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CAT claws back from the brink CENTRAL ALBERTA THEATRE GETS REPRIEVE FROM CREDITORS

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF While down one of its nine lives, CAT is surviving to mount future theatre seasons.

Central Alberta Theatre was given a reprieve from bankruptcy when the majority of its creditors accepted a proposal for partial repayment of the $800,000 owed them. “We’ve been given the green light by creditors,” said the group’s president Paolo Mancuso. who added this is great news for CAT, as well as Red Deer’s theatre scene.

The 43-year-old community theatre group will soon be launching it’s 2013-14 season of plays, which promises more diversity and possibly some novel dinner/theatre options.

The “overwhelming” majority of creditors accepted the non-profit’s five-year repayment plan, added Mancuso, because they felt it was better to receive some money than no repayment, if the group went bankrupt. “And I think (they ac- Paolo cepted) because they believe in Mancuso

keeping theatre alive in Central Alberta, too.”

He said CAT’s new business plan, looking ahead five years, received the “blessing” of the City of Red Deer and Alberta Culture, which means CAT can once again apply for government grants.

The first order of business will be hiring a new operations director and beefing up paid hours for two technical staffers.

Hiring permanent staff is important because, besides staging plays, the theatre group also manages and takes bookings for Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

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Riley, a miniature schnauzer, rubs her head against the leg of handler Judy Wallace, while competing in rally obedience at the Red Deer and District Kennel Club Dog Show and Obedience Trials on Friday April 5. The show ran Friday through Sunday at Westerner Park. See story on page C1.

Walk around college called opportunity to advocate against blaming of victims

BY MYLES FISH

The derogatory term was then taken up by two women who organized the first march in order to shift the perception that rape or sexual assault can somehow be justified in any case.

Saturday evening’s walk around Red Deer College in the snow was organized by four social work students at the college as part of a class assignment.

They saw the walk as a perfect opportunity to advocate against victim blaming in society.

The words of one Toronto police officer in 2011 provided the impetus for a movement that has since spread globally.

On Saturday, the SlutWalk came to Red Deer for the first time.

Toronto hosted the first SlutWalk in 2011 after a police officer, speaking to university students, suggested “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.”

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TORONTO — Liberals have begun casting ballots to choose a leader they hope will guide them out of the political wilderness.

Voting began shortly after the six leadership contenders made their final sales pitches at a “national showcase” on Saturday.

It offered Liberals the only glimpse they’re going to get of the excitement and suspense of a traditional leadership convention.

For the coming week, the leadership contest will effectively go underground, as Liberals cast preferential ballots — online or by phone — from the privacy of their homes.

Some 127,000 Liberal party members and supporters are eligible to vote. The results will be announced next Sunday in Ottawa.

The outcome has been widely seen as a foregone conclusion since Justin Trudeau launched his campaign last October, and Saturday’s showcase only served to cement his status as the prohibitive favourite.

Trudeau’s grand entrance, accompanied by throbbing Justin Trudeau music and throngs of chanting, placard-waving supporters, was in stark contrast to the subdued demonstrations staged by the other five dark horse contenders.

The front-runner used his final pitch of the leadership race Saturday to launch a pre-emptive strike against the Conservative attacks that are inevitably coming should he win, as expected.

None of Trudeau’s rivals dared make any direct attacks on the front-runner, whose supporters dominated the crowd at Saturday’s showcase.

He tackled head-on those who sneer that he’s inexperienced, that his resume is light and that his popularity is fleeting, based on nostalgia for his late father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.

“There are those who ask me: ‘What makes you think you can take this on?”’ Trudeau told the assembled Liberals.

“To them, I say this. I have lived and breathed every square kilometre of this country from the day I was born.

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Luke Bryan named entertainer of year

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of the award since 2007 when Kenny Chesney won the first fan-voted award. Swift and Carrie Underwood have won two apiece since then.

Bryan’s win was the talk of Las Vegas Sunday night but Lambert again walks away as the academy’s trophy magnet.

She won her fourth straight female vocalist award and picked up three trophies for her hit song Over You — one for single record of the year and two for song of the year.

She was performer of the song and co-wrote the song with Shelton.

Over You, written about Shelton’s late brother, won song of the year at the Country Music Association Awards last November as well.

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LAS VEGAS — Everything went to script Sunday night at the Academy of Country Music Awards until the end, when Luke Bryan pulled off an amazing upset and won entertainer of the year.

Bryan immediately overshadowed top winner Miranda Lambert’s big night by beating out some of country music’s top performers, including Lambert and her husband Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean and two-time entertainer of the year Taylor Swift in an upset that few would have predicted because of his relatively recent move into the spotlight.

The 36-year-old Georgia native recently began headlining his first arena tour and was the co-host of

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“I don’t know what to say guys,” Bryan said as members the audience shouted “Luke.”

“Thank you so much fans for doing this to me. Thank you so much for making my life what it is. What I always wanted to be was just a country singer who got to ride on a tour bus and show up on a new stage and play music every night.“ After an emotional speech, Bryan’s co-host Blake Shelton held his partner up and joked that he won in his “first and last year as co-host” of the awards.

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Country singer Luke Bryan at the 2012 Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Las Vegas.

Bryan joined Blake Shelton to co-host the 2013 Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday.

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SLUTWALK: Controversial The walk’s name is controversial, with some arguing that to accept and adopt the word ‘slut’ sends the wrong message.

But the organizers said the name helps bring attention to the issue by drawing people’s interest.

The name did cause the organizers some headaches locally though.

“All of the local organizations we went to, before hearing our name, sounded interested in supporting us, providing coffee, after-walk snacks or something like that,” explained fellow organizer Chace Lang, “But once they heard our name they changed their minds.”

Lang was one of a half-dozen men among the 20-odd walk participants. He said more discussion about sexual assault is needed in Red Deer.

“I believe people choose to ignore it locally; out of sight, out of mind. If they don’t hear about it — it doesn’t happen directly to them — then it doesn’t happen at all,” he said.

Ashley Fleming cannot ignore the issue, because it is a reality in her work as an outreach worker with the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society.

She said it is too often a fact of life for the street workers she meets with.

Speaking to walkers after the march, Fleming told the story of finding one street worker on a range road in the county this winter, lacking proper winter attire. A john had left the woman out there after raping her, holding a knife to her throat, and taking her gloves and toque.

What shocked Fleming is when speaking to the abused woman afterwards, the woman said, “I’m okay. It happens.”

“The fact that this mentality is so deeply entrenched that a victim could believe they deserved it is just sad and disgusting,” said Fleming.

“No one is ever asking for it; no one ever deserves it. But if we don’t talk to each other about that, it’s never going to change,” she added. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

LIBERALS: ‘About future’ “I have been open to Canadians my entire life and, because of that, I have a strong sense of this country — where it has been, where it is and where Canadians want it to go.”

The 41-year-old Montreal MP noted that Saturday marked the 45th anniversary of his father being chosen to lead the Liberal party.

“I know there are those who say this movement we’re building is all about nostalgia, that it’s not really about me, or you, or Canada. Let’s face it, they say that it’s about my father,” Trudeau acknowledged.

“Well, to them I say this: It is. It is about my dad ...

It’s about all our parents and the legacy they left us, the country they built for us,” Trudeau said.

“It’s more about the future than the past, it is always, in every instance, about our children more than our parents’ legacy,” he added.

Trudeau’s critics — including some of his leadership rivals — have suggested his background as a school teacher, snowboard instructor and public

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But the Montreal MP scoffed at what he termed “Conservative attacks on teachers.”

“I am fiercely proud to be one of the hundreds of thousands of Canadians who belong to the teaching profession. And let me tell you this, my friends, this teacher fully intends to fight back.”

Former Toronto MP Martha Hall Findlay indirectly alluded to Trudeau’s alleged lack of experience and gravitas by asking Liberals to imagine which candidate would be best equipped to sit down with international leaders or square off against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair in televised debates during the next election.

“You know that we will need someone on that stage who is experienced, clear, firm, decisive, nononsense and tough,” Hall Findlay said, casting herself as a “business conscious, market-oriented” Liberal who is “substantive, experienced, bold, tough.”

The showcase was replete with chanting supporters, thunder sticks, placards and all the usual paraphernalia of a political convention, although longshot contenders had a tough time garnering more than a smattering of applause in a cavernous hall at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The hall, which seated 1,500, was not quite filled to capacity.

Organizers with various camps privately conceded after the showcase that the event was unlikely to have changed many voters’ minds.

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ning second, pitched her plan for one-time electoral co-operation among progressive parties in the 2015 election to ensure defeat of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives — a proposal which has drawn the fire of her rivals but helped the Vancouver MP stand out and gain support from grassroots and online advocacy groups.

She likened her idea to hockey players who come together to win gold for Canada during the Olympics but then return to their various teams and resume being fierce competitors.

“This is not a merger, this is not a coalition, not a joint party candidacy,” she told the crowd, trying to dispel doubts.

“Our party’s distinct Liberal values and Liberal identity will be honoured and protected.” Nor is the motivation to win at all costs, as Trudeau and others have asserted, Murray added.

“I’m talking about winning the next election for a purpose: to reform Canada’s ailing electoral system to create a more representative and more collaborative Parliament.”

While he largely ignored his leadership rivals, preferring to direct his fire at Harper and Mulcair, Trudeau did use his final speech to reject Murray’s co-operation plan in the harshest terms yet.

He said it would create a “Frankenstein’s monster” of Liberals, New Democrats and Greens that would be “at war with itself over fundamental issues like the Constitution, natural resources and free trade.”

“The truth is,” he added, “Canadians want to vote for something, not just against somebody.”

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Monday, April 8, 2013

First EcoLiving Fair presents opportunities

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

‘IT’S NOT SOME FAR-OUT SCIENCE FICTION THING, IT’S READILY AVAILABLE.’

Seedy Sunday became Seedy Saturday, and the results were very positive for ReThink Red Deer and the ecological consciousness of a few hundred locals.

There were a lot of learning opportunities for attendees of Red Deer’s first EcoLiving Fair on Saturday, with workshops on rainwater harvesting, sustainable medicine, and much more.

The event, a collaboration between ReThink Red Deer and Calgary’s EcoLiving Events, joined Seedy Saturday — changed from past years’ Seedy Sundays — an open-pollinated and heirloom seed market, with workshops, booths, and opportunities for ecocollaboration.

For organizer Rene Michalak, the chance to build relationships through the green economy was huge.

“The key is bringing it all together under one roof.

The trouble most people have in taking the next step is that they’re looking at the pieces of their system in isolation, so they’ll look at renewable energy, or their garden, or rainwater harvesting, and not at the connections be-

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tween them.

They’ll find a barrier to taking that next step,” he said.

One project explained at the fair that brought together different green living facets was the Net Zero Homes initiative.

Run by SAIT in Calgary in partnership with home builders, the ongoing project has built five homes which produce as much energy as they use in a year, with plans for more.

The homes, one of which was built in Red Deer in 2008, use solar panels and a photovoltaic energy system, storing the greater amount of energy collected in summertime for use in the winter.

National building targets call for one million Net Zero homes to be built by 2030.

Researcher Tom Jackman, who presented on the homes at the fair, said if people are made aware of the option, that target can be hit.

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CAT: Lots of volunteer labour The non-profit has been surviving primarily on volunteer labour for the past year and a half, in the wake of staff layoffs, due to a major cost overrun in the renovations of City Centre Stage in downtown Red Deer.

Mancuso said he has personally put in about 1,200 hours to keep CAT afloat.

In hiring an opera-

tions director, CAT has adopted a best practices model for arts and culture management, created by Grant MacEwan University students.

The new model will affect the parameters of the director’s job and the qualifications expected in a successful candidate, said Mancuso.

“It’s changing the culture in how theatre companies operate,” moving towards a more sustainable businesslike model.

He noted the City of Red Deer has granted CAT a yet unspecified amount of money for

“Most homeowners aren’t aware of the option and the home building industry will build what people want.

If people don’t know what’s available, they don’t order it. It’s as simple as that.

“It’s not some far-out science fiction thing, it’s readily available,” he said.

According to Jackman, Net Zero homes are typically about 10 per cent more expensive than conventional homes to build, but offer huge energy savings.

Red Deer College, which hosted the event, will soon have its own carbon neutral house, a structure to be built in collaboration with two local builders, with students engaged in the process. The home will be viewable by the public during the summer before, when complete, it is moved out to Sylvan Lake. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

augmenting the operations director’s salary for the first year.

The conversion of the former movie theatre to City Centre Stage, a live theatre, proved disastrous for CAT, which had to bow out of a long-term monthly lease to the building’s owners. The renovated structure was later sold to Red Deer College.

Mancuso said he plans to discuss with the college whether CAT can use City Centre Stage for some productions, or even form a partnership with RDC Hospitality students in catering a few dinner theatres there.

CAT’s other options are continuing to stage plays in the small Nick-

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While CAT has survived its financial crisis,

he noted the group is still looking for ways to appeal to younger members and to assist new, up-and-coming Red Deer theatre groups. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Opponents of the province’s decision to shut down Michener Centre are set to gather for a rally in downtown Red Deer on Wednesday.

The rally, organized by the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, will take place at City Hall Park at 3:30 p.m. An AUPE petition to keep the centre open is available to be printed at www.keepmi‘WHAT WE SEE cheneropen.com, and one THIS DECISION will be circulated at the rally.

TO CLOSE Since the governMICHENER AS ment announced in early March that the facility IS A BETRAYAL would close, with its 125 FROM THE current residents to be moved into group homes REDFORD and seniors care faciliGOVERNMENT ties, there has been much vocal opposition and the TO THE MOST Society of Parents and VULNERABLE Friends of Michener Centre has organized infor- CITIZENS OF THE mation meetings in hopes PROVINCE.’ of reversing the decision.

Resident relocation is — AUPE PRESIDENT set to begin in SeptemGUY SMITH ber, with a target to have all residents moved out

by January 2014.

AUPE president Guy Smith said the union’s 600odd members employed at Michener are concerned for the residents’ quality of life and care should they be moved.

“We need to make it absolutely clear to the government and specifically to the local MLAs in Red Deer that closing Michener Centre is absolutely the wrong move to make,” said Smith.

“What we see this decision to close Michener as is a betrayal from the Redford government to the most vulnerable citizens of the province.”

Smith said approximately 2,000 letters have been sent to the premier through the website www.keepmicheneropen.com.

Television commercials featuring family members of Michener residents will begin airing on April 15.

The rally organizer said residents, along with family, staff and concerned citizens, are expected to attend.

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Red Deer RCMP arrested the teen, who was known to police, after receiving information on the threats from Calgary Police on April 4.

The accused wrote on Facebook about his “desire to commit a shooting a local Red Deer high school,” according to an RCMP release.

The young male, who cannot be named due to his status as a minor, has been charged with uttering threats, breach

le Studio or the much larger Memorial Centre.

As these spaces are not adequate for dinner theatres, Mancuso said he’s examining possible partnerships with Red Deer restaurants to serve patrons meals on their premises as part of a dinner/theatre package.

He also intends to approach some Red Deer hotels to see if they are interested in hosting occasional dinner theatres.

Mancuso said CAT is not interested in getting into another long-term hotel partnership for entire dinner theatre seasons, as the group previously had with the Black Knight Inn. He said this would be just for special, limitedrun productions.

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Monday, April 8, 2013

Canada alone in the desert The federal government recently pulled out of an important global treaty: the UN Convention to Combat Desertification. It’s aimed at fighting drought, a problem that affects almost 30 per cent of Earth’s land surface and threatens the well-being of more than a billion people worldwide, including in our DAVID Prairie provSUZUKI inces.

Every year, the cumulative effects of overgrazing, over-cultivation, deforestation, poor irrigation and increasing extreme weather events — including those that cause drought — permanently degrade close to 10 million hectares of land.

This has led to a creeping loss of places where food can easily be grown.

The deterioration of dry-land ecosystems has already created desertlike “dead zones” that can no longer support human life in places such as sub-Saharan Africa. No region is immune. Close to three-quarters of North America’s dry lands, including parts of

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the Prairies, are vulnerable to drought.

And sudden loss of agricultural productivity can be devastating to farm communities across Canada.

Under the UN convention, close to 195 countries are working to improve living conditions for some of the world’s most vulnerable people, to maintain and restore land and soil productivity and to reduce the effects of drought, including food and water shortages, malnutrition, mass migrations, increased political instability and war.

Many aid and development experts believe this international agreement is critical to advancing global economic, political and food security. Canada is the only country to walk away.

The convention is a rare example of people from around the world coming together to address the root causes of environmental and social crises. It was passed shortly after drought-related crop failures and resulting malnutrition, starvation and mass migrations ravaged the Horn of Africa in the 1980s in places like Somalia and Ethiopia.

Canadians opened their hearts and wallets to these horrific droughts. Our government matched public efforts with leadership in helping to negotiate the Desertification Convention, signed in 1994. Canadians even led its decision-making body for many years.

Through our partnership in the con-

vention, previous federal governments also poured hundreds of millions of dollars into research, education and direct aid to drought-stricken nations.

Canada’s past leadership is no surprise. Drought is a serious problem for our farmers. We are, in fact, officially designated as an “affected nation” under the convention, given that 60 per cent of our croplands and 80 per cent of our rangelands are in dry-land areas. Earlier droughts, such as the dust bowls of the Dirty ’30s, triggered severe erosion and dust storms, and resulted in tragic consequences, including massive unemployment and abandonment of farms across the Prairies.

The current government even recognizes our social and economic vulnerability to droughts. A 2008 study by Environment Canada and the Saskatchewan Research Council found that a severe dry period in 2001-02 resulted in $3.6 billion in losses to farmers from reduced agricultural production in Canada. The study warned that climate change is likely to cause more droughts and associated economic risks. As one of the highest per capita greenhouse gas emitters in the world, we’re contributing to worldwide drought.

Canada was once renowned internationally for progressive ideals and values that help improve the world — from the creation and deployment of peacekeepers by the government of

Lester B. Pearson to our support for a global ban on anti-personnel land mines with the passing of the Ottawa Treaty (also known as the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention). The world community recognized many of our leaders for these efforts with Nobel Peace Prizes and nominations.

By abandoning the UN Desertification Convention, as well as other important international agreements such as the Kyoto Protocol, we’re sending the wrong message to the world community. We’re saying that exporting resources like oil and timber matter more to us than contributing to dialogue and partnership on global issues.

That Canada snuck out of the agreement without even notifying the UN secretariat, just to save about $300,000 a year, makes matters worse.

Nature doesn’t heed human borders, and global problems like drought and desertification require global solutions. Canada was wrong to pull out of the UN Desertification Convention.

Doing so further isolates us on the world stage as a partner in addressing environmental issues and tarnishes our hard-earned reputation when it comes to making the world a better place to live.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Faisal Moola. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki. org.

LETTERS TO EDITOR

We can blend ward, at-large systems Re: Voting for Red Deer councillors in 2013 Well done, to those citizens who advocated a ward system. Thank you, to the members of city council who acknowledged the interest of the public for change.

There are, however, two aspects that concern me: one is the likelihood that our first formal opportunity for ward system voting won’t occur until four years from now; the second is that a strict ward system, like the current strict at-large system, may have serious shortcomings for Red Deer.

A look at the Municipal Government Act indicates that there are many choices. The range seems to include: ● At-large councillors with at-large voting as at present (one group of councillor candidates with all voting residents selecting from all candidates). Each person voting can vote for eight candidates. ● Ward councillors with at-large voting (councillor candidates grouped on an area basis with voting residents selecting the best candidates in each group). Each person voting can vote for eight candidates. ● Ward councillors with ward voting (councillor candidates grouped on an area basis with voting residents restricted to selecting from candidates for the ward where the residents live). Each person voting can vote for four candidates if there are two wards, for three candidates if there are three wards, for two candidates if there are four wards, etc. ● Combinations of ward and at-large councillors with combinations of ward and at-large voting — such as four at-large councillors and four ward councillors, of which two of the ward councillors are from each of two wards with at-large voting for all or at-large voting for the at-large candidates and ward voting for the ward candidates. How many votes each person voting has depends upon the features of each combination.

Here is a suggestion for speeding up and simplifying the process so that the next city council will be a virtual combination of ward and at-large candidates: ● Assume Red Deer has been divided into three wards using the first three characters of postal code addresses. (About 40 per cent of residents live in T4N, about 28 per cent in T4P and about 32 per cent in T4R. To find the Red Deer postal code area map, Google “Canada post total points of call Alberta FSA map index,” select a canadapost result, then select the map for Red Deer.) ● Ask each candidate for council to indicate whether they live in the T4N area or in the T4P area or in the T4R area. ● Ask each candidate for council to indicate their willingness to be a primary contact for residents that live in the T4N area or in the T4P area or in the T4R area. ● Ask each candidate for council to indicate their willingness to be a primary contact for T4N area issues or for T4P area issues or for T4R area issues.

• Based on merit and the above information, vote for two candidates who will be focal points for T4N residents and for T4N issues, vote for two candidates that will be focal points for T4P residents and for T4P issues, vote for two candidates that will be focal points for T4R residents and for T4R issues, and vote for up to two more from the remaining candidates.

Comments, concerns and suggestions for improvement are welcome.

Doug Taylor, Red Deer

Chavez deserves credit for progress Re: Venezuela ponders life after Chavez, Gwynne Dyer, Red Deer Advocate, March 11.

In general, the media coverage of the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been as hypocritical and biased as it was when he was alive. It

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is a ubiquitous, one-sidedness that extends from the petty, spiteful newspaper articles; of obvious opposition figures; to the high plateau of that most British of institutions, the BBC. The Life after Chavez article by Gwynne Dyer is in a different category: it is one of the most thought out articles to be found, balanced, with opinions that appear to be honestly given.

Although Dyer thinks that Chavez was unnecessarily combative and polarizing, he points out the fact that Chavez achieved much of what he set out to do.

Indeed, the major success of Chavez was the diversion of a part of the oil wealth from the coffers of the multinational companies to the pockets of ordinary working Venezuelans, transforming their lives.

The Chavez government has reduced poverty by half and reduced extreme poverty by 70 per cent, and millions now have health care for the first time.

College enrolment has doubled and illiteracy has been eliminated, this fact has been recognized by UNESCO. The number of seniors receiving old age pension has doubled. Thousands of affordable houses have been built to a high standard for workers and the poor.

Gwynne correctly says, “What made it possible was not ‘socialism’ but Venezuela’s big oil reserves.”

The problems experienced in Venezuela including high inflation, crime, dislocations and shortages of food are not the result of socialism, which does not yet exist. They are not the result of poor administration or the nationalizations that have been carried out, but on the contrary from the economic sabotage of big business.

Big corporations still control the commanding heights of the economy and despite much false information, which would suggest the opposite, they control most of the media.

Although Chavez was accused of ranting about the class struggle, the rich oligarchy was and is busy practising it. Despite the electoral successes of the Chavez government, the Venezuelan economy is still controlled by the rich.

The economic problems stem not from the fact that the Bolivarian Movement has moved too far or too fast toward socialism, no just the opposite, it has not moved far enough or fast enough.

It is a serious miscalculation, however, to think that the loss of a general election by the United Socialist Party of Venezuela would not be a tragedy.

The economic gains of the workers and poor would be rolled back in an instant, orchestrated by the CIA at the behest of international oil companies. It would

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mean a return to the same poverty for the mass of the people that existed before the election of Chavez.

If the Venezuelan people do not take control of the commanding heights of the economy by nationalizing the banks and the monopolies under workers’ control and management in a democratic planned socialist economy, they will continue to be plagued by the threat of the return of the bad old days of hardship and exploitation.

Keith Norman Wyatt NDP Innisfail

How dare you bully my injured child?

On a recent Monday, I spent the day at Rocky hospital with my child, who had been hurt at school.

My child couldn’t walk and was wheeled to my vehicle. She also deals with other issues daily. She was given crutches to help her walk.

Shortly after, her class went to Red Deer College to attend the Kiwanis for honour band. She was so excited to attend the clinic.

I let her go. Her friends helped with her instrument and backpack. After the clinic, the kids went to the Collicutt Centre to play and then had dinner. My child had fallen twice because of snow and ice, and she was also on pain medication.

By the time the kids finally got to Pioneer School in Rocky Mountain House, my child was in tears with pain. Then I find out on the drive home why my child was upset. While at the Collicutt Centre, a woman yelled at my child about her crutches.

This woman had a young boy with a hockey bag and instead of using three or four stairs, she used the ramp. She yelled at and bullied my child.

I am disgusted over this. I raised my child to have respect. She is polite, quiet and accepts others, and she does not bully others, instead offering to help.

It’s bad enough that my child is disabled at this time, only to have an adult bully her. Shame on you!

My child was awake all night because she was upset and in pain.

We teach our kids not to bully but you have no consideration to a person with a disability.

I have spoken to the school about the issue.

Thank you for the sleepless nights and upsetting my child.

Being disabled is hard enough without the abuse from people like you.

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Budget cuts undermining RCMP probe access to info: watchdog alleged harassment

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

VETERANS ADVOCATE SAYS HE FACED RETALIATION AFTER HUMAN-RIGHTS VICTORY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Suzanne Legault, Information Commissioner of Canada, holds a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Legault says her office has seen a sharp rise in complaints about departments that take too long to answer requests under the Access to Information Act. ed to MPs, and document-filing systems suffered with the loss of clerical staff.

The latest round of cuts, begun in 2011 but accelerating in the 2012 budget, seem to have reversed a modest improvement in the timeliness of responses under the access-to-information system.

“We’re now back to an all-time low in timeliness,” Legault said in an interview, citing statistics released in December by Tony Clement, president of the Treasury Board, which is responsible for the access-to-information system.

The percentage of requests answered within the basic 30-day time frame specified by the Act hit 55 per cent in 2011-2012, the lowest ever and down almost five points from when the Tories first formed government in early 2006.

A decade ago, 66 per cent were answered within 30 days.

Departments also violated legislated deadlines for responses in one of every seven requests in 2011-2012, with most saying they lacked the staff necessary to pro-

cess them.

“This is disquieting,” said Legault. “There is a number of institutions where it’s clearly having to do with the level of resourcing.”

But a spokeswoman for Clement says the government’s costcutting has deliberately spared the access-to-information system.

Access to information “has not been part of that,” Andrea Mandel-Campbell said in an interview.

She also noted there has been a 50 per cent increase in the number of requests arriving annually since 2006, currently more than 43,000 a year, many of them more complex than in the past.

Given the extra workload, the government has done well in maintaining a “pretty steady state” for timeliness, she said.

“We are keeping up.”

On Tuesday, Clement will appear in a how-to video on the Treasury Board website to launch a pilot project that will allow requesters to file and monitor requests online, and pay their fees electronically, all from a single portal.

Eager for trade deal, Turkey wants Canada to ease on genocide THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Turkey’s ambassador to Canada says the Harper government’s decision to brand the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide may be hindering a potentially lucrative trading relationship.

Ambassador Tuncay Babali made clear in a wide ranging interview with The Canadian Press that Canada’s position on the First World War-era slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians still carries a sting for his country.

