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Creighton Ross of Cochrane checks his lines near a unique ice hut on Sylvan Lake’s west side.

Photo by RANDY FIEDLER/Advocate staff

Huts doomed for the deep FISHING HUTS THAT CAN’T BE REMOVED FROM SYLVAN LAKE WILL SINK

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Any ice fishing huts left on Sylvan Lake will either be taken down by provincial officials or find a watery grave.

March 31 was the deadline to have all huts removed from Sylvan Lake as the warmer temperatures put an end to the fishing season.

Starting April 2 representatives

from Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development will try taking them down. If it isn’t safe for them to get out on the ice and remove the structures, the huts will remain out there and sink into the lake.

Beverly Anderson, Sylvan Lake management committee, has been encouraging people to get their huts off the lake as soon as the can.

Anderson and a few other people were tasked with counting the number

of huts on the lake and turn those numbers over to ESRD. If ESRD crews are able to retrieve some of the huts, they will be left on the shore for a week for owners to claim. However after that week they will be disposed of.

“We don’t want to be a service for people to just let the government pull their hut off,” said Anderson.

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CALGARY — A longtime friend of Alberta premier Ralph Klein said Saturday the family wanted his journey to end where it all began 44 years ago.

Rod Love said the family was offered a state funeral for Klein, 70, who died peacefully in his sleep Friday after a long illness.

He said the answer was no.

“Mrs. Klein and the family say he walked into the Old Calgary City Hall as a 26-year-old kid reporter and Mrs. Klein just said Ralph Klein that’s where it all started and that’s where I want it to end,” said Love, Klein’s friend and confidant in an interview outside his Calgary home Saturday.

A celebration of Klein’s life is expected to be held Friday at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, across the street from where Klein was a reporter and later Calgary’s mayor.

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A March that started out kind, quickly turned fierce as temperatures dipped well below average in Central Alberta.

Though the average high for the month of March is -4.1 C, Red Deer’s 2013 March dipped down to -8.5 C, said David Phillips, Environment Canada senior climatologist.

“March and April, we get so testy as Canadians,” said Phillips. “We want winter to be over, we’ve endured long winter, you’ve had snow since before Halloween and every time you look out you’re reminded of the fact of what season you’re in.”

The cold snaps of March run counter to the milder February with less snow than normal Red Deer experienced.

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HUTS: Most in very bad shape “Anything we take off is in really bad shape because we often have to drag it off or it may come off on its side ... they may even have to dismantle it.

There’s no guarantee anything brought to the shoreline will be in a usable shape.”

Because of the weather huts are more likely to be buried in the ice as with melting and freezing of March they become stuck in the ice.

After a week of resting on the shore the huts left over are demolished.

This year was the second of a program that allowed ice hut owners to register their hut.

Anderson said it has been a success this year, more so than last, in part because the Town of Sylvan Lake had provided some resources, including online registration through their website.

Last year was the first for the ice hut registration and 21 were registered, this year another 49 huts were added to the registry.

There are eight municipalities around Sylvan Lake with several of ice huts still on the ice. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

KLEIN: Long shot Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow is to be one of the speakers at the service.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper was also expected to attend.

Klein began as a long shot when he ran for mayor in 1980, but his grassroots message of change resonated.

He won and he never looked back.

Under his watch, the city hosted the Winter Olympics in 1988.

He made the jump to provincial politics and, as leader of the Progressive Conservatives for four successive majority governments, he proved that politicians who did what they promised and stayed the course could surmount the most divisive of policies.

During his time as premier, Klein introduced a number of austerity measures and privatization initiatives that, coupled with multi-billion-dollar, oilfuelled budget surpluses, eradicated Alberta’s accumulated $23-billion debt.

His cut-and-slash, damn-the-torpedoes philosophy — dubbed “The Klein Revolution” — changed the political tenor in Canada over deficit budgeting.

He stepped down in 2006, and fell into ill health shortly after.

Love said Klein never lost his sense of humour and he finds it amusing that people continue to ask what his secret to success was as if it was a “magic potion” or a “file in a safe”.

“The secret was he never lied to people. He said here’s the truth. The Ralph Klein that I met Labour Day of

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Ice huts on Sylvan Lake needed to be removed by Sunday.

1980 was the Ralph Klein that I said goodbye to at his bedside yesterday,” said Love, who was also once Klein’s chief of staff.

“I mean the politics and the policies and the things he did and everything he did...all of which were good and important and mistakes were made and so on and so forth....but are people talking about politics?

“No. They’re talking about Ralph.

What’s the legacy? The legacy is not what he did - the legacy is who he was.”

On the streets of Calgary, there were fond memories shared by many who simply knew Klein by his first name.

“It was always Ralph. He was just a down to Earth people person and that’s why I think people didn’t call him premier,” said Marilyn Benko.

“He’ll be remembered for all the good he’s done for Alberta, his friendliness and his compassion for the people and all the wonderful things he’s done for everyone.”

Books of condolences have been set in government buildings across Alberta.

The flags are half staff at Calgary’s McDougall Centre, which served as the premier’s office in southern Alberta.

Two uniformed Alberta sheriffs stood vigil near the portrait of Klein inside with three tables each with a book for the public to sign.

Only one person had signed by early Saturday afternoon.

“You brought colour to Calgary.

Thank you for bringing down the deficit,” wrote E. Goodey.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall added his name to those extending condolences to the Klein family Saturday remembering Klein’s kindness in meeting with him when he was the leader of the opposition.

there were only seven days above freezing.

During the month there was a period where multiple Alberta Clippers brought cold air through the region on a continual basis.

“What you do get is that vacuum with some arctic air,” said Phillips.

“Cold air rushes in behind it and the winds pick up, so there is a lot of blowing and drifting.

“There can be a lot of misery in an Alberta Clipper, even though it is not a Paul Bunyan snowfall.”

Even compared to March 2012, this years has been considerably rougher.

Just a year ago the average temperature for March was -2.1 C. “A little bit more snow last year, but it had pretty well disappeared by the end of the month,” said Phillips.

But things are looking up in Red Deer as there won’t be much new snow and with warmer days ahead a lot more subtraction “It has been fiercely lion like for most of the entire month,” said Phillips. “There was a touch of lambness at the beginning, but then the rest happened.

“There is some good news coming.

Normal highs and lows should be +6 C and -6 C and what we’re going to see is something normal. Which you haven’t had.”

While March was more miserable than normal, Phillips said April should be warmer than normal.

“We’re going to see a warm up,” said Phillips.

“It’s not going to be a rush, you’re not going to go from slush to sweat, it’s going to be a slow move there. We think the models are suggesting, by the end of April, it will have been warmer than normal.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

“He was very generous with his time and with his counsel as he reflected on the importance of not losing contact with the people even as the most difficult decisions that would effect their lives needed to be made,” said Wall in a statement.

Love said Klein was a champion of Alberta rights but was equally proud to be Canadian.

“I think former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow, who’s going to be saying a few words next Friday, put it best,” Love said.

“He said Ralph Klein showed that you can be an ultra strong Albertan and defender of Alberta rights and still be a fabulous Canadian.”

Calgarian Nancy Cormier agreed and said she will remember Klein for his convictions.

“I voted for him,” she said.

“I think he will be remembered for speaking frankly about what he thought of Alberta and for sticking by the people. I think he will be missed a lot. ” “It’s always Ralph. When you hear the name Ralph your mind goes to him.”

MARCH: Rare time “One thing I rarely ever see is when March is colder than February,” said Phillips.

“In March the sun is up, you’re getting some of that warm air coming. It really was a set back. It was almost two full degrees colder than February.”

Red Deer received snowfalls on 11 days in March and most were dustings.

The coldest day of the month was March 23, when the mercury dipped to -25.6 C, and throughout the month

Exxon cleans up Canadian crude spill amid debate over Keystone MAYFLOWER, Ark. — Exxon Mobil Corp. says crews are working to contain and clean up an oil spill near Mayflower, Ark., after its Pegasus pipeline ruptured Friday afternoon.

The pipeline carries Canadian heavy crude oil from Patoka, Illinois to refineries on the Texas Gulf coast.

Exxon Mobil issued a release saying the company was responding to a spill of more than 10,000 barrels, and that

some 4,500 barrels of oil and water had been recovered.

The latest spill comes at time when proponents of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline have been trying to convince Washington to give the $7 billion project the green light.

Opponents of TransCanada Corp.’s plan to pipe Alberta oilsands bitumen to the U.S. Gulf Coast denounce it as an environmental catastrophe in the making.

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Guards ‘left to own devices’ PRISON GUARDS LACK ‘COMMON UNDERSTANDING’ ON BASIC HUMAN RESPECT FOR INMATES: INTERNAL SURVEY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s prison guards are essentially being left to their own devices when it comes to treating inmates with basic human respect, according to an internal survey report obtained by The Canadian Press.

The “ethical climate survey” of Correctional Service Canada staff included a question about “treating offenders with respect as human beings.”

However, responses to the question from the survey’s 2,200 participants were dropped from the final report because of a “lack of unanimity.”

“Most probably, the (corrections) community does not share a common understanding and expectations regarding respect toward offenders,” the report states.

“Apparently social values around respect toward offenders have not been encouraged within CSC to the same extent as values of respect toward the organization and co-workers — leaving this aspect to each individual’s discretion.”

The document says without proper training, employees rely on “what is deeply ingrained in their beliefs” to

‘APPARENTLY SOCIAL VALUES AROUND RESPECT TOWARD OFFENDERS HAVE NOT BEEN ENCOURAGED WITHIN CSC TO THE SAME EXTENT AS VALUES OF RESPECT TOWARD THE ORGANIZATION AND CO-WORKERS — LEAVING THIS ASPECT TO EACH INDIVIDUAL’S DISCRETION.’ — CORRECTIONAL SERVICE OF CANADA REPORT

mould how they treat offenders.

The report’s analysis notes several respondents brought up concerns about staff who abused their power, a problem it says could be tackled through workshops focused on values and ethical issues.

The findings open a window on the mindset of correctional officials at a time when a coroner’s inquest into the 2007 prison death of troubled teenager Ashley Smith has exposed how a mix of personal action and bureaucratic procedure shape treatment of the incarcerated.

Smith choked herself to death inside her segregation cell at the Grand Valley Institution in Kitchener, Ont., while guards, ordered not to intervene, stood watch outside.

Kim Pate, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, said the apparent lack of

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agreement from staff on humane treatment should serve as a shot across the bow of prison authorities.

“It should be a significant wake-up call to Correctional Service Canada, and instead of burying it or ignoring it and taking it out of the survey some sort of concerted effort to address this should be in order.”

Pate said the survey underscores what she called a shift under the Harper government toward punishment of prisoners and away from rehabilitation.

“One of the most consistent complaints I’ve heard from staff, particularly (those) who work with women in prison, is that they don’t receive a lot of training in how to support and assist prisoners — that the priority seems to be on how to use force,” Pate said.

A corrections spokeswoman said the prison service is studying the report.

“The survey results raise important issues for employees, supervisors and senior managers across the Correctional Service of Canada and will inform actions at all levels,” Sara Parkes said in an email.

“CSC continues to work to apply its values in the workplace and integrate them into its practices and processes, as well as to support and strengthen the ethical culture in the workplace.”

Parkes also said employees are given training on ethics and workplace values when they are hired and again on appointment to specific jobs.

The poll of workplace values follows a pair of earlier ethics questionnaires done in 2007 and 2009. A subsequent audit determined results from those surveys, which drew on much smaller sample sizes and found similar results, were not acted upon at most participating correctional institutions.

The 2012 voluntary survey was administered online to staff ranging from guards patrolling cell blocks to toplevel bureaucrats carving out policy in Ottawa.

In all, about 12 per cent of the corrections workforce responded. The results are considered accurate within five percentage points 19 times out of 20.

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Don’t limit new approach to mentally ill, U.S. experts tell Ottawa Canada should not limit its new approach to homelessness to only people with mental illness or those who are perpetually on the streets, says a group of top U.S. experts with 10 years of experience in the field.

Canada’s recent embrace of the “Housing First” principle — helping homeless people put a permanent roof over their heads quickly, no strings attached, no questions asked — will undoubtedly save money and reduce homelessness if implemented wisely, say three pioneers of the approach in the United States.

But they said the new strategy should be applied across the board, since it would benefit homeless people of all kinds — not just the subset of those with serious mental health issues or who are frequently on the street or in shelters.

“The principle works across more than just the chronic population,” said Nan Roman, president of the Washington-based National Alliance to End Homelessness.

Roman was accompanied by Barbara Poppe, executive director of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, and Mark Johnston of the Office of Community Planning and Development, which falls within the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

They were in Ottawa to meet with senior officials at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada to explain what has gone right and what has gone wrong over the past 10 years of Housing First strategy south of the border.

“We are today where the U.S. was 10 years ago, so we have the opportunity to skip ahead,” said Tim Richter, the president of the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness. “We have a huge opportunity to avoid some of the mistakes that were made.”

In the federal budget, the government surprised anti-poverty advocates by announcing a five-year renewal of funding for the Homelessness Partnering Strategy.

At the same time, it also announced that the Housing First principle should be central. It pointed to evidence from a massive pilot project run by the Mental Health Commission of Canada.

That project — At Home/Chez Soi — helped find and pay for homes for mentally ill homeless people in five cities across Canada, and then bombarded the recipients with as many social services they needed to stay housed.

The project has an 85 per cent success rate so far, matching the U.S. experience. Most homeless people in the project are still living in their first or second apartment one year after the project team intervened.

While only preliminary, the project’s results are so convincing that Human Resources Minister Diane Finley committed five years of funding to the approach, since she has long been irked by the inability of governments to move beyond “managing” homelessness to actually reducing it, herspokeswoman said.

“The evidence shows that the Housing First approach can be implemented across Canada, improves the lives of those who are homeless and have a mental illness; and makes better use of public dollars, especially for those who are high service users,” the bud-

‘WE ARE TODAY WHERE THE U.S. WAS 10 YEARS AGO, SO WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SKIP AHEAD. WE HAVE A HUGE OPPORTUNITY TO AVOID SOME OF THE MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE.’ — TIM RICHTER, PRESIDENT OF THE

CANADIAN ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS get states.

The mental health commission estimates that about 50 per cent of homeless people in Canada have a severe mental illness, with up to 70 per cent dealing with mental health challenges.

A study in Toronto found that 71 per cent of people in shelters have a mental illness, an addiction or both.

But the benefits of stable housing for families that are homeless for economic reasons are enormous, said Johnston.

And if the federal government’s new emphasis on Housing First is to appeal to conservatives in Canadian society, he warned, the government would be wise to cast its net widely.

“If you’re just focused on the chronically homeless, you’re going to lose political support.”

Traditionally in both countries, the emphasis has been on transitional housing, shelters and emergency services, with each community taking its own preferred route. But there was no evidence that any of it was reducing homelessness.

The United States turned to Housing First years ago, and many communities in Canada are increasingly inclined to head in that direction. But there has been no federal incentive to do so until now.

A federal direction is essential, said Johnston, because it makes sure that communities don’t just announce an end to homelessness but also develop a long-term plan to reorient a wide array of social services to support recently housed recipients.

By providing incentives, research and expected outcomes, the federal government ensures communities make concrete progress.

A bit of competition between communities to see who has the better outcomes doesn’t hurt either, said Poppe.

“I would say the federal leadership in the U.S. has been key, it’s been absolutely key,” added Roman. For now, Canada does not have an accurate count of homeless people, nor does it know exactly how each demographic becomes homeless or stays that way.

But now that the At Home/Chez Soi five-year study is nearing its end, Canada has iron-clad research that Housing First does work in reducing homelessness and reducing costs, said Cameron Keller, a vice-president at the mental health commission.

As the federal government implements Housing First across the country through the Homelessness Partnering Strategy, he expects to see governments use rental subsidies to enable homeless people to choose where they want to live, and then work with experts to figure out what kind of social supports they need to stay there.

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Harper faces rising dissent History suggests that Prime Minister Stephen Harper should take the first open caucus rebellion of his sevenyear tenure seriously.

A restless caucus does not always breed a leadership challenge, but it is a rare leadership challenge that is not preceded by backbench flare-ups.

Such episodes routinely feature MPs who toil in CHANTAL relative obscuHÉBERT rity, with little prospect of advancement, but in politics hope springs eternal.

It does not necessarily follow that their actions are completely divorced from the thought that they could do better under a different leader.

The MP who is the public face of last week’s challenge to Conservative party discipline is a fourth-term member of the government’s social conservative wing.

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Mark Warawa, MP from Langley, B.C., is the author of the latest in a string of Conservative motions on the matter of abortion.

None has passed to date. This one asks the House to condemn sex-selective abortions.

The previous week, that resolution was deemed non-votable by a parliamentary subcommittee. Then last week, Warawa, who planned to raise the demise of his motion in the House, was struck off the list of Conservative MPs who were slated to deliver statements in the lead-up to question period.

On Tuesday, Warawa appealed to the Speaker to lift the gag imposed upon him by his party’s parliamentary officers. Other Conservative MPs expressed sympathy for him.

It would be tempting to ascribe the incident to the usual anti-abortion suspects within the government and to dismiss it as the latest in a series of collisions between them and Harper.

But the prime minister’s latest efforts to shut down the abortion debate have caused the discussion to expand into the larger field of parliamentary democracy.

Some Conservative MPs are apparently getting tired of barking only at

the command of their master’s minions.

The issue is a sensitive one for the government. It has earned a well-deserved reputation for taking no prisoners in the House of Commons.

Warawa’s challenge also comes right on the heels of a just-as-rare breach in cabinet solidarity.

Two weeks ago, Small Business Minister Maxime Bernier broke ranks with Finance Minister Jim Flaherty over the appropriateness of leaning on the banks to keep mortgage rates up.

Bernier has always been a bit of a maverick but he is popular among the party’s libertarian wing and has a larger following than any other Quebec minister.

The social conservative MPs who went to the barricades for the right to speak their minds last week have an even more influential soulmate in the senior ranks of the cabinet. Last fall, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney voted against the prime minister on a motion calling for a parliamentary examination of fetal rights.

Kenney is widely considered a potential candidate to succeed Harper.

In addition to his social conservative credentials, he has built a formidable network in the country’s ethnic com-

munities.

That network made him a key architect of Harper’s 2011 majority victory and an invaluable asset in the next one, especially if Trudeaumania should break out in the diverse suburban communities that will largely determine the outcome of the 2015 election.

Over the past year, he has succeeded in blowing his own media horn to a degree that his cabinet colleagues can only envy.

That is not to say that Kenney is conspiring to undermine Harper’s authority. The flag of the religious right can be a stifling one for a politician with national aspirations. He is too smart to wrap himself tightly in it.

But the first consequence of episodes such as this week’s challenge is to seed suspicion within the caucus and the cabinet. After seven years, it would not take all that much to trigger a chain reaction that would have every ambitious member in the government thinking about his or her place in a post-Harper future and manoeuvring accordingly.

On that score, the toothpaste may already be out of the tube.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

Does selling off our resources make us an energy superpower?

Energy is on everyone’s minds these days. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is determined to make Canada an energy superpower, fuelled mostly by Alberta’s tarsands.

Meanwhile, Alberta Premier Alison Redford, elected to lead a province with a strong economy, now finds energy price fluctuations are reducing provincial revenues. Saskatchewan is booming from oil, gas and uranium revenues, and B.C. Premier Christy Clark plans to vastly expand exploitation of liquefied natural gas, which requires huge amounts of energy and involves the highly contentious practice of fracking.

While Quebec Premier Pauline Marois maintains a moratorium on fracking, New Brunswick Premier David Alward claims it’s an energy opportunity for his province. Former Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty’s progressive Green Energy Act is under serious attack, and Harper eagerly embraces exploration for oil as Arctic sea ice and tundra melt from the warming climate.

While the federal government demonizes environmentalists as “radicals” bent on derailing exploitation plans for the tarsands and other natural resources, opposition is rising against pipelines to transport Alberta’s diluted bitumen to the B.C. coast via Enbridge’s Northern Gateway or to Texas refineries via the Keystone XL. Much of the oil would be exported to countries like China, where the extreme negative effects of fossil fuel pollution are increasing daily.

Politicians who want to make significant change must focus primarily on re-election if they are to see their agendas come to fruition. That means they

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must respond to immediate economic demands while leaving longer-term problems like climate change and water issues on the back burner.

Surely the enduring consequences of today’s actions or inactions must be a priority. We’ll be living with the ramifications of the current crop of politicians’ decisions and actions long after they’ve been relegated to history.

Crisis is a powerful motivator, as we saw during the economic crash of 2008. In a matter of weeks, President George W. Bush and his successor, Barack Obama, committed hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out banks and automobile companies — without imposing any conditions that might get them to change their ways. I was astounded at the speed and scale of these actions, compared to the ineffectual snail’s pace on ecological issues that threaten the survival of our species and our way of life and society.

The science has been in for more than two decades: Human use of fossil fuels creating unprecedented levels of greenhouse gases is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere, leading to climate and weather effects that will be chaotic and devastating.

Continued increases in emissions will only exacerbate what is already an out-of-control atmospheric transformation of the biosphere — our only home.

We claim brainpower makes us superior to the rest of life on this planet. But what use is intelligence if we don’t use it to respond to threats and opportunities?

After all, foresight was a great human attribute that brought us to a position of dominance on the planet. We used our knowledge and experiences

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to look ahead and recognize potential dangers and favourDAVID able circumstances so we SUZUKI could take some control over our destiny by acting to avoid hazards and exploit possibilities.

This is Canada’s moment. We are confronting a crisis with the economy and energy. No economy can grow forever; it is simply impossible on a finite planet. Shouldn’t we ask what an economy is for? How much is enough? What are the limits? How do we build a sustainable economy? We have learned from painful experience in single-resource communities that relying primarily on one major component of the economy — logging, fishing, mining – makes for dangerous boom-and-bust cycles.

Nations that export fossil fuel too often become over-reliant on that sector. That destabilizes the economy (as we’re seeing in Alberta), distorts priorities (leading to the so-called “Dutch disease” where other parts of the economy are neglected or ignored) and undermines democracy by holding government hostage (as we saw in the enormous lobbying power of industry in the last U.S. presidential election).

The future of energy in Canada will determine the fate of our society. It must be widely discussed, nationally as well as provincially, beyond the boundaries of politics and economics. This is about the type of country we will leave to our children and grandchildren.

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HST comes to an end in B.C. BUSINESSES ARE NOW GRUDGINGLY FORCED TO RETURN TO THE FORMER PST AFTER TAKING THE PAST TWOAND-A-HALF YEARS GETTING USED TO THE SIMPLIFIED, VALUE-ADDED HST File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canada praised for stance on pollution from Arctic shipping ‘CANADA ACTUALLY TOOK QUITE GOOD LEADERSHIP ON THIS ISSUE.’

BY BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada is winning a rare bit of environmental praise from the international community for its stance on pollution from shipping in Arctic waters.

Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show Canada is pushing hard to outlaw the discharge of oily wastes or garbage anywhere in the North.

Canada’s proposal, during negotiations for a mandatory global shipping code in the Arctic, has won the support of several countries including Germany and France — nations that often criticize Canada over the issues of climate change and management of wildlife such as seals and polar bears.

“Canada actually took quite good leadership on this issue,” said Lars Erik Mangset of the World Wildlife Fund, which was an official observer at the talks held in late March in London.

Countries belonging to the International Maritime Organization have been working to thrash out a mandatory code of conduct for shipping in Arctic waters as climate change makes the formerly ice-choked seas more accessible.

The talks involve everything from the safety of sailors and construction standards for ships to rules to protect the delicate Arctic environment.

Forecasts suggest Arctic shipping will continue to grow over the coming decades in both vol-

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ume and type — everything from huge ore carriers to cruise ships carrying thousands of tourists.

Last September, an informal meeting in Washington of states involved in the talks produced a document outlining minimum standards on environmental protection.

“It aims quite low,” said Mangset in an interview from Oslo, Norway.

In London, Canadian negotiators proposed much higher standards, based on Canadian legislation that has been in place since 1970. Those rules — similar to those in place for the Antarctic — forbid discharging oil, oily waste, or any kind of garbage into Canadian Arctic waters.

“The Canadian and Antarctic experience demonstrates that a zero discharge standard is practicable,” says the Canadian proposal.

“The Canadian experience also shows that it is not a significant barrier to cost-effective shipping, for purposes ranging from community supply to resource development and limited but growing through traffic.”

