae of
Kansas City Royals.

ter which players could begin
to ‘negotiate with whomever
they wished. Last year, 56
players filed for free agency,
and the total this year was
the most since free agency
wasinstituted in 1976.

Texas Rangers general
manager Tom Grieve said his
club has no plans to pursue
“free agents at this time, and
we have no concrete plans to
do so. There's not a lot of
quality available.”

Other than trying to retain
its own two free agents,
Gibson and Brookens, the
Tigers also will bypass the
free agent market.

The Blue Jays say they
won't be active in seeking
free agents and the reason is
simple — money.

“We don't have it,” said
general manager Pat Gillick.
“We have a higher payroll
now.”

The team is reposted to
have lost at least $1 million
even though it drew almost
2% million spectators, won
the American League East
division and went seven
games in the AL playoffs,
before losing to eventual

he deadline for filing was World.Series champion Kan-
midnight Molndgy nigh sas City Royals.

to be extended

treal and Calgary, noting the
three-per-cent drop in league
attendance this season was
mainly due to poor crowds in
Calgary.

Montreal general manager
Joe Galat, meanwhile, told
reporters he had not heard of
any moves by Concordes
owners to abandon the club
after the current season.

.-The iT said the

schedule change now goes to
the league's board of gov-
ernors, which will meet next
week in Montreal during
Grey Cup i

management group also
agreed to further discuss in-
creasing team rosters and
changes to 21-day trials, and

The move was announced
after a one-day meeting of
the management council, con-
sisting of Mitchell, league
secretary-treasurer Greg
Fulton and the general man-
agers of the nine league
teams.

Mitchell also reiterated his
belief that the CFL would
survive current financial and
in Mon-

ofa slight-
b. ‘smaller football and minor
revisions to the procedure on
running kicks out of the end
zone.

Mitchell said the revised
schedule would remain fully
interlocking with the ex-
ception of the two extra
regular-season games, which
would be divisional clashes.

“We felt that 18 regular-
season games was not over-

seclusion

VANCOUVER (CP) —
British Columbia Lions have
gone into -seclusion with
closed practice sessions as
they prepare for the Western
Division final against Win-
nipeg Blue Bombers with the
possibility of being without
all-star receiver Merv Fer-
nandez.

Fernandez, a finalist in the
Schenley balloting for out-
standing player in the Cana-
dian Football League this
season, has been listed as
questionable for Sunday's
showdown at B.C. Place Sta-
dium between the teams with
the best regular-season rec-
ords in the league.

The talented wide re-
ceiver, who caught 95 passes
for 1,727 yards and 15 touch-
downs in league play, has a
deep thigh bruise suffered in
a freak incident Oct. -27
against Edmonton Eskimos.

Fernandez played the fol-
lowing game against Ottawa
Rough Riders, catching one
touchdown ‘pass, when the
Lions clinched their third
straight divisional title. Even
a week off, while-Winnipeg
eliminated Edmonton in the
western semifinal, left Fer-
nandez with a limp.

Fernandez was injured on

doing it and that two pre-~the sidelines in Edmonton

season games was enough to
get ready for the season,”
Mitchell said, adding he was
confident the move would not
conflict with existing play-
ers’ contracts.

Mitchell said he based his
optimism on a court decision
in which receiver Tony Ga-
briel’s contract was upheld
after the league expanded
the schedule to 16 games
from-14 in 1974.

Mitchell said the expanded
schedule would result in the
Grey Cup, slated for Nov. 24
this season, being played a
week later next year.

He said the council also
recommended teams be al-
lowed the option, when not
conceding a single point on a
missed field goal or punt, of
taking the ball at the 25-yard
line or starting where the
player was tackled or went
out of bounds after running
out of the end zone.

when he was hit by aggres
sive B.C. safety Nelson Mar.
tin, who went over a pile of
players and crashed into his
teammate.

Should Fernandez be un-
able to dress against Win-
nipeg, import Ned Armour
will be activated from the re-
serve list. Armour caught 50
passes in 1984, but lost his
position this year to Jim
Sandusky and dressed for
only one regular-season

me.

Other than Fernandez, the
Lions are relatively healthy,
although hard-hitting defen-
sive back Andre Jones miss-
ed the last two league games
with a shoulder injury.

Winnipeg has defeated the 2
-Lions four straight

going
back to last year’s western
final, when the Bombers won,
31-14. Winnipeg won 33-26
and 31-10 during the regular
season.

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