But that doesn’t mean Turkey doesn’t want to press on with forging a deeper economic relationship with Canada, ideally a free trade agreement to compliment the current Canada-EU free trade talks once they are completed, he said.

“I’m a true believer in the potential of our two nations. Canada has a lot to offer Turkey and Turkey in return has a lot to offer Canada,” said Babali, noting that Canada’s internal Foreign Policy Plan has identified Turkey as a key country of focus.

“It cannot be business as usual while accusing a nation of genocide.

It’s a serious allegation. It needs to be substantiated, legally, historically.”

Babali said he suspects Canada is not engaging as quickly as Turkey would like because the genocide issue is still hanging over relations.

“There is a pacing issue here,” he said. “We want results. We want action. We want concrete steps forward.

Talking about positive things is ok, but it takes two to tango.”

The $2.5 billion in two-way trade between countries “is far from the potential” of what Turkey predicts would result from deeper economic ties: $10$15 billion within five years, he said.

He said Turkey would like to open free trade talks with Canada.

But on the genocide question, Babali said Turkey would like to see a gesture from Canada that the government is “trying to leave this behind us.”

A significant gesture would be a “high level” visit by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird to Turkey. Baird cancelled a planned trip in November, Babali said, because of an important cabinet meeting in Ottawa.

Babali was also encourged by Baird’s plans to travel to the West Bank on the weekend to discuss future Canadian aid contributions to the Palestinian Authority.

He suggested Canada can do more in the Middle East peace process, even though Turkey is well aware of Ottawa’s strong support of Israel.

“I think aid is important. To keep the channels open. You have to hear both sides. Canada has leverage that can play in those issues as well. It should be used in a stronger way.”

Babali praised the efforts of Baird for mending fences with Turkey, including the personal friendship he has forged with his counterpart, Ahmet Davutolu, who visited Canada this past September.

“We have good room to manoeuvre here after our minister’s visit. But it takes two to tango,” he said.

“If there is a political will from the Canadian side to move forward and improve our relations further, to live up to the promise and potential, we need concrete steps.”

Canada’s Parliament voted in 2004 to recognize the events of 1915 to 1923 as a genocide carried out by Ottoman Turks during the Armenian uprising.

The Harper government formally adopted that position after winning power, a decision that angered Ankara and sparked the temporary withdrawal of its ambassador from Ottawa.

Turkey has lobbied hard internationally to block the genocide designation, although many other countries have used the term.

In 2010, when the U.S. Congress abandoned a plan to declare the killings a genocide, Davutolu said ties could have been harmed between the two countries had “common sense” not prevailed.

Last year, when France passed a law that makes it a crime to deny the Armenian genocide, Turkey responded by suspending military, economic and political ties.

Last summer, Canada took steps to heal the rift with Turkey. It unveiled a cone-shaped metal-and-wood monument dedicated to Col. Atilla Altikat, the country’s military attache gunned down in Ottawa, allegedly by Armenian terrorists, 30 years earlier.

Babali said Turkey wants deeper economic ties with Canada, and it appears the country is open for business despite any bitterness over the Armenia policy.

In the next 10 years, Turkey will launch 150 infrastructure projects worth hundreds of billions of dollars, many in the transportation sector. Babali cited Bombardier Inc. and SNC-Lavalin as potential investors.

OTTAWA — The Mounties have been called in to investigate allegations that a long-time veterans advocate continues to be harassed, even after he won a human-rights case against a federal review panel.

The RCMP probe was initiated at the request of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, which is carrying out a separate review of fresh allegations

by Harold Leduc.

Leduc is the outspoken former warrant officer who created a political storm last year when he claimed members and management of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board leaked private information about his post traumatic stress diagnosis.

He alleged the leak was made in order to discredit his decisions at the board, which takes a second look at the rejected benefits claims of ex-soldiers.

The human rights commission had previously ordered the veterans board to pay Leduc $4,000, including legal costs, for harassment he’d suffered from other agency members. But he claims the harassment did not cease, even though his position with the board was not renewed last fall.

“The retaliation I’ve faced is all about discrediting me as a person because of my disabilities,” Leduc said in an interview.

He would not be more specific about who might be responsible for the alleged, ongoing slurs or the nature of them. But he noted he has both written and oral evidence, all of which has been handed over to both the RCMP and the commission.

“The process has rigorous screening and if there wasn’t something there, I don’t think they would continue,” said Leduc, who was interviewed by an investigator in January. The RCMP would not confirm or deny the investigation.

Legislation governing the commission gives it the discretion to call in the Mounties if its orders to cease harassment of an individual or organization go unheeded.

It is a highly unusual, if not unprecedented step for a probe to take place, says a human rights lawyer.

“I’ve never heard of the RCMP or any other police force actually prosecuting one of those cases,” said Paul Champ. That section of the legislation was intended to prevent the intimidation of witnesses in human rights cases, and is somewhat more broad than harassment as it’s defined in the Criminal Code, said Champ.

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OTTAWA — The federal budget axe may be chopping away at citizens’ right to information about government, a parliamentary watchdog warns.

Suzanne Legault, information commissioner of Canada, says her office has seen a sharp rise in complaints about departments that take too long to answer requests under the Access to Information Act. The increase in such complaints over the last six months is likely linked to budget cuts that will remove 19,200 public servants from the federal workforce by 2015, Legault says in a new report.

“If this trend continues, it could seriously stretch our investigative team,” says the document.

“We suspect ... that budget cuts may be a factor, since a jump in administrative complaints suggests that institutions are struggling to meet their basic obligations under the Act.” Legault’s office is itself caught in the same budget squeeze, with funding reduced by five per cent as the number of complaints coming through the door rises, to 1,596 in 2012-2013, up by eight per cent from the previous year.

Legault will tell MPs at a House of Commons committee later this month that she needs more staff to deal with the burgeoning workload.

“Any meaningful solution could only come in the form of an infusion of resources so we could increase our staff complement,” she says in a report tabled in Parliament.

The budget squeeze is apparently having an effect similar to 1995, when the Chretien government’s so-called program review, also intended to slay the deficit, ground down the access-to-information system because of staff cuts.

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Venezuelans show support for opposition STREETS IN CAPITAL FLOODED WITH PEOPLE IN SUPPORT FOR OPPOSITION CANDIDATE CAPRILES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CARACAS, Venezuela — A general expectation that Hugo Chavez’s hand-picked successor will win next weekend’s presidential election didn’t dim the spirits of more than 100,000 backers of challenger Henrique Capriles, who jammed the capital’s centre on Sunday.

Most of the people who converged by foot in the city centre on a hot, sunny afternoon tried to shrug off forecasts of victory for Nicolas Maduro, who was sworn in as acting president after Hugo Chavez died March 5 following a long battle with cancer.

Capriles said the big turnout in the capital was evidence that he’d win at the ballot box next Sunday.

“Today the streets of Caracas were filled with happiness, today the streets of Caracas were filled with hope, today the streets of Caracas confirm what’s going to happen,” Capriles said.

Chavez had defeated Capriles in October, but by the slimmest margin of his 14-year tenure as president.

Maduro, who rose from bus driver and union organizer to foreign minister under Chavez, is expected to benefit from an emotional outpouring of solidarity among Chavistas who have benefited from the generous social welfare state he created under the socialist banner.

But many critics contend that Maduro has been saddled with a fiscal hangover due to heavy Chavez spending ahead of October’s vote.

Jesus Barroso, a 52-year-old retiree, said he believes Maduro will win handily next Sunday. But he predicted Maduro would not be able complete the six-year term because economic and social woes would prompt Venezuelans to remove him through a recall.

“I don’t think he’ll last very long in the presidency,” Barroso said.

Supporters of Capriles chanted anti-government slogans and waved red, yellow and blue Venezuelan flags as they converged on a main avenue in downtown Caracas, where the 40-year-old governor of central Miranda state, was scheduled to speak.

Upbeat demonstrators danced to music sound trucks, which blasted “Fresh Lie,” a newly composed song by Puerto Rican salsa musician Willie Colon that pokes fun at Maduro.

Capriles has repeatedly accused Maduro of failing to resolve pressing problems including frequent power outages, crumbling infrastructure, shortages of basic foods and double-digit inflation, and sup-

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Supporters cheer opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles during a campaign rally at Bolivar Avenue in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday. Capriles is running against ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro in next weekend’s presidential election. porters say Capriles can do better.

“He’s capable of offering opportunities to get us out of this disaster,” said Maria De Llano said of Capriles, noting that she has difficulty finding some medicines and foods such as coffee, sugar and chicken due to sporadic shortages.

Meanwhile, Maduro invoked Chavez during a rally in the southern state of Apure, telling his backers that “El Comandante” is watching over them from Heaven.

“He’s protecting us,” said Maduro, speaking as if Chavez were omnipresent.

Indeed, images of Chavez seem to be everywhere in Venezuela. His smiling face is posted on billboard along highways. State-run television channels regularly broadcast footage of his speeches.

And Maduro’s campaign organizers set up loudspeakers that play sound bites of Chavez’s voice at rallies.

A recent poll by the independent polling firm Datanalisis showed Capriles trailed Maduro 49 per cent to 35 per cent in a sampling of 800 voters from March 11-13. The poll, with 16 per cent of respondents undecided, had a margin of error of 3.4 percentage points.

Pentagon getting prepared More clashes in Egypt as for further NKorea threats Christians mourn dead BAGRAM, Afghanistan — The top U.S. military officer said Sunday the Pentagon had bolstered its missile defences and taken other steps because he “can’t take the chance” that North Korea won’t soon engage in some military action.

Heightened tensions with North Korea led the United States to postpone congressional testimony by the chief U.S. commander in South Korea and delay an intercontinental ballistic missile test from a West Coast base.

North Korea, after weeks of war threats and other efforts to punish South Korea and the U.S. for joint military drills, has told other nations that it will be unable to guarantee diplomats’ safety in the North’s capital beginning Wednesday.

U.S. Gen Martin Dempsey, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who just wrapped up a visit to Afghanistan, was asked in an Associated Press interview whether he foresees North Korea taking military action soon.

“No, but I can’t take the chance that it won’t,” he said, explaining why the Pentagon has strengthened missile defences and made other decisions to combat the potential threat.

Dempsey said the U.S. has been preparing for further provocations or action, “considering the risk that they may choose to do something” on one of two nationally important anniversaries in April — the birth of North Korean founder Kim Il Sung and the creation of the North Korean army.

U.S. Gen. James Thurman, the commander of the 28,000 American troops in South Korea, will stay in Seoul as “a prudent measure” rather than travel to Washington to appear this coming week before congressional committees, Army Col. Thurman has asked the Senate Armed Services Committee, the House Armed Services

Committee, and the House Appropriations subcommittee on defence to excuse his absence until he can testify at a later date.

Dempsey said he had consulted with Thurman about the rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Dempsey said both Thurman and South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, Gen. Jung Seung-jo, decided it would be best for them to remain in Seoul rather than come to Washington. The Korean

general had planned to meet with Dempsey, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, in mid-April for regular talks.

Dempsey said that instead of meeting in person with Thurman and Jung in Washington, they will consult together by video-teleconference.

The Pentagon has postponed an intercontinental ballistic missile test that was set for the coming week at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, a senior defence official said.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — A mob threw rocks and fired birdshot Sunday at several hundred Christians marching in a protest against Egypt’s Islamist government after the funeral of four Christians killed in sectarian clashes over the weekend.

The Christians were chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, just as several thousand did earlier during the funeral service nearby in the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo.

The attacking mob, described by witnesses as residents of the area, forced the marchers to take shelter inside the sprawling cathedral com-

plex. They also showered the protesters with rocks from the roofs of nearby buildings, according to witness Ibrahim el-Shareef.

Mohammed Sultan, director of Egypt’s national ambulance services, said at least 17 people were wounded in the clashes.

Riot police later arrived, firing tear gas at the Christians and the mob.

Several tear gas canisters landed inside the cathedral’s grounds, causing a panic among women and children who attended the funeral. Video footage aired live on the private ONTV network showed young men on the roof of a building adjacent to the cathedral firing handguns in toward the compound.

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Getting back into the series ARGOS’ OWENS GETS WIN IN MMA DEBUT CFL star Chad Owens made his mixed martial arts debut a winning one. The Toronto Argonauts receiver/kick returner earned a unanimous decision against Junyah Tefaga in Honolulu on Saturday night.

The two fought as amateurs and battled through two threeminute rounds in their MMA debuts. The fivefoot-eight, 180-pound Owens, the CFL’s outstanding player last season, fought in the 170-pound class and went by the nickname of Mighty Mouse.

Last month, Argos general manager Jim Barker didn’t mince words about not being thrilled that one of the club’s top players was participating in such a potentially dangerous off-season activity. There was no indication that Owens was injured in the bout and afterwards the Honolulu StarAdvertiser reported Owens as saying he’ll be in training camp on time with the Argos in June. Owens, 31, was an integral part of Toronto’s 2012 Grey Cup-winning squad. He posted a league-record 3,863 all-purpose yards and also was the CFL’s top receiver with 94 catches for 1,328 yards and six TDs.

Monday

● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, third game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Tuesday

● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, fourth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Thursday

● WHL: Red Deer Rebels at Calgary Hitmen, fifth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, if necessary, 7 p.m., Saddledome.

Friday

● Midget football: Calgary Hilltoppers at Prairie Fire, 8 p.m., Lacombe ME Global Athletic Park.

Saturday

● WHL: Calgary Hitmen at Red Deer Rebels, sixth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference semifinal, if necessary, 7:30 p.m., Centrium.

REBELS NEED TO SIMPLIFY GAME AND GET MORE SHOTS TO THE NET IN GAME THREE

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR The Red Deer Rebels have to be miserable hosts if they plan on getting back into their WHL Eastern Conference semifinal with the Calgary Hitmen.

They at least have to make life miserable for Hitmen goalie Chris Driedger, who came up with a series of excellent saves in Games 1 and 2 of the best-of-seven set — both Calgary victories — but faced far more perimeter shots than attempts from in close.

“We have to key on getting all shots to the net. There’s no such thing as a bad shot,” Rebels forward Jordan DePape said Sunday, prior to a practice session at the Centrium. “What we need to work on is getting bodies in front. We’re not causing enough traffic. If we have more guys going to the net we’re going to get our chances.”

Getting to the net in Games 3 and 4 at the Centrium will be easier said than done, considering the immense size of the Hitmen defence.

“They’re obviously a physical back end.

You have to pay the price going to the net but that’s playoff hockey,” said DePape.

The Rebels can also make life more difficult on the Hitmen blueline corps with a more intense forecheck. Again, easier said than done.

“We have to simplify our game,” said DePape. “If we’re not banging bodies all night long we’ve not going to wear then down, and that’s what we have to focus in on — wear-

ing down their D-men. They’re big and we have to make life hard for them. We don’t have another option for Game 3.”

But first and foremost, the Rebels have to make the front of the Calgary cage look like rush hour.

“We need a better commitment to want to get to the net,” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “We do it when we get into urgent time in the third period, but we need it to be more consistent for 60 minutes.”

The Rebels have also struggled big-time on the power play during the post-season.

They scored just a pair of man-advantage markers during a four-game, quarter-final sweep of the Prince Albert Raiders, and are zero-for-nine against the Hitmen.

“They do a good job of getting in lanes, but we have to put more pucks to the net,” said Sutter. “They do a good job of taking certain plays away, but you have to get pucks directed to the net and you have to get to the net. The last half of Game 2 was better, though. We scored a goal just after one of our power plays expired because we threw pucks at the net.”

DePape, who scored the goal Sutter referred to, said the Rebels have enough firepower and wherewithal to take advantage of Calgary penalties.

“The main thing so far (in this series) is we have faced a bit of adversity. We’ve learned from that and we just have to calm down and play the game and run the power play they way we know we can,” he said.

DePape’s goal in Friday’s second game of the current series was his first of the playoffs. The Rebels are hoping it was the first of more to come.

“I hope so,” said DePape. “I don’t think I’ve been playing bad hockey these playoffs. I didn’t have a great first game against Calgary but I thought I played fine against Prince Albert, I wasn’t a liability out there.

I created chances, they just weren’t going in for me.”

DePape, who was plucked off the free agent wire at the WHL trade deadline in January and didn’t play his first game until mid-March due to undergoing shoulder surgery in November, insisted the Rebels are still a confident bunch despite being down 2-0 in the series.

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Canada falls short in curling final

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Canada’s world men’s curling championship reign ended Sunday after three years, but Brad Jacobs was still able to put the loss in perspective.

Jacobs’s Northern Ontario rink fell 8-6 to Sweden’s Niklas Edin in the gold-medal game.

“It’s not like we came out and we curled really horrible,” said Jacobs.

“We threw the rock really well. I feel like we curled really well. The ice was a little different. We didn’t catch on to it quick enough. That’s why they’re holding hands (as champions) and we got the silver medal today.”

Edin locked up the win in the eighth end as he stole two points to go up 8-4. After Jacobs pulled within two in the ninth, the Swede was able to run the Canadians out of rocks in the 10.

“We’re so happy that we could make enough shots in the beginning to get that good start,” said Edin.

Sweden led throughout the game after going up 2-0 early.

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Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Canadian skip Brad Jacobs, right to left, third Ryan Fry and second, E.J. Harnden react to their silver medal following the gold medal draw against Sweden at the World Men’s Curling Championship in Victoria, B.C. Sunday.

Midget Rebels to defend Canadian title at Telus Cup

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Rebels 3 Giants 2 VANCOUVER — One of the strengths of any Doug Quinn coached team is a never say die attitude.

The Red Deer Optimist Rebels Chiefs are a perfect example of that. Last year they overcame a 5-1 second-period deficit to beat Phénix du College du Esther-Blondin of Quebec in overtime in the Telus Cup final.

So it should come as no surprise to see them shake off an opening game overtime loss to the Vancouver Northwest Giants in the best-of-three Pacific Region midget AAA championship and storm back to win 4-3 in double overtime Saturday and 3-2 Sunday to advance to the Telus Cup. “The guys played extremely hard . . . played with a lot of focus and determination . . . I’m extremely proud of them,” said Quinn. “Northwest was a very good team.

They lost only a few games all season and they were tough in their rink.

“It was a smaller ice surface and they

had a very big, strong team, which was built for that rink. But our guys came in and competed. They sacrificed and gave everything they had.”

Jordan Steenbergen scored the winning goal late in the third period, on a screened shot from the point. Jody Sick and Chase Olsen scored the other Red Deer goals with both teams finishing with 31 shots.

Once they got the lead goaltender Matt Zentner shut the door. He was especially strong in the final minute, making two outstanding saves with the Giants netminder on the bench in favour of an extra attacker.

“Matt was outstanding the last two games,” said Quinn.

“He was a big reason we won. He made the big save at the right time and did an outstanding job handling the puck and moving it out of our zone.”

Quinn also gave credit to the defence that was playing without Colton Bobyk (appendix) and had forward Jack Goranson on the back end.

“My defence really stepped up, especially Quinn Brown and Steenbergen. We tried to match them against their top line and

they were warriors. As well Jack stepped in and played well and Gabe (Bast) came back from an injury (hip flexor) and wasn’t 100 per cent but gave us some good minutes as did Kaleb Denham.

“It’s never easy and to have success you need commitment from the entire team.

You put your ego aside and that’s what this group of players did. They played as a team.”

But that’s what’s needed to win championships.

“That’s how we have to play,” continued Quinn. “We don’t have the one big time star player and when we play teams with an elite player we need that team attitude.”

Ryker Leer played the role of hero Saturday, tipping in the winning goal in the second overtime. Chase Thudium scored twice and Jordie Lawson once.

It was a game that Quinn felt they deserved.

“We outshot them 47-20 and if we wouldn’t have won it would have been an injustice,” he said.

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Monday, April 8, 2013

Hockey

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WHL Playoffs SECOND ROUND Conference Semifinals (Best-of-7)

Second Period 3. Kamloops, Willick 3 (Ranford, J.Lipon) 9:47 (pp) Penalties — Oakes Kam (hooking) 2:28, Kelowna bench (too many men; served by Rigby) 9:22, Willick Kam (slashing) 19:01.

Third Period 4. Kamloops, Souto 3 (Hansen) 5:06 5. Kamloops, Kessy 8 (Needham) 12:05 6. Kamloops, Macklin 2 (Connolly) 18:48 Penalties — Macklin Kam, Bell Kel (unsportsmanlike conduct) 5:01, Willick Kam (slashing) 6:45, Olsen Kel (slashing) 14:58, Goulbourne Kel (crosschecking) 19:12.

Shots on goal Kamloops 10 14 14 — 38 Kelowna 11 11 8 — 30 Goal — Kamloops: Cheveldave (W,6-2); Kelowna: Cooke (L,4-5).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Kamloops: 1-5; Kelowna: 1-5.

Attendance — 4,584 at Kelowna, B.C.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Medicine Hat (7) (Edmonton leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Edmonton 2 Medicine Hat 0 Friday’s result Edmonton 4 Medicine Hat 1 Tuesday’s game Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 12 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 14 x-Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 17 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts d-Pittsburgh 39 29 10 0 58 d-Montreal 38 25 8 5 55 d-Washington 39 20 17 2 42 Boston 37 24 9 4 52 Toronto 38 21 13 4 46 Ottawa 38 19 13 6 44 N.Y. Rangers 38 19 15 4 42 N.Y. Islanders 39 19 16 4 42 New Jersey 39 15 14 10 40 Winnipeg 40 19 19 2 40 Buffalo 39 16 17 6 38 Philadelphia 38 17 18 3 37 Carolina 37 16 19 2 34 Tampa Bay 38 16 20 2 34 Florida 39 13 20 6 32

Calgary (3) vs. Red Deer (4) (Calgary leads series 2-0) Friday’s result Calgary 2 Red Deer 1 Thursday’s result Calgary 4 Red Deer 2 Monday’s game Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s game Calgary at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 11 x-Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 13 x-Calgary at Red Deer, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 16 x-Red Deer at Calgary, 7 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Portland (1) vs. Spokane (4) (Portland leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Portland 3 Spokane 0 Friday’s result Portland 7 Spokane 2 Tuesday’s game Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 13 x-Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 15 x-Portland at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 17 x-Spokane at Portland, 8 p.m. (Memorial Coliseum) Kelowna (2) vs. Kamloops (3) (Kamloops leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Kamloops 4 Kelowna 2 Sunday’s game Kamloops 5 at Kelowna 1 Tuesday’s game Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Wednesday’s game Kelowna at Kamloops, 8 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 12 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 14 x-Kelowna at Kamloops, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 16 x-Kamloops at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — If necessary.

GF 127 120 117 102 117 94 93 113 92 98 105 106 97 121 96

GA 95 91 110 79 106 85 90 119 106 120 118 118 115 114 132

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Chicago 38 29 5 4 62 128 83 d-Anaheim 39 26 8 5 57 120 97 d-Vancouver 38 21 11 6 48 103 95 Los Angeles 39 22 13 4 48 113 95 San Jose 38 20 11 7 47 98 94 Minnesota 38 22 14 2 46 103 97 St. Louis 37 21 14 2 44 106 98 Detroit 39 19 15 5 43 99 101 Phoenix 38 17 15 6 40 105 104 Dallas 38 18 17 3 39 104 117 Edmonton 38 16 15 7 39 100 106 Columbus 39 16 16 7 39 91 104 Nashville 40 15 17 8 38 96 109 Calgary 37 13 20 4 30 99 133 Colorado 38 12 21 5 29 89 121 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s Games Winnipeg 4, Philadelphia 1 Chicago 1, Nashville 0 Los Angeles 4, Edmonton 1 Montreal 2, Boston 1 Toronto 2, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 4, Tampa Bay 2 N.Y. Rangers 4, Carolina 1 Washington 4, Florida 3 Phoenix 4, Colorado 0 Vancouver 5, Calgary 2

Sunday’s summaries Oil Kings 2, Tigers 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Samuelsson 2 (Gernat, Corbett) 6:04 (pp) Penalties — Butcher MH (holding) 2:58, Leier MH (hooking) 5:56, Lazar Edm (interferfence) 12:40.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Baddock Edm (slashing) 3:30, Lowe Edm (cross-checking) 9:21, Lowe Edm (delay of game) 13:26, Legault Edm (interference) 14:11, Lowe Edm (slashing) 19:26, Pearce MH (crosschecking, roughing; served by Labelle), Lazar Edm (roughing) 20:00.

Third Period 2. Edmonton, Corbett 2 (St. Croix) 1:56 (pp) Penalties — Musil Edm (interference) 12:09, Lewington MH () 15:37.

Shots on goal Medicine Hat 7 18 8 — 33 Edmonton 17 3 14 — 34 Goal — Medicine Hat: Lanigan (L,4-2); Edmonton: Brossoit (W,6-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Medicine Hat: 0-7; Edmonton: 2-4.

Attendance — 6,628 at Edmonton.

Blazers 5, Rockets 1 First Period 1. Kelowna, Bell 5 (Severson, Olsen) 1:35 (pp) 2. Kamloops, Ranford 4, 3:11 Penalties — Cross Kam (checking from behind) 1:22, Needham Kam (delay of game) 7:01, Heffley Kel (charging) 11:21, McKinlay Kel (slashing) 13:22, Edmundson Kam, Olsen Kel (roughing) 16:28.

Calgary 15 9 14 — 38 Vancouver 8 10 4 — 22 Goal — Calgary: Kiprusoff (L,6-12-2); Vancouver: Schneider (W,14-7-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Calgary: 0-4; Vancouver: 1-2.

Oilers 1 at Kings 4 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Richards 9 (Carter) 1:38 2. Los Angeles, Carter 22 (D.Brown, Kopitar) 15:35 (pp) Penalties — Smid Edm (elbowing) 2:15, Carter LA (high-sticking) 5:12, Clifford LA (interference) 10:09, Eberle Edm (hooking) 14:33, M.Brown Edm (tripping) 18:38.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Paajarvi 8 (Yakupov, Gagner) 2:18 (pp) 4. Los Angeles, Voynov 5 (Williams, Stoll) 8:22 (pp) Penalties — Clifford LA (hooking) 1:31, Petry Edm (holding) 7:00.

Third Period 5. Los Angeles, Doughty 2, 19:11 (en) Penalties — Doughty LA (hooking) 9:22, Smyth Edm (slashing) 13:20.

Shots on goal Edmonton 9 5 10 — 24 Los Angeles 7 17 15 — 39 Goal — Edmonton: Dubnyk (L,12-11-6); Los Angeles: Quick (W,13-11-3).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Edmonton: 1-4; Los Angeles: 2-5.

Sunday’s summaries Devils 2 at Sabres 3 (SO) First Period 1. Buffalo, Kaleta 1 (Hecht) 4:22 2. New Jersey, Sullivan 6 (Bernier) 18:20 (pp) Penalty — Porter Buf (cross-checking) 18:15.

Second Period 3. Buffalo, Ott 8 (Hodgson, Gerbe) 13:44 Penalties — Zajac NJ (interference) 4:31, Scott Buf (roughing) 18:22.

Third Period 4. New Jersey, Fayne 1 (Zubrus) 5:46 (sh) Penalties — Ott Buf (high-sticking) 1:42, Kostopoulos NJ (hooking) 4:33, Foligno Buf (tripping) 10:33, Weber Buf (high-sticking) 15:14, Zajac NJ (roughing) 16:06.