Transport Canada, the department responsible for the negotiations, said the proposal is intended to ensure standards around the circumpolar world match those

already in place in Canada.

“Canada continues to support the development of an international polar code that will provide an equivalent level of safety and environmental protection to that of our law,” said spokeswoman Kelly James.

Although Canada’s proposal was not formally tabled, it garnered enough support to make its way into recommendations that will now go meetings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee.

Those recommendations suggest dumping oil, oily waste or garbage into any part of the Arctic be against international law.

The next talks take place in May. Although the polar code was supposed to be in place already, Mangset said the earliest talks could end would be 2014, followed by an 18-month implementation period.

Shippers now operate in the Arctic under guidelines developed by the International Maritime Organization, as well as a welter of rules and benchmarks developed by other bodies.

The polar code, being negotiated under the auspices of the International Maritime Organization, is intended to bring all those issues under the same agreement.

Funding woes could cripple integrated rescue team’s response in national crises

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — When a massive landslide engulfed homes in the quiet hamlet of Johnson’s Landing in British Columbia last summer, a specially-trained integrated emergency task force was among the first to respond.

Now that same team must be saved, Vancouver’s fire chief said, or Canada’s national and international response to crises could be seriously crippled.

Fire Chief John McKearney met with federal safety officials last week, asking the government for $1.6 million to keep the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue program afloat for the next three years. “(It’s) a last-ditch effort to salvage this national program,” McKearney said in an interview, adding the funds would be spread between teams in B.C., Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.

Funding for the existing rescue crew runs out at the end of April, McKearney said, and could mean the team won’t be able to respond to national or international disasters.

“It’s a huge concern,” McKearney said.

“We’re not just a heavy-lift team or a structural-collapse team. It’s really an all-hazards approach.”

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced federal funding for the program would be cancelled after the 2012 fiscal year, as part of the Conservative government’s efforts to reduce the deficit.

But McKearney said the government didn’t fully grasp the consequences.

Currently able to operate selfsufficiently for up to 10 days, the Heavy Urban Search and Rescue team would have to rely on host communities for lodging, food, transportation and supplies if funding is cut — something the local municipalities aren’t always equipped to do in major catastrophes.

The integrated task force is currently made up of medics, firefighters, engineers, and search and rescue crews. It co-ordinates efforts of emergency responders across four provinces in the event of major floods, landslides, earthquakes, building collapses, or other disasters.

Their training is unique, McKearney said.

Members of the heavy-urban response team have the know how to save those trapped in confined spaces, tunnels and mounds of rubble.

“We have the ability to produce 30,000 litres of fresh water a day

One dead, one wounded in shooting

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Toronto police say it’s believed that multiple firearms were used in a shooting in the parking lot of a north Toronto mall where a man was killed and another wounded Saturday night.

Toronto police Det. Rob North says 23-year-old Michael Nguyen died after getting shot in the Yorkdale mall parking lot near a store entrance around 8 p.m.

North says Nguyen was known to police but added there is no indication the shooting was gang related.

from swamp water — all these things that really mitigate most of the disasters,” he added.

What makes the service so crucial, however, is the way four heavy urban teams collaborate across provincial borders and lend their specialized skill set to already-established police, fire and emergency departments in the areas they serve.

“If we have something major ... we can rely on, talk the same language, and (have) the same position and same equipment as the three other heavy teams,” McKearney said.

It’s taken years to establish standardization of skill sets across the provinces, the fire chief said, and Canada risks forfeiting that “plug-and-play approach” if they’re unable to continue annual training and collaboration.

“That truly will be lost — that really is the sad part about it,” he said.

“We would be moving from about a $3-million cache ... down to a $1-million cache of equipment. Our team size would move from just over a 125 staff to just under a hundred.”

Public Safety Canada issued an email statement in response to questions from The Canadian Press regarding future funding for the program.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Today marks British Columbia’s official return to the provincial sales tax after an almost five-year crash-and-burn relationship with the harmonized sales tax.

Introduced in 2009 as a saviour for business, but rejected in a historic peoples referendum in August 2011, the HST managed to cling to the province’s political, social and business fabric until now — taking with it former premier Gordon Campbell and possibly the current Liberal government of Premier Christy Clark as victims.

British Columbians go to the polls on May 14, with the Opposition New Democrats, who called the HST a $2 billion transfer of wealth from consumers to businesses, expected to form the next government.

Businesses are now grudgingly forced to return to the former seven per-cent PST after taking the past two-and-a-half years getting used to the simplified, value-added HST, which combined the fiveper-cent federal goods and services tax with the PST. Former B.C. finance minister Kevin Falcon once referred to the PST as a “stupid tax,” for its complications and exemptions, but he was one of many Liberals quick to admit the government employed a bone-headed strategy to sell the HST to British Columbians.

Barely three months after winning its third consecutive term in May 2009, Campbell’s Liberal government announced it had accepted Ottawa’s $1.6 billion offer to move to a harmonized federal-provincial tax system.

The announcement was viewed with skepticism, especially since B.C. had consistently rejected previous federal offers to move to the an HST. The federal cash offer and the potential gold mine for business now appealed to Campbell’s Liberals who were virtually silent on the HST in the past, but now faced a massive budget deficit voters didn’t know about during the election campaign.

Almost immediately, a grassroots Fight-HST movement began, enlisting former premier Bill Vander Zalm as a spokesman, while more than 500,000 people signed up to oppose the tax, prompting a provincewide referendum on the HST under B.C.’s direct democracy laws which allow for recalls of politicians and votes on some initiatives.

Campbell resigned mid-term, essentially admitting peoples concerns about his policies had stalled the progress of his government.

The tax went down to defeat in August 2011, but it’s taken until now to officially bring back the PST. B.C.’s small business minister Naomi Yamamoto said she has some concerns that not every business has properly registered to move to the PST for April 1, but for the most part, it will be business as usual.

“We will see all those permanent exemptions prior to the HST reintroduced,” she said.

“So, people will not be paying PST on things like gym memberships and restaurant meals, bicycle purchases, haircuts. But for the majority of purchases some may make they will probably see no difference at all.”

Yamamoto said about 25,000 businesses have yet to register to collect the PST. She said about 100,000 B.C. businesses, mostly retailers, will collect the PST. She said the Finance Ministry has undertaken to contact every eligible business about their need to sign up and how they can do it on line or through consultations.

She said the ministry has made more than 115,000 calls to businesses, written to each business twice and conducted almost 2,000 personal consultations with businesspeople.

“There’s no provision, regrettably, in the legislation for leniency,” said Yamamoto.

“So businesses really are obligated if they are selling a product or service that attracts the tax, they have to collect it. But it’s not the Ministry of Finance’s intent to audit all of these businesses.”

She said the ministry wants to help speed the process in any way it can.

B.C. chamber of commerce president John Winter said he believes the majority of businesses will be signed up by April 1, but he expects in-store issues in the first few days as customers examine their receipts to see if they were charged taxes or not charged.

“My sense is it’s going to be chaotic,” he said.

“There’s going to be a lot of cash register discussions.” The provincial government struck a deal with the federal government to pay back the $1.6 billion in the months after the HST was defeated.

The money will gradually be returned over the next five years, interest free.

Falcon said at the time that getting a break on the interest would save the province $100 million.

“Obviously, in a perfect world, I wish we didn’t have to pay back anything,” the minister told reporters in January last year as he announced the agreement.

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Pope prays for peace on Easter FRANCIS CELEBRATES FIRST EASTER AS PONTIFF PLEADING FOR WORLD PEACE BEFORE HUGE VATICAN CROWD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis marked Christianity’s most joyous day with a passionate plea for world peace, celebrating his first Easter Sunday as pontiff in the enthusiastic company of more than 250,000 people who overflowed from St. Peter’s Square.

With eloquent words in his Easter message, Francis lamented enduring conflicts in the Middle East, on the Korean peninsula and elsewhere and remembered the world’s neediest people. With physical gestures, he illustrated the personal, down-to-earth caring he brings as a pastor to this new papacy — cradling a disabled child held out to him in the crowd and delightedly accepting a surprise gift thrust

at him.

Francis shared in his flock’s exuberance as they celebrated Christianity’s core belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead following crucifixion. After Mass in flower-bedecked St. Peter’s Square, he stepped aboard an open-topped white popemobile for a cheerful spin through pathways in the joyous crowd, kissing babies, smiling constantly and patting children on the head.

One admirer of both the pope and his favourite soccer team from his Argentine homeland, Saints of San Lorenzo, insisted that Francis take a team jersey he was waving at the pontiff — “take it, go ahead, take it,� the man seemed to be telling the pope.

Finally, a delighted Francis obliged, briefly holding up the shirt, and the crowd roared in

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Pope Francis waves from the loggia of the St. Peter’s Basilica to the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square, at the Vatican Sunday. Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter’s Square, packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans and bedecked by spring flowers.

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approval. He handed the shirt to an aide in the front seat, and the popemobile continued its whirl through the square.

In a poignant moment, Francis cradled and kissed a physically disabled boy passed to him from the crowd. The child worked hard to make one of his arms hug the pope back, then succeeded, smiling in satisfaction as the pope patiently waited for the boy to give his greeting.

Francis has repeatedly put concern for the poor and suffering at the centre of his messages, and he pursued his promotion of the causes of peace and social justice in the Easter speech he delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the same vantage point above the square where he was introduced to the world as the first Latin American pope on March 13.

The Roman Catholic leader aimed his Easter greetings at “every house and every family, especially where the suffer-

Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter’s Square, packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans and bedecked by spring flowers. Wearing creamcolored vestments, Francis strode onto the esplanade in front of St. Peter’s Basilica and took his place at an altar set up under a white canopy.

ing is greatest, in hospitals, in prisons.� Francis prayed that Jesus would inspire people to “change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace.�

As popes before him have, he urged Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks and end a conflict that “has lasted all too long.� And, in reflecting on the two-year-old Syrian crisis, Francis asked, “How much suffering must there still be before a political solution� can be found?

The pope also expressed desire for a “spirit of reconciliation� on the Korean peninsula, where North Korea says it has entered “a state of war� with South Korea. He also decried warfare and terrorism in Africa, as well as what he called the 21st century’s most extensive form of slavery: human trafficking.

The first pontiff to come from the Jesuits, an order with special concern for the poor, and the first pope to name

himself after St. Francis, a medieval figure who renounced wealth to preach to the downand-out, Francis lamented that the world is “still divided by greed looking for easy gain.�

Earlier, wearing creamcolored vestments, Francis celebrated Mass on the esplanade in front of the basilica at an altar set up under a white canopy.

He frequently bowed his head as if in silent reflection.

Francis seems to bring good weather to Rome. As has happened on several of the other first public outdoor appearances of his fledgling papacy, huge throngs defied forecasts of heavy rain to turn out.

They were rewarded by dry skies and some bursts of sun through clouds.

Vatican officials said by mid-ceremony, 250,000 people had come to the square, and thousands of others, including last-minute Romans, flocked to the square just in time to catch his blessing at the end.

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Rebels to clash with Hitmen SIDNEY CROSBY

CROSBY OUT WITH BROKEN JAW The Pittsburgh Penguins say Sidney Crosby has a broken jaw and is out indefinitely after being hit in the mouth with a puck in a win against the New York Islanders.

The Penguins said on the team website Sunday that Crosby had surgery Saturday night, and there will be an update on his status later in the week. Crosby, the NHL’s leading scorer, was struck in the face with a puck in the first period of the Penguins’ 2-0 win on Saturday.

The team said Crosby also had “major dental work” and will have more work done later in the week. The Penguins have won 15 straight games, and next play Buffalo on Tuesday.

Monday

● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m.

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR All along, the Red Deer Rebels suspected the Calgary Hitmen were next on their post-season list.

That much was confirmed Friday when the Edmonton Oil Kings eliminated the Kootenay Ice from the WHL playoffs with a 4-1 win in Game 5 of their Eastern Conference quarter-final, thus earning a date with the Medicine Hat Tigers and leaving the Rebels and Calgary to clash in the other conference semifinal.

For there to be another semifinal scenario, the Ice would have had to roar back from a 3-1 deficit in games to shock the defending league champion Oil Kings, setting up a Calgary-Kootenay meeting and a battle between Red Deer and Medicine Hat. “We kind of thought it would be Calgary with them being up 3-1 (over Swift Current) and Edmonton being up 3-1 on Kootenay,” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter said Sunday. “There would have had to be a major upset for that to change, so we’ve been preparing the last few days like we would be facing Calgary.”

The Hitmen will go into the series — opening Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Saddledome — as favourites, but to suggest the Rebels will be heavy underdogs would be wrong. Red Deer was 2-4 versus Calgary in regular-season play, with just one of the six meetings decided by more than a single goal, and that was a 4-2 Hitmen victory.

The Hitmen finished 12 points clear of their northern neighbours during the regular season, but as Sutter noted, his squad started slow and finished strong.

“If you look at the standings and take away our first six to seven weeks of the sea-

son, our record is as good as theirs,” said the Rebels bench boss. “We had a pretty good record over the final 20 (regular-season) games or so and then we played well in the first (playoff) round. Now it’s a new opponent and another new challenge for us and we have to be ready for it. The team we’re playing is a good team, a very good team, and yet we match up well with them and I think we’ll be fine.”

The Rebels were 14-6-1 over their final 21 regular-season outings — and that included three successive losses to Calgary and Edmonton just prior to the playoffs — and then swept the Prince Albert Raiders in conference quarter-final play. Clearly, Sutter feels his team has never been better this winter than is currently the case.

“We’re a different team now and I’m sure they (Hitmen) are somewhat different also.

But I think we match up well against them,” said Sutter.

The Hitmen have a clear advantage over

Midget Rebels win provincial finals

Tuesday

● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m.

Wednesday

● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m.

Thursday

● Junior B hockey: Provincial championship at Wainwright — Red Deer Vipers vs. Grande Prairie Kings, 1 p.m. ● Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, first game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Saddledome.

Friday

● Gymnastics: Southern zones and trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics, Collicutt Centre. ● Senior hockey: Provincial AA/A championships at Innisfail. ● Junior B hockey: Provincial championship at Wainwright — Red Deer Vipers vs. Cold Lake Ice, 1 p.m.

Curling: Red Deer Curling Centre club championships, 6:15 and 8:30 p.m. ● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, second game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, time TBA, Saddledome.

Saturday

● Gymnastics: Southern zones and trials to Westerns at Exelta Gymnastics, Collicutt Centre. ● Senior hockey: Provincial AA/A championships at Innisfail. ● Junior B hockey: Provincial championship at Wainwright — Red Deer Vipers vs.

Wetakiwin Ice Kings or Sherwood Park Knights, 9:30 a.m.; semifinals at 8 and 8:30 p.m.

the Rebels in terms of size, blueline experience and overall depth. But Patrik Bartosak gives the Rebels an all-important edge between the pipes.

“They’re a big team and have an older defence, and yet we’ve played well against them,” said Sutter. “With the two teams being rivals, the players are going to show a lot of emotion and intensity and you have to expect it to be a very intense series.”

The likes of Bartosak, defenceman Mathew Dumba and first-line forwards Turner Elson, Rhyse Dieno and Brooks Maxwell were front and centre against Prince Albert, and will have to continue in that vein versus the Hitmen.

“At this time of the year and at every level, your best players have to be your best players,” said Sutter. “Plus, you’re going to get some other guys to really step up like we did in the first series. We had other guys play well for us.

“Of course, goaltending is still a key and it has to be for any team that wants to have success.”

The second game of the series will go Friday at the Saddledome, although with Rogers Sportsnet considering televising the game, a start time has yet to be determined.

The conference semifinal will shift back to the Centrium for games Monday and Tuesday.

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Red Deer Optimist Rebel Chief Ian McLellan drives wide on Edmonton Southside Athletics player, Jake Debrusk, during game five of the best-of-five Alberta Major Midget Hockey League final Saturday at the Arena.

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 1 Athletics 0 It came down to the best defence against the best offence in the Alberta Midget Hockey League championship final.

And in the end defence won out as the Red Deer Optimist Rebels Chiefs edged the high-scoring Edmonton Southside Athletics 1-0 in the deciding game of the best-of-five final before over 1,200 fans at the Arena Saturday afternoon.

All three Red Deer victories were shutouts — 5-0, 4-0 and 1-0 — while they had one bad game — an 8-2 loss — and dropped a 1-0 decision in the other game.

“It says a lot about how well (goaltender) Matt (Zentner) played and how well our de-

fence rallied around each other,” said Rebels head coach Doug Quinn.

“For our defence to shut down the top offensive team in the league says a lot about us as a team.”

It was even more impressive considering the Rebels played most of the series shorthanded on defence. Colton Bobyk had his appendix out after the first game and didn’t return while Gabe Bast missed most of the series with a hip flexor before returning Saturday. As a result Quinn moved forward Jack Goranson back to the blueline for the first time in his career.

It was the fourth year in a row the Rebels captured the league title and it may be the most rewarding, said Quinn.

“They’re all exciting, but this one is probably extra special as we’ve never had the injuries before,” he said. “For the kids to battle through some adversity and rally around each other was really special.”

The game had a little bit of everything — drama, hitting, outstanding goaltending at both ends and an eventual hometown celebration. It also was a game where both teams knew one mistake, or a penalty, could be the difference. In fact there was only one penalty and that to Red Deer in the second period.

In the end Zentner shared the spotlight with Rory Davidson, who beat

Edmonton netminder Jordan Papirny at 16:04 of the third period.

“It took long enough, but we knew if we kept pushing one would finally go in,” said Davidson.

“We knew it wouldn’t be a cake walk, they’re a skilled team but we talked before the game to shoot low, drive the net and keep banging away and finally it happened.”

Davidson connected after one of the few mistakes by Papirny, who got caught out of the net trying to take the angle away from Dustin Gorgi, who managed to shovel the puck in front where Davidson out-fought a pair of Edmonton defenders to score the biggest goal of his life.

“No doubt it’s the biggest so far,” he said.

Davidson has been a major force with the team so it came as no surprise to see him score the big goal.

“Rory has had a real strong second half of the season and that carried through the playoffs, he does well both on offence and defence,” said Quinn, who admitted he was worried as the game wore on.

“That’s usually how these games go. I thought we were playing well and working hard, but they are so skilled and all it takes is one bad bounce here or a bad break there and you could be down a goal.”

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Astros make impressive debut in AL with win over Rangers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Astros 8 Rangers 2 HOUSTON — Rick Ankiel and the Houston Astros made an impressive debut in the American League, trouncing the Texas Rangers 8-2 Sunday night in the major league opener and giving Bo Porter a win in his first game as manager.

Ankiel launched a pinchhit three-run shot for the first homer this season, Bud Norris pitched well for the win and Erik Bedard threw 3 1-3 scoreless innings for his first career save.

Having switched from the National League to the AL in the off-season, the Astros earned their first opening day victory since 2006 and the 4,000th regular-season win in franchise history.

The Astros are coming off consecutive 100-loss seasons and has the lowest payroll in the majors, prompting many to predict they will be the worst team in the majors. But Houston opened in style wearing spiffy new uniforms that brought back the orange and blue of old-

school Astros teams.

Justin Maxwell added a pair of triples and made a nifty catch in centre field.

Norris (1-0) allowed five hits and two runs with five strikeouts in 5 2-3 innings. He was one of five Astros making their first opening day start on baseball’s second-youngest team.

Bedard shut down the Rangers on one hit the rest of the way for his first save in a 10-season career.

As Houston began a new era with the move to the AL, the Rangers were embarking on a new chapter without 2010 AL MVP Josh Hamilton. Along with Hamilton’s departure to the Angels, Texas also lost catcher Mike Napoli and infielder Michael Young.

The loss snapped a streak of four straight opening day victories by the Rangers. Former Astros star Lance Berkman had two hits in his first game as Texas’ designated hitter.

Matt Harrison (0-1), who signed a $55 million contract this off-season, yielded six hits and five runs and tied a career

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Texas Rangers’ Elvis Andrus prepares to tag out Houston Astros’ Jose Altuve who attempted to steal second base in the first inning of a major league baseball game Sunday, in Houston. high with nine strikeouts in 5 2-3 innings.

Maxwell’s two-out triple in the fourth inning broke a scoreless tie and gave Houston a 2-0 lead. The ball bounced off the wall in left field and scored Brett Wallace and Carlos Pena, who both got on with singles.

Umpires reviewed the play to make sure it wasn’t a home run, and upheld the call.

An error by right fielder Nelson Cruz let Houston score a run in the fifth, and Jose Altuve singled home another.

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Hall leads Oilers past Canucks HALL BREAKS GRETZKY’S RECORD FOR FASTEST HAT TRICK TO HELP OILERS TO THIRD STRAIGHT WIN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — It didn’t take long for the Edmonton Oilers to announce they were serious about rejoining the hunt for a playoff spot.

Taylor Hall had a hat trick as the Oilers scored early and often to make it three victories in a row for the first time this season, blowing past the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 on Saturday.

Devan Dubnyk made 23 stops for his second shutout of the season and Ladislav Smid also scored for the Oilers (1413-7), who have gone 6-2-2 in their last 10 games.

Hall’s third goal also set an Oiler record as the fastest hat trick to start a game at 7:53, beating a standard of 12:38 set

by Wayne Gretzky in 1986.

“It’s a pretty special moment that I will never forget,” Hall said. “Playing in an organization like this one, the records you are trying to break have been set by pretty legendary players.”

The Oilers are now in a four-team tie just one point back of eighth-seed St. Louis in the Western Conference playoff race.

“We’re a whole different team right now,” said Oilers head coach Ralph Krueger.

“You can see the dynamics of the group evolving these last 10 games and the confidence level going up.

“The position we were in, almost out of it three games ago, and now we are right back at the line.”

Hall said it is great to see his team right in the thick of the battle for a playoff spot.

“There are so many ups and down during the season and when the lows are really low you have to remember times like this,” he said.

“You just go on a bit of a tear and you never know what spot you could end up in. We’re really excited to be playing meaningful games right now and we have to make

use of them.”

The Canucks (19-10-6) meanwhile saw a six-game winning streak come to an end.

“At the start of the game it just seemed like they were in fifth gear and we were in third gear,” said Canucks goalie Cory Schneider, who was yanked after allowing two goals on the first two shots of the game. “I don’t (know) the reason for that. It was an ugly first 10 minutes, but after that we had some push-back and settled the game down. Unfortunately the damage had been done already.

“Maybe it’s a good wakeup call for us.”

Edmonton was unstoppable to begin the game, scoring on their first three shots.

The Oilers got to Schneider very quickly in the contest, scoring just 16 seconds in on the first shot of the game.

Hall was able to come in wide with speed for a breakaway and blasted a shot gloveside over Schneider’s shoulder for an early 1-0 Edmonton lead.

The Oilers scored on their second shot as well just over two minutes in as Smid scored a rare goal on a shot from the point to make it 2-0 before many fans had taken their seats.

Roberto Luongo came in to replace Schneider, who had allowed just six goals over Vancouver’s last six games and had a pair of shutouts in that span.

Luongo didn’t fare much better as the Oilers then scored on their third shot of the game 2:43 into the first period. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins fed it through to a hard-charging Hall, who sent his second of the game stick-side past the Canucks backup.

It was the fastest three goals from the start of the game in Edmonton’s franchise history, breaking the record of three in 3:25 against Colorado in 1981.

Edmonton was far from done yet, making it 4-0 before

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Edmonton Oilers’ Corey Potter and Taylor Hall celebrate Hall’s goal against the Vancouver Canucks during first period NHL action in Edmonton, on Saturday. eight minutes had elapsed on their fifth shot as Hall earned his third career hat trick, stuffing it between Luongo’s legs from the side of the net on the power play.

The Oilers had 11 first-period shots to 10 from the Canucks on Dubnyk.

Edmonton was coming back for more with eight minutes gone in the second frame but Luongo was able to make a huge glove save on a tip by Lennart Petrell.

There was no scoring in the second period, as Vancouver continued to lead on the shot clock 18-14.

Hall came very close to getting his fourth goal of the game

with seven-and-a-half minutes left in the third period but Luongo made a desperate diving save to keep the puck out of the net.

There was no scoring in the third period either, as the Oilers clamped down the lid on defence.

Both teams return to action on Monday as the Oilers play host to the Calgary Flames and the Canucks travel to San Jose to face the Sharks.

