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Miami Herald
3 days ago
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Ready To Break Out: Pacific Division
By Brian Costello, features writer New seasons provide new opportunities, which create avenues for players to break out. The 2025-26 season will be no different, and in this article, The Hockey News take a look at the strongest candidates to make a name for themselves or ascend into stardom on the Pacific Division teams. It's understandable when a 20-year-old stumbles a bit out of the starting gate. That happened to Cutter Gauthier this season. Picked fifth overall (by Philadelphia) in 2022, Gauthier didn't score a goal until his 16th game last season and didn't get an assist until his sixth. But as the season wore on, Gauthier ramped things up. He had five goals and 18 points in his first 41 games, then 15 goals and 26 points in the next 41. Next season? Prorate his second half, and you get 30 goals and 52 points. That's a breakout. Connor Zary didn't have the breakout season many expected of him in 2024-25. The expectation was he'd continue to blossom from an impressive rookie season in 2023-24 and almost certainly establish himself as a 20-goal, 50-point top-six regular. But a pair of debilitating injuries knocked the 23-year-old out of the lineup for 28 games and hindered his growth. The Flames are committed to his development and will deploy him on the power play and near the top of the lineup. He will likely top 50 points. The Oilers have such a veteran lineup that it's often the younger players who draw the short straw when games become clutch. Such is the case with 24-year-old Vasily Podkolzin. The 10th pick overall in 2019 (by Vancouver) has more than 200 NHL games under his belt and had a decent first season with the Oilers, generating 24 points and averaging 13:13 of ice time per game. That dropped to around 11 minutes in the playoffs, but as Edmonton's roster turns over, Podkolzin will get more plum assignments. If defenseman Brandt Clakre can have the type of breakout season that he had to start 2024-25, the Kings would be ecstatic. The eighth-overall pick in 2021 won a starting job in the top four after Drew Doughty got injured in the pre-season. Clarke, now 22, put up 12 points (five on the power play) in his first 13 games and looked to have immediately earned his stripes. But after hitting a rough patch in November, Clarke settled back into a third-pairing role even through the playoffs. He will bounce back. The Sharks picked up their goalie of the future last summer when they acquired 2020 first-rounder Yaroslav Askarov from Nashville. One of the five stoppers to see time in the Sharks crease this season, Askarov won four of 12 starts but spent most of the season in the AHL refining his game and posting a .923 save percentage. Make no mistake, the 23-year-old Russian will be a full-time Shark this season and start anywhere from 30 to 50 games depending upon which veteran San Jose signs as a summer free agent. Is it possible for the same player to have two breakout seasons a few years apart? We'll soon find out if our instincts about Matty Beniers prove correct. The second-overall pick in 2021 truly did have a breakout campaign as a 20-year-old rookie in 2022-23, scoring 24 goals and 57 points and winning the Calder Trophy. After back-to-back disappointing seasons of just 37 and 43 points, there's hope Beniers can recapture his freshman form and lead the Kraken offensively. Could be that 60 points are in his future. After arriving from the New York Rangers in the January trade that sent J.T. Miller to Broadway, Filip Chytil scored in his first game with the Canucks. In his next 14 games before going down with a concussion that ended his season, Chytil scored just one more goal but showed plenty of offensive promise centering the third line. The No.21 pick in the 2017 draft is still just 25 and will be given every opportunity to push the boundaries of his 22 goals and 45 points, which were career-highs from 2022-23. Keegan Kolesar and Nicolas Roy were two big reasons why Vegas had the league's best fourth line last season. The dynamic duo combined for 27 goals and 61 points playing with depth wingers such as Tanner Pearson, Alexander Holtz, Victor Olofsson and Cole Schwindt. Kolesar is a strong candidate to move up the lineup due to Vegas' long list of pending UFAs this summer. Kolesar is aggressive, assertive in the corners and has a strong shot. This article appeared in our 2025 Champions issue. Our cover story focuses on the 2025 Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, specifically the elite play of defenseman Seth Jones, along with a recap of each game of the Cup final. We also include features on Sharks center Will Smith and Kraken defenseman Ryker Evans. In addition, we give our list of the top 10 moments from the 2024-25 NHL season. You can get it in print for free when you subscribe to The Hockey News at today. All subscriptions include complete access to more than 76 years of articles at The Hockey News Archive. Copyright The Hockey News, Roustan Media Ltd.