Overtime No Scoring Penalties — None Shootout Buffalo wins 1-0 New Jersey (0) — Sullivan, miss; Elias, miss; Zajac, miss.

Buffalo (1) — Ennis, miss; Gerbe, goal; Ott, miss.

Shots on goal New Jersey 10 14 13 2 — 39 Buffalo 4 11 7 4 — 26 Goal — New Jersey: Brodeur (L,10-5-7); Buffalo: Miller (W,14-15-5).

Power plays (goals-chances) — New Jersey: 1-5; Buffalo: 0-3.

Lightning 2 at Capitals 4 First Period 1. Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 8 (St. Louis, Salo) 1:52 (pp) Penalties — Oleksy Wash (interference) 1:45, Aulie TB (cross-checking) 6:55, Backstrom Wash (tripping) 18:40.

Second Period 2. Washington, Ovechkin 24 (Hillen, Backstrom) 3:14 3. Tampa Bay, Killorn 7 (Lecavalier, Carle) 6:37 4. Washington, Carlson 6 (Ward, Hillen) 12:54 5. Washington, Ward 8 (Perreault, Chimera) 16:21 Penalties — Stamkos TB (holding) 17:32, St. Louis TB (roughing), Fehr Wash (roughing) 19:50.

Third Period 6. Washington, Ovechkin 25 (Ribeiro) 19:55 (en) Penalties — None Shots on goal Tampa Bay 10 9 11 — 30 Washington 13 13 12 — 38 Goal — Tampa Bay: Bishop (L,9-7-0); Washington: Neuvirth (W,3-5-1).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Tampa Bay: 1-2; Washington: 0-2.

Sunday’s Games Dallas 5, San Jose 4, SO Buffalo 3, New Jersey 2, SO St. Louis 1, Detroit 0 Florida 2, Ottawa 1 Minnesota 3, Columbus 0 Washington 4, Tampa Bay 2 Chicago 5, Nashville 3 Los Angeles 3 at Anaheim 4 (SO) Monday’s Games Carolina at Boston, 5 p.m.

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

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s summaries Flames 2 at Canucks 5 First Period 1. Vancouver, Hamhuis 3 (Burrows, D.Sedin) 0:34 2. Vancouver, Weise 3 (Garrison, Lapierre) 6:57 3. Calgary, Wideman 5 (Stajan, Giordano) 13:49 Penalties — Jackman Cal, Kassian Vcr (fighting) 2:03, McGrattan Cal, Sestito Vcr (instigating, fighting. misconduct) 2:30, Bieksa Vcr (holding) 16:44.

Second Period 4. Vancouver, Burrows 11 (D.Sedin, H.Sedin) 7:24 5. Vancouver, Edler 6 (D.Sedin, H.Sedin) 19:33 Penalties — Cammalleri Cal (slashing) 9:23, D.Sedin Vcr (hooking) 9:29, Jackman Cal (highsticking) 19:29.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 6. Calgary, Tanguay 10 (Stajan, Stempniak) 10:49 7. Vancouver, H.Sedin 11, 19:49 (en) Penalties — Edler Vcr (holding) 7:34, Bieksa Vcr (elbowing) 19:30.

Shots on goal

Predators 3 at Blackhawks 5 First Period 1. Chicago, Shaw 8 (Frolik, Hjalmarsson) 6:34 2. Nashville, Spaling 7 (Kostitsyn) 17:16 Penalties — None.

Nashville bench (too many men, served by Clune) 9:40.

Second Period 3. Chicago, Bickell 8 (Stalberg, Rozsival) 2:09 4. Nashville, Weber 8 (Spaling) 5:54 Penalty — Shaw Chi (unsportsmanlike conduct) 5:54.

Third Period 5. Nashville, Legwand 11 (Halischuk, Weber) 6:54 6. Chicago, Saad 9 (Keith, Toews) 9:37 7. Chicago, Toews 19 (Kane, Shaw) 10:32 8. Chicago, Kane 20 (Saad) 19:28 (en) Penalties — None Shots on goal Nashville 7 9 6 — 22

Baseball

Chicago 17 12 11 — 40 Goal — Nashville: Rinne (L,14-13-7); Chicago: Emery (W,14-1-0).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Nashville: 0-1; Chicago: 0-1.

Senators 1 at Panthers 2 First Period 1. Ottawa, Conacher 10 (Silfverberg, Zibanejad) 12:26 Penalty — Mueller Fla (interference) 14:02.

Second Period 2. Florida, Goc 5 (Fleischmann, Kopecky) 1:08 Penalties — Kassian Ott (fighting, major), Parros Fla (fighting, major) 5:54, Kuba Fla (high-sticking) 19:32.

Third Period 3. Florida, Kulikov 2 (Huberdeau, Campbell) 10:46 (pp) Penalties — Bjugstad Fla (high-sticking) 2:49, Gonchar Ott (holding) 9:30, Mueller Fla (hooking) 15:12, Matthias Fla (tripping) 19:50.

Shots on goal Ottawa 11 14 16 — 41 Florida 6 4 7 — 17 Goal — Ottawa: Anderson (L,8-5-2); Florida: Clemmensen (W,3-6-2).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Ottawa: 0-5; Florida: 1-1.

Referees — Mike Hasenfratz, Kevin Pollock. Linesmen — Steve Barton, Matt MacPherson.

Wild 3 at Blue Jackets 0 First Period No Scoring Penalty — Konopka Min (tripping) 18:41.

Second Period 1. Minnesota, Suter 4 (Pominville, Spurgeon) 3:13 (pp) 2. Minnesota, Coyle 6 (Granlund, Setoguchi) 15:03 (pp) Penalties — Comeau Clb (hooking) 2:31, Koivu Min (goaltender interference) 4:52, Anisimov Clb (tripping) 7:54, Prospal Clb (hooking) 13:54.

Third Period 3. Minnesota, Pominville 11 (Parise) 18:35 Penalties — Setoguchi Min (holding) 4:57, Stoner Min (tripping) 7:55.

Shots on goal Minnesota 9 11 4 — 24 Columbus 8 4 12 — 24 Goal — Minnesota: Backstrom (W,20-10-2); Columbus: Bobrovsky (L,13-10-6).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Minnesota: 2-3; Columbus: 0-4.

Stars 5 at Sharks 4 (SO) First Period 1. San Jose, Wingels 4 (Couture) 8:39 Penalties — Pavelski SJ (high-sticking) 0:47, Dillon Dal (cross-checking) 11:49, Burish SJ (hooking) 17:04.

Second Period 2. San Jose, Burns 6 (Braun, Niemi) 3:06 3. Dallas, Nystrom 6 (Fiddler) 3:41 4. Dallas, Chiasson 2 (Ja.Benn, Whitney) 4:07 5. San Jose, Galiardi 3 (Torres) 7:48 6. San Jose, Vlasic 3 (Torres, Braun) 15:31 Penalties — Burns SJ (interference) 5:07, Dillon Dal (cross-checking) 10:45, Nystrom Dal (boarding) 13:00.

Third Period 7. Dallas, Chiasson 3 (Whitney, Ja.Benn) 6:07 8. Dallas, Eriksson 10 (Fraser, Goligoski) 9:14 Penalties — None Overtime No Scoring Penalties — None Shootout Dallas wins 1-0 Dallas (1) — Fraser, miss; Ja.Benn, goal.

San Jose (0) — Couture, miss; Boyle, miss; Burns, miss.

Shots on goal Dallas 6 16 10 2 — 34 San Jose 10 13 11 2 — 36 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (W,14-11-2); San Jose: Niemi (L,19-8-6).

Power plays (goals-chances) — Dallas: 0-3; San Jose: 0-3.

Blues 1 at Red Wings 0 First Period No Scoring Penalty — Kindl Det (interference) 17:01.

Second Period 1. St. Louis, Porter 2 (Berglund, Jackman) 16:28 Penalties — Berglund StL (interference) 12:22, Backes StL (tripping) 19:16.

Third Period No Scoring Penalties — Sobotka StL (roughing) 3:48, Perron StL (holding stick), Zetterberg Det (roughing) 15:59, Kronwall Det (concealing puck) 17:52.

Shots on goal by St. Louis 11 8 6 — 25 Detroit 7 13 8 — 28 Goal — St. Louis: Elliott (W,6-6-1); Detroit: Howard (L,16-12-4).

Power plays (goals-chances) — St. Louis: 0-2; Detroit: 0-3.

Attendance — 20,066 (20,066).

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Boston Baltimore Tampa Bay New York Toronto

GB — 1 1 2 2

Chicago Minnesota Cleveland Detroit Kansas City

Central Division W L Pct 4 2 .667 4 2 .667 3 3 .500 3 3 .500 3 3 .500

GB — — 1 1 1

Oakland Texas Seattle Los Angeles Houston

West Division W L Pct 5 2 .714 4 2 .667 3 4 .429 2 4 .333 1 5 .167

GB — 1/2 2 2 1/2 3 1/2

Saturday’s Games Toronto 5, Boston 0 Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 3 L.A. Angels 8, Texas 4 Detroit 8, N.Y. Yankees 4 Philadelphia 4, Kansas City 3 Minnesota 6, Baltimore 5 Tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 0 Oakland 6, Houston 3 Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 7, Detroit 0 Boston 13, Toronto 0 Kansas City 9, Philadelphia 8 Minnesota 4, Baltimore 3 Cleveland 13, Tampa Bay 0 Oakland 9, Houston 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Seattle 3, 10 innings Texas 7, L.A. Angels 3 Monday’s Games Baltimore (W.Chen 0-0) at Boston (Buchholz 1-0), 12:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 0-1) at Cleveland (Jimenez 0-0), 2:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Correia 0-0) at Kansas City (E.Santana 0-1), 2:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Hellickson 0-0) at Texas (Ogando 1-0), 6:05 p.m.

Houston (Humber 0-1) at Seattle (J.Saunders 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers 1, Pittsburgh 0

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. AJones Bal 6 26 9 14 .538 Lowrie Oak 7 26 7 13 .500 CSantana Cle 6 24 5 12 .500 NCruz Tex 6 24 3 11 .458 CDavis Bal 6 22 5 10 .455 Berkman Tex 6 20 3 9 .450 Reyes Tor 6 23 4 10 .435 Zobrist TB 6 21 3 9 .429 Youkilis NYY 6 22 4 9 .409 Gordon KC 6 25 6 10 .400 Home Runs Morse, Seattle, 5; CDavis, Baltimore, 4; Middlebrooks, Boston, 4; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 4; Arencibia, Toronto, 3; Crisp, Oakland, 3; Kinsler, Texas, 3; Lowrie, Oakland, 3; Rios, Chicago, 3.

Runs Batted In CDavis, Baltimore, 17; Butler, Kansas City, 8; Fielder, Detroit, 8; Kinsler, Texas, 8; Morse, Seattle, 8; Ellsbury, Boston, 7; AJones, Baltimore, 7; Napoli, Boston, 7; MarReynolds, Cleveland, 7; Zobrist, Tampa Bay, 7.

Pitching Masterson, Cleveland, 2-0; Darvish, Texas, 2-0; Lester, Boston, 2-0; BChen, Kansas City, 1-0; Swarzak, Minnesota, 1-0; Ogando, Texas, 1-0; Ayala, Baltimore, 1-0.

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets 4, Miami 3 Cincinnati 6, Washington 3 Atlanta 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Kansas City 9, Philadelphia 8 Arizona 8, Milwaukee 7, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers 6, Pittsburgh 2 Colorado 9, San Diego 1 St. Louis 14, San Francisco 3

Atlanta New York Washington Philadelphia Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 5 1 .833 4 2 .667 4 2 .667 2 4 .333 1 5 .167

GB — 1 1 3 4

Central Division Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Milwaukee Pittsburgh

W 4 3 2 1 1

L 2 3 4 5 5

Pct .667 .500 .333 .167 .167

GB — 1 2 3 3

W 5 5 4 3 1

L 1 1 2 3 5

Pct .833 .833 .667 .500 .167

GB — — 1 2 4

West Division Arizona Colorado Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego

Saturday’s Games N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 3 Washington 7, Cincinnati 6, 11 innings St. Louis 6, San Francisco 3 Philadelphia 4, Kansas City 3 Arizona 9, Milwaukee 2 Atlanta 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Colorado 6, San Diego 3

Monday’s Games Milwaukee (Estrada 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 0-1), 12:20 p.m.

Cincinnati (Latos 0-0) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 1-0), 2:15 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 1-0) at Philadelphia (Halladay 0-1), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Maholm 1-0) at Miami (Slowey 0-1), 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (W.Rodriguez 1-0) at Arizona (Cahill 0-1), 7:40 p.m.

Colorado (De La Rosa 0-0) at San Francisco (Bumgarner 1-0), 8:15 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at San Diego, 2:40 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m.

Cincinnati at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Colorado at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R H Pct. Frazier Cin 6 25 5 12 .480 Cuddyer Col 5 20 3 9 .450 CCrawford LAD 6 20 5 9 .450 Segura Mil 6 20 1 9 .450 Tulowitzki Col 5 19 4 8 .421 Freeman Atl 5 17 3 7 .412 GParra Ari 6 30 4 12 .400 Buck NYM 6 20 4 8 .400 AdGonzalez LAD 6 20 0 8 .400 Utley Phi 6 23 5 9 .391 Home Runs JUpton, Atlanta, 5; Fowler, Colorado, 4; Choo, Cincinnati, 3; Frazier, Cincinnati, 3; Harper, Washington, 3; Rosario, Colorado, 3; 15 tied at 2.

Runs Batted In Buck, New York, 9; Frazier, Cincinnati, 9; Cuddyer, Colorado, 7; Freeman, Atlanta, 7; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 7; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 7; JUpton, Atlanta, 7; Utley, Philadelphia, 7.

Pitching Kershaw, Los Angeles, 2-0; GGonzalez, Washington, 1-0; Chacin, Colorado, 1-0; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 1-0; Chapman, Cincinnati, 1-0; Escalona, Colorado, 1-0; Miley, Arizona, 1-0.

Transactions Saturday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Baltimore RHP Daniel McCutchen 50 games for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Activated RHP Chris Tillman from the 15-day DL. Optioned INF Yamaico Navarro to Norfolk (IL).

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled RHP Trevor Bauer from Columbus (IL). Placed LHP Scott Kazmir on the 15-day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled LHP Dallas Keuchel from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed LHP Travis Blackley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 5. Promoted LHP Kyle Hallock from Quad Cities (MWL) to Oklahoma City. Reassigned RHP Cameron Lamb from extended spring training to Quad Cities.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with C Mark Fleury on a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned LHP Tyler Robertson to Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Reinstated RHP Phil

Hughes from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Cody Eppley to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Reinstated RHP Bartolo Colon from the restricted list. Optioned RHP Dan Straily to Sacramento (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Designated RHP Jeremy Jeffress for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Dave Bush from Buffalo (IL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Claimed RHP Will Harris off waivers from Oakland.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Traded C Ramon Hernandez to the L.A. Dodgers for RHP Aaron Harang and cash considerations and designated Harang for assignment.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent LHP Ted Lilly to Rancho Cucamonga (Cal) on a rehab assignment.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Placed 3B Aramis Ramirez on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF Josh Prince from Nashville (PCL).

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed DT Bryan Hall.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled C Riley Sheahan from Grand Rapids (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Recalled C Scott Timmins from San Antonio (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned D Ryan Ellis to Milwaukee (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES — Recalled F Alexandre Bolduc and D David Rundblad from Portland (AHL) on an emergency basis.

Sunday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS—Agreed to terms with OF Bill Hall on a minor league contract.

MINNESOTA TWINS—Placed RHP Cole De Vries on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 30.

Recalled LHP Pedro Hernandez from Rochester (IL). Reinstated RHP Anthony Swarzak from the 15-day DL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS—Claimed RHP Edgar Gonzalez off waivers from Houston. Transferred RHP Dustin McGowan to the 60-day DL.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB z-Miami 60 16 .789 — x-New York 50 26 .658 10 y-Indiana 48 29 .623 12 x-Brooklyn 44 32 .579 16 x-Chicago 42 34 .553 18 x-Atlanta 42 36 .538 19 x-Boston 40 37 .519 20 x-Milwaukee 37 39 .487 23 Philadelphia 31 45 .408 29 Toronto 29 48 .377 31 Washington 29 48 .377 31 Detroit 26 52 .333 35 Cleveland 24 52 .316 36 Orlando 19 59 .244 42 Charlotte 18 59 .234 42

y-clinched division z-clinched conference

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WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-San Antonio 57 20 .740 — x-Oklahoma City 56 21 .727 1 x-Denver 53 24 .688 4 y-L.A. Clippers 51 26 .662 6 x-Memphis 52 25 .675 5 Golden State 44 33 .571 13 Houston 43 34 .558 14 Utah 41 37 .526 16 1/2 L.A. Lakers 40 37 .519 17 Dallas 38 39 .494 19 Portland 33 44 .429 24 Minnesota 29 47 .382 27 1/2 New Orleans 27 50 .351 30 Sacramento 27 50 .351 30 Phoenix 23 54 .299 34 x-clinched playoff spot

Saturday’s Games Washington 104, Indiana 85 Brooklyn 105, Charlotte 96 Miami 106, Philadelphia 87 Minnesota 107, Detroit 101 San Antonio 99, Atlanta 97 Milwaukee 100, Toronto 83 Denver 132, Houston 114 Sunday’s Games New York 125, Oklahoma City 120 L.A. Clippers 109, L.A. Lakers 95 Memphis 89, Sacramento 87 Boston 107, Washington 96 Cleveland 91, Orlando 85 Detroit 99, Chicago 85 Utah 97, Golden State 90 New Orleans 95, Phoenix 92 Dallas 96, Portland 91 Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Cleveland at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Washington at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Soccer MLS EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Montreal 5 4 1 0 6 4 12 Kansas City 6 3 1 2 7 3 11 Houston 5 3 2 0 8 6 9 Columbus 6 2 1 2 8 5 8 Philadelphia 5 2 2 1 7 6 7 Toronto 5 1 2 2 7 8 5 New York 6 1 3 2 6 9 5 New England 4 1 2 1 1 2 4 Chicago 5 1 3 1 4 10 4 D.C. 5 1 3 1 2 5 4

Note: Three points for a win, one for a tie.

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L T GF GA Pt Dallas 6 4 1 1 10 7 13 Chivas USA 5 3 1 1 10 7 10 Los Angeles 4 2 0 2 8 3 8 San Jose 6 2 2 2 6 6 8 Vancouver 5 2 2 1 6 6 7 Salt Lake 6 2 3 1 4 7 7 Portland 5 1 1 3 9 8 6 Colorado 6 1 3 2 5 7 5 Seattle 4 0 3 1 2 5 1

Saturday, Apr. 13 Columbus at Montreal, noon Toronto at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

New England at Seattle, 2 p.m.

Salt Lake at Vancouver, 2 p.m.

New York at D.C., 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Chivas USA, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 14 Chicago at Houston, 3 p.m.

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

Sunday’s result Chicago 3 New York 1 Saturday’s results Dallas 2 Toronto 2 Vancouver 1 San Jose 1 Colorado 1 Salt Lake 0 Philadelphia 1 Columbus 1 Portland 2 Houston 0 Friday’s result Kansas City 1 D.C. 0

Lacrosse GP y-Toronto 15 Rochester 13 Philadelphia 14 Buffalo 14

NLL East Division W L Pct. 10 5 .667 6 7 .462 6 8 .429 5 9 .357

West Division GP W L Pct. x-Calgary 14 8 6 .571 x-Edmonton 14 8 6 .571 x-Washington 14 8 6 .571 Minnesota 14 6 8 .429 Colorado 14 6 8 .429 x — Clinched playoff berth. y — Clinched division.

Week 14

GF 185 144 146 147

GA GB 166 — 128 3 181 3 1/2 191 4 1/2

GF 196 178 166 188 157

GA 185 148 164 173 170

GB — — — 2 2

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LPGA-Kraft Nabisco Championship Sunday At Mission Hills Country Club, Dinah Shore Tournament Course Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,738; Par: 72 (a-amateur) Final Inbee Park, $300,000 70-67-67-69 — 273 So Yeon Ryu, $187,073 73-71-68-65 — 277 Caroline Hedwall, $120,345 71-68-72-68 — 279 Suzann Pettersen, $120,345 68-75-67-69 — 279 Haeji Kang, $76,816 72-69-73-68 — 282 Karrie Webb, $76,816 72-71-67-72 — 282 Catriona Matthew, $44,980 72-73-70-68 — 283 Giulia Sergas, $44,980 70-69-76-68 — 283 Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $44,980 68-72-74-69 — 283 Anna Nordqvist, $44,980 69-72-72-70 — 283 Hee Young Park, $44,980 70-70-72-71 — 283 Jiyai Shin, $44,980 70-71-71-71 — 283 Jennifer Johnson, $29,156 72-71-73-68 — 284 Moriya Jutanugarn, $29,156 70-72-72-70 — 284 Caroline Masson, $29,156 70-73-71-70 — 284 Hee Kyung Seo, $29,156 72-70-71-71 — 284 Paula Creamer, $29,156 74-68-69-73 — 284 Pornanong Phatlum, $29,156 71-69-70-74 — 284 Se Ri Pak, $22,328 72-69-75-69 — 285 Jane Park, $22,328 70-73-73-69 — 285 Cristie Kerr, $22,328 71-71-72-71 — 285 Ayako Uehara, $22,328 72-72-70-71 — 285 Karine Icher, $22,328 72-70-68-75 — 285

Basketball

American League East Division W L Pct 4 2 .667 3 3 .500 3 3 .500 2 4 .333 2 4 .333

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Sunday’s results Toronto 10 Rochester 9 Philadelphia 15 Minnesota 13 Saturday’s results Colorado 9 Edmonton 7 Washington 12 Calgary 11 Minnesota 21 Buffalo 7 Rochester 14 Philadelphia 7 Week 15 Saturday, Apr. 13 Toronto at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Rochester at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Washington, 8 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 14 Rochester at Edmonton, 2 p.m.

RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, April 8, 2013 B3

Kings hold Sedin twins shine in Canucks win over Flames court with solid Canucks 5 Flames 2 VANCOUVER — On a night when Vancouver’s top line combined for eight points, it was their goaltender who stole the show.

Cory Schneider made 36 saves -- many of the highlight-reel variety -- as the Canucks defeated the reeling Calgary Flames 5-2 on Saturday to move four points ahead of the idle Minnesota Wild for first place in the Northwest Division.

Making his 10th straight start, eight of which have been victories, Schneider has firmly grasped the No. 1 role over Roberto Luongo the past three weeks.

“Tonight our best player was our goaltender,” said Canucks coach Alain Vigneault.

“He made some unreal saves. They came to play and they came at us real hard. They had some quality chances, but Schneids shut the door and we were able to jump on a few of their mistakes and score some goals.”

Schneider’s saves were not only beautiful -- like his lightning-quick glove stop off Lee Stempniak early in the third period — but timely as well.

Schneider was at his best with the Canucks clinging to a 2-1 lead late in the first period and early in the second, as he robbed Roman Cervenka and Mike Cammalleri on in-close chances.

“They had some good chances, but that’s why you have a goalie,” said Schneider, who improved to 14-73. “That’s why you pay a guy to stop pucks, so if there are a lot of shots he’s there to stop them. Sometimes it might be 20, sometimes it might be 40. But either way your job doesn’t change.”

Schneider’s strong play allowed his teammates to find their game, particularly Vancouver’s top line.

Henrik Sedin scored an empty-netter and earned assists No. 600 and 601 of his career, Daniel Sedin added three assists and Alex Burrows scored and added an assist.

Dan Hamhuis, Dale Weise and Alex Edler had goals for Vancouver (21-11-6) as well.

Dennis Wideman and Alex Tanguay replied for Calgary (13-20-4), which has lost five straight games overall and 13 consecutive road games (0-12-1). The Flames, who lost 2-1 in San Jose on Friday, sit 14th in the 15-team Western Conference.

“We played really hard I think the last two games and done a lot of good things, but we make a few mistakes and teams bury us and all of a sudden we’re chasing games and it’s hard,” said Stempniak.

“You can’t fault our effort or how competitive we are, but it’s not enough at the end of the day.”

With a chance to build on Thursday’s 4-0 vic-

tory over Edmonton, the Canucks jumped on Calgary early.

Hamhuis got Vancouver on the board 34 seconds into the game, converting a pretty Burrows feed on a 2-on-1 after Flames defenceman Mark Giordano got caught up ice.

Weise made it 2-0 six minutes later, parking himself in front of Miikka Kiprusoff and deflecting Jason Garrison’s point shot for his third of the season.

It was Weise’s first game back after missing six contests with a shoulder injury.

The goal was the Canucks’ second on their first five shots, drawing jeers of “Kipper, Kipper” from the sellout crowd of 18,910.

Wideman got Calgary within one at 13:49 of the first, faking a slap shot from the right circle, instead firing a soft wrist shot that fooled Schneider.

“He kind of pump faked and slipped it by me,” said Schneider. “I’m not thrilled with that one but it was a pretty crafty play by him. You don’t see that too often.”

The Canucks found their legs again midway through the second period, and added a pair of goals to make it 4-1 heading into the third.

After some pretty passing from the Sedin twins, Burrows parked himself in front and jammed the rebound from Daniel Sedin’s wraparound between Kiprusoff’s legs. It was Henrik Sedin’s 600th assist in his 930th game.

Henrik quipped that he doesn’t remember all of his helpers, “but I think most of them were to Burr and Danny.”

It didn’t take long for him to earn assist No. 601.

On a power play late in the second period, Edler whipped a one-timer from the point behind a screened Kiprusoff after Henrik Sedin won the draw. Henrik’s two points give him 782 in his career, moving him into 154th on the NHL’s all-time points list, one ahead of Alexei Yashin and four behind Claude Lemieux.

“Great player,” said Vigneault. “He’s a great passer. Without a doubt him and his brother have something real good going, and Burr complements them real well. Henrik’s our captain, he’s a great player.

I’m real happy for him.”

The Flames had a strong third period, but Tanguay was the only one to beat Schneider.

The veteran left-winger moved in on a breakaway midway through the period and beat Schneider with a pretty backhand deke between the legs.

Henrik Sedin scored his 11th goal of the season with 11 seconds remaining, putting the puck into an empty net. The goal was Vancouver’s first shorthanded goal of the season.

Knicks get 12th straight victory

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY — Carmelo Anthony had 36 points and 12 rebounds, J.R. Smith hit a pair of shotclock beaters in the final 2 minutes and the New York Knicks beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 125120 on Sunday for their 12th straight win.

Smith connected on a 23-foot jumper from the right wing as the 24-second clock expired to put New York up 117-113 with 1:30 to play, then swished a 3-pointer with 56.8 seconds left that all but sealed New York’s 50th win of the season.

It’s the first time the Knicks have reached the landmark in 13 years.

Russell Westbrook had 37 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists for Oklahoma City, which fell a game behind San Antonio for first place in the West with five games left. Kevin Durant scored 27, falling behind Anthony in the NBA scoring race.