Notes: It was the third of five meetings between the two divisional rivals this season, having split the previous two games, each win coming for the road team. Vancouver picked up a 3-2 overtime win

in the most recent match-up in February, its fifth victory in the past six games against Edmonton and 14th in the last 19 overall ... Despite struggling to score goals of late, Daniel Sedin still leads the Canucks in goals scored with 10 ... Vancouver forwards Zack Kassian (back) and Dale Weise (shoulder) were both out of the lineup, as was defenceman Keith Ballard (foot) was also absent with a minor foot fracture ... Oilers forward Eric Belanger remained out with a groin injury ... Oilers forward Sam Gagner, who recorded his 250th point on Thursday, played in his 400th career NHL game.

Clutch par earns Points the win at Houston Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

D.A. Points celebrates on the 18th hole after winning the Houston Open golf tournament, Sunday, in Humble, Texas. Points came back from a long rain delay and made four pars, the last of which gave him a one-shot victory and an invitation to the Masters.

HUMBLE, Texas — D.A. Points can always find a ray of light in the darkest clouds.

He arrived at the Houston Open having failed to break 70 in his last nine rounds on the PGA Tour.

He had made only two cuts in nine tournaments this year, both times finishing at the bottom of the pack.

All that changed Sunday, even after a final round most appropriately delayed by thunderstorms.

Points returned from the long delay by making four pars, and the last one from just outside 12 feet gave him a one-shot victory in the Houston Open.

It also provided another two-year exemption on tour. He gets to start next year in Hawaii.

And he’s on his way back to Augusta National for the Masters.

“I never count myself out,” Points said. “I never just chalk it up like, ’Oh, this year is over with.’ I’ve never felt like that. I was just grinding, just trying to wait and try to find that one thing that like, ’Boom!

There it is.’ And there I go. Fortunately, it was this week and I capitalized on it.”

He made it hard on himself in a final round at Redstone where a dozen guys felt as if they had a chance to win on the back nine. Only in the final hour did Points seize control, and then he had to work hard not to lose the lead.

A 5-iron to the 17th came up 40 yards short of his target, and he chipped up to tap-in range to take a one-shot lead to the tough 18th. He hit a hybrid from 231 yards that nearly went into the bunker, leaving another long chip. This one came up shorter than he wanted, but the putt was true.

“I’ve been having a really tough year,” Points said.

“To have a putt to win, you want that starting out every week. I would have liked for it to have been closer.”

Points closed with a 6-under 66, the final putt helping him avoid a playoff with Masters-bound Henrik Stenson and Billy Horschel.

Stenson birdied his last two holes for a 66 before the storms rolled across Houston, and while he came up one shot short, he moved up to No. 42 in the world ranking to earn an invitation to the Masters.

Horschel was on the 18th tee when play was halted, and then had to wait some more for his turn to hit

on the tough driving hole. He split the middle, found the green and two-putted for par to join Stenson in the clubhouse lead.

They waited around for a playoff that wasn’t necessary when Points saved par on his last two holes.

Points, who finished at 16-under 272, picked up his second PGA Tour victory, and this time he had to supply his own comic relief. He won two years ago with actor Bill Murray as his partner in the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. When the tension mounted, Points flashed his caddie an exaggerated smile to help keep it all in perspective.

It worked, and now they can smile all the way to Augusta.

“I never not think it’s on my radar,” Points said of his last-minute entry to the Masters. “I want to win.

I want to win more than once. I want to have the opportunity to win majors, and win majors. I want to play in Ryder Cups and Presidents Cup. These are things I want to do, and I know I’m capable of doing.”

Twenty players were separated by four shots going into the final round, and it stayed that way for a while, with a dozen players poised to make a run and seize control as the storm clouds gathered.

Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., shot a finalround 72 to finish 10 shots back in a tie for 31st.

Phil Mickelson opened his final round with four straight birdies, and he was still in the picture until a three-putt double bogey on the 14th hole. He had a 68, and wound up six shots behind. Dustin Johnson had the lead at one point until he missed a short birdie putt on the 11th, and then hit his 5-wood into the water on the reachable par-4 12th hole, leading to bogey. He wound up with a 65 and finished two shots behind.

Ben Crane, who played alongside Points, had birdie chances on the last two holes that would have dropped if he had hit them hard enough. Crane had a 68 and tied for fourth with Johnson.

Kevin Chappell was briefly tied for the lead. He had a 68 and tied for sixth, along with Brian Davis (67) and Stewart Cink (70).Cink started the final round tied for the lead. Cink returned from the delay by making a 5-foot par putt, an 18-foot birdie putt and a 10-foot par save on the 17th to get within two shots of the lead. He needed Points to make bogey on the last hole to have any chance.

Jacobs stays unbeaten at worlds with win over Finland

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Brad Jacobs and his Canadian rink got points for messy housekeeping Sunday at the world men’s curling championships.

The Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., skip remained unbeaten after three draws as he posted a pair of victories — first an 8-6 decision over Finland’s Aku Kauste and then thumped Scotland 9-4.

Canada, whose players are competing in his first-ever worlds, remained the only undefeated team after handing Scotland (2-1) its first loss.

In both cases, Jacobs prevailed after mastering a house cluttered with junk.

In the morning draw, the messiness was more of his own doing as he overcame an early 4-1 deficit by putting up plenty of junk instead of deploying his usual clean, takeout-based game.

“It wasn’t a typical game for us,” said Jacobs. “We like to try to build a lead and peel, as everyone knows.

“We did that in the first game (a win

over China), but this game was totally the opposite. But it’s nice to have a game like that, too, where you have to come back to win.”

He and his rink of third Ryan Fry, second E.J. Harnden and lead Ryan Harnden forced Kauste to make several misses. Things got messy for the Finns again in the evening Sunday as they were hammered 9-2 by Denmark, who stole the last five points.

In other evening draw action, Switzerland doubled the U.S. 8-4, while Norway played Japan in a game that had yet to be completed before Canada’s win.

The Finns seemed rattled in their nightcap after Jacobs was able to overcome his deficit.

“There was a lot of rocks in play because we had to come back,” said Jacobs.

“We were trying to get rocks in play, and then it was a close game, so we were trying to steal or whatever.”

“We knew that we had to grind that (game) out,” added Fry. “We made a

large amount of shots the last half of the game. Usually, if you outplay the other team in the last half, you’ll be somewhere close to a win.”

In afternoon action, Scotland edged Denmark 5-4, while Sweden suffered its first loss with a 5-4 defeat against China.

Japan, meanwhile, beat the United States 7-6 and the Czech Republic beat Russia by the same score.

Jacobs posted his eighth-straight victory dating to the Brier that he captured in Edmonton in early March.

The streak includes three Brier playoff games and three round-robin contests.

While thrilled to remain undefeated on the world stage, he was looking for a better effort from himself and his rink heading into an evening game.

“It’s really not a performance that we’re proud of,” said Jacobs. “You never like to struggle like that. But, still, we came back, we fought hard, and we got the win.”

The Finns were looking for a strong

effort after squandering a 4-0 lead against Sweden in the opening draw.

But they were disappointed again as Kauste struggled with his turns and draw weight.

“We had some really good ends at the beginning, taking the big four where we had control,” he said. “Then we just let it go — a couple of big misses, some ends where we really didn’t put our rocks in the right places.”

With Finland lying three in the third end, Jacobs wrecked on a guard with his first attempt.

He tried to offset the damage by getting his second shot closer to the button than one Finnish rock, but Kauste made a short angle-raise takeout to go up 4-1.

“The (four-ender) was just a horrible end, right from lead to skip, and we knew, no matter who you’re playing, you’re going to give up a big end when that happens,” said Fry. Jacobs said his rink struggled to get used to the ice on sheet C after playing its first game on sheet A.

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Monday, April 1, 2013

Hockey

Basketball NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader

WHL Playoffs All Times Local FIRST ROUND Conference Quarter-finals (Best-of-7)

Saturday’s Games Washington 4, Buffalo 3, SO Minnesota 4, Los Angeles 3, SO San Jose 3, Phoenix 2, SO Philadelphia 3, Boston 1 Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Islanders 0 Colorado 1, Nashville 0, OT Carolina 3, Winnipeg 1 Toronto 4, Ottawa 0 Montreal 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 Florida 3, New Jersey 2, OT Edmonton 4, Vancouver 0

EASTERN CONFERENCE Red Deer (4) vs. Prince Albert (5) (Red Deer wins series 4-0) Edmonton (1) vs. Kootenay (8) (Edmonton wins series 4-1) Friday’s result Edmonton 4 Kootenay 1 Wednesday’s result Edmonton 4 Kootenay 0

Sunday’s Games Chicago 7, Detroit 1 Philadelphia 5, Washington 4, OT Los Angeles 3, Dallas 2 Columbus 2, Anaheim 1, OT Boston 2, Buffalo 0

Saskatoon (2) vs. Medicine Hat (7) (Medicine Hat wins series 4-0) Calgary (3) vs. Swift Current (6) (Calgary wins series 4-1) Thursday’s result Calgary 3 Swift Current 1 WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Everett (8) (Portland leads series 3-2) Saturday’s result Everett 3 Portland 2 Friday’s result Portland 11 Everett 4 Monday, Apr. 1 Portland at Everett, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Everett at Portland, 7 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Kelowna (2) vs. Seattle (7) (Seattle leads series 3-2) Saturday’s result Kelowna 4 Seattle 3 Wednesday’s result Kelowna 4 Seattle 0 Tuesday, Apr. 2 Kelowna at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 7:05 p.m.

Spokane (4) vs. Tri-City (5) (Spokane wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Spokane 3 Tri-City 1 Thursday’s result Spokane 4 Tri-City 3 (OT) x — If necessary.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts d-Pittsburgh 36 28 8 0 56 d-Montreal 34 22 7 5 49 d-Winnipeg 36 18 16 2 38 Boston 34 22 8 4 48 Ottawa 35 19 10 6 44 Toronto 36 20 12 4 44 New Jersey 35 15 11 9 39 N.Y. Rangers 34 16 15 3 35 N.Y. Islanders 35 16 16 3 35 Carolina 33 16 15 2 34 Washington 35 16 17 2 34 Philadelphia 35 15 17 3 33 Buffalo 36 13 17 6 32 Tampa Bay 34 15 18 1 31 Florida 36 11 19 6 28

Ducks 1 at Blue Jackets 2 (OT) First Period No Scoring Penalties — Aucoin Clb (interference) 13:04, Steckel Ana (face-off violation) 15:40.

Second Period 1. Columbus, Brassard 7 (Letestu, Prospal) 9:34 Penalty — Tyutin Clb (delay of game) 6:43.

Third Period 2. Anaheim, Etem 3 (Cogliano, Allen) 5:55 Penalties — None Overtime 3. Columbus, Letestu 9 (Nikitin, Prout) 4:00 Penalties — None Shots on goal Anaheim 7 5 17 1 — 30 Columbus 9 4 1 4 — 18 Goal — Anaheim: Hiller (L,12-4-4); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W,12-8-6).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Anaheim: 0-2; Columbus: 0-1.

Attendance — 13,185 (18,144).

Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at Boston, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Washington at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Florida at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s summary

Kamloops (3) vs. Victoria (6) (Kamloops leads series 3-2) Saturday’s result Victoria 4 Kamloops 2 Thursday’s result Kamloops 5 Victoria 4 (OT) Monday, Apr. 1 Kamloops at Victoria, 7:05 p.m. (Bear Mountain Arena) Wednesday, Apr. 3 x-Victoria at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

GF 123 107 89 97 89 112 88 78 100 92 102 95 94 110 88

GA 84 83 106 75 76 100 97 84 112 97 101 108 113 103 125

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF 34 26 5 3 55 116 35 23 7 5 51 107 34 21 11 2 44 97 35 19 10 6 44 92 35 20 12 3 43 103 34 17 11 6 40 85 35 17 13 5 39 91 36 15 14 7 37 87 33 17 14 2 36 94 34 16 15 3 35 94 34 14 13 7 35 87 35 14 14 7 35 87 35 14 15 6 34 94 33 13 16 4 30 93 34 12 18 4 28 84

GA 74 90 86 90 88 84 92 97 93 103 95 96 101 114 108

d-Chicago d-Anaheim d-Minnesota Vancouver Los Angeles San Jose Detroit Columbus St. Louis Dallas Edmonton Nashville Phoenix Calgary Colorado

Penalties — Whitney Dal (hooking) 13:55, Martinez LA (interference) 17:08.

Second Period 2. Dallas, Ja.Benn 8 (Goligoski) 13:16 Penalties — None Third Period 3. Los Angeles, Richardson 1 (Clifford) 5:40 4. Los Angeles, Williams 7 (Brown, Voynov) 6:49 5. Dallas, Whitney 7 (Goligoski, Roy) 11:04 (pp) Penalty — Richards LA (hooking) 9:18.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 13 18 9 — 40 Dallas 4 4 7 — 15 Goal — Los Angeles: Bernier (W,8-2-0); Dallas: Lehtonen (L,12-9-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Los Angeles: 0-1; Dallas: 1-2.

Attendance — 15,719 (18,532).

Oilers 4, Canucks 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Hall 9 (Eberle, Smid) 0:16 2. Edmonton, Smid 1 (Petry, Petrell) 2:05 3. Edmonton, Hall 10 (Nugent-Hopkins, N.Schultz) 2:43 4. Edmonton, Hall 11 (Nugent-Hopkins, J.Schultz) 7:53 (pp) Penalties — Smyth Edm (high-sticking) 5:42, Pinizzotto Vcr (interference) 7:42, Sestito Vcr, Brown Edm (misconduct).

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Edmonton bench (too many men; served by Nugent-Hopkins) 3:20, Garrison Vcr (holding) 9:39, Jones Edm (high-sticking) 14:21.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalty — Tanev Vcr (delay of game) 18:42.

Shots on goal Vancouver 10 8 5 — 23 Edmonton 11 3 10 — 24 Goal (shots-saves) — Vancouver: Schneider (L,12-6-3)(2-0), Luongo (2:05 first, 22-20); Edmonton: Dubnyk (W,10-10-6).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Vancouver: 0-3; Edmonton: 1-3.

Attendance — 16,839 (16,839) at Edmonton.

Sunday’s summaries Blackhawks 7 at Red Wings 1 First Period 1. Chicago, Morin 1, 2:33 2. Chicago, Saad 5 (Frolik, Toews) 3:21 3. Chicago, Bolland 6, 4:12 Penalties — None Second Period 4. Chicago, Toews 17 (Saad) 3:52 5. Chicago, Saad 6 (Hjalmarsson, Toews) 4:00 Penalty — Toews Chi (delay of game) 8:24.

Third Period 6. Chicago, Bolland 7 (Hayes, Rozsival) 7:55 7. Chicago, Leddy 6, 16:21 8. Detroit, Emmerton 3 (Lashoff, Br.Smith) 19:27 Penalty — Shaw Chi (tripping) 12:15.

Shots on goal Chicago 13 7 6 — 26 Detroit 7 15 12 — 34 Goal (shots-saves) — Chicago: Crawford (W,14-43); Detroit: Howard (L,14-10-4)(14-10), Gustavsson (3:52 second)(12-9).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Chicago: 0-0; Detroit: 0-2.

Attendance — 20,066 (20,066).

Kings 3 at Stars 2 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Carter 20 (Richards, Penner) 0:25

Capitals 4 at Flyers 5 (OT) First Period 1. Washington, Backstrom 6 (Hillen, Johansson) 4:29 2. Philadelphia, Talbot 5 (Rinaldo, Timonen) 10:26 3. Philadelphia, Read 9 (Giroux) 14:55 Penalties — Giroux Pha (face-off violation), Simmonds Pha (goaltender interference) 15:52, Johansson Wash (tripping) 18:04.

Second Period 4. Washington, Green 5 (Laich) 18:42 Penalties — Schultz Wash (holding) 5:19, Lauridsen Pha (high-sticking) 10:19, Green Wash (holding) 16:36, Alzner Wash (roughing), Rinaldo Pha (charging) 18:55.

Third Period 5. Washington, Johansson 5, 6:22 (pp) 6. Washington, Ovechkin 18 (Carlson, Brouwer) 6:48 (pp) 7. Philadelphia, Giroux 11 (Timonen, B.Schenn) 12:48 (pp) 8. Philadelphia, Timonen 4 (Giroux, Simmonds) 19:50 Penalties — Lauridsen Pha (hooking) 1:54, Oleksy Wash (fighting, major), Voracek Pha (instigator, instigator-face shield, fighting) 5:04, Hartnell Pha (slashing) 7:15, Brouwer Wash (holding) 12:32.

Overtime 9. Philadelphia, Fedotenko 3 (Timonen, Couturier) 1:34 Penalties — None Shots on goal Washington 10 7 12 0 — 29 Philadelphia 7 10 14 3 — 34 Goal — Washington: Holtby (L,14-11-1); Philadelphia: Bryzgalov (W,15-14-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Washington: 2-7; Philadelphia: 1-4.

Attendance — 19,681 (19,538).

Bruins 2 at Sabres 0 First Period No Scoring Penalties — Bartkowski Bos (cross-checking) 5:08, Chara Bos (cross-checking), Ott Buf (diving) 12:01, Seguin Bos (diving), Ehrhoff Buf (holding) 16:59.

Second Period No Scoring Penalties — Boston bench (too many men, served

by Horton) 5:00, Horton Bos (hooking) 7:27, Horton Bos (slashing) 14:05.

Third Period 1. Boston, Krejci 8 (Horton, Bartkowski) 12:54 2. Boston, Horton 11 (Krejci, Lucic) 15:44 Penalties — None Shots on goal Boston 10 12 9 — 31 Buffalo 6 13 7 — 26 Goal — Boston: Khudobin (W,7-3-0); Buffalo: Miller (L,11-15-5).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Boston: 0-0; Buffalo: 0-4.

Attendance — 19,027 (19,070).

Baseball Baltimore Boston New York Tampa Bay Toronto

American League East Division W L Pct 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000

GB — — — — —

Chicago Cleveland Detroit Kansas City Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000

GB — — — — —

Houston Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Texas

West Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000

GB — 1/2 1/2 1/2 1

Sunday’s Games Houston 8, Texas 2 Monday’s Games Boston (Lester 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-0), 11:05 a.m.

Detroit (Verlander 0-0) at Minnesota (Worley 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Shields 0-0) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-0) at Cincinnati (Cueto 0-0),

2:10 p.m.

Seattle (Hernandez 0-0) at Oakland (Anderson 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Toronto, 5:07 p.m.

Texas at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia Washington

National League East Division W L Pct 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000

GB — — — — —

Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee Pittsburgh St. Louis

Central Division W L Pct 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000

GB — — — — —

West Division W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

No games scheduled Monday’s Games Miami (Nolasco 0-0) at Washington (Strasburg 0-0), 11:05 a.m.

San Diego (Volquez 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Niese 0-0), 11:10 a.m.

Chicago Cubs (Samardzija 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-0), 11:35 a.m.

Colorado (Chacin 0-0) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-0) at Cincinnati (Cueto 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Cain 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Hamels 0-0) at Atlanta (Hudson 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 0-0) at Arizona (Kennedy 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Colorado at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

St. Louis at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s Linescore

Pct .000 .000 .000 .000 .000

GB — — — — —

Sunday’s Games

AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas 000 002 000 — 2 6 1 Houston 000 223 01x — 8 9 0 M.Harrison, D.Lowe (6), Frasor (7), J.Ortiz (8) and Pierzynski; B.Norris, Bedard (6) and J.Castro.

W—B.Norris 1-0. L—M.Harrison 0-1. Sv—Bedard (1). HRs—Houston, Ankiel (1).

Fernando Martinez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27, and RHP Alex White on the 60-day DL. KANSAS CITY ROYALS—Selected the contract of INF Miguel Tejada from Omaha (PCL). Placed LHP Danny Duffy on the 15-day DL. MINNESOTA TWINS—Selected the contract of OF Wilkin Ramirez from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES—Placed OF Curtis Granderson, SS Derek Jeter, RHP Phil Hughes and 1B Mark Teixeira on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22. Selected the contract of 1B Lyle Overbay from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Recalled RHP Adam Warren from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Designated LHP Clay Rapada for assignment.

OAKLAND ATHLETICS—Placed SS Hiroyuki Nakajima on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27.

Optioned LHP Pedro Figueroa and INF Andy Parrino to Sacramento (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS—Selected and optioned the contract of RHP D.J. Mitchell to Tacoma (PCL).

Designated OF Casper Wells for assignment. Reassigned RHP Danny Farquhar, C Jesus Sucre, INF Brad Miller and OF Endy Chavez to their minor league camp.

TEXAS RANGERS—Placed RHP Colby Lewis, RHP Joakim Soria and LHP Martin Perez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22. Optioned RHP Cory Burns, RHP Josh Lindblom and INF Jurickson Profar to Round Rock (PCL). Selected the contracts of INF Jeff Baker and RHP Derek Lowe from Round Rock. Released INF Brandon Allen from Round Rock.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS—Optioned RHP Randall Delgado to Reno (PCL). Recalled OF Alfredo Marte from Reno. Selected the contract of INF Josh Wilson from Reno. Placed INF Willie Bloomquist, OF Adam Eaton, INF Didi Gregorius and OF Cody Ross on the 15-day DL; Eaton and Ross retroactive to March 22, Bloomquist to March 27 and Gregorius to March 30.

ATLANTA BRAVES—Selected the contract of C Evan Gattis from Gwinnett (IL). Placed LHP Jonny Venters on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27.

CHICAGO CUBS—Placed RHP RHP Matt Garza and INF Ian Stewart on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22, and RHP Scott Baker on the 60day DL. Optioned OF Brett Jackson to Iowa (PCL).

Selected the contracts of INF Brent Lillibridge and LHP Hisanori Takahashi from Iowa.

CINCINNATI REDS—Optioned RHP Logan Ondrusek to Pensacola (SL). Placed RHP Nick Masset on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22. Assigned RHP Jose Arredondo outright to Louisville (IL). Designated INF Jason Donald for assignment. Selected the contract of INF Cesar Izturis from Louisville.

Reassigned INF Emmanuel Burriss, C Corky Miller, OF Denis Phipps and OF Derrick Robinson to their minor league camp.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS—Placed RHP Chad Billingsley, LHP Scott Elbert and INF Hanley Ramirez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22,

and LHP Ted Lilly on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 28.

MIAMI MARLINS—Placed RHP Jose Ceda, 1B Logan Morrison and OF Alfredo Silverio on the 60day DL. Placed RHP Henderson Alvarez, RHP Nathan Eovaldi, 1B/OF Joe Mahoney and C Jeff Mathis on the 15-day DL; Alvarez retroactive to March 27, Eovaldi to March 24 and Mahoney and Mathis to March 22. Designated 3B Zack Cox, LHP Scott Maine, RHP Evan Reed and OF Gorkys Hernandez for assignment. Recalled RHP Alex Sanabria from New Orleans (PCL). Selected the contracts of RHP John Maine, RHP Chad Qualls, RHP Kevin Slowey, INF Chris Valaika, OF Austin Kearns, 1B Casey Kotchman and RHP Jose Fernandez.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS—Selected the contract of RHP Alfredo Figaro from Nashville (PCL).

NEW YORK METS—Optioned INF Zach Lutz to Las Vegas (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES—Optioned RHP Michael Stutes to Lehigh Valley (IL). Selected the contract of C Humberto Quintero from Lehigh Valley.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES—Placed INF Brandon Inge, RHP Jeff Karstens, LHP Francisco Liriano and RHP Charlie Morton on the 15-day DL; Inge retroactive to March 26 and the rest to March 22.

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Selected the contracts of INF Jeff Gyorko and INF Cody Ransom from Tucson (PCL). Placed INF James Darnell, INF Logan Forsythe and INF Chase Headley on the 15-day DL; Darnell and Headley retroactive to March 22 and Forsythe to March 27. Placed LHP Cory Luebke and RHP Casey Kelly on the 60-day DL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS—Placed 2B Tony Abreu, LHP Eric Surkamp and 1B Brett Pill on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22. Optioned RHP Jean Machi and OF Francisco Peguero to Fresno (PCL). Recalled INF Nick Noonan from Fresno.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS—Reassigned LHP J.C. Romero to their minor league camp.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS—Recalled C Nick Drazenovic from Springfield (AHL) on an emergency basis.

DETROIT RED WINGS—Recalled D Carlo Colaiacovo from Grand Rapids (AHL). Reassigned D Brian Lashoff to Grand Rapids.