Hamilton Spectator
29-07-2025
- Hamilton Spectator
Welland father of 4 jailed 9 months on child pornography charge
Child pornography could be all but eradicated if individuals stopped viewing the disturbing images online, a judge said before sending a Welland father of four to jail for nine months. 'If the people who access child pornography stopped accessing it tomorrow, there would be no market, and then there would be at a minimum a massive reduction in the victimization of children,' Judge Fergus ODonnell told Jordan Gauthier. Gauthier, 42, pleaded guilty Monday in Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines and was sentenced on a charge of possession of child pornography. The married man, who had no prior criminal record, came to the attention of Niagara Regional Police as a result of a joint investigation with Brantford Police Service into the sexual exploitation of children over an instant messaging app called Kik. Police used a search warrant at a Welland home in February and seized several devices capable of storing electronic data. Detectives analyzed the devices and uncovered a number of video files and images that met the legal definition of child pornography. 'I am very sorry for the situation I put me and my family through,' Gauthier told the judge. ODonnell said courts see victims of 'every type' on a daily basis. 'Some of them are powerful and robust and a lot of the damage to them, either economically or emotionally, is like water off a duck's back,' he told the offender. 'A lot are people in the middle, and others are more vulnerable than that. When you are dealing with children, that is the greatest level of vulnerability that we see.' He said many young children who are victims of sexual exploitation reach adulthood with significant emotional and mental health challenges. 'Emotional and mental health challenges lead to drug abuse, lead to criminality and they leave people damaged through no fault of their own. And, who have an enormously uphill battle to regain what should have been theirs all along but for the fact that people got into the market and wanted to see the images and went down that path.' In addition to custody, Gauthier was placed on probation for three years. His name will appear on the national sex offender registry for the next 20 years. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
CTV News
23-07-2025
- CTV News
Manslaughter conviction in young mother's 2017 slaying
Vancouver Watch Emotional reaction erupted in a packed B.C. courtroom as a judge handed down a conviction in the slaying of Chelsey Gauthier.
Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Another broker liability case knocks at Supreme Court door, this one involving C.H. Robinson
Even as the trucking legal community looks for the possibility of the Supreme Court being asked to review a court decision that put Total Quality Logistics on the losing side of the issue of broker liability, there is another federal case on the same subject that already is on the nine justices' formal requests for high court certiorari. Legal filings heated up this week in the case of Shawn Montgomery vs. Caribe Transport II, a carrier. 3PL giant C.H. Robinson (NASDAQ: CHRW), which hired Caribe Transport, also is a defendant. Montgomery was injured in December 2017 in an Illinois collision with a Caribe Transport truck. C.H. Robinson prevailed (separately from Caribe Transport) on two separate requests for summary judgement in late 2023 and early 2024, respectively, from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the lower court in early January. That led Montgomery to seek Supreme Court certiorari in a filing made last month. C.H. Robinson is backing Montgomery's request for a Supreme Court review, even though it was victorious against that plaintiff in the lower courts. C.H. Robinson's support of the certiorari request has similarities to that of TQL in the request for Supreme Court review by Katia Gauthier. She was the widow of a man killed in a collision with a truck hired by TQL. TQL was victorious in Gauthier in a lower court and on appeal on the issue of whether the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (F4A) would