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Tories to pick leader Sept. 6

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF AND THE CANADIAN PRESS The Alberta’s Progressive Conservative party has slightly tweaked the way it will pick its new leader and Alberta’s new premier.

The PCA met in Red Deer on Monday night, taking three hours to decide to stick with the two-vote format that elected former leader Alison Redford, who stepped down last week.

The biggest change is that instead of three candidates moving on to the second vote, only the top two will advance this time.

Advanced Education Minister Dave Hancock will serve as premier until the party picks its new leader, but he has said he won’t run to become party leader.

The first vote will take place on Sept. 6, and if one candidate has more than 50 per cent of the vote, they will become the new leader. If no candidate earns 50 per cent, a second vote between the top two nominees will happen on Sept. 20.

Several formats were discussed among delegates in the closed-door meeting, said Jim McCormick, president of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta.

“It’s not a responsibility we took lightly and we put together a set of rules that will see the best candidate become the new leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and premier of this province,” he said.

A deadline for nominations has not been set, though McCormick said that date should be decided upon in the next 10 days.

One change that was made was the cost to run.

Each candidate will now have to make a $50,000 nonrefundable deposit as part of their nomination.

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Skateboarder Jericho Boyce-Howe rides around one of the bowls at the Glendale Skatepark on Monday afternoon. A handful of skaters showed up despite much of the park still being covered in snow.

Prairies home to last relics of institutional era Michener Centre: The Closing Doors is a special Red Deer Advocate series by reporters Susan Zielinski and Myles Fish about the centre for persons with developmental disabilities. They examine its controversial past, debated present and unclear future.

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF In 1986, nearly two decades into the deinstitutionalization movement, there were still 10,000 Canadians with developmental disabilities living in 31 large institutions (facilities with over 100 beds) across the country.

Today, there are barely 700.

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The last three major vestiges of the institutional era are found in the Prairie provinces, with two slated for closure. Similar to the Michener Centre situation, the Saskatchewan government has announced its plans to close Valley View Centre outside of Moose Jaw; only the Manitoba Developmental Centre in Portage La Prairie is not currently slated for closure.

Whereas the fight to keep Michener open is being led by family members of residents, in B.C. in the early 1980s, a group of vocal parents of institutionalized residents helped to hasten the demise of the province’s three large facilities, a goal fully realized in 1996.

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Donation page for family launched A donation page for Red Deer’s Cote family was launched on Monday.

The Cote family has been beset by a tragic string of incidents the past 10 years, culminating in the death of husband Eric Cote in a multi-car pile up on Highway 2 on March 6. The three surviving members, Ghislane Moreault, 44, and daughters Marilou, 8, and Patricia, all have a genetic form of cancer that is going to require treatment for the rest of their lives.

Due to a number of circumstances they are also in danger of being homeless.

Red Deer businessman Craig Howes, who held Cote as he died, has set up an online page on the website youcaring.com to help globalize the fundraising effort for the family, which has already seen donations come in from around the region.

The key for Howes is to develop a sustainable fund for the family, eventually using some of them to develop an online business or means for Moreault to generate income herself.

“We’d like to create something that gives them a lot longer outlook than just the next few months or the next year,” said Howes.

If you would like to donate to the Cotes, go to https://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/ please-help-the-cote-family-after-yet-another-tragedy-/150160.

Travelling display rolls into Parkland Regional Library A travelling display rolling into the Parkland Regional Library features a guide collection of Albertan penned books.

The library has partnered with the Writers’ Guild of Alberta and the Book Publishers to bring in a travelling display promoting Alberta authors and publishers with 64 books.

“While Alberta boasts tremendous writing talent and a vibrant publishing industry, the reading public has had no easy way to identify locally-produced material,” said Carol Homes, Writers Guild of Alberta executive director.

For more information visit www.prl.ab.ca.

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MICHENER: ‘Parents are right to be concerned’ The Tranquille Institution near Kamloops was the first to close, a process that was undertaken far too hastily, according to long-time community living facilitator Malerie Meeker. The next two closures, though, took place over nearly 10 years, allowing communities and government services to more gradually adapt to a changing reality and giving time for families to come around to the process.

“Early on, in the real heady times of deinstitutionalization and the development of these communitybased homes, it seemed like we were working miracles. We thought we were saving people and saving lives and in some ways we have and we did. (People were) moving to a place where you can own your own things and where you can go to bed without reaching out and touching someone on either side of you, and where you were relatively safe,” says Meeker.

In each closure instance, though there was the active group of parents advocating for deinstitutionalization, there were also many parents concerned about moving their sons and daughters away from their longtime homes, says Ali Taplay, who arrived in B.C. in the midst of the later transitions. Familial concerns were heeded, she says, and parents were very involved in the transition process.

“Rather than just polarizing it and saying ‘Oh, community living’s great, you know, get on board, what’s the matter with you?’ They said, ‘Yeah, OK, you’re worried about how dental care will happen in the community for your son or daughter if they can’t handle going to a dentist’s office and being in that fairly high-stress situation. How will we make sure good dental care happens?’” says Taplay.

“Parents are right to be concerned — there are some bad community services.”

Similar to B.C., Ontario’s reliance on institutions gradually faded from the 1970s onward. However, when the government announced in 2004 that it would be closing the province’s last three big facilities, nearly 1,000 people were still housed in them.

A collective of family members of residents at one of the remaining facilities sought an injunction against that particular closure, but through a judicial review, families were told that the government

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Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro reads from her book The View From Castle Rock at a ceremony held by the Royal Canadian Mint to celebrate her win where they unveiled a 99.99% pure silver five-dollar coin at the Great Victoria Public Library in Victoria, B.C., Monday. could go ahead with closing the three centres by 2009. In their ruling, the panel of judges affirmed that consent must be received from the disabled individual or their guardian before a move were to take place, and if a placement could not be agreed upon, the courts could step in and force a relocation.

In the last year, two settlements amounting to $67 million have been reached — to be split among approximately 8,000 former residents of the recentlyclosed Ontario facilities — to compensate for the alleged abuse they suffered while housed there. In each case, a formal apology from the premier has also been demanded.

While deinstitutionalization processes have recently been accelerated in many provinces, they have stalled in Nova Scotia, which has the highest number of disabled persons in institutionalized care, with approximately 1,100 residents spread across many facilities. Earlier this year, the province’s government announced it would be shifting away from larger care centres to smaller options.

In Alberta, the collective fighting the announced closure of Michener Centre has considered filing a complaint with the provincial Human Rights Commission (HRC) claiming that the rights of disabled residents are being impeded by forcing them to move. Conversely, in Manitoba the provincial community living organization went through an HRC, claiming that institutionalizing people was discriminatory.

Five years after the complaint was filed, a settlement was reached that saw the government agreeing to move 49 people on the transition list from the Manitoba Developmental Centre into the community.

While acknowledging in the 2011 compromise that community living is fundamentally a better option, the government maintained that families should have options for care, which include the Manitoba

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1971 — Saskatchewan Hospital, Weyburn in Weyburn closes as a mental hospital, becoming first major institution in Canada to effectively close its doors.

1982 — Newfoundland and Labrador becomes the first province to pursue full deinstitutionalization for persons with developmental disabilities. Province’s two institutions close within six years.

1996 — Final two large institutions in B.C. close. Government had initially intended to phase out all institutions between 1981 and 1991.

2004 — Ontario announces it will close its remaining three

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institutions by 2009. Despite legal challenge, transitions are completed within stated time frame.

2012 — Saskatchewan government announces its intention to close its last centre for the developmentally disabled within four years.

2013 — Alberta government announces it will transition 125 residents out of old institutional settings at Michener Centre into the community by March 2014. Timeline is later amended, with the end of 2014 serving as the new target date.

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Approximately 220 people remain at the Manitoba facility, while another 210 people with developmental disabilities reside at Winnipeg’s St. Amant Centre, run by a Catholic non-profit group.

The closure of Valley View Centre south of Moose Jaw, Sask., was announced in 2012, with the province intending to move out the nearly 200 residents still living there by 2016 (though the transition leader has said the target is unlikely to be hit). Similar to Michener Centre, the facility has effectively been closing by attrition over the course of many years and the remaining population is elderly.

Last year, the Saskatchewan government accepted all 14 recommendations provided by a transition steering committee made up of family, community living and government representatives. Among the recommendations were that group homes be dispersed evenly around communities, not clumped together, respite options be expanded, and that adequate medical, transportation and recreational services for residents be maintained after the process is complete.

The government also committed $1.2 million for the formation of a transitional home meant to be an intermedial setting between the institutional and group home living arrangements.

Despite the involvement of family representatives as part of the transition team, a campaign is still on to save what is left of Valley View for the residents who remain. In April of last year workers at the centre opposing the closure came to Red Deer to learn from the groups fighting the Michener edict. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com Coming Wednesday: A look at some of the legal issues around institutional closures and the movement of people into community settings

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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Several major paving projects and a Hwy 2 bridge replacement are planned in Central Alberta this construction season.

The Hwy 2 bridge over Wolf Creek west of Ponoka will be replaced over the next two years as part of a project estimated at $5 million to $6 million, says Alberta Transportation.

To avoid creating major backlogs on the highway all four lanes will remain open during peak hours with some local diversions taking place, said Alberta Transportation spokesman Jamie Friesen.

The Rimbey area will also see some major roadwork with 29 km of Hwy 53 scheduled for repaving this summer at

an estimated cost of $8 million. In the same area, 11 km of Hwy 771 will be repaved north of Hwy 53 in a project budgeted at $2 million.

Another paving project west of Bowden will see 16 km of Hwy 587 resurfaced from Red Lodge Provincial Park west at an estimated cost of $6 million.

Three km of Hwy 20 near Sylvan Lake will also be done at a cost of around $3 million.

“It is scheduled for this summer, but it hasn’t been tendered yet. If it is tendered in time it is projected to be completed this year,” said Friesen.

The ongoing project to redesign the Olds interchange is also expected to wrap this year.

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more efficient access.

“They’re just finishing the work to do some final paving on the ramps, and there will be some minor traffic disruptions in the area while they finish,” he said.

The $2.5-million project was part of was part of a larger, $23-million Hwy 2 upgrade last year which included repaving of 42 km between Red Deer and Carstairs.

Among the projects on the longer term schedule is a roundabout at Hwy 2 near Blackfalds.

It will be similar but much larger than the one built at Sylvan Lake several years ago. It is on the table for next year.

Overall, the province has earmarked $5 billion in the next three years to the road system, including $735 million for paving overlays, a $284-million boost

from the 2013-16 capital plan.

More than 2,500 km of roadways will see improvements, Transportation Minister Wayne Drysdale announced in Rimbey on Monday morning.

Friesen said one of the messages that came out of Alberta Transportation’s public consultations on a new transportation strategy was the need to continue putting money into local road projects.

Some felt there was too much focus on major initiatives such as twinning Hwy 63 and building ring roads.

“After hearing these things, that’s one of the reasons we added $284 million into the budget for road rehabilitation,” he said. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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While the Canada Geese have yet to return to Central Alberta, many other birds, like this one, can be seen and heard throughout the city.

Suspect shot, killed in homicide case

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Police in Medicine Hat are investigating two deaths from the weekend, one the possible homicide of a city businessman and the other the police shooting of a suspect in the case.

Police have confirmed that Chester Hunchak, a former U-Haul dealer, was reported missing Friday by his spouse.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team, which investigates all officer-related shootings, said an officer who went to a rural residence on Saturday looking for Hunchak was confronted by an armed man.

Backup was called in and officers at some point saw a body being dragged from the back of the building.

When the suspect drove toward officers while trying to leave the scene, he was fatally shot. Police won’t confirm the body being dragged was Hunchak, but have said the search for him has been called off. Close friends have told

the Medicine Hat News that the businessman was indeed killed in connection with the weekend’s events.

The newspaper also quoted sources as saying Hunchak had gone to meet with someone interested in buying his SUV. Police Chief Andy McGrogan said the shooting of the suspect was justified.

“It was a dynamic situation,” he said Monday. “The officer’s actions were based on a lot of troubling information that involved a great deal of safety concerns for our community and our officers.”

McGrogan added he personally knew Hunchak for nearly three decades, calling him “a character, a decent guy” who wrote him a congratulatory letter after he was promoted to chief. “I still have that letter,” said McGrogan.

The officer involved in the shooting of the suspect, who has not been named, is on a 30-day administrative leave following the incident.

RCMP crack down on big rigs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A truck driver who had allegedly been drinking, had open liquor in the cab, no air-brake endorsement and no registration for his semi-trailer rig is one of several people ticketed in a recent RCMP crackdown on commercial and other vehicles in northern Alberta.

Police say the 61-year-old man was issued eight tickets after his truck was stopped on Highway 881 north of Lac La Biche.

His rig was one of 200 private and commercial vehicles pulled over during a checkstop and inspection that started Thursday and continued through the weekend.

“He’s supposed to be a commercial vehicle and a professional driver, so clearly he’s not, right?” RCMP Const.

Chris Clark of the Lac La Biche detachment said Monday.

Mounties say about 85 per cent of

the commercial vehicles stopped were deemed deficient.

Drivers were told that repairs had to be made before they could hit the road again.

Inspectors came across a variety of problems that ranged from a flat tire to faulty signals or brake wiring, Clark said.

“It does put the public at risk and it does give you a little scare, but that’s why we’re out there,” he said.

Clark said hitting drivers in the pocketbook with heavy fines is usually enough to make them change their habits.

“It could be $500 or $1,000 in fines that they’ll end up acquiring ... so now it’s costing them money, so we find usually it doesn’t happen a second time.”

The Lac La Biche detachment had 12 checkstops in 2013, but has plans for 27 this year to monitor the heavy flow of traffic to and from northern Alberta.

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In 2006, it cost $15,000 for a nominated candidate while in 2011 it cost $40,000.

“We think that qualified candidates will be capable of raising money and we think that is not an unreasonable amount to expect in this case,” said McCormick.

The Tories have faced considerable difficulty in raising funds in recent years, being surpassed by the Wildrose Party, the official Opposition.

Still McCormick said what the Wildrose Party has done did not play into their decision to boost the cost of running.

“We’ve made some changes, are we concerned?

No,” he said. “What the other parties have to say or do doesn’t play into our decision.”

Municipal Affairs Minister Ken Hughes said Monday he’s interested in running for the leadership, but wants to set up a committee and a website to gauge public support before he commits.

“It’s not clear that I am going to run. I’m prepared to have a thoughtful conversation with Albertans.

I’m prepared to listen,” Hughes said.

“I think it’s really important that the PC party and the government of Alberta to date demonstrate that they can listen and are prepared to listen to Albertans.”

In another development, a website popped up urging the public to draft Conservative Sen. Scott Tannas for the job. The site scottforleader.com describes him as a respected businessman, listener and consensus builder and says he would bring a “fresh approach to leadership.”

Tannas, a resident of High River, south of Calgary, did not immediately respond to requests for an interview.

One of the major talking points discussed in the meeting was to when the election process would take place, by law they have to hold it between four and six months after the resignation of their leader, and they opted to push it too the maximum.

“It was discussed at length, both for the timing, and it was decided in the end this was the route and timing for us to go,” said McCormick.

All Tory members over the age of 14 are eligible to vote in the leadership process. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Democracy less than advertised Canadians are rightfully proud that would probably not have a majority our system of running democratic, hon- government today. est elections are a model for the world.

As it was, 60 per cent of the general In fact, emerging democracies send population voted in 2011, meaning the delegations to Canada to turnout of older voters exstudy our electoral system, ceeded that mark by quite to help their own countries a margin. develop more free and fair As a result, says Nanos, government. guess what issues were top But as data mining beof the agenda? Health care, comes prevalent in our digitaxes, jobs, right? If issues tal age, there are a few exof importance to youth were amples that raise red flags included at the same deagainst copying our system gree, the 2011 election (and entirely. Democracy here the policies of the winning is becoming somewhat less party) would have been than advertised. more about the environAnd there doesn’t seem ment and education.

GREG to be much will in the halls As well, says Nanos, NEIMAN of power to improve safeyoung voters showed themguards. Just the opposite, selves in polls to be much in fact. more likely to believe that It is already evident the good solutions to problems current system does not give everyone are available. Unlike older voters, who equal consideration. more strongly believe that change is That is as much because a huge difficult and expensive. swath of our citizenry refuses to vote.

Ironic, then, that young people did But there is also little desire within not vote “because my vote doesn’t our political system to acknowledge count” in the current system. And not that its structure is skewed overwhelm- ironic at all, that the desires of older ingly toward older, richer voters, much voters — who don’t believe that change less to do anything about it. is possible — got what they voted for: Three news stories over the week- no change. end can illustrate.

Now switch to the next weekend First, let’s look at a report from poll- news flash: the Parti Québécois is worster Nik Nanos. Studying the data from ried that young people — students in the last federal election, he says that if particular — might actually vote in 60 per cent of young voters had come their provincial election. to the polls in 2011 (instead of 40 per If you’ve lived in Quebec for six cent, as was the case), Stephen Harper months, have a Quebec bank account,

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and reasonably believe you could make Quebec your home, you can vote.

But students who have been living (and paying taxes) in Quebec for years are being turned away from registration offices by government clerks.

Meanwhile, justice minister Bertrand St-Arnaud declared: “We don’t want this election stolen by people from Ontario and the rest of Canada.”

Meaning students.

Thus, the PQ created its new scapegoat. Remember how Jacques Parizeau said, after the loss of his referendum on independence, that “money and the ethnics” had stolen that vote. New times, new excuses — a new group to persecute.

So the PQ decided to get tough against an identifiable group of young voters, and seek to deny them their right to vote.

Roger Rivard, an election official in St-Henri-St-Anne in Montreal said he had turned away dozens of would-be voters, who arrived with documentation in hand proving they were eligible to vote. Better safe than sorry, in his view. And then he quit his job.

More, the PQ is demanding that the verification process for new voters be extended long past the election, so that investigations could be demanded in lost ridings.

All the while, the Quebec elections office is reporting no great influx of new voter registrations. Nobody is “stealing” the Quebec election.

If anyone can steal elections it will be political parties themselves,

under the federal government’s new Fair Elections Act. This is News Story Three.

Parties — using temporary and untrained partisan volunteers — will be given unfettered access to voter lists, which could contain highly sensitive information (like bank and credit card numbers) of voters who used these statements to prove residency and eligibility to vote. Privacy laws do not apply to political parties, says former chief electoral officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley.

Party workers will also be able to quickly assess who has or has not voted on election day, to get their supporters out to the polls.

Well enough, but they can also be able to try to keep other voters out — perhaps using the next version of robo-calls, perhaps (like the PQ is attempting) — to deny citizens their voting rights in the first place.

The world is filled with examples of elections that are are neither fair or free. As we can see, even our own governments are unreliable protectors of democracy, especially once the campaign is on.

If you are eligible to vote, you must vote when called to do so. More, you must insist on it, or you may end up like the young voters in Quebec — a demographic whose rights are being denied.

Greg Neiman is a retired Advocate editor. Follow his blog at readersadvocate. blogspot.ca or email greg.neiman.blog@ gmail.com.

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Is Quebec heavily subsidized by the rest of Canada?

BY MARK MILKE ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES CALGARY, AB/ Troy Media/ - There is nothing like an election to bring out the optimistic side in people - and some mythmaking. In Quebec, recent attention focused on Premier Pauline Marois and her musings that if her party wins the provincial election, and if separation one day occurs, Quebec would keep the Canadian dollar, seek a seat on the Bank of Canada, and that Quebecois might have dual citizenship.

Some of the Marois musings could theoretically occur, though much is in the realm of fantasy. But here’s a myth relevant to any musings about possible separation and one often promulgated

by Quebec elites: That Quebec is not subsidized by the rest of Canada.

Over the years, former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe promulgated this notion; as did former Quebec Finance Minister Raymond Bachand under the last Liberal government.

Both argued with a straight face that Quebec was not subsidized.

A modified version of this claim was resurrected again by a Quebecbased think tank this month. In a short paper, the Institut de recherche et d’informations socio-économique (IRIS) claimed that Quebec isn’t all that dependent on the rest of Canada

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and pointed to how the Maritimes are comparatively more dependent. And anyway, it added, depending on the year, equalization payments from the federal government to Ottawa account for just 3 to 6 per cent of Quebec government spending.

Let’s be clear about these Quebec claims: Taxpayers in every province pay federal taxes but that doesn’t mean certain provinces are not subsidized by taxpayers in another. It matters where federal taxes originate and where they are later spent, on a net basis.

Statistics Canada data (which regrettably ends in 2009 and which measures all the money that flows into federal coffers on a per province basis and all the money later spent in each province) when averaged out between 2000 and 2009 gives an idea of how dependent a province is (or is not) on federal transfers.

The data includes, for instance, transfers to provincial governments, payments to individuals (think employment insurance) and other big-ticket expenses such as federal infrastructure spending.

The numbers are not beyond some criticism: If the federal government pays a head office in Montreal for a product actually manufactured in Ontario, the federal spending in reality benefits Ontario.

Such occasional wrinkles aside

though, the data shows that, as a percentage of GDP, taxpayers in three provinces contribute more in revenues than is later spent by the federal government: Albertans contribute more (by 6.1 percentage points) Ontarians contribute more (by 3.8 points) and British Columbians contribute more (by 1.7 points).

The other seven provinces were all net “takers” from the federal purse.

On average, federal spending was two percentage points of GDP higher than federal revenue in Quebec; in Prince Edward Island, federal spending was almost 20 percentage points higher.

None of this is surprising or necessarily unfair, at least in some specific cases. You would expect, for example, the federal government to spend less per person in Alberta on employment insurance than in Nova Scotia as Alberta has a lower unemployment rate.

In dollar terms, the 2000 to 2009 average shows that Albertans lost the most, with a net loss of $3,852 per person annually in the federal taxing/ spending equation. (British Columbians lose $666 per person and the figure in Ontario is $1,548.) Quebecois are net gainers, with $730 per person, while PEI won the lottery, with $5,838 in federal spending per person.

So PEI (and other provinces in Atlantic Canada) is indeed more dependent on federal transfers than Quebec

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when measured per person. And the $730 per person balance in Quebec’s favour may not seem like much but in 2009, PEI had just 140,000 people; Quebec had over 7.8 million people — or 56 times as many as PEI. That much larger Quebec population matters a lot to Albertans, British Columbians and Ontarians who finance Quebec’s provincial government. In 2009, those population figures mean there was a $5.7 billion net federal transfer to Quebec. (In contrast, PEI’s net transfers cost the rest of Canada $817 million.)

Perhaps Quebec can live without $5.7 billion every year (a number likely higher now), but in 2009 that was already equivalent to 42 per cent of the amount of revenues from Quebec’s consumption taxes ($13.5 billion) and almost as much as Quebec paid in interest on its debt that year ($6.2 billion).

That raises the question of how an independent Quebec would pay for any revenue loss. Last time, I checked, Quebec was not undertaxed. Regardless, no one, least of all anyone in Quebec, should buy the myth Quebec isn’t massively subsidized by the rest of Canada. It surely is.

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Russia bans entry to Canadian lawmakers IN RESPONSE TO SANCTIONS “None of the people listed today are threatening the territorial integrity or sovereignty of the Russian Federation.

“I think it also says we’ve certainly got the attenOTTAWA — Russia on Monday slapped an entry ban on 13 Canadian lawmakers and officials, includ- tion of those in the Kremlin.”

Russian retaliation was bound to come, said NDP ing House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer and government House leader Peter Van Loan, in retali- Leader Tom Mulcair.

“It’s a sign that we are heading into an era of ation for Canadian sanctions over Ukraine. much chillier reRussia’s Foreign lations, but it was Ministry called the predictable. And move a response frankly, if that’s the to Canadian travel price to pay to start bans and economic sending a message to sanctions imposed Putin, so be it.” earlier on a numLiberal MP Ralph ber of Russian offiGoodale called the cials — “unacceptRussian move “deepable action by the ly insulting”, espeCanadian side that has inflicted serious — FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER JOHN BAIRD cially in targeting Scheer. damage to bilateral “The Speaker emrelations,” the minbodies the rights and privileges of all MPs and inistry said in a statement.

The move follows Canada’s decision to act in uni- deed the very dignity of the whole House,” Goodale son with the U.S. to introduce sanctions targeting said.

In addition to Scheer, Van Loan and Cotler, the members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entourage following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Russians also banned Tory MPs Ted Opitz, James Bezan and Dean Allison, Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland Crimea region.

“Canadian officials named today by Russia aren’t and NDP MP Paul Dewar.

Also named are Wayne Wouters, the clerk of the oligarchs or threatening to annex parts of peaceful neighbours by military force,” the Department of privy council; Jean-Francois Tremblay, deputy secretary to the cabinet; and Christine Hogan, assistant Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Speaking from The Hague, where he is attending secretary to the cabinet.