EDMONTON OILERS—Recalled C Anton Lander from Oklahoma City (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS—Assigned C Tim Sestito to Albany (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS—Assigned F Kris Newbury to Connecticut (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS—Recalled D Matt Tennyson from Worcester (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS—Recalled G Philipp Grubauer from Hershey (AHL).

American Hockey League HAMILTON BULLDOGS—Released F Dean Ouellet from his professional tryout contract and D Matt Grassi from his amateur tryout contract.

Arizona Colorado Los Angeles San Diego San Francisco

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL—Suspended Tampa Bay F Nate Thompson two games for delivering an illegal check to the head of New Jersey F Matt D’Agostini during a March 29 game.

BUFFALO SABRES—Traded D Jordan Leopold to the St. Louis Blues for a 2013 second-round draft pick and a conditional 2013 fifth-round draft pick.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Recalled F Jeremy Morin from Rockford (AHL).

DALLAS STARS—Recalled F Toby Petersen from Texas (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS—Traded D Kent Huskins to Philadelphia for a conditional 2014 seventh-round draft pick.

FLORIDA PANTHERS—Returned F Greg Rallo to San Antonio Rampage (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES—Assigned G Jake Allen to Peoria (AHL).

ECHL ECHL—Suspended Greenville’s Jason Wilson pending a review and fined him an undisclosed amount for his actions in March 29 game against South Carolina.

WHEELING NAILERS—Announced G Scott Darling was to the team by Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES—Placed RHP Steve Johnson, INF Wilson Betemit and LHP Tsuyoshi Wada on the 15-day DL; Wada retroactive to March 22, Johnson to March 23 and Betemit to March 26.

Selected the contract of INF/OF Steve Pearce.

BOSTON RED SOX—Placed LHP Craig Breslow, LHP Franklin Morales and DH David Ortiz on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 22.

Selected the contract of OF Jackie Bradley Jr. from Pawtucket (IL). Designated INF Mauro Gomez for assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX—Optioned RHP Brian Omogrosso to Charlotte (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS—Placed RHP Frank Herrmann on the 15-day DL. Reassigned RHP Matt Capps, RHP Jerry Gil, RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka, C Omir Santos, INF Luis Hernandez and OF Matt Carson to Columbus (IL). Selected the contract of INF Ryan Raburn from Columbus. Designated LHP David Huff for assignment.

DETROIT TIGERS—Selected the contracts of OF Don Kelly and INF Matt Tuiasosopo from Toledo (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS—Selected the contracts of OF Rick Ankiel, LHP Erik Bedard and RHP Edgar Gonzalez from Oklahoma City (PCL). Recalled OF J.D. Martinez from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed OF

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-Miami 58 15 .795 — x-New York 46 26 .639 11 x-Indiana 47 27 .635 11 x-Brooklyn 42 31 .575 16 x-Chicago 40 32 .556 17 x-Atlanta 41 33 .554 17 Boston 38 35 .521 20 Milwaukee 35 37 .486 22 Philadelphia 30 43 .411 28 Washington 27 46 .370 31 Toronto 27 46 .370 31 Detroit 24 50 .324 34 Cleveland 22 50 .306 35 Orlando 19 55 .257 39 Charlotte 17 56 .233 41 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct 55 18 .753 54 20 .730 50 24 .676 49 25 .662 49 24 .671 42 32 .568 40 33 .548 38 36 .514 38 36 .514 36 37 .493 33 40 .452 27 47 .365 26 46 .361 26 48 .351 23 51 .311

x-San Antonio x-Oklahoma City x-Denver x-L.A. Clippers x-Memphis Golden State Houston Utah L.A. Lakers Dallas Portland Sacramento Minnesota New Orleans Phoenix

GB — 1 5 6 6 13 15 17 17 19 22 28 28 29 32

x-clinched playoff spot z-clinched conference 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

1/2 1/2 1/2

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

Saturday’s Games Dallas 100, Chicago 98 Atlanta 97, Orlando 88 Houston 98, L.A. Clippers 81 Memphis 99, Minnesota 86 Philadelphia 100, Charlotte 92 Oklahoma City 109, Milwaukee 99 Utah 116, Brooklyn 107 Indiana 112, Phoenix 104 L.A. Lakers 103, Sacramento 98 Golden State 125, Portland 98 Sunday’s Games New Orleans 112, Cleveland 92 Washington 109, Toronto 92 Chicago 95, Detroit 94 Miami 88, San Antonio 86 New York 108, Boston 89 Monday’s Games Detroit at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Houston, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Boston at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Milwaukee, 6 p.m.

Portland at Utah, 7 p.m.

Indiana at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m.

New York at Miami, 6 p.m.

Dallas at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Golf PGA-Houston Open Sunday At Humble, Texas Redstone Golf Club, Tournament Course Purse—US$6.2 million Yardage—7,441; Par—72 Final Round D.A. Points, $1,116,000 64-71-71-66 — Billy Horschel, $545,600 68-72-67-66 — Henrik Stenson, $545,600 69-70-68-66 — Ben Crane, $272,800 69-70-67-68 — Dustin Johnson, $272,800 69-70-70-65 — Kevin Chappell, $207,700 70-70-67-68 — Stewart Cink, $207,700 71-66-68-70 — Brian Davis, $207,700 67-70-71-67 — Jason Kokrak, $179,800 66-69-71-70 — Brendon de Jonge, $137,433 71-68-72-66 — Charles Howell III, $137,433 69-72-70-66 — Keegan Bradley, $137,433 70-70-67-70 — Bill Haas, $137,433 68-70-67-72 — Louis Oosthuizen, $137,433 70-72-65-70 — Lee Westwood, $137,433 68-72-67-70 — Angel Cabrera, $96,100 66-72-69-71 — Bud Cauley, $96,100 68-74-65-71 — Phil Mickelson, $96,100 72-71-67-68 — Cameron Tringale, $96,100 65-73-69-71 — Charley Hoffman, $77,500 68-71-70-70 — John Rollins, $77,500 65-74-71-69 — Chris Kirk, $59,520 71-70-72-67 — Doug LaBelle II, $59,520 71-71-72-66 — Greg Owen, $59,520 68-73-68-71 — Robert Streb, $59,520 70-71-71-68 — Steve Wheatcroft, $59,520 67-67-72-74 — Jeff Overton, $44,950 67-73-71-70 — Pat Perez, $44,950 72-71-70-68 — Kevin Stadler, $44,950 70-73-69-69 — Nick Watney, $44,950 71-71-72-67 — Aaron Baddeley, $35,163 70-71-72-69 — Ross Fisher, $35,163 73-69-72-68 — Tim Herron, $35,163 69-73-69-71 —

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Jin Park, $35,163 69-74-69-70 Daniel Summerhays, $35,163 72-71-69-70 Graham DeLaet, $35,163 71-71-68-72 Chez Reavie, $35,163 72-70-68-72 Charlie Beljan, $25,420 71-72-70-70 Bob Estes, $25,420 71-69-74-69 Matt Jones, $25,420 68-73-70-72 Brendan Steele, $25,420 70-71-71-71 Steve Stricker, $25,420 73-68-71-71 Chris Stroud, $25,420 71-72-71-69 Josh Teater, $25,420 74-67-69-73 Russell Henley, $18,154 72-70-74-68 Rory McIlroy, $18,154 73-70-71-70 John Merrick, $18,154 68-72-69-75 Scott Stallings, $18,154 70-69-73-72 Boo Weekley, $18,154 70-69-75-70 Harris English, $14,839 69-74-73-69 Jordan Spieth, $14,839 72-70-74-69 Jimmy Walker, $14,839 68-71-78-68 Gary Woodland, $14,839 72-70-73-70 Kelly Kraft, $14,839 70-72-72-71 Justin Leonard, $14,839 71-72-70-72 Steven Bowditch, $13,950 73-70-69-74 James Hahn, $13,950 74-69-68-75 David Lynn, $13,950 72-70-72-72 Troy Matteson, $13,950 71-71-73-71 Chad Campbell, $13,392 72-71-74-70 Brandt Jobe, $13,392 69-73-70-75 Jerry Kelly, $13,392 71-72-75-69 D.H. Lee, $13,392 72-71-68-76 Nicholas Thompson, $13,392 70-73-71-73 Hunter Haas, $12,834 69-71-74-74 Henrik Norlander, $12,834 74-68-73-73 Carl Pettersson, $12,834 74-69-74-71 Scott Verplank, $12,834 72-68-70-78 Ricky Barnes, $12,524 73-68-73-75 George Coetzee, $12,276 72-71-72-75 Cameron Percy, $12,276 73-70-71-76 Wes Short, Jr., $12,276 71-70-75-74

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Curling 2013 World Men’s curling championships VICTORIA — Standings Sunday following the fourth draw at the 2013 World Men’s Curling Championship, to be held through April 7 at the Save-onFoods Memorial Centre: Round Robin Country (skip) W L Canada (Jacobs) 2 0 Scotland (Murdoch) 2 0 China (Rui) 2 1 Sweden (Edin) 2 1 Czech Republic (Snitil) 2 1 Norway (Ulsrud) 1 1 Switzerland (Michel) 1 1 Japan (Morozumi) 1 1 U.S. (Clark) 1 1 Finland (Kauste) 0 2 Denmark (Stjerne) 0 2 Russia (Drozdov) 0 3 Sunday’s results Third Draw Canada 8 Finland 6 Norway 8 Switzerland 7 Fourth Draw Czech Republic 7 Russia 6 Japan 7 U.S. 6 Scotland 5 Denmark 4 China 5 Sweden 4 Fifth Draw Finland vs. Denmark; Scotland vs. Canada; U.S. vs.

Switzerland; Norway vs. Japan. - Late Saturday’s results First Draw Canada 7 China 6 Sweden 7 Finland 6 Czech Republic 8 Norway 5 Switzerland 6 Russia 4 Second Draw Scotland 7 Japan 5 China 12 Czech Republic 5 Sweden 6 Russia 5 U.S. 8 Denmark 3

Monday’s games Sixth Draw, 10 a.m.

Sweden vs. U.S.; Denmark vs. Russia; Japan vs.

China; Scotland vs. Czech Republic.

Seventh Draw, 3 p.m.

China vs. Russia; Finland vs. Norway; Sweden vs.

Czech Republic; Canada vs. Switzerland.

Eighth Draw, 8 p.m.

Denmark vs. Norway; Canada vs. U.S.; Switzerland vs. Scotland; Japan vs. Finland.

Tuesday’s games Ninth Draw, 10 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. Canada; Sweden vs. Switzerland; Finland vs. Russia; China vs. Norway.

Draw 10, 3 p.m.

Japan vs. Sweden; Russia vs. Scotland; China vs.

U.S.; Czech Republic vs. Denmark.

Draw 11, 8 p.m.

Finland vs. Switzerland; Japan vs. Denmark; Norway vs. Canada; U.S. vs. Scotland.

Wednesday’s games Draw 12, 9:30 a.m.

Norway vs. Scotland; U.S. vs. Finland; Denmark vs.

Switzerland; Japan vs. Canada.

Draw 13, 2:30 p.m.

Canada vs. Russia; Switzerland vs. China; Czech Republic vs. Finland; Norway vs. Sweden.

Draw 14, 8 p.m.

U.S. vs. Czech Republic; Scotland vs. Sweden; Russia vs. Japan; Denmark vs. China.

Thursday’s games Draw 15, 10 a.m.

Sweden vs. Denmark; Czech Republic vs. Japan; Scotland vs. China; Russia vs. U.S. Draw 16, 3 p.m.

Switzerland vs. Japan; Denmark vs. Canada; U.S. vs. Norway; Finland vs. Scotland.

Draw 17, 8 p.m.

China vs. Finland; Norway vs. Russia; Canada vs.

Sweden; Switzerland vs. Czech Republic.

End of Round Robin

Soccer Major League Soccer Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Montreal 5 4 1 0 6 Houston 4 3 1 0 8 Columbus 5 2 1 1 7 Kansas City 5 2 1 2 6 Philadelphia 4 2 2 0 6 New York 5 1 2 2 5 Toronto 4 1 2 1 5 D.C. 4 1 2 1 2 New England 4 1 2 1 1 Chicago 4 0 3 1 1

GA 4 4 4 3 5 6 6 4 2 9

Pts 12 9 7 8 6 5 4 4 4 1

Western Conference GP W L T GF GA Dallas 5 4 1 0 8 5 Chivas USA 5 3 1 1 10 7 Los Angeles 4 2 0 2 8 3 San Jose 5 2 2 1 5 5 Salt Lake 5 2 2 1 4 6 Vancouver 4 2 2 0 5 5 Portland 4 0 1 3 7 8 Colorado 5 0 3 2 4 7 Seattle 4 0 3 1 2 5 Note: Three points for a win; one for a tie.

Pts 12 10 8 7 7 6 3 2 1

Saturday’s results Los Angeles 2 Toronto 2 Kansas City 2 Montreal 0 Chivas USA 2 Vancouver 1 New York 2 Philadelphia 1 Dallas 1 New England 0 Portland 2 Colorado 2 Houston 2 San Jose 0 Salt Lake 2 Seattle 1 Friday, Apr. 5 D.C. at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 6 Dallas at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at Columbus, 3 p.m.

Salt Lake at Colorado, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Vancouver at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Montreal at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. (postponed) Sunday, Apr. 7 New York at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Chivas USA at Seattle, 9 p.m. (postponed)

Lacrosse GP x-Toronto 14 Rochester 11 Philadelphia 12 Buffalo 13

NLL East Division W L Pct. 9 5 .643 5 6 .455 5 7 .417 5 8 .385

GF 175 121 124 140

GA GB 157 — 111 2 1/2 154 3 170 3 1/2

West Division GP W L Pct. GF x-Calgary 13 8 5 .615 185 x-Edmonton 13 8 5 .615 171 Washington 13 7 6 .538 154 Minnesota 12 5 7 .417 154 Colorado 13 5 8 .385 148 x — Clinched playoff berth.

GA GB 173 — 139 — 153 1 151 2 1/2 163 3

Week 13 Saturday’s results Calgary 13 Washington 11 Rochester 12 Toronto 8 Colorado 10 Philadelphia 9 Friday’s results Toronto 18 Buffalo 11 Minnesota 20 Philadelphia 11 Week 14 Saturday, Apr. 6 Philadelphia at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Washington at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 7 Rochester at Toronto, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

BOWLING INDIANAPOLIS — Pete Weber tied Earl Anthony by winning his 10th major Professional Bowlers Association title with a 224179 win over Australian Jason Belmonte in the Tournament of Champions on Sunday. Weber also became the first bowler to finish the PBA triple crown a second time by adding his second Tournament of Champions to his two World Championships titles and five U.S. Opens. Weber won Sunday with three doubles, four spares and help from Belmonte, who left the 4-10 split three times and failed to convert it twice.

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Canada preparing to defend gold WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM LOOKING FOR ANOTHER STRONG SHOWING AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Win one, lose one, is the current state of the women’s hockey rivalry between Canada and the U.S. Neither country has been able to win two in a row against the other over the last three years. If one wins in the preliminary round at an international competition, the other prevails in the final.

So host Canada’s goal at the 2013 women’s world hockey championship in Ottawa is to defeat their rival to open the tournament Tuesday and again in a likely meeting between them in the April 9 final.

“The key is to find ways to beat the U.S. two games in a row,” head coach Dan Church says.

The International Ice Hockey Federation’s women’s world championship returns to the city where it was first held in 1990. Canada last hosted the tournament in 2007 in Winnipeg.

Canada and the U.S. have met in all 14 previous finals with Canada winning 10, but the Americans taking three of the last four world titles.

Canada is the defending world champion after beating the U.S. on their home ice in Burlington, Vt., in 2012. Caroline Ouellette of Montreal scored the overtime winner in a 5-4 victory in the final.

But the Canadians also opened last year’s world championship with a shocking 9-2 loss to the Americans,

which was Canada’s most lopsided loss to them ever. At the 2012 Four Nations Cup in Finland, Canada beat the Americans 3-1 in the preliminary round, but fell 3-0 to them in the final.

“The reality is we know the U.S. and us are really evenly matched,” Ouellette says. “On any given day, it can go one way or the other. We all have the responsibility to be as good as we can be on that day.

“I don’t think we can say anymore that we have more depth or more talent or more speed. They are as good as we are. Last year’s final at world championships was one of the fastest, most physical games I’ve been part of in my career. I do not expect anything less from this year.”

Canada’s world championship roster is the same as the 2012 lineup except for the return of forward Sarah Vaillancourt of Sherbrooke, Que. The two-time Olympic gold medallist hasn’t played for the national team since the 2011 world championship because of injuries.

Shortly after this year’s world championship concludes, Church is expected to invite these 23 players plus another five to try out for his 2014 Winter Olympic team. Those players will congregate in Calgary this summer and train full time until the Games in Sochi, Russia.

The IIHF instituted a new world championship format for the women last year with the top four seeds in one pool and the bottom four in the other.

Blackhawks get big win over Red Wings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blackhawks 7 Red Wings 1 DETROIT — In less than two minutes, the Chicago Blackhawks did all the damage they needed to do.

Brandon Saad had two goals and an assist and Dave Bolland scored twice in the Chicago Blackhawks 7-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings on Sunday.

“Especially these early games, it’s nice to get off to a good start,” Saad said. “We got a couple of bounces and got a couple of goals and it was nice to play with the lead.”

Jonathan Toews added a goal and two assists and Jeremy Morin and Nick Leddy, also scored for Chicago. Cory Crawford made 33 saves.

“Contributions from everybody. It certainly helps when you get a quick start like that right off the bat,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

Cory Emmerton scored Detroit’s goal. Jimmy Howard was pulled in favour of Jonas Gustavsson early in the second period. Gustavsson made nine saves.

Chicago led 3-0 at the end of the first period after scoring on its first three shots in a 1:39 span in the game’s first four-and-a-half minutes.

Morin, who was recalled from the minor leagues on Saturday, opened the scoring when he put one in from a goal-mouth scramble at 2:33. Saad capitalized on a breakaway off left wing to beat Howard, for his fifth goal of the season, 48 seconds later and Bolland was credited with his first goal of the game, at 4:12, when Detroit defenceman Jakub Kindl accidentally flipped the puck into his own net while trying to clear it from the crease.

“We didn’t play hockey tonight whatsoever. It’s tough when you spot them a few goals right away from the start,” Red Wings’ defenceman Niklas Kronwall said. “You did a big hole for yourselves and we couldn’t find a way to get back. It was embarrassing at times.”

The Red Wings didn’t manage a shot until 7:15 into the game and Detroit defenceman Brian Lashoff hit the goal post with a little under two minutes left in the opening period.

“We wanted to have a good first period,” Toews said. “We were glad to put up a lot of goals early. But we knew we couldn’t let up.”

Toews and Saad scored eight seconds apart early in the second period for a 5-0 lead.

Toews got his 17 goal, at 3:52. That sent Howard to the showers and Saad collected his sixth goal of the season at 4:00, on the first shot on Gustavsson.

Bolland’s second goal of the game and seventh of the season came 7:55 into the third. Leddy got his sixth goal, with 3:39 left. Emmerton thwarted Crawford’s shutout bid with 33 seconds left.

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REBELS: Excellent scoring chances Zentner finished the game with 20 saves, while his teammates had 41 shots on Papirny. However, both teams had a number of excellent scoring chances. In fact Zentner made a pair of outstanding leg saves with Papirny out in favour of an extra attacker. His biggest came with 20 seconds remaining when he stretched his right leg to the post to rob what looked to be a sure goal. “ I can’t even say what happened to the puck after I got my leg over,” said Zentner, who was in net for all three shutout wins.

“As a goalie you can’t do it all by yourself. No one person can do it, we did it as a group.”

Quinn, like his veteran netminder, gave everyone credit from the forwards on back, but also had special praise for Zentner.

“He had an outstanding game and came up with those big saves at critical times, which says a lot.

I’m really happy for him.”

While Zentner had all the pressure on his shoulders as the game wore on, he wasn’t about to let it get to him.

“I figured there would be a lot of guys nervous so I just tried to enjoy it and figured the more pressure the better. It pays off to

The top two teams in Pool A get byes to the semifinals. The bottom two in A meet the top two from Pool B in the quarter-finals, with those winners advancing to the semifinals.

The bottom two teams in B play to avoid relegation and won’t face the best teams in the tournament at all.

While the format alteration allows the U.S. and Canada to meet earlier in the tournament, the change was also done to reduce embarrassing scores.

So Canada and the U.S. are joined

by Switzerland, winner of bronze for the first time last year, and Finland. Sweden, Russia, Germany and the Czech Republic are in the second group.

Russia’s performance in Burlington exposed a flaw in the new format. The Russians didn’t win a single game in the tournament, yet because they were the fourth seed in the first group, they could finish no worse than sixth and avoided the relegation round.

Russia, whose stated goal is to win women’s hockey bronze in Sochi, recently named former NHL player Alexei Yashin as their new general manager.

Their star player is Iya Gravrilova, a teammate of Canadian captain Hayley Wickenheiser on the University of Calgary Dinos.

Other international players to watch include U.S. forward Amanda Kessel, a University of Minnesota star named the NCAA’s top player this year. She is the sister of Toronto Maple Leafs for-

ward Phil Kessel.

Kessel beat out Minnesota teammate and Finland goaltender Noora Raty for the NCAA award. The Finns will rely heavily on Raty to pull off an upset of Canada at the world championship, as will the Swiss on their goaltender Florence Schelling.

Canada is led by Wickenheiser and Jayna Hefford, both playing in their 12th world championship, and Ouellette in her 11th.

Meghan Agosta-Marciano of Ruthven, Ont., and Ouellette were standouts for Canada in Burlington. Edmonton’s Shannon Szabados has been Canada’s starting goaltender in big international games since her standout performance helped Canada win gold at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.

The national women’s team has experienced unprecedented turnover since 2010. With nine players in this world championship lineup who didn’t win gold in Vancouver, learning how to beat the U.S. when it counts at this world championship sets the tone for Canada’s Olympic preparation.

“For us, it’s about continuing to have that emotional maturity in big games,” Church said. “I think we have learned a lot from the last few events we’ve played together.

“Our biggest challenge as we move into Ottawa is to be prepared to win the first game of the round robin and hopefully go into a gold-medal game and if it’s against the U.S., we can play our best game there as well.”

Opening day across majors features big names, big hopes MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Kansas City Royals have been absent from the playoffs since the day Billy Butler was born. They’ve barely had a winning season in the last two decades.

They’ve often lost 100 games in a year.

And yet, buoyed by the best record in spring training, hope abounds — for the Royals, for most everybody putting on a big league uniform.

“There’s no reason we shouldn’t be better,” said Butler, the Royals’ All-Star slugger. “How much better that is? I’m not a mind reader. I’m not a projector.”

Ah, opening day.

The hot dogs taste better, the boxscores mean more and most every team thinks it’s just a break or two away from reaching the World Series.

A dozen games were set for Monday across the majors. Star pitchers Justin Verlander, Stephen Strasburg and Adam Wainwright try to get off to great starts, old rivalries are renewed at Yankee Stadium and Dodger Stadium, and a quirky interleague schedule unfolds.

No snow is in the forecast for any ballpark on April Fools’ Day, but freezing temperatures are expected at Target Field in Minnesota when Verlander and the AL champion Tigers take on the Twins.

“It’s going to be cold but I’ve pitched in that kind of weather before,” Verlander said. “I don’t think about it. It’s always cold in Detroit on opening day.”

The season started Sunday night in Houston when the Astros, who shifted from the National League to the American League during the winter, hosted the Texas Rangers.

Long the site of baseball’s traditional opener, Cincinnati was going to have a new look Monday. That’s when Josh Hamilton and his new Los Angeles Angels teammates visit Cincinnati in the first interleague matchup this season.

The Astros’ move left 15 teams in each league, meaning an AL vs. NL matchup most every day this season.

“It is very strange,” Reds manager Dusty Baker said.

On both coasts, there was a very familiar look — Red Sox-Yankees and Giants-Dodgers.

Mariano Rivera was set for his final opening day when the banged-up Yankees hosted Boston. The

keep it light.

“But it was great to see that goal go in. It was a greasy goal, but they all count.”