preempt a state tort action against the broker. Despite the win, TQL wanted the Supreme Court to weigh in on the broader issues of F4A interpretation, given that circuit courts' decisions on the provision of F4A known as the safety exemption were not consistent. Gauthier's request for certiorari was denied. The lower court's decision in Montgomery looked to guidance from the case of Ying Ye vs. GlobalTranz, also in the Seventh Circuit, where GlobalTranz successfully argued that F4A, signed into law in 1994, protected it from liability. Ye's husband had been killed by a truck hired by GlobalTranz. C.H. Robinson, with successful court decisions in hand, could have just taken a victory lap after the Montgomery case. But it is backing its litigation foe Montgomery by supporting his request for Supreme Court certiorari. Its amicus brief was filed this week supporting Montgomery's request. 'Now is the time for this Court to provide certainty to the industry by resolving the conflict between the circuits,' C.H. Robinson said in its filing. (The National Association of Manufacturers also filed an amicus brief in support of Montgomery's request for certiorari). If the Supreme Court decides to review F4A, the judges would not be asked to rule on the heart of the law: the requirement that states take no action that would impact a transportation 'price, route or service,' also known as the preemption clause. There are no conflicting circuit decisions on that part of the law. What it would be asked to tackle: the safety exemption. The safety exemption says the 'price, route or service' part of the law 'shall not restrict the safety regulatory authority of a State with respect to motor vehicles, the authority of a State to impose highway route controls or limitations based on the size or weight of the motor vehicle, or the authority of a State to regulate carriers with regard to minimum amounts of financial responsibility relating to insurance requirements and self-insurance authorization.' In other words, if bad safety-related stuff happens to a truck booked by a broker, it is possible the broker will found to have some degree of liability. But it isn't certain. On one side of the conflicting circuit decisions are precedents in the Seventh and Eleventh circuits that found a broker's liability in a disastrous outcome involving a truck it hired–Ye in the Seventh, and a case involving a stolen truck brokered by Landstar (NASDAQ: LSTR) in the Eleventh–was not undercut by the safety exemption. The plaintiff therefore could not recover damages. Add to that the decision in the Montgomery/C.H. Robinson case and the victory count for 3PLs due to the safety exemption is three. The Supreme Court already rejected certiorari in the Ying Ye case last year. The conflicts between the circuits have now become more stark following Cox vs. TQL joining Miller vs. Robinson as cases where the safety exception didn't protect a 3PL, and Montgomery vs. Caribe adding to the list of cases where it did. In Cox vs. TQL, handed down Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the second-biggest U.S. 3PL ended up on the losing side in a lawsuit brought by Robert Cox, whose wife Greta was killed in a crash with a truck hired by TQL. The second case where the safety exception didn't protect a 3PL is the Miller vs. C.H. Robinson case from 2019 in the Ninth Circuit, with the Supreme Court having already denied a C.H. Robinson certiorari request in 2022. Allen Miller was left a quadriplegic after being involved in a 2016 crash near Elko, Nevada with a truck from RT Service, which C.H. Robinson had hired to move a load from Sacramento to Salt Lake City for Costco. The C.H. Robinson amicus brief in the Montgomery case does not mention the Sixth Circuit or the Cox vs. TQL case. The amicus brief and the Cox decision were published within a day of each other. TQL has not commented on its plans after the Sixth Circuit appellate court in Cox found that TQL's action in hiring a potentially dangerous carrier was the type of behavior that F4A's safety exception targets: a transportation provider creating an unsafe situation and then being able to be sued