Sen. Raynell Andreychuk, a Conservative senator a nuclear security summit with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird from Saskatchewan, is also on the list, along with echoed Liberal MP Irwin Cotler in describing the Paul Grod, national president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. sanctions as a “badge of honour.”

“I wear my exclusion from Russia as a badge of “Any country who thinks that in the 21st century you can simply rewrite the borders of Europe is honour and am proud to be in such distinguished company,” Cotler said in a statement. wrong, and it’s of deep concern,” Baird said.

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House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer speaks in the House of Commons. Russia has slapped an entry ban on 13 Canadian lawmakers and officials, including Scheer and government House leader Peter Van Loan, in retaliation for Canadian sanctions over Ukraine.

Cotler said he was first banned from Russia 35 years ago for his efforts on behalf of Soviet-era dissidents. The Russians say the Canadian sanctions are unacceptable and have inflicted serious damage on relations between the two countries.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said Russia remains open to “constructive” co-operation with Canada, but added that “we don’t need such co-operation more than Ottawa does.”

Aboriginals adopted into white families want apology ADOPTEES FROM THE SIXTIES SCOOP SAY IT’S THEIR TURN FOR RECONCILIATION WINNIPEG — Some aboriginal people who were adopted into white families during the socalled Sixties Scoop say it’s their turn for reconciliation and are calling for a formal apology from the federal government.

Dozens of adoptees gathered in Winnipeg on Monday to tell their stories — many for the first time — and figure out how to get justice.

Coleen Rajotte was taken from her Cree community in Saskatchewan when she was three months old and raised by a Manitoba family.

Adoptees were robbed of their real families and feel someone has to be held accountable, she said.

“If someone came into your home today, took your children and shipped them to the United States and around the world, we would want answers,” she said. “ That’s what we as adoptees are asking for.

Someone has to take responsibility for this.”

From the 1960s to the 1980s, thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their homes by child welfare services and placed with non-aboriginal families.

Many consider the adoptions as an extension of the residential school system, which aimed to “take the Indian out of the child.”

Rajotte said she was lucky enough to be placed into a loving home, but she lost her language, her culture and her connection to her ancestral home.

When she recently went to the home she would have grown up in had she not been adopted, Rajotte said it was overwhelming.

“I was physically ill for days just trying to process all of that,” she said.

But while residential school survivors have had a formal apology and are the subjects of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, adoptees haven’t been formally recognized.

“Personally, I would like to see some kind of formal apology to all adoptees that were taken from their homes,” Rajotte said.

“That’s a lot of children — 20,000 children across Canada.”

A spokeswoman for federal Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt said there would be no comment.

“As this case is currently before the courts it would be inappropriate to comment further,” she said in an email.

A class-action lawsuit launched by some sur-

vivors in Ontario in 2009 is slowly making its way through the courts.

The lawsuit was certified, but Canada recently won leave to appeal that decision.

Manitoba Aboriginal Affairs Minister Eric Robinson said it’s time adoptees were given the same opportunity for rec-

onciliation as residential school survivors.

Some adoptees were put with families where they were treated as farm hands or subjected to horrific abuse, he said.

“It’s not an easy thing to talk about the hurts that many of them endured as children, not

knowing who they were, being a brown face in an all-white school as an example,” said Robinson, a residential school survivor who organized the two-day gathering.

“Those things are very difficult to talk about in this current day but they have to be addressed.”

Those adoptees at the gathering hope to emerge with a strategy for recognition and a sense of what supports they need to heal, he said.

“Compensation no doubt will come up,” Robinson said. “There’s got to be a certain degree of accountability by governments.”

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Officials say Malaysian plane crashed into Indian Ocean

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — After 17 days of desperation and doubt over the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, the country’s officials said an analysis of satellite data points to a “heartbreaking” conclusion: Flight 370 met its end in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, and none of those aboard survived.

The sombre announcement late Monday by Prime Minister Najib Razak left unresolved many more troubling questions about what went wrong aboard the Boeing 777 to take it so far off-course.

It also unleashed a maelstrom of sorrow and anger among the families of the jet’s 239 passengers and crew.

A solemn Najib, clad in a black suit, read a brief statement about what he called an unparalleled study of the jet’s last-known signals to a satellite.

That analysis showed that the missing plane, which took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing early on March 8, veered “to a remote location, far from any possible landing sites.”

“It is therefore with deep sadness and regret that I must inform you that, according to this new data, Flight MH370 ended in the southern Indian Ocean,” he said.

His carefully chosen words did not directly address the fate of those aboard. But in a separate

message, sent to some of their relatives just before he spoke, Malaysia Airlines officials said that “we have to assume beyond any reasonable doubt that MH370 has been lost and that none of those on board survived.”

Officials said they concluded that the flight had been lost in the deep waters west of Perth, Australia, based on more thorough analysis of the brief signals the plane sent every hour to a satellite belonging to Inmarsat, a British company, even after other communication systems on the jetliner shut down.

The pings did not include any location information.

But Inmarsat and British aviation officials used “a type of analysis never before used in an investigation of this sort” to zero in on the plane’s last direction, as it reached the end of its fuel, Najib said.

In a statement, Inmarsat said the company used “detailed analysis and modelling” of transmissions from the Malaysia Airlines jet and other known flights to describe “the likely direction of flight of MH370.”

Najib gave no indication of exactly where in the Indian Ocean the plane was last heard from, but searchers have sighted possible debris in an area about 2,500 kilometres (1,550 miles) southwest of Perth.

High waves, gale-force winds and low-hanging clouds forced the multinational search to be sus-

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Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak speaks during a press conference for the missing Malaysia Airlines, flight MH370, in Kuala Lumpur, Monday. A new analysis of satellite data indicates the missing plane crashed into a remote corner of the Indian Ocean, Najib said Monday. pended for 24 hours Tuesday, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said in a statement.

There is also a race against the clock to find any trace of the plane that could lead them to the location of the black boxes, the common name for the cockpit voice and data recorders, whose batterypowered “pinger” could stop sending signals within two weeks.

The batteries are designed to last at least a month and can last longer.

The plane disappeared March 8.

Scores now believed missing after mudslide, at least 14 dead OSO, Wash. — As the search for survivors of a destructive Washington state mudslide ballooned Monday to include scores of people who were still unaccounted for, the death toll from the wall of trees, rocks and debris that swept through a rural community rose to at least 14.

In the struggle to find loved ones, family members and neighbours used chain saws and their bare hands to dig through wreckage that was tangled by the mud into broken piles.

Late Monday, the list of potentially missing people topped 176 following the disaster Saturday about 55 miles northeast of Seattle.

But Snohomish County Emergency Management Director John Pennington stressed that authorities believed the number included many duplicate names.

“The 176, I believe very strongly is not a number we’re going to see in fatalities. I believe it’s going to drop dramatically,” he said.

The number of those possibly missing grew dramatically from an estimated 108 earlier Monday.

But Pennington said the list was compiled from information provided by the public, and officials were trying to cross off reports that likely described the same person. The list included construction workers who were working in the area and peo-

ple just driving by.

The lack of definitive information two days after the massive slide destroyed a cluster of homes at the bottom of a river valley ratcheted up anxieties.

“The situation is very grim,” Snohomish County Fire District 21 Chief Travis Hots said, stressing that authorities are still in rescue mode and are holding out hope.

But he noted: “We have not found anyone alive on this pile since Saturday.”

Snohomish County sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said Monday afternoon that search and rescue crews discovered an additional six bodies, bringing the number of fatalities to at least 14. The slide critically injured several others.

About two dozen houses were flattened, and the debris blocked a mile-long stretch of state highway near Arlington.

Cory Kuntz and several volunteers worked Monday with chain saws to cut through the roof of his uncle’s house, which was swept about 150 yards from its previous location. Kuntz said his aunt, Linda McPherson, was killed. He and the others pulled out files, his aunt’s wallet and a box filled with pictures and slides.

“When you look at it, you just kind of go in shock, and you kind of go numb,” he said, adding that there were more people out helping Sunday. On Monday, they couldn’t get through roadblocks.

“They are all eager to get down here, but unfortunately they can’t. It just shows how tight this community is,” he said.

Doug Reuwsaat, who grew up in the area and was also helping in the search, said authorities had told people to stay away.

“We’re related to a lot of these people from around here. So that’s why we’re here,” he said.

The mudslide struck Saturday morning, a time when most people are at home. Of the 49 structures in the neighbourhood, authorities believe at least 25 were full-time residences.

Monday’s search included aircraft, dogs and heavy equipment.

Frustrations were growing as family members and neighbours waited for official word on the missing and the dead. Elaine Young and her neighbours uncovered several bodies Sunday and had to contact authorities to get them removed.

They also found a chocolate Labrador named Buddy alive, and helped pull the dog from the rubble, leading her to wonder if other survivors could be out there, desperate for help.

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Aboriginal community downstream from oilands doesn’t have higher overall cancer rates

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — A study by the Alberta government says an aboriginal community downstream from the oilsands doesn’t have higher overall cancer rates.

The Alberta Health Services survey, which used data from 1992 to 2011, did find the prevalence of two kinds of cancer in Fort Chipewyan was higher than would be expected.

James Talbot, chief medical health officer, says relatively high levels of cervical and bile duct cancer are most likely to be attributable to other factors than environmental contamination.

“Overall, cancer rates in the region are what would be expected for the rest of Alberta,” he said Monday when the survey was released.

Leaders in Fort Chipewyan reacted to the report with suspicion. They said a statistical analysis of data that already existed doesn’t fulfil their requests for a full-blown health study.

“There’s nothing (here) in regards to a comprehensive, independent study that we’ve been requesting, where government and industry have no participation in it,” said Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

Chief Steve Courtoreille of the Mikisew Cree also dismissed the survey.

“The government of Alberta has consistently downplayed the significance of cancer in my community,” he said.

“They have done that again today in their reports to the media that there is no reason for alarm of increased levels of cancers in my community.”

Potential health impacts on people living downstream of the oilsands are a common concern for local residents

and for industry critics.

Fort Chipewyan’s concerns surfaced recently in Washington, D.C., when they were discussed at a hearing hosted by a Democratic senator who opposes the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast.

The government survey compared the incidence of 81 cases of 18 different types of cancer to the Alberta average.

Bile duct and cervical cancer rates were high enough above average to be statistically significant.

Most cervical cancer is caused by a virus and U.S. research shows only weak links between bile duct cancers and environmental toxins, said Talbot.

“There’s only weak evidence for that to be associated with bile duct cancer and there are a lot of other, strongerlinked ones that we can do something about in the community.”

Bile duct cancer is more strongly linked to diabetes, obesity, cirrhosis and hepatitis C, Talbot said.

He added that cancer rates in Fort Chipewyan’s children under 15 are low, which also suggests environmental contamination isn’t a significant factor because children are more sensitive to it.

There’s also some initial evidence to suggest that aboriginals suffer from bile duct cancer at a higher rate than average, Talbot said.

The chief medical health officer did acknowledge that people in Fort Chipewyan are probably correct in their feeling that cancer is becoming more common. Rates of the disease are gradually rising everywhere, partly because the population is getting older, Talbot said.

“The perception is that there’s more cancer and to some extent that’s correct, but it’s not unique to this community.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Mounties in southeast British Columbia say a 45-year-old man from Germany is dead following an avalanche north of the community of Revelstoke.

RCMP Staff Sgt. Kurt Grabinsky says the morning slide occurred in the backcountry and buried the heli-skier in as much as three metres of snow.

Bystanders dug out the man, who received medical treatment at the scene, but Grabinsky says he died from his injuries.

The unidentified man is the ninth person to die in an avalanche in Alberta and British Columbia this year.

Saskatchewan won’t ban Russian vodka REGINA — Russian vodka lovers don’t have to worry about a ban on the drink in Saskatchewan.

Premier Brad Wall said Monday that the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority will not be removing Russian Standard vodka from store shelves.

Wall had considered the idea after the Manitoba government said it was thinking about making considered making the move as a symbolic reaction to Russia’s political and military actions in Ukraine. Russian Standard

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Wall noted, however, that stores also carry one kind of Ukrainian vodka; he suggested customers can make their own choice as to which of them they would rather buy.

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The 2012 Project Operation Warrant Execution tried to encourage people with outstanding warrants to step forward, or risk having their names and faces publicly released.

Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton says the project was in contravention of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act because police did not take precautions to limit the information it was releasing.

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper is injecting himself into contests where some of his incumbent MPs face nomination battles in advance of the 2015 election.

Harper has endorsed longtime MP Rob Anders, who is facing a nomination battle in Alberta.

The Calgary Conservative MP posted comments Monday on his nomination website, and the party says they come from the prime minister.

“Rob Anders has been a strong voice in our caucus and Conservative government as well as a valued member of our team,” says Harper.

“The Road to 2015 is one that needs strong, stable leadership and I’ve been able to count on Rob to get real results for his riding and our country.”

A party source, who didn’t want to be identified, said Harper has provided endorsements to all incumbents facing challenges.

Anders is up against a tough opponent as Ron Liepert, a well-known former Alberta Progressive Conservative minister, seeks the federal nomination in the redrawn riding of Calgary Signal Hill.

Anders was first elected to Parliament in 1997 as a Reform party member in Calgary West and won five subsequent elections.

He is known for his strong social conservative views and has gained notoriety for his sometimes inflammatory statements. For example, he op-

posed granting honorary citizenship to Nelson Mandela, branding the South African leader a communist and a terrorist.

The Conservatives protected incumbents from nomination challenges when the party held minority government status.

But this time, with Harper holding a majority in Ottawa, the party has declared it wants nominations to be “fair and open.”

Two ridings, Battlefords-Lloydminister in Saskatchewan and Calgary East, have already opted to open up the nomination process. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz holds former riding, while Deepak Obhrai is MP for the latter.

The party isn’t saying which other ridings have opened their nomination processes, calling that an internal party matter.

Conservatives are keeping a close eye on at least one other constituency, the newly-redrawn Oakville-North Burlington in Ontario, where longtime local Conservative Dr. Natalia Lishchyna will be competing against incumbent MP and parliamentary secretary Eve Adams.

Adams currently represents the Ontario riding of Mississauga-Brampton South.

A handful of incumbents were recently afforded protection when the party decided that ridings that have held byelection nomination races since the 2011 election won’t have to do so again.

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Housing market gets clean bill of health

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Conference Board isn’t buying the notion that Canada’s housing market will suddenly crumble, saying the most likely outlook is for a modest decline nationally and in some specific markets.

The Ottawa-based think-tank argues in a comprehensive new look at real estate in Canada that the conditions for a crash simply don’t exist, despite numerous reports that the market is overbuilt and overvalued.

Rather, the report argues that with the possible exception of Toronto, housing starts the past three years have been roughly in line with the 20-year average. Even in Toronto, there is only a “borderline” case that it could be overbuilt.

“At this point in the housing cycle, there is a risk that Canadian housing prices in some market segments are due for a modest correction,” the report states.

“Nevertheless, we believe that continued population growth, additional employment gains and modest mortgage rate increases will limit potential price declines in 2014 and 2015.”

There is a case for more dramatic price adjustment further out if higher mortgage rates start crimping affordability, the Conference Board says, but even then it is likely to be a soft rather than a hard landing.

In recent years, some economists and international organizations such as the OECD, the IMF, Deutsche Bank and The Economist magazine have described Canada’s housing market in stark terms, characterizing it as among the priciest in the world based on historical averages and other metrics.

But the consensus of economists within Canada has tended to be more subdued. Last week, the Canadian Real Estate Association also predicted a slowdown as mortgage rates start edging up later in the year, but it still saw the market overall growing in 2014 and 2015.

The Conference Board says fears of a housing bubble about to burst in Canada are exaggerated.

It says some of the evidence cited by correction hawks, including comparing home prices as a multiple of rental costs, don’t take into account historically-low mortgage rates that keeps affordability steady. Citing Toronto, it notes that in 2013 mortgage payments consumed less than 20 per cent of average household income, the same as in 1993.

“Mortgage costs, not just house prices, are the principal deciding factor for potential homebuyers,” says Robin Wiebe, the think-tank’s senior economist.

Even when mortgage rates do start rising, the Conference Board believes it will happen gradually and over an extended period. For instance, it forecasts rates with only a gain of 200 basis points — two percentage points — by 2017 or 2018.

But at current low rates, the typical homeowner on a posted five-year rate will have paid down $42,104 principal on a $100,000 in mortgage debt, so affordability won’t be seriously impacted once it comes time to renew at a higher rate.

The Conference Board provides an outlook on six major cities: — Vancouver: Moved back into balance last spring. Recent price gains will give way to slower advances in 2014.

— Calgary: A approaching sellers’ conditions, noting strong price gains last year.

— Edmonton: Balanced, with brisk resale and price growth activity last year.

— Toronto: Balanced with healthy price growth.

A major correction is difficult to see given solid employment and population growth.

— Ottawa: Market cooling due to falling employment from the government sector, flatter sales and tempered prices.

— Montreal: Flirting with buyer’s market conditions with sales and average prices having dropped somewhat last year.

Parkland adopts poison pill strategy Parkland Fuel Corp.’s board of directors has taken steps to guard the Red Deer-based company against hostile takeover bids.

The board has adopted a shareholder rights plan that will allow Parkland shareholders to buy additional shares at a discounted price should any individual acquire 20 per cent of more of the company’s common shares.

Such a plan, which is commonly known as a “poison pill,” would dilute a takeover bidder’s interest in the company if triggered.

A release issued by Parkland said its shareholder rights plan “has not been adopted in response to, or in contemplation of, any specific proposal to acquire control of Parkland.”

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Its intent is to ensure that the board has time to implement alternatives in the best interests of shareholders should a takeover bid arise, and allow shareholders to assess their options, the release added.

The plan does allow acquisition of control of Parkland through a negotiated transaction or a bid that meets specified requirements.

Parkland’s shareholder rights plan took effect immediately, but is still subject to acceptance by the Toronto Stock Exchange and shareholder ratification at the company’s May 6 annual meeting.

Parkland is Canada’s largest independent fuel distributor and marketer.

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Cal Dallas, centre right, speaks with Sichuan news agencies about the opportunities for Alberta-Sichuan collaboration during his mission to China.

Dallas takes Alberta’s environmental know-how to China CONDUCTS ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOPS, WHICH ATTRACT GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY INTEREST

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The smog-choked skies over Chinese cities are attracting plenty of attention — especially in China. And that’s creating opportunities for Alberta’s energy sector, says the province’s minister of international and intergovernmental relations.

Cal Dallas was in the Asian country March 12 to 21 as part of a trade mission that took him to the cities of Chengdu, Harbin, Beijing and Tianjin.

Much of that time was spent on environmental issues, he said, including at environmental technology workshops in Chengdu and Harbin.

“Environmental mitigation has moved way up the policy priorities,” said Dallas, who’s the MLA for Red Deer South. “There’s a lot of concern around air quality in the bigger cities.”

Chinese officials are also worried about soil and groundwater contamination, he added, as well as the environmental impact of human settlement.

The environmental technology workshops, which attracted representatives of government and industry, each featured a half-dozen Alberta companies, as well as officials from Alberta Innovates Energy and Environment, and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures.

“There’s a lot of interest in what we’re doing in Alberta in terms of cumulative effects man-

agement — the technology that’s here that’s being utilized in Alberta,” said Dallas.

The Chinese are serious about change, he pointed out, describing initiatives to convert trucks, buses and even rail locomotives to natural gas use.

They’re also looking to Alberta for guidance when it comes to responsible oil and gas production, said Dallas, noting that the sprawling country is “a substantial energy producer.”

in the Chinese government, they place great value on that.”

China continues to view Canada as a preferred energy provider, said Dallas, although continued delays in developing pipeline connections to coastal ports in this country isn’t helping.

“There’s a continued frustration in terms of our ability to develop the infrastructure necessary to move that potential product to market, and allow them to compete for that product.”

China also remains an important source of investment dollars to help develop Alberta’s energy sector, especially the oilsands, he added.

Dallas met with a variety of government, industry and economic develop— CAL DALLAS ment organizations while in China.

He said these continued the “China engagement strategy” that his government has adopted — a strategy that’s resulted in several other Alberta missions to China during the past year, and increased trade offices and staff there.

Dallas believes this strategy is starting to pay dividends, and is confident it will continue despite Alison Redford’s resignation as premier.

“My commitment is to continue that work, and these changes won’t impede that in any way.

“This is something now that Premier (Dave) Hancock and all of my colleagues are fully supportive of.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

‘THERE’S A LOT OF INTEREST IN WHAT WE’RE DOING IN ALBERTA IN TERMS OF CUMULATIVE EFFECTS MANAGEMENT — THE TECHNOLOGY THAT’S HERE THAT’S BEING UTILIZED IN ALBERTA.’ In Sichuan province, for example, there are shale gas resources that could benefit from Alberta technology and expertise.

Dallas also attended the China International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology and Equipment Exhibition, which is billed as the largest petroleum exhibition in Asia.

A number of Alberta companies set up displays in the Alberta pavilion there.

“They were very pleased with what they saw and the work they were doing,” said Dallas, describing how the presence of Alberta government officials helps open doors.

“In the Chinese culture and

B.C. introduces back-to-work legislation in port truckers strike

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — Unionized truckers on strike at Vancouver’s normally busy shipping container terminals could face fines of up to $400 a day if they don’t return to their jobs once back-to-work legislation passes through the British Columbia legislature later this week.

The Liberal government followed through with its promise to table back-to-work legislation for unionized truckers, introducing a bill Monday that also includes potential fines of up to $2,500 a day for union officers and $10,000 a day for the union itself, as well as their employers.

The legislation, which calls for a 90-day cooling off period, only applies to the 250 unionized truckers at Port Metro Vancouver, Canada’s largest port.

More than 1,000 non-unionized truckers have also walked off the job.

“We need to see some movement here,” said B.C.’s labour minister, Shirley Bond.

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“We introduced legislation today, reluctantly.

Today is about the economy — not just in B.C., but about Canada. I’m starting to receive letters from producers, shippers, importers, exporters. They want their goods moving and so do we.”

The strike has affected the port’s four container terminals in the Vancouver area.

At its peak, the port said the strike was affecting $885 million worth of goods per week, though the situation has improved in the past week as truck traffic increased.

The non-union truckers walked off the job late last month, and several hundred Unifor members joined them on March 10. They’re demanding shorter wait times at the port and standardized rates of pay across the sector to prevent allegations of undercutting.

Bond said the back-to-work legislation applies only to the union truckers.

“This is the least interventionist we can be,” she said.

“It really says, ‘You need to go back to work.”’

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COMPANIES OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 104.77 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 51.68 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.41 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.50 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.16 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 44.14 Cdn. National Railway . . 61.92 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 167.88 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.78 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.22 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.81 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.16 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.18 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.60 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.32 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.14 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.04 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.90 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.38 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 66.93 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.33 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.71 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.45 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 101.09 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.44 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.77 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.40 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.98 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Falling mining issues helped push the Toronto stock lower Monday as base metal stocks declined amid data showing continued contraction of China’s manufacturing sector and slowing expansion in the United States.

The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 57.21 points to 14,278.55, with the market also held back by gold stocks, which gave up further ground as bullion prices continued to decline.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.12 of a cent to 89.33 cents US. U.S. indexes were also lacklustre as the initial or “flash” Markit purchasing managers index for the United States fell to 55.5 in March from 57.1 in February, but still showed improving conditions for manufacturers.

Readings over 50 in the purchasing managers index indicate growth.

The Dow Jones industrials shed 26.08 points to 16,276.69, while the S&P 500 index was 9.08 points lower at 1,857.44.

The Nasdaq was the biggest loser, down 50.4 points to 4,226.39 amid losses in biotechs and social media stocks. Facebook, for example, was down 4.67 per cent to US$64.10.

Data out earlier in the session showed that the preliminary version of HSBC’s purchasing managers’ index for China dropped to 48.1 in March from February’s 48.5. It was the lowest reading since July 2013 and was below consensus expectations of a modest rise. The worse than expected Chinese data suggested that the slowdown in the world’s secondbiggest economy is deepening.

In the past, traders have reacted to bad Chinese economic news in a more positive light amid hopes that the Chinese government would take action to ensure it meets its growth target of about 7.5 per cent.

The gold sector was the leading decliner, down about 4.35 per cent as April bullion shed $24.80 to US$1,311.20 an ounce.