The defending national champion Rebels now travel to Vancouver to face the Northwest Giants in a best-of-three series, which begins Friday, to determine the Pacific Region champion for the Telus Cup. “It’s the fourth year in a row we’ve met, but I know we’re excited and I’m sure they are as well,” concluded Quinn. ● Bobyk was named to the league’s first all-star team with Rebels goaltender Jayden Sittler on the second team. Three members of the Athletics — forwards Giorgio Estephan, Riley Simpson and Jake Debrusk — were on the first team along with goaltender Tanner McCorriston of the Edmonton K of C Pats and rearguard Tyler Dea of St. Albert. Athletics Nic Charif and Connor James of Lloydminster were second team defencemen with Nicholas Merkley of the Calgary Buffaloes, Braden Jakubowski of Leduc and Matthew Gelinas of the Calgary Royals up front. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

BALL: Pinch-hit home-run Harrison put runners at first and second with walks in the sixth and was replaced by Derek Lowe

with two outs. Ankiel, the one-time pitcher with St. Louis, connected on his fifth career pinch-hit homer, a full-count shot to right field that made it 7-2.

Norris had a tough second inning and had to use 26 pitches to escape, striking out Mitch Moreland. Norris got on a roll from there, retiring nine of the next 10 batters.

Norris ran into trouble in the sixth when Ian Kinsler drew a walk and Berkman hit a one-out single. Murphy’s two-out single sent Kinsler home to make it 4-1.

Cruz followed with a groundball single that rolled just out of reach of diving shortstop Ronny Cedeno to score Berkman and chase Norris.

Chants of “Cruuuuuuuz” filled the stadium, indicating the large number of Rangers fans who made the 250-mile trip from Dallas. Norris was replaced by Erik Bedard, who is Houston’s fifth starter, but won’t be needed for a while in the rotation because of off-days.

NOTES: Altuve got the first hit of the 2013 season. ... These teams have a day off Monday before resuming the series on Tuesday when the Rangers’ Yu Darvish opposes Lucas Harrell. ... Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt, the NFL’s defensive player of the year, threw out the ceremonial first pitch. Watt, who said he threw a bullpen session to prepare for the task, threw a strike. ...

Texans star receiver Andre Johnson was also in the sold-out crowd of 41,307. ... Lyle Lovett performed the national anthem.

New York closer is among several big names who missed most or even all of last year — Troy Tulowitzki, Victor Martinez and John Lackey are in that group.

Injured stars Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson and Mark Teixeira won’t be in pinstripes for the first pitch.

“It’s still the Yankees, it’s still going to be a good lineup,” Boston starter Jon Lester said Sunday.

“They’re missing a few of their big guys but anybody that fills in for them, it’s like what I said, they’re going to put professional at-bats together and still — it’s not going to be a walk in the park.”

No easy decisions, either, for Boston manager John Farrell, one of six new skippers in the majors this year.

At Dodger Stadium, Matt Cain starts for the World Series champion San Francisco Giants when they play Los Angeles in the century-old rivalry.

It will mark the 64th season at the microphone for Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. Heck, Tigers manager Jim Leyland seems like a mere pup by comparison, now starting his 50th year in pro ball.

All-Star shortstop Hanley Ramirez is sidelined for the Dodgers. Around the majors, third basemen Chase Headley of San Diego, David Freese of St. Louis and Brett Lawrie of Toronto will begin the season on the disabled list.

Mets third baseman David Wright plans to be in the lineup at Citi Field to take on San Diego. He hurt his ribcage at the World Baseball Classic.

“I feel good physically,” Wright said. “It would have been nice to have maybe a few more at-bats toward the end, but I didn’t have that luxury.”

On Tuesday, there are two more openers — Baltimore at Tampa Bay, and Cleveland at revamped Toronto.

All 30 teams will pay tribute to the 20 children and six adults killed last December at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Players, managers, coaches and umpires will wear a memorial patch through Tuesday that includes the seal of Newtown, a black ribbon and 26 stars, and there will be a moment of silence at each stadium.

Seven weeks after teams broke out the bats and balls, players seemed ready to get going.

“I’m really prepared. Well, finally spring training is over, it was a long one,” Seattle ace Felix Hernandez said Sunday, a day before his start in Oakland.

“It’s another season. We’re a different team. It’s always special, opening day, not for me but for all the guys,” he said.

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

Kocher captures nationals event WHISTLER, B.C. — Canadian biathlete and twotime Olympian Zina Kocher of Red Deer was the top Canuck in the women’s event of the 2013 cross-country Haywood Ski Nationals Saturday.

Kocher, 30, finished the 30-kilometre skate-ski race in 1:19.31.4.

“It feels pretty awesome. I always wanted to do a long distance race and it was really fun,” said Kocher, who was competing in her first cross-country ski national championships. “It was really hot out there and I didn’t know if I would make it but I did. I had to dump a lot of water and Gatorade over my head when I could.”

Kocher suited up in one cross-country skiing World Cup race this winter.

Heidi Widmer, of Banff was second at 1:20:32.4.

Brittany Webster, of Caledon, Ont., placed third — 4:11.2 off the leading mark set by Switzerland’s Bettina Gruber, who posted the fastest women’s time at 1:18:41.1.

Meanwhile, Brent McMurtry was the top Canadian in the men’s competition, completing the 50-kilometre skate-ski marathon in 2:04.55.6.

McMurtry, who will now pursue a degree in engineering, finished .4 seconds behind American Torin Koos, but international athletes can not win medals at the Canadian championships.

McMurtry was joined on the podium by fellow Calgarian, Kevin Sandau, who was second at 2:04:56.9.

Brian McKeever, of Canmore grabbed his second medal of the week after skiing to the bronze with a time of 2:04:57.3.

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Final four set after wild weekend MICHIGAN, LOUISVILLE SYRACUSE AND WICHITA STATE HEAD TO ATLANTA

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATLANTA — An inspired Louisville squad vs. the surprising Shockers.

A new group of Fab Wolverines vs. the stingiest zone defence in college basketball.

After a weekend of blowouts and another upset, the Final Four is set.

Top overall seed Louisville will face Wichita State at the Georgia Dome next Saturday, while Michigan takes on Syracuse in the other national semifinal. The winners advance to the April 8 championship.

On Sunday, the Cardinals drew inspiration from a gruesome injury to guard Kevin Ware and cruised past Duke 85-63 in the Midwest Regional.

Michigan led from the opening tip, routing Florida 79-59 in the South.

A day earlier, Syracuse shut down Marquette 55-39 to win the East. Wichita State punched its Final Four ticket with a 70-66 upset of Ohio State out West.

In the final year of the Big East before it splits into two new conferences, Louisville and Syracuse provided a fitting send-off to a league that quickly became a basketball powerhouse after it was founded in 1979.

Before it goes, this version of the Big East has a shot at one more national title.

With two teams, no less.

The Cardinals — who, like Syracuse, are moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference — were the only No. 1 seed to make it to the Final Four.

And, boy, it’s been an impressive run.

Louisville (33-5) has won its four NCAA games by an average margin of nearly 22 points, capped by a second-half blowout of Duke after the Cardinals shook off the incredible shock of Ware’s injury with about 6 ½ minutes to go before halftime.

“We won this for him,” coach Rick Pitino said.

The sophomore snapped his lower right leg after coming down awkwardly while defending a 3-point shot. The injury occurred right in front of the Louisville bench, where the players gasped and turned away quickly at the sight of Ware’s dangling leg, which was broken in two places.

Russ Smith collapsed on-

to the floor, along with several players, and was crying as doctors attended to Ware.

While Ware was loaded onto a stretcher, the Cardinals gathered at midcourt until Pitino called them over, saying the injured player wanted to talk to them before he left.

The sophomore, who played his high school ball in suburban Atlanta, urged his teammates to complete the trip to the Georgia Dome. Pitino wiped his eyes as Ware was wheeled out, as did several Louisville players.

“All he kept saying — and remember, the bone is 6 inches out of his leg — all he’s yelling is, ‘Win the game! Win the game!”’ Pitino said. “I’ve never seen that in my life. We’re all distraught and all he’s saying is, ’Win the game.’ Kevin is a special young man.”

This is a special team.

Smith scored 23 points. Gorgui Dieng had 14 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks.

The Cardinals simply refused to lose, breaking open a game that was tied at 42.

They dove on the floor for loose balls. They pounded the boards ferociously. They contested every shot and swarmed around the Blue Devils like they had an extra player on the court.

In a sense, they did. During every timeout, Pitino reminded the players of their hospitalized teammate.

“This is a gritty bunch,” the coach said. “From the beginning of the year to now, they’ve not had a bad game. I’m really proud of these guys.”

While the Cardinals are the clear favourite heading to their second straight Final Four, Wichita State was the most improbable team to advance.

The ninth-seeded Shockers lived up to their nickname in the West, knocking off topseeded Gonzaga in the second round and No. 2 seed Ohio State in the regional final Saturday night.

Wichita State (30-8) built a 20-point lead on the Buckeyes, then managed to hang on through a nerve-racking final five minutes to pull off the latest upset in a tournament filled with them.

The Shockers will need an even bigger stunner to knock off Louisville, the one team in a wide-open tournament that has looked unbeatable.

Then again, that other team from Kansas has shown no fear so far.

“It feels very good,” said Cleanthony Early, a junior forward who, like most guys on this team, was passed over by higher-profile programs, “but we understand the fact that we’ve got to stay hungry and humble, because we’ve got two more games left to really be excited about.”

Old-timers might remember Louisville and Wichita State as former conference rivals.

The Cardinals were a member of the Missouri Valley Conference in the 1960s and ’70s, which meant annual games against the Shockers.

Louisville holds a 19-5 edge in the series, but the teams haven’t played since 1976.

Michigan (30-7) is headed back to the Final Four for the first time since the Fab Five era of the early 1990s, when the Wolverines lost in back-toback national title games.

This team has much the same feel, led by sophomore Trey Burke, the Big Ten player of the year, and three freshmen starters. They were downright fabulous against Florida on Sunday, never seriously threatened after scoring the first 13 points.

“A lot of guys said we were really young and that we couldn’t get here,” said Burke, who scored 15 points against Florida but really came through in an improbable comeback against top-seeded Kansas in the regional semifinals. “We’re here now and we still have unfinished business.”

One of the freshmen, Nik Stauskas, hit all six of his 3-pointers and scored 22 points to lead the fourth-seeded Wolverines past the third-seeded Gators. Another of the youngsters, 6-foot-10 Mitch McGary, chipped in with 11 points and nine rebounds.

Florida became the first team to make it to three straight regional finals without winning any of them, according to STATS. The Wolverines will have their work cut out against Syracuse (30-9), a team that has totally stuffed its NCAA opponents with a stifling zone defence. The fourth-seeded Orange are headed to their first Final Four since winning it all in 2003 largely because they have allowed fewer than

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Michigan guard and Canadian Nik Stauskas reacts after making a 3-point shot against Florida during the first half of a regional final game in the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, in Arlington, Texas.

46 points a game in the tournament.

Syracuse leads the series against Michigan 8-5. Their last meeting was Nov. 26, 2010, when the Orange prevailed 5350 in the Legends Classic at Atlantic City, N.J. The schools have never met in the NCAA tournament.

Syracuse has been like an octopus when it settles in around the its own lane — shutting off passing routes, preventing anyone from penetrating, yet still managing to defend the 3-point line with quickness and long arms. Mon-

Bosh’s late three lifts Heat over Spurs

tana, California, top-seeded Indiana and Marquette combined to make just under 29 per cent from the field (61 of 211) and a paltry 15.4 per cent (14 of 91) outside the arc.

“We were as active these two games here in Washington as we’ve ever been,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said after Saturday’s win over league rival Marquette, which is headed to a new version of the Big East next season.

“I just really can’t say enough about how good these guys played on the defensive end of the court.”

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Heat 88 Spurs 86 SAN ANTONIO — Chris Bosh scored 23 points, including a winning 3-pointer with 1.9 seconds remaining, and the Miami Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs 88-86 on Sunday night with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers sitting out due to injuries.

Ray Allen had 14 points, Norris Cole added 13 and Mike Miller 12 for Miami (58-15), which swept the season series with San Antonio (55-18). By earning the head-tohead tiebreaker with San Antonio, the Heat essentially have a fourgame cushion with nine remaining for the league’s best record and

home-court advantage throughout the NBA playoffs.

Tim Duncan had 17 points and 12 rebounds and Kawhi Leonard added 17 points and 11 rebounds for the Spurs, who a seven-game home winning streak snapped.

Danny Green and Tony Parker added 12 points apiece and Stephen Jackson had 11.

Bosh finished 3 for 5 on 3s, including the final shot from straightaway in the closing seconds. He let out a loud yell after making the shot and celebrated with teammates when Parker’s jumper bounced off the backboard as the buzzer sounded.

The game was similar to Miami’s 105-100 victory Nov. 29 against San Antonio, when the

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh will host the Frozen Four for the first time ever next month. And in a season of firsts, three of four teams will be headed to the national hockey showcase for the first time.

UMass Lowell (28-10-2), St. Cloud State (25-15-1) and Quinnipiac (29-7-5) all clinched berths in the national semifinals for the first time this weekend, setting up a new look at the Consol Energy Center April 11-13. And the fourth member, Yale (20-12-3), hasn’t been this far since 1952, when the entire tournament field featured just four teams.

The River Hawks, who won both the Hockey East regular season and conference tournament titles, will meet the Bulldogs in an all-New England matchup. The Bobcats, the No. 1 overall seed who won just their first NCAA tournament game Saturday in Providence, R.I., and raced to the nation’s No. 1 ranking for the first time this season, will meet the Huskies, who upended Miami, Ohio, on Sunday to win the Midwest Regional.

Both Yale and Quinnipiac, separated by just eight miles in Connecticut, are members of the ECAC. “It’s great for the state of Connecticut and it’s great for our league,” Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold said. Indeed, the ECAC — often seen as inferior to Hockey East — is in a good spot these days.

With last season’s appearance in the Frozen Four

by Union, the ECAC now has three of the last eight national semifinalists.

“It speaks volumes for the league,” Union coach Rick Bennett said. “Obviously, there can only be one winner, but we hope it’s someone from the ECAC.” St. Cloud State, a member of the WCHA, is in the midst of a breakout, as well. The Huskies were 1-9 in tournament play before this weekend.

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San Antonio Spurs’ Tony Parker, center, is defended by Miami Heat’s Chris Andersen (11) and Shane Battier, left, as he drives to the basket during the first half of an NBA game, Sunday, in San Antonio.

Spurs’ reserves nearly toppled the Heat. This time the reserves prevailed, however.

James and Wade were surprise late scratches while Chalmers did not play Friday in New Orleans and was listed as day-to-day with a sprained right ankle.

James strained his right hamstring in the first half of Friday’s 108-89 victory at New Orleans, according to the Heat. He continued to play despite the injury, however, scoring 36 points in 32 minutes prior to sitting out late in the blowout victory.

Wade injured his right ankle in Miami’s 101-97 loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night, which snapped the Heat’s 27-game winning streak. Wade had 17 points and nine assists in 33 minutes Friday against New Orleans.

The absences didn’t impact Miami.

Miami outscored San Antonio 31-18 in the third quarter, going 4 for 7 on 3s to take a 71-64 lead.

Rashard Lewis’ layup off a turnover gave the Heat a 64-56 lead, their largest of the game.

Leonard and Green hit backto-back 3s as San Antonio pulled to 80-78 with 5:21 remaining in the game.

Duncan’s jumper gave the Spurs an 84-83 lead with 2:59 to go.

San Antonio had an opportunity to extend the lead when Green raced toward the basket off a steal, but Shane Battier blocked his 1-on-2 attempt. Parker pushed his hands down on the next stoppage of play, telling Green to take his time.

Both teams were scoreless until Duncan hit another fadeaway jumper with 1:21 left to give San Antonio an 86-83 lead. Cole hit two free throws to pull Miami to 86-85 with 32.1 seconds left, setting up Bosh’s heroics.

The absence of James, Wade and Chalmers rekindled the controversy surrounding San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich’s decision to send Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Danny Green home instead of having them play the second game of a back-to-back Nov. 19 in Miami. It was the finale of a six-game road trip, finishing with four games in five days. The Spurs did not give the NBA or Miami prior notice of the players’ absences, which led the NBA to fine San Antonio $250,000.

Heat coach Erik Spoelstra was asked if San Antonio’s decision to sit their stars in Miami had an impact on his decision to rest his stars for this game.

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Raptors can’t get going in loss to Wizards

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wizards 109 Raptors 92 WASHINGTON — As the Washington Wizards pursue their stated goal of finishing ninth in the Eastern Conference, seeing Bradley Beal back on the court was a welcome sight.

Beal scored 24 points in his return from a five-game absence, leading the Wizards to a 109-92 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Sunday night.

Emeka Okafor had 19 points and 10 rebounds, and John Wall added 18 points and 10 assists for Washington.

The Wizards, who came in having lost two in a row on the road, won their seventh straight at home and moved into a tie with Toronto for 10th place in the Eastern Conference.

“They kept leaving me open and my teammates just kept finding me,” said Beal, who was out with a sprained ankle. “I was able to knock down some shots. I stayed confident, and the ball ended up in my hands a lot.”

Beal shot 8 for 14 from the field, including a career-high-tying six 3-pointers — on nine attempts — in 30 minutes.

“We’ve seen it in his attitude,” Wizards coach Randy Wittman said. “He’s been working, and he wants to get back. That’s a good sign when you’ve only got 10 games left. I’ve been in it long enough where I’ve seen guys say they don’t want to get back in it.”

The Wizards — 8 ½ games behind eighth-place Milwaukee with nine games remaining — are realistically out of the playoff picture, but trail Philadelphia by three games for ninth.

“We’re playing for something that’s bigger than just nine games left,” Martell Webster said. “Fighting for that ninth spot because for us, that’s fuel for next year.”

Jonas Valanciunas had 18 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Raptors, losers of six of their last seven. Demar DeRozan and Kyle Lowry added 15 apiece. Toronto leading scorer Rudy Gay scored 11 points — about seven below his average — while being limited to 26 minutes due to foul trouble.

“I thought we came out with a relaxed disposition and didn’t come out ready to go. The guys didn’t look like they were ready to move their feet defensively,” Raptors coach Dwane

Casey said. “We had some frustration fouls which kind of set the tone for the course of the game.”

Toronto, which has lost six of seven, cut a 20-point third-quarter deficit to six twice in the fourth quarter before Washington pulled away.

The Wizards shot 48.2 per cent from the field (41 of 85) to 39.5 per cent for Toronto (32 of 81). Paced by Beal, the Wizards’ reserves outscored their Toronto counterparts, 62-25.

Washington increased a 10-point halftime lead to 16 with an 8-2 run to open the second half. Toronto cut it to 70-62, but Beal hit 3-pointers on three of the Wizards’ next four possessions to make it 79-64. A little over a minute later, Beal hit another 3 and, after a Toronto miss, Okafor’s dunk put Washington ahead 86-66 with 2:18 left in the quarter.

The Wizards scored 12 points from the foul line in the opening 12 minutes.

Wall’s two free throws gave the Wizards a 27-25 lead at the end of a first quarter that featured nine lead changes. With Washington ahead by one midway through the second quarter, Keven Seraphin scored six of his 11 first-half points in an 8-2 Washington spurt. A minute later, Wall fed Trevor Ariza for a fast-break layup that made it 50-41 and Washington led by 10 at the half.

Wall turned the ball over just one time.

“John’s line is spectacular for a point guard. I like to see lines like that.

He got the ball moving around. He had good pace to the game,” Wittman said.

“I thought he did a great job on controlling and dictating what we needed to do from an offensive standpoint. I thought this was one of his better allaround games.“ Wall added: “I didn’t have to be super aggressive and score a lot. I knew a lot of teams are keying on me the way I’ve been playing lately so I’m just doing a great job of taking the shots I have and if my teammates are open, doing a great job of finding them.”

Gay was held to five points in the half and DeMar DeRozan to four, while Valanciunas scored 16 for Toronto.

“We’ve just got to be focused,” DeRozan said. “We’ve got to understand we’ve only got so many games left. We’ve got to put our mind to it and play hard every game. It’s as simple as that.”

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Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal takes a shot against Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry during the second half of an NBA game, Sunday, in Washington.

The Wizards won 109-92.

Canadian Wiggins faces pressure as showcase looms HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL PHENOM IN BIG SPOTLIGHT HEADING INTO ALL-AMERICAN GAME

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Canadian basketball phenomenon Andrew Wiggins dunked the ball in the second half of Huntington Prep team’s exhibition game against Hamilton’s United Leadership Academy at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., Feb. 17. Wiggins has seen his profile climb as the season went on and faces mounting pressure heading into the McDonald’s High School All-American game.

CHICAGO — When Andrew Wiggins made his official recruiting visit to Florida State, 16 female students seated courtside at a Seminoles game wore “WE WANT WIGGINS” painted in black across the front of their white T-shirts.

A cheerleader held a sign that read: “FSU has hotter girls.”

When he played a high school game in Georgetown, Ky., more than 2,000 Kentucky Wildcats fans turned out to watch, chanting “We want Wiggins!” and “Go Big Blue!”

At a tournament in Cincinnati, some 300 high school students taunted the Canadian basketball phenom with “Over-Rated!” and “U-S-A!” For an 18-year-old who’s not super fond of the spotlight, there’s no escaping it these days.

“Somebody of his talent, every gym he goes to, somebody’s going to say, ‘No. 1 player in the country?

You’re overrated,”’ said Steve Nash, who knows a bit about life in the spotlight.

Wiggins will be front and centre again Wednesday at Chicago’s United Centre as the brightest young star in a gym full of them for the 36th Annual McDonald’s High School All-American Game.

Nash has some advice for Wiggins: like it or hate it, he should embrace the attention.

“Maybe that’s his biggest challenge,” the two-time NBA MVP told The Canadian Press.

“It’s not the players he plays against, it’s not the competitions he’s in. It’s the never-waning spotlight, and pressure from the outside. I think he has to embrace that as his greatest competitor at this stage in his career.”

A quick peek at his mixtapes — one of which is just shy of a million views — shows the six-foot-seven small forward from Vaughan, Ont., rarely has competition. He runs faster and jumps higher. He spins past players on his way to the hoop like he’s matched up against elementary school kids.

“Although unfair and difficult for someone his age, (pressure and expectations) can push him,” said Nash, who’s keeping a close eye on Wiggins’ catapulting career. “It can be the thing that creates adversity if the players he’s playing against don’t always do that. I think you need to fail, you need to have bad moments that propel you to get tougher and to be better.

“That might be his competitor right now, and I think he should continue to embrace that, because it will give him the obstacles that will keep him hungry.”

Nash and Wiggins found basketball fame from opposite routes. The L.A. Lakers star went unheralded through high school, then played for Santa Clara, accepting the one scholarship offer he received from a Div. 1 school.

On the flip side, there’s already a ridiculous amount of buzz about Wiggins that hasn’t been felt perhaps since Kevin Durant (2006) and O.J. Mayo (’07) came out of high school.

Wiggins, a Grade 12 student at Huntington Prep in West Virginia, won both the Naismith Trophy as the top U.S. high school player of the year — garnering a congratulatory tweet from Prime Minister Stephen Harper — and the Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year award. He’s expected to go No. 1 in the 2014 NBA draft.

Hoops fans are anxiously awaiting word on which NCAA school he’ll choose for his one-and-done year.

He’s visited Florida State, Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas.

Wiggins, the fourth of six children, also boasts impeccable genetic credentials.

His dad Mitchell played in the NBA. His mom Marita Payne-Wiggins was a sprinter, helping Canada to a pair of relay silver medals at the 1984 Olympics. She still holds the Canadian record in the 200 metres and shares the 400 record with Jillian Richardson. There’s a Marita Payne Park in Vaughan.

“Andrew’s athleticism is very rare,” Nash said.

“He’s tall, has long arms, he’s extremely quick and agile, he can take that six-foot-seven frame and move it like he’s 5-7, with great control. He’s so explosive, his ability to move in any direction, to jump and to control his body while he jumps — with quickness, explosiveness and power. He’s a rare set of size, coordination and explosiveness.”

At an evaluation session last summer in Toronto, Wiggins made like a six-foot-seven spring and outjumped the vertical testing apparatus.

“He blew away the test so that we couldn’t measure it,” said Roy Rana, Wiggins’ coach on several national youth teams. “Andrew went up on the first jump and just cleared the whole testing mechanism, which is above 12 feet. I’ve never seen that. We tested 30 guys that weekend and nobody came close. He destroyed the test.”

The evaluators eventually propped the testing mechanism up on an aerobics step.

He leapt 44 inches putting the high schooler in the same airspace as the likes of LeBron James and Vince Carter.

