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A court sentenced five Muslim men to prison terms of 23 to 28 years Monday in Australia’s largest terrorist conspiracy.

Justice Anthony Whealy of the New South Wales Supreme Court handed down the sentences, saying the men were motivated by “intolerant, inflexible religious conviction.”

The men, aged 25 to 44, were found guilty last October of conspiring to commit an act, or acts, in preparation for a terrorist act between July 2004 and November 2005. They had stockpiled explosive chemicals and firearms to attack an unknown target.

Whealy said the men had shown contempt for the Australian government, its leaders and laws.

The men had faced a maximum penalty of life in prison. Whealy has restricted the media from publishing the men’s names.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is travelling to Haiti on Monday to take stock of the earthquake hurt and try to determine Canada’s role in the Caribbean country’s long-term recovery.

Harper is expected to land in Port-au-Prince on Monday afternoon aboard a Canadian military transport plane carrying relief supplies.

The giant Boeing C-17 cargo plane, which can carry huge loads and land on small runways, was being loaded with relief supplies Sunday night while the prime minister was returning to Ottawa from the Olympics in Vancouver.

He is scheduled to head to Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean’s ancestral hometown, Jacmel, where much of the downtown was reduced to rubble by last month’s earthquake. He’ll then visit Leogane, a key hub of Canadian relief activity.

Harper is also to meet with Haitian President René Préval and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.

“We are continuing to work with the government of Haiti to deliver urgent humanitarian help,” Harper said in a statement Sunday.

“At the same time, we now need to address the long-term challenges of reconstruction, based on the principles of sustainability, effectiveness and accountability,” he said.

Harper will spend only one night in Haiti, sleeping on board Canadian navy vessel HMCS Athabaskan due to lack of accommodation in Haiti’s devastated capital.

The Athabaskan is anchored off the coast, serving as a base for Canadian troops taking part in the relief effort.

With files from The Canadian Press

Anaheim Ducks’ Jason Blake, right, attacks the net of the Oilers’ Jeff Deslauriers in Edmonton on Sunday. (John Ulan/Associated Press)

Ryan Getzlaf made a strong case on Sunday night in Edmonton to keep his spot with Team Canada at the Winter Games.

The Ducks forward scored twice and added two assists in his first game back from a sprained left ankle as Anaheim beat the Edmonton Oilers 7-3.

Saku Koivu, Corey Perry, Scott Niedermayer, George Parros and Bobby Ryan also scored for Anaheim (30-25-7), which trails Calgary by two points for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference as the NHL heads into its Olympic break.

Ryan Potulny, Ethan Moreau and Lubomir Visnovsky answered for the Oilers (19-36-6).

Getzlaf banged a rebound past Oilers goaltender Jeff Deslauriers off a scramble on the power play at 5:27 of the third period and then added another with the man advantage on a pass from Niedermayer at 16:58.

Getzlaf’s four-point night is excellent news for Canada’s men’s Olympic hockey team. Philadelphia Flyers forward Jeff Carter is in Vancouver in case Getzlaf doesn’t pass a medical evaluation.

Jonas Hiller turned aside 25 shots in net for the Ducks, while Deslauriers made 39 saves, stopping 17 in the first 20 minutes.

Deslauriers came up huge on the penalty kill for Edmonton early, snapping down the stick to stop Koivu with a wide open cage. But Koivu got revenge a couple minutes later, spinning and firing a shot through Deslauriers’ blocker side.

Edmonton tied the game at one apiece with Potulny’s five-on-three power-play goal at 6:04, managing to slip the puck through both Hiller and kneeling defender Steve Eminger.

Getzlaf springs Perry

Perry answered for Anaheim after Getzlaf sent in a quick tape-to-tape pass. His shot clipped the top of Deslauriers’s right pad and rolled over and in.

Getzlaf nearly added a goal late in the frame, stripping Jason Strudwick of the puck and dekeing a backhand in tight, but Deslauriers stretched out the right pad to stop the Olympian.

Canada’s Olympic captain Niedermayer got on the scoreboard at 5:31 after tipping in Getzlaf’s power-play point shot through traffic for his sixth of the season.

Ducks’ defenceman Steve Eminger came to Hiller’s aid midway through the second as Oiler captain Moreau streaked in alone. Eminger dove out and swept the puck away just before Moreau pulled the trigger.

Moreau capitalized shorthanded with less than a minute to go in the second, but, catching Hiller out of position with a shot from the half-wall that beat Hiller on the far side.

Just over five minutes into the third Parros whipped a shot from the corner that caromed off an Edmonton defender’s skate and in for a brief 5-2 lead, but 45 seconds later Visnovsky finished off a tic-tac-toe play to pull Edmonton within two.

Hiller came up huge to preserve the margin halfway through the third, kicking out the left pad on a one-timer off a cross-crease pass to Shawn Horcoff.

Edmonton went 1-for-5 with the man advantage while the Ducks were 4-for-11.