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.14 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.33 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.67 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.76 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 23.07 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.75 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 26.72 First Quantum Minerals . 19.59 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 28.61 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.20 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 5.10 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.62 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.53 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.42 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 30.12 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 37.50 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 61.64 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.87 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 52.89 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.87 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.21 Canyon Services Group. 13.42 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 30.53 CWC Well Services . . . . 0.960 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 22.93 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.70 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 94.64 Gold prices initially spiked in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Crimea earlier this month. But they backed off as any threat of military retaliation quickly evaporated while sanctions have been aimed at specific individuals, not the main Russian economy.

The metals and mining sector gave up early gains to move down 1.48 per cent while May copper was unchanged at US$2.95 a pound.

Worries about China have pushed the sector down more than six per cent this month, making that group the leading loser, while copper prices have fallen more than 7.5 per cent.

The energy sector edged up 0.11 per cent as the May crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 14 cents to US$99.60 a barrel.

The tech sector was ahead 0.47 per cent and BlackBerry (TSX:BB) was up 31 cents to C$10.50 ahead of earnings from the smartphone maker coming out on Friday. On average, investors expect the company to post revenue of $1.1 billion and a net loss of about 57 cents a share. That is down sharply from a year ago when BlackBerry posted revenue of $2.2 billion and earnings per share of 18 cents.

Utilities and financials also supported the TSX. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close of Monday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,278.55, down 57.21 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,019.18, down 15.58 points TSX 60 — 819.33, down 2.88 points Dow — 16,276.69, down 26.08 points S&P 500 — 1,857.44, down 9.08 points Nasdaq — 4,226.39, down 50.40 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 89.33 cents US, up 0.12 of a cent

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 57.78 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.60 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 32.93 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 51.18 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.68 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.34 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.170 Precision Drilling Corp . . 12.79 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.86 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.16 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.51 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.27 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 67.43 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.49 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.86 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.00 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.87 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.04 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.90 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 53.19 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 66.85 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.59 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 44.73 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.15 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.43 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.11 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.70 Pound — C$1.8472, down 0.18 of a cent Euro — C$1.5492, down 0.25 of a cent Euro — US$1.3838, up 0.40 of a cent Oil futures: US$99.60 per barrel, up 14 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,311.20 per oz., down $24.80 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.387 oz., down 32.4 cents $751.89 kg, down $10.42 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Monday at 1,019.18, down 15.58 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 230.75 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $7.50 higher $448.00; July ’14 $7.60 higher $457.50; Nov. ’14 $8.40 higher $474.90; Jan ’15 $8.90 higher $482.30; March ’15 $9.00 higher $489.50; May ’15 $9.00 higher $495.70; July ’15 $8.20 higher $500.70; Nov ’15 $8.20 higher $493.30; Jan. ’16 $8.20 higher $493.30; March ’16 $8.20 higher $493.30.

Barley (Western): May ’14 unchanged $130.50; July ’14 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $128.50; March ’15 unchanged $128.50; May ’15 unchanged $128.50; July ’15 unchanged $128.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $128.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $128.50; March ’16 unchanged $128.50; May ’16 unchanged $128.50.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 549,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 549,060.

Precision increases capital spending, lands new contracts THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Precision Drilling Corp.

(TSX:PD) said Monday it is increasing its 2014 capital spending by about 23 per cent and that it’s been awarded several new international contracts.

The company, which provides drilling and other services to the oil and gas industry, says its budget for this year will be $634 million — a $119 million increase from

its forecast released just last month.

The new plan includes $320 million for expansion capital, $195 million for sustaining and infrastructure spending and $119 million to upgrade existing rigs.

This year, Calgarybased Precision plans to deliver six new build rigs to Canada, two to the United States and three to international locations.

Another one will only be completed once the company secures

a firm customer contract.

Precision said it’s signed a multi-year contract to deliver a new rig to the Middle East in the fourth quarter of 2014. It has also inked multi-year contracts for six drilling rigs in Mexico.

“These new contracts will grow our share of the technically challenging portion of the market and create scale benefits in our core geographic operating regions,” CEO Kevin Neveu said.

Manitoba relaxes road weight restrictions to help move grain THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — Manitoba is relaxing weight restrictions on provincial roads to help move more grain and ease a current backlog.

The province says the one-time amendment will help farmers move

grain to strategic locations from where it can be shipped to market.

Weight restrictions are usually imposed in the spring when rain and thawing can weaken the road.

Transportation Minister Steve Ashton says helping get surplus grain to market is the govern-

ment’s top priority.

A bumper crop combined with a transportation bottleneck has left grain sitting in bins across the Prairies.

Ottawa has ordered Canada’s rail companies to double the amount of grain they ship in a week or they will face fines.

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VANCOUVER — Opponents of oil tankers off the British Columbia coast marked the 25th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on Monday by launching a renewed campaign against two proposed oil pipeline projects through the province.

Coastal First Nations, a coalition of aboriginal communities, are asking residents to support a ban on oil tankers in their traditional territories, saying Alaska still has not recovered from the effects of the 1989 tanker spill.

The Gitxaala, an aboriginal community occupying islands between Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii, will make much the same argument to a federal government delegation next week.

“When I watched the news coverage, what did I see?” said Elmer Moody, a hereditary chief with the Gitxaala.

“I saw wildlife covered in oil. I saw oil covering the beaches. When you see that kind of destruction, you have to come to an understanding that it’s going to have an effect on people. We could no longer rely on the resources that we have for thousands of years.”

The Exxon Valdez ran aground in the early morning of March 24, 1989, dumping 257,000 barrels, or 35,000 metric tonnes, into the waters of Prince William Sound, off the Alaska coast.

The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council estimates 250,000 seabirds, 2,800 sea otters, 300 harbour seals, 250 bald eagles and up to 22 killer whales died, along with billions of salmon and herring eggs that were destroyed.

The company has said it spent about US$2.1 billion on the cleanup effort, which recovered only about 15 per cent of the oil.

Gary Shigenaka, a marine biologist with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or NOAA, said the region has not fully recovered.

There remain pockets of oil along the Alaskan Peninsula today.

“I don’t think anyone really expected that after 25 years, and we don’t fully understand why,” he said in a recent NOAA broadcast.

Gravel beaches appeared to return largely to normal five years after the spill, but some animals continue to be

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Further evidence emerged Monday that the economic recovery across the 18-country eurozone is accelerating and, perhaps more importantly, spreading to the bloc’s debtladen laggards.

Financial information company Markit, which publishes a closely watched monthly survey of economic conditions across the region, even suggested that the economic recovery is running at a near three-year high.

It is now forecasting quarterly economic growth of 0.5 per cent, which equates to an annualized increase of a little more than 2 per cent.

In the fourth quarter of 2013, the eurozone grew by a quarterly 0.3 per cent.

The forecast improvement will help ease worries that the recovery from recession isn’t gaining traction.

The eurozone emerged from its longest-ever recession last spring.

Markit’s relatively upbeat guidance came despite a modest decline in its purchasing managers’ index — a broad gauge of business activity — to 53.2 points in March from February’s 32-month high of 53.3.

Markit said the figure rounds off the eurozone’s best three-month period since the second quarter of 2011. Any

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A more detailed look at the survey shows Germany, Europe’s largest economy, continues to spearhead the growth and that the recovery is spreading to France and beyond to those economies, such as Greece and Spain, that have been weighed down by government-imposed austerity programs for years.

“The rest of the region also enjoyed its best quarter for three years, providing further evidence that the ’periphery’ is staging a robust-looking recovery,” said Chris Williamson, chief economist at Markit.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s sounded a relatively optimistic note too, and raised its growth forecasts modestly.

It now reckons the eurozone economy will grow by 1 per cent this year and by 1.5 per cent next. However, it cautioned that slower growth in emerging economies and the geopolitical impact of the crisis in Ukraine could weigh on the outlook.

“The key question is whether this initial revival in eurozone growth will gain fresh impetus from the private sector through stronger consumption and more buoyant investment, or remain overly dependent on foreign trade,” said Jean-Michel Six, S&P’s chief economist for Europe, Middle East and Asia.

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One group of orcas is slowly recovering; another is declining toward extinction. Only recently have sea otters and harlequin ducks been upgraded to “recovered” from the spill.

“It’s in some ways encouraging to see that the environment can rebound from something like a major oil spill, but it is still a little distressing that we can’t just say 25 years after the fact that things have recovered completely,” said Shigenaka.

The Exxon Valdez disaster has played heavily into the debate in B.C. over two major pipeline projects that would transport diluted bitumen from the Alberta oil sands to B.C. ports, for shipment overseas to the lucrative markets of Asia.

Calgary-based Enbridge’s (TSX:ENB) Northern Gateway to Kitimat and Texas-based Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of its existing Trans Mountain pipeline into the Vancouver area would see more than 600 oil tankers a year plying the B.C. coast.

Michael Lowry, a spokesman for the Western Canada Marine Response Corp., which is contracted to provide spill response on the Pacific Coast, said the disaster resulted in major changes to U.S. and Canadian laws, and further changes are pending.

“If these projects go ahead, we’re going to become a much larger organization,” said Lowry, whose company already has double or triple the capacity required under the law.

In a full-page ad in Monday’s Vancouver Sun, Stephen Brown, president of the Chamber of Shipping of B.C., called the Exxon disaster “a tragic day that none of us in the marine industry will ever forget.”

But he said there have been technological and regulatory advances since then, and a federal tanker safety expert panel last fall made 45 recommendations for further improvements.

“A safe shipping industry is in everyone’s best interest,” he said.

A federal review panel has recommended approval of the Northern Gateway project after finding that a large oil spill would not cause permanent damage.

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Black children more likely to be suspended from school

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Black students are more likely to be suspended from U.S. public schools — even as tiny preschoolers.

The racial disparities in American education, from access to high-level classes and experienced teachers to discipline, were highlighted in a report released Friday by the Education Department’s civil rights arm.

The suspensions — and disparities — begin at the earliest grades.

Black children represent about 18 per cent of children in preschool programs in schools, but they make up almost half of the preschoolers suspended more than once, the report said. Six per cent of the nation’s districts with preschools reported suspending at least one preschool child.

Advocates long have said get-tough suspension and arrest policies in schools have contributed to a “school-to-prison” pipeline that snags minority students, but much of the emphasis has been on middle school and high school policies. This was the first time the department reported data on preschool discipline.

Earlier this year, the Obama administration issued guidance encouraging schools to abandon what it described as overly zealous discipline policies that send students to court instead of the principal’s office.

But even before the announcement, school districts have been adjusting policies that disproportionately affect minority students.

Overall, the data show that black students of all ages are suspended and expelled at a rate that’s three times higher than that of white children. Even as boys receive more than two-thirds of suspensions, black girls are suspended at higher rates than girls of any other race or most boys.

The data doesn’t explain why the disparities exist or why the students were suspended.

“It is clear that the United States has a great distance to go to meet our goal of providing opportunities for every student to succeed,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in a statement.

“This critical report shows that racial disparities in school discipline policies are not only well documented among older students, but actually begin during preschool,” Attorney General Eric Holder said. “Every data point represents a life impacted and a future potentially diverted or derailed. This administration is moving aggressively to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in order to ensure that all of our young people have equal educational opportunities.”

‘JUST KICKING THEM OUT OF SCHOOL IS DENYING THEM ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY AT SUCH A YOUNG AGE.’ — DANIEL LOSEN DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS REMEDIES

Nationally, 1 million children were served in public preschool programs, with about 60 per cent of districts offering preschool during the 2011-2012 school year, according to the data. The data show nearly 5,000 preschoolers were suspended once. At least 2,500 were suspended more than once.

Reggie Felton, interim associate executive director at the National School Boards Association, called the rates “unacceptable.” He said there’s more training going on to ensure teachers are aware of the importance of keeping students in school.

Daniel Losen, director of the Center for Civil Rights Remedies for the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, said the findings are disturbing because the suspended preschoolers are unlikely to be presenting a danger, such as a teenager bringing a gun to school.

“Almost none of these kids are kids that wouldn’t be better off with some support from educators,” Losen said.

“Just kicking them out of school is denying them access to educational opportunity at such a young age. Then, as they come in for kindergarten, they are just that much less prepared.”

Losen said it’s appropriate to discipline a 4-yearold, but a more appropriate response might be moving them to a different educational setting with additional services.

“Most preschool kids want to be in school,” Losen said. “Kids just don’t understand why they can’t go to school.”

Kimbrelle Lewis, principal of Raleigh-Bartlett Meadows Elementary School in Memphis, said she’s never suspended a child in her school’s preschool program and would only consider it in an “extreme circumstance.” She said her district provides behaviour specialists and other services to children with discipline problems so strategies can be worked out with teachers and parents if preschoolers need additional support.

If there are racial disparities among preschoolers disciplined, “I do think it’s something to look at.

I think it’s a conversation to have,” said Lewis, who served on a committee with the National Association of Elementary School Principals looking at issues affecting younger school children.

App lets you know when your immunizations are due

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — If you are like most people, you have absolutely no clue when you last had a tetanus shot or when your polio booster is due. Even if you have a yellow immunization book, you may not know where to find it.

And if you’re a parent, you may have a hard time keeping track of when your daughter is due for an HPV vaccination or which vaccinations your son will get in Grade 9.

A new smartphone app could make those hassles a thing of the past.

The free and bilingual ImmunizeCA app can log a whole family’s vaccination history, sending you reminders of when you or your children are due for vaccinations, tailoring the alerts to the schedule in the province or territory in which you live. It can also link you to reputable information about those vaccines.

“As a parent who thinks vaccination is important, I think this is a brilliant idea,” said Dr. Michael Gardam, head of infection control at Toronto’s University Health Network.

“It is remarkably old fashioned that these things are (still) written in books. Half the time when I see people’s vaccination records I can’t even read what’s written there,” said Gardam, who was not involved in the project.

The app was developed by researchers at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in conjunction with the Canadian Public Health Association and the organization Immunize Canada. The work was funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada.

The app is available for iPhones, Androids and Android-enabled Blackberrys. It can be downloaded at the App Store, Google Play and Blackberry World.

Information will be stored on individual phones, but people can also upload it to the iCloud or Google Drive. That way, if you lose or replace your phone, the information itself is not lost.

Long time player being pushed out of poker league Dear Annie: I have played in a local poker league for 10 years and have built solid friendships with these people. Three years ago, a new crew joined our crowd. At first, they were friendly, but in the past two years, one of them began having home poker parties.

I was completely caught off guard when I started noticing Facebook posts with all of our friends, and my husband and I were not on the invite list.

I tried to be a good sport and would post comments to let them know I was glad they had a good time, but deep down, I was hurt that people I’d known for a decade didn’t seem to mind that we were not there. A few of them commented privately, saying they were not aware it was happening, but nothing changed.

Last year, I was diagnosed with cancer and have undergone radiation. My “don’t care” quotient is at an all-time high, so when I noticed once again that we were not invited to a gathering, I commented that it was a slap in the face and amazingly rude to expect me to be courteous and friendly during our poker games when it’s obvious

that she has no regard for my feelings at all.

I later attempted to extend an olive branch to all of the members of our league (including Miss Rude) by inviting them to my husband’s birthday party, but MITCHELL not one of them & SUGAR showed up. Do I need a shrink, or should I just put all of our cards on the table and find out what I’ve done to make her deliberately alienate me? Royal Flush Dear Royal: This sounds like high school with the mean girls and the bullies. There could be any number of reasons why Miss Rude has isolated you — she doesn’t like you, she wants to be in control, she believes you are competition. The real question is why

your other friends go along with it. If you have a pal in your group, ask for an honest assessment. But mostly, we think you need new friends.

Dear Annie: My husband and I are childless, over 55 and in the process of downsizing to a smaller home. Our birthdays are coming up. We don’t want or need clothes, knickknacks or home furnishings. We donate such items to charity.

While we appreciate their generosity, we have told our friends and relatives that a gift certificate (in any amount) to a restaurant is most welcome.

It is a nice treat and an incentive to get out. But few of them choose this option. Last Christmas, we were inundated with clothes and tchotchkes for the home we are leaving.

Would you please address this so our requests aren’t ignored? — Ft. Myers, Fla. Dear Florida: All gifts are just that, and no one is obligated to get you anything, let alone what you are requesting. The proper response is to say thank you and then give the items away.

But we understand your frustration.

If the same people keep doing this, it’s OK to ask them to stop, as you no longer need these items and will give them to charity. You can sincerely suggest that they make a direct donation to the charity instead. If they then ask what you’d actually like, you can tell them.

Dear Annie: I read the letter from “Unwilling Son,” who refused to take a family photo for his parents’ 40th anniversary because his mother asked him to wear a white sweatshirt and he doesn’t look good in white.

Several years back, we had such a picture taken. I treasure the picture because the family is scattered all over the world. Tell the ungrateful snob to put on the sweatshirt and make his parents happy. It may be the last time they are together. — Grandparent in White 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.

day. You care about your professional standing and you will try to avoid being under the wrong limelight. You are ambitious, but today, you may struggle Tuesday, March 25 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS in expressing it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A few DATE: Katharine McPhee, 30; Lee impeding details may interrupt the Pace, 35; Sarah Jessica Parker, 49 course of your day. You may be facing A lighter mood prevails today as the Moon switches gears from down- some responsibilities, which may steal to-business Capricorn to independent away your need for liberty. Studying or Aquarius. The Moon is in a positive exploring new grounds of knowledge stance with Uranus, the planet of sur- may prove a tad too challenging today.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are prises. We will be attracted to anything concerned with your partthat is ahead of its time and ner’s well being or their which promises a change. situation. Changes in your We seek liberation by actprofessional realm appear ing against the norm which to be on the same page as others may find either inyour innermost intentions. teresting or unacceptable.

Your accomplishments It is ultimately up to us to may offer you a reward or decide how much newness two. and progressive changes LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): we are willing to embrace.

The proper employment of Unusual circumstances will cooperation and negotiatake us pleasantly by surtion can bring you satisfyprise. ing results. You will find HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If yourself closer and closer ASTRO today is your birthday, you to your dreams. A much will crave to bring changes DOYNA more hopeful future uninto your life through social veils to you. Your optimism gatherings, organizations or skyrockets. even charitable events. This VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): marks a very active year on Today you need to master the social front and you will seek intellectual emotionality through the art of compromising with your mate all your interactions. It is not as much or a business alliance. Your principles the depth of it all that strikes your cu- may not be totally agreed upon. Your particular terms may clash with those riosity as much as the change in itself.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You are of the other party involved. Adapt by ready to implement radical changes joining your forces.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may into your life and spice up your social prove difficulty in expressing your innetwork. Suddenly, you find yourself nermost feelings today. You feel deepeager to add more zest and exuberance into your ideals. You are hopeful for a ly attached to your set of values and you hold a certain morale, which may completely new future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Finan- conflict with those of your partner. cial worries may be on your mind to- You need to give up a part of you if you want to gain something more meaning-

ful.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have great cosmic energy that offers you the opportunity to heal certain unnecessary injuries. You may have outlived certain fears and insecurities when it comes to your own self-expression.

You may start healing from a romantic pain.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Certain revelations will be so exciting that you will want to express them in some form of writing or verbal communication. You have brilliant new ideas which are operating in parallel to other people’s interest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are starting to learn accepting certain thoughts, which you could not acknowledge in the past. You acknowledge the

obstruction and struggle they have over your life. Just tolerate them. This will help you move on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Being giving and receptive to other’s feelings will be like second nature to you.

Later on, some amazing revelations may revitalize you. You may gain some interesting information or news that will indisputably excite you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You transcend into a world that is away from the limelight or the everyday drama.

You retreat your thoughts and your soul into a more spiritual path where you search for solitude and the divine unity.

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Fools the kids with this spaghetti and meatballs. They look like dinner but they are definitely a sweet treat. The spaghetti is made from piped frosting and the meatballs are Ferrero Rocher chocolate balls topped with strawberry preserves. Spaghetti wouldn’t be complete without the Parmesan cheese (grated white chocolate).

April Fools’ treats

ON A DAY WHEN NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, THESE CUPCAKES LOOK LIKE THEY SHOULD BE ON YOUR DINNER PLATE BUT WILL SATISFY ANY SWEET TOOTH

W

hile many believe it is cooking, my biggest passion is really decorating cakes.

Whenever there is an event or birthday in the family, I find myself scouring the Internet for ideas that expresses the person or the occasion.

During one of these googling sessions, MADHU I came across BADONI cupcakes that look — well not like cupcakes. With April Fools’ Day coming up next week, when nothing appears as it seems, they seemed so appropriate for the day.

I’m not talking about the meatloaf “iced” mashed potato cupcake. These cakes would still satisfy the sweet tooth but they look like they should be on your dinner plate. In fact, appearing like peaches and cream corn, peas and carrots, and creamy mashed potatoes, you really would not have to tell the kids twice about eating their vegetables. And with “sunny side up” and “spaghetti” like cupcakes, it may be justifiable for them to say, “no dessert” for me.

The most appealing thing about these cupcakes are that they are super easy to make, no special tools are required and no decorating experience is needed. In fact, they make a perfect activity to do with young kids in the kitchen or take to the classroom.

If you don’t like baking, plain cupcakes can be purchased from the store or you can simply cheat by making the boxed variety. When it comes to icing, canned pre-made is okay but nothing beats homemade; this is a personal preference. The hardest task is finding realistic candy for the food you are trying to mimic. The search was a little painstaking but I have narrowed it down. Most of the candies used can be found at Bulk Barn, which carries most everything in bulk bins so you can purchase as little or a much as you like. Also, various dollar stores in Red Deer carry old-fashion type of candies that are not found at grocery stores.

There are many ideas on the Internet but these five brought out the most giggles to the kids and look of awe to the adults. The range in difficulty begins with super easy and ends with just easy!

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ABOVE AND LEFT: Appearing like peaches and cream corn, creamy mashed potatoes and peas and carrots, you really would not have to tell the kids twice about eating their vegetables.

Sunny Side Up Cupcakes Butterscotch candy Vanilla icing Ice cupcakes. Place the yellow a little off centre to make it look like yolk.

Peas and Carrots Orange Starburst squares, cut into fourths Green candy, (Runts, Skittles, etc.)

Green tinted icing sugar Ice cupcakes. Decorate with green candies and Starburst candy.

Spaghetti cupcake Vanilla icing Yellow food colouring Coco powder Ferrero Rocher chocolate Strawberry jam White chocolate To make “spaghetti,” mix vanilla frosting with a few drops of yellow

food coloring and ½ teaspoon cocoa powder. Because of different intensity of colouring, start by adding a drop mix and check until you get the desired colour.

Scoop icing into piping bag or a large freezer Zip-lock bag with the end cut off. Make sure you use a heavy duty bag, otherwise the bag may break while you piping the icing. Place cupcakes into a pasta bowl and squeeze the icing all over the cupcake. Whisk up some jam in a bowl to obtain a smooth consistency.

To make the meatballs simply take the chocolate balls and dip them into jam. Place the “meatballs” on top of the cupcake and drizzle jam over top.

The “Parmesan” on top is just some white chocolate grated with a grater.

Mashed Potato Cupcakes Vanilla icing Caramel sauce Yellow coloured Starburst taffy Use vanilla frosting and ice cupcake, leaving a little bit of a well at

the top. Add a drizzle of caramel syrup and a slightly flattened out Starburst.

Peaches and Cream Cupcakes 2 shades of yellow jelly beens Vanilla frosting Yellow Starburst Sugar Black food colouring Stick a clean toothpick into food colouring and then tip the toothpick into sugar. Mix lightly so that some sugar grains remain white while some absorb the black colour. This would give a peppered appearance to mimic salt and pepper. Frost three cupcakes with frosting and use Jelly Bellies for the corn. Top it with Starburst for a pat of butter. Sprinkle with peppered sugar.

Madhu Badoni is a Red Deer-based freelance food writer. She can be reached at madhubadoni@gmail.com or on Twitter @madhubadoni. Watch for Madhu’s Masala-Mix blog on www.reddeeradvocate.com.

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Young artists give Red Deer a solid show It’s hard to hold your own against a zany “zombie” hip-hop artist called Kevvy Mental, who fancies himself to be a Britney Spears look-alike, and a female firebrand with a Christina Aguilera voice.

That was Matt Webb’s unenviable predicament on Sunday night, when a triple-bill of Vancouver acts entertained a small audience of teenyboppers, adolescents and a few parents at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

Webb, best known as lead guitarist for Marianas Trench, came to town as a solo artist with his own three-piece back-up band. He performed songs from his two solo recordings after charismatic opening acts Fake Shark-Real Zombie! and Jessica Lee. Both proved to be hard acts to follow — particularly for a headliner who’s a cleancut, reticent kind of guy like Webb, and maybe isn’t used to stepping around his guitar to seize the limelight.

The singer/songwriter/ guitarist has a lot going for him, including his multiple LANA talents and heart-throb looks MICHELIN that kept young girls riveted to the front of the stage. He just didn’t seem to know how to fully work his assets in Red Deer.