without protection from federal law. But given that TQL sought Supreme Court certiorari in the Gauthier case even though it had won, it is not unreasonable to assume it would now, as the losing party, ask the high court to review the conflicting circuit court cases on just how much F4A protects brokers under the safety exception. The court, if it chooses to review the issue, could take the Montgomery certiorari request, or a presumed TQL request, or both. To add to the confusion, a recent decision in an Illinois state court involving Echo Global Logistics came down on the side of the plaintiff and against the broker. In the case of Kaipust vs. Echo Global, Judge Scott McKenna of the Appellate Court of Illinois for the First District rejected Echo's claim that the safety exception of F4A protected it against the actions of a carrier it hired. In the Echo case, the 3PL had hired Critical Supply Solutions to move a load. In September 2021, a company truck was involved in a Nebraska collision that killed Mark Kaipust and his child Taylor. Mark Kaipust's widow Jamie filed suit. 'We reject Echo's argument that interpreting the safety exception to protect state negligence claims against brokers would lead to the safety exception 'swallowing' the preemption clause itself,' McKenna wrote. The preemption clause is the foundation of F4A, restricting state action against that triumvirate of prices, routes and service. 'The preemption clause's application to attempted economic regulation of broker conduct unrelated to safety is left untouched by this ruling. Only when a plaintiff can establish that the broker's conduct implicated the state's safety regulatory authority will a claim survive preemption per the present ruling.' In its amicus brief, C.H. Robinson cited the Echo case as another reason why the Supreme Court should take up Montgomery's request for certiorari, even though it is a state action and not in the federal court system. 'The resulting uncertainty over which motor carriers can be hired—by brokers or for that matter any other entity, such as the owner of freight that contracts directly with motor carriers—has a direct, adverse effect on interstate commerce that needs to be resolved by this Court,' the 3PL wrote. In the case of Montgomery vs. Caribe and C.H. Robinson, the plaintiff sought to bring up the issue of vicarious liability, where C.H. Robinson's actions in its relationship with Caribe established a level of 'control' could be seen as establishing an agency relationship. That could have allowed greater liability for C.H. Robinson. But both the lower court and the Court of Appeals rejected that argument. Much of the appeals court decision in Montgomery reviews that question. And that is mostly because the three-judge unanimous panel quickly rejects Montgomery's argument that the precedents set in Ye about 'agency' should be overturned, as it was the Ye decision that was the basis for much of the court's ruling in Montgomery. Quoting an earlier case, the court said 'we do not take lightly suggestions to overrule circuit precedent.' Echo Global Logistics is involved in another case involving broker liability where it prevailed in federal district court for South Carolina in a case brought by Angela Fuelling, widow of James Fuelling who was killed in a 2022 crash on interstate 85. A carrier hired by Echo Global slammed into Fuelling's vehicle. Echo Global's request for summary judgment to be removed from that case, citing F4A, succeeded last year. Angela Fuelling appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit earlier this year, where the case resides. It is considered significant enough that the Transportation Intermediaries Association, the brokerage industry's main trade group, has filed an amicus brief in the case. More articles by John Kingston XPO rating cut by S&P, agency cites continuing weak freight market First legal steps taken, this time by WSTA, to untangle the legal knot of the Clean Truck Partnership Two positive votes on logistics at Moody's: GXO and C.H. Robinson The post Another broker liability case knocks at Supreme Court door, this one involving C.H. Robinson appeared first on FreightWaves.