Anthony came up with a season-high nine of his 12 rebounds on the offensive end as the Knicks amassed 23 points off of 19 offensive boards.

Anthony’s last three baskets came on tip-ins. He twice put back his own misses, then tipped in Smith’s missed free throw in the final minutes to help close it out.

Smith had 22 points, Raymond Felton scored 16 with eight assists and Tyson Chandler chipped in 15 points as Oklahoma City allowed its most points of

STORIES FROM B1

REBELS: One game at a time “Our goal is take it one game at a time. In our heads, we’re going out there to win tomorrow night and we’ll worry about the next game the next night,” he said. ● Rebels forward Matt Bellerive has been suspended indefinitely for a kneeing major and game misconduct he was assessed in Friday’s 2-1 Game 2 loss at Calgary. The Rebels will learn the length of the suspension today . . . Forward Adam Musil, the team’s first-round pick in last year’s bantam draft, will be inserted into the Red Deer lineup tonight, as will forward Scott Feser, who will likely replace Cory Millette. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

WORLDS: Wrong side of the edge “Unfortunately, we didn’t bring our A-game today and we were on the wrong side of the edge,” said Jacobs. “We didn’t give (fans) much to cheer for.”

Jacobs’s Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., rink had hoped to complete a fourth-place to first-place run after entering the playoff round with two straight losses. The Jacobs rink also fell short in its quest to win the first world crown for a Northern Ontario rink since Al Hackner’s Thunder Bay rink triumphed in 1985.

Jacobs’s rink was the first Northern Ontario team to win the Brier and gain entry to the worlds since then.

Edin captured his first world men’s crown after serving on bronze-medal-winning teams in

NBA the season.

Anthony, playing at Oklahoma City for the first time since April 2010, added to one of the more colorful histories of any visiting player despite failing to extend his run of 40-point games to four. He tied Bernard King’s Knicks record with three in a row, going for 50, 40 and 41 in his previous three games.

Anthony hit game-winners in the closing seconds of Denver’s only two games at Oklahoma City in 2009, then was knocked unconscious in the third quarter before returning in the fourth as the Nuggets rallied to win the 2010 game. He had missed his final chance with the Nuggets after his sister’s death and then sat out last season’s meeting because of wrist and ankle injuries.

After Oklahoma City had rallied from 12 down to take a 105-104 lead on Durant’s jumper in the lane with 6:57 remaining, the Knicks didn’t allow Durant to score again while Anthony’s relentlessness on the boards paid off.

He twice stretched one-point leads with tip-ins of his own misses before Smith finally provided a bigger cushion.

Anthony’s scoring average improved a tenth of a point to 28.44, while Durant’s stayed about the same at 28.35.

2011 and 2012. He also played on a Swedish team that won a world junior men’s title in 2004.

“It means a lot, having the Olympic season just one year ahead,” said Edin, who also garnered the Colin Campbell award as the competition’s most sportsmanlike curler. “It feels amazing, because now we know we can get all the support we need to improve our game and to really get strong for that.”

Starting with the hammer, the Swedes took a 2-0 lead in the first end as Jacobs missed both of his shots. In the second end, Edin forced Jacobs to settle for one point, but Sweden went ahead 4-1 in the third as the skip drew for two while gently tapping a Canadian rock back.

Jacobs cut Canada’s deficit to 4-3 in the fourth as he hit and stuck for two points. But Edin restored his team’s two-point advantage in the fifth as he broke up a cluster of Canadian and Swedish stones with the hammer.

Before Edin took his final shot, 11 rocks were in play, including six — three from each country — on each side of the four-foot ring.

But he only managed to earn one point after a Jacobs hit and roll had put Canada in scoring position.

Edin managed to capitalize on a Jacobs miscue and one of his own in the sixth end. After Jacobs was heavy on his first shot and left the rock at the back of the house, the Swedish skip failed to get his second rock behind cover, wicking off a guard and leaving both rocks exposed.

Jacobs tried to split them and take out both, but he did not catch a large enough piece of one rock, and Sweden stole a point to go up 6-3.

Canada pulled within two points in the seventh as Jacobs drew to the four-foot. They might have scored more, but Jacobs was heavy on his first attempt, and the rock wound up in the back of the

12-foot.

The Canadian skip was heavy with another draw attempt on his final shot in the eighth end, enabling Sweden to go ahead 8-4.

But Jacobs made no mistake in the ninth end, drawing for two points after Edin attempted to take out two of Canada’s rocks but only got one.

Despite the disappointment of the loss, Canadian coach Tom Coulterman was happy with what the Soo crew achieved this year.

“They accomplished all of the goals that they set for themselves, except the last one,” said Coulterman. “It’s unfortunate, but they’re still Brier champs. That’s what they wanted to do.”

Coulterman said the silver medal will still mean a lot.

“We’ll enjoy what the silver medal means,” he said. “It would have been nice to win gold, but a silver shines pretty nice.”

Earlier, Scotland’s David Murdoch claimed the bronze medal with a 7-6 win over Rasmus Stjerne of Denmark 7-6.

The Scots clinched the win by scoring three points in the eighth end to go up 7-4 before Denmark counted two in the ninth and Murdoch blanked the 10th.

Scotland and Denmark were both relegated to the bronze-medal game after losing to Canada’s Brad Jacobs on Saturday.

DEFEND: Return to Telus Cup The Rebels will return to the Telus Cup, set for April 22-28 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. “At the beginning of the season our goal was to return to the Telus Cup,” said Quinn. “It’s a very difficult tournament to win, but we’re there. But first we’ll enjoy this.

Take a day or two off then start to prepare.” drode@reddeeradvocate.com

win over Oilers

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Kings 4 Oilers 1 LOS ANGELES — Although the Los Angeles Kings have proved home-ice advantage means absolutely nothing to them in the playoffs, they’re still pushing toward a prime position for their Stanley Cup defence.

Jeff Carter had a goal and an assist, Jonathan Quick made 23 saves, and the Kings kept moving forward in the Western Conference race with a 4-1 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.

Mike Richards and Slava Voynov also scored for the reigning NHL champions, who have won five of seven to climb back into fourth place in the West.

The Kings took the lead against Edmonton 98 seconds in and never surrendered it, grinding out another methodical victory.

“We’ve always got work to do, but we’re playing solid at home,” said Carter, the NHL’s third-leading goal-scorer. “We’re making it hard on teams, and we made it hard on all their best guys today.”

Last year, the eighth-seeded Kings won the first two games on the road in all four playoff series while steamrolling to the franchise’s first title.

That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t mind an improved seeding this year — and with the NHL’s compacted schedule, Los Angeles can’t afford to stop pushing.

“At this point in the season, you take a peek (at the standings) once in a while,” said Anze Kopitar, who had an assist. “The way it is right now, every time you win a game, you move up, and when you lose, you move back down. ... We just have to keep going.”

Los Angeles is eight points behind Pacific Division leader Anaheim, its opponent in Sunday’s Freeway Faceoff. Kings coach Darryl Sutter essentially conceded the Pacific race to the Ducks, although his players might have other ideas.

“When you get off to that type of lead, it’s impossible to make it up, so we just concentrate on us,” Sutter said of the Ducks, who got off to a 22-3-4 start to the season.

Carter scored his 22nd goal and Voynov got his first goal in 17 games, with both scores coming on Los Angeles’ long-struggling power play.

Drew Doughty added an empty-net score, just his second goal of the season, as the Kings improved to 12-1-6 in their past 19 meetings with Edmonton, which hasn’t made the playoffs since 2006.

Quick also performed well in his first victory since March 28. The Conn Smythe Trophy winner is facing a challenge for playing time from backup Jonathan Bernier, who has won nine of his past 10 starts while compiling some of the NHL’s most impressive statistics, capped by a shutout of Minnesota on Thursday.

Magnus Paajarvi scored and Devan Dubnyk stopped 35 shots for the Oilers, who have lost two straight after a five-game winning streak to fall out of playoff position.

“You don’t win the Stanley Cup if you don’t find ways to continually raise your level as you go along, and that’s something we’re learning to do,” Oilers centre Sam Gagner said. “I think guys have figured that out the more they play in these games, but we have an opportunity here. We’ve got 10 games left to fight our way back into it.”

Centre Jerred Smithson made his debut with the Oilers, who acquired the faceoff specialist in a trade with Florida this week. Smithson had stayed in Florida after the trade for the birth of his son Thursday.

The Kings scored on their first shot for the second straight game when Carter collected a turnover and fed the puck to Richards, whose wrist shot beat Dubnyk. Carter then scored during a power play late in the period when captain Dustin Brown’s pass toward the net hit him.

Carter’s 22 goals are third in the NHL and tops in the Western Conference. Los Angeles’ power play had scored in just one of the previous eight games.

“They start playing well at this time of the year,” Dubnyk said of the Kings. “They’re a big team, and they play hard. They consistently bring bodies to the net, they crash and they screen, and they throw pucks to the net. They stick to what they do, and we can certainly learn a lesson from that. Things just continue to get tougher from here on.”

Doughty scored just his second goal in 38 games from his own blue line in the final minute.

Vipers finish fourth at provincials JUNIOR B HOCKEY WAINWRIGHT — The Red Deer Vipers finished fourth at the provincial junior B hockey championships.

The Vipers dropped a 5-3 decision to Cold Lake in the bronze medal game Sunday.

Tanner Howe, Troy Klaus and Braden Corbett scored for the Vipers while goaltender Jayden Adrian made 39 saves. The Vipers had 34 shots on goal. Cold Lake led 2-1 after the first and second periods and increased the lead to 5-1 before Red Deer man-

aged two late markers.

The Vipers reached the semifinals with a 5-3 win over Wetaskiwin Saturday morning, then lost 7-2 to the Okotoks Bisons in the semifinal.

Kolton Gillett, Cole DeGraaf, Corbett, Ryan Thomson and Jonathan Finnigan scored against Wetaskiwin with Brenden Mandrusiak making 31 saves. Gillett and Howe connected against Okotoks. Mandrusiak finished with 25 saves.

Okotoks downed Sherwood Park 8-4 in the final.

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Eagles claim AA provincial title TEAM COMPLETES TURN-AROUND SEASON AFTER JUST ONE WIN A YEAR AGO

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Eagles 8 Northstars 3 INNISFAIL — Ryan Kallis didn’t see this coming a year ago.

As a member of an Innisfail Eagles squad that won a total of one game during the 2011-12 season, Kallis couldn’t have dreamed of the success the team would experience a year later.

“It’s pretty surreal,” Kallis said Sunday, following the host Eagles’ 8-3 win over the Daysland Northstars in the provincial senior AA hockey championship final. “The team brought in great management and a great coaching staff. We have a lot of good people here. It’s quite the turn-around.”

Kallis is just one of two returning players from the 2011-12 edition. The franchise turned the corner this season when Brian Sutter came on as head coach after handling bench duties with the Bentley Generals for several years.

“Like I said, this is almost surreal . . . going from winning one game to winning the provincials. There’s nothing better,” said Kallis, who sniped a pair of goals in Sunday’s final.

“That’s just a little bit of icing on the cake,” he said of his two-goal contribution. “I know that I was playing with four other guys out there. I was just the lucky one who gets to poke it in.”

The Eagles actually trailed the defending provincial AA champion Northstars 3-2 after two periods, then wore down their opponents and struck for six

unanswered goals in the final frame.

Darnell Glass pulled the hosts even 1:26 into the third period and Tyler Helfrich supplied the Eagles with a permanent lead at the six-minute mark.

From there, Kallis scored a pair of goals 61 seconds apart and Tylor Kellor and Randy Graham rounded out the Innisfail onslaught in the final four minutes.

Scoring for Daysland were Todd Steil, Brad Trautman and Ryan Yuha.

Jasen Kipling, named the top goaltender in the tournament, stopped 18 shots for the Eagles. Andrew Sinclair blocked 29 of 34 shots for the Northstars before leaving with an injury with seven minutes remaining; his back-up, Scott Garnett, stopped just one of the four shots he faced.

Sutter clearly did a great job in preparing his club for the provincials, considering the Eagles were knocked out of the Chinook Hockey League playoffs by the eventual champion Generals in early February.

“We played two exhibition games against one of the best triple A teams in Canada and won both of them (versus Fort St. John) and outside of practising a couple of times a week that’s all we’ve done the last two months,” said Sutter. “We were outstanding against Fort St. John and we were outstanding in this tournament.”

While the Eagles were the best of the eight teams entered in the senior AA/A provincials, the defending champion Northstars were their equal for 40 minutes Sunday.

“They’re an awesome team,” said Sutter. “We played three of the top four teams in the tournament this weekend.”

The Eagles have big plans moving forward. Next season, for instance, the club will register for the provincial senior AAA playdowns and will undoubtedly feature new faces as Sutter continues to build the team.

“This was a learning experience for a lot of the people in the organization . . . an education for what we have to do as a community and what we have to do to take the next step,” said Sutter, whose coaching staff includes Jason Lenz, Kevin Smyth and Brian Stephenson, who were with him in Bentley.

“We brought a lot of good people in from Bentley and down the road we’re going to have a lot more people come with us too,” said Sutter. “We’re already getting calls from players who want to play here. As is stands, we have quality players who are winners, and they’re young. We’ve come a long way this season and this just capped it off.” ● The Eagles advanced to the AA final with a 5-0 win over the Tofield Satelites Saturday. Scoring for Innisfail, which held a 38-26 advantage in shots and got a shutout performance from Colin Stebner, were Andrew Buote, with two goals, Andrew Bergman, Helfrich and Dan Shermerhorn. ● Keller was honoured as the top forward in the tournament and Steil was named best defenceman. ● The Nanton Palominos defeated the Devon Barons 6-3 in the provincial A final. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

Queens bolstering roster with ID camp

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF

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Kristen Ramsay from Lacombe Composite High School tries to block Manesha Sidhu Western Canadian High School of Calgary during the Queens’ ID camp at RDC on Sunday.

RDC Queens head coach Mike Woollard went into Sunday’s ID camp knowing he already had a solid nucleus for next season.

“We have six of our top nine players back for sure next season and hopefully Amrei (Bondzio) will also be back,” said Woollard, who had close to 30 players on hand Sunday.

Bondzio, a native of Germany, will make up her mind shortly, according to Woollard, who had two players commit for next season last week.

Mozanga Ekwalaga, a five-foot-10 shooting guard, who can also play the wing, transferred from St. Mary’s University College of Calgary and guard Manesha Sidhu, out of Western Canada High School of Calgary, will also be on hand in the fall.

Ekwalaga was one of the top scorers for St. Mary’s and will be used on the wing, says Woollard.

“She gives us some additional scoring and is a big, strong kid, who can also work inside. As for Manesha she passes the ball well and can shoot. She can back up Melissa (Woolley), or we can use both of them on the court at the same time.”

“The two (newcomers) certainly add depth and talent to our roster,” said Woollard, who offered a spot to another player after Sunday’s camp, but won’t comment on her status until she makes a commitment.

“I feel positive, but she said she’d let me know by the end of the week,” he said. “There’s also a couple of oth-

ers we’re looking at, but we have some other irons in the fire, so we’ll see how it works out.”

Woollard has been talking with a player out of Ontario, as well as at least one other player out of Germany.

“As of now it looks like we have around 11 players and then we’re looking at hitting some home runs with the final three,” he said.

Having Woolley return is a big plus for Woollard, who through he may lose her after this year.

“She’s big for our team for sure,” he said. “She was improving all the time last year and gives us experience at the point. As well with some of the other girls returning at guard and with Manesha we can make sure she doesn’t have to play 36 minutes a game and be fresh.”

Dedra Janvier, third-year Sarah Williamson and Carly Hoar are also back at guard with Desirae Paterson and Kaitlin Bracko back up front.

As well Miranda Honey could also return.

Outside of the Grade 12s, Woollard invited several Grade 11 students to the camp, including outstanding Lacombe product Kristen Ramsay, who looked as if she was ready to play now.

As well two Grade 11 students from Notre Dame of Wilcox, Sask. — sixfoot-two Brook Bertoia of Lloydminster and guard Morgan Dool of Lacombe — were impressive.

“I really liked what I saw from several of the Grade 11 kids and the good thing is they’re interested in RDC,” said Woollard. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Raonic wins lead Canada to Davis Cup semifinals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Milos Raonic helped take Canada where it’s never gone before at the Davis Cup. Raonic defeated Andreas Seppi 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 on Sunday and Canada advanced to the World Group semifinals for the first time by defeating Italy 3-1 in their quarter-final tie.

Raonic said he wasn’t particularly concerned that he had let Seppi back into the match when he dropped the third set to his Italian opponent.

“It wasn’t like I got completely outplayed in the set,” he said.

“He just converted his chances better than I did. I just kept plugging away. I’m looking forward to the next series in Serbia. It’s going to be an exciting opportunity.”

Canada will next face Serbia in the World Group semifinals in September.

Serbia, which features the world’s top player Novak Djokovic, wrapped up its quarter-final tie with the U.S. on Sunday when Djokovic defeated Sam Querrey 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-0 to give the Serbs an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the series played in Boise, Idaho.

Canada had never been to the Davis Cup quarter-finals in the modern era until it upset Spain in February.

Raonic’s win ran the Thornhill, Ont., native’s personal winning streak of Davis Cup singles matches to seven straight. His overall record for Canada is now 12-4, 10-3 in singles and 2-1 in doubles.

Canadian captain Martin Laurendeau marvelled how far his team has come in just

the past few years, when just the thought of getting into the World Group seemed like a major challenge.

“I remember just three years ago and Milos was playing Davis Cup for us against the Domincan Republic in Toronto,” said Laurendeau. “To be down like we are now to the (World Group) final four is an incredible honour. A lot of Canadian team captains before me have tried to get to where we are now.”

Canada’s victory over Spain at the same University of British Columbia venue in early February was a true upset with Spain ranked No. 1 in the world in Davis Cup — although the Spaniards were missing a couple of their top guns.

But the win over Italy, on paper at least, was a true toss up.

Raonic and Seppi were virtually tied in the world rankings and Italy’s second singles player, Fabio Fognini, held a huge ranking advantage over Canada’s No. 2 Vasek Pospisil. And the doubles — which Canada won in five tense sets Saturday — also looked like a “pick-em” matchup.

But on a deeper level Canada had many things going its way.

First, was the home country’s comfort level with the venue. It was the third tie involving Canada at the UBC arena in the past 13 months.

Then there were the choice of playing surface (Premier indoor hard court) and balls (Yonex Tour 1), which in both cases favoured Canada, whose players prefer faster courts and livelier balls.

The big-serving Raonic took full advantage of all those factors Sunday in downing Seppi.

He won the first two sets

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Canada’s Milos Raonic celebrates after defeating Italy’s Andreas Seppi during the fourth set of a Davis Cup tennis quarter-final singles match in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday. The victory gave Canada the quartfer-final win over Italy. fairly handily, but Seppi battled back to take the third 6-3.

The decisive fourth set went without a break until Seppi, serving at 5-6 to get into a tiebreak, fell into a hole. He battled back to 15-40.

But then the Italian ace netted a slice backhand attempt on Raonic’s first match point to end the drama.

Seppi pointed out the surface Canada chose for the tie is so quick that it is rarely

used on the pro tour.

“I didn’t have a chance to place my racquet on many serves those first two sets,” he said. “In a tournament you don’t often play on a surface like that. It’s difficult to get your rhythm.”

But Italian captain Corrado Barazzutti said that’s all fair play in Davis Cup. “I think Canada chose the best surface for their players,” he said.

The semifinal will be played in Serbia where it will be Canada’s opponent’s terms to dictate the terms of the competition. Canada has actually been incredibly fortunate in that regards, having been favoured with four straight home-soil ties. That string will end in September.

With the series decided, both team captains agreed to cancel Sunday’s scheduled second singles.

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Blue Jays get bombed by Sox in finale

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Red Sox 13 Blue Jays 0 TORONTO — He’s 0-2 with a lofty 8.44 earned-run average and opponents are hitting .326 against him. But R.A. Dickey feels he’s very close to the form that made him the 2012 National League Cy Young Award winner.

Will Middlebrooks homered three times and doubled as the Boston Red Sox hit knuckleballer Dickey hard early en route to a lopsided 13-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon.

“I think you try to draw from some of the past experiences and know that a day like today is the anomaly, not the norm,” Dickey said. “I’ve traditionally gotten off to pretty slow starts in the past. I’m not sure why, that’s just the way it has been.

“I’m looking forward to the rest of the month. I know I’m close and so if I can just kind of sit in that, that I’m almost there, I think it will be all right.”

Fortunately for Dickey, he doesn’t have far to look. In April 2012, Dickey surrendered eight earned runs over 4 1/3 innings in a 14-6 loss to Atlanta, his worst performance as a New York Met. The good news for the Jays, though, is Dickey posted a 20-6 record last season.

“Atlanta last year was maybe a tad worse than this one,” Dickey said.

“You have to understand with 33 starts you have a handful you just have to throw out and hopefully the majority of them end up the way you want to.

“But you’ve got to learn from it too, you have to have aptitude in this game.

There are some things I can get better at that I’ve identified on video and we’ll see what happens.”

Middlebrooks’ two-run shot helped anchor a five-run first off Dickey as

Boston (4-2) earned the rubber game of the series before 41,168 spectators at Rogers Centre, many resorting to a “Go Leafs Go” chant late in the contest. Middlebrooks added to their angst with solo blasts in the fifth and seventh innings for his first career three-homer contest, giving him four this season.

“I faced R.A. in spring training so I kind of had an idea of what his movement was and his velocity, because he throws a lot harder than a lot of guys,” Middlebrooks said.

“I know certain counts he likes to go to fastballs when he’s not locating his knuckleball well, he tries to get ahead with the fastball and that helped knowing that.”

Daniel Nava, Jacoby Ellsbury and Mike Napoli also homered for Boston, which had just two hits in a 5-0 loss to Toronto on Saturday.

But the Red Sox tagged right-hander Dickey for eight runs — seven earned — on 10 hits (including two homers) over 4 2/3 innings. Dickey fanned five while walking two and often drawing his share of boos from the stands.

“Real fans understand it is indeed a marathon,” he said. “We certainly aren’t leading the marathon at this point but we have a lot of mileage to go.

“We’ve got a good ballclub. There’s a lot of guys in here who have gotten off to some slow starts, myself included, and it’s only going to get better. I think the only thing that gets people in the seats is winning and we just need to start doing more of that and I think people will continue to come.”

Dickey allowed five hits and four runs — three earned — four walks and four strikeouts over six innings in his Toronto debut, a 4-1 home loss to Cleveland on Tuesday.

Toronto manager John Gibbons isn’t concerned about Dickey despite Sun-

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Boston Red Sox Will Middlebrooks (left) celebrates hitting a two-run homer off Toronto Blue Jays R.A. Dickey with teammate Mike Napoli during first inning AL baseball action in Toronto on Sunday. day’s performance.

“It’s two games in, he’s going to have a great year for us,” Gibbons said.

“They just hit him hard, I don’t know any other way to describe it.

“Lester was too good for us to mount any comebacks. Sometimes you’ll have games like that where they score early and the other team climbs back in but Lester was too good for that.”

Sunday’s thumping capped a less than stellar season-opening six-game homestand for Toronto (2-4), which entered the campaign with high expecta-

tions following the off-season acquisitions of Dickey, infielder Jose Reyes, pitcher Mark Buehrle, slugger Melky Cabrera and return of manager Gibbons. But after having an off-day Monday, the Jays head out of town for a six-game road trip, starting Tuesday in Detroit.

Gibbons doesn’t believe Toronto is in dire need of a change of scenery.

“I don’t sense that we feel pressure, to be honest with you,” Gibbons said.

“It will be nice to get on the road but I tell you the crowds are tremendous.

Laird ties course record on way to Valero Texas Open victory

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Three Exelta members finish well at zones Three members of the Red Deer Exelta Gymnastics Club finished in the top seven in the P3 tyro division in the Southern Alberta Zones at the Collicutt Centre during the weekend, Casey Patsula placed third with Keara Slimmon in a tie for fourth and Ruby Butler seventh.

Patsula was third in the beam and uneven bars, fifth on the floor and eighth on the vault while Slimmon was in a tie for second on the vault, placed fourth on the beam, sixth on the bars and seventh on the floor. Butler was fourth on the bars, fifth on the vault, sixth on the floor and seventh on the beam.

Meanwhile, Aayla Ronspies was 12th and Karis Wygiera 13th in the P1 argo class.

Ronspies placed seventh on the beam while Wygiera was fourth on the floor.

Taylor Plante was seventh in the P3 open class as she tied for second on the bars and took fifth on the beam, sixth on the floor and tied for seventh on the vault.

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Carstar wins A side championship with victory over Grandview Carstar captured the Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association A-side championship with an 84-70 victory over the Grandview All-Stars Sunday afternoon at Lindsay Thurber.

Carstar won the best-of-three final 2-0.

Nathan Dixon led the winners with 29 points while Mike McCorquindale and Taylor Armstrong added 13 each. Tom West hit 25 points and Chris Girvan 20 for the All-Stars.

Dixon and West were the players of the game.

The former world No. 1 had struggled with his consistency for much of the year entering the week, but he made seven birdies on Sunday. It was exactly the kind of competitive final round McIlroy envisioned when he signed up in advance of next week’s first major of the year.

He continued to struggle off the tee, hitting just seven of 14 fairways for the third time this week Sunday. However, he needed only 26 putts — by far his best effort on the greens for the week.

“I feel like my game’s in really good shape going into next week,” McIlroy said. “A round like that gives me a nice bit of confidence.

“I thought if I got to 12 under today that might have been good enough, but Martin just played too good and holed so many putts. It was hard to keep up.”

While McIlroy’s primary focus throughout the week was on preparing for Augusta National, Laird couldn’t have imagined when the week began that he would join the former world No. 1 next week.

Laird earned this third straight trip to the Masters with his win, which he closed out with three straight birdies.

That included the surprising up-and-down on No. 17 and finishing with a 15-foot putt for birdie on 18 — clinching a share of the course record, which was set in last year’s opening round by Matt Every.

He became the first PGA Tour player to earn a trip to the Masters in the last week before the tournament since Johnson Wagner won the Houston Open in 2008.

Laird played at Augusta National the last two years following his win at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2011, finishing 20th two years ago and 57th last year.

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SAN ANTONIO — Martin Laird has spent the last six months on the driving range looking for answers to his struggling game.

The Scottish golfer finally found what he was looking for, and then some on Sunday — winning the Texas Open with a final-round 9-under par 63 to overcome a resurgent Rory McIlroy and some of the world’s best along the way.

Laird, who entered the week 161st on the money list, tied the course record with his bogey-free effort. He punctuated the overall 14-under effort with birdies on the final three holes, earning a trip to next week’s Masters and plenty of confidence in a recent swing change along the way.

“I came in here quietly confident, even though my record this year has been poor to say the least,” Laird said. “But golf’s a funny game; doesn’t matter what you did two weeks ago. It turns around pretty quickly.”

The win was Laird’s third on the PGA Tour, his first since the Arnold Palmer Invitational in 2011.