“And he didn’t even try,” Rana said. “He just did it with ease. It’s not like he’s grimacing, it’s not like it’s difficult. It’s just so fluid, so natural.”

USIAN BOLT

Bolt cruises to win in 150-metre exhibition beach race

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Usain Bolt started his season by winning a 150-meter race on a track set up at Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.

Bolt cruised to victory in 14.42 seconds, falling short of the world-best mark of 14.35 he set on the streets of Manchester in 2009.

Antigua and Barbuda’s Daniel Bailey was second, ahead of Bruno Lins of Brazil and Ecuador’s Alex Quinones.

After the race held under scorching heat on a four-lane track built on Copacabana beach in the city set to host the 2016 Olympics, Bolt said he was satisfied with his performance.

“It was my first sprint race, definitely a good start for the season,” Bolt said.

“I’m looking forward to coming down here in 2016.”

Bolt celebrated by dancing with a few Brazilian

dancers after the run, which was an official event supervised by the IAAF. He threw his running shoes to the fans, who endured huge lines to try to get near the track to see the Jamaican star up close.

Bolt, the first man to successfully defend the 100 and 200 titles at the London Olympics, was in Rio for four days, visiting social projects and participating in promotional events.

He also played a volleying match using feet at the beach on Saturday.

Bolt said he is still “not sure” if he will compete at the London Diamond League meet in late July, but agent Ricky Simms reiterated on Sunday that he is working to ensure the Jamaican returns to England.

“We’ve had positive negotiations, it will be great for him to go back there a year after everything that happened last year,” Simms said.

“It’s going to be a good event. We’ve just got a few things to finalize. In the next months, hopefully, we’ll find solutions.”

The London meet, celebrating a year since the Olympics, would be one of his last competitions before the world championships in Moscow in August.

Earlier Sunday, double-amputee Alan Oliveira of Brazil beat American runner Jerome Singleton at the Copacabana track.

Oliveira had been initially expected to race against Oscar Pistorius, who withdrew after being charged with the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.

Oliveira beat the South African in the 200 at the London Paralympics.

“I hope everything is solved, that the truth is told and that all parties solve this. Let’s see, let’s see how things will unfold,” Oliveira said, adding that he would like to see Pistorius competing again.

“He’s a great athlete inside the track, did what he did for Paralympic sport and I hope he continues to do so.”

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Students learn, explore at RDC ROCK ‘N’ ROLL CONCERTS The Hunting Hills Rock Band takes to the stage for two concerts on April 16.

The first at 1 p.m. is for students and schools, the second at 7 p.m. for the public. Both are in the Memorial Centre in Red Deer. An email RSVP to Alison Lemire at alemire@ rdpsd.ab.ca is required for the afternoon show. Tickets for the afternoon show are $2 each while evening show tickets are $10.

HUMANITARIAN DAY A Better World hosts its 23rd annual Humanitarian Day on April 13. Guest speaker at the Lacombe-based aid agency’s event is Kathy Lacey of Red Deer, who’ll address the business of giving. Her 9:15 a.m. presentation opens the event at the Canadian University College Church. Stories of compassion, courage and commitment will follow in a 10:30 a.m. presentation hosted by Azalea Lehndorff, A Better World’s Afghanistan project manager. The Ihana Youth Choir will perform at 3 p.m., followed by Red Deerian Monybany Dau and the film The Ladder of My Life, which chronicles his early life as a Sudanese child soldier. The event is free, but a 12:30 p.m. lunch requires $20 tickets purchased in advance. They can be bought at the Advanced Systems offices in Lacombe and Red Deer or call Cindy Wright at 403-505-9794.

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The Red Deer Public Library will come to you! The Homebound Readers Service is a free, personalized selection and home delivery service for library members who cannot visit a branch due to age, illness or disability. A volunteer will be assigned to you and will bring you your preferred reading material. Adult services staff will qualify and register you for this program.

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CHOOSE TO COME TO RED DEER COLLEGE FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS, INCLUDING, EXPLORING A NEW COUNTRY OR LEARNING ENGLISH

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Mixed in with the thousands of Albertans and Canadians who apply and get accepted into Red Deer College, are international students.

They choose to come to RDC for a variety of reasons, including getting their Canadian equivalency for their already earned education, exploring a new country or learning English.

Anita Enns, 24, an outgoing young traveler, was born in what is now Uzbekistan, but because of her family’s German heritage they were able to move to Nord-RheinWestfalen in Germany when she was three.

She finished her training as a childcare assistant there when she was 20 and decided she wanted to explore the world.

Friends of hers were in Red Deer and she came here on a travel VISA in 2009 and worked in the Central Alberta city. She met her boyfriend and they went out traveling again together. But eventually came back to Red Deer in 2012.

She enrolled at Red Deer College in the early learning and childcare program, similar to her education in Germany.

“I really wanted to go back into my profession after traveling around so much,” said Enns.

“I was looking at the program and I thought ‘that’s perfect.’ I know a lot and have a base knowledge, but it is different because it is English.”

Though the program lengths are similar, both two year programs in Germany and Canada, Enns said the biggest difference was the hierarchy and structure.

“We had to listen a lot, we had to write a lot, there was no real communication with the instructor.

“It was really direct, you have to be on top of things and there were personal barriers, it was like that is your teacher and you’re the student,” said Enns.

“Here it is all equal. Same thing with jobs, you can talk openly to your boss and you can hang out with your boss, it doesn’t matter. It is really comfortable.”

Her move to Canada was her first time leaving her parent’s place so it was a bit shocking.

“I could actually afford a big house, we were living with roommates, but it was a big house,” said Enns. “In Germany if you move out you have a bad apartment, except if you have money.”

She could also afford her own car.

Alexander Keeper, 31, came to Canada with his wife Luba, 27, and their son Ilya, 5, trying to build a better life for his family.

Born in Moldova, located near Romania and Ukraine, he moved around living in Germany, Siberia and Moscow.

After finishing his second university degree in Moldova he moved with his family to Russia.

After living in Russia for four years, two in Siberia by himself and two in Moscow with his son and wife, they decided they would come to Canada.

“We opened the map and looked at where we can go,” said Keeper.

“We had some choices and we could choose between Gatineau, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver or Calgary.”

From there they narrowed it down to the Calgary or Toronto areas and because they

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German Anita Enns loves and values the child care education she’s getting at Red Deer College.

‘HERE IT IS ALL EQUAL. SAME THING WITH JOBS, YOU CAN TALK OPENLY TO YOUR BOSS AND YOU CAN HANG OUT WITH YOUR BOSS, IT DOESN’T MATTER. IT IS REALLY COMFORTABLE.’ — GERMAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ANITA ENNS

already had some friends, who had previously been to Moldova as missionaries, living in Three Hills they chose to move out to Alberta.

The missionaries helped the Keeper family out when they came to Canada in May 2012.

One of the factors in deciding where they would live was to go to improve their language skills.

While they could have moved to a larger city Keeper said they could have easily fallen in with a small pocket of their culture and never assimilated into Canada’s culture and language.

“If you are in that community for a long time you will lose your ability to improve your English,” said Keeper. “You find a way to use only a few words in English and mostly your Russian with people you know.

We want to assimilate into this society and be a part of it.”

While Calgary was considered, it was too big and would have cost the family more money.

Whereas Red Deer has the same conveniences, but is not as costly to live in.

Keeper is a student at Red Deer College and is working towards getting his education from Eastern Europe recognized in Canada.

“Now I’m attending this English course here at the college,” said Keeper. “Because I want to continue my education as an accountant and I have two Bachelor degrees in my country and I hope to take here the classes to get my equivalency.”

He is working with the Alberta International Qualification Assessment Service, which says his two degrees are similar, but not equal, to a bachelor of commerce in Canada.

In his first few days in Canada Keeper couldn’t believe he was here.

“First of all here it was everything is big,” said Keeper.

“Big food, big cars, big houses everything is big. Then it was how people are so friendly.”

In Moldova Keeper didn’t have much access to hockey, but now that he is in Canada he has followed the sport a little more. He specifically follows the Russian players such as Alexander Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk, Evgeni Malkin and Pavel Datsyuk.

People opened their doors and invited the Keeper family over for dinner or into their home.

Enns shared the impression of friendly Canadians when she first arrived in the country. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Students, parents embracing Spanish classes

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Senora Loyda Collins and her chicos, children in Spanish, enthusiastically sing songs, count and learn phrases in a language not normally associated with Canadian kindergartners.

Last fall the Red Deer Public School District began offering a Spanish program for Kindergartners at G.H. Dawe school. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the world after Mandarin.

Now seven months into the program board officials, teachers and parents are calling it a success.

Two classes, one morning and one afternoon, file in and learn from Collins daily. They dance to Spanish Youtube videos, sing songs, count, say the alphabet, practice and recite phrases to one another and learn the language, alongside their English routine.

Collins, who is originally from Mexico, was very excited when she was asked to be a part of the program’s first year.

“I think Red Deer

needs a Spanish bilingual program,” said Collins. “The culture here, we’re getting people from all over and the Spanish culture is growing here. I was excited for the children as well, because if they are exposed to another language they have more opportunities in life.”

Collins said it is good the students are so young, because when they start learning a second language at this age, they repeat everything.

“It has been excellent,” said Collins. “The chicos have exceeded my expectations.”

Because of the success of the program, the board is continuing on with the students into Grade 1. Though Collins is sad she won’t have the students, she is glad it is continuing.

Already there are about 25 students registered for the kindergarten Spanish program next year. Currently there are 27 in the program, 15 in the morning and 12 in the afternoon.

“They’re talking in Spanish and they’re just in kindergarten,” said Collins. “Can you imagine what they’d be like in Grade 5?”

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Robert Hallman, six, displays his knowledge of the Spanish language for his class on Wednesday March 27. Hallman is a kindergarten student enrolled in the Spanish Bilingual Program at G.H. Dawe School.

Collins also said that students just coming into the kindergarten or Grade 1 programs next year don’t need to know any Spanish.

Tammy Reiniger and Stephanie Gross, two parents with students in the program, have both had a good experience.

Gross’ child was previously in a delayed speech program.

“Within a couple of months he has been discharged from the program because his language skills have improved so much,” said Gross. “He’s caught up now and I think a lot of it has to do with learning the two languages.”

Reiniger volunteers in Collins’ class once a week. “Senora is amaz-

ing, said Reiniger. “She has become a friend more than anything.”

Stu Henry, Red Deer public school deputy superintendent, also touted the program as a success.

“We’re closing in on the end of our first year and it has been a huge success for our school district,” said Henry.

“Probably the biggest change we put in this year and we’re thrilled with how it is going.”

Henry said the initial concern was that there would be insufficient numbers for the program to run, but that hasn’t been the case.

“I think Loyda Collins is a huge reason the program has been so successful,” said Henry.

“Loyda is just an absolute gift for our school district and teaches with just such passion.”

Already they have posted for job ad for the Grade 1 and Henry said they have numerous great applicants.

“It’s more than just a program to me, it is a community,” said Collins. “I come and teach the children. The children go home and teach the parents and the baby and they start teaching each other. Then I have parents come and volunteer for me as well and they already know the alphabet.

“It is a community, we all help each other here.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Scientists ID genetic markers TIED TO BREAST, PROSTATE, OVARIAN CANCER; NO QUICK PAYOFF SEEN

BY MALCOLM RITTER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person’s risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer, scientists reported Wednesday.

It’s the latest mega-collaboration to learn more about the intricate mechanisms that lead to cancer.

And while the headway seems significant in many ways, the potential payoff for ordinary people is mostly this: Someday there may be genetic tests that help identify women with the most to gain from mammograms, and men who could benefit most from PSA tests and prostate biopsies.

And perhaps farther in the future these genetic clues might lead to new treatments.

“This adds another piece to the puzzle,” said Harpal Kumar, chief executive of Cancer Research U.K., the charity which funded much of the research.

One analysis suggests that among men whose family history gives them roughly a 20 per cent lifetime risk for prostate cancer, such genetic markers could identify those whose real risk is 60 per cent.

The markers also could make a difference for women with BRCA gene mutations, which puts them at high risk for breast cancer.

Researchers may be able to separate those whose lifetime risk exceeds 80 per cent from women whose risk is about 20 to 50 per cent. One doctor said that might mean some women would choose to monitor for cancer rather than taking the drastic step of having healthy breasts removed.

Scientists have found risk markers for the three diseases before, but the new trove doubles the known list, said one author, Douglas Easton of Cambridge University.

The discoveries also reveal clues about the biological underpinnings of these cancers, which may pay off someday in better therapies, he said.

Experts not connected with the work said it was encouraging but that more research is needed to see how useful it would be for guiding patient care.

One suggested that using a gene test along with PSA testing and other factors might help determine which men have enough risk of a life-threatening prostate cancer that they should get a biopsy.

Many prostate cancers found early are slow-growing and won’t be fatal, but there is no way to differentiate and many men have surgery they may not need.

Easton said the prospects for a genetic test are greater for prostate and breast cancer than ovarian cancer.

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among women worldwide, with more than 1 million new cases a year.

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men after lung cancer, with about 900,000 new

cases every year. Ovarian cancer accounts for about 4 per cent of all cancers diagnosed in women, causing about 225,000 cases worldwide.

The new results were released in 13 reports in Nature Genetics, PLOS Genetics and other journals.

They come from a collaboration involving more than 130 institutions in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.

The research was mainly paid for by Cancer Research U.K., the European Union and the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Scientists used scans of DNA from more than 200,000 people to seek the markers, tiny variations in the 3 billion “letters” of the DNA code that are associated with disease risk.

The scientists found 49 new risk markers for breast cancer plus a couple of others that modify breast cancer risk from rare mutated genes, 26 for prostate cancer and eight for ovarian cancer.

Individually, each marker has only a slight impact on risk estimation, too small to be useful on its own, Easton said.

They would be combined and added to previously known markers to help reveal a person’s risk, he said.

A genetic test could be useful in identifying people who should get mammography or PSA testing, said Hilary Burton, director of the PHG Foundation, a genomics think-tank in Cambridge, England.

A mathematical analysis done by her group found that under certain assumptions, a gene test using all known markers could reduce the number of mammograms and PSA tests by around 20 per cent, with only a small cost in cancer cases missed.

Among the new findings: ● For breast cancer, researchers calculated that by using all known markers, including the new ones, they could identify 5 per cent of the female population with twice the average risk of disease, and 1 per cent with a three-fold risk. The average lifetime risk of getting breast cancer is about 12 per cent in developed countries. It’s lower in the developing world where other diseases are a bigger problem. ● For prostate cancer, using all the known markers could identify 1 per cent of men with nearly five times the average risk, the researchers computed. In developed countries, a man’s average lifetime risk for the disease is about 14 to 16 per cent, lower in developing nations. ● Markers can also make a difference in estimates of breast cancer risk for women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations. Such women are rare, but their lifetime risk can run as high as 85 per cent.

Researchers said that with the new biomarkers, it might be possible to identify the small group of these women with a risk of 28 per cent or less.

For patients like Vicki Gilbert of England, who carries a variation of the BRCA1 gene, having such details about her cancer risk would have made decision-making easier.

Gilbert, 50, found out about her genetic risk after

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Vicki Gilbert in Wiltshire, England. In 2010, Gilbert was diagnosed with breast cancer and then found she carries the mutated BRCA1 gene that may make her pre-disposed to ovarian cancer. Gilbert decided to have ovaries removed to prevent the potential onset of further cancer, and her breast cancer is in remission. being diagnosed with the disease in 2009.

Though doctors said the gene wouldn’t change the kind of chemotherapy she got, they suggested removing her ovaries to avoid ovarian cancer, which is also made more likely by a mutated BRCA1.

“They didn’t want to express a definite opinion on whether I should have my ovaries removed so I had to weigh up my options for myself,” said Gilbert, a veterinary receptionist in Wiltshire. “...I decided to have my ovaries removed because that takes away the fear it could happen. It certainly would have been nice to have more information to know that was the right choice.”

Gilbert said knowing more about the genetic risks of cancer should be reassuring for most patients.

“There are so many decisions made for you when you go through cancer treatment that being able to decide something yourself is very important,” she said.

Dr. Charis Eng, chair of the Genomic Medicine Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, who didn’t participate in the new work, called the breast cancer research exciting but not ready for routine use.

Most women who carry a BRCA gene choose intensive surveillance with both mammograms and MRI and some choose to have their breasts removed to prevent the disease, she said.

Even the lower risk described by the new research is worrisomely high, and might not persuade a woman to avoid such precautions completely, Eng said.

Graphic ads of sad, real-life stories target smokers NEW YORK — Government health officials launched the second round of a graphic ad campaign Thursday that is designed to get smokers off tobacco, saying they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.

The ads feature sad, real-life stories: There is Terrie, a North Carolina woman who lost her voice box.

Bill, a diabetic smoker from Michigan who lost his leg. And Aden, a 7-year-old boy from New York, who has asthma attacks from secondhand smoke.

“Most smokers want to quit. These ads encourage them to try,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC campaign cost $48 million and includes TV, radio and online spots as well as print ads and billboards.

The spending comes as the agency is facing a tough budget squeeze, but officials say the ads should more than pay for themselves by averting future medical costs to society.

Smoking is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the United States.

It’s responsible for the majority of the nation’s lung cancer deaths and is a deadly factor in heart attacks and a variety of other illnesses.

Last year’s similar $54 million campaign was the agency’s first and largest national advertising effort.

The government deemed it a success: That campaign triggered an increase of 200,000 calls to quit lines.

The CDC believes that likely prompted tens of thousands of smokers to quit based on calculations that a certain percentage of callers do actually stop.

Like last year, the current 16-week campaign spotlights real people who were hurt and disfigured by smoking.

Terrie Hall, a 52-year-old throat cancer survivor makes a repeat performance. She had her voice box removed about a dozen years ago.

In last year’s ad there’s a photo of her as a youthful high school cheerleader.

Then she is seen more recently putting on a wig, inserting false teeth and covering the hole in her neck with a scarf. It was, by far, the campaign’s most popular spot, as judged by YouTube viewings and Web clicks.

In a new ad, Hall addresses the camera, speaking with the buzzing sound of her electrolarynx. She advises smokers to make a video of themselves now, reading a children’s book or singing a lullaby.

“I wish I had. The only voice my grandson’s ever heard is this one,” her electric voice growls.

One difference from last year: The new campaign tilts more toward the impact smokers have on others.

One ad features a Kentucky high school student who suffers asthma attacks from being around cigarette smoke.

Another has a Louisiana woman who was 16 when her mother died from smoking-related causes.

The return of the campaign is already being applauded by some anti-smoking advocates, who say tobacco companies spend more on tobacco product promotion in a week than the CDC spends in a year.

After decades of decline, the adult smoking rate has stalled at roughly 20 per cent in recent years. Advocates say the campaign provides a necessary jolt to a weary public that has been listening to government warnings about the dangers of smoking for nearly 50 years.

“There is an urgent need to continue this campaign,” said Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, in a statement.

It would seem like a bad time for the CDC to be buying air time — the agency is facing roughly $300 million in budget cuts as part of the government’s sequestration cuts in federal spending. However, the ad money comes not from the CDC’s regular budget but from a special $1 billion public health fund set up years ago through the Affordable Care Act. The fund has set aside more than $80 million for CDC smoking prevention work.

Frieden argues that the ads are extremely costeffective — spending about $50 million a year to save potentially tens of thousands of lives.

“We’re trying to figure out how to have more impact with less resources,” he said.

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This image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a poster from their anti-smoking advertising campaign, launched last week. The ad is part of the second round of a graphic ad campaign designed to get smokers off tobacco.

The CDC says they believe the last effort convinced tens of thousands to quit.

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Agreement on low-skilled workers Big business and labour have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual U.S. citizenship, labour and Senate officials said Saturday.

The agreement was reached in a phone call late Friday night with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, U.S. Chamber of Commerce head Tom Donohue, and Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, who’s been mediating the dispute.

The deal resolves disagreements over wages for the new workers and which industries would be included. It’s a major second-term priority of President Barack Obama’s and would usher in the most dramatic changes to the nation’s faltering immigration system in more than two decades.

Israeli natural gas flows Natural gas has started flowing from one of Israel’s sizable gas fields. Israel’s Energy Ministry says gas from the offshore Tamar field began flowing for the first time Saturday and would reach a processing facility on Israel’s coast by Sunday afternoon.

Tamar was discovered in 2009 and holds an estimated 8.5 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Israel has long relied on imports to meet most of its energy needs. The new gas finds are expected to supply Israel’s domestic needs for decades and could transform the country into an energy exporter.

Egypt, Iran flights resume A commercial airliner left Egypt for Iran on Saturday in what was the first direct passenger flight between the two countries in more than three decades, Egyptian airport officials said. CairoTehran relations have warmed since the June election of Egypt’s Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi.

Diplomatic relations were frozen after Egypt signed its 1979 peace treaty with Israel and Iran underwent its Islamic Revolution.

Cairo airport officials say a private Air Memphis flight departed for Tehran carrying eight Iranians, including two diplomats. Egypt’s tourism minister visited Tehran last month to sign an agreement promoting tourism between the countries.

Egypt’s Foreign and Civil Aviation Ministries, however, have set regulations restricting the number and movement of Iranian tourists in Egypt. Iranian tourists would only be allowed to visit certain sites, such as the ancient cities of Luxor and resort areas like Sharm el-Sheikh. Cairo was not on the list of places they would be allowed to visit.

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High-tech help hard to please NEW SILICON VALLEY HEADQUARTERS OFFERING MORE PERKS THAN EVER

BY MARTHA MENDOZA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple’s ring-shaped, gleaming “Spaceship Headquarters” will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander.

Google’s new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters.

Facebook, while putting final touches on a Disneyinspired campus including a Main Street with a B-B-Q shack, sushi house and bike shop, is already planning an even larger, more exciting new campus.

More than ever before, Silicon Valley firms want their workers at work.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has gone so far as to ban working from home, and many more offer prodigious incentives for coming in to the office, such as free meals, massages and gyms.

This spring, as the tech industry is soaring out of the Great Recession, plans are in the works for a flurry of massive, perk-laden headquarters.

“We’re seeing the mature technology companies trying to energize their work environments, getting rid of cube farms and investing in facilities to compete for talent,” said Kevin Schaeffer, a principal at architecture and design firm Gensler in San Jose.

“That’s caused a huge transition in the way offices are laid out.”

New Silicon Valley headquarters or expansions are under way at most of the area’s major firms, including eBay, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia and Oracle. Many will be huge: Apple Corp.’s 176-acre campus will be one of the world’s largest workplaces.

On the outside, many of the new buildings boast striking architectural designs and will collectively be among the most environmentally friendly in the country. Inside, there are walls you can draw on, ping pong tables, Lego stations, gaming arcades and free haircuts.

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Workers at The Hub bicycle shop and transportation center are seen on the Facebook campus in Menlo Park, Calif.. Companies say extraordinary campuses are a necessity, to recruit and retain top talent, and to spark innovation and creativity in the workplace. And there are business benefits and financial results for companies that keep their workers happy.

Critics say that while some workplace perks and benefits are a good thing, the large, multibillion dollar corporate headquarters are colossal wastes of money that snub the pioneering technology these firms actually create.

“Companies led by older management tend to be very controlling, but when I look at people in the 20s or 30s, they’re totally capable of working on their own and being productive,” said Kevin Wheeler, whose Future of Talent Institute researches and consults on human resources for Silicon Valley businesses. “To have artificial structures that require everybody to be in the office at certain hours of the day is simply asinine.”

Wheeler said he thinks Yahoo called everyone back to work “because they had gotten into a culture of laziness,” and

that the firm will likely loosen the restrictions soon.

Yahoo was, in fact, an early model of Silicon Valley’s happy workplace culture, touting their espresso bar and inspirational speakers as a method of inspiring passion and originality. Today yoga, cardio-kickboxing and golf classes at the office, as well as discounts to ski resorts and theme parks, help it receive top ratings as one of America’s happiest workplaces.

Companies say extraordinary campuses are necessary to recruit and retain top talent and to spark innovation and creativity.

And there are business benefits and financial results for companies that keep their workers happy. The publicly traded 100 Best Companies To Work For in America consistently outperform major stock indices and have more qualified

job applicants and higher productivity, according to the San Francisco-based Great Place to Work Institute. That may not always be obvious, however.

“People do work really, really hard here,” Facebook spokesman Slater Tow said as an engineer glided past a row of second floor conference rooms on a skateboard. “They have to be passionate about what they do.

If they’re not, we would rather someone who is.”