Webb performed 13 original pop tunes while standing directly behind the centre stage mic with his guitar, having minimal interaction with the audience or fellow band members.

While his set list could have benefitted from more varied tempos, there were standout songs, such as 1,2,3 Don’t Turn Your Back, and Cinnamon. The latter featured a great guitar solo and three duelling guitarists, including a smiling Webb, who showed us he was finally in his comfort zone.

A local girl called Gillian was invited on stage to play some air piano during Don’t Turn Your Back, which offered catchy lyrical hooks, as did Bad Girl.

And Webb got the crowd clapping along on Runaway.

But the energy level went up when Kevvy (Mental) Maher came out to sing a duet with Webb on Heartbreakers.

Maher, who shouted out to the crowd and waved his arm in the air, produced Webb’s last four-song EP, Right Direction, even though its mainsteam pop sensibility is completely different than Maher’s own idiosyncratic sound.

The difference between their styles only seemed to highlight Webb’s need to up his stage presence, whether this means a more dynamic song delivery or venturing downstage to reach out to fans.

There was no audience demand for an encore, but it’s all a learning experience when you’re so young.

Fake Shark-Real Zombie! was hugely entertaining, whether you could get into Maher’s “freak-pop,” with hip-hop and punk elements and falsetto beat boxing that verged on Yoko Ono-like performance art.

Maher majored in drama and visual art while at college and both have clearly influenced his music.

Some of the best songs were the wackiest — including F--k Kevvy, a hilarious send-up of iPhone and hater culture with its lyrics of “you got something to say, say it on the telephone.”

The four-man group also performed Girls, Perfume (“While I might look like Britney Spears, it’s not (her) song,” quipped Maher, flipping his long blond hair), and Paint It Gold — a melodious single that did well on CBC Radio 3.

While Fake Shark-Real Zombie!’s sound is all over the map, it left us wanting more.

Lee’s opening set showcased her powerhouse vocals — and her wit. Noting that she wrote a song coincidentally titled the same as Miley Cyrus’s megahit Wrecking Ball, Lee said she would perform her tune “fully clothed.”

The singer was discovered through a YouTube contest, winning the chance to sing with Marianas Trench in Toronto. She was all set to continue premed studies at Ottawa University until she got a call from 604 Records and decided to follow her musical muse instead.

Among the tunes she performed with a band in Red Deer were Twisted Game and Save Your Breath, which featured a decent audience sing-along.

Lee constantly worked the crowd, taking closeup selfies on stage with fans’ iPhones and singing about female empowerment — or as she put it: “Girls who’ve been hurt by a stupid boy and then realize how much better off they are without said boy.”

It certainly helps to know your audience, and Lee was “besties” with hers. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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Will Smith, left, and host Jimmy Fallon act out the evolution of hip-hop dancing on the premiere of ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,’ in New York. NBC’s generational trade of Jay Leno for Jimmy Fallon at the Tonightshow is succeeding beyond the dreams of network honchos.

Fallon’s ascendancy is working for NBC HIS IS ONE TONIGHT SHOW TRANSITION THAT’S WORKING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — One month in, NBC’s generational trade of Jay Leno for Jimmy Fallon at the Tonight show is succeeding beyond the hopes of executives who engineered it.

Fallon’s fast start is clear in television ratings and even more stark in social media metrics.

While too early to declare a new king of late-night TV, the transition is a marked change from how badly NBC fumbled the shortlived switch from Leno to Conan O’Brien in 2009.

“As a guy who’s been doing this for 36 years, I don’t allow myself to think about this level of success,” said Ted Harbert, NBC broadcasting chairman.

NBC had hoped for an increase in young viewers and steeled itself to lose some of Leno’s older fans, but Fallon’s reception was a surprise.

When Fallon premiered on Tonight during the Olympics, the franchise hit numbers unseen since Johnny Carson’s last week in 1992.

Things have settled down but Fallon is still comfortably on top.

During the week of March 1014, Fallon averaged 4.26 million viewers to Jimmy Kimmel’s 2.83 million on ABC and David Letterman’s 2.78 million on CBS, the Nielsen company said.

Fallon has consistently topped the 4.1 million viewers that Leno averaged this season before leaving.

Fallon’s lead over his rivals is more pronounced among viewers aged 18-to-49, the demographic NBC bases its advertising sales upon.

Fallon and NBC embrace the way many early-to-bed consumers experience late-night television these days: by watching clips of a show’s best moments online.

The YouTube clip of Fallon and Will Smith acting out the evolution of hip-hop dancing has

been seen more than 12.8 million times.

Fallon’s lip-sync duel with Paul Rudd on songs by Tina Turner, Foreigner and Queen has nearly 9 million views.

Other popular clips show Fallon, singer Idina Menzel and the Roots performing Let it Go with children’s instruments and the sliced-and-diced version of newsmen Brian Williams and Lester Holt on Rapper’s Delight.

Each segment is funny, goodnatured and utterly impossible to imagine Fallon’s old-school predecessor doing.

“What I notice in people’s reactions is not just that they like the show and think that it’s funny, but they like the feel-good spirit,” Harbert said.

“There’s a total absence of snarkiness, of cynicism. It’s just there to make you feel good before you go to sleep.”

The anti-show biz style pioneered by Letterman isn’t dead, said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Centre for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University.

But “it may have run its course to some extent,” he said, and Fallon’s sincerity dilutes the pure snark of Letterman and O’Brien.

“Fallon has been able to change the equation,” he said.

He’s made his mark despite a more crowded competitive landscape, with O’Brien, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Chelsea Handler and Arsenio Hall also mining latenight laughs.

During his first month, Fallon generated more than 120 million YouTube views, Twitter mentions and Facebook posts, the research firm RelishMIX said.

That’s more than double Kimmel, who had 57 million in the same social media metric. Letterman had 2.3 million.

“That lopsidedness is a huge wake-up call to writers, producers of late-night, network marketing departments and other series in all genres that they must ‘feed the

Dave Brockie, frontman Oderus Urungus for heavy metal band GWAR, found dead RICHMOND, Va. — Dave Brockie, who as “Oderus Urungus” fronted the alien-costumed heavy metal band GWAR during graphic and fake-blood-soaked stage shows for more than three decades, has died.

He was 50.

Officers were called to Brockie’s home Sunday evening and found the singer dead inside the home, Richmond police spokeswoman Dionne Waugh said Monday. Detectives don’t suspect foul play at this time, and the medical examiner’s office will determine cause of death, Waugh said.

The band founded in 1984 is known for its comically grotesque costumes, stage antics and vulgar lyrics. GWAR was nominated for a Grammy Award for best long-form music video in 1993 for Phallus in Wonderland but lost to Diva by Annie Lennox. It also was nominated for best metal performance for S.F.W. in 1996 but lost to Happiness In Slavery by Nine Inch Nails.

Randy Blythe, the lead vocalist for Virginia-based metal band Lamb of God, fondly recalled Brockie’s approach to humour in a post on the band’s Facebook page: “Right now, if I were to truly honour Dave in the way HE would do it if it were ME that had died, I would make a completely tasteless joke about his death. But I do not have the stomach for that — Dave would, but not me. He never put much stock in ‘limits’.”

GWAR released its latest album, Battle Maximus, in September 2013 and recently toured Australia and Japan. Over the summer, the band held its 4th annual GWAR-B-Q at a small water park in Richmond and released its own canned craft beer for the occasion made by Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Fla. The band had announced plans for its 5th annual event last week.

Brockie remained a constant in the band that has had a revolving door of members, including lead guitarist Cory Smoot, who was found dead on the band’s tour bus in North Dakota in 2011. He was 34.

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beast’ or die,” said Marc Karzen, RelishMIX spokesman.

Friday night’s routine with Kevin Bacon revisiting some Footloose dance moves quickly caught fire online, and video highlights had been watched 7.3 million times as of early Monday, he said.

Aggressive online exposure was a key part of NBC’s launch strategy, which included timing Fallon’s takeover to coincide with heavy viewer interest in the Winter Olympics, Harbert said. The next step is to find ways to make more money off all that online interest, he said.

Fallon’s rivals haven’t backed down from the competition. Kimmel got attention during the Winter Olympics for filming a stunt that jokingly suggested a wolf was roaming the halls of a dorm for athletes.

With their youthful appeal (Fallon is 39, Kimmel 46), the two men seem primed for a bicoastal rivalry.

Judging by one of television’s most prominent measuring sticks for likability, Fallon’s success shouldn’t be a surprise.

He has a “Q” score of 19 among viewers aged 18 to 34 — which means 19 per cent of people familiar with him consider Fallon one of their favourite personalities, said the company Marketing Evaluations Inc., which polled consumers both before and after the Tonight takeover.

Kimmel’s score was 16 and Letterman’s 11, the company said (an average celebrity “Q” score is 17).

Among young men, Fallon’s score shoots up to 24, said company spokesman Henry Schafer.

More people that age know who Fallon is than know Letterman, he said.

For older viewers, the graciousness of Leno, 63, during the transition was crucial, Harbert said.

“He said to the country, ‘It’s OK to watch Jimmy Fallon,”’ he said.

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SLICES FOR SMILES RAISES CASH FOR CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS IN ALBERTA

MAKES PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAYS UNIFORM, COULD ALSO MEAN DIFFERENT SCHEDULES AND LONGER SCHOOL DAYS

The annual Slices for Smiles fundraiser from Pizza 73 raised $52,000 in 2013 for children’s hospitals in Alberta. This includes Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation. The figure marks an increase of 30 per cent from the previous year. Across Canada, the campaign raised $300,000, which will go towards the Children’s Miracle Network and its 14 member children’s hospitals coast to coast. More than 460 Pizza Pizza and Pizza 73 restaurant locations across the nation participated in the campaign last fall.

Slices for Smiles started in 2007 and has raised $1.3 million since.

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A forthcoming new school calendar for one Central Alberta district makes professional development days uniform for all its schools, but it could also mean different schedules and longer school days to meet Alberta Education’s required instructional hours.

In anticipation of a provincial initiative called Inspiring Education, which should bring a new curriculum into place for a majority of subjects for the fall of 2016, the Wolf Creek Public School Division is streamlining its calendar. Starting with a pilot project for the 2014-15 school year all schools in the district will have the same days off.

Trudy Bratland, board chair, said if it goes well they are prepared for the curriculum rollout — if not they can revert to the prior schedule.

“In light of the direction the minister of education is going, particularly with cur-

riculum, we needed to support our teachers with quality professional development time,” said Bratland.

“It is a year ahead of the implementation.

“We will certainly be gathering information along the way.”

A spirited conversation at the March 5 board meeting fleshed out the potential problems and opportunities of aligning all the school’s calendars.

Special consideration was given to high school students, who are required by the province to have 1,000 hours of class time, while junior high and elementary standards require 975 hours.

“Concerns were with high school students,” said Bratland.

“They have their lives ahead of them and need to show well in their provincial achievement diploma exams.”

Bratland said that in conversation with some administration and school principals, she was assured total instruction time will not change under the new board-wide schedule.

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ADAM GREGORY TO HOST RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE BENEFIT CONCERT Adam Gregory will host the 10th annual Adam Helps the House Ronald McDonald Benefit Concert on April 5 at the Black Knight Inn in Red Deer.

The night starts at 6 p.m. and is a dinner, silent auction and concert to help raise money for the charity. Tickets are available online at https:// tickets.blackknightinn.ca/ TheatreManager/1/online.

“Parents may fear their students aren’t getting as much time as they need, so we’ve compensated for that with the (school) days will be expanded in some cases or adjusted to make sure students still get the same instructional hours,” said Larry Jacobs, superintendent of schools.

“No depreciation in terms of time spent with the students, it’s just going to be shifted to nine days as opposed to all 10. On that extra day the teachers will be preparing for the new curriculum.

“It could be a little longer of a day, or it could collapse a little bit of a noon-hour or recess or something like that. The school will decide that.”

Jacobs said most schools will expand the school day a little bit.

The change will mean about 16 professional development days for teachers throughout the year, likely scheduled for Fridays, creating at most two long weekends per month for the students.

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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A look at St. Luke’s Anglican Church, Red Deer’s first historical building from Gaetz Avenue.

St. Luke’s starts Raise the Roof campaign

Alberta fire departments are pleased to hear the province will provide more money to cover the costs of responding to highway collisions.

The Alberta Fire Chiefs Association had lobbied the Alberta government to update the compensation fire departments received for the cost of sending large equipment, such as pumper trucks and rescue vans, to incidents on provincial primary and secondary highways.

Alberta Transportation Minister Wayne Drysdale announced at the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties last week in Edmonton that fees for large equipment will be bumped to $600 per hour from $400 — a level they had been at for 15 years.

The province also promised to increase the fees annually using the cost of living index.

Al Schram, Alberta Fire Chiefs Association vicepresident, said the changes will be welcomed.

“It’s great news,” said Schram, who is fire chief in Edson. T he new rate more accurately reflects the actual costs of sending heavy equipment to highway incidents, he said.

Typically, fire departments try to recoup their costs through insurance companies.

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Preserving Red Deer’s oldest church starts at the top.

St. Luke’s Anglican Church has launched its Raise the Roof campaign to raise money to replace the shingles on its aging roof.

But that’s just the beginning for the church located at 4929-54th St. An engineering study showed the provincially designated historic resource needs at least $250,000 in restoration and repairs.

Pastor Noel Wygiera said Monday that the building with an exterior made of locally quarried sandstone has structural issues, problems with wall shifting and sagging, and sandstone degradation.

“It probably has been happening over the last 100 years,” said Wygiera.

“Nobody really knows at what speed it is happening. But it’s something that if we want it to be up for another 100 years we need to make sure we address the problems.”

The church opened its doors Nov. 4, 1900, though it wasn’t officially completed until 1906.

Local sandstone was cut and prepared by parishioners from a quarry located on what is now the Cronquist residential area.

The most pressing need is the shin-

gle replacement. Wygiera said this project should have been completed about 10 years ago.

Residents are invited to make a $50 donation which they are promoting as the “purchase” of one bundle of shingles. The roof work comes with a $30,000 price tag. Wygiera said they hope to have the roof done by this summer.

The church will shift to addressing the structure and foundation of the building after the roof is completed.

The province declared St. Luke’s a provincial historic site and helped fund a four-year refurbishment program that restored the weathered sandstone in 1978.

Wygiera said this is the highest level of designation as a historic structure in Alberta.

“The challenge is that we’re a small church community,” he said. “Our primary function is not in building, restoring and reclamation. We are more on the people side of things. We felt it necessary to reach out beyond ourselves because if St. Luke’s building is an important resource to the community as a whole, we need the support of the community as a whole in order to maintain and preserve it.”

Wygiera said there will likely be an ongoing appeal to the community.

To donate to the project, call 403346-3402 or office@oldchurch.com. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.co

Sex crime accused likened to predator

BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF Sentencing continues today for a middle-aged predator who admitted to luring a 14-year-old teenaged girl into a sexual relationship.

Red Deer resident Earl Edward Egerdeen, 43, was scheduled to stand trial this week on charges including sex assault, sexual contact with a minor, luring a minor for sex, communicating with a minor for sex, making child pornography and accessing child pornography.

Represesented by defence counsel Denis Huot, Egerdeen pleaded guilty in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench on Monday to the charges of sexual contact, sexual communication and making child pornography.

The balance of the charges are to be withdrawn during the sentence hearing now underway before Justice Juliana Topolniski.

In court on Monday, special prosecutor Aurelie Beland of Calgary characterized Egerdeen as a predator who sought his victim on the Facebook social media website in the spring of 2011.

He used various techniques to gain the teen’s confidence and lure her into his house, where he forced himself upon her.

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BRIEFS RCMP warn of tax fraud by phone If the “tax man” calleth, beware.

According to Red Deer RCMP, three Red Deerians have reported receiving phone calls in the past week from people claiming to be from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). The fraudulent callers claim that the person picking up the phone owes money in taxes; in one instance, the intended victim was also told he owed “immigration fees.”

According to a release, the scammers instruct their potential victims to repay the money via purchasing gift cards amounting to more than $1,000 from prominent retailers that the caller would later arrange to collect. The release states that, to the knowledge of the local force, no one has fallen prey to the scam.

The CRA issued a release earlier this month warning of telephone and email scams relating to purported tax debts or refunds.

The agency says it will never ask for personal credit card, bank account or passport number information and it warns about a website resembling the CRAs where people are asked to verify their identity by entering personal information.

March is Fraud Prevention Month; Red Deer RCMP say the best protection against creative, aggressive scammers is to learn how to resist being pushed into a decision. The website www.antifraudcentre.ca provides tips along with information on recent scams.

New ambulance dispatch deal to be signed Red Deer’s new ambulance dispatch deal with the province is expected to be sealed sometime next month.

City manager Craig Curtis said there has been several meetings since the proposed deal was put on the table in late February. He said they are working through the logistics and equipment and fine tuning the details.

The province had planned to consolidate all ambulance dispatches to three locations. But several municipalities including Red Deer voiced concerns about the impact on residents and communities if the plan went ahead.

In late February, the city met with Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne who proposed a new deal for Red

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SCHOOLS: Hours “Approximately every second Friday students will not be in the school,” said Jacobs. “Teachers will be, and that gives them an opportunity to start to build the skill sets, and collective dynamic that will allow us to move into the Inspiring Education world.”

But to keep the schools in line with the provincial standard for teaching hours, each school will be responsible for setting its hours.

It will also allow for teachers at smaller schools to link up with other schools, through technology, to be a part of the professional development.

“For families it is a way to make sure all of their children are either in school or off at any given time,” said Jacobs.

Bratland also said they went forward with this schedule alignment now to give administration time to get their budget in order. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Deer, Lethbridge and Wood Buffalo.

Under the proposed model, Red Deer would retain its integrated ambulance dispatch service and become a satellite dispatch centre to be used in case of emergencies.

Curtis said the change in the province’s premier has no effect on city operations or the negotiations. He said it is business as usual because they deal mainly with department heads and the deputy ministers and ministers.

Complaint of firearm turns out to be false Streets were closed in Red Deer as RCMP responded to a what turned out to be a false complaint of a firearm on Monday.

Red Deer RCMP say they received a complaint from a residence in the area of 55th Avenue and 37th Street around 8:35 a.m.

No firearms were found and police determined that the complaint was unfounded.

A man was arrested on a non-firearms-related charge.

Streets in the area were closed for a short period of time while police investigated.

seven and a half years. She also asked that Egerdeen’s DNA be submitted to the national database and that he be placed for life on the National Sex Offenders Information Registry.

Huot said his only dispute with Beland’s submission is that his client wishes to serve his new sentence concurrently with the one he is already serving, rather than consecutively.

Egerdeen was sentenced to two years in June of 2013 for a 2007 offence, in which he broke into a home and made sexual advances toward the woman inside. He also has two previous convictions for sexual contact with children. One child was nine at the time and the other was 15.

Topolniski asked Beland and Huot to provide her with case law and arguments that will help her craft an appropriate sentence on the 2011 offences. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

COLLISIONS: Rates fell behind However, that does not always work, particularly with out-of-province drivers and insurers.

So that fire departments and their municipalities are not out of pocket, the province has covered the shortfalls.

But those rates had fallen behind, leaving municipalities and their taxpayers to make up the difference.

Red Deer County community and protective services director Ric Henderson said the change is welcomed.

“It’s a good thing. It’s a way of recovering some of the costs for the municipality,” said Henderson.

“It’s been discussed for a long time.”

The Alberta Fire Chiefs Association represents 450 rural and urban fire chiefs, who oversee 13,000 firefighters, 10,000 of them volunteers. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Beland included more than 3,000 text messages and described an exchange of sexually explicit photographs in 22-page statement of facts submitted to the court.

Court heard that Egerdeen brought the girl to his home six more times after their initial meeting. At one point, he introduced the girl to his landlord, saying that she was his niece. The girl had taken the bus for the first visit, meeting Egerdeen at a nearby gas station. She was driven to the house on some occasions by her mother, who was unaware of what was going on. Egerdeen had threatened the girl against telling her mother about their relationship, said Beland.

A school guidance counsellor alerted police that fall and Egerdeen was arrested We’ve made it simpler to access and charged in March of 2012.

Home Care, Supportive Living and “(The victim) was Long Term Care. a vulnerable person.

She did not have many Starting March 24, if you need Community based or friends at school and Continuing Care services in your community, call a had been a victim of Registered Nurse at our new toll-free phone number. bullying from other stuThey are available to help discuss your needs. dents,” said Beland.

Egerdeen paid no heed to the damage he Call did to her sexual integrity or her emotional The toll-free line is for patients and families to call well being, and put her with questions or inquiries about local services. at serious physical risk by having unprotected The line is open: sex with her, she said.

Monday – Friday, 8:15 am – 9:30 pm In a joint submission Saturday – Sunday, 8:15 am – 4:30 pm with defence, Beland has asked Topolniski to consider a sentence of www.albertahealthservices.ca

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City workers brave the cool wind to repair a power line near the Women’s Outreach Centre on Monday morning.

Jablonski childhood vision bill returns for second reading

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A private member’s bill to ensure all children by Grade 1 have complete eye examinations returns to the Alberta legislature for second reading on April 7.

Bill 203, the Childhood Vision Assessment Act, was put forward for first reading by Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski on March 13.

Parents would have to provide a certificate signed by an optometrist or opththalmologist when registering their children for Grade 1.

Jablonski said early childhood eye examinations could catch many eye problems early that can lead to students struggling in school, behaviour

and social issues. Many children don’t know they have vision problems and parents may not be aware either.

“There’s only 30 per cent of kids that have their eyes examined prior to Grade 1,” Jablonski said.

“Eighty per cent of all learning involves vision.”

Alberta Health Services pays for all complete eye examinations for children up to and including age 18. Sponsors for the provincial program — Eye See. . . Eye Learn — provide free eyeglasses for kindergarten children.

“We have some good programs in place. Not enough parents are accessing those programs,” Jablonski said.

Under Bill 203, eye examine certificates would be available free of charge. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Photographs of suspects after a shoplifting incident at the Synik Clothing store on Saturday.

RCMP hunting for suspects after theft Blackfalds RCMP are looking for two suspects after a theft in Gasoline Alley on Saturday on the outskirts of Red Deer.

Police say two men fled the scene after a shoplifting incident at the Synik Clothing store.

One of the men is suspected of theft under $5,000 and believed to have concealed items on his person. He began a struggle when confronted by a staff member, police say.

The suspect allegedly caused damaged to the store in his attempt to escape. He fled on foot and was picked up in a dark-coloured truck by Glenn’s

Family Restaurant.

The first suspect is described as Caucasian with short brown hair, wearing jeans, a black winter coat with an orange lining, a grey hooded sweater, grey baseball cap and black shoes with white around the soles.

The second suspect is also Caucasian with longer dirty blond hair, wearing a grey baseball cap, white sunglasses with black lenses, grey jacket and dark-coloured shoes.

Police are asking anyone with more information to contact 403-885-3300 or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

FAMILY Oh... for precious sleep The obscurity of this night is striking, and I quickly make my way towards the bed where my husband lies restfully. I am very much looking forward to sleep this night.

My eyes are drooping and I can feel myself moving towards that place of half sleep where the conscious mind no longer rules, and dreams will soon take over.

I am jolted upright right when I hear a cry for ‘Mama’ from the next room. I don’t really want to get up, I don’t really think it is necessary at this time. More than likely the child is just having a bad dream, it will pass.

Again the cry tickles my ear.

I quickly stomp my way towards the bedroom of the boy.

Light steps evade me at this LINDSAY moment.

In the dim light of which BROWN my eyes have finally adjusted to, the child looks as though ME PLUS THREE he sleeps soundly. A quick thought of ghostly sounds flits through my mind. I quickly push it away because this is neither the time nor place to be thinking such thoughts.

I am hovering over him. Looking at my sweet boy, his face is towards the wall but I still revel in his exquisiteness.

Despite my fatigue I stand there watching him. So virtuous.

Everything is calm; all is well.

BAM!! The child swiftly jolts his head around to face me not a single body part moved...Exorcist style, and with his eyes wide open he says in a raspy, creepily slow kind of way, “I... love... you... Mamaaaa.”

Really emphasizing the Mama part and dragging it on for much longer than necessary.

I pee just a little bit in my blue plaid pajama pants.

It happened and I am not proud of it. But none the less it did happen and I am feeling discomfited.

He continues to gaze at me with this far away dazed look. Again he says, “I loooove you Mamaaaa...” trailing off on the Mama part this time.

I want to say it back but I am thinking about a million things at this moment. Well actually only two prominent things.

1. I have got to get these pants off, the pee that is dripping down my leg is going to start chaffing soon.

2. I am so scared right now....

The 5 year old now wears a smile across his face, but it is not his usual happy-go-lucky kind of grin he sports so often. No it is the kind that is closed and wide, as if he doesn’t really want to smile but is anyways.