He entered the week having missed four of eight cuts this year following a swing change last September, including a missed cut at last week’s Houston Open. However, he shot a second-round 65 in that event after a four-hour range session — providing plenty of confidence that his game was finally starting to come together.

It did just that Sunday, and how.

Laird began the day four shots behind leader Billy Horschel, but he birdied five of his first eight holes to immediately jump into contention. His 7-foot birdie putt

on No. 8 — one of only 22 putts in the round — put him into a tie with Horschel at 10 under.

He then held off a hard-charging McIlroy over the last few holes, including a stunning up-and-down for birdie out of the fairway bunker and off the fringe on No. 17.

He capped the win with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th.

McIlroy, the world’s No. 2, began the day at 6 under before posting a 66 to finish two shots back and finish second — his best finish of the year.

Horschel shot a 1-under 71 to finish in a tie for third with Jim Furyk and Charley Hoffman.

Furyk eagled the par-5 18th from 104 yards out to jump into third.

The former U.S. Open winner had only four holes of practice on the Greg Norman-designed Course at TPC on Wednesday before rain washed him out, but he posted a final-round 69 to close out a steady week.

Horschel, who led after the second and third rounds, was unable to match the low rounds of his competitors and finished with a 1-under 71. The Florida native, who was second at last week’s Houston Open and was borderline defiant earlier in the week about his chances of competing against former major winners, was seeking his first PGA Tour win.

“Everyone’s going to have butterflies,” Horschel said. “I don’t care if it’s Tiger Woods or Joe Schmo at the golf course; you’re going to have butterflies, and you have to learn how to deal with it.”

McIlroy, who only entered the tournament late last week, closed to within a shot of Laird when he sank a 13-foot birdie putt on the 204-yard par-3 16th to reach 11 under.

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Park takes first LPGA major of season

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Inbee Park doubled her lead to six strokes on the opening hole Sunday and ran away with the Kraft Nabisco Championship for her second major title.

The 24-year-old South Korean player made a 20-foot birdie putt on the par-4 first, while playing partner Lizette Salas had a double bogey for a three-stroke swing.

“That made my day much easier, that’s for sure,” Park said. “I holed a long one on the first hole. A birdie start is always a good thing. That gave me a lot of confidence.”

The 2008 U.S. Women’s Open winner at Interlachen, Park closed with a 3-under 69 at Mission Hills to finish at 15 under, four strokes ahead of fellow South Korean player So Yeon Ryu. “It had been a while since I won a major,” Park said. “It feels very special. This week, I played very solid. Today and all week, I played very good.”

Park celebrated the victory with the traditional leap into Poppie’s Pond, and jumped from fourth to second in the world with her fifth LPGA Tour title and ninth worldwide win.

South Korean players have won three straight majors and Asians have

won eight in a row.

Park was four victories in her last 16 events. She won the LPGA Thailand in February in her season debut when Ariya Jutanugarn closed with a triple bogey to blow a two-stroke lead.

“I’ve played five tournaments on the LPGA Tour and I’ve won two of them, which is a very good start,” Park said.

“It’s pressure off me for the rest of the season.”

Last year, Park won twice, had six runner-up finishes and topped the money list. She won the Evian Masters in July in France, tied for third in her next start, added three straight second-place finishes and capped the six-event run with a victory in October in the LPGA Malaysia.

“I’ve seen Inbee do this before,” top-ranked Stacy Lewis said. “I played with her at Evian last year when she had I think 22 or 23 putts in the final round. When she rolls it, you can’t beat her. She’s the best putter on tour. The course here is a little softer than normal, so I think that’s to her advantage.”

The 22-year-old Ryu, playing five groups ahead of Park, shot a bogeyfree 65 — the best round of the week.

Ryu is close friends with Park and they played a practice round together before the tournament.

“She looks like she played another

“The second shot, it just came a little too quick,” Salas said. “Throughout the day, I was just really anxious and hit a lot of pulls today. I was just not myself today.”

Still in the thick rough, she left her third about 15 yards short of the green.

Salas chipped to 15 feet, watched Park hole her birdie putt, then missed her bogey attempt and tapped in for double bogey.

Park increased her lead to seven on the par-5 second, holing a 7-footer. She stumbled on the par-4 sixth after driving into the left-side water, ending her bogey-free run at 27 holes.

Showing off her considerable putting prowess, Park made a 22-footer for birdie on the par-3 eighth and got to 15 under with a 5-foot putt on the par-5 ninth. She dropped another stroke on the par-10th, leaving her with a fourstroke lead over Ryu. Park made a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-4 12th and a 10-footer on the par-4 13th to push her lead back to six at 16 under.

She nearly made it three straight birdies, but her 12-footer lipped out on the par-3 14th. She missed a short putt to bogey the par-3 17th, and closed with a par.

Lewis, the 2011 winner, tied for 32nd at 1 under after a 72.

golf course,” said Ryu, the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open champion. “This golf course is really hard, and especially before we start the tournament, she really worried about the game because her ball flight is a little low, but this golf course has pretty firm greens, so she said, ‘Oh, I don’t think I can stop it on the greens because my ball flight is too low.’ ... I think she was lying to me.”

Norway’s Suzann Pettersen and Sweden’s Caroline Hedwall tied for third at 9 under. Hedwall finished with a 68, and Pettersen shot 69.

Salas, the 23-year-old former University of Southern California player who grew up west of Los Angeles in Azusa, had a 79 to tie for 25th at 2 under.

“Obviously, I’m not very pleased,” Salas said. “Very disappointed in myself. ... Starting off with a double wasn’t in the game plan, but everyone is going to have those days where they’re just not going to be able to score.”

Any drama evaporated on the first hole on another hot afternoon in the Coachella Valley.

After Park smashed her drive down the middle, Salas — dressed in Trojans cardinal and gold — hit into the deep left rough, 30 yards behind Park. Salas topped her second shot, advancing the ball only 15 yards.

Wickenheiser expects to be back for semifinals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

WORLD WOMEN’S HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIP

OTTAWA — Hayley Wickenheiser intends to play the rest of the world women’s hockey championship even though she’s in pain.

Canada’s captain and all-time leading scorer skated with the team Sunday for the first time since injuring her back during the tournament-opener Tuesday against the United States.

“There’s really no risk of further injury,” Wickenheiser said following practice. “They’ve done what they can do to minimize the pain. It’s just a matter of being able to play through the pain and I think I can do that. I can’t really do any more damage to it.

“I feel like I’m going to be able to finish out the tournament.”

Canada faces Russia and the United States takes on Finland in today’s semifinals with the winners advancing to Tuesday’s championship game.

Wickenheiser skated off the ice and walked to the dressing room in the second period when Canada was trailing the Americans 2-0. She did not return to the game. The hosts rallied to win 3-2 in a shootout.

Wickenheiser, 34, was scratched from a 13-0 win over Switzerland and an 8-0 victory against Finland in the preliminary round. During her absence from the lineup, assistant captain Jayna Hefford joined Wickenheiser as Canada’s all-time leaders in games played at 248.

“The team has been playing really well and doing what they have to do,” Wickenheiser said. “I just have to come back with good energy and do what I can do to contribute on the ice. I feel like I can go full tilt. It’s up to the coach.”

Should Canada take control of the game early against Russia, expect head coach Dan Church to limit Wickenheiser’s ice time in preparation for the championship game.

“I think we’re playing pretty well right now,” Church said. “She would definitely help us so how we’re going to utilize her, I think we’ll play that by ear and how she feels after today’s skate and moving into tomorrow will help form our game plan on that.”

Canada’s 23 players at this world championship, plus another five, will congregate in Calgary in August to train full-time for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

The head coach says he took into consideration the future demands on Wickenheiser’s body.

“I wouldn’t want to take away our long-term success for a short-term gain, so I definitely considered and weighed out all those options,” Church said.

“I don’t feel we’re putting her into a position of jeopardy where she’s going to get further injured and miss a long time and hamper her preparation and our preparation for next Olympics.”

But Church suggested to Wickenheiser on Saturday that she wear a yellow non-contact jersey in Sunday’s practice and she refused.

“We’re playing tomorrow and if I’m going to play tomorrow, I should probably have some contact today,” Wickenheiser said.

A knee injury she suffered in the semifinal of the Canadian university women’s championship prevented her from playing in the final for the University of Calgary Dinos. Wickenheiser wasn’t sure if the two injuries were related.

“It’s tough when you’re trying to play with a full brace on and your mechanics aren’t quite the same and it’s pulling and pushing in different areas,” she mused. “It might also just be a freak thing, twisting the wrong way or something like that too.

“I don’t know how or why, but I got it under control now and hopefully I’ll be able to perform.”

Canada finished first in Pool A with eight points and earned a bye to the semifinal. Russia topped Pool B with nine and beat Switzerland 2-1 in the quarter-final for their fourth win of the tournament.

In the second year under this format, the top four ranked countries in the world at in Pool A and the fifth to eighth seeds are in Pool B. That adds another marquee game between Canada and the U.S. to the tournament. It also means the bottom two teams in Pool B don’t face the top two

countries, which eliminates a couple of embarrassing scores.

Canada thumped Russia 14-1 in last year’s world championship in Burlington, Vt., for the most lopsided score between the two countries in a dozen meetings. Russia was the fourth seed in Pool A in Burlington and went through the tournament without one win.

Once Sochi, Russia, won the bid to host the 2014 Winter Games, the Russian Ice Hockey Federation finally starting paying attention to women’s hockey.

Their stated goal is a bronze medal at the Olympics.

The team has a new coach this year and former NHL player Alexei Yashin was appointed general manager of the team in December.

“It’s always great, Russia against Canada,” Yashin said. “They are a very strong team, but for us we can use it as a way to learn to play and prepare ourselves for the Olympics.

“I understand that Canada is probably the best team in the tournament. For us, we just want to compete and play hard.”

Goaltending has been a weakness for the Russian women, but that has improved. Even though the Canadians are heavy favourites to win the semifinal, assistant captain Caroline Ouellette expects to see a stronger Russian squad than the one Canada thrashed a year ago.

“I can honestly say I don’t think about what happened the year before,” Ouellette said. “I look at how the team has been doing in the tournament and that’s what matters to me.

“They’ve been doing really well so we owe them that respect and we know we cannot take anyone for granted. They’re going to battle. They’re proud of what they’ve done and they should be.

“It’s going to be a good test for us to see where Russia is at. We haven’t watched them play. We’ve heard from our scouts they’re better at every position and I’m really excited for that.”

Michigan crashes the party to meet Louisville for NCAA title ATLANTA — Start studying, Louisville.

Michigan spoiled what would have been one heck of a going-away party for the Big East on Saturday night, beating Syracuse 61-56 to earn a spot in Monday night’s championship game against top-seeded Louisville. Now the Cardinals have less than 48 hours to get ready for a team they haven’t played since 1978.

“We don’t have to prepare too much if we play Syracuse,” Pitino, trying to become the first coach to win national titles at two different schools, said after Louisville rallied for a 72-68 victory over ninth-seeded Wichita State.

“We’ve got a lot of preparation if we play Michigan.”

Louisville (34-5), which has won 15 straight, is an early 4 ½-point favourite over Michigan (31-7).

This is Louisville’s first appearance in the championship game since 1986, when it won its second title. The Wolverines are back in the title game for the first time since 1993, when Chris Webber and Co. lost to North Carolina.

Who did Michigan beat to reach that title game? None other than Kentucky, coached by Pitino at the time.

“It’s going to be a great matchup,”

said Mitch McGary, who had 10 points and 12 rebounds for Michigan.

Louisville got its first real scare of the tournament from ninth-seeded Wichita State, falling behind by 12 in the second half. Nothing was clicking for the Cardinals on offence, they were getting in foul trouble and Kevin Ware, who can normally be counted on to give Louisville a lift off the bench, had been reduced to spectator, his broken right leg sustained in last week’s win over Duke propped up on the seat next to him.

But the Cardinals can grind it out, too, a fact that was all but forgotten as they steamrolled through their first four games of the NCAA tournament.

Louisville had come back to win five games already this year after trailing by nine points or more, including the title game at the Big East tournament, and the Cardinals knew they had another run in them. Sure enough, Luke Hancock knocked down one shot after another, walk-on Tim Henderson made back-to-back 3s and the Cardinals forced seven turnovers in the final seven minutes during a 30-13 run.

Wichita State would give Louisville one last scare, pulling within 68-66 on Cleanthony Early’s tip in with 22 seconds left. But the Shockers were forced to foul, and the Smith and Hancock made theirs to seal the game.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Laurent Brossoit recorded his third shutout of the postseason as the Edmonton Oil Kings defeated the visiting Medicine Hat Tigers 2-0 in Western Hockey League playoff action Sunday night.

Brossoit stopped 33 shots, including 18 in the second period alone, as Edmonton now leads the best-of-seven second-round matchup 2-0.

“A goalie doesn’t mind getting a lot of shots in a row,” said Brossoit. “It’s when you get spurts and you sit there and get cold. Sometimes I’ll be off my game and the boys will step up for me, so it’s not frustrating at all, it’s a team game.”

The victory marked a personal ninegame winning streak against Medicine Hat for Brossoit. Henrik Samuelsson

and Cody Corbett had the goals for the Oil Kings, both coming on the power play.

“Our penalty kill was strong today, our power play was better,” said Edmonton’s head coach Derek Laxdal. “(Brossoit) was outstanding and he’s probably been the difference in the first two games.”

Cam Lanigan turned aside 32 shots in net for the Tigers.

Samuelsson opened up scoring on the power play at 6:04 of the first period when he deflected Martin Gernat’s point shot in behind Lanigan. Despite outshooting Edmonton 14-0 in the first 15 minutes of the second period, and 18-3 overall, the Tigers were unable to even up the score heading into the third. Edmonton finished the night 2 for 4 with the man advantage while Medicine Hat failed to score on seven chances with the man advantage.

“I never think we’re going to lose,” Pitino said. “That doesn’t mean we’re going to win. We have lost. But that’s the attitude: Pressing teams have to stay in there. We were fouling too much. Then we started making some steals, picking up the heat. Then, of course, the guys were brilliant.”

It didn’t hurt that Malcolm Armstead, who earned Most Outstanding Player honours in the West Regional after averaging 15.5 points in the first four games, was ice cold, finishing with 2 points on 1-of-10 shooting. The Cardinals won’t be able to count on that against Michigan.

Though AP Player of the Year Trey Burke had only 7 points on 1-of-8 shooting, Tim Hardaway Jr. led three Wolverines in double figures with 13 points.

“We know Trey is our leader,” Hardaway said. “He’s not going to have a game like he’s been (having) the whole season. That’s when our team steps up

and just tries to pick him up.”

Much was made of Syracuse’s suffocating 2-3 zone, which had made more than one tournament team look inept.

But the Wolverines rendered it ineffective early on by making shots from long range, including four 3s in the first half. They got sloppy down the stretch, allowing Syracuse to all but erase Michigan’s 8-point lead with 3:54 left.

Trailing 58-56, the Orange had a chance to force overtime. But Brandon Triche was called for a foul when Jordan Morgan stepped in to take the charge with 19.2 seconds left. After Jon Horford made only one of two free throws, Syracuse called timeout and set up a play. But instead of going for a 3-pointer, Trevor Cooney drove the lane.

The ball was swatted away, Michigan snatched up the rebound and Morgan scored on a thunderous dunk with just over a second remaining.

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It’s a dog’s world for judges ERIK CHEUNG WORK SHOWN Visual Counterpoints

by Edmonton artist Erik Cheung is the new show on display at the Harris-Warke Gallery until May 4. Cheung’s work combines aesthetic elements, composition, balance, and proximity for forms that blend and complement each other. A reception will be held on Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the gallery located in Sunworks at 4924 Ross St. in Red Deer.

RALLY PROTESTS GM ALFALFA Red Deerians and Central Albertans can join other Canadians in a rally and march against genetically modified alfalfa on Tuesday. The Red Deer event is one of 26 in and outside of Ontario to mark a Day of Action to Stop GM Alfalfa.

It’s sponsored by the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network and the National Farmers Union-Ontario. The event begins at City Hall Park at noon with the march to Red Deer MP Earl Dreeshen’s office at 4315 55th Ave. ending at 1 p.m.

More information on the event can be found online at www.cban.ca/ april9 while more about the GM alfalfa and its related issues at www. cban.ca/alfalfa.

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF To say they have passion might be an understatement for the people who train their dogs daily, drive for hours to attend competitions, and meticulously comb, curl and scrub clean their pooches’ bodies when there — all done for the 2.2 minutes they will then get to spend with their dog in the competition ring.

But if that commitment signifies extreme passion, then dog show judges might just be barking mad with it.

To become a dog show judge requires not only a history in the competitions, but also three to 12 years of study, exams, and apprenticeship before one is deemed ready to separate a first-place dog from the alsorans.

It is a commitment that Jeff Lunder was only too happy to take on. The Delburne man has been in the “dog world” for 40 years and judging for 24.

And as an organizer of the Red Deer & District Kennel Club dog show and obedience trials, he takes judging very seriously.

“We’ll bring judges in from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany; we’ll bring them in from anywhere. The judges that we hire make or break the show. We usually try to hire our judges for five years in advance, because you can’t get good judges if you don’t,” explained Lunder.

He judges obedience, which means when a dog and handler are in the ring together, he is fixated on whether a dog is keeping in perfect step with its owner, how quickly it reacts to commands, and even whether it ever flinches out of shyness or resentment.

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Judge Honey Anne Glendinning (right) inspects Storm, a toy American eskimo, as owner Paula Wakely holds her dog in place at the Red Deer Kennel Club dog show and obedience trials on Saturday.

He is on a list of about 90 obedience judges across Canada, travelling around North America to judge at about five shows a year.

Honey Anne Glendinning, meanwhile, usually judges a confirmation show twice a month. Judging has taken her around the world, from China to Colombia.

“It’s a hobby that’s turned into an absolute love,” said the Langley, BC woman.

Glendinning had to study for years to become a judge, learning the particulars and history of approximately 200 different breeds.

Making naughty, or nice but good choices

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Olds’ infrastructure challenges regarding wastewater treatment, treated water conservation, metering, e-system acoustic leak detection, long range plans in preparation and the move to the town’s owned Mountain View Power and O NET (TV, Internet and phone service) will be the topic of the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance’s monthly ambassador breakfast. On April 19, from 7:30 to 8:45 a.m., at the Quality Inn North Hill, 7150 50th Ave., the RDRWA will meet for a presentation from Larry Wright, Olds director of operational services. The cost is $15 per person. For more information, contact the RDRWA at 403-3407379.

With the extreme popularity of the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy came a greater openness to talking about the wide world of kink.

That world is a diverse and potentially dangerous one, but talk to a practitioner and they will tell you there is a lot of fun to be had under kink’s wide banner.

The key, as explained during the 50 Shades of Play seminar at the Taboo ...

Naughty but Nice (Sex) Show over the weekend, is to play safe.

“There are lots of different ways to spice up your life, and you just want to do your research and not make dangerous choices,” explained Jennifer Vanderschaeghe.

The executive director of the Central Alberta AIDS Network Society (CAANS), Vanderschaeghe and fellow CAANS worker Jessica Kvisle presented the seminar four times at the three-day show. They took attendees through a bevy of options including using simple clothespins to elaborate rope “art.”

Their main message, though, was that communication is key and research is important.

“You want to make sure you don’t make bad choices in excitement,” said Vanderschaeghe, “You want to make sure you know what you’re doing. You want to be really clear that a lot of this could go bad, and you want to make sure you’ve done your

“You’re learning the reason why the dog was created ... Who sat around and said, ‘I need a dog to do this purpose. How shall it be built? What shall its temperament be?’”

In the ring, she watches not only how a dog behaves, but its colour, bone structure, teeth, girth, shape of the head, and power of the jaw. Her job is to evaluate which canines have the best attributes for each particular breed.

In her 30 years of judging, she has seen plenty of changes, from certain breeds surging in popularity because of movies, the lessening of breeding

consistency, and the increase in smaller dogs due to peoples’ housing limitations. But perhaps the greatest change she has seen is in shifting gender patterns, both among humans and their furry friends.

Whereas male dogs often won the day at shows, now females have risen to the top in a number of breeds.

And among the handlers, Glendinning said there is now absolutely no gender prejudice in dog shows, with women far outnumbering men at the Red Deer event. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

TABOO...NAUGHTY BUT NICE (SEX) SHOW

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Nikki Uhryn stocks riding crops in the Kink Store’s booth at the Taboo Naughty but Nice (Sex) Show. research on making good choices.”

She said CAANS is a place where one can have real honest conversations about sex, and that the agency can do referrals for people interested in trying something new.

The Taboo show was in Red Deer for its eighth year, an impressive mark for a smaller community, said Luke Speerin, assistant show director and entertainment and production manager with CanWest Productions. This year’s show, with 62 exhibitors, was the largest ever, and featured varied entertainment from fitness pole dancing to

one of Canada’s premier gender illusionists.

Speerin said people from all walks of life come to the show out of curiosity, or for a specific reason.

“The people in Red Deer are just up for a good time,” he said.

“The good thing about the Taboo show is it’s just not a dirty porn sex show, that’s not what it’s about ... It’s just more of an alternative kind of show.” mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Organic battle planned against dandelions

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The City of Red Deer is going organic in its fight to curb dandelions this year.

Starting this summer, the city will embark on its $40,000 pilot project that tests the use of top dressing in its dandelion control measures.

City of Red Deer parks superintendent Trevor Poth said this year the city will spray pesticide and top dress over the treated areas.

“We will continue to use a certain amount of chemical treatment through the park system,” said Poth.

“They will spray some of the areas that have not been sprayed in a long time. Once they are sprayed, we will top dress over them and basically re-seed or strengthen the grass that is on those areas.”

Residents do not have to go

‘WE ARE EXPECTING TO REDUCE THE DANDELION POPULATION ACROSS THE CITY AND THAT WOULD INCLUDE PLAYGROUNDS AND AREAS WHERE THE PUBLIC HAS VOICED COMPLAINTS.’ — RED DEER PARKS SUPERINTENDENT TREVOR POTH

far if they want to see what is possible with a pesticide free lawn.

City Hall Park is completely pesticide free.

The city has reduced its pesticide use over the last 20 years by 75 per cent under the Environmental Master Plan. The city has a target to reduce the use of pesticide by two per cent between 2010 and 2015; five per cent by 2020 and 10 per cent by 2035.

“Historically, what we have done is focused our chemical application on roadways and non-use public areas because we didn’t want to constantly use

pesticides on areas that were frequented by children,” said Poth.

The trade-off, said Poth, is that some of the parks have been overrun with dandelions over the years. A new focus on turf health will help prevent dandelions growing back. The city believes it can meet these targets while improving service at the same time.

“We are expecting to reduce the dandelion population across the city and that would include playgrounds and areas where the public has voiced complaints over dandelions in previous years,” said Poth.

The early pilot spraying will get underway in either June or July. The majority of the spraying will be done in the fall.

The province removed dandelions from the Weed Act and Regulations, resulting in changes to city practices with respect to dandelion management.

Red Deer city council approved $40,000 — $20,000 in 2013 and $20,000 in 2014 — for the pilot last summer. Each year, the program will be evaluated.

Poth said if you were to take the total area of parks and calculate the use of pesticides, it converts to two tablespoons of pesticides for an average residential lot. He said the city would like to see residents reduce their pesticide use.

“If they are using less than two tablespoons of pesticides on their yard per year, that’s what we are able to do in the city’s park systems,” he said.

“That’s a very good thing.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Exxon case back in court Jurors in the longest state trial in New Hampshire’s history will return to the courtroom this week after a nearly two-week hiatus to hear closing arguments in the state’s groundwater contamination case against Exxon Mobil Corp. Lawyers for the state want jurors to hold Exxon Mobil liable to the tune of $240 million to monitor and clean up wells and public water systems contaminated by the gasoline additive MTBE, or methyl tertiary butyl ether.

If the court keeps to the schedule, the jury won’t begin its deliberations until Tuesday.

Rhode Island’s tallest building to empty Rhode Island’s tallest building will soon be its most visible symbol of the state’s long economic decline.

The 26-story Art Deco-style skyscraper, known to some as the “Superman building” for its similarity to the Daily Planet headquarters in the old TV show, is losing its sole tenant this month.

It’s a blow for the city and the state, which had 9.4 per cent unemployment in February and has had one of the worst jobless rates in the nation for years. At 428 feet, or about one-third the height of the Empire State Building, it was the tallest skyscraper in New England when it opened in 1928 as the Industrial National Bank Building. It has housed a bank ever since.That 85-year run will end when Bank of America ends its lease for the building’s entire 380,000 square feet and completes its move into more modern space nearby in the coming days. The bank most recently occupied only about 20 per cent of the building

Portugal faces more cuts Despite two years of corrosive austerity measures since it needed an international financial rescue, Portugal’s prime minister told his country Sunday to brace for even harder times after a court ruling forced his government to find more savings through steep spending cuts.

Pedro Passos Coelho said in a sombre televised address to the nation that his centre-right government must slash public services because of a court decision to disallow some of its latest tax hikes.

A new crackdown on public spending will focus on social security, education, health services and state-run companies. That is likely to bring more layoffs as Portugal scrambles to restore its financial health after it needed a 78 billion euro ($101 billion) bailout in 2011.

Portugal’s worsening problems threaten to reignite the eurozone’s financial crisis .

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RBC under fire over hiring BANK DENIES IT’S EMPLOYING FOREIGN WORKERS TO REPLACE CANADIAN STAFF

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Royal Bank of Canada was scrambling to explain its hiring practices to customers Sunday after a media report claiming the bank was employing foreign workers to replace Canadian staff prompted a flood of outrage.

Canada’s largest bank (TSX:RY) said it has not hired foreign workers to take over the job functions of current employees, but said it uses external suppliers as one of its strategies to improve “operational effectiveness.”

It also said it would be “working diligently to find suitable roles for those affected,” but did not immediately respond to questions asking which of its employees were affected and in what way.

RBC said it planned to discuss the situation with government officials.

That wasn’t enough to placate a number of Canadians who took to the Internet to express their anger at what many called unfair hiring practices.

The bank’s move to clarify its hiring strategies came after a CBC News report that quoted a Toronto employee working in IT systems support for RBC Investor Services who said he and dozens of others were losing their jobs to temporary foreign workers.

Dave Moreau told the public broadcaster that he and others are being made to train the new workers who will be taking their jobs.

CBC said the foreign workers are employed by iGate Corp, a multinational outsourcing firm. The company’s website says it has offices that provide services for RBC in India.

The company’s website also indicates it provides services for TD Bank and Pratt and Whitney Canada among other international clients.

Human Resources Minister Diane Finley issued a statement saying the RBC situation is unacceptable if it is true.

RBC responded by saying it requires all its external suppliers to follow applicable hiring regulations in Canada.

“RBC agreements with suppliers, including in this case iGATE, requires them to ensure that they are abiding by the applicable laws and regulations,” Greg Grice, RBC’s head of Enterprise Services and chief procurement officer said in a statement.

“External suppliers allow us to leverage their scale and technical skills to continually improve our operational processes and service, and re-invest in initiatives that enhance the client experience.”