Cision Canada
03-07-2025
- Health
- Cision Canada
Innovative Molecules Offer Good News in the Fight Against HIV and Other Viral Infections Français
INRS team is exploring the potential of saponins, a group of natural molecules found in many plants LAVAL, QC, July 3, 2025 /CNW/ - Innovative, nontoxic molecules developed by a research team at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) could pave the way for new safe and effective antiviral therapies for prevention and treatment purposes. Are there natural compounds with antiviral properties, particularly against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS? Betulinic acid has long been recognized in medical and scientific communities for its antiviral potential. This molecule, found in various plants, is especially abundant in the bark of white birch trees—a common byproduct of the forestry industry. However, the use of betulinic acid and some of its derivatives in medicine has been limited by a major drawback: the molecules are poorly soluble in water. This limits their absorption by the body and complicates their use in medicine. A discovery by INRS Professor Charles Gauthier 's team, part of the INRS-UQAC Joint Research Unit in Sustainable Health, could significantly unlock the potential of this molecule. Their findings * were recently published in Chemistry – A European Journal. Creating a Promising and Novel Molecule In their research, Professor Gauthier's team studied two natural molecules: betulinic acid and echinocystic acid. Both belong to a family of compounds known as triterpenes and share a similar chemical structure. The researchers chemically modified these molecules using a novel, controlled method by attaching a specific sugar called Lewis X. This sugar is structurally similar to those that define human blood groups. The modification resulted in new chimeric compounds known as "saponins." These saponins had never been described in scientific literature before. They offer several advantages for potential antiviral use: they are significantly more water-soluble than triterpenes, they dissolve well in biological environments, and unlike similar substances that can be toxic, they are safe for human cells and mice. Most importantly, they effectively block HIV activity. The team observed that saponins prevent the virus from using certain carbohydrate-specific proteins, known as Lewis-binding proteins, found on immune cells called DC-SIGN and L-SIGN, to spread to CD4+ cells, the main targets of HIV. "Our results show that these are among the most potent monovalent inhibitors ever identified for blocking this HIV transfer mechanism, even when used at very low concentrations," explains INRS Professor Gauthier, who specializes in chemistry of carbohydrates and natural products. He is also a member of the Pasteur Network. HIV, Ebola disease, dengue fever, coronaviruses: the potential is vast These chimeric molecules capable of blocking viral entry into immune cells—a critical step in infection—are a first of their kind. Saponins could serve as a foundation for developing broad-spectrum antiviral agents that block infection at the earliest stage, such as during sexual transmission of HIV. "While it's known that human breast milk contains oligosaccharides that protect infants from HIV infection during early breastfeeding, we are the first to demonstrate that saponins can inhibit HIV entry via DC-SIGN and L-SIGN receptors," says doctoral student in biology at INRS and lead author Oscar Javier Gamboa Marin. "Despite progress in this field, very few studies have focused on inhibiting DC-SIGN and L-SIGN using Lewis-type carbohydrates," he adds. Another promising feature of saponins is their ability to spontaneously form structures called micelles or to integrate into liposomes. This could further enhance their antiviral effectiveness, particularly through improved targeting of virus-infected cells, and holds out promising research potential. Moreover, since DC-SIGN and L-SIGN proteins are also exploited by other dangerous viruses such as Ebola, dengue, and SARS-CoV-2, saponins open new avenues for developing broad-spectrum antiviral agents against these diseases. About the studies* The article entitled Lewis-X-Containing Triterpenoid Saponins Inhibit DC-SIGN- and L-SIGN-Mediated Transfer of HIV-1 Infection was co-authored by Oscar Javier Gamboa Marin, Kurtis Ng, Nitish Verma, Assi Gérard Flavien Yapi, Ralph Pantophlet, and Charles Gauthier. The article entitled Immunological and Toxicological Assessment of Triterpenoid Saponins Bearing Lewis-X- and QS-21-Based Trisaccharides was co-authored by Oscar Javier Gamboa Marin, Yasmine Adda-Bouchard, Balla Sylla, Nitish Verma, Tania Charpentier, Maya Huber, Guillaume Lopez, André Pichette, Alain Lamarre, and Charles Gauthier. This work was made possible thanks to the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, the Armand-Frappier Foundation, and the Swine and Poultry Infectious Diseases Research Center. INRS is an academic institution dedicated exclusively to graduate research and training in strategic sectors in Quebec. Since 1969, as per its mission, it has actively contributed to Quebec's economic, social, and cultural development. INRS ranks first in Quebec in research intensity. It is made up of five interdisciplinary research and training centres located in Quebec City, Montreal, Laval, and Varennes, and Charlevoix, which focus their efforts on strategic sectors: water, earth, and environment (Eau Terre Environnement Research Centre); energy, materials, and telecommunications (Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre); urbanization, culture, and society (Urbanisation Culture Société Research Centre); and health and biotechnology (Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Research Centre), and Ruralités Durables Research Centre (a center currently under development). Its community includes nearly 1,500 members, including students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty members, and staff.