He points out the Jumbotron frame for outdoor movies, the Nacho Royale taqueria, a bank branch with tellers standing by, an artist in residence. Traditional benefits are part of the Silicon Valley packages as well.

Facebook offers free train passes, a shuttle to work, a month of paid vacation, full health care and stock options.

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Probe sought into group opposed to fracking

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. — A formal complaint filed with New York’s lobbying board asks it to investigate whether Artists Against Fracking, a group that includes Yoko Ono and other A-List celebrities, is violating the state’s lobbying law, according to the document obtained by The Associated Press.

The Independent Oil & Gas Association, an industry group that supports gas drilling, filed the complaint Tuesday with the state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

The complaint is based on an AP story that found that Artists Against Fracking and its members, including Ono, her son Sean Lennon, actors Mark Ruffalo and Robert De Niro and others, aren’t registered as lobbyists and therefore didn’t disclose their spending in opposition to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to remove gas from underground deposits.

“The public has been unable to learn how much money is being spent on this effort, what it is being spent on, and who is funding the effort,” said Brad Gill, executive director of the Independent Oil & Gas Association of New York.

“I understand the power of celebrity that

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Yoko Ono, left, and her son Sean Lennon visit a fracking site in Franklin Forks, Pa., during a bus tour of natural-gas drilling sites in northeastern Pennsylvania in January. Ono and Lennon have formed a group called ‘Artists Against Fracking,’ which has become the main celebrity driven anti-fracking organization. this organization has brought to the public discussion over natural gas development, but I do not understand why this organization is not being required to follow the state’s lobbying law.”

The group confirmed it filed the complaint but didn’t comment further.

Artists Against Fracking, formed by Ono and Lennon, says its activities are protected as free speech.

The group was created last year amid the Cuomo administration’s review to determine whether to allow hydraulic fracturing to remove gas from vast underground shale formations in southern and central New

York. Gov. Andrew Cuomo continues his review as public opinion has shifted from initial support based on the promise of jobs and tax revenue from drilling in economically depressed upstate New York to mixed feelings because of concerns over potential environmental and health effects.

Seven months after Artists Against Fracking was formed, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute on March 20 found that New York voters were for the first time opposed to fracking, 46 per cent to 39 per cent.

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Tax help exists for Canadian families Raising a family is a difficult job at the the registered disability savings plan (RDbest of times, but it can be particularly SP) and greater personal tax exemptions challenging in periods of ecofor Canadians and their families nomic doubt and uncertainty. travelling to and from the United There are a number of States and other foreign destinaways Canadian families can tions. use existing credits, benefits Effective Jan. 1, 2012, the famand programs to help them ily caregiver tax credit, a 15 per buy their first home, lower cent non-refundable credit on an the amount of tax they pay amount of $2,000, provided tax reeach year and put more monlief for caregivers of infirm depeney in their pockets to help dent relatives including, for the them raise their families. first time, spouses, common-law New in the 2012 tax year partners and minor children. was the family caregiver The government has also retax credit, elimination of moved the $10,000 limit that careTALBOT expense limits that can be givers can claim for incurring exBOGGS claimed by caregivers for traordinary medical and disabilicaring for infirm dependant ty-related expenses for caring for relatives, enhancements to an aging parent, sibling or other

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financially-dependent relative.

Canadians spend millions every year on medical expenses like prescription drugs and special medical equipment for their loved ones. These costs can quickly add up for a family caregiver. There currently is no limit on the amount of eligible expenses a taxpayer can claim for himself/herself, a spouse or common-law partner, or a dependent child younger than of 18. However, there was a limit of $10,000 for caregivers, which now has been eliminated.

As well, the 2012 federal budget made some enhancements to the registered disability savings plan (RDSP) and the personal tax exemption limits for Canadians and their families travelling to the United States and other foreign destinations.

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RULES: Family-friendy tax credits The RDSP, which provides long-term financial security for children with severe disabilities, now includes greater flexibility for withdrawals from the plan and an expanded definition of who may hold an RDSP. Effective June 1, 2012, the government also raised the value of goods that Canadian travellers can bring into the country tax-free to $200 after 24 hours outside the country and $800 after a minimum of 48 hours. In addition, Canadians now can rent a vehicle in the United States and bring it over the border to Canada tax-free if they’ve been out of the country for more than 48 hours.

The universal child care benefit (UCCB) provides families with $100 per month ($1,200 a year) for each child younger than six. The UCCB allows parents to choose their preferred care option: spend the money on day care, stay with a relative or have a parent stay at home.

The children’s fitness tax credit allows parents to claim a credit of up to $500 per child under 16 against the fees for sports and programs like ballet, hockey and soccer, while the children’s art credit allows parents to claim another $500 per child under 16 for artistic and cultural activities such as art and music lessons.

“These are some of my favourite family-friendly tax credits,” said Cleo Hamel, senior tax analyst for H&R Block. “Not only are they straightforward and easy to claim, but they are also great examples of the tax code encouraging kids to be active athletically and artistically.”

Buying a home is probably one of the largest investments that most Canadians ever make, and there are credits and plans available to help defray these costs.

The first-time home buyers tax credit, for example, allows buyers to save up to $750 on qualifying homes. The credit also is available to existing homeowners who are eligible for the disability tax credit who purchase a more accessible or functional home or for the benefit of a DTC-eligible person who is related to the home purchaser.

Saving for a down payment is often the most challenging aspect of buying a first home. Under the home buyers’ plan, the government recently increased to $25,000 the maximum amount that Canadians can withdraw from their registered retirement savings plans for a down payment on their first home.

“Your home is your most important asset, and all Canadians should take advantage of credits that help put them in a home they will love,” Hamel said.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

CELEBRITIES: Don’t have to register as lobbyists “There’s no doubt the celebrities had an effect,” Quinnipiac pollster Maurice Carroll said. “As far as I can tell, they made all the difference.”

A spokesman for Artists Against Fracking said the group and its individual members don’t have to register as lobbyists.

“As private citizens, Yoko and Sean are not required to register as lobbyists when they use their own money to express an opinion and there’s also no lobbying requirement when you are engaged in a public comment period by a state agency,” spokesman David Fenton said.

“If the situation changes then, of course, Artists Against Fracking will consider registering,” Fenton said. “Up to now, there has been no violation because they are entitled to do this as private citizens with their own money.”

On its website, the group implores readers: “Tell Governor Cuomo: Don’t Frack New York.” Celebrities supporting the group have led rallies and performed in the song Don’t Frack My Mother, also carried on the Internet.

New York’s former lobbying regulator, attorney David Grandeau, said he believed the group and the supporting artists, including musicians Paul McCartney and Lady Gaga and actress Anne Hathaway, should be registered and required to disclose details on their efforts to spur public opposition to gas drilling.

ENVIRONMENT: Sense of ownership Facebook staffers are welcome to stop by and play in Ben Barry’s Analog Research Laboratory, a large, sunlit studio with laser cutters, woodworking tools, a letter press machine and silk screening supplies.

“I believe if people feel they can control their environment, that leads to a greater sense of ownership over the product,” says Barry, who makes posters for the campus walls with mantras like “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” and “Move fast and break things.”

About six miles north at Google’s headquarters, workers on one of more than 1,000 Google-designed bikes rolled from one building to another.

Others stepped into electric cars, available for free check outs if someone has an errand. In one office, two young engineers enjoyed a beer and shot pool.

Google doesn’t want its Googlers to have to worry about distractions in their life.

Concerned about the kids? Childcare is on campus. Need to shop and cook?

Have the family dine at Google. Dirty laundry piling up? Bring it in to the office. Bring Fido too, so he doesn’t get lonely.

There’s a climbing wall, nap pods (lay down in the capsule, set the alarm, zzzzz), a bowling alley, multiple gyms, a variety of healthy cafes, mini kitchens, and classes on anything from American Sign Language to Public Speaking. In a shared, community garden, Googlers plant seeds, knowing that if they get too busy, a landscaper will pull their weeds.

The company has no policy requiring people to be at work. But officials say Googlers want to come in.

“We work hard to create the healthiest, happiest and most productive work environments possible that inspire collaboration and innovation,” said spokeswoman Katelin Todhunter-Gerberg.

Wheeler says the mega-complexes being built today will be hard to staff 10 years from now, and that the next era will see smaller workplaces where employees are responsible for meeting achievements and objectives, and have flexibility about when they come in to their office.

“When you look at how some of these companies operate, they’re in effect, sweat shops. ... They want 80, 90, 100 hours of work. In order to even make that tolerable, of course you have to offer haircuts and food and places to sleep or else people would have to go home,” he said.

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Moroccan members of the CDT labor union march behind activists dressed in fright masks carrying the labels “ghost of inflation” and “ghost of unemployment.” Thousands of labor union activists marched through Morocco’s capital Rabat on Sunday calling for the fall of the government because of its failure to address unemployment and rising prices.

Morocco’s labour unions protest economic reforms

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RABAT, Morocco — Thousands of members of two of Morocco’s largest labour unions marched through the capital on Sunday to protest the Islamist-led government’s planned economic and labour reforms and its failure to stem unemployment and inflation.

Described as a “national march of protest” pushing for greater freedoms and rights, the few thousand demonstrators, brightly attired in yellow baseball caps and smocks, were smaller in number than past anti-government demonstrations by this North African nation’s labour movement.

The protesters were particularly irate over government plans to reform laws dealing with labour unions, including docking the pay of strikers and measures that the government says would increase transparency in union finances.

Chanting, the “people want the fall of the government” and calling for the departure of Prime

Minister Abdelilah Benkirane, the activists marched through the colonial-era streets of downtown Rabat in a light rain.

Benkirane’s moderate Islamist party won the most seats in elections following pro-democracy uprisings in 2011, and he took the helm of the government promising to fight corruption and address the North African country’s huge gap between the rich and the poor.

His fractious coalition has achieved little, however, and is currently embroiled in the sensitive process of reforming the massive subsidies and pension systems.

“The government has done nothing so far, not for the economy, not for social reforms and not even for the fight against corruption,” said Bouchra Sandeel, a teacher from Marrakech marching in the demonstration.

She expressed fear that efforts to reform the subsidies on fuel and food staples would hit the poor hardest in this country of 32 million.

Talib Ait Ahmed, a cannery worker from the southern coast

city of Agadir, said he was protesting for a better life for workers in the face of the rising food prices and widespread unemployment.

Ait Ahmed acknowledged that the government faces constraints, but complained that the prime minister wasn’t doing anything to improve economic mobility and expand the small middle class.

“He’s not reacting. He sees the problem but hasn’t taken it in hand yet,” Ait Ahmed said.

Despite some reforms following the 2011 Arab Spring demonstrations, true power in Morocco lies with the monarchy and those close to it.

Benkirane has repeatedly blamed “remnants” of the previous government in the bureaucracy and administration for blocking his reform efforts.

A poll published Friday by the daily L’Economiste gave Benkirane a 64 per cent approval rating after just over a year in office.

The paper noted it was a comfortable margin, but a 22 point drop from his 88 per cent rating last year.

As Opening Day looms, iconic Louisville Slugger rolls out new look

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The familiar smell of hot dogs and freshly cut grass on Major League Baseball’s Opening Day will be complemented by changes to the iconic Louisville Slugger bat, which is now made with firmer wood and stamped with a new logo.

The 129-year-old manufacturer hopes the harder bat, which is less likely to splinter, and more modern logo will help the family-owned company stay relevant in the sporting good supply market and ahead of competitors in luring younger ballplayers to its products.

The new logo is the first such change since the company dropped the “Hillerich & Bradsby” name from the centre of its oval design and replaced it with “Louisville Slugger” in 1980.

And the new bats, which are made from a high-grade wood and processed to enhance the surface’s hardness, are the biggest change in the hardware since the introduction of cup-ended bats in 1972.

“You have to ask yourself, Do you really need to change it?”

Louisville Slugger CEO John Hillerich said of the logos and bats.

“Our greatest asset is our brand.”

The changes were the result of a multi-year process that involved talking with everyone from corporate partners to players about what they wanted in a bat to how the new logo looked on the equipment.

The new bats — made of ash or maple — are designed to be harder than previous models. Bobby Hillerich, director of Wood Bat Manufacturing for Louisville Slugger, said new selection processes for the wood, as well as drying and processing methods, have created a bat hard enough to reach a grade of 9h — the highest rating possible by the American Society for D Testing and Materials.

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Louisville Slugger baseball bats are shown, in Louisville, Ky. Louisville Slugger is rolling out a new logo for the first time in 33 years on a new bat that company officials say is designed to be the hardest wooden bat ever produced at the Louisville, Ky., factory. material closer together, Bobby Hillerich said. Once that is done, the wood is cut into billets used to create the bats. The billets are shaped and compressed before being finished with a water-based coating, logo, and any coloring and player signature.

Part of the aim of the new bat is to keep it from splintering on the field. In recent years, baseball officials have been concerned about maple bats breaking or shattering, creating potential hazards for infielders. Bobby Hillerich said the new bats have held up well in tests.

“The crack of the bat is just so much different because of the drying process,” Hillerich said.

Howard Smith, Vice-President of Licensing for Major League Baseball, said players tested the new bats toward the end of the 2012 season and gave it “rave reviews.” Louisville Slugger has

refined bat-making to a science, Smith said.

“In terms of the slope of the grain, which determines how hard the wood will be, Louisville has been able to harvest the best wood with the most perfect as you can get slope of grain,” Smith said. “It has absolutely contributed to less bats breaking on the field.”

With the new bats comes a new look. The old Louisville Slugger logo — an oval featuring the company name at the centre with the number “125” above it — is being replaced by a new logo that keeps the oval, but slightly alters the look of the Louisville Slugger name and has an interlocking “LS” above it. The bats, marketed as MLB Prime, will also feature a player’s signature boxed in by the Louisville Slugger name, the model number, a notation that the bat is genuine and the wood from which it is made.

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Seriously sinister cinema CINEPLEX THEATRES TARGET HORROR AND GENRE FANS WITH EDGY ‘SINISTER CINEMA’ FILM SERIES

BY CASSANDRA SZKLARSKI THE CANADIAN PRESS Options are limited for art-house horror fan Connor Marsden.

The off-beat fare he prefers is not the kind of material that generally screens at the local multiplex, forcing him to hunt down edgy titles at film festivals, rep cinemas and DVD stores.

And yet, this week he found himself in the most unlikely of places to get his horror fix — at the towering Cineplex theatre in downtown Toronto where small movies are getting a big push by the mammoth film chain.

Surrounded by like-minded genre junkies, the 23-year-old settled into one of the theatre’s stadium seats to check out the psychedelic trip John Dies At the End, directed by Don Coscarelli.

“Usually this type of stuff doesn’t play at Cineplex — it’s like you get the big studio horror movies but that’s about it,” Marsden said of the chain’s bid to corner an alternative audience.

“I think this is really cool.”

Cineplex is betting that other devoted cult-film devotees feel that way, too.

Its new film series Sinister Cinema promises to bring cutting-edge indies to 25 theatres from British Columbia to Quebec, and with them a celebratory film-festival vibe targeting the horror genre’s young and passionate following.

“The success of these films at film festivals is proof to us that there’s definitely a market out there for them,” says Mike Langdon, director of communications for Cineplex Entertainment.

“They’re an opportunity for us to bring a different type of moviegoer into the theatre.”

In Toronto, the screening of John Dies At the End included a greeting from Coscarelli, trailers for similarly bloody features headed to Cineplex, a kitschy short film before the main feature (the demented spoof Bio-Cop) and then a Q&A with the director to cap things off.

The monthly program’s first four films come from the Toronto-based distribution company Raven Banner Entertainment, which specializes in genre fare. Managing partner Andrew Hunt praises Cineplex for bringing lesser-known titles to a broader audience, even if it’s only for one night a month.

Raven Banner typically works with small independent movie houses that specialize in niche programming but there are fewer and fewer of them around, he says.

“There are some great rep theatres in Canada but there’s a lot less of them than there was five years ago and 10 years ago,” says Hunt, adding that audience interest is nevertheless still there. “(Sinister Cinema) is going to be getting out obviously the hardcore fans of genre films, and also the people who would probably love to go to a great film festival like TIFF Midnight Madness or Fantasia in Montreal but maybe they live in a city where they can’t get there.”

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Actor Paul Giamatti, left and director Don Coscarelli talk on set “John Dies At the End”, part of the new film series Sinister Cinema.

Coscarelli says it’s a great boost for filmmakers like him who generally have to hustle for even the smallest distribution deals.

“It’s a really daring move on their part to try to open up the market,” says Coscarelli, who earned a dedicated following for helming genre classics Phantasm, The Beastmaster and Bubba Ho-Tep. “It’s a courageous move on the part of Cineplex because a lot of exhibitors are accused of being stodgy and not up-to-the-times and they’re stepping up there and taking a risk.”

He notes the industry is dominated by studio films, filling chain cinemas with a relatively homogenous slate of big-budget tent-poles.

“There’s not the diversity that there was when I was younger, certainly in terms of movies that are available to us.”

Langdon says Sinister Cinema is part of a swath of diverse programming known as its Front Row Centre Events series, which puts “non-Hollywood programming” including 3D sporting events, live opera, dance and music concerts on the big screen.

Themed programs include Cineplex’s Classic Film Series, which offers old faves including African Queen, Singin’ in the Rain, and Sunset Boulevard, for $6; and Family Favourites, which offers kid-friendly flicks like

Free Willy, Curious George and Big for $2.50.

Each Monday there’s a crowd favourite, such as Aliens, Taxi Driver or Full Metal Jacket.

For those theatres that specialize in second-run and avant-garde fare, the Cineplex experiment is definitely not welcome.

“It’s the one thing we do well and the chains are now trying to steal that one thing from us,” says Lee Demarbre, programmer at Ottawa’s singlescreen Mayfair Theatre.

Nevertheless, he argues that chains will never be able to match the ability of independents to connect with audiences.

He bemoans the quality of digital projections at the big chains, as opposed to the dying 35-millimetre format: “Watching a digital copy of a movie is quite literally like going on Google and looking at the Mona Lisa.”

And he suspects that audiences wouldn’t have as much fun at a big-box venue.

“We’re showing John Dies at the End at the end of the week and I’m sure we’ll get a better crowd than they will.... We’ve got a punk rock crowd,” he says.

“These cinemas are designed to be box-seaters all crammed together in one building and it totally defeats the idea of the way to watch and listen to

a movie. Slope floors in a cinema were built for a reason.

Stadium seating in a cinema completely defeats the way you listen to and look at a movie. Most times, you’re sitting behind the rear speakers. That’s disgusting.”

The “hardcore genre fans” might pause before heading to Cineplex to catch a gorefest, agrees Dave Alexander, editor and chief of Rue Morgue magazine.

“They feel sort of a sense of ownership as if the big guys are coming in and taking this kind of cool thing that only they know about away from them,” says Alexander, whose horrorthemed publication runs a national horror expo, a film production arm and film series.

But overall, he says the average movie fan doesn’t really care where they see the movie — just as long as they get the chance to see it.

“Everything is so in flux that we need to try different methods, whether it’s a one-night screening at a multiplex or a week-long run at a rep cinema,” he says.

IMAX recently screened a special 3D version of the ’80s classic Top Gun in February.

Upcoming Sinister Cinema films include The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh on May 9, American Mary on May 30 and No One Lives on June 19.

Kiss frontman Gene Simmons says music can save kids’ lives, get them off streets

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Gene Simmons, left, and LL Cool J attend Hennessy Black: A Dinner with LL Cool J and Mark Burnett Celebrating Music’s Biggest Night Out, on Saturday in Los Angeles.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Kiss frontman Gene Simmons made a surprise appearance at a Sioux Falls benefit concert Saturday, where he spoke of music’s power to positively shape children’s lives.

Simmons’s appearance came on the final day of a week of concerts to benefit the music academy for Sioux Falls Boys & Girls Clubs members.

“This is about kids.

We’ve had our chance.

We’ve got to give them a chance. Anything that gets them off the street is a good thing,” Simmons said.

Music, Simmons said, is self-empowering.

“It doesn’t matter if you become a star.

“If you don’t believe in yourself and get up on stage, everybody is watching. You can feel the power ... and it helps you get through life, especially when you’re impressionable.”

He said getting involved in music — whether it’s learning to play an instrument or sing karaoke — improves social skills, too.

Motley Crue singer Vince Neil was also at

Saturday’s show, and he, too, expounded on the positive benefits of music.

“Say you finish your first song, it could be Mary Had a Little Lamb, it doesn’t matter, but

at least it’s something you’ve played,” Neil said.

“And I think for kids, they could go into a whole other direction because they accomplished something.”

Neil said he was 10 when he first started taking guitar lessons.

“I was terrible,” he said laughing. “That’s why I’m not a guitarist.

I went into the other direction.”

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Teacher tired of trying to get someone to take threats seriously

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As the early spring sun shines in late March, it gives an illusion of beauty by looking like diamonds by the drifts full. There is little valued treasure with these diamonds other than the sparkling sheen that gives solace that warmer weather will soon be upon us.

Facebook teases on revamp of news feed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The lead designer behind Facebook’s latest facelift has heard the horror stories.

He wasn’t around for the infamous redesigns that sparked massive user revolts, endless streams of angry comments, and demands to return to the status quo.

But he got the message. And so this time around, the team tasked with coming up with a revamped home page for Facebook, called the news feed, is being exceedingly cautious in delivering something that won’t have users reaching for their digital torches and pitchforks.

“I wasn’t around for (the previous controversial redesigns) but it’s definitely something that is a presence,” says designer Robyn Morris.

“I think the people that were around have made it very clear that we want to do a better job of transitioning people. Change is something that’s extremely challenging and we take it very seriously.

“And so from the very start we really didn’t kid ourselves about the importance of making this change as smooth as possible.”

First revealed by founder Mark Zuckerberg at a press event on March 7, the updated news feed has a streamlined, mobile-influenced design, which will look similar on desktop computers, tablets and

phones.

The redesign project began about a year ago, with groups of Facebook users surveyed about what they liked and didn’t like about the feeds of updates they were typically seeing.

“We printed out their news feed and cut out each story to be a different piece of paper and had them sort them from most important to least important and had them remove the things they weren’t interested in,” Morris said.

“What we got from that was a realization that people are after more control, they want to be empowered to find the things they really cared about. And the other insight we had was generally that the page that people see when they come to Facebook was a little too cluttered in terms of the amount of things they were being exposed to at once.”

Users kept saying they felt like they were missing posts from friends and family and were seeing content they didn’t care nearly as much about.

As a result of that feedback, the design team created a new column of separate feeds at the right side of the page, so users could see updates sorted by different categories such as most recent, all friends, family, work, school and photos. Another key feature in the new design is a navigational pane along the left side of the page, which pops out when hovered over.

You may act like the nurturing co-worker within your office environment, one that is mothering everyone with your good care and nurturing tendencies.

Monday, April 1 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is a benefiCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: cial time to take advantage of the good vibes Asa Butterfield, 16; Susan Boyle, 52; Debbie that the sky is offering you right now. Help is Reynolds, 81 being sent your way which can further you THOUGHT OF THE DAY: A healthy dose professionally. Success can come within any of optimism along with some good-humoured legal dealings or even publications. spirits will reign the day. Successful encounVIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Professionalters and positive energies are plentiful, while ly, you have tremendous amounts of encourambition and personal objectives are strongly aging energy which will aid you in advancing. sought-after today. Self-initiation and an enYour efforts and your diligent work are being trepreneurial drive will take us to many levels noticed by your superiors and you may be of personal and professional advancement. offered additional opportunities to grasp from.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): is your birthday, you will have Business or romantic partnera predisposition to explore beships can benefit you now or yond your own limits and test offer you a variety of possibilities your possibilities. You will have where you could unleash your a feeling that you are forever true potential. Don’t set yourself young at heart and that you can personal limits and allow yourgo as far as your own mind can. self to fully seize from this expeYou are desirous of new experirience. ences and endowed with a restSCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): less will to travel in exotic lands.

A certain impediment may be reThe pursuit of new knowledge moved from your work environand escaping your daily routine ment or conditions within your will be much sought-after by you workplace may improve. Luck ASTRO this year. may come to you through a genARIES (March 21-April 19): DOYNA erous return from other sources Communication with individusuch as your taxes or a potential als in power and interaction with loan may be approved. authoritative figures will prove SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22to be highly successful today.