The bank added that it recognized the impact such an arrangement had on its employees.

“We are working diligently to find suitable roles for those affected and it is our hope over the next few months to transition them to other positions,” Zabeen Hirji, chief human resources officer said in a statement.

“RBC continues to create jobs in many areas of the organization and has a track record of retraining and redeploying our staff.”

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Michael Wilson, president and CEO of Agrium. To Agrium Inc., Jana Partners LLC is a hedge fund Hell-bent on breaking up the company, selling the parts and making a quick buck.

End is near for nasty proxy fight between Agrium, Jana partners VOTE TUESDAY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS To Agrium Inc., Jana Partners LLC is a hedge fund Hell-bent on breaking up the company, selling the parts and making a quick buck.

To Jana, Canadian fertilizer giant Agrium (TSX:AGU) is a chronic underperformer that has mismanaged its business, lacked proper board oversight and been stubbornly resistant to change.

Months of name-calling and accusations will come to an end one way or another on Tuesday, when Agrium holds its annual general meeting and shareholders vote on whether to elect Jana’s five nominees to the company’s 12-member board.

“We are confident that Agrium will prevail,” said Agrium spokesman Richard Downey.

“We look forward to putting the proxy contest behind us so we can focus our full attention on optimizing the business, helping growers feed a growing world and creating long-term value for our shareholders.”

Jana also believes the vote will go its way on Tuesday, said partner Charles Penner.

“We’re very confident based on the shareholder support that we’ve already received that highly valuable experience and enhanced shareholder focus is coming to Agrium’s board on Tuesday.”

In the waning weeks of the fight, the debate has seemed more focused on the tactics each side is using rather than bigger-picture issues around Agrium’s long-term prospects.

“At this time, we think investors should take a step back, avoid getting bogged down in the fray and examine the high-level, important issues that will last beyond the next month and truly affect Agrium’s future,” wrote RBC Capital Markets analyst Adam Schatzker in a recent report, adding that splitting the company is a bad idea and there’s nothing wrong with the status quo.

Jana has spent more than $1 billion to acquire a 7.5 per cent stake in Agrium, making the New York hedge fund, headed by Barry Rosenstein, the fertilizer company’s biggest shareholder.

The activist fund, whose campaigns have never gone as far as a shareholder vote until now, first approached Agrium in May of last year.

According to Agrium, Jana’s pitch centred around breaking up the company, spinning off its retail segment and its potash business. Agrium said its board gave fair hearing to Jana’s ideas and after a two-month review decided shareholders would be better off if it remained in one piece.

Jana, for its part, says Agrium failed to address the issues it has raised, which go beyond just its split proposal. In addition to addressing Agrium’s “conglomerate structure,” Jana also wants to see improvements in costs, controls, corporate governance and capital allocation — its so-called “5 Cs” platform.

The fight went public in August and since then, the two sides have been lobbing barbs at each other on a regular basis.

Jana has decried Agrium’s “scorched earth” approach and “thin-skinned” responses. Agrium has likened Jana to a Trojan horse, duping shareholders into allowing the company to be broken up.

Jana wants to appoint five directors to Agrium’s 12-member board, including Rosenstein and former Liberal agriculture minister Lyle Vanclief.

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Change is afoot at the big Canadian banks, as some of its top leaders near retirement age just as the economy runs into fresh challenges with the pace of growth.

Last week, TD Bank chief executive Ed Clark disclosed a succession plan that will lead to his exit in November 2014, but his move also raises questions about how the other big banks are planning for their next generation of leaders.

“Succession is always of interest, especially to shareholders,” said Dan Werner, Canadian bank analyst at Morningstar based in Chicago.

“You’re not going to see the growth that you saw five or six years ago,” he added.

Over the past few years, the Canadian banking sector has thrived on its lack of surprises, having endured the financial crisis without suffering any major stumbles and keeping its dividends reliable for investors.

Those days could be over as expectations of slower growth overtake Canadian retail banking and questions arise over where each bank will choose to turn in an attempt to drive its profits higher.

Last week, Clark told TD’s annual meeting that slower growth in the Canadian economy will pressure the sector and make it “tougher” for the bank to meet its earnings targets of seven to 10 per cent in 2013.

While the other banks haven’t shared their specific outlooks yet, the list of headwinds runs long, from high consumer debt to weakness in the housing market and a stubborn recovery in the U.S. economy.

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Entrepreneurs may be risking retirement

TALBOT BOGGS

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Entrepreneurs tend to be hardworking, independent-minded people who are so focused on developing and managing their enterprises that they actually might be putting their retirement at risk by deferring personal savings and investments and putting too much emphasis on the equity in their business to fund their retirement years.

A recent poll by TD found that while the majority of Canadian

small business owners polled who plan to sell their business will use the proceeds to fund part of their retirement, 14 per cent say they are counting solely on the sale of their business to fund their entire retirement.

This could be a risky strategy.

“While the equity in your business could potentially be a significant source of retirement income, it’s equally important to make reg-

ular contributions to build your personal investment portfolio, both as a safety net and to maximize retirement income,” said John Tracy, a senior vice-president at TD Canada Trust.

“Entrepreneurs should consider balancing the high risk investment strategy of a small business with other investment products like mutual funds or GICs.”

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RETIREMENT: Some won’t Retirement for entrepreneurs generally is a more distant concept than it is for paid salaried employees.

A survey by Investors’ Group found that almost 40 per cent of business owners plan to work until they are in their 70s and 14 per cent say they will never retire.

Another 27 per cent expect to exit the workplace between ages 65 and 69.

At some point or other, even entrepreneurs have to retire or sell or pass on the businesses they’ve worked so hard to create.

Tracy has some tips on how they can plan for a comfortable retirement and grow a small business simultaneously.

Without a guaranteed private pension, a registered savings plan (RSP) still is one of the best savings and investment vehicles available for small business owners.

“Take advantage of the benefits of tax-deferred and compound growth that an RSP offers,” Tracy recommends.

“It can be daunting to find a chunk of money to contribute to your retirement savings each year. Start small and set up a pre-authorized transfer that automatically transfers a set amount at regular intervals into your RSP.” Small business owners who draw only a small income from their businesses should consider contributing to a tax free savings account (TFSA).

It’s flexible, there’s no tax payable on any investment or income growth and, depending on the type of investment, funds can be withdrawn and then reinvested later.

Business owners also should consider using income-splitting strategies to boost their family’s retirement savings.

“If you hire your spouse you can effectively split income among family members,” Tracy said.

“This strategy allows you to shift income to family members in a lower tax bracket, reducing your family’s overall tax bill.”

“Alternatively, consider having a lower-income family member make the RSP contribution,” Tracy said.

“Choose a family member whose taxable income is low but is expected to increase in the future. Then defer deducting it until the income increases, netting a larger tax benefit.”

As well, consider issuing dividends to fund your RSP contribution. Unlike money paid as a salary, bonus or commissions, dividends often are taxed at a lower rate, allowing for great yearend RSP contribution room. Any tax refund realized as a result of the RSP contribution can be funneled back into investments.

Retiring is difficult for most entrepreneurs. According to the Investors Group survey, 60 per cent of business owners/operators still want to be involved after they retire either as a financial adviser or mentor, a consultant or a member of the organization’s board of directors.

Regardless, they should get some expert advice.

“A small business adviser at your bank can help you develop a financial plan to build a thriving business today and your financial advisor can help you develop an investment plan for a comfortable retirement in the years ahead,” Tracy 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.

RBC: Boycott urged Some Canadians called for a boycott of RBC on Sunday.

One blogger urged offended customers to transfer their business to other institutions. Some commenting on blogger Norm Farrell’s post said they planned to cancel their accounts.

On Facebook, a “Boycott Royal Bank of Canada” group — which received 350 “likes” by mid Sunday afternoon —called on customers to voice their discontent by writing to the prime minister and his cabinet.

“The temporary foreign worker thing I think is really designed to help out big corporations. They’re stealing jobs from us and attempting to lower the average wage in Canada,” said Jennifer Ridge, a student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., who was one of the people co-ordinating the Facebook group.

Ridge said she planned to close her RBC account in the near future.

When asked about the government’s response to the RBC report, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s office referred questions to Finley’s office.

Finley said her department would be working with Citizenship and Immigration Canada to determine next steps regarding the claims against RBC. “We have recently learned of allegations that RBC could be replacing Canadian workers by contracting with iGate, which is filling some of the roles with temporary foreign workers. If true, this situation is unacceptable,” Finley said in her statement.

“Canada is experiencing significant skills and labour shortages in many re-

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gions. When there are jobs available, Canadians must always be the first in line for opportunities from employers who are hiring.”

Meanwhile, the United Steel Workers, which was among those voicing its disapproval of RBC, said the entire temporary foreign worker program and the government’s handling of it, needed to change.

“They have to re-look at this entire program and do it right. No one’s opposed to workers coming to this country, but not the way they’re doing it, not the way they’re treating people,” said USW National Director Ken Neuman.

“If you’re going to bring workers to this country, if they’re good enough to work here, our position is they should also be able to transition and become permanent residents.”

The USW added that it was ready to assist RBC workers and represent them in legal matters as needed.

In 2012, there were more than 213,000 foreign workers in Canada, compared with over 160,000 immigrants who arrived under the federal skilled worker program.

The rapid growth of the temporary foreign worker program has raised concerns that Canadian companies are filling job vacancies with cheaper workers from overseas rather than actively finding Canadians to fill the jobs.

Much of the government’s latest budget, released in March, focused on reversing that trend, with millions being allocated for training and job creation programs.

At the same time, the government is continuing to overhaul the temporary foreign worker program.

The changes were prompted in part by a continuing controversy in B.C. surrounding a mining firm allowed to bring in foreign labour after insisting that a requirement to speak Mandarin meant it couldn’t find Canadians to fill their jobs.

The budget said that’s no longer going to be an excuse and also said employers will have to advertise longer and farther to find Canadians to fill jobs before looking overseas.

In late February, RBC reported a first-quarter profit of $2.07 billion, or $1.36 per share, up from $1.86 billion, or $1.23 a share, a year ago.

Its revenue grew to $7.91 billion, from $7.57 billion a year earlier.

AGRIUM: Changes sought To address what it sees as a lack of retail distribution expertise on the board, it also wants to appoint David Bullock, Stephen Clark and Mitchell Jacobson, who had leadership roles at UAP, Brenntag and MSC, respectively.

In February, Agrium appointed former Viterra CEO Mayo Schmidt and former John Deere & Co. executive David Everitt to the board, but Jana was not satisfied.

Around that time Agrium and Jana had come close to calling a truce, but it fell apart at the last minute. Each blames the other for the deal’s failure.

In the weeks since, Agrium and Jana have been quarelling about how Agrium’s long-term share price performance ought to be measured and compared with its peers. Each is accusing the other of torqing the numbers.

The two firms have also been attacking one another’s integrity. Agrium accuses Jana of putting its director nominees on “golden leashes” — offering them financial incentives based on Agrium’s share-price performance over 30 months — that call into question their independence and commitment to Agrium’s long-term performance.

So far, four institutional shareholders have said publicly they intend to side with Agrium: Alberta fund manager AIMCo, B.C. fund manager bcIMC, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Letko, Brosseau and Associates.

BANKS: Big challenges ahead “You’ve got natural slowing of growth in your core business, you’ve got a highly leveraged customer ... and you’ve got very few switches to pull to allocate capital on a cost-effective basis and feel comfortable it will return,” said Stonecap Securities analyst Brad Smith.

“Those are pretty big challenges for incoming CEOs.” TD Bank (TSX:TD) appears to be embarking on its next chapter with an incredible amount of caution. The bank launched an 18-month transition period that will ease Bharat Masrani into the CEO role, even though he’s been at the bank in various roles for 25 years.

Masrani has been in the eye of the financial storm as head of TD’s U.S. operations for the past seven years, when he helped grow the bank’s presence in the New England and the U.S. northeastern and mid-Atlantic states mostly through acquisitions.

Other Canadian banks could fall in lockstep by looking outside the Canadian executive ranks to find their next CEOs, Werner said.

“It’s a clear signal, from the boards at least, that this is where they see the company moving in terms of growth,” he said.

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Demonstrators protest with posters of journalists Anastasia Baburova killed in 2009, left, and of Anna Politkovskaya killed in 2006, outside the Congress centrum in Hanover, were German chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin were expected to meet and to deliver speeches at the Hannover Industrial Fair Sunday. Words at right on the posters read : Killed.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HANNOVER, Germany — Russian President Vladimir Putin was expected to hold talks with German officials during a visit here Sunday on differences over Cyprus’ financial crisis and concerns about the Kremlin’s crackdown on civil society organizations.

Germany is Russia’s No. 3 trade partner, but ties have become increasingly strained recently over the Kremlin’s heavy-handed response to opposition groups, differences over the Syrian crisis and other issues.

The Cyprus crisis, which has badly bruised Russian investors, has become the latest irritant, and it is expected to figure high on the agenda of Putin’s talks Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hannover, where the two leaders will attend a trade fair Monday.

Before the meeting, several dozen people protested outside the Hannover convention centre against the Russian government.

Merkel told German ARD television in Hannover on the sidelines of the trade fair’s opening ceremony on Sunday night that while the two countries had close economic relations, “our political talks will also incorporate controversial topics.”

Speaking to ARD television before the visit, Putin harshly criticized the tax on bank deposits introduced by Cypriot authorities as condition for a 10 billion euro ($12.8 billion) bailout from international lenders. Savers with more than 100,000 euros at the Bank of Cyprus could face losses of up to 60 per cent on their savings as part of the rescue deal.

Russian depositors, who hold as much as 20 billion euros ($26 billion) in Cypriot banks, are expected to be among those who will suffer most.

“Is that fair, that people invested

their funds, merely deposited their money with banks without breaking any laws, whether the laws of Cyprus or those of the European Union, just to see 60 per cent of their deposits forfeited?” Putin asked. He added that the Cypriot move “undermines the credibility of the banking system of the entire eurozone.”

Putin angrily rejected allegations that Cyprus had become a “laundry for dirty money” from Russia, saying that such claims have to be proven and that the EU has allowed the creation of an offshore zone on Cyprus and other places in Europe.

“If you consider such zones a bad thing, then close them,” Putin said.

“Why do you shift responsibility for all problems that have arisen in Cyprus to investors irrespective of their nationality?”

Despite the hard rhetoric, Russia has turned down Cyprus’ plea for financial assistance, submitting to the EU’s demand to stay away as it negotiates a bailout. The Kremlin’s careful stance on the crisis reflected its reluctance to risk a falling out with the EU, its main trading partner, and with Germany in particular.

Merkel is seeking a third term in September elections, and Germany has argued that it was right for big investors to contribute to the rescue of Cyprus. Merkel said after the deal that a “fair sharing of the burden” was achieved.

Along with Russian grievances about Cyprus, Putin’s talks with Merkel could brush upon the Russian government’s crackdown on non-governmental organizations, which Putin sees as tools for Western interference in Russia’s domestic affairs.

He has accused the U.S. of instigating large street protests against his reelection to a third term in March 2012, and launched a sweeping crackdown on dissent since his inauguration.

Stocks in for cautious week THE CANADIAN PRESS The Toronto stock market could be in for further selling pressure this week after a dismal string of sessions after weak jobs data from Canada and the U.S. raised worries about economic recovery while traders braced for the start of a flood of first quarter U.S. earnings reports.

The TSX tumbled 3.27 per cent last week, erasing all gains for the year to date and then some.

The rot started early in the week with Chinese purchasing managers index data that failed to meet expectations, followed by other data showing slower than expected expansion in the American manufacturing and service sectors.

The weak was capped by reports showing the Canadian economy shed 55,000 jobs — all full time — in March.

“It’s not a surprise from that context to see the Toronto market underperforming,” said Andrew Pyle, investment adviser at ScotiaMcLeod in Peterborough, Ont. “I think it’s surprising for people to see the extent of the underperformance (where) you can wipe out the progress that you’ve made for the entire year.”

And in the U.S., the economy only managed to crank out 88,000 jobs last month amid reduced expectations after payroll firm ADP had delivered a worse than expected assessment of private sector job creation.

“It was very discouraging and many people were caught off guard with how bad it was,” said John Stephenson, portfolio manager at First Asset Funds Inc. The report also indicated that a non-stop rally on American markets that took the benchmark S&P 500 up more than 10 per cent since the first of the year is due for a pause.

And that could come as a bit of a relief to traders worried about the pace of the strong rally on American markets,

based on a steady run of positive economic news — particularly a resurgent housing sector — and continued stimulus measures from the U.S. Federal Reserve.

“If you’re sitting in cash or if you’ve been scared or if you have been a typical long only investor, institutional or otherwise, you probably felt you had to hold your nose and buy stocks as the market went higher,” said Stephenson.

“And now I think for many people, it’s a welcome change.”

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Veterinary checkups for cats a necessity (MS) Some people prefer cats, while others’ loyalty lies with dogs. Dogs and cats have different personalities, which is what draws people to them for one reason or another. Though different, cats and dogs alike need to visit the veterinarian for routine checkups. Still, it seems dogs head to the vet more frequently than cats.

Organizations like the American Association of Feline Practitioners and others have uncovered the disparity in care among dogs and cats. Cats are less likely to receive veterinary healthcare than dogs, as research shows that cats make up about one-quarter of patients at small animal veterinary clinics.

Cats have long been second to dogs as the most popular pet. But cats may be edging out dogs as the preferred pet, particularly because they seem to need less attention and maintenance. But these same qualities that make them attractive pets could be putting their health at risk. Cats that tend to fend for themselves act aloof and may not give their owners any indication that they are sick. As a result, pet owners can become complacent about cat care, simply because they don’t spend as much time with cats as they may with a dog.

Veterinarians point out that dogs are an “in-your-face” kind of pet. People tend to interact more with their dogs by taking them for walks and playing with them. So it’s more noticeable when something is not right with a dog. Cats, however, are more stoic. When they don’t feel well, cats will run away and hide.

Changing vaccine schedules for many animals may also affect how often cats visit the vet. Immunizations have changed so that some shots can be offered every two or three years instead of annually.

Therefore, pet owners may not see the need to visit the vet unless the animal is due for a shot. This can put a cat at risk because it is usually during routine exams when vets uncover something that the pet owner may not have noticed on his or her own.

Veterinarians urge cat owners to remember that every year that passes for a cat is equivalent to several years for a person, making it imperative for cats to receive wellness examinations, including laboratory testing, once a year. Healthy senior cats should be examined once every six months, as illnesses and changes in an older cat’s health can progress quickly.

What to expect at a cat’s wellness exam

A veterinarian will go over a number of things at an annual wellness visit. Here is a list of some things to expect.

• discussion of the animal’s medical history • testing of the cat’s stool • examination of the cat’s nose and nasal pas-

Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital offers veterinary care for all aspect of your pet’s health from the day they are conceived. Under the knowledgeable guidance of Dr. Ken Hubbard, Cedarwood offers reproductive services such as facility testing, canine semen collection and storage, ovulation timing, vaginal, transcervical and surgical insemination, pregnancy ultrasound and radiology as well as caesarian sections. From the first visit as a puppy Dr. Ken Hubbard or one of his associates Dr. Dixon, Dr. Schuouten, Dr. Loewen, Dr. Keys, Dr. Reid and Dr. Copeland are available to provide complete veterinary care for your pet.

Should your dog or cat develop challenges with their skin, Dr. Tara Dixon has a special interest in skin disorders. Dr. Dixon will do consultations for skin problems to work with you to diagnose and treat the underlying condition. Dr. Schouten and Dr. Dixon do behavioral consultations to advise you on any unwanted behaviours in your dog or cat respectively. Dr. Schouten has been involved in the sport of dog agility and obedience for the last 20 years. She is also certified canine rehabilitation therapist.

Dr. Loewen, Dr. Reid and Dr. Copeland enjoy the many facets of general veterinary practice with special interest in dentistry, ophthalmology, internal medicine and diagnostics. All of the doctors at Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital perform soft tissue surgical services with Dr. Hubbard especially enjoying orthopedic surgery. Dr. Graham Keys, a specialist in Veterinary Surgery LA has significant advance training in small animal orthopedic and soft tissue surgery.

Digital radiology, ultrasound, endoscopy, advanced surgical equipment and anesthetic monitoring assist the veterinarians and staff in providing excellence in veterinary care. Like most veterinary care facilities, our mission at Cedarwood Veterinary Hospital is to improve the health, wellness and quality of life of your pet by providing exceptional veterinary care and services in a kind and compassionate manner. The veterinarians and staff at Cedarwood are passionate about providing veterinary care for your pet as we know you are passionate about having a healthy pet in your life.

sages for signs of infection • examination of the gums, teeth and tongue ngu gue e • examination of the ears to check for mites or any discharge • examination of the eyes es • examination of the body for parasites or skin disease • examination to determine if there are any abnormal growths or tenderness.

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Animal Emergency Services provide critical care for your pets

By Dr. Ken Hubbard When pets experience an unfortunate accident or sickness after hours it can be a very challenging and difficult time. Often it is during the evenings or weekends when pets are out exercising with their owners that injuries or trauma events happen. Other times owners arrive home from work to find their family pet experiencing some difficulties when their regular veterinary clinic is closed. Traditionally, each veterinary clinic in a community provided on call services for their regular clients with an answering service. If an emergency occurred, the veterinarian on call would arrange to meet the client at their regular veterinary clinic and provide basic care as needed.

A number of years ago, veterinary emergency hospitals began to open in large urban centers.

These hospitals are fully staffed and equipped to provide after hours emergency and critical care.

Until recently, Calgary and Edmonton were the only two communities in Alberta with an animal emergency hospital. In 2010, the Red Deer and surrounding community was privileged with the opening of its own veterinary emergency and critical care hospital, Animal Emergency Services.

After a significant amount of planning and the enthusiastic support from a majority of Central Alberta veterinary clinics, Animal Emergency Services opened. Since its beginning, Animal Emergency Services has continued to grow - enhancing its list of sophisticated equipment, expanding staff and adding to the list of affiliated veterinary hospitals.

Many of the staff veterinarians have advanced training and experience in various areas such as emergency and critical care, surgery, reproduction, endoscopy, and ultrasound. Along with support staff who are trained and experienced in dealing with emergencies, veterinarians at Animal Emergency Services are capable of dealing with cases from minor emergencies to complicated and critical care situations. Animal Emergency Services is available for telephone advice to determine if a pet should be examined, examinations to assess the seriousness of a situation as well as being available for all obvious pet emergencies.

Animal Emergency Services, located on the north end of Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer, is staffed and open for emergencies every evening, over night, weekends and holidays. During the weekdays, it provides on going diagnostics, treatment and care for hospitalized pets. While not necessary, it is helpful to phone ahead 403-347-3277 before arriving so theycan prepare and facilitate the best care for your pet.

What can pet owners do when faced with a potential emergency? Contacting Animal Emergency Services with as much information as possible greatly assists in providing the appropriate care. In cases of accidental ingestion of products or

pharmaceuticals, documenting the exact name and amount of the product such as the type of chocolate and the weight consumed or the prescription name with the potential number of pills ingested is very helpful. Injured pets need to be restrained, kept warm and handled carefully by their owners to avoid an accidental human bite.

External bleeding can generally be managed and controlled by applying pressure with a clean, moistened cloth till arriving at Animal Emergency Services. Having a detailed history of the frequency and amount of vomiting, urinations, bowel movements as well as information related to appetite, location of potential pain and medications if being treated for an existing condition is very helpful.

Moving into its third year of operation Animal Services is proud to be part of the Central Alberta veterinary community and looks forward to continue providing excellence in emergency and critical care for Central Alberta pets.

Animal Emergency Services are capable of dealing with cases from minor emergencies to complicated and critical care situations

Therapeutic Laser Use in Canine Rehabilitation

By Dr. Dagmar Schouten Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist Canine rehabilitation is a growing area in veterinary medicine that focuses on treating pets with injuries, post-operative healing needs or aging changes such as arthritis. The goals of canine rehabilitation include reducing pain and inflammation, increasing muscle strength, improving joint health and returning the patient to function.

Several modalities are used to achieve these goals. They include: hot and cold therapy, therapeutic laser and ultrasound, e-stim, therapeutic exercise programs and underwater treadmill.

Therapeutic Laser (Light Amplification by the Stimulated Emission of Radiation) is used in human physiotherapy for treating similar conditions to our canine counterparts. The type of laser used in rehabilitation is also referred to as a cold or therapeutic laser as opposed to the “hot” surgical lasers used to make incisions.

Therapeutic laser therapy is used to increase the speed and quality of tissue repair, decrease inflammation and give pain relief.

Wavelengths of light in the infra-red range of 780-830nm are commonly used to treat acute muscle injuries to more chronic conditions such as arthritis. The pets are comfortable during the laser treatment and can often be held by their owner during the treatment.

Often after a few laser treatments pets show an improved quality of life.

Some of the more common conditions treated with therapeutic laser in small animal medicine include: post-operative cruciate disease, arthritis of the hips, knees and elbows, wounds, lick granulomas and feline interstitial cystitis. In many cases an exercise program is also recommend that focuses on strengthening the affected areas, so that the pet has the best chance at returning to function, such as retrieving balls and playing with their canine friends.

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HEALTHY PETS Happy pets (MS) Rather than open their home to a dog or cat, some people would prefer a different type of companion animal. Some peruse the pet store and an d be beco come me ena namo more red d wi with th the whi hisk sker ered ed fac ace e of a guinea pig. But before making an impulse purchase, it’s wise to research the needs of guinea pigs to determine if one would be the right fit in your home.

Larger than hamsters and smaller than bunnies, guinea pigs seem the ideal pet for someone looking for a small animal that doesn’t r quir requ re quire ire e a lo lott of rroom oom oo m or c constant onst on stan antt at attention atte tent ntio ion n.

A ccording to veteran rescuer Vicki Palmer N ielsen of the Jack Pine Guinea Pig Rescue in Stacy,

Minnesota, even prospective pet owners who do their homework do not always understand what it is like to live with guinea pigs. Guinea pigs requ re quir ire e at atte tent ntio ion n an and d ar are e no nott th the e ty type pe of pe pett th that at will simply sit around and be content all day.

There are things prospective guinea pig owners should know before beginning the adoption process.

What is a guinea pig?

Guiinea ea piigss are not no from om New ew Guine iinea, nor are they a variation on the pig. They are me embers of a family of rodents called caviidae, abbrreviated to cavy, which are native to South America. This rodent family has fewer mem mbers than most other rodent families. C Cavys have short, heavy bodies and larrge heads.

Guinea pig gs,, like other c cavies, are herbi bivores, meaniing th the ey feed d on grasses and leaves.

Guinea pigs may y measure 8 to 10 inches in length and weigh between 1 to 3 pounds. For a ro odent, they are relatively llarge, and they can live a anywhere from 4 to 8 years.

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Guinea pigs should also be allowed out of their cages each day. They should be able to stretch thei th eirr le legs gs and exp xplo lore re. Da Dail ily y so soci cial aliz izat atio ion n an and d interaction is also necessary to help a guinea pig become less skittish and accustomed to handling.

The cage will need to be thoroughly cleaned once a week, and may need to be spot cleaned every few days. As with other rodents, urine and feces will buildup in the bedding of a cage and become quite smelly if not maintained.

Guin Gu inea ea p ig igss al also so n ee eed d we week ekly ly o r da dail ily y grooming depending on the length of their fur.

Routine nail clipping and ear cleaning are also recommended.

It is important to note that guinea pigs are social animals and may do well and be most happy with another guinea pig. Therefore, you may want to have two cavies of the same sex kept toge to geth ther er, wh whic ich h do doub uble less th the e am amou ount nt of up upke keep ep.

Guinea pigs and children Many guinea pigs are purchased as pets for children. In general, a guinea pig should be reserved for a child age six or older. Guinea pigs have small bones and they can be easily crush hed d or injur j ed d if dropped d. Careffull handl dliing is a necessity, so only capable children should be trusted with carrying or holding the guinea pig.

Through constant, gentle handling, the guinea pig will become tame quite easily. Although unlikely, during extremely stressful situations a guinea pig could scratch or bite.

S ome ad d ult lts and d chil h ild d ren are all llergi gic t o guinea pigs, so it is important to determine if there is an allergy present before buying or adopting an animal.

Guinea pigs can make wonderful pets for families who have the financial ability, time and p tience to care for these delicate animals. pa

Simple ways to keep your pet healthy (MS) A healthy pet is a happy pet, and responsible pet owners know that their beloved pets’ health rests largely on the owners’ shoulders.

Ensuring a pet is healthy over the long haul can be quite simple. While some pets may develop medical conditions that require more attention, the following are a few simply ways pet owners can keep their pets healthy.

Prioritize vaccinations.

Vaccinations can protect a pet from a host of ailments, including rabies, distemper and Lyme disease.

New pet owners who adopted a pet from a rescue organization should get documentation about the animal’s past vaccinations (certified kennels typically provide such documentation at the time of adoption). If there is no such documentation or if there are documents showing the pet received certain vaccinations but not necessarily all of its vaccinations,

take the pet to the veterinarian and have the animal receive those vaccinations that aren’t documented.

Spay or neuter the pet.

The SPCA notes that spaying or neutering a pet is a preventive measure that can help a pet in the long haul. Spaying, or removing the ovaries and uterus of a female dog or cat, can prevent diseases, such as breast cancer and pyometra, as well as infection and keep the animal from going into heat. Neutering a male a dog or cat before it reaches six months can reduce the likelihood that the animal will behave aggressively while helping to prevent testicular cancer, diseases of the prostate and hernias.

Help the pet fight heartworm.

Heartworm isn’t easy to treat, but it is easily prevented. Cat owners

should speak to their veterinarian about heartworm and the best course of action, as cats are less likely to develop heartworm than dogs, who are natural hosts for the infection.

Dogs should be tested for heartworm annually in the early spring, and the veterinarian might prescribe a preventive medication the dog will take once per month. How long the dog must take the medication depends on the dog and the veterinarian, but dog owners should heed the vet’s advice.

discuss a proper exercise regimen with your veterinarian. Cats need exercise, too, and cat owners should also discuss the specifics with their vet.

Get your pet off the couch.

Humans should not be couch potatoes, and neither should their pets. Regular exercise burns calories while increasing muscle mass and improving cardiovascular strength. Dog owners should know that how much exercise their dog needs depends on its breed, age, sex and physical condition, so

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Jean (John) LaPorte Aug. 28, 1959 - April 8, 2012 I thought of you with love today but that is nothing new.

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Personals

720

Clerical

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

CLASSIFICATIONS

COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-304-1207 (Pager)

50-70

Coming Events

52

EAST 40TH PUB SPECIALS

Tuesday & Saturday’s Rib Night Wednesday Wing Night Thursdays Shrimp Night

54

Lost

REWARD OFFERED LADIES watch silver with diamonds lost at Parkland Mall. 403-843-2031

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Found

FOUND: Tire tools along the side of the road.

Please call 403-318-6061 to identify.

SET OF KEYS, silver found on trail between 32 St. & Spruce Dr. Call 403-358-3820 to claim.

Companions

58

55 YEAR old single M. would like to meet the same 18 - 55. Reply to Box 1039, c/o R. D. Advocate, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

Clerical

Oilfield

800

Restaurant/ Hotel

Making a Difference

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The Central Alberta AIDS Network Society is the local charity that offers support to individuals who are infected or affected by HIV and provides prevention and education throughout Central Alberta.

jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

Clerical

720

BOOKKEEPER/ DATA ENTRY

Local industrial supply company is looking for a bookkeeper. Please fax resume to 403-342-0233

FULL-TIME REAL ESTATE CONVEYANCING POSITION

Are you looking for a change and have a minimum of 5 years office administration experience.

Knowledge and comfort working with numbers and accurate data entry a huge asset. Please forward resume via mail in confidence to: Patrick Galesloot, Century 21 Advantage, #905, 4747 - 67 Street, Red Deer, AB T4N 6H3 or via e-mail at patrick.galesloot@ century21.ca

770

CAANS is looking for p/t front line worker interested in Harm Reduction and HIV Prevention . for more information, www.caans.org OFFICE manager req’d for Clive area trucking company.

Knowledge of trucking industry and general knowledge of maintenance an asset but willing to train.

Exc. wages/benefits. Fax resume to 403-784-2330 or call toll free 1-877-787-2501

Sales & Distributors

830

PRODUCTION TESTING PERSONNEL REQ’D

850

TRUE POWER ELECTRIC Requires

QUALIFIED 3rd and 4th yr.

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS With Residential roughin exp. Competitive wages & benefits.

Fax resume to: 403-314-5599

Truckers/ Drivers

860

BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net DO you want regular home times, dedicated truck, a company that cares, benefits, exc. wages, safety bonus, year round steady work? We are looking for CLASS 1 drivers for flat deck work. Must know your cargo securement, be hard working and enjoy driving as you visit the 4 western provinces. Please contact 1-877-787-2501 or fax resume to 1-855-784-2330 DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 SEMI RETIRED? SPRING BREAK UP? Seasonal drivers req’d. for local fertilizer dellivery.

Clean Class 3 license req’d., AG exp. an asset.

Call 403-588-0956.

EMAIL: benaltoag@ benaltoag.com

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880

ADULT & YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED for delivery of Flyers Red Deer Express & Red Deer Life Sunday in GRANDVIEW MORRISROE MOUNTVIEW WEST PARK Call Karen for more info 403-314-4317

850

Your application will be kept strictly confidential.

Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Hotel

820

CORK’D Taphouse and Grill now hiring p/t dishwashers and prep cooks.

We will train. Please apply within.

830

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best 50 Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION MECHANIC

FULL TIME SALES POSITION

(Red Deer Area)

The ideal candidate will have the following:

One of Alberta’s premium used vehicle operations is looking for a full-time sales consultant.

Experience is an asset, but not a requirement.

Contact Wayne or Daryl at 403-227-4456 for an interview. Or send your resume to wkarach@truckranch.ca

Journeymen Instrumentation Mechanic Experience with Maintenance and/or plant facility work CSTS A team player Excellent communication skills

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

Here’s what we offer: • Large Inventory – 2 locations to sell from • Flexible Hours • Excellent Reputation • Excellent Pay Structure • Excellent Benefit Plan

Please Note: This job posting closes on April 21st, 2013

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Trades

850

Immediate Positions Available

Office Assistant

KFC/Peacock Inn #1, 4971 Phelan Street Red Deer, AB T4P 3Z4 Fax: 403.341.3820 Email: kfcgals@shawbiz.ca

850

760

720

Please submit resumes and references to:

Trades

*HIRING ALL POSITIONS CUSTOM MUFFLER (ESPECIALLY COOKS!)* Looking for apprentice or Meadowlands Golf Club in journeyman mechanic.

Sylvan Lake is hiring!

Pipe bending skills would - COOKS be a great asset. Wages SERVICE RIG - Proshop depend on exp. Going Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd - Maintenance concern shop. Fax is seeking a DRILLER. - Backshop resume to:403-346-9909 Locally based, home every night! - Marshals or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. Qualified applicants must - Food and Beverage Phone 403-346-7911 have all necessary valid E-mail your resume to tickets for the position Buying or Selling info@ being applied for. your home? meadowlandssylvanlake.

Bearspaw offers a Check out Homes for Sale com and state preferred very competitive salary in Classifieds position. Look forward to and benefits package hearing from you!

Eagle Builders is expandalong with a steady ing its facility to double LOOKING for exp’d waitwork schedule.

Duties will include some production. We are curress with liquor license, p/t Please submit resumes: Secretarial and knowledge rently seeking the following or f/t 403-342-5555 Attn: Human Resources of Word and Excel to join our team in Email: hr@ programs.

LUAU Investments Ltd. Blackfalds for all shifts: bearspawpet.com Competitive pay and group (O/A Tim Hortons) * Concrete Finishers Fax: (403) 258-3197 or plan benefits.

Food Counter Attendant Mail to: Suite 5309, * General Labourers E-mail resume with F/T shift work (open 24 hrs) 333-96 Ave. NE Top Wages paid based on references to: Must be avail. weekends Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 experience. Full Benefits darcya442@gmail.com. $11.00 per hour. and Uniform Package 4217 - 50 Ave. included. Visit our website 6721 - 50 Ave. for more detailed job Hair 7111 - 50 Ave. descriptions at www. timhire@telus.net Stylists eaglebuilders.ca. Applicants are able to apply SERVICE RIG URBAN IMAGE online or fax resumes to Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd Human Resources is seeking an exp’d HAIR CO. 403 885 5516 or e-mail: FLOORHAND requires stylist, HR@eaglebuilders.ca.

Locally based, home every commission & chair rental. night! Qualified applicants Call 403-314-4288 EMPLOYMENT must have all necessary OPPORTUNITIES Looking for a place valid tickets for the position CENTRAL CITY ASPHALT LTD. to live? being applied for.

LUCKY’S LOUNGE Take a tour through the Bearspaw offers a located in Jackpot Casino, Dozer Operator CLASSIFIEDS very competitive salary requires Experienced Class 1 & 3 Drivers and benefits package F/T Servers. along with a steady Tractor Operators Please apply in person at work schedule.

4950 47 Ave. Loader Operator Janitorial Please submit resumes: No phone calls please Labourers Attn: Human Resources WELL established 250 Flag People Email: seat bar and grill in Red hr@bearspawpet.com Deer now looking for a Fax resume: 403-885-5137 Fax: (403) 258-3197 or chef or kitchen manager.

Email resume: Mail to: Suite 5309, possibilities for sweat equity office@ccal.com 333-96 Ave. NE options. Great opportunity Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 OPPORTUNITIES FOR for enthusiastic applicants.

Something for Everyone Please send resume to EMPLOYMENT WTIH TJ CCCSI is hiring sanitation PAVING. Looking for workers for the afternoon Everyday in Classifieds Box 1040, c/o R. D. AdvoExp`d Class 1 Driver to and evening shifts. Get cate, 2950 Bremner Ave., move equipment and haul TREELINE paid weekly, $14.22/hr.

Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9 material. Exp`d Asphalt Call 403-348-8440 or fax WELL SERVICES Roller Operator. Exp`d 403-348-8463 X-STATIC Has Opening for all Skid Steer Operator. Comp.

IS NOW ACCEPTING positions!

Wages. Great working You can sell your guitar APPLICATIONS FOR Immediately. All applicants for a song... atmosphere. FAX Resume must have current H2S, Experienced P/T or put it in CLASSIFIEDS to 403-346-8404 or email Class 5 with Q EndorseCocktails Servers & and we’ll sell it for you! tjpaving@hotmail.com ment, First Aid Door Security We offer competitive PIKE WHEATON Apply in person after 3 pm. wages & excellent beneCHEVROLET fits. Please include 2 work is currently accepting Oilfield reference names and resumes for Sales & numbers SERVICE ADVISOR Please fax resume to : Distributors POSITION. 403-264-6725 Must have good communiOr email to: cation skills and have the CUSTOM Energized Air is tannis@treelinewell.com ability to work indepena leader in compressed air No phone calls please. dently or with a group.. technology and requires an Outside Sales Rep Excellent company benefits.

Please submit resume in for our solutions driven person along with wage sales team. Experience in expectations to Joey. air compressors and pneumatics a definite asset, but will train the Wise Intervention right candidate. Base + Services Inc. commission + mileage + is now hiring for the benefits. For Red Deer & following positions: area. Apply: RETIREMENT & del.trynchuk@cea-air.com * Downhole Tool Supervisors SAVINGS PLAN SIDING INSTALLER * Coil Tubing Rig Managers BENEFITS with or without trailer & COMPETITIVE WAGES * Crane Truck Operators tools. F.T. year round * Nitrogen Pump Operators Trades work, must have truck and * Fluid Pump Operators 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 * Mechanics per sq.ft. 403-358-8580 CRIBBER & LABORERS WATER WELL DRILLING wanted. Start Tuesday Competitive wages and COMPANY IN BENTLEY benefits. Priority given to April 9. 4 - 5 wks work in REQ’S EXPERIENCED Red Deer. Wage negoapplicants with relevant WATER WELL e x p e r i e n c e , C l a s s 1 tiable. Contact Kristian @ Experienced 403-588-1581 Drivers license and valid DRILLERS HELPER Day Supervisors oilfield tickets. with class 3, air. All safety LOOKING for Experience. tickets required.

Carpenter with farm & Wise is a leading oilfield Night Supervisors services provider that is metal bldgs. 403-318-6406 Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town. committed to quality and LOOKING for Framers/ Fax resume with drivers Must be able to provide truck safety excellence. By em- carpenters 403-357-9816 abstract: 403-748-3015 powering positive attitudes, Please send resume to beliefs, perceptions and 403-340-0886 values, our employees or email: care for the success of one Trades pnieman@ another. cathedralenergyservices.com Please forward all resumes to: jobs@wiseisi.com or by website: fax to 403-340-1046 www. cathedralenergyservices.

Restaurant/ com

• • • • •

Required for busy office. This is a permanent part time to three quarter time position with occasional full time hours. The successful candidate will be skilled in accounts payable, payroll, balancing the bank, GST and Excel. Other duties to include general reception, answering phones, and filing.

820

RECEPTIONIST

800

Advocate Subscribers Please assist our Advocate carriers

WHAT’S HAPPENING

720

Needed for an Automobile Dealership in Red Deer.

Full-time position.

Experience operating a multi-line switchboard and greeting customers in a cheerful manner.

Manage an organized reception area.

Work in the Sales area and redirect calls for Service and Parts and Body Shop.

Office duties such as fax, photocopy and printer.

Familiar with e-mail.

In Memoriam

Frank Holman - Architect Dec. 11, 1924 - April 1, 2013 Frank Thompson Holman, 88, was born, raised and died in Calgary. Predeceased by his five siblings; his wife Freda (Dietiker 1977) and son Bruce (2004). Survived and missed by his son Lorne; daughter-in-law Tara McCullough and grandson Stephen. Also survived by his ex-companion Helen Conley who moved to Ottawa in 2012. Frank was a WWII pilot, married Freda Sept 3/47 and worked as an architect in Ottawa and Red Deer. He was a long time Rotarian, glider pilot and GREAT dad. MANY thanks to Lawrence and Myrna Jensen, Rich Ritchie, Cindy Huber, Dr. Raymond Hulyk and others.

Tribute service, Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. at Gaetz United Church, 4758 Ross St., Red Deer. Internet video tribute to follow. Please Google “Frank Thompson Holman Tribute 2013”. In lieu of flowers, please donate to any Rotary Club. Messages of condolence may be forward to the family at www.piersons.ca.

Cremation and arrangements are in care of PIERSON’S FUNERAL SERVICE, CALGARY Telephone 403-235-3602

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STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Leanne Colby Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: lcolby@studon.com “People Pride & Service”

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Fax: 403-341-4772

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, April 8, 2013

880

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life in

Clearview Area Castle Crsc.

Clark Crsc. & Crawford St. $155/mo.

Timberlands Area Talson Place, Thomas Place Trimble Place, Traptow Place Timberstone Way $152/mo.

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.

Lancaster Area East half of Lampard Crsc. $61/mo.

ALSO Landry Bend Lacey Close & Lenon Close area $76/mo.

Good for adult with small car.

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

NO EXP. NECESSARY!!

F.T. position available IMMEDIATELY in hog assembly yard in Red Deer. Starting wage $12/hr. Call Rich or Paul 403-346-6934

UNC

Michener Area West of 40th Ave. North Ross St. to 52 Street. $236/monthly

4 days/wk Flyers & Sun. Life IN PINES Patterson Cres. & Pamley Ave.

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE AND EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA

Carriers Needed

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

Riverside Meadows Morning delivery 6 days /wk by 6:30 a.m.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306 info

BOWER AREA Baile Close Boyce St./ Byer Close Barrett Dr/ Beatty Crsc..

Brown Cl./Baird St Barrett Dr./Baird St INGLEWOOD AREA

Illingworth Close

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308 BATTERY DOCTORS Exp. not req’d but heavy lifting is involved, mechanical skills an asset. Hours: Mon. to Fri. 8-5. Apply in person at 1, 4801 78 St. No phone calls please.

F/T SYNIK CLOTHING, Gasoline Alley. Exc. hours.

Exc. pay, based on exp.

Apply w/resume in person.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr

Currently seeking Newspaper carrier for morning delivery

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Crsc

6 DAYS PER WK. ( Monday - Saturday)

VANIER AREA

in the town of Olds Earn $500+ for hour and a half per day.

Must have own vehicle.

18+ Needed ASAP

Viscount Dr./ Voisin Crsc Valentine Crsc.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info

Call Quitcy 403-314-4316 qmacaulay@

********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 314-4300

reddeer advocate.com FULL TIME MAINTENANCE AND LABOUR PERSON REQUIRED ASAP. Knowledge of Plumbing, Electrical, Carpentry, Painting.

Must have own tools, own vehicle an asset with valid drivers license.

Monday - Friday 8 - 5.

Come and join our team.

Please fax resume 403-346-1086

BEN

Duties include: - Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow Attributes: - Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

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Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

FULL TIME SPRAY FOAM APPLICATOR

Employment Training

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: • Must have a valid driver’s license (Class 3 Preferable but not mandatory) • Previous Industrial Spray Foam Application Required • Pride in their work and generate high quality workmanship • Willingness to work evenings & weekends • Willingness to work out of town for short period of times.

RED DEER WORKS Build A Resume That Works!

APPLY ONLINE www.lokken.com/rdw.html Call: 403-348-8561 Email inford@lokken.com Career Programs are

Blackfalds Lacombe Ponoka Stettler

FREE

Call Rick for more info 403-314-4303

for all Albertans

OVERRUN w/Mule Deer E. of R. D. First Nations persons call 403-391-8246

900

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Auctions

Health Care Aide Medical Office Assistant Health Unit Coordinator Veterinary Administrative Assistant Dental Administrative Assistant and more!

Certified Appraisers 1966 Estates, Antiques, Firearms.

Bay 5, 7429-49 Ave. 347-5855

1570

Cameras & Accessories

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

290211C11-F25

SONY handicam, exc. cond. $200 obo 403-307-1586

Children's Items

Call Today (403) 347-6676

SCHOOL Desk, older style $15. 403-347-5316

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

Clothing

GRAD gown, gorgeous floral sheer with scarf, size 8. $15. 403-347-5316 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here Computers

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Cleaning

1070

ANN’S Cleaning Services - Weekly & bi-weekly.

Homes & Offices 302-0488

Contractors

1100

BRIAN’S DRYWALL Framing, drywall, taping, textured & t-bar ceilings, 36 yrs exp. Ref’s. 392-1980

CUSTOM HOMES

Wes Wiebe 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Escorts

1165

EDEN 587-877-7399 10am-midnight

1165

Massage Therapy

1280

CLASSY & SIMPLY THE BEST. High class companionship at its finest.

403-550-0470

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

EROTICAS PLAYMATES Girls of all ages 598-3049 www.eroticasplaymates.net

Feeling overwhelmed?

Hard work day? Come in and let us pamper you.

Pampering at its best. #7 7464 Gaetz Ave.(rear entrance if necessary) www.viimassage.biz In/Out Calls to Hotels.

403-986-6686

LEXUS 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

The Ultimate Playmates.

Never rushed. Come in and get the attention you have been missing in your life. #1 body rub in Red Deer. 403-986-SEXY (7399)

Massage Therapy

1280

VII MASSAGE

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST

CONTROL LTD. Asian Executive Touch Comm/res.

Locally owned.

Exclusive for men. Every day specials! 10 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 5003-50 St. 403-348-5650

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

Moving & Storage

IRONMAN Scrap Metal Recovery is picking up scrap again! Farm machinery, vehicles and industrial.

Serving central Alberta.

403-318-4346

1300

BOXES? MOVING? SUPPLIES? 403-986-1315 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Seniors’ Services

1372

ATT’N: SENIORS Are you looking for help on small jobs, around the house such as roof snow removal, bathroom fixtures, painting or flooring Call James 403- 341-0617 HELPING HANDS For Seniors. Cleaning, cooking, companionship - in home or in facility.

Call 403-346-7777 or visit helpinghandshomesupport.com for information.

Yard Care

FANTASY MASSAGE

1590

LEATHER MOTORCYCLE JACKET, GREEN CUSTOM MADE Men’s S - M. $150. obo.

403-302-4422

1000-1430

Escorts

1580

BASSINETTE with skirt $45 obo; 1957 LLOYD baby buggy $45 obo 403-347-0293

CLASSIFICATIONS

1010

1530

Bud Haynes & Co. Auctioneers

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Accounting

920

Career Planning

HEALTHCARE

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We thank all applicants, but only successful candidates will be called for an interview.

THE BURNT LAKE GENERAL STORE is looking for F/T Customer Service person for shift work. Please apply in person, Hwy. 11 West.

No phone calls please.

In the towns of:

Hall Industrial Contracting offers competitive wage and benefit packages, we provide training as required.

Wages is based on experience, skills and level of training.

Please send resumes to either info@hallindustrialcontracting.com Or fax 403-885-8886

Town of Penhold!

Also afternoon delivery in Town of Springbrook

at 403-314-4316 or email qmacaulay@ reddeeradvocate.com

YOUR CAREER IN

ENVIRONMENTAL & PHYSICAL CONDITION REQUIREMENTS: • Outdoors • Standing for extended • Heights periods of time • Confined Spaces • Bending, crouching, • Noisy, Dusty, Hot, kneeling Cold, Wet/Damp • Handling heavy loads • Manual Dexterity • Physically demanding • Attention to detail & repetitive tasks

1680

1720

Please contact QUITCY

For afternoon delivery once per week

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 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Garden Supplies

GREENHOUSE WORKERS BLACKFALDS GARDEN SHEDS Central AB Greenhouses We have some seasonal Most sizes, delivery avail.

403-314-1870 positions available comhttp://willowrun mencing immediately and constructionltd.webs.com ending June 1, 2013.

Duties include planting seedlings, watering plants, Household moving plants from one area to another, loading Appliances plants onto carts and loading trucks. This position APPLS. reconditioned lrg. i s l a b o r i n t e n s i v e a n d selection, $150 + up, 6 mo. includes working weekends warr. Riverside Appliances 403-342-1042 and some evenings (approx.

65 hrs./wk.). Must have FREE working clothes own transportatin. We will dryer to give away. train. Wage is $11.50/hr.

403-347-4100 Fax resume to 403-885-4146 or email to: Household ar-cag@telus.net.

Please note that only Furnishings those to be interviewed will be contacted.

3 SEAT SOFA W/WOOD TRIM 83”L X 33” D Looking For w/matching armchair, very Short Term Work? well kept We need a number of people $170 403-314-2026 to assist with spring yard KITCHEN TABLE WITH clean up for 3 wks. Must 4 Chairs. Padded, back & be able to pull a rake and bag debris, Must have own front. Exc. cond. Bought at Sim’s. $150. 403-343-1112 transportation and be LARGE oak china cabinet, reliable. Wage is $15/hr. exc. cond., $150, computer Call 403-505-5760 desk, $40 403-506-3071 MOVING SALE: fridge $40; large recliner $20; hide a bed $40; bed & mattress $75; dresser $10; NEWSPAPER end tables, lamps etc.

CARRIERS $5-$10 403-348-2396 REQUIRED for RECORD player/radio w/2 matching speakers.

Asking $100.

The Town of Olds 403-341-4650 Call No collecting! between 9 am - 12 p.m.

Packages come or call Cell after 1 pm.

403-307-3043 ready for delivery!

SOFA HIDE-A-BED Also Blue, double. for the afternoon in $60. 403-346-3844

1 day per wk.

No collecting!!

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

880

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1710

Adams Close/ Adair Ave.

Please call Joanne at 403-314-4308

Good for adult with small car.

880

CARRIERS NEEDED

Carriers Needed

Pallo, Payne & Parsons Cl.

SERVICE ’S WRITER

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Piper Dr. & Pennington Cres.

880

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1430

SPRING LAWN CLEANUP Call 403-304-0678 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Farmers' Market

1650

ALBERTA LAMB! Fresh, frozen. Locally grown.

Locally butchered.

Phone 403-782-4095

Firewood

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

PS2 w/6 games. $80 obo.

XBOX w/6 games. $80 obo. 403-782-3847 SONY STEREO w/surround sound. $180 obo. 403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

1760

2 BOXES OF ROMANCE PAPERBACK BOOKS. $45 obo. 403-782-3847 BARBEQUE, Brinkman, stainless steel, 60,000 BTU side burners, full cover, new full propane bottle, $200. Nice Shape.

403-347-1992 CORONA Bar stools (2), chrome, $60. pr.; light brown recliner, like new, $60; tiger torch & hose, $30; Black & Decker 7 1/4” skill saw, $10.; (2) 2 ton hydralic jack, $10. ea.

403-887-4981 HUSKY BRAID NAILER, new in box, $25.; 2000 lb. remote control winch, $65; New air compressor, 100 psi; $65; New Woods outdoor 24/hr timer; $10; New sz. 11 black leather, zippered boots, $25; 20’ tow ropes (2) $10. ea.

403-887-4981 WORK bench vise $18; bundle of bungee cords $6; 3 trouble lights $6/ea; bow saw 30” in wooden case $15; clay pick $7; 2 hand saws $6/ea.; wooden miter box $5; 10’ tow rope $10; 1/4” steel tow cable $15; wooden tool box for truck 40”l x 17” w x 8 1/2” deep $15; post hole auger 5” $20; galvanized garbage can/lid $12; 2 1” x 36” piano hinges $4; 2 tin snips 2/$10; 2 boxes of nice clam shells $5/box 403-314-2026

1840

Dogs

F1 LABRA DOODLES, F1B GOLDEN DOODLES puppies. Visit www.furfettishfarm.ca text 306-521-1371 or call 403-919-1370

Sporting Goods

1860

AB DOER & Power Assistance Attachments.

Paid $300, asking $200.

403-342-1752

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

1600

COMPUTER/BRIEF CASE on wheels. As new. $80. obo 403-302-4422

EquipmentHeavy

WANTED

1660

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Horse Boarding

2150

YEAR-AROUND boarding close to Red Deer. Riding rings, box-stalls, paddocks.