And he stares at me, like he is looking right through me.

The kids body is still faced towards the wall but his head is awkwardly situated towards me. Oh how it makes this scene so much more daunting. I realize I can`t just continue to stand here frozen out of fear and a distinct feeling of weirdness...due to several contributing factors. So I move towards him. Slowly, sure footedly.

He. Starts. Laughing.

Intense shutters of horror consume me. He lies there laughing, an animalistic kind of laugh, the kind that wouldn`t be normal in the light of day, never mind at this time of night.

Again I freeze. What do I do now!? This is possibly the worst kind of motherly situation I have been faced with thus far. I am on the verge of panicky tears, as he cackles his sardonic chortle in my general direction.

I do what any person in this situation would do. I make a run for it. But before that, I quickly take two steps towards him, give him a distant kiss as I am kind of freighted to get too close to the kid, and tell him I love him too.

Maybe it was the wrong thing to do. Maybe I should have stayed and comforted him until he fell back into a deep dreamless sleep. But maybe, just maybe I was spot on in my decision to get the heck out of dodge.

Hours and several bizarre dreams later, I find Lars cuddled close to me in my bed. I will admit I jump out of my skin a little from the thoughts of my last encounter with this eldest child of mine. But now as he sleeps beside me, he is again just an angelic babe, wanting his Mama.

I settle in beside him, and am happy to fall back asleep with the child’s cuddly body close to mine.

It was then that I hear the rumbling of laughter rise up within him.

“Mamaaaaa, I loveeee you...”

So much for sleep tonight.

Lindsay Brown is a Sylvan Lake mother of two and freelance columnist.

Improving your wealth-esteem takes self-awareness “When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.”

– Mark Victor Hansen, American speaker, trainer and author

From my childhood, I learned a strong work ethic but I didn’t learn a smart work ethic.

I held to the belief that to succeed all you needed to do was work hard, and I worked myself into the ground.

“I’m applying for your job,” he said. “What does it Work alone (I have since discovered) is no guaranpay?” tee of success — financial or otherwise.

I had accepted a new job with a differYou must have a plan, a strategy and a ent company in another city. goal-focused approach to growing wealth.

Already, a couple people had exFor years I worked a series of low paypressed an interest in my position — ing jobs. among them, the young fellow who now If anyone questioned me, I told them stood in my doorway. that money was unimportant as long as I He was what you might call a go-getter: enjoyed what I was doing. a little bit arrogant and a lot over-confiAnd in a way, that’s not wrong thinking. dent.

For me, however, it was a lie. I was afraid After asking him to close the door, I to put myself out there. explained that knowing what I was getting Afraid to dream. Afraid to set a goal paid was irrelevant. and go for it.

He would not be offered the same Poor self-worth was limiting my earnwage. After all, I had over 25 years of exing potential. perience.

Recently I read of an interesting exHe had only been in the industry for a ercise designed to help uncover beliefs MURRAY couple of years and had no management around wealth and person value.

FUHRER experience.

The simple process involves gently A week later he was back in my office questioning a particular (wealth-related) again — this time to announce the he was belief in order to gain understanding and being interviewed for my job. And to his insight. way of thinking, he was the only viable Imagine it to be a dialogue with a friend candidate. who is struggling financially.

I had to admit, what he lacked in experience, he The internal dialogue might go like this. made up for in bluster, bravado and self-assurance.

“So, you’re unable to make ends meet. What does “It would really help if I knew what they were that mean to you?” paying you.”

(Supporting Belief) “I don’t earn enough money at When I reluctantly disclosed a figure, he looked work.” stunned.

“So, you don’t earn enough money. What does that “I’m going to ask for 10 grand more.” mean to you?”

We all deal with money every day and it seems (Supporting Belief) “I’m not skilled enough to that money has come to represent more than buy- earn a good wage.” ing power — it has also come to represent personal “So, you’re not skilled enough to earn a good power, responsibility, expectation, greed, envy, self- wage. worth and even fear.

“What does that mean to you?”

I know people who earn only a modest income and (Supporting Belief) “I’m not smart/talented/good are completely happy. enough to compete.”

I know people who have a great deal of money and “So, you’re not smart/talented, good enough to are miserable. complete.

Perhaps money doesn’t buy self-worth but does “What does that mean to you?” self-worth impact our earning potential?

(Supporting Belief) “That I’m inferior — a loser — As with self-esteem, thoughts, beliefs and person- a failure.” al values regarding money are formed in childhood.

Within a few moments – with just a few questions Our parents are typically the first role models of — the unconscious associations about earning a successful living and being a worthy and deserving perour money mentality.

Whether they were frugal or spendthrifts, saved son have been uncovered. It’s only one of many techfor a rainy day or lived in debt, their example niques to raise unconscious beliefs to the surface of had a tremendous impact on our attitudes toward awareness.

There are ways to shift and enhance your wealthwealth.

Sometimes referred to as wealth-esteem, our at- esteem.

Like self-esteem, it’s journey, not a destination, titude about money consists of three primary components: beliefs, values and behaviour associated with and the sooner you start, the better.

A great way to start is to seek the advice of a counwealth.

And whether we pay our bills on time, set 10 per sellor or coach.

You may discover that you’re worthy and deservcent aside each month or carry the burden of crushing debt, our outer life and behaviour will always ing of much more.

Sometime later, it was announced that my young be a reflection of our inner financial/emotional procolleague had been chosen to fill my position. I congramming.

Most of us will try to make external changes when gratulated him and shook his hand. He reached over and closed my office door. we find ourselves in financial difficulty.

“I asked for 10 grand more and they countered We work harder (instead of smarter), reluctantly ask for a raise, take on extra work or take on an extra with five.”

For me, it was a defining moment. Initially, I went job.

The problem is that once the financial tensions to that place of unworthiness.

How can they pay him more than me? Is he more ease, we usually find ourselves reverting to familiar talented and valuable? old patterns.

Looking back, it was exactly the experience I Wealth-esteem, like self-esteem, is always an inneeded to begin unearthing and examining the beside job.

Like self-esteem, improving your wealth-esteem liefs, values and perceptions that underpinned my wealth-esteem. takes self-awareness.

I’d recommend that you do the same.

To change a belief, you must first be aware of its Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. existence.

Once unearthed, you can begin to examine its His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Facorigin, the purpose it served in your life and the rea- tors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca. sons you’re still invested in its preservation.

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At-home adult should live by other rules Question: How should we parent our at-home adult son when there are also two young teens in the house? We want to treat him differently in terms of rules and expectations, but we’re concerned about how this might affect the younger kids.

Jim: You’re wise to recognize a distinction between your grown son and his younger siblings.

Though you’re still his parents, he’s now an adult and needs to be respected and treated as one.

This doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be subject to rules of any kind while in your home. But from here on, you shouldn’t expect anything of him that you wouldn’t expect from any other adult boarder renting a room in your house.

Rules are essential wherever people share living space.

However, they shouldn’t exist to control your son’s attitudes, actions or behavior.

Instead, the rules you implement should be for the purpose of ensuring safety, preserving order and safeJIM guarding the best interests of DALY the entire household.

Under these guidelines, it’s reasonable to insist that everyone pick up after themselves and keep shared spaces clear of personal clutter.

Appropriate respect for other people’s privacy and property must also be maintained.

Everyone should agree to uphold family standards of decency and propriety. If it’s decided that the older son should contribute to the financial burden of running the household, don’t be afraid to hold him to that. This arrangement shouldn’t have a negative impact on your two teenagers. The key is to clarify the distinction between minors and adults.

As part of that process, you should explain to your younger kids the reasons for the different sets of rules that will apply while their older brother is living at home. And assure them that the time is rapidly approaching when they, too, will have to carry the entire burden of responsibility for their behavior.

Question: I’m intrigued by something I found on your website, a downloadable “Family Constitution” regarding media decision making. But before I try and get my clan to sign such a document, can you further explain why I should?

Bob Waliszewski, Director, Plugged In: My wife and I never assumed our two children would automatically keep practicing wise discernment once they left home.

But because we believe there’s something powerful about committing to something in writing, we decided to use a “Family Constitution” to help guide us with entertainment decisions. And much to our delight, it’s stayed with them as adults.

Since you’re considering the possibility, let me walk you through our family’s signing time. It wasn’t an elaborate ceremony.

There was no torch lighting, no drum roll; just a simple (and relatively brief) time together.

With all of us gathered around the dinner table, I expressed the desire that as a family, we’d all pledge to be God-honoring in our media choices. Everyone agreed, and after reading the document aloud, we each took turns praying about our commitment. Then we signed it. It was that simple.

Looking back, I’m convinced it paid dividends.

Not because we all got goose bumps and left with some emotional high. But because it was the right thing to do and everyone took it seriously.

Much like the Old Testament practice of setting up a stone memorial, the power of this pledge is in the visible reminder of the signed document and its commitment to mutual accountability.

You can find a copy on our website at www.pluggedin.com/familyroom/articles/2008/afamilycovenantforgodhonoringmediachoices.aspx.

Finally, let me encourage you to not wait for your children to demonstrate great enthusiasm for the idea before moving ahead. If you lead kindly, confidently and by example, they’ll get on board.

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Catch up with Jim Daly at www.jimdalyblog.com or at www.facebook.com/DalyFocus.

Breast cancer gene tied to high-risk uterine tumors

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Women with a faulty breast cancer gene might face a greater chance of rare but deadly uterine tumors despite having their ovaries removed to lower their main cancer risks, doctors are reporting.

A study of nearly 300 women with bad BRCA1 genes found four cases of aggressive uterine cancers years after they had preventive surgery to remove their ovaries.

That rate is 26 times greater than expected.

“One can happen. Two all of a sudden raises eyebrows,” and four is highly suspicious, said Dr. Noah Kauff of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.

His study, reported Monday at a cancer conference in Florida, is the first to make this link. Although it’s not enough evidence to change practice now, doctors say women with these gene mutations should be told of the results and consider having their uterus removed along with their ovaries.

“It’s important for women to have that information ... but I think it’s too early to strongly recommend to patients that they undergo a hysterectomy” until more research confirms the finding, said Dr. Karen Lu, a specialist in women’s cancers at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

She plans to study similar patients at her own hospital, the nation’s largest cancer centre, to see if they, too, have higher uterine cancer risks.

About 1 in 400 women in the U.S., and more of eastern European descent, have faulty BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes that greatly raise their risks for breast and ovarian cancer.

Doctors advise them to be screened early and often for breast cancer, and to have their ovaries out as soon as they have finished having children to help prevent ovarian and breast cancer, because ovarian hormones affect breast cancer as well.

The study was discussed Monday at the Society of Gynecologic Oncology’s annual meeting in Tampa, Fla.

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LUANN March 25 1982 — Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers bags two goals and two assists against the Calgary Flames, becoming the first in the NHL to score 200 points in a season.

1958 — 14,000 Avro employees cheer maiden flight of supersonic fighter the AVRO CF-105 Arrow; one of world’s most ad-

vanced airplanes at the time; cancelled five months later.

1903 — Anglo-American Convention decides to define the Alaska-Canada border as it is today; US President Theodore Roosevelt had threatened to send in troops if the boundary was not fixed the way the US wanted. Left out of the talks, Canada ended up with no seaports in northern BC or the Yukon, and the resulting anti-British sentiment led to the founding of the Department of External Affairs in 1909.

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CAMMALLERI SCORES SHOOTOUT WINNER AS FLAMES DOWN SHARKS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 2 Sharks 1 SO CALGARY — One of the hottest players in the NHL remained that way Monday night as Mike Cammalleri scored the shootout winner in the Calgary Flames 2-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks.

Scoreless after two shots each, Cammalleri moved in from off the right wing and went short side on Alex Stalock, setting off a roar from the Scotiabank Saddledome crowd announced at 19,289.

It then came down to Karri Ramo, who stopped 33 shots in regulation time, and he completed a perfect threefor-three in the shootout by thwarting James Sheppard.

That came on the heels of stops against Patrick Marleau and Joe Pavelski.

Joe Colborne scored in regulation for Calgary (30-357). The Flames have won 10 of their last 13 on home ice.

It was also Calgary’s leagueleading 43rd one-goal game.

They are two away from the club record of 45 set in 200506.

Sheppard scored in regulation for San Jose (46-18-9), which sees its four-game road winning streak come to an end.

San Jose does increase its lead atop the Pacific Division to two points over Anaheim.

The Ducks hold two games in hand. With the point, the Sharks also clinch a playoff spot for the 10th consecutive season.

After being outplayed much of the first period, Calgary had a much better second.

Early on, Stalock had to be sharp, throwing up his blocker to deny Sean Monahan from

the slot and stopping Kris Russell from in close after he was set up neatly by Kenny Agostino.

The Flames kept up the pressure and it eventually paid off on Colborne’s ninth goal at 18:00, the result of a heady play by rookie defenceman Tyler Wotherspoon.

Playing his 10th NHL game, the 21-year-old spotted Colborne alone at the far face-off circle and hit him with a perfect cross-ice pass that Colborne stopped, controlled and deftly wristed over Stalock as he desperately slid across.

Five of Colborne’s goals have come in the past 11 games.

Calgary carried that momentum into the third period with Jiri Hudler nearly orchestrating the go-ahead goal twice. First setting up Matt Stajan for a re-direction that went off the side of the net.

And later in the period, his pass to Curtis Glencross forced Stalock to make another solid save.

But after that, San Jose regained control with Ramo having to make some timely stops, including a pad stop off the dangerous Joe Pavelski at the side of the net.

After missing six weeks with a knee injury, Ramo’s first two starts since his return have been excellent. After stopping 24-of-25 against Edmonton in the Flames 8-1 win on Saturday night, he made 33 saves against San Jose.

Ramo improved to 13-10-4.

Stalock had 26 saves in regulation. He hasn’t lost in regulation in his last six starts (4-02) and is 11-4-2 on the year.

Stalock was particularly sharp early in the game as the Sharks carried the play in the first period, outshooting the

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San Jose Sharks’ Adam Burish, right, gets knocked to the ice by Calgary Flames’ Mark Giordano, left, as goalie Karri Ramo guards the net during second period NHL action in Calgary, Monday. home side 18-8. However, the score was still 0-0 until the final two minutes when San Jose took advantage of a lucky bounce.

Matt Nieto’s shot hit Sheppard in the back as he skated through the slot. With Ramo caught out of position as a result, Sheppard corralled the puck as it fell to the ice and fired in the open net.

It’s the second goal in as

many games for Sheppard, matching his output from the season’s first 56 games.

However, the Sharks didn’t get out of the first period unscathed. Logan Couture, credited with three blocked shots in the period, left late in the period after blocking two Mark Giordano shots on the same power play, the first of which appeared to hit him in the ankle and left him grimac-

ing noticeably.

Couture did get some treatment and returned to the game late in the second period.

Notes: San Jose D Brad Stuart (upper body) returned after missing 13 games...San Jose owns the fourth longest playoff streak in professional sports (NHL, NFL, NBA, MLB). They trail Detroit Red Wings (22), San Antonio Spurs (16) and Denver Nuggets (10).

Maple Leafs look for answers to end losing streak

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Captain Dion Phaneuf knows the Toronto Maple Leafs can’t go back in time.

If they could, maybe goaltender Jonathan Bernier would’ve rested before his groin injury got worse. Maybe coach Randy Carlyle would’ve chosen to give Drew MacIntyre a start or two instead of James Reimer going backto-back.

Instead, the Leafs must come to grips with their five-game losing streak as they take another stab at ending it Tuesday night against the formidable St. Louis Blues.

“No one’s happy with what’s gone on, but it’s reality,” Phaneuf said. “We want to get back on track. We’ve slid far enough.”

The Leafs have slid from second place in the Atlantic Division to the Eastern Conference’s second wild-card spot in a matter of days. They’re still in a playoff position, but the Detroit Red Wings, Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets all control their playoff future over Toronto because they play more games. With nine left themselves, the Leafs would be silly to dwell on the negatives of five straight losses but also remiss if they didn’t diagnose what has gone wrong to be able to fix those problems.

One glaring issue is the slow starts has also not been at his best. that have the Leafs playing from beSince starting March 16 at the Capihind. They’ve surrendered the first goal tals, Reimer has a 4.22 goals-against in each of the past five games, playing average and .870 save percentage. His a total of 240 minutes 15 seconds of 300 numbers aren’t much better even if while down a you include goal or more. his 31-save ‘THE ONE ISSUE FOR US, MORE “Someperformance thing that’s THAN ANYTHING, IS THAT WE SEEM in relief of been a major Bernier three TO BE PUTTING OURSELVES IN A factor is that days earlier POSITION OF CLAWING BACK INTO we’ve been in Los Angecoming from GAMES, AND YOU CAN’T AND YOU les (GAA is behind far 3.65, save perWON’T HAVE SUCCESS IF YOU too often and centage .894).

CONTINUE TO DO THAT.’ chasing the Carlyle, game,” Phawho drew — DION PHANEUF criticism for neuf said.

“When you calling Reget behind, imer’s play in you’re trying to chase it.”

Detroit on March 18 “just OK,” said That’s why Carlyle wants his team Monday that the Leafs win and lose as thinking only about the start of the a team. Support continued in the lockBlues game and nothing more. er-room for the popular 26-year-old for “You can’t focus on all of the other remaining positive amid struggles. outside distractions or noise or things “Reims, everybody goes through that go on in the game,” he said. “The tough times,” centre Dave Bolland one issue for us, more than anything, is said. “I know I’ve gone through tough that we seem to be putting ourselves in times and it’s confidence and it’s being a position of clawing back into games, behind your player and helping him and you can’t and you won’t have suc- out. I’ve been through those things and cess if you continue to do that.” it’s about your team and the guys in the Success won’t follow if the Leafs room that help you out for all this. And continue to give up four goals a game. we’re here for Reims. Everything hapNo doubt a large part of that should be pens as a team.” blamed on team defence, but Reimer Reimer has been forced to shoulder

the burden in goal because Bernier has been out with the first groin injury of his playing career. Bernier skated again Monday, his sixth consecutive day on the ice, but there’s no assurances he’ll be ready to come to any sort of rescue against St. Louis.

“Obviously it hurts to see your team lose, but at the same time it’s one of those injuries you’ve got to take time and don’t want to rush and then you’re out for another four, five games after,” Bernier said.

If Bernier is not deemed healthy enough to play, Reimer would get his sixth straight start or the 30-year-old MacIntyre the first of his NHL career.

Carlyle said that decision would be based on “who you feel is going to give you the best opportunity to have success in the game.”

That would undoubtedly be Bernier if he’s ready. Bernier’s .925 save percentage has covered up a lot of his teammates’ mistakes in a season full of them. That hasn’t gone unnoticed, but Phaneuf and the Leafs can’t just sit back and wait for Bernier to return.

“Bernie’s obviously been a huge part of our team and the success that we’ve had,” Phaneuf said. “But whether he’s back or not, we have to play better and we’ve got to play more to our strengths.”

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Tough goaltending choices for Toronto and other musings While struggling with the Monday morning blues ins and imagine the Leafs were a team on the way up after a week away in the sun, some thoughts to start and the B’s possibly peaking with a roster of older your week with: players. ● Drew MacIntyre or James Reimer? Reimer or It hasn’t turned out that way. The Leafs are at MacIntyre? Toughie, I suppose, for Randy Carlyle, about the same point in their team development, who might prefer “none of the above” for tomorrow while Boston GM Peter Chiarelli moved out players night against St. Louis because he wants starter like Tyler Seguin, Jaromir Jagr and Andrew Ference Jonathan Bernier back. and made his team, currently in the middle But if Bernier isn’t ready? It’s a real of a 12-game winning streak, even better. gamble to go with MacIntyre. But at this The investment in Jarome Iginla - and point, it may be time to gamble. the willingness to look past Iginla’s deci● A reader makes an interesting obsion to snub Boston at the 2013 trade deadservation; when Reimer replaced Berniline - has proven to be a shrewd one by er in the Los Angeles game, Reimer Chiarelli, arguably the NHL’s most underended up taking a shot to the head off rated GM. the foot/knee of Jarrett Stoll. He looked In that 12-game streak, the 36-year-old dazed, but stayed in. Was a that reoccurIginla has 11 goals. And he’s on a one-year, ance of his previous concussion issues? $1.8 million contract.

And has it affected his subsequent per● All the Canadian content in this year’s formances?

NCAA basketball tournament has surely ● Yes, the Blues have put a heckuva made it much more compelling for me, and DAMIEN team on the ice this season, and the adI’m guessing for many Canadians. It’s been COX dition of Ryan Miller may put them over a real eye-opener for those of us who aren’t the top. But this project has been a long watching U.S. college basketball as closely time in the making. Nine years of reas others just how many Canucks are inbuilding has assembled a strong cast in volved beyond the big names like Andrew Missouri, and along the way there have been many Wiggins, Tyler Ennis, Nick Stauskas, etc. misteps, including misfiring on former No. 1 pick With Wiggins, I’m torn over the possibility of him Erik Johnson. ending his college career after his four-point effort And understand this. In the tough, tough Western in a losing cause for Canada on Sunday. In some Conference, the Blues might not make it past the sec- ways you’d like to see him have more time to prepare ond round. Or the first. for the NBA and be part of the Kansas program. ● It would have been easy to look at the first That said, millions of dollars await and Wiggins round series last spring between the Leafs and Bru- shouldn’t have to wait if he doesn’t want to. Going

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to the NBA is just the next step in his remarkable basketball ride that hopefully will include being a major part of the rebuilding Canadian Olympic basketball program down the line. ● If Wiggins does go pro, and if he’s the top pick, odds are looking like he’s going to Milwaukee or Philly, although the draft lottery could deliver a surprise.

Let’s say it’s the 76ers, losers of 24 straight in what has clearly become an obvious effort to tank in order to land Wiggins or Jabari Parker or Julius Randle or whoever.

Then you look at the Raptors, a lottery candidate at the beginning of the season but now a first-place team. In five years, will the 76ers or Raptors have profitted more from how this season has gone? Interesting question. ● Jose Reyes has a hamstring issue. But, the Jays assure one and all, it’s no big problem. Right. . . ● For those who wondered if the Jays were making the right decision in cutting big Josh Johnson loose, it’s worth noting he’s already hit the San Diego Padres disabled list, out five weeks with forearm issues. ● I get that people want to direct more attention to Canadian football players by publicizing the CFL combine. But seriously, this is an industry thing. Nobody should be writing or broadcasting about it unless there’s a truly intriguing story to be told. ● Cool couple of weeks for Sportsnet’s Daren Millard.

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TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 2014

Local Sports Florida Buffalo

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

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WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-St. Louis 71 48 16 7 103 228 160 d-San Jose 73 46 18 9 101 222 175 Anaheim 71 46 18 7 99 228 180 Chicago 72 41 16 15 97 240 186 Colorado 71 44 21 6 94 216 194 Los Angeles 72 41 25 6 88 177 151 Minnesota 72 37 24 11 85 180 178 Phoenix 72 34 26 12 80 199 205 Dallas 71 34 26 11 79 201 203 Vancouver 73 33 30 10 76 176 196 Winnipeg 73 32 32 9 73 202 213 Nashville 72 31 31 10 72 173 213 Calgary 72 30 35 7 67 183 211 Edmonton 72 25 38 9 59 178 236 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader; x-clinched playoff spot

EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Prince Albert (8) (Edmonton leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Edmonton 3 Prince Albert 1 Saturday’s result Edmonton 5 Prince Albert 3 Tuesday, March 25 Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Edmonton at Prince Albert, 7 p.m.

Regina (2) vs. Brandon (7) (Brandon leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Brandon 8 Regina 4 Saturday’s result Brandon 6 Regina 3 Wednesday, March 26 Regina at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Friday, March 28 Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 2, Columbus 0 St. Louis 1, Pittsburgh 0 New Jersey 3, Toronto 2 Nashville 2, Chicago 0 Minnesota 4, Detroit 3, OT Vancouver 4, Buffalo 2 Anaheim 6, Florida 2

Calgary (3) vs. Kootenay (6) (Calgary leads series tied 2-1) Saturday’s result Calgary 5 Kootenay 0 Thursday’s result Kootenay 5 Calgary 2 Monday, March 24 Calgary 7 Kootenay 6 Tuesday, March 25 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Thursday, March 27 Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games St. Louis at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Phoenix at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Washington,5 p.m.

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

Buffalo at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Colorado at Nashville, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Vancouver at Minnesota, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Anaheim at Calgary, 8 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelowna (1) vs. Tri-City (8) (Kelowna leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Kelowna 3 Tri-City 1 Saturday’s result Kelowna 3 Tri-City 1 Tuesday, March 25 Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Monday’s summaries Flames 2, Sharks 1 (SO) First Period 1. San Jose, Sheppard 4 (Nieto, Boyle) 18:11.