Dec. 21): If you are coupled up, your union You project a leadership role which everyone will infuse you with a heavy load of purpose takes notice of. You are highly creative reand joy. In any business venture, you derive garding your abilities to advance. a mass amount of luck and a multitude of TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Opportunipossibilities through which you can succeed. ties in investments or a windfall of cash is CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You highly likely. Expect favourable transactions may concentrate your focus on your father’s and try not to overspend today due to your ancestral line. Relationship with your parents optimistic ventures. This is a great time to improves during this transit while more interhold meetings with influential individuals. est is put into familial issues. Try not to overGEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you have indulge in any type of consumption. ever tried to impress your higher ups or suAQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Good forperiors of your diligent efforts, this is your tune seems to follow you everywhere. You call. You are more enterprising in your acare more curious about the deeper meaning tions and you have the guts to take on a few of life and you want to instill more purpose risky moves. You are highly positive about into it. All types of learning will benefit you your outlook on life. significantly. Join a new group of like-minded CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are a people or sign up for a new class. go-getter and others follow you as guidance.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your relationship with certain male figures improves now. You centre your focus towards acquiring more wealth and you will most likely want to show it off. An improved sense of value and self-esteem make you more reassured of your possessions and certain of your future.

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Dear Annie: I am an elementary school teacher. This year I have two 7-year-old students with major behavior issues.

Both of them have threatened to bring a gun to school and shoot me and their classmates. As shocking as it is to hear this from such young children, the response from the people in charge is worse.

I reported these threats multiple times, and nothing has been done.

No one has even spoken to the boys about their behavior.

I was told the kids are young and most likely don’t have access to guns. Yet these kids have older siblings who can obtain guns for them.

In light of current events, I take these threats seriously. I’ve spoken to the principal, vice-principal, school social workers and the boys’ parents.

They all tell me I need to “focus on the positive things the kids do.”

Am I crazy, or are they?

What should I do?

Quitting my job is not an option. — Worried Teacher Dear Teacher: While it is not uncommon for young children to make such threats, they normally do not follow through.

However, there is a slim possibility that one of these boys will bring a weapon to school and attempt to use it, especially if he hears news reports about other school shootings.

The bigger problem is the “major behavior issues.”

We realize you are fearful, but an alarmed approach is not productive.

Are these boys receiving any kind of ongoing counseling or assistance?

Perhaps if you approach this as a way to help the children develop better coping skills, the school will address it more directly and effectively.

Dear Annie: Please let your readers know of an easy way to support our troops.

When buying a new cellphone, donate your old one to the nonprofit Cell Phones for Soldiers through cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded in 2004 by Robbie and Brittany Bergquist of Norwell, Mass., when they were 12 and 13 years old.

The organization converts proceeds from used cellphones into prepaid phone cards for our troops overseas.

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ANNIE ANNIE They have donated more than 181 million minutes to our troops, many of whom could not otherwise afford to call home.

Please support those individuals who support our country. — Bay St. Louis Dear Bay St. Louis: Thank you for mentioning this very worthwhile organization.

We hope our readers will keep it in mind when getting a new cellphone.

Dear Annie: I was perplexed by the recent letter from “Mr. Manners” about bits of food that a diner drops on the plate.

He expressed disgust that people pick up the bits with their fingertips, and you concurred that it was proper etiquette to use one’s knife to retrieve the droppings.

I can display more grace picking up such bits with my fingertips than anyone can with forks and knives. And what about the centuries-old practice of sopping one’s bread in leftover juices?

However, my real question is: In the grand scheme of things, what difference does it make if a person picks up food bits with the fingers? — Durant, Okla.

Dear Durant: You may have misunderstood the original letter.

When eating peas and other small, hard-tocapture foods, it is best to get them onto one’s fork by using a knife or a piece of bread, rather than pushing them with one’s fingers.

It’s unappetizing to watch someone use their fingers.

And yes, you can sop bread in leftover juices, as long as you don’t make a slurpy mess of it.

Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

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Clearview Ridge Clearview Dr. & Crossley St. area $202.00/mo.

Deerpark Area 3 blks of Duston St. Denmark Crsc & West half of Donnelly Crsc. $94/mo.

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Rocky View Schools (RVS) is the fifth largest jurisdiction in Alberta serving almost 20,000 students in both rural and urban schools. As a 21st Century student-centric learning organization, RVS is committed to engaging, enriching and empowering all learners through meaningful and challenging experiences that prepare them to understand, adapt and successfully contribute to our changing global community.

We are seeking outstanding professionals for the following positions: Competition #3357 - Coordinator of Grounds - Closing April 9, 2013 Competition #3353 - Manager of Supply Management - Closing April 12, 2013 To learn more about this job opportunity and the application process, please visit our website at www.rockyview.ab.ca or go directly to www.applytoeducation.com under Management and Professional.

Resumes can also be emailed to careers@rockyview.ca

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FURIX Energy Inc is hiring for the following positions Sandblasters Apprentice Welders Journeymen welders with CWB and 400BBL tank manufacturing experience.

Level 1 Q/A QC Inspector Please email your resumes to Darryl@furixenergy.com or fax to 403-348-8109.

TANKMASTER RENTALS requires CLASS 1 BED TRUCK Operators for Central Alberta. Competitive wages and benefits. m.morton@tankmaster.ca or fax 403-340-8818

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LICENSED mechanic for truck maintenance on 20 truck fleet. Reply to Box 1036, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 or fax resume to 403-346-0295

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ANDERS AREA Adams Close/ Adair Ave. BOWER AREA Baile Close Boyce St./ Byer Close Barrett Dr/ Beatty Crsc..

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Illingworth Close LANCASTER AREA

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Drop Resume @ #2, 7859 Gaetz Ave or Fax 403-347-7744

EXPERT RV PARK MODELS, BOWDEN

General Handyperson Needed Duties include: Service & repair of Park Model homes, exterior & interior repair & reno. Willing to do some travel, if needed for repair/service of Park Models. Drug & alcohol free, fast paced environment.

2 positions avail. Wage depending on exp.

Fax: 403-210-4815 Attn: Ian or email: ian@experthome.ca GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com

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Employment Training

900

Pipeline and Facility Installation Inspectors Skystone Engineering will host a training seminar on the role of the inspector as the client (owner) representative, providing code and regulatory requirements for inspectors to fulfill their QA role. It also covers site safety, project management and admin requirements to assure new installations satisfy owner requirements. It addresses all sections of CAPP’s Guidance Document: “Competency Assessment for Upstream Oil and Gas Pipeline Installation Inspectors”.

The seminar will be April 23-25, 2013 at the Delta Edmonton South Hotel in Edmonton, AB. Attendees must register on or before Sunday, April 21.

For info, visit www. skystone.ca or call (403) 516-4217, Nancy.

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EquipmentAlso Heavy for the afternoon in Town of Penhold! TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or Also storage. Skidded or afternoon delivery in wheeled. Call 347-7721.

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2 BDRM. well cared for condo, North of river. Upgraded w/ hardwood floors, 4 appl. Avail. April 1 $975 rent & s.d. (403) 356-1170 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

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BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

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Egyptian TV satirist released on bail after five-hour interrogation ARRESTED ON ALLEGATIONS OF INSULTING EGYPT’S PRESIDENT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s most popular television satirist, who every week skewers the Islamist president and hard-line clerics on his Jon Stewart-style show, was released on bail Sunday but could face charges of insulting the country’s leader and Islam.

Bassem Youssef is the most prominent critic of President Mohammed Morsi to be called in for questioning in recent weeks, in what the opposition says is a campaign to intimidate critics amid wave after wave of political unrest in deeply polarized Egypt.

Arrest warrants have been issued for five prominent anti-government activists accused of instigating violence.

Deputy chief prosecutor Hassan Yassin denied the nearly fivehour interrogation was part of an intimidation campaign and said his department was enforcing the law and seeking to establish some guidelines on freedom of expression.

“The prosecution is the protector of social rights and we work on implementing the law. ... There must be guidelines for those working in the media to observe so as not violate the law,” Yassin told The Associated Press.

Morsi last week accused private media of fanning violence and argued that it was being used for political aims.

But Yassin denied that the prosecutor’s office was operating at the behest of the presidency to go after Morsi’s critics, saying it has also interrogated and sentenced Islamists. Morsi appointed the chief prosecutor late last year despite an outcry from many in the judiciary who accused him of trampling on their right to choose the top prosecutor.

A court ruling last week declared Morsi’s appointment void, a verdict he will likely appeal.

“There is no contact between us and the presidency. ... Just like we moved against someone who insults Christianity, we moved against someone who is accused of insulting Islam,” he said.

Youssef is the host of the weekly political satire show known for his skits lampooning Morsi and Egypt’s newly empowered Islamist political class. But he also mocks the opposition and the media.

The fast-paced show has attracted a wide viewership, while at the same time earning its fair share of detractors. Youssef has been a frequent target of lawsuits, most of them brought by Islamist lawyers who accused him of “corrupting morals” or violating “religious principles.”

Youssef frequently imitates Morsi’s speeches and gestures. He has fact-checked the president, and in one particularly popular episode earlier this year, he played video clips showing remarks by Morsi, made in 2010 before he became president, calling Zionists “pigs.”

The remarks caused a brief diplomatic tiff with the U.S. administration, and Morsi had to issue a statement to defuse the flap.

In his last episode this week, Youssef thanked Morsi for providing him with so much material.

Youssef has also made regular jokes about comments by Islamic clerics and presenters on Islamic TV stations, exposing contradictions between their comments and public speeches and what he considers the spirit of Islam.

Prosecutor Mohammed elSayed Khalifa was quoted on the website of the state-owned Al-Ahram daily that he has 28 plaintiffs in the case against Youssef accusing him of insulting Islam, mock-

ing prayers, and “belittling” Morsi in the eyes of the world and his own people.

The plaintiffs are mostly regular citizens, according to Shaimaa Abul-Kheir, a representative of the New-York based Committee to Protect Journalists who was allowed to attend the interrogation.

In remarks to a TV presenter on CBC, the private station that airs his program, Youssef said on Saturday that his program does not insult Islam but aims to expose those who “distort” it.

“We don’t insult religion. What we do is expose those so-called religious and Islamic stations which have offended Islam more than anyone else,” he said. “If anyone is to be investigated for insulting religions, it should be all those who use Islam as a weapon and a political tool to swallow the others using religion.”

When asked if programs in Egypt should be less scathing than those of the West, Youssef said: “We will give (the West) an example of how freedoms are respected after the revolution,” he said of the 2011 uprising that ousted longtime authoritarian leader Hosni Mubarak.

After turning himself in for questioning, Youssef first tweeted a series of quips from the prosecutor’s office.

“They asked me the colour of my eyes. Really,” one said.

A news broadcaster at a TV station affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, Misr 25, accused Youssef of “mocking” the investigation. His tweets later were erased and he wrote that some reports from inside the interrogation room were “incorrect.”

Amr Moussa, a former presidential candidate, called the warrant for Youssef’s arrest a “provocation to Egyptians who are known for their love of what is funny.”

Texas prosecutor slain at home, armed himself after assistant was gunned down

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KAUFMAN, Texas — A north Texas district attorney took no chances after one of his assistant prosecutors was gunned down two months ago. Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere he went and took extra care when answering the door at his home.

“I’m ahead of everybody else because, basically, I’m a soldier,” the 23-year Army veteran said in an interview less than two weeks ago.

On Saturday, he and his wife were found shot to death in their rural home just outside the town of Forney, about 20 miles (30 kilometres) from Dallas.

While investigators gave no motive for the killings, Forney Mayor Darren Rozell said: “It appears this was not a random act.”

“Everybody’s a little on edge and a little shocked,” he said.

The slayings came less than two weeks after Colorado’s prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by a white supremacist ex-convict, and two months after Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was killed in a parking lot a block from his courthouse office. No arrests have been made in Hasse’s slaying Jan. 31.

McLelland, 63, is the 13th prosecutor killed in the U.S. since the National Association of District Attorneys began keeping count in the 1960s.

Sheriff David Byrnes would not give details Sunday of how the killings unfolded and said there was nothing to indicate for certain whether the district attorney’s slaying was connected to Hasse’s.

Colorado’s corrections director, Tom Clements, was killed March 19 when he answered the doorbell at his home outside Colorado Springs. Evan Spencer Ebel, a former Colorado inmate and white supremacist who authorities suspect shot Clements, died in a shootout with Texas deputies two days later about 100 miles (160 kilometres) from Kaufman.

El Paso County, Colorado, sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Joe Roybal said Sunday that investigators had found no evidence so far connecting the Texas killings to the Colorado case, but added: “We’re examining all possibilities.”

McLelland, in an Associated Press interview

shortly after the Colorado slaying, raised the possibility that Hasse was gunned down by a white supremacist gang.

The weekend slayings raised concerns for prosecutors across Texas, and some were taking extra security precautions. Byrnes said security would be increased at the courthouse in Kaufman but declined to say if or how other prosecutors in McLelland’s office would be protected. Harris County District Attorney Mike Anderson said he accepted the sheriff’s offer of 24-hour security for him and his family after learning about the slayings, mostly over concerns for his family’s safety. Anderson said he also would take precautions at his Houston office, the largest one in Texas, which has more than 270 prosecutors.

“I think district attorneys across Texas are still in a state of shock,” Anderson said Sunday.

McLelland, elected district attorney in 2010, said his office had prosecuted several cases against racist gangs, who have a strong presence around Kaufman County, a mostly rural area dotted with subdivisions, with a population of about 104,000.

“We put some real dents in the Aryan Brotherhood around here in the past year,” McLelland said.

In recent years, the DA’s office also prosecuted a case in which a justice of the peace was found guilty of theft and burglary and another case in which a man was convicted of killing his former girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter.

McLelland said he carried a gun everywhere he went, even to walk his dog around town, a bedroom community for the Dallas area. He figured assassins were more likely to try to attack him outside. He said he had warned all his employees to be constantly on the alert.

“The people in my line of work are going to have to get better at it,” he said of dealing with the danger, “because they’re going to need it more in the future.”

The number of attacks on prosecutors, judges and senior law enforcement officers in the U.S. has spiked in the past three years, according to Glenn McGovern, an investigator with the Santa Clara County, California, District Attorney’s Office who tracks such cases.

For about a month after Hasse’s slaying, sheriff’s deputies were parked in the district attorney’s driveway, said Sam Rosander, a McLelland neighbour.

try’s 24 million people face regular food shortages.

The statement called for diversified foreign trade and investment, and a focus on agriculture, light industry and a “self-reliant nuclear power industry,” including a light water reactor. There was also a call for “the development of space science and technology,” including more satellite launches. North Korea put a satellite into orbit on a long-range rocket in December. The United Nations called the launch a cover for a banned test of ballistic missile technology and increased sanctions on the North.

The central committee is a top decision-making body of the North’s ruling Workers’ Party. The committee is tasked with organizing and guiding the party’s major projects, and its plenary meeting is usually convened once a year, according to Seoul’s Unification Ministry. South Korean media said the last plenary session was held in 2010 and that this was the first time Kim Jong Un had presided over the meeting.

The White House says the United States is taking North Korea’s threats seriously, but has also noted Pyongyang’s history of “bellicose rhetoric.”

On Thursday, U.S. military officials revealed that two B-2 stealth bombers dropped dummy munitions on an uninhabited South Korean island as part of annual defence drills that Pyongyang sees as rehearsals for invasion.

Hours later, Kim ordered his generals to put rockets on standby and threatened to strike American targets if provoked.

INTERSTATE PILEUP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GALAX, Va. — Police are now saying 95 vehicles were involved in 17 separate crashes along a mountainous, foggy stretch of interstate near the Virginia-North Carolina border.

Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corrine Geller says three people were killed Sunday.

There were also 25 people were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from serious to minor.

The wrecks occurred on Interstate 77 in south-

west Virginia in the Fancy Gap Mountain area.

Geller says message boards along the interstate warned drivers of severe fog in the area.

She says the crashes happened about 1:15 p.m., mostly because drivers were going too fast for conditions.

Traffic backed up for about 8 miles in the southbound lanes, which is where the wrecks occurred.

Authorities also closed the northbound lanes so that emergency vehicles could get there.

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The Town of Blackfalds is currently recruiting enumerators to assist in conducting the 2013 Municipal Census to be held in May and June. Enumerators must be at least 18 years of age, have basic computer skills, be available to work 20-30 hours per week (including evenings and weekends), walk in various weather conditions carrying and operating a computer tablet and be able to attend a mandatory training session on Wednesday April 24th, during the evening between 6:30pm to 8:30pm.

For further information on this position, please contact 403-885-6248 or email info@blackfalds.com. All interested applicants are to submit a resume no later than Friday, April 12th, 2013 to:

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SEOUL, South Korea — A top North Korean decision-making body issued a pointed warning Sunday, saying that nuclear weapons are “the nation’s life” and will not be traded even for “billions of dollars.”

The comments came in a statement released after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presided over the plenary meeting of the central committee of the ruling Workers’ Party. The meeting, which set a “new strategic line” calling for building both a stronger economy and nuclear arsenal, comes amid a series of near-daily threats from Pyongyang in recent weeks, including a vow to launch nuclear strikes on the United States and a warning Saturday that the Korean Peninsula was in a “state of war.”

Pyongyang is angry over annual U.S.-South Korean military drills and a new round of U.N. sanctions that followed its Feb. 12 nuclear test, the country’s third. Analysts see a full-scale North Korean attack as unlikely and say the threats are more likely efforts to provoke softer policies toward Pyongyang from a new government in Seoul, to win diplomatic talks with Washington that could get the North more aid, and to solidify the young North Korean leader’s image and military credentials at home.

North Korea made reference to those outside views in the statement it released through the official Korean Central News Agency following the plenary meeting.

North Korea’s nuclear weapons are a “treasure” not to be traded for “billions of dollars,” the statement said. They “are neither a political bargaining chip nor a thing for economic dealings to be presented to the place of dialogue or be put on the table of negotiations aimed at forcing (Pyongyang) to disarm itself,” it said.

North Korea’s “nuclear armed forces represent the nation’s life, which can never be abandoned as long as the imperialists and nuclear threats exist on earth,” the statement said.

North Korea has called the U.S. nuclear arsenal a threat to its existence since the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended in a truce, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula still technically at war. Pyongyang justifies its own nuclear pursuit in large part on that perceived U.S. threat.

While analysts call North Korea’s threats largely brinkmanship, there is some fear that a localized skirmish might escalate. Seoul has vowed to respond harshly should North Korea provoke its military.

Naval skirmishes in disputed Yellow Sea waters off the Korean coast have led to bloody battles several times over the years. Attacks blamed on Pyongyang in 2010 killed 50 South Koreans.

The plenary statement also called for strengthening the moribund economy, which Kim has put an emphasis on in his public statements since taking power after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, in late 2011.

The United Nations says two-thirds of the coun-

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In this computer screenshot made from the Google Maps website provided recently by Google, deserted buildings are seen in March in Namie, Japan, a nuclear no-go zone where former residents have been unable to live since they fled from radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant two years ago. Google Street View is giving the world a rare glimpse into Japan’s eerie ghost town, following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that sparked a nuclear disaster that has left the area uninhabitable.

Japan’s ghost town GOOGLE STREET VIEW SHOWS IMAGES FROM AFTER NUCLEAR DISASTER

BY YURI KAGEYAMA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Concrete rubble litters streets lined with shuttered shops and dark windows. A collapsed roof juts from the ground. A ship sits stranded on a stretch of dirt flattened when the tsunami roared across the coastline. There isn’t a person in sight.

Google Street View is giving the world a rare glimpse into one of Japan’s eerie ghost towns, created when the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami sparked a nuclear disaster that has left the area uninhabitable.

The technology pieces together digital images captured by Google’s fleet of camera-equipped vehicles and allows viewers to take virtual tours of locations around the world, including faraway spots like the South Pole and fantastic landscapes like the Grand Canyon.

Now it is taking people inside Japan’s nuclear nogo zone, to the city of Namie, whose 21,000 residents have been unable to return to live since they fled the radiation spewing from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant two years ago.

Koto Naganuma, 32, who lost her home in the tsunami, said some people find it too painful to see the places that were so familiar yet are now so out of reach.

She has only gone back once, a year ago, and for a few minutes.

“I’m looking forward to it. I’m excited I can take

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Google’s camera-equipped vehicle moves through Namie town in Japan, a nuclear no-go zone where former residents have been unable to live since they fled from radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago. a look at those places that are so dear to me,” said Naganuma. “It would be hard, too. No one is going to be there.”

Namie Mayor Tamotsu Baba said memories came flooding back as he looked at the images shot by Google earlier this month.

He spotted an area where an autumn festival used to be held and another of an elementary school that was once packed with schoolchildren.

“Those of us in the older generation feel that we received this town from our forbearers, and we feel great pain that we cannot pass it down to our chil-

dren,” he said in a post on his blog.

“We want this Street View imagery to become a permanent record of what happened to Namie-machi in the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster.”

Street View was started in 2007, and now provides images from more than 3,000 cities across 48 countries, as well as parts of the Arctic and Antarctica.

Online: Namie Street View link: http://goo.gl/maps/iFIWD Follow Yuri Kageyama on Twitter at www.twitter. com/yurikageyama

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Screenshot made from the Google Maps website provided by Google, showing stranded ships left as a testament to the power of the tsunami, which hit the area, near a road in March, in Namie, Japan.

Critics say scooter company ads ‘brainwash’ seniors

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — TV ads show smiling seniors enjoying an “active” lifestyle on a motorized scooter, taking in the sights at the Grand Canyon, fishing on a pier and high-fiving their grandchildren at a baseball game.

The commercials, which promise freedom and independence to people with limited mobility, have driven the nearly $1 billion U.S. market for power wheelchairs and scooters.

But the spots by the industry’s two leading companies, The Scooter Store and Hoveround, also have drawn scrutiny from critics who say they convince some seniors that they need a scooter to get around when many don’t.

Members of Congress say the ads lead to hundreds of millions of dollars in unnecessary spending by Medicare, which is only supposed to pay for scooters as a medical necessity when seniors are unable to use a cane, walker or regular wheelchair.

Government inspectors say up to 80 per cent of the scooters and power wheelchairs Medicare buys go to people who don’t meet the requirements.

And doctors say more than money is at stake: Seniors who use scooters unnecessarily can become sedentary, which can exacerbate obesity and other disorders.

“Patients have been brainwashed

by The Scooter Store,” says Dr. Barbara Messinger-Rapport, director of geriatric medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

“What they’re implying is that you can use these scooters to leave the house, to socialize, to get to bingo.”

The scooter controversy, which has escalated with a raid by federal authorities on The Scooter’s Store’s New Braunfels, Texas, headquarters last month, underscores the influence TV ads can have on medical decisions.

Like their peers in the drug industry, scooter companies say direct-to-consumer advertising educates patients about their medical options.

But critics argue that the scooter spots are little more than sales pitches that cause patients to pressure doctors to prescribe unnecessary equipment.

The Scooter Store and Hoveround,

both privately held companies that together make up about 70 per cent of the U.S. market for scooters, spent more than $180 million on TV, radio and print advertising in 2011, up 20 per cent from 2008, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media.

Their ads often include language that the scooters can be paid for by Medicare or other insurance: “Nine out of ten people got them for little or no cost,” states one Hoveround ad.

Hoveround did not respond to a half-dozen requests for comment. The Scooter Store, the nation’s biggest seller of scooters, said that most people who contact the company after seeing the ads do not ultimately receive a scooter.

“The fact that 87 per cent of the persons who seek power mobility products from The Scooter Store under their Medicare benefits are disqualified by the company’s screening process is powerful evidence of the company’s commitment to ensuring that only legitimate claims are submitted to Medicare,” the company said in a statement.

The Scooter Store has been operating with a streamlined staff in recent

days, following massive layoffs in the wake of the raid by federal agents.

Insurance executives say doctors who don’t understand when Medicare is supposed to pay for scooters are partly to blame for unnecessary purchases.

Scooters — which are larger than power wheelchairs and often include a handlebar for steering — are covered by Medicare if they are prescribed by a doctor who has completed an evaluation showing that a patient is unable to function at home without a device.

The doctor fills out a lengthy prescription form and sends it to a scooter supplier that delivers the device to the patient and then submits the paperwork to Medicare for payment.

Medicare pays about 80 per cent of that cost, which can range from $1,500 to $3,500. The remainder is often picked up by supplemental insurance or the government-funded Medicaid program for low-income and disabled Americans.

The process can help immobile seniors get equipment that improves their lives.

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