Phone 403-342-0475

AFFORDABLE

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Houses/ Duplexes

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ACROSS from park, 2 bdrm. 4-plex, 1 1/2 bath, 4 appls. Rent $975/mo. d.d. $650. Avail. May. 1 403-304-5337

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Syrian regime counteroffensive recaptures village held by rebels

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIRUT — After weeks of rebel gains in the south, the Syrian regime launched a counteroffensive on Sunday with widespread airstrikes and an operation that reclaimed a northern village on a strategically important route.

At least 20 people were killed in heavy airstrikes that targeted rebels trying to topple the regime in at least seven cities and regions. To underline their resolve, the government called on opposition fighters to surrender their arms and warned in cellphone text messages that the army is “coming to get you.”

State television said the aim of the counteroffensive was to send a message to the opposition and its Western backers that President Bashar Assad’s troops are capable and willing to battle increasingly better armed rebels on multiple fronts.

Rebels have been making gains in recent weeks, especially in the south near the border with Jordan.

They have seized military bases and towns in the strategically important region between Damascus and the Jordanian border about 100 miles away.

However in the north, the main rebel stronghold, government troops have been chipping away slowly over the past weeks at rebel gains around the city of Aleppo, the country’s main commercial hub. They have been hammering rebel-held

districts inside the city with fighter jets and artillery, sowing fear among residents.

Troops recaptured on Saturday the village of Aziza on a strategic road that links Aleppo with its airport and military bases, activists said. Rebels have been trying to capture that airport and the nearby bases for months now.

The regime seized back the village southeast of Aleppo after a 10-day battle with rebels, said Rami Abdul-Rahman, director of the Britain-based activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

“It’s a setback for the rebels because the village is an important strategic point from which the army can shell (opposition) positions all around the area,” AbdulRahman said.

It’s also an outpost from which the army will be able to protect its convoys travelling the highway to ferry supplies to its bases at the airport.

Over the last year, rebels have greatly expanded the territory they hold in the northeastern provinces, including Idlib and Aleppo along the Turkish border.

In February, they extended their control into Raqqa province in the northeast, seizing the second hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River. Last month, the rebels captured Raqqa’s provincial capital of the same name — the first city to fall entirely under opposition control in the 2-yearold conflict.

Capturing Aleppo’s airport would be a major strategic victory that would enable the opposition to receive aid flights.

Aziza is one in a string of settlements along the Aleppo airport road that government troops have taken back.

The base inside the airport complex includes an airstrip from which regime fighter jets have been taking off to bomb targets around the country.

Sunday’s airstrikes targeted Aleppo, the central cities of Homs and Hama and the city of Idlib in the north near the Turkish border. The western Mediterranean city of Latakia, and the eastern province of Deir el-Zour and the suburbs of the capital Damascus were also targeted.

Anti-government activists in Aleppo posted videos on line, showing the aftermath of Saturday’s airstrike on what they say is Sukkary district in the northern city.

Dozens of residents are standing on piles of rubble in front of a row of residential buildings, looking in disbelief at the front of the building that was blown off when a missile slammed into it.

In another video, men help a woman climb down from a balcony of the second floor of a building that has partially collapsed after a missile ripped through it.

The videos appear consistent with AP reporting from the area.

State television said the primary goal of the air-

strikes was to “recapture areas taken by the terrorists,” the term the regime uses to refer to opposition fighters in the civil war.

Regime fighter jets pounded villages in rebelheld areas in Latakia province before.

But they do not frequently hit the city of the same name that is mostly populated with Syrian minority communities including many members of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam that Assad and his family belong to.

The rebels and opposition supporters are mostly Sunni Muslims, a majority in Syria.

The Aleppo strike was the deadliest air raid on Sunday, killing up to 12 people, according to another anti-regime activists group, The Local Coordination Committees.

In other violence, a man was shot and killed by an army sniper in the southern city of Daraa, the Observatory said, adding that clashes between troops and rebels raged in the opposition strongholds around Damascus.

At least 15 people were killed in the fighting around the capital, the group said.

Daraa province has been the scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks, with rebels making gains in the province and further south.

Last week, they looked poised to take over the area along the Jordanian border, which could be used to try to stage an attack on Damascus, Assad’s seat of power.

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by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Police in Hamas-ruled Gaza have started grabbing young men with long or gel-styled spiky hair off the streets, bundling them into jeeps, mocking them and shaving their heads, two of those targeted and a rights group said Sunday.

It is the latest sign that the Islamic militants are imposing their strict practices on the population.

Hamas has been slowly forcing its fundamentalist interpretation of the religion on already conservative Gaza since it overran the territory in 2007, but the new crackdown on long hair and tight or low-waist pants — in several cases accompanied by beatings — appears to be one of the most aggressive phases of the campaign so far.

The crackdown began last week, and two of those targeted told The Associated Press said they were rounded up in separate sweeps in Gaza City that included more than two dozen young men.

House painter Ayman al-Sayed, 19, had shoulder-length hair before police grabbed him and shaved his head Thursday.

“The only thing I want to do is leave this country,” said al-Sayed, who despite his ordeal defiantly wore stylish but outlawed narrow-leg tan khakis Sunday. “I am scared. They just take you from the street without reason. I don’t know what they are going to do next.”

Hamas officials played down the campaign — a stance adopted in the past that allows the group to distance itself from a controversial crackdown while at the same time instilling fear in those it targeted.

Ziad al-Zaza, the deputy prime minister of Gaza, said the head-shaving “was a very limited, isolated behaviour of the police and is not going to continue.”

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights called on Hamas to investigate the “arbitrary detentions and violations of civil rights of civilians.”

The hair crackdown came just days after the Hamas-run parliament in Gaza passed an education bill mandating separate classrooms for boys and girls from the age of nine.

Gender separation is already widely practiced in Gaza schools, as it is in the West Bank, where Hamas rival Mahmoud Abbas, the Western-backed Palestinian president, administers some areas.

Enshrining such separation in law marked another step forward in Hamas’ campaign of imposing Islamic practice.

Since seizing Gaza from Abbas six years ago, Hamas has moved gradually in spreading its ultra-conservative version of Islam. It has issued rules restricting women or requiring them to cover up in the traditional Islamic dress of long robes and headscarves, but relented if met by protests.

Last month, the Hamas government barred girls and women from participating in a U.N.-sponsored marathon, prompting a U.N. aid agency to cancel the race. Hamas activists have also exerted social pressure to get all school girls to wear Islamic dress.

Al-Sayed, the house painter, and 17-year-old high school student Tareq Naqib said Sunday that they were targeted by police in separate incidents Thursday.

Al-Sayed said he had just finished his work in Gaza City and was waiting at an intersection for a shared taxi when a police jeep approached.

Al-Sayed said he was thrown into the jeep with more than 10 others already squeezed into the back of the vehicle.

He said policemen cursed them on the way to the police station.

There, the detainees were lined up, and a policeman began shaving their heads. He shaved two lines, from front to back and from one ear to the other, telling the young men they could finish the job at a neighbourhood barber shop.

Myanmar ex-refugees protest violence at home

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Members of one of the largest U.S. communities of Myanmar immigrants held a demonstration Sunday to call attention to sectarian violence targeting Muslims in the Southeast Asian nation.

About 100 former Myanmar residents who resettled in the Fort Wayne area gathered outside the Allen County Courthouse to protest the violence in their homeland, formerly known as Burma.

Ex-refugee AyeMin Zaphun tells WANE-TV (http://bit.ly/ Z1OFPZ ) the protest was called to spread awareness about the Myanmar government and

extremist Buddhists who are targeting Muslims. Dozens of people were killed last month when violence between Buddhists and minority Muslims shook the central Myanmar city of Meikhtila. And a pre-dawn fire Tuesday at a religious dormitory at a mosque complex killed 13 children. Authorities blamed the fire on an electrical short circuit, but some Muslims in Myanmar have said the fire was set intentionally.

“We want the world to know that in Burma, innocent people are dying. They’re burning children alive,” Zaphun said.

One demonstrator held up a sign saying “Where is justice for them?” and showing what appeared to be the ruins of the dormitory.

Those who resisted were beaten, al-Sayed said. He said he asked the policeman to finish the job of shaving so he wouldn’t have to step outside with a partially shaved head.

A young man came into the police station, saying he was looking for his cousin, said al-Sayed. One of the officers grabbed the young man, who had his hair in gel-styled spikes, and shaved his head as well.

Naqib, the high school student, said he was seized outside his home and put in a police jeep along with four young men who had come to Gaza City from the southern town of Khan Younis.

On the way to the police station, police insulted them and warned them that Gaza is Islamic, said Naqib.

“They said, ’we want you to respect our tradition,”’ Naqib said. “They made a cross on our heads and asked us to leave and finish the shaving at a barber shop.”

Naqib’s family is originally from Tunisia, and he said he wants to go back there after he finishes high school.

In another incident, a Gaza teen, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution, said he saw police beat three young men in downtown Gaza City for wearing tight, lowrise pants. The witness said the policemen beat the three with clubs on the backs of their knees and told passersby watching the scene to move along.

Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas figure identified with the more pragmatic wing of the movement, said the police behaviour is “absolutely wrong” and must stop. Hamas is often divided over such campaigns, but the pragmatists have been unable to stop the more zealous members.

TOWN OF BLACKFALDS

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COUNTRY MUSIC AWARDS

The Chief wins top album

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Kirk Caouette stars as Mike, the homeless busker, right, and Michelle Harrison as lawyer Stephanie in the film, “Hit ‘n Strum.”

Homeless Vancouver busker inspires film ‘Hit ’n Strum’

BY VICTORIA AHEARN THE CANADIAN PRESS Four years ago, when former Vancouver film stuntman Kirk Caouette was looking to write a film based on a story in his own backyard, he came across wellknown homeless street busker Andre Girard playing his guitar and singing for passersby.

“He playing his heart out and nobody was watching him or listening to him, or giving him any attention or any spare change or anything,” Caouette, who is also a musician, recalled in a recent telephone interview.

“And he got up and walked away about 40 minutes later penniless.”

That night, Caouette wrote a song called “Dream With Me,” about a lonely street busker who hopes a beautiful woman sits down and falls in love with him.

The tune became the basis for his new independent film, Hit ’n Strum, which opened at a Cineplex theatre in Toronto (Yonge and Dundas) on Friday.

Caouette wrote, directed, produced and starred in the drama that’s run in several international film festivals and been a hit at Fifth Avenue Cinemas in Vancouver (it’s also been screened in a shelter there on the Eastside).

He plays Mike, a homeless street busker who survives a hitand-run car accident committed by lawyer Stephanie (Michelle Harrison) in Vancouver’s gritty downtown Eastside.

When Stephanie sees Mike singing and playing guitar on the

‘THE DIRECTOR PULLED OUT BECAUSE WE JUST DIDN’T HAVE THE RESOURCES. HE JUST DIDN’T SEE IT AS BEING SOMETHING THAT COULD EVER COME OFF EVEN REMOTELY GOOD WITH THE RESOURCES WE HAD.’ — KIRK CAOUETTE street after the accident, she attempts to make amends and the two form an unlikely friendship.

Caouette’s personal friends Dana Pemberton and Kelly Richard Fennig co-star as Mike’s busking buddies. Richard Fennig was also a production assistant.

Caouette embarked on the project after taking a break from his 15-year stunt career that saw him working on films including Watchmen, Snakes on a Plane, two X-Men features, and Fantastic Four.

“It’s a great job but it’s a really hard job,” said Caouette, who specialized in extreme sports and as a martial artist.

“One of my best friends (fell) like 40 feet onto concrete and shattered every bone in his body and he lived. I’ve just been around it so long. I just wanted to find something different.”

As Caouette wrote the film’s script and original songs, he prepared for the role by losing weight and growing out his beard and hair, which he also stopped shampooing.

He also spent quite a bit of time on the Eastside, busking and getting a sense of what it’s like for those living at the street level.

Caouette said he did that for about five months.

“I went down and collected pop

cans and tried to make money to eat lunch,” he said. “I slept in a back alley once, not overnight but just about.”

Caouette had trouble finding funding for the production, though, so he paid for it all with his own credit cards.

“The biggest problem was that I was attached to it, I think,” he said. “As if someone’s going to give a stuntman money to make a music movie. It’s not going to happen.”

Three weeks before he planned to shoot the project, he hit another snag: his director backed out.

“So my acting coach convinced me that I should just direct it myself. In the end, I’m actually glad I did,” said Caouette.

“The director pulled out because we just didn’t have the resources. He just didn’t see it as being something that could ever come off even remotely good with the resources we had.”

For one poignant scene, in which an ailing Mike collapses on the street, the crew decided to shoot hidden-camera style from afar with a long lens to capture real passersby. To their shock, nobody stopped to help him.

Girard died last year of cancer in his 60s and never got to see the film.

LAS VEGAS — Eric Church’s nickname is “Chief,” and early on at the Academy of Country Music Awards that title was spot-on.

This year’s top nominee won album of the year for his breakthrough Chief on Sunday night, giving him two trophies and a tie for the early lead with Little Big Town.

He also performed, singing his sombre but powerful song Like Jesus Does with only an acoustic guitar and a backup singer.

“I can’t believe I just met John Fogerty,” Church said as he accepted the award from the Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman and Miranda Lambert.

“We should hang out later.”

Little Big Town had two wins for vocal group and video of the year, Florida Georgia Line won for new artist and husband and wife Shawna and Keifer Thompson continued their feel-good story as Thompson Square won its second straight vocal duo of the year award.

Shawna Thompson gave a shoutout to her mother from stage.

Tears came to her eyes backstage as she explained that her father had recently passed away and she wanted to acknowledge her mother during her acceptance speech to support her.

“She’s just having a really hard time,” she said.

Blake Shelton kicked the show off with his new single Boys ’Round Here, a hip-hop-flavoured ode to redneck swag.

He was joined by Bryan, Brad Paisley, Sheryl Crow and Pistol Annies, a trio that includes his wife Miranda Lambert.

George Strait made his first appearance of the night, singing Give It All We Got Tonight.

Lady Antebellum debuted new song Downtown and Charles Kelley finished off the song by rubbing pregnant trio-mate Hillary Scott’s belly.

Carrie Underwood stepped out of a black Cadillac parked on stage as she started her song, Two Black Cadillacs.

Co-hosts Shelton and Bryan — who have given themselves the celebrity couple name Bluke — immediately took it off-colour as they insulted each other during their monologue.

“How about a shout out to the Sherwin-Williams company for spray-painting Luke’s jeans on,” Shelton joked as the camera zoomed in on Bryan’s, ahem, mid-section. Bryan took his turn: “Blake’s jeans are like buying something on credit — nothing up front. I mean, what size are those, extra empty?”

The focus of this year’s ACM Awards is on the men of country, and it’s not just Shelton and Bryan taking the spotlight.

Church started the night with an award before he even hit the red carpet, winning vocal event of the year for his collaboration with Bryan and Jason Aldean on The Only Way I Know. “It’s still kinda strange to me,” Church said on the red carpet.

“It’s been a long journey, a long path. I can’t control what I’m nominated for. I really have nothing to do with win or lose. We could win all seven, lose all seven. I promise you it won’t affect anything. We’re going to make the same kind of music, the same kind of show. Whatever happens happens.”

The night was a showcase for country’s men of the moment — and for its two dominant male stars of the last two decades, the marquee meeting of Brooks and Strait. They are two of music’s top-selling artists regardless of genre, but have never performed together.

Jurassic Park 3D teaches old dino new tricks MONSTERS CLASSIC DOESN’T JUST STAND THE TEST OF TIME, IT TRANSCENDS IT Jurassic Park 3D Four stars (out of four) Rated: PG

The score by John Williams, at once triumphant and fearful, still resonates. The story by David Koepp and Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton hasn’t changed, You can’t teach an old dog although viewers will be amused new tricks — but Jurassic Park 3D by how dated the computers in the proves you can make an old dino- film now seem.

Paleontologist Alsaur even more terrifyan Grant (Sam Neill) ing. and his paleobotanist Adding the extra girlfriend Ellie Satdimension to Steven tler (Laura Dern) are Spielberg’s 1993 monbrought to remote Isla ster thriller turns out Nublar off Costa Rica to be more than just a by wealthy showman 20th-anniversary cashJohn Hammond (Richin. This movie doesn’t ard Attenborough). just stand the test of Hammond needs the time, it transcends it. scientists to endorse The already impresthe novel theme park sive tyrannosaurus, vehe plans to soon open: lociraptors and other PETER a wildlife preserve rampaging dinos beHOWELL for dinosaurs, brought come more lifelike in to life after millions 3D. of years of extinction So much so that tothanks to a new DNA day’s parents have even more reason than those of a cloning process.

Along for the trip are a wisegeneration ago to make sure their younger children can handle the cracking “chaos theory” mathematician (Jeff Goldblum) and a frights.

The film’s large amount of vio- worried lawyer (Martin Ferraro), lence, mostly of the claw and fang the latter representing insurers variety, seems more intense now and investors who fear expensive lawsuits if computer-controlled than before.

This could just be a trick of electric fences break and the animemory, but more likely it’s the mals run amok.

The concern is justified, thanks way the critters literally pop off the screen — such as in the scenes to an approaching tropical storm where the T rex is chasing a jeep and treachery by a rogue computand raptors are hunting kids in er programmer (Wayne Knight).

Even knowing the story beatthe kitchen. for-beat (who hasn’t seen Juras-

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sic Park and its sequels?) doesn’t diminish the thrill of watching it again on the big screen, upgraded from the original celluloid 2D to digital 3D. It really does enhance the experience, unlike most 3D conversions, which is saying something for a film that set the bar for CGI innovation and excellence when it was released in 1993.

With the right movie and the proper care, a 3D conversion is worth the effort and expense.

Spielberg obviously wanted to do this properly, just as James Cameron did for last year’s Titanic 3D. Jurassic Park 3D also offers a few retro charms.

The park’s computers look positively ancient, and it’s funny when Hammond’s young grandkids (Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards) squeal with delight when they discover a CD-ROM player in their tour tram.

It’s even funnier watching Goldblum hamming it up as a horndog math whiz in leather jacket and bare chest.

He seems more of the 1980s than 1990s.

And it’s downright awesome seeing Samuel L. Jackson as a serious chain-smoking computer techie, one of the many minor screen roles he did before hitting it big with Pulp Fiction a year later.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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This April 2, 2013 file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton addressing the Vital Voices Global Partnership 2013 Global Leadership Awards gala at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. Clinton is working on a memoir and policy book about her years with the Obama administration, Simon & Schuster told The Associated Press on Thursday, April 4. The book is currently untitled and tentatively scheduled for June 2014.

Global women’s issues are ‘unfinished business’ of 21st century NEW YORK — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday at a forum on global women’s issues that the rights of women represent “the unfinished business of the 21st century” in the United States and around the world, receiving a rapturous reception for one of her first speeches since departing the Obama administration.

Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, offered no new clues about her future at the annual two-day Women in the World summit. She said the mission of gender equality is not limited to the developing world, pointing to the need for more women in the United States to achieve equality with men.

“If America is going to lead the way we expect ourselves to lead, we need to empower women here at home to participate fully in our economy and our society. We need to make equal pay a reality,” Clinton said, pointing to the need to extend family and medical leave and encourage women and girls to pursue careers in math and science. “We need to invest in our people so they can live up to their own God-given potential.”

“This truly is the unfinished business of the 21st century, and it is the work we are called to do,” Clinton said. “I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead. Let’s keep fighting for opportunity and dignity.”

The former first lady and New York senator was the keynote speaker at a star-studded conference focusing on women across

the globe, featuring appearances by actresses Angelina Jolie and Meryl Streep. It was Clinton’s second high-profile speech this week and coincided with the announcement Thursday of her new memoir about her years as secretary of state.

Clinton has addressed the forum before, but the speculation about her future was an undercurrent in the audience. Tina Brown, editor in chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, the summit’s sponsor, received loud cheers during her introduction of Clinton when she teased, “Of course, the big question now about Hillary is what’s next.”

Clinton said the world was “changing beneath our feet,” urging advocates to encourage developing nations around the globe to embrace a 21st-century approach that makes the rights of women a central issue in foreign and domestic policy.

Friday’s agenda included a panel on technology moderated

by Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, discussions on women’s rights in India and Libya and a luncheon interview with Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Underscoring the plight of women across the globe, attendees saw an emotional moment on Thursday from Jolie, who introduced Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head by the Taliban for advocating for girls’ education.

“Today I’m going to announce the happiest moment of my life,” the 15-year-old said in a brief video from Britain, wearing a bright red headscarf and at one point

HOROSCOPE Monday, April 8 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Taylor Kitsch, 32; Patricia Arquette, 45; Robin Wright, 47 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The morning hours may seem a bit dreamy and illusive due to Moon’s transit through Pisces. Sensitivity is heightened during this time signalling more receptivity and empathy towards others. It’s a time when special care will be leaning towards the needy.

In the afternoon, the pace of the day will change once the Moon steps into Aries’ shoes.

A dynamic predisposition will incline us to seek excitement and buoyant moves.

Take initiation. Begin something new. Energy is revitalized. Action related-activities are much sought-after.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this coming year will mark a great shift within your subliminal ASTRO world. You will be in a deepDOYNA ly reflective mode, constantly contemplating your next move. A female will be prominent and of great help to you this year. You will derive much connectedness and mutual receptivity from one another. The saying which states that it takes two to tango will very much apply to you this year.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The early hours will make you seek quietness and serenity. As the day unveils, your mood slowly picks up making you feel more and more in your element. Your charisma is remarkable as it attracts quite a few onlookers.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There is a lot going on for you which is not yet apparent to others. You need to revitalize your physique which is requiring you for some needed rest. The only pressure that may come to you now is from a certain lack of freedom which stands in your way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Deal with your responsibilities early in the day and then, you will have some time for socializing and networking. Join with

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shyly covering her face with her hands. She said that thanks to the new “Malala’s Fund,” which she will administer, a new school in her homeland would be built for 40 girls. “Let us turn the education of 40 girls into 40 million girls,” she said.

Malala has garnered huge global attention since she was shot in the head in October by Taliban attackers angered by her activism.

She was brought to Britain for treatment and surgery, including skull reconstruction. She’s now started attending school there.

She recently signed a deal to write her memoir, and she was also shortlisted for Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” in 2012.

Jolie gave a poignant rendition of her story. “Here’s what they accomplished,” she said of Malala’s attackers. “They shot her point blank range in the head — and made her stronger. The brutal attempt to silence her voice made it stronger.”

After Jolie’s introduction, Brown, who created the Women in the World summit, now in its fourth year, told the audience that Jolie had just committed $200,000 personally to the fund, which was established by Vital Voices, with a donation from the Women in the World Foundation.

Streep was there to honour another activist, Inez McCormack of Northern Ireland, who died in January of cancer. At the first summit in 2010, Streep had played McCormack in a short play, called “Seven,” with McCormack herself watching from the audience.

Streep spoke some lines from the play on Thursday evening in a flawless Irish accent.

a group or like-minded individuals and unwind the day in the company of some good friends.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Pressures to keep up with your status and your professional standing may be high right now. At times, you may feel that you are being asked for too much and that your limits are being tested. Don’t get trapped in this temporary bewilderment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): By now you should have figured out a few ways to live your life without carrying too much burden on your shoulders. It’s vital for your overall being to rid yourself of clutter and heavy schedules.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You may encounter some challenge when you will try to put your mind into clear prospective. Try to avoid being too critical or overly fussy. Pay extra attention to important details and don’t amplify petty problems.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Go over your to-do list and accomplish as much as possible in the first part of the day. Later on, join your favourite public or align with someone you can confide in. Some ongoing tension may create some delay.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Personal matters may require your attention today. It is hard to see the bigger picture when important information is being omitted. You can use your free time for distraction once you’ve met your domestic needs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A certain ease can be marked in your speech and self-expression skills.

You find the necessity to share your brilliant ideas with others. Some short-distance travelling may be in the picture for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today you may be prone to over-eating or to consuming more food than usual. Your appetite skyrockets and it’s hard to abstain your craving from rich foods. Pay special attention to your money as well.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your day starts on a sweet note and your nurturing side is more apparent than usual. You will put extra attention to your overall physique and feel more in tune with your body’s image.

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Dear Annie: I am a 44-year-old guy who wears his heart on his sleeve. I met “Lisa” two years ago. I was fresh out of a divorce. Lisa was in terrible shape.

Her mother had just died, and shortly after, she lost her fiance in a traffic accident. Then she moved back home to take care of her ailing father.

It was love at first sight for me. But Lisa never fully grieved over her fiance. She told me he was her “soul mate,” and that she would never love another man the way she loved him. I told her I have all the patience in the world and would be there for her through her grief and sorrow. I knew she needed to deal with this in her own way, which included getting his name tattooed on her back. Again, I was patient and understanding.

Lisa’s family began inviting me to their home. But her family had been exceptionally close to her fiance and began posting things on Facebook to remind Lisa of him. It finally reached the point where I had to say something, and I talked to Lisa’s cousin. I said posting such things keeps the fiance’s memory fresh in Lisa’s mind, which doesn’t help her heal. I asked the cousin to please get the family to stop doing this.

Well, my request got back to Lisa, who became hostile and negative toward me. She broke things off.

Annie, I love Lisa with every ounce of my being.

Was I wrong to speak up? -- Lonely and Still in Love Dear Lonely: You meant well, but talking to Lisa’s cousin was inappropriate and appeared as if you were going behind her back and being controlling. Lisa has had a rough time. Regardless of what her family was posting online, she wasn’t ready to get back into the dating pool. It’s also likely that she will always connect you to this unfortunate time.

Please move on. This ship has sailed.

Dear Annie: I am an adopted 14-year-old and an onMITCHELL ly child. I would like to get & SUGAR in touch with my biological family. Everybody tells me to wait until I am 18, but I feel I should be able to contact at least one biological parent. From what my adoptive mom tells me, I have an older brother. I was also told that my parents tried to find my biological father, but out of the five names listed on the adoption papers, none of them matched.

Is there any way to contact my family? Even if I can’t find my mom, is there a way I could find my brother and speak with him? -- Adopted in Arizona Dear Arizona: Please do not do this without the support of your family. Finding biological parents and siblings is not always the joyful reunion you dream of, and sometimes things don’t turn out well.

It also can be hurtful to your adoptive parents if your relationship with them is undergoing changes, as it often does during the teen years, and you think your biological family will be “better.” There is a reason reputable organizations insist that you be 18 or older to search. Please ask your parents for help with the International Soundex Reunion Registry (isrr.org).

Dear Annie: “Pining for Rome” complains, “The foods and pastimes that I’ve become fond of are nonexistent in America.” Nonsense.

Granted, she may not see games of bocce ball going on in the local park or find abbacchio brodettato on the menu at Denny’s, but in this global world, all the things available in Rome are available in the USA. She can go to an Italian market, buy a good Italian cookbook and learn to make gallina alla vernaccia herself. Many Italian markets also sell bocce ball sets, so she could start her own games. -- SecondGeneration Italian 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.