Penalties — Thornton SJ (hooking) 1:57, Colborne Cgy (hooking) 9:56, Boyle SJ (hooking) 15:58.

Second Period 2. Calgary, Colborne 9 (Wotherspoon, Glencross) 18:00.

Penalties — Smid Cgy (interference) 14:09.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Thornton SJ (hooking) 0:10.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Calgary wins 1-0 San Jose : Marleau miss, Pavelski miss, Sheppard miss.

Calgary : Colborne miss, Hudler miss, Cammalleri goal.

Shots on goal San Jose 18 4 10 2 — 34 Calgary 8 12 5 2 — 27 Goal — San Jose: Stalock (LO, 11-4-2); Calgary: Ramo (W, 13-10-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — San Jose: 0-2; Calgary: 0-3.

Portland (2) vs. Vancouver (7) (Portland leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Portland 3 Vancouver 0 Friday’s result Portland 4 Vancouver 3 Tuesday, March 25 Portland at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Portland at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Friday, March 28 x-Vancouver at Portland, 8 p.m.

Victoria (3) vs. Spokane (6) (Victoria leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Victoria 4 Spokane 3 (OT) Saturday’s result Victoria 2 Spokane 1 (OT) Wednesday, March 26 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday, March 27 Victoria at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Everett (4) vs. Seattle (5) (Seattle leads series 2-0) Sunday’s result Seattle 3 Everett 1 Saturday’s result Seattle 2 Everett 1 Tuesday, March 25 Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m.

Friday, March 28 Seattle at Everett, 7:35 p.m.

Saturday, March 29 x-Everett at Seattle, 7:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

GF 230 222 214 194 188 205 189 213 208 200 175 177 203 197

GA 153 177 193 178 184 201 200 226 213 194 187 200 240 239

Power plays (goal-chances) — Ottawa: 0-3; Tampa Bay: 2-7.

Stars 2, Jets 1 First Period 1. Dallas, Whitney 8 (Benn, Gonchar) 5:32 (pp).

Penalties — Wpg Bench (too many men) 4:17, Kane Wpg (high-sticking) 15:02.

Second Period 2. Dallas, Seguin 32 (Benn, Chiasson) 16:09 (pp).

Penalties — Byfuglien Wpg (hooking) 15:56, Sceviour Dal (tripping) 17:07.

Third Period 3. Winnipeg, Little 22 (Kane, Enstrom) 17:16 (pp).

Penalties — Eakin Dal (hooking) 4:22, Stuart Wpg (slashing) 11:10, Dillon Dal (roughing) 16:06, Byfuglien Wpg (roughing) 16:06, Goligoski Dal (hooking) 17:01.

Shots on goal Winnipeg 11 7 15 — 33 Dallas 12 9 6 — 27 Goal — Winnipeg: Montoya (L, 12-8-3); Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 27-17-10).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Winnipeg: 1-3; Dallas: 2-4.

Kings 3, Flyers 2 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Carter LA (interference) 7:35, Coburn Pha (stick holding) 10:43, Voynov LA (tripping) 14:36.

Second Period 1. Los Angeles, Carter 25 (Martinez, Toffoli) 1:49.

2. Los Angeles, Williams 18 (Regehr, Kopitar) 17:28.

Penalties — Rinaldo Pha (interference) 13:08, Carter LA (cross-checking) 13:38, Williams LA (slashing) 14:32.

Third Period 3. Philadelphia, Read 20 (Coburn, Couturier) :29.

4. Philadelphia, Voracek 20 (Hartnell) 8:18.

5. Los Angeles, King 13 (Voynov) 10:36.

Penalties — Clifford LA (roughing) 2:33, Rinaldo Pha (roughing) 2:33, Voracek Pha (slashing) 4:52, Streit Pha (hooking) 11:02.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 14 19 8 — 41 Philadelphia 9 9 14 — 32 Goal — Los Angeles: Quick (W, 24-15-2); Philadelphia: Emery (L, 8-10-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Los Angeles: 0-4; Philadelphia: 0-4.

Monday’s Games Montreal 2, Boston 1, SO Ottawa 4, Tampa Bay 3, SO Calgary 2, San Jose 1, SO N.Y. Rangers 4, Phoenix 3, OT Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 2 Dallas 2, Winnipeg 1

Medicine Hat (4) vs. Swift Current (5) (Medicine Hat leads series 2-0) Saturday’s result Medicine Hat 4 Swift Current 2 Friday’s result Medicine Hat 2 Swift Current 1 Tuesday, March 25 Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 26 Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts x-Boston 72 49 17 6 104 d-Pittsburgh 71 46 20 5 97 Tampa Bay 72 39 24 9 87 N.Y. Rangers 73 40 29 4 84 Montreal 73 40 26 7 87 Philadelphia 71 38 26 7 83 Detroit 71 33 24 14 80 Toronto 73 36 29 8 80 Washington 72 34 27 11 79 Columbus 71 36 29 6 78 New Jersey 72 31 28 13 75 Carolina 71 31 31 9 71 Ottawa 71 29 29 13 71 N.Y. Islanders 71 27 35 9 63

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Senators 4, Lightning 3 (SO) First Period 1. Ottawa, Karlsson 20 (Greening) 3:57.

2. Tampa Bay, Kucherov 9 (Johnson, Brown) 5:07.

Penalties — Neil Ott (interference) 1:33, Stamkos TB (hooking) 8:05, Neil Ott (roughing) 18:12, Greening Ott (cross-checking) 18:12, Malone TB (boarding) 18:12, Gudas TB (roughing) 18:12.

Second Period 3. Ottawa, Spezza 19 (Michalek, Karlsson) 8:12.

4. Ottawa, Turris 22 (Stone, Karlsson) 8:56.

5. Tampa Bay, Hedman 12 (Filppula, Palat) 13:26 (pp).

Penalties — Karlsson Ott (holding) 3:21, Michalek Ott (tripping) 11:58, Methot Ott (roughing) 14:16.

Third Period 6. Tampa Bay, Stamkos 21 (Palat, Callahan) 5:44 (pp).

Penalties — Cowen Ott (tripping) 5:33, Carle TB (hooking) 6:06, Spezza Ott (stick holding) 12:37, Karlsson Ott (tripping) 19:56.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Ottawa wins 1-0 Ottawa : Zibanejad miss, Spezza goal, Turris miss.

Tampa Bay : Filppula miss, Kucherov miss, Stamkos miss.

Shots on goal Ottawa 14 10 7 1 — 32 Tampa Bay 7 14 12 5 — 38 Goal — Ottawa: Lehner (W, 8-15-5); Tampa Bay: Bishop (LO, 34-11-7).

Rangers 4, Coyotes 3 (OT) First Period 1. Phoenix, Ekman-Larsson 13 (Yandle, Smith) 4:40 (pp).

2. Phoenix, Halpern 5 (Chipchura, Stone) 8:22.

Penalties — Nash NYR (tripping) 4:11, Phx Bench (too many men) 12:09, Yandle Phx (tripping) 15:30, Pouliot NYR (holding) 16:42.

Second Period 3. NY Rangers, Richards 17 (Hagelin, Pouliot) 6:10.

4. NY Rangers, Brassard 17 (McDonagh, Zuccarello) 10:53.

5. Phoenix, Chipchura 3 (Michalek) 16:51.

Penalties — McDonagh NYR (hooking) 7:52.

Third Period 6. NY Rangers, Girardi 5 (McDonagh, Pouliot) 16:32.

Penalties — Moss Phx (roughing) 13:09, Hagelin NYR (high-sticking) 13:09, Staal NYR (holding) 13:39.

Overtime 7. NY Rangers, McDonagh 13 (Girardi, Hagelin) 1:56.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Phoenix 11 6 4 0 — 21 NY Rangers 10 11 12 3 — 36 Goal — Phoenix: Greiss (LO, 7-5-2); NY Rangers: Lundqvist (W, 29-22-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Phoenix: 1-4; NY Rangers: 0-2.

Canadiens 2, Bruins 1 (SO) First Period 1. Montreal, Emelin 3 (Briere, Gionta) 6:39 (pp).

Penalties — Chara Bos (roughing) 1:19, Miller Bos (fighting) 4:50, Moen Mtl (fighting) 4:50, Miller Bos (cross-checking) 4:50.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Marchand Bos (high-sticking) 3:09, Bourque Mtl (holding) 6:44, Bournival Mtl (holding) 10:56, Soderberg Bos (goaltender interference) 12:13, Iginla Bos (slashing) 15:56, Boychuk Bos (roughing) 17:12.

Third Period 2. Boston, Bergeron 23 (Hamilton, Eriksson) 14:34 (pp).

Penalties — Plekanec Mtl (cross-checking) 0:43, Murray Mtl (holding) 6:26, Gallagher Mtl (holding) 8:39, Bouillon Mtl (high-sticking) 12:36.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Montreal wins 1-0 Montreal : Vanek miss, Desharnais miss, Briere miss, Galchenyuk goal.

Boston : Bergeron miss, Iginla miss, Marchand miss, Krejci miss.

Shots on goal Montreal 5 10 5 2 — 22 Boston 10 11 6 2 — 29 Goal — Montreal: Budaj (W, 9-8-2); Boston: Rask (LO, 32-14-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Montreal: 1-6; Boston: 1-6.

Curling Canadian Senior Curling Championships YELLOWKNIFE — Standings Monday after the sixth draw at the 2014 Canadian senior curling championships, from March 22-30 at the Yellowknife Community Arena and Curling Club: MEN ROUND ROBIN W L N.S. (O’Leary) 4 0 Northern Ont. (Gordon) 4 1 Alberta (Johnson) 4 1 Ontario (Mellor) 3 1 B.C. (Craig) 3 2 Manitoba (Robertson) 3 2 Yukon (Hilderman) 2 2 NWT (Hudy) 1 3 Saskatchewan (McKee) 1 3 N.B. (Armstrong) 1 3 P.E.I. (MacFadyen) 0 4 Quebec (Laflamme) 0 4 Monday’s results Fifth Draw Alberta 9 New Brunswick 4 B.C. 9 Quebec 7 Manitoba 13 P.E.I. 4 Northern Ontario 11 Yukon 6 Sixth Draw Alberta 11 Northwest Territories 2 Ontario 10 B.C. 5 (extra end) Northern Ontario 8 Saskatchewan 7 (extra end) Nova Scotia 9 Manitoba 7 Seventh Draw - late Nova Scotia vs. New Brunswick P.E.I. vs. Ontario Yukon vs. Northwest Territories Saskatchewan vs. Quebec Sunday’s results Second Draw New Brunswick 8 Quebec 6 Northwest Territories 7 P.E.I. 5 Nova Scotia 7 Saskatchewan 6 Yukon 11 Ontario 2 Third Draw Alberta 10 Quebec 2 B.C. 8 New Brunswick 4

Sixth Draw Alberta 8 Northwest Territories 5 B.C. 9 P.E.I. 4 Nova Scotia 9 Manitoba 7 Saskatchewan 8 Northern Ontario 5 Seventh Draw - late P.E.I. vs. Ontario Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Northwest Territories Saskatchewan vs. Quebec Nova Scotia vs. New Brunswick

Northern Ontario 7 Manitoba 4 Yukon 11 P.E.I. 10 (extra end) Fourth Draw B.C. 11 Alberta 9 (extra end) Manitoba 9 Saskatchewan 4 Nova Scotia 8 Northern Ontario 5 Ontario 12 Northwest Territories 7 Tuesday’s games Eighth Draw, 9 a.m.

Alberta vs. Nova Scotia Ontario vs. Manitoba Saskatchewan vs. Northwest Territories B.C. vs. Northern Ontario Ninth Draw, 2 p.m.

Yukon vs. Saskatchewan Northwest Territories vs. New Brunswick Quebec vs. P.E.I. Nova Scotia vs. Ontario Draw 10, 7 p.m.

P.E.I. vs. B.C. Quebec vs. Northern Ontario Alberta vs. Manitoba New Brunswick vs. Yukon WOMEN ROUND ROBIN Manitoba (Fowler) Ontario (Bodogh) Saskatchewan (Arguin) P.E.I. (Scott) Alberta (Bakker) N.S. (Pinkney) N.B. (Hanlon) B.C. (Shantz) N.L. (Cunningham) NWT (McKellar-Gillis) Quebec (Derick) Northern Ont. (Barrett)

W 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1

L 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 4

Sunday’s results Second Draw New Brunswick 8 Quebec 6 Ontario 10 Northwest Territories 3 P.E.I. 6 Newfoundland & Labrador 4 Saskatchewan 9 Nova Scotia 8 Third Draw Alberta 7 Quebec 6 (extra end) B.C. 7 New Brunswick 6 Manitoba 7 Northern Ontario 4 Ontario 9 Newfoundland & Labrador 7 Fourth Draw Alberta 5 B.C. 4 Manitoba 8 Saskatchewan 6 Nova Scotia 8 Northern Ontario 5 P.E.I. 6 Northwest Territories 5

Monday’s results Fifth Draw Manitoba 10 Ontario 3 New Brunswick 6 Alberta 4 Northern Ontario 7 Newfoundland & Labrador 2 Quebec 9 B.C. 3

Tuesday’s games Eighth Draw, 9 a.m.

B.C. vs. Northern Ontario Alberta vs. Nova Scotia P.E.I. vs. Manitoba Saskatchewan vs. Northwest Territories Ninth Draw, 2 p.m.

Nova Scotia vs. P.E.I. Newfoundland & Labrador vs. Saskatchewan Yukon vs. Saskatchewan Northwest Territories vs. New Brunswick Quebec vs. Ontario Draw 10, 7 p.m.

New Brunswick vs. Newfoundland & Labrador Ontario vs. B.C. Quebec vs. Northern Ontario Alberta vs. Manitoba

league camp.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned LHP Ryan Buchter and OFs Jose Constanza and Joey Terdoslavich to Gwinnett (IL). Reassigned INFs Tyler Greene and Tommy La Stella to Gwinnett. Granted RHP Freddy Garcia his unconditional release.

Agreed to tems with RHP Aaron Harang on a oneyear contract.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Waived 1B/3B Juan Francisco for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release.

NEW YORK METS — Named Luis Natera assistant hitting coach. Released RHP Kyle Farnsworth.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHP Jesse Hahn to San Antonio (PCL). Reassigned C Austin Hedges to minor league camp.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned OF Randal Grichuk to the Memphis (IL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reassigned RHP Blake Treinen to minor league camp. Released C Chris Snyder.

American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIR HOGS — Traded RHP Josh Strawn to Laredo for OF John Allen.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Released RHP Danny Meszaros.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed G Casper Ware to a 10-day contract.

Women’s National Basketball Association CONNECTICUT SUN — Signed G Katie Douglas to a two-year contract.

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National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed CB R.J. Stanford.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Agreed to terms with OL Paul McQuistan.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed LB Arthur Moats to a one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Re-signed WR Kassim Osgood to a one-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Signed D Justin Faulk to a six-year contract extension.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with D Trevor van Riemsdyk on a two-year contract.

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Recalled D Tim Erixon from Springfield (AHL). Returned D Frederic St. Denis on loan to Springfield.

DALLAS STARS — Recalled F Dustin Jeffrey from Texas (AHL). Reassigned F Chris Mueller to Texas.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Recalled LW Mitch Callahan from Grand Rapids (AHL). Assigned C Landon Ferraro to Grand Rapids.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Reassigned LW Garrett Wilson to San Antonio (AHL).

OTTAWA SENATORS — Reassigned G Andrew Hammond to Binghamton (AHL).

Central Hockey League ALLEN AMERICANS — Waived D Daniel Barnes and G Eric Levine.

SOCCER Major League Soccer COLUMBUS CREW — Announced the resignation of president Mark McCullers, effective April 30.

Transactions Monday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball MLB — Suspended Tampa Bay RHP Alex Colome 50 games after testing positive for Boldenone.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Traded INF Alex Gonzalez to Detroit for INF Steve Lombardozzi.

Designated C Johnny Monell for assignment.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with LHP Jose Quintana on a five-year contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Trevor Bauer and RHP C.C. Lee to Columbus (IL). Reassigned INFs David Cooper and Bryan LaHair to minor league camp. Granted RHP Aaron Harang his unconditional release.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Josh Zeid to Oklahoma City (PCL). Reassigned OF Adron Chambers and C Rene Garcia to minor league camp. Released INF Cesar Izturis.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Optioned OF Jimmy Paredes to Omaha (PCL). Assigned RHP Jon Rauch and C Adam Moore to minor league camp.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Optioned RHPs Ryan Pressly and Michael Tonkin and C Chris Herrmann to Rochester (IL). Reassigned LHPs Matt Hoffman and Aaron Thompson, RHP Deolis Guerra, OF Wilkin Ramirez and INFs Doug Bernier and Deibinson Romero to minor league camp. Granted RHP Matt Guerrier his unconditional release.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Released RHP Scott Baker.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned OF Anthony Gose to Buffalo (IL). Assigned C Mike Nickeas and INFs Chris Getz and Steve Tolleson to minor

Tuesday ● Senior high basketball: 1A-2A Senior Bowl at Red Deer College, girls at 6 p.m., boys to follow. ● Midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, third game of best-of-five provincial final, 7 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● Men’s basketball: Playoffs — Woody’s RV vs. Triple A Batteries, 7:15 p.m.; Orangemen vs. Grandview All-stars, 8:30 p.m.; both games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Okotoks, third game of best-of-five league final, 8 p.m.

Thursday ● Men’s basketball: Playoffs — Triple A Batteries vs. Woody’s RV, 7:15 p.m.;

Orangemen vs. Grandview All-stars, 8:30 p.m.; both games at Lindsay Thurber. ● Midget AAA hockey: Red Deer at Lloydminster, fourth game of best-of-five provincial final, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday ● Heritage junior B hockey: Okotoks at Blackfalds, fourth game of best-of-five league final, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday ● Midget AAA hockey: Lloydminster at Red Deer, fifth game of best-of-five provincial final, if necessary, 1:30 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● Heritage junior B hockey: Blackfalds at Okotoks, fifth game of best-of-five league final, if necessary, 1:15 p.m.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-Indiana 51 20 .718 — x-Miami 48 21 .696 2 d-Toronto 39 30 .565 11 Chicago 40 31 .563 11 Brooklyn 37 32 .536 13 Washington 36 34 .514 14 1/2 Charlotte 34 37 .479 17 Atlanta 31 38 .449 19 New York 29 41 .414 21 1/2 Cleveland 27 44 .380 24 Detroit 26 44 .371 24 1/2 Boston 23 47 .329 27 1/2 Orlando 19 52 .268 32 Philadelphia 15 56 .211 36 Milwaukee 13 57 .186 37 1/2 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-San Antonio 54 16 .771 — d-Oklahoma City 52 18 .743 2 d-L.A. Clippers 49 21 .700 5 Houston 48 22 .686 6 Portland 45 26 .634 9 1/2 Golden State 44 27 .620 10 1/2 Memphis 42 28 .600 12 Phoenix 42 29 .592 12 1/2 Dallas 42 29 .592 12 1/2 Minnesota 34 35 .493 19 1/2 Denver 32 39 .451 22 1/2 New Orleans 30 40 .429 24 Sacramento 25 45 .357 29 L.A. Lakers 23 46 .333 30 1/2 Utah 23 48 .324 31 1/2 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff spot

Sunday’s Games Toronto 96, Atlanta 86 Phoenix 127, Minnesota 120 Denver 105, Washington 102 Sacramento 124, Milwaukee 107 Brooklyn 107, Dallas 104, OT Cleveland 106, New York 100 L.A. Lakers 103, Orlando 94 Monday’s Games Houston 100, Charlotte 89 Miami 93, Portland 91 Phoenix 102, Atlanta 95 Chicago 89, Indiana 77 Oklahoma City 117, Denver 96 Memphis 109, Minnesota 92 New Orleans 109, Brooklyn 104, OT San Antonio 113, Philadelphia 91 Detroit 114, Utah 94 Milwaukee at L.A. Clippers, late Tuesday’s Games Portland at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Dallas, 6 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s Games Phoenix at Washington, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Miami at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Denver at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

New York at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Utah, 8:30 p.m.

Baseball Tampa Bay Cleveland Baltimore Seattle Los Angeles New York Detroit Oakland Toronto Kansas City Chicago Houston Minnesota Boston Texas

MLB Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L 15 5 17 7 12 7 16 10 15 10 15 10 12 11 12 12 12 12 11 13 8 12 9 15 7 13 8 15 8 15

Pct .750 .708 .632 .615 .600 .600 .522 .500 .500 .458 .400 .375 .350 .348 .348

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct Miami 16 10 .615 San Francisco 15 10 .600 Pittsburgh 12 9 .571 New York 14 11 .560 Arizona 11 9 .550 Colorado 13 12 .520 Washington 13 12 .520 St. Louis 10 11 .476 Milwaukee 12 14 .462 Chicago 12 15 .444 Cincinnati 12 15 .444 San Diego 8 12 .400 Los Angeles 6 10 .375 Atlanta 10 17 .370 Philadelphia 8 15 .348 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Sunday’s Games Toronto 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 St. Louis 6, Houston 3 Tampa Bay 9, Boston 2 Atlanta 4, N.Y. Mets (ss) 1 Baltimore 7, Pittsburgh 7, tie, 10 innings Miami 8, Detroit 4 Philadelphia 5, Minnesota 1 N.Y. Mets (ss) 3, Washington 1 Seattle 6, Oakland (ss) 4 Milwaukee 9, Cincinnati 1 San Diego 11, Texas 7 L.A. Angels 5, Cleveland 2

San Francisco 13, Kansas City 9 Chicago Cubs 10, Oakland (ss) 6 Colorado 5, Chicago White Sox 5, tie Monday’s Games Washington 4, Miami 1 Tampa Bay vs. Minnesota, ccd., Rain Detroit vs. Pittsburgh, ccd., Rain Boston vs. Baltimore, ccd., Rain Philadelphia 6, Toronto 3, 8 innings N.Y. Mets 5, St. Louis 3 Texas 6, Oakland 2 L.A. Angels 11, San Francisco 4 Cleveland 8, Cincinnati 3 Chicago White Sox 7, Seattle 6 Colorado 8, Kansas City 2 Houston 7, Atlanta 5 San Diego vs. Chicago Cubs late Tuesday’s Games Boston vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

Toronto vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Cincinnati vs. Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Chicago Cubs (ss), 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.

Texas vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Philadelphia vs. N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Kansas City, 7:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. San Diego, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Miami vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore (ss) vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m.

Detroit vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

Washington vs. St. Louis, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees vs. Toronto, 11:05 a.m.

Kansas City vs. San Diego, 1:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Texas, 1:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels vs. Oakland, 1:05 p.m.

Cincinnati vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Cleveland, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Houston, 4:05 p.m.

Baltimore (ss) vs. Tampa Bay, 5:05 p.m.

Bowling Heritage Lanes Weekly Results Monday-Club 55 plus High Single: Bill Black 308. High Triple: Don Harris 687.

Monday Mixed High Single: Joanne Sulz 281. High Triple: Mitchek Reglin 652.

Tuesday Mixed High Single: Jaymin Wudkevich 329. High Triple: Donna Smith 792.

Wednesday-Club 55 plus High Single: Neil Garbutt 305. High Triple: Don Knowler 756.

Wednesday Mixed High Single: Rollie Gervais 345. High Triple: Gervais 924.

Thursday Morning Ladies High Single: Suzanne Williams 253. High Triple: Chris Palm 552.

Thursday Afternoon Special Olympics Mixed High Single: Anthony Kubasek 216. High Double: Kubasek 429.

Thursday Mixed High Single: Holly Harris 306. High Triple: Harris 767.

Sunday Fun League High Single: Shelby Chrest 266. High Triple: Kurtis Pieper 687.

Youth Bowling of Canada (YBC) Bumpers High Single: Brieanne Ross 89.

Bowlasaurus High Single: Jennika Wudkevich 119.

Peewees High Single: Ashlyn Makarenko 143. High Double: Makarenko 218.

Bantams High Single: Keaton Chrest 220. High Triple: Chrest 569.

Juniors High Single: Jessica Achtemichuk 295. High Triple: Achtemichuk 707.

Seniors High Single: Anthony Streit 273. High Triple: Streit 750.

GYMNASTICS Mackenzie Snieder and Carter Pisko were both double medalists for the Red Deer Exelta Gymnastics Club at the third Alberta Cup artistic competition during the weekend.

Snieder took second on the trampoline and third on the double-mini trampoline (DMT) while Pisko was second on the DMT and third on the trampoline.

Erika Blair had a second on the trampoline and fourth on the DMT while Tess McLachlin was second on the DMT and fifth in tumbling.

Mickayla Murray placed third on the trampoline and eighth on the DMT with Savanna Chanminaraj third on the DMT. Lucas Muirhead had a fourth on the trampoline with Karys Zirk taking fifth on the trampoline and DMT and ninth in tumbling. Paige Tiegs placed eighth on the trampoline and DMT.

U18 WOMEN’S HOCKEY WORLDS BUDAPEST, Hungary — Eve-Audrey Picard had a threepoint game and Shea Tiley made 22 saves as Canada shut out Finland 7-0 on Monday at the under-18 women’s world hockey championship.

Picard had a goal and two assists to help Canada improve to 2-0 at the tournament. Seven different players scored for the two-time defending champions.

“Today all four lines played excellent,” said head coach Laura Schuler. “In the past we’ve had goals coming from one or two lines and today it was all four really contributing. So I was really proud of that.”

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Raonic rolls into third round at Sony Open

Cheney’s Nigro crowned grand champion at Capital City Open

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MIAMI — Canada’s Milos Raonic defeated Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-1, 6-2 on Monday to reach the fourth round of the Sony Open for the first time in his career.

For the last two years, Raonic had stalled at the thirdround stage at Crandon Park.

He withdrew last year due to strep throat and suffered an injury the year before.

Raonic, the No. 12 seed, needed just 56 minutes to complete the victory. He fired 10 aces and had service breaks on four of eight chances.

The Canadian produced 26 winners and lost just five points on his serve in the match.

“It was a good way to start the day with a quick win and an early match,” Raonic said.

The Canadian blew through the opening set in 25 minutes and took only slightly longer to secure the second. Raonic broke for a 2-1 lead in the second set and didn’t look back.

He said he was particularly pleased with his service

EDMONTON — Anne Nigro of the Cheney Karate Studios was crowned coloured belt grand champion in the adult division of the Capital City open martial arts championships during the weekend.

Nigro won the executive coloured belt forms title and the women’s advanced coloured belt forms and sparring titles to go with a second in weapons forms and a third in executive sparring.

Meanwhile, Hector Jordan was crowned the men’s black belt grand champion after winning the forms and sparring titles.

In other adult division competition, Helen Li won the women’s whiteyellow belt forms and was second in sparring while Gavin Owen took first in the men’s blue-brown belt sparring.

Brandon Parsons placed second in the men’s blue-brown belt sparring with Ben Van den Bosch finishing second in the men’s orange-green belt sparring and third in forms.

Jessmervin Ramos took third in the men’s black belt sparring.

In the younger classes, Jose Jordan was a double winner in the 10-11 yearold yellow belt division, taking first in sparring and forms.

Jason Ramos won the junior black belt forms and placed second in sparring while Rayne Rostat won the 10-11 year-old orange-green belt sparring and was third in forms.

Ever Stange won the eight-nine year-old orange-green belt forms and placed third in sparring while Janelle Constantino was first in the eight-nine year-old yellow belt forms and third in sparring.

Brody Hornett placed second in the eight-nine year-old orange-green belt forms and third in sparring with John Van den Bosch second in the 1416 year-old blue-brown belt sparring.

Grace Lemus was third in the 10-11 year-old orange-green belt sparring with Raven Cheney third in junior black belt forms.

In other action during the weekend, Abby Villeneuve won gold in 1011 year-old orange-green belt heavyweight group at Arashi-Do.

game and felt he had made strides since his win over the 55th-ranked Spaniard in Davis Cup play last year.

“I’ve improved in general on second serve,” Raonic said. “That allows me to better take advantage of my opportunities.”

Raonic, who did not face a break point, will next play either Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia or Germany’s Benjamin Becker.

“It’s going to be tough no matter who I play,” he said.

“I always know the opponents can play well. But it’s up to me to do what I need to do to win.

“My good serving gives me confidence, it makes my days a lot easier.”

The 23-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., played with a sleeve on his right arm for the second straight match.

“I was using a lotion and it didn’t react well to the sun,” he said. “The sleeve is just for protection, that’s all.”

In doubles play, the sixthseeded duo of Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic were to play Robin Haase of the Netherlands and Britain’s Jonathan Marray later in the day.

SONY OPEN TENNIS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Maria Sharapova was happy to play an 11 a.m. match Monday, especially when her work day was already done by the time a mid-afternoon shower interrupted play.

“It’s nice to see all the players coming back in the locker room, and I’m like, ’I’ll see you later,”’ she said.

Sharapova started early but didn’t start well. She won only five points in the first four games before settling down to reach the quarterfinals at the Sony Open by beating Kirsten Flipkens 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.

The world’s top-ranked players had an easier time. Serena Williams eliminated fellow American CoCo Vandeweghe 6-3, 6-1. Rafael Nadal received a warning for slow play and still Leafs have been at their best, their offence is opportunistic. That could work to its advantage against a tightchecking Blues team.

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LEAFS: Mistakes Carlyle said a lot of mistakes have been made as the Leafs got away from the brand of hockey that got them into a playoff position.

Poor line changes hurt Toronto in a 3-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Sunday night, but that was just the continuation of a pattern. Before that it was turnovers, weak clearing attempts and defensive miscues that sparked odd-man rushes.

“There isn’t a guy in there and there isn’t a coach in there that hasn’t made mistakes,” Carlyle said. “So we’re all vulnerable to mistakes, and that’s what the game is made up of. ... We’re making too many of them that are costing us in the hockey games.”

As the mistakes have piled up, so have the defeats that could put an abrupt end to a season that started strong. Some of that has to do with bad bounces, like a goal that went in off defenceman Tim Gleason’s stick Saturday night against Montreal, but perhaps a recent run of them should have been expected given the Leafs’ good fortune early on.

“Whether you look at a stick breaking or a penalty call against you, I feel those things even out throughout a year,” Phaneuf said. “The bottom line is we haven’t won. We haven’t won the games that we’ve played.”

That has to change quickly, something easier said than done with the Western Conference-leading Blues in town. St. Louis beat Toronto 6-3 on Dec. 12 but also learned a lesson in that game about what the Leafs can do.

“For 30 minutes we did a great job in managing the puck and we were getting scoring chances because of it, and then for a 15-minute stretch we didn’t manage it very well and they just came at us in waves and waves,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said Monday at Air Canada Centre. “We can’t get into that game because they have too many players who are too good off the rush. They’ve got seven or eight forwards who are great off the rush, who make plays.”

There’s little doubt that when the

COX: Big role First, he lands a big role with the network’s national NHL package. Second, as the biggest Brandon Wheat Kings fan in the world, he’s got to be thrilled that his favourite team has landed the first pick overall in the WHL bantam draft through a slick piece of ingenuity by GM Kelly McCrimmon.

Two years ago, the Wheat Kings traded forward Brenden Walker to Saskatoon and flipped first round picks with the Blades for the ‘14 draft. Saskatoon, of course, was trying to load up as host of the 2013 Memorial Cup. Last week, the Blades won the WHL draft lottery, so rebuilding Brandon gets that pick. Sam Pollock would be impressed. ● Hard to know what to think of the dreadful season that has unfolded in Edmonton. Or where the Oilers should turn next, other than probably making sure they get towering Barrie defenceman Aaron Ekblad in the entry draft.

Ekblad and Darnell Nurse would make a nice set of bookends for the future, wouldn’t you agree?

Or is this the year the Oilers need to show some ingenuity and imagination and move their top pick to start trying to actually improving? The debate has already started in Alberta. ● There’s chatter the Islanders could have got even more for Tomas Vanek had they been willing to accept salary, probably a pro-rated $500,000, as part of the deal. But they weren’t.

This is a franchise, you should know, that has the NHL’s second lowest payroll. ● Kudos to Mike Cammalleri, who is doing a nice job of creating a summer market for his services after not being traded by the Calgary Flames at the trade deadline. Since the deadline passed, Cammalleri has nine goals in 10 games.

Odd, in a way, that teams preferred Matt Moulson and Vanek when it’s Cammalleri that has a record of coming up big in the post-season.

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Milos Raonic returns the ball to Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, of Spain, during the Sony Open tennis tournament, Monday in Key Biscayne, Fla.

won in 59 minutes against Denis Istomin, 6-1, 6-0.

Venus Williams lost her serve eight times and was beaten by No. 10 Dominika Cibulkova 6-1, 5-7, 6-3.

Sharapova, meanwhile, endured her second successive ragged three-setter and found herself trailing 4-0 after only 15 minutes.

“I usually like playing the first match, but I didn’t start off the way I wanted to,” she said. “Nothing was working.”

Seeded No. 4, Sharapova seemed thrown off by the lack of pace from Flipkens, a tour veteran who hits floating backhands and sometimes slices her forehand as well.

“She’s a different type of opponent,” Sharapova said. “There are not too many girls that hit a slice backhand 90 per cent of the time in the rallies. But I know what to expect from her game. It shouldn’t be that much of a surprise.”

Sharapova finished with 36 unforced errors and only 13 winners. She also

double-faulted 10 times. But she won — and was ready to leave Crandon Park before most matches had even begun.

With the rest of the day free, what was on the schedule for one of the world’s most celebrated athletes?

“Not much, actually,” Sharapova said. “I like to have my afternoon tea around 5. It’s like a Russian tradition.

I’ll see my dog, spend some time with him, then get treatment, dinner, and then the day is over.”

At the top of her to-do list for the rest of the week is winning her first Key Biscayne title. Sharapova has been the runner-up five times, including each of the past three years, but she downplays any frustration regarding her many near-misses.

Williams seems to be gaining momentum as the tournament unfolds, as usual.

She overcame sloppy patches in her first two matches and committed only one unforced error in the second set against Vandeweghe.

Rosters set for 3AA-4A high school basketball Senior Bowl Central Alberta champions Ponoka Broncs and Lindsay Thurber Raiders both have four athletes and a coach in the annual 3AA-4A Senior Bowl, which will be held April 1 at Lindsay Thurber.

The Broncos, who were undefeated in the boys’ division, will be represented by Brandy Seibel, Ethan Minde, Jared Nicolls and Davis Labrie on the Light team along with coach Blaine Haines.

The Raiders, Notre Dame and Camrose have three players each on the team with alternates coming from LTCHS and Notre Dame.

Tanner Rehn, Parker Cook and Gaige Rehn of LTCHS are on the Light team and David Higham an alternate with Jake Dahl, Trenton Dreidger and Amet Deng from Notre Dame with Jose Vizcarra an alternate.

Jesse Kerr, Evan Adams and Josiah Grose will represent Camrose with Cam Lee and Ivan Mirofuentes from Sylvan Lake.

The boy’s Dark squad sees Jesse Ross, Sean Campbell and Luke Beasley representing zone 4A champion Hunting Hills with Mackenzie Wright an alternate and Scott Doan the head coach.

Trent Hebert, Connor Gusdal and Klevlin Cutknife are from Wetaskiwin with Art Limbaga and Dalton Bukkems as alternates.

Thomas Soodsma, Logan Eklund and Colton Morrow represent West Central of Rocky Mountain House with Wes Stromquist as an alternate while Keegan Cooke, Judah Knip and Jayson Tomas are from Lacombe, which has SaDair Nobel as an alternate. Braden Deagle, Nicholas Baharally and Justin Fleischhacker are from Stettler.

On the girls’ side, Kelsie Smale, Kennedy Shybunka, Natalie Holmes and Aly Anderson will represent LTCHS on the Light team with Kathy Lalor the head coach.

Jaden Robinson, Teagan Booth and Zaza Lockhart are from Hunting Hills with Brooke Hardy, Candice Morse and Mataya Dixon from Notre Dame.

Taylor Vick, Phoenix Schultz, Kaylee Campbell and Kendra Campbell are from Sylvan Lake.

Five members of the Wetaskiwin Sabres — Hannah Ballhorn, Mary Krause, Emma Ripka, Chantelle Gamaz and Sam Wilson — are on the Dark squad along with coach Lana Ilg. Bradi Lorenz and Courtney Green are from Camrose with Kirsten Ramsay, Emile Wilson and Bronwyn Reeves from Lacombe.

Jamie Ternes, Kelsey Hallett and Brooke Torgerson represent Stettler with Kennedy Justinen and Paige Richardson from West Central.

The girls’ game gets underway at 6 p.m. with the boys to follow.

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announcements Obituaries

PROVO Brian Clifford It is with profound sadness that Brian’s family announces his passing on March 22, 2014 at the Red Deer Hospice at the age of 65 years. A Celebration of Brian’s Life will be held on Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer, Alberta. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Brian’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4R 3S6. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting ww.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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VAN DER WEKKEN Ruth 1941 - 2014 Mrs. Ruth Daisy Van Der Wekken (nee Swanson), beloved wife of Mr. Tony Van Der Wekken of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away suddenly on Sunday, March 16, 2014 at the age of 72 years. Ruth was born on May 23, 1941 at Edberg, Alberta. She met her husband, Tony and they were united in marriage in 1963.

The couple was blessed with three children. Ruth will be deeply missed but lovingly remembered by her family and many dear friends. Ruth leaves to mourn her loss, her loving husband, Tony and their three children, Lee-Ann (Fred) Farrant, Nancy (Paul) Lindley and Brian Van Der Wekken, and four grandchildren, Amanda (Curt) Farrant, Benjamin (Kassandra) Farrant, Alysha Lindley and Jared Lindley.

She is also survived by her sister, Mary (Morris) Johanson and her brothers, Walter (Therese) Swanson and Dennis Swanson. A Memorial Service in Ruth’s honor will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. If desired, Memorial Donations in Ruth’s honor may be made directly to a Charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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REPAS Dorothy Gladys 1929 - 2014 It is with deep sadness that the family of Dorothy Gladys ‘Dot’ Repas announces her passing at the Red Deer Hospice on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at the age of 85 years. Dorothy was born on March 12, 1929 at Alsask, Saskatchewan. She later moved to Rimbey, Alberta, where she met and married her husband, Vidor William Repas in 1946.

The couple was happily married for fifty-eight years until Vidor’s passing on March 21, 2005. Dot and Vidor farmed and raised their family in the Leedale Area West of Rimbey.

They moved to Red Deer, Alberta in 1974. During retirement, Dot and Vidor enjoyed visiting and hosting friends and family get togethers. They loved camping and taking tours to Reno, Nevada and also touring throughout Western Canada. After Vidor’s passing, Dot continued to enjoy family visits and greeting friends in her home; which she cared for and lived in until the time of her passing. Dot was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend to all. Many wonderful memories of Dot and Vidor will be cherished by their children and spouses, grandchildren, great grandchildren, family, friends and neighbors in the years to come. Dot will be lovingly remembered by her daughter, Shirley (Rick) Horn, son, Brian (Linda) Repos, daughter, Bonnie (Roger) Hinse and daughter, Brenda Boulding (Tim Benson). She will also be sadly missed by her loving and caring brother, Gordon Gauley, grandchildren, Sheri, Lonny, Dean, Dawn, Nicole, Shannon, Troy and Brittany and her great grandchildren, Cali, Paris, Wyatt, Lyric, Marley and Isabela. Dot was predeceased by her mother and father, Norman and Olive Gauley, brothers, Alf and Bill and their wives, a granddaughter, Cheryl and loving son-in-law, Kent Boulding.

“In Life you walked beside us, And guided us along the way.

In Death you are still beside us, Just in a different way.”

Respecting both Dot and Vidor’s wishes, no Formal Funeral Service will be held. Their heartfelt desire was to be remembered for their Love and the good times had with family and friends. If desired, Memorial Donations in Dot’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at www.reddeerhospice.com.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Cremation arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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AMBROSE (née Bessey) Shirley Ann It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Shirley on Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 at the age of 67 years. Shirley leaves behind her loving and dedicated husband Victor, to whom she was married for 43 years. She also leaves behind her daughter, Lisa (Bill), and granddaughter Ally from Kelowna, her son, Clint (Sylvie), from Yellowknife, her brother, John, and sister, Ellen, of Regina, nieces and nephews in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and her many wonderful friends of Red Deer and beyond. In accordance with Shirley’s wishes, no funeral service will be held. Thank you as well to all of the incredible nurses, doctors, and social worker, Cindy, who provided loving and comfort care to Shirley in the Palliative Care ward at Red Deer Regional Hospital. You made her final days much more peaceful. In lieu of flowers a donation in Shirley’s memory may be made to comfort care in the Palliative Care ward at Red Deer Regional Hospital, 3942 50A Avenue, Red Deer AB, T4N 4E7.

PEARSON Anne (nee Kapiniak) July 23, 1932 - Ketchen, SK March 21, 2014 - Calgary, AB Anne Pearson, beloved wife of Harold Pearson of Airdrie, passed away on Friday, March 21, 2014 at the age of 81 years. Anne is survived by her loving husband Harold; three daughters, Valerie Pearson, Gail Pearson and Colleen (Wilfredo) Maniulit; five grandchildren, Kara, Darys, Ryan, Trent and Kasey; two great-grandchildren, Acacia and Keegan; three brothers, Joseph (Joan), Alex (Marlene) and Victor; sister Joyce (Willis); and also numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her parents Olga and Frank Kapiniak; two sisters, Pauline and Victoria; and a brother Samuel. Memorial Services will be held at Beiseker Level Land Seventh-day Adventist Church (Highway 9 east of Beiseker, south at Range Road 242) on Tuesday, March 25, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com In living memory of Anne Pearson, a tree will be planted at Big Hill Springs Park Cochrane by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES, Chapel of the Bells, 2720 CENTRE STREET NORTH, CALGARY, AB T2E 2V6 Telephone: 1-800-661-1599.

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Obituaries POTUER Frances Alexandra (nee Daniels) Frances Alexandra Potuer of Red Deer passed away at Rosefield Care Center, Innisfail on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at the age of 74 years. Frances was born in Summerland, B.C. December 27th, 1939. In 1960 Fran met and married Albert Potuer. They raised their four children in Bentley, before moving to Lacombe in 1981.

From 1974 to her retirement in 1992, Frances worked with a wonderful group of ladies at the Bentley General Hospital. She loved her work and the people she worked with. “Do your best but have fun too,” was how she faced life. Frances and Albert returned to Summerland after retiring. Mom considered Summerland “God’s country,” a beautiful place where she grew up and had many, longtime friends. Several sisters also lived in Summerland and she was once again able to enjoy their company. In 1997 Frances returned to Red Deer, Alberta to be closer to her children and grandchildren and she met Ed Mahoney and enjoyed life with the company of a partner.

She spent her time camping, fishing (mom did her fishing with her nose in a book!), dancing, painting, bowling and just being together listening to the click-click of her knitting needles while mom created works of art with the doilies she made. “Granny Frannie” as her grandchildren and their friends called mom will always be remembered as the fun loving, full of life, crazy Gramma that would be involved in everything they asked. Sadly, Frances required continuing care by age 67, most of the cherished “golden years” of life denied her, due to illness. Fran is lovingly remembered by Rocky Potuer (Sharon) of Red Deer, Kelly Potuer of Red Deer, Lynette Hansen (Lee) of Red Deer, grandchildren; Jennifer Peake, Courtney Fraser (Tom) of Blackfalds, Graham Potuer (Kara-Lee) of Cochrane, Victoria and Elizabeth Hansen of Red Deer, great grandchildren Nash and McCoy Fraser and soon to be joined by Graham and Kara-Lee’s little one.

Frannie will be truly missed by her sister Sheila Bates and many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her infant son Kevin Potuer, Albert Potuer her husband of 38 years and her daughter Barbara Kim Dirsten, brothers; Michael, Harry and Denis, and sisters; Gladys, Peggy, Terry, Joan, Freda and Pat. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, March 27, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Memorial tributes may be made directly to the Alzheimer’s Society, 105-4419 50 Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 3Z5. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

SUTLEY Ruby Gwendolyn Sept. 19, 1919 - Mar. 19, 2014 It is with great sadness that the family of Ruby Gwendolyn Sutley, announce her passing on March 19, 2014, at the age of 94. Ruby was born in Langden, Alberta and was one of eight children born to Roger ad Viola Dye. She married Harold (Bud) Sutley on November 27, 1938, and they farmed east of Alix and raised their 6 children until 1975. They then moved to the Village of Alix and managed the Haunted Lakes Golf Club for many years.

Ruby lead a full life and she enjoyed many sports including: softball, curling, golfing, floor curling and her lifetime love of card games, especially crib. She was also involved for many years in the Alberta Senior Games and in 1984 won the Northern Alberta Championship for ladies curling. A very important part of her retirement included: camping, fishing and travelling to outdoor concerts with family and friends. She loved people of every age and socialized with many. Ruby is survived by her children, Lorna, Keith (Debbie), Gary, Ron (Debbie) and daughter-in-law Marilyn; fifteen grandchildren and spouses, thirteen great-grand children and one great-greatgrandson; her sisters Gladys Lyle, Dorothy McGonigal, Betty Gibbons, and brother, Roger Dye, along with numerous nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her parents, Roger and Viola; husband Bud; children Ken and Marlene; son-in-law Terry; daughter-in-law Gail; granddaughter Korena; greatgranddaughter Jessica, and In Memoriam great-great grandson Wyatt.

The family would like to thank Dr. Keller and the staff at the Lacombe Hospital for their kindness and compassion. If people wish, donations may be made in memory of Ruby, to their charity of choice. No formal Funeral Service will be held at Ruby’s request. An Open House and Celebration of Ruby’s Life will be held at the Alix Community Hall, Alix, AB. on Saturday, March 29th, 2014 from 2-5 pm.

Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL Reginald Joseph Barrett CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM Sept. 26, 1955 - Mar. 25, 2004 of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute Buying or Selling to workplace location. This your home? position offers a challenging Check out Homes for Sale work environment, attractive in Classifieds benefits with competitive pay and significant room for promotion.

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Job functions will include, but not be limited to: Prepare accurate & timely Financial Statements, daily & monthly.

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Hiring full time Operation Coordinator/Field Supervisor for local oilfield testing company Must be local (Red Deer area) Must have testing experience Competitive salary Health benefits offered Send resume to ken@darkstarproduction. com

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Purchaser NexSource Power Inc. Sylvan Lake, AB, CANADA

We are currently looking for an experienced person to coordinate material purchases for a busy oilfield LOCAL SERVICE CO. Electrical Instrumentation in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. Company. Must have VACUUM TRUCK experience with electrical OPERATOR and instrumentation parts Must have Class 3 licence and fittings. Must have w/air & all oilfield tickets. strong computer skills and Fax resume w/drivers good knowledge of MS Excel. abstract to 403-886-4475 General Duties/ Classifieds Responsibilities: Your place to SELL * Sourcing and purchasing Your place to BUY materials * Creating purchase orders. * Sending purchase orders to vendors. * Maintaining adequate document controls. * Shipping and Receiving * Inventory control NOW HIRING Please submit your Well Testing Personnel resume and salary Experienced Supervisors expectations to jobs@ & Operators nexsourcepower.com or Must have valid applicable FAX 403-887-4945 tickets Something for Everyone Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com Everyday in Classifieds

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Motor coach company looking for 4th year or journeyman. Experience with motor coaches preferred. Send resume to frontbus@platinum.ca or fax 403.-347-4999 Start your career!

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GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales representatives selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer, $12.10/Hr plus bonus & commission, F/T. No Exp. Req’d.

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Road Train Oilfield Transport Ltd is looking for JOURNEYMAN HD MECHANIC or REG’D APPRENTICE. Ability to complete CVIP inspections is considered an asset. Top wages/ benefits. Safety tickets req’d. Fax or drop off resume 403-346-6128 No phone calls. roadtrain.com STAIR MANUFACTURER Req’s F/T workers to build stairs in Red Deer shop.

MUST HAVE basic carpentry skills. Salary based on skill level. Benefits avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913

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 EXP’D CLASS 1 end dump driver for local haul. Please fax resume with driver’s abstract 403-342-6881

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

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TRUCKERS Busy road construction company looking for Class 1, Class 3, and winch truck drivers. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have at least 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

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Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

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Streetwise Driving School.

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We are a growing water purification company proudly serving families across central AB. AverACADEMIC Express age starting base pay of BUSY Central Alberta approx. $18/hr. with room ADULT EDUCATION Grain Trucking Company for rapid advancement. In AND TRAINING looking for Class 1 Drivers house training is provided and/or Lease Operators. to qualified applicants.

SPRING START We offer lots of home time, Applicants should be benefits and a bonus motivated, reliable, Support professional, and possess program. Grain and super • Community Worker Program B exp. an asset but not a thirst for knowledge. Call necessary. If you have a to schedule an interview clean commercial drivers • Women in the Trades between 10 am and 7 pm.

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Various Shifts available (furnished living accommodations provided for out of town employees) The successful candidates will: • hold a current Journeyman’s ticket, H2S, CSTS and First Aid • must pass a Pre-employment Drug and Alcohol Screening • Provide a current Driver Licence and Drivers Abstract • be a motivated self-starter • take pride in doing great work and willing to work long hours if needed • be energetic, positive, and keen to work with a rapidly expanding company • be 100% dedicated to customer service and satisfaction Clark’s offers top wages plus 10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages, Cell phones, Company Truck.

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LABOUR Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

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SAFETY PERSON Busy road construction company looking for safety person. Work is throughout the province. Experience is an asset but willing to train the right person. Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license. Fax resume 403-309-0489

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Minimum Investment: Approximately $150,000 unencumbered

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APPRENTICE PARTS TECHNICIAN F/T entry level position with a Heavy Duty Truck Dealership. Must be energetic & goal orientated.

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SOAP Stories is seeking 5 retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr + bonus & commission. Ft No exp. req`d.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to premierjobrd@gmail.com

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TJ PAVING LTD. Openings for Operators & Enjoy a career in the Labourers. Paving experigifting business with ence an asset. Busy, growing company, oppor- The original basket boutique!

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APPLE Auto Glass EXP’D auto glass installer req’d immed. Wage dependent on exp. Good communication/phone skills.

8-5 Mon. - Fri. Drop resume at 4801-78 St. No phone calls.

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WAITER / WAITRESS, HOST & BUS PEOPLE Full Time & Part Time Varying shifts. Excellent & wages & benefits.

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Wise Intervention Services Inc. is now hiring for the following positions: • Coil Tubing Supervisors • Coil Tubing Operators • Boom Truck Operators • Nitrogen Pump Operators • Fluid Pump Operators • Field Mechanics Competitive Wages and Benefits. Extended rotations available (22/13). Priority given to applicants with relevant experience, Class 1 Drivers License and Valid Oilfield Tickets Wise is a leading oilfield services provider that is committed to Quality and Safety excellence. By empowering positive attitudes, beliefs, perceptions and values, our employees care for the success of one another.

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RAMADA INN & SUITES req’s. ROOM ATTENDANTS Exp. pref’d, but not necessary.

F/T wk days & weekends.

Approx. 35 hrs/wk. Bonus program. Rate: $13.50/hr.

Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com

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BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Heavy Equipment Operators, Skid Steer Operators and Laborers. Send resumes to: office@bricar.ca or fax 403-347-6296 JOURNEYMAN Mechanic wanted for busy auto shop that specializes in customizing, diesel repair and performance. Must be able to work independently and efficiently. Must have own tools. Wage neg, benefits an option. Sundre Ab price4x4@hotmail.com

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with at least 3 yrs. of practice and ClearDent experience who is extremely well organized, energetic & self motivated.

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stuff AFTERNOON newspaper carriers needed in the following areas: BOWER

Looking for reliable newspaper carrier for 1 day per week delivery of the Central Alberta Life in the town of

Antiques & Art

ANTIQUE TRUNK $100 403-347-5354

INNISFAIL MOUNTVIEW

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

WEST PARK

For more information phone Loren at 403-314-4316

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

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NORCO mens 12 spd. bike, good cond., $35. ***SOLD***

Resident Apartment Children's Manager - Red Deer Items 27 units, quiet, adult, no smoking, no pets Collect rent, clean, building maintenance, Sidewalks and grass.

Renovation skills a plus Criminal record check.

Send resumes with experience, expectations and references to: resumes@ wunschdevelopments.ca or fax: 780-452-8284

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

Bicycles

Contact Loren at 403-314-4316

WESTLAKE

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BABY SEAT, Brightstars with music & vibration. $10. **SOLD**

EquipmentHeavy

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TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

Firewood

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CARRIERS NEEDED

7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

ANDERS AREA Allan St. / Ardell Close Andrews Close Aikman Close Arb Close / Asmundsen Ave. INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

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CHEST Freezer, Kenmore, 5 c.f. $50 403-346-9169 TOASTER oven very good cond. $20; electric oil heater $20 403-348-1905 403-348-8111

Addington Drive MORRISROE AREA

WORKING WHITE GE STOVE w/black glass front. $200 obo. 403-782-3398

McVicar Street / McKee Close Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres

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HOUSE STEREO w/19” LCD TV $140; 19”HP computer monitor $50 403-782-3847 PS1 w/10 games $70; PSP w/4 movies, 6 games $130 403-782-3847 TOSHIBA 50” rear projection TV, $99; Glass front media stand, $30.

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BREAD Maker, $25 COMBINATION FLIP CHART/MAGNETIC WHITE BOARD, Dahle brand Model 95005.

Adjustable height up to 6.5 feet. $60.

Call (403) 342-7908.

DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino KENMORE BUILT IN VACUUM UNIT including hose, $125.

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LOVESEAT pull out bed 61”w, taupe/pin stripe, very good cond. $60; cloth high back office chair on wheels, adjustable, very good cond. $30; large bevelled mirror set in maple frame w/black design $40 403-347-5846

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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW and CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREAS Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

2 Blocks of Cosgrove Cres. $80/mo.

ALSO Cunningham Cres. $50/mo.

DEER PARK AREA 104 to 194 Blocks of Douglas St. $58/mo.

ALSO Dietz Close, Durie Close and 1 block of Davison Dr. $51/mo.

EASTVIEW Erickson Dr., Eldrige Cr., Everitt Cr., Elkin Cl., $187/mo.

ALSO 37 Ave. from 39 St. to 44 St. and Exeter Cr. and 38A Ave. Area $111/mo.

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WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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Houses/ Duplexes

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MOUNTVIEW HOUSE, 3 bdrm., 1 bath, very clean bungalow, n/s, no pets, $1250./mo. + utils.

403-358-2380

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HALMAN Heights

KITSON CLOSE

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MORRISROE MANOR

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

newer exec. 3 bdrm. bi-level townhouse 1447 sq. ft. 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, lg. balcony, fenced in rear, front/rear parking, no dogs, rent $1395 SD $1000. n/s Avail. Immed. or Apr. 1st.

403-304-7576 / 347-7545

KYTE/Kelloway Cres.

Lovely 3 level exec.

3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, concrete patio, blinds, front/rear parking, no dogs, n/s, rent $1395 SD $1000 Avail. immed. or Apr. 1st.

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Trucks

2008 TOYOTA Tundra crew cab, light brown. 260,000 km. $12,000 obo. 780-608-9547 2008 F-250 Super duty, e/c, 217,000 km. $15,000 obo.

780-608-9547

2003 DODGE 3/4 ton HD, stnd, 4/4, Hemi, reg. cab L/B, 149,000 kms, dk. red, owner $4000 land, 12 mi. E. of Ponoka, 1 NOW RENTING 403-886-2815 1 mi. off pavement, good 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. surface lease revenue.

2936 50th AVE. Red Deer 2000 GMC 1/2 ton S/B, Inquire with your name Newer bldg. secure entry reg. cab, loaded, good and address to: Box 1079, cond, $7000 obo; 2000 w/onsite manager, c/o Red Deer Advocate, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot GMC Yukon loaded $7000 2950 Bremner Ave., water, washer/dryer obo 403-304-0678 Red Deer, Ab T4R 1M9 hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955 ns, no pets, no parties, $960. 403-350-4133 www.ambassadorapts.ca

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

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Rooms For Rent

AVAIL NOW 1 fully furn bdrm for rent. $500/$250 & 1 Lrge fully furn bdrm $550/$275.† Working or Student M only. 403-396-2468 MATURE, quiet, n/s, Furn. $525. 403-466-7979

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DOWNTOWN PARKING STALLS FOR RENT. 4922 47th St. (One block south of Mellenium Centre.) $75/mo. + GST 403-357-0111 or 347-4044

Commercial Property

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13 ACRES highway commercial Red Deer area 403-886-2358 FOR SALE 42,000 sq. ft.

SHOPPING CENTRE in Calgary, Blackstone Commercial, Shane Olin solin@blackstonecommercial .com 403-708-9086

Motorhomes

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SYLVAN LAKE RV is looking to pay

TOP DOLLAR for your Preowned RV - Consignments Welcome!

Call today 403-887-0911

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Fifth Wheels

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Lots For Sale

LOT FOR SALE IN PONOKA 50x170, zoned R4 (Multi-family residential).

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RED DEER ADVOCATE Tuesday, March 25, 2014 B11

MINOR HOCKEY PROVINCIALS The Bentley Bruins, with Dylan Costello, Griffen Ryden, Kayde Budgell and Easton Moore each scoring once, downed the Marwayne Sled Dogs 4-1 Sunday to capture the Alberta peewee B hockey championship at Provost.

Geran Christiansen stopped shots 30 for the winners.

The Bruins rolled to the championship contest with a 9-2 win over High Prairie. Ryden recorded a hat trick, Moore and Hudson Scott each tallied twice, Budgell and Dylan MacKenzie each had a goal and Christiansen made 21 saves.

Bentley posted two wins and a draw in pool play, edging Marwayne 4-3, beating the Thunderstars 5-3 and tying the Airdrie Lightning 3-3.

Moore, Budgell, Ethan Motowylo and Kien Bowen scored against Marwayne and Christiansen blocked 16 shots. Ryden fired three goals and Moore had the other two versus the Thunderstars, with Christiansen making 18 saves.

Budgell, Costello and Zoe LorenzBoser were the Bruins snipers in the tie with the Lightning. Caden Butcher stopped 14 shots in the Bentley net.

Midget B Girls

The Lacoka Rockets dropped a 7-6 overtime decision to the Cold Lake Jaguars in the final of the provincial championship tournament at Lloydminster during the weekend.

Scoring for the Rockets in the championship-game loss were Danica Polson and Emily McLennan with two goals apiece, Jayde Rehbein and Hayley Shukin.

The Rockets posted a 4-3 semifinal win over Taber as Amanda Burt scored twice and Hannah Stretch and Robyn Arnold each had a single goal.

Earlier, Lacoka edged the Jaguars 2-1 with Polson and Shukin providing the goals, and fell 6-2 to Viking as Arnold tallied twice in a losing cause.

The Rockets also downed Brooks 3-1 and got past the Calgary Inferno 4-1.

Rehbein, McLennan and Polson scored against Brooks and Stretch, with three goals, and Polson pulled the trigger in the win over Calgary.

Peewee C

The Delburne Outlaws fell just short of winning the provincial championship at Marwayne, falling 3-1 to the Grande Prairie Knights in the final.

Teagan McCullough notched the lone Delburne goal and Teryn Steen and Dalton Beck combined to stop 31 shots in a losing cause.

The Outlaws downed the Vauxhall Sabres 5-2 in a semifinal as Cole Muir sniped three goals, Kolby SchmitzRingdahl had the other two and Beck made 46 saves.

Earlier, Delburne beat the Boyle Blazers 8-5, blanked the Duchess Storm 9-0 as Beck stopped all 16 shots he faced, and dropped a 9-5 decision to the Calmar Cobras.

Schmitz-Ringdahl fired four goals, Muir added two and McCullough and Christian Southworth scored against Boyle, while Steen made 26 saves. Muir exploded for six goals in the win over Duchess, while McCullough, SchmitzRingdahl and Brooklyn Schlag also tallied for the Outlaws.

Muir had two goals in Delburne’s only preliminary loss. McCullough, Schmitz-Ringdahl and Deven Wakeling also scored and Beck and Steen combined for 34 saves.

Atom AA Minor

The Sylvan Lake Lakers advanced to the semifinals of the provincial tournament at Beaumont, then fell 8-1 to the host Braves.

Myle Hilman notched the lone Lakers goal, while Matteo Montalto and Colby Knight combined to make 37 saves.

Sylvan Lake qualified for the playoff round by posting a record in preliminary play, edging the Fort Saskatchewan Rangers 3-2, doubling the Chestermere Lakers 4-2, dumping the Calgary Northwest Warriors 9-3 and falling 6-2 to the Camrose Vikings.

Hilman, with two goals, and Tyler Gyori scored and Montalto made 21 saves against the Rangers, while Hilman, Tyler Gyori, Justin Gyori and Jayden Henderson tallied against Chestmere, and Knight stopped 39 shots.

Hilman and Hender-

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Peewee AA Major

The Sylvan Lake Lakers managed a 2-2-0 record in the provincial championship event at St. Albert.

The Lakers were 6-3 winners over the Okotoks Oilers and defeated the St. Albert Sabres 5-4. The Lakers lost 3-1 to the Blackfoot Chiefs and fell to 3-2 to the Strathcona Warriors.

Deegan Mofford fired three goals and Luke Marshall, Jacob Berdahl and Caileb Berge also tallied against Okotoks, with Ethan Weberg making 37 saves. In the win over the Sabres, Berdahl, Berge, Marshall, Noah Carlson and Kyle Richmond scored and Weberg blocked 23 shots.

Carlson had the lone Lakers goal against Blackfoot and Mofford and Marshall scored in the loss to Strathcona. Weberg made 16 and 24 saves, respectively.

Strathcona edge the St. Albert Saints 4-3 to win the Alberta title.

Peewee D

The Big Valley Thunder downed Spruce View 9-6 in a battle of Central Alberta teams in the provincial championship tournament at Killam.

Kasey Hiemstra fired five goals for the Thunder, who got two from Daniel Brown, singles courtesy of Tynan Whiteside and Chase Walker and 29 saves from Zachary Duncan. Dylan McKain and Riley McKain each sniped two goals for Spruce View, Logan Cooke and Antoine Loomis also connected and Josh Huising made 29 saves.

Neither team qualified for the playoffs, with Big Valley finishing 1-2-0 in pool play and Spruce View suffering three losses.

Big Valley fell 6-5 to the Mannville Hawks as Hiemstra fired three goals, Robin Schipper and Rhett Walker and Duncan turned aside 64 shots.

Spruce View, meanwhile, was thumped 16-7 by Mannville and lost 7-4 to the Oyen Bees.

Riley McKain and Ryan Turnquist each potted a pair against Mannville, while Cooke, Hunter Adrian and Dakota Hetu also connected. Riley McKain scored twice against Oyen, Dylan McKain and Justin Savage each had singles and Huising made 34 saves.

Foremost doubled Mannville 6-3 in the provincial final.

Peewee B Girls The Rimbey Renegades were 1-2-1 in the provincial championsip tournament at Cold Lake/Bonnyville.

The Renegades ripped the Calgary Hornets 9-1, tied Wainwright 2-2 and fell 3-2 to the Fort Saskatchewan Fury and 6-0 to the Airdrie Lightning.

Ashley Weiss and Keelie Beierbach each sniped three goals in the Rimbey win, while Brooke Lowe, Abbey Van Heuvel and Kaylea Greer-Schallock also scored. Lowe and Greer-Schallock had the Renegades goals in the draw with Wainwright, and Greer-Schallock and Beierbach scored against the Fury.

Lethbridge beat Airdrie 7-2 to win the provincial crown.

Minor Midget AA

The Edmonton Canadian Athletic Club blanked the Southeast Tigers 4-0 Sunday in the final of the provincial tournament in Red Deer.

The Edmonton Southside Bulldogs defeated the Lloydminster Rage 3-1 in the third-place game.

In Saturday’s semifinals, the Tigers doubled Southside 8-4 and CAC slipped past Lloydminster 4-3.

The host Northstar Chiefs posted a 0-2-3 record and failed to qualify for the playoffs.

Phillies top Blue Jays in rain-shortened game

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — David Buchanan kept up his bid for a major league roster spot, striking two over two perfect innings Monday in the Philadelphia Phillies’ 6-3, rain-shortened win over the Toronto Blue Jays.

The game was called with one out in the top of the eighth.

Buchanan pitched for Double-A Reading and Triple-A Lehigh Valley last year and remains in the mix for a bullpen berth. He is to pitch Saturday in Philadelphia’s spring-training finale.

Philadelphia loaded the bases in the second against Brandon Morrow, scoring on RBI grounders by Cody Asche and Cameron Rupp, then made it 4-0 in the fourth on Tony Gwynn Jr.’s sacrifice fly and Ben Revere’s runscoring single.

Morrow gave up four runs, five hits and three walks in five innings. The right-hander is slated to pitch in the second of two exhibition games Saturday in Montreal against the New York Mets.

Blue Jays closer Casey Janssen, slowed by right shoulder soreness, allowed two hits during a scoreless seventh in his first big league exhibition game this year. He pitched in the minors Friday.

The plan is for Janssen to pitch on consecutive days Thursday and Friday.

WORLD TRAVELER Matt Tuiasosopo made his first appearance with the Blue Jays, sandwiching a single between two strikeouts.

He was claimed last week on waivers

from Arizona, while the Diamondbacks were in Australia to play the Los Angeles Dodgers The outfielder flew from Sydney to Tampa, with a stop in Dallas, a 15-hour flight. He arrived in Florida on Saturday night.

STARTING TIME Blue Jays: Two candidates for the final rotation spot are to pitch Tuesday.

J.A. Happ will face Pittsburgh, while Dustin McGowan will throw in a minor league game.

“It could come down to the wire,” manager John Gibbons said. “We’ll have a much better idea after tomorrow.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Shortstop Jose Reyes, who left Saturday’s game due to left hamstring tightness, will have a precautionary MRI exam.

Gibbons has no concerns about Reyes being ready for opening day.

“Everybody feels it’s very mild and minor,” Gibbons said.

Outfielder Moises Sierra was scratched from the lineup because of flulike symptoms.

MOVES Blue Jays: Ryan Goins was announced as the starting second baseman for the season. Goins will move to shortstop to fill in if Reyes is sidelined.

Gibbons said infielder Munenori Kawasaki will not make the openingday roster and is set to start the season with Triple-A Buffalo.

Outfielder Anthony Gose was optioned to Buffalo. Catcher Mike Nickeas, and infielders Chris Getz and Steve Tolleson were sent to the minor league camp.

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Peewee A Girls

Madison Rutz notched the lone goal for the Red Deer Sutter Fund Chiefs in an 8-1 semifinal loss to Sherwood Park in the provincial championship at Edmonton.

Lola Hanasyk made 29 saves for Red Deer, which posted a 2-1-0 record in pool play — beating the Lloydminster G Force 7-2 and Okotoks 3-1, and losing 7-2 to the Edmonton Hurricanes.

Rutz and Stephanie Keeper each notched two goals against the G Force, while Hannah Purdy, Brooke Litwinski and Kristian Holman also tallied and Makenzie Langelaar made 55 saves.

Anne-Marie Purdy scored twice and Kira Weddell had a single goal against Okotoks, while Langelaar stopped 23 shots.

Litwinski and Keeper had the Red Deer goals against Edmonton.

Sherwood Park beat the St. Albert Hit 2-0 in the final.

son each sniped three goals against the Warriors, with Tyler Gyori scoring twice and Adan Michael also connecting. Knight turned aside 31 shots for the winners.

Hilman had both goals in the loss to the Vikings, who directed 50 shots at Montalto.

Beaumont downed Camrose 7-1 in the championship game.

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Peewee B

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Woods says ‘still too soon’ to know if his back will be OK for Masters

Canada’s Weaver and Poje poised to step onto world ice dance podium

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FIGURE SKATING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Tiger Woods is not sure whether his ailing back will allow him to play in the Masters, which is two weeks away.

“For Augusta, it’s actually still a little too soon, to be honest with you,” Woods said Monday at a news conference to announce that Quicken Loans is the new title sponsor of his golf tournament. “That’s kind of the frustrating thing about this.”

The Masters is the only major tournament the 38-year-old Woods has never missed. Four of his 14 major championships came at Augusta National, including his first in 1997. He last won the green jacket in 2005.

This year’s Masters is April 10-13.

Woods is off to the worst start of his 18 years on tour, and he’s been troubled lately by back problems.

He stopped playing in the final round at the Honda Classic on March 2 because of what he called back spasms and pain in his lower back. He tried to defend his title the following week at Doral, only for his back to flare up again in the final round, when he shot a 78, the highest Sunday score of his PGA Tour career and his first closing round without a birdie.

Then last week, Woods withdrew from the Arnold Palmer Invitational because of persistent back pain.

“I’ve had a couple weeks off and getting treatment and just working on trying to get ready for Augusta,” Woods said Monday. “As of right now, it’s still too soon, which is, as I said, pretty frustrating.”

This has been the longest sustained problem Woods has had with his lower back.

He first showed signs of back pain at Bethpage Black at The Barclays in 2012, which he attributed to a soft bed at his hotel. He felt twinges during the final round of the PGA Championship last year, and when his back bothered him in the final round of The Barclays two weeks later, he said it was unrelated.

UFC 173

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — Middleweight champion Chris Weidman has a knee injury, forcing the UFC to postpone his title bout against Lyoto Machida.

Weidman (11-0) was expected to make his second title defence at UFC 173 on May 24 at the MGM Grand Garden, but the Long Island-based mixed martial artist needs minor surgery. Weidman’s bout with Machida is moving to UFC 175 on July 5 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

The UFC hasn’t decided on a new main event for its traditional Memorial Day weekend show. Former heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos will meet Stipe Miocic in the top undercard fight on the payper-view event.

They’ve long danced in the shadows of Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

But there’s about to be a new world order in ice dancing, and Canadians Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje hope to lead the way.

The ice dancers from Waterloo, Ont., are competing at the world figure skating championships this week in Saitama, Japan, and for the first time in five years, the gold won’t go to Virtue and Moir or Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White. Both teams took a pass on the worlds.

“I think initially it was a bit of a shock,” Weaver said. “Everyone knew there would be a day when Tessa and Scott and Meryl and Charlie weren’t going to grace the competitive rinks, but now that it’s here, it’s like ’Wait. . what are we going to do now?’

“It’s a little strange to not have them there on the list. But at this point, we’re ready. I feel like we’re ready to take over.”

Virtue and Moir and their American rivals have split the last four world championships. Each team has a gold and a silver from the last two Olympics, with Davis and White claiming gold last month in Sochi. Both teams are expected to announce their retirement shortly. Davis and White are currently competing on “Dancing With the Stars.”

Weaver and Poje were seventh in their Olympic debut last month in Sochi, and have been fourth once and fifth twice at the world championships. Now, the world title is up for grabs, said the 24-year-old Weaver.

“And it’s going to be a free-forall. I really do believe that everyone is in this predicament where anything can happen and that’s a thrilling place to be,” she said.

“We’ve always prided ourselves on being the underdogs, and we’ve been working so hard the last couple of weeks but we’ve been working so hard this whole season because we knew this moment could be a reality when we’d be the first Canadian team.

“We’ve been preparing our whole lives for these types of moments, and we’re very excited to go in and try and stake our claim for Canada and not lose any ground without Tessa and Scott being there.”

Weaver and Poje finished fifth at the world championships last spring in London, Ont., despite the fact Weaver was coming off a broken ankle. The two had missed the entire Grand Prix season and she was still on crutches at the Canadian championships, two months before they took the ice at worlds.

Weaver had surgery this past off-season to remove the screws in her ankle.

The ice dancers lead an 11-member Canadian team in Japan that is also missing three-time world champion Patrick Chan.

Chan, who won silver at the Sochi Olympics, hasn’t announced his immediate competitive plans.

In his absence, Kevin Reynolds of Coquitlam, B.C., will be the top men’s singles skater in Japan.

The 23-year-old, who was fifth at last year’s world championships, hopes to make up for his disappointing 15th-place finish at the Sochi Olympics. Reynolds has had a short season after struggling for months to find skates that fit him properly, skipping the Grand Prix events in the fall. And while he has yet to find a solution, he’s going to focus on competing this week and then will spend the offseason working with his skate sponsor to build a boot that fits his narrow heel.

“It’s kind of like the end is in sight, and that’s motivated me to put it out of my mind and do the best that I can at the world championships,” Reynolds said.

Rising star Nam Nguyen will make his world senior debut this week. The 15-year-old from Toronto is coming off a victory at the world junior championships two weeks ago. Nguyen reeled off two triple Axels in his long program to win the world title.

“When I saw the score, it was unbelievable, that’s the highest score I’ve ever gotten internationally,” Nguyen said. “When I sat

down, there were so many things going on in my head — ’I skated awesome’ and things like that. I saw the score and thought, ’Oh my god, I can’t believe it.”’

Reynolds and Weaver and Poje said it wasn’t easy to get revved up again for the world championships after coming down off the Olympic high from Sochi.

“There was so much energy involved,” Reynolds said of his Sochi experience.

Weaver and Poje took a few days off, and spoke to students at several schools through involvement with Right to Play, an organization that uses sport and play to empower and educate children.

“Seeing the excitement on (the students’) faces just made us realize how special the moment was,” Poje said.

“It took a bit of regrouping, we were mentally and physically drained coming back from the Olympics, as we should be,” Weaver added. “I would feel like we missed something if we came back still with energy. I think we lived our Olympics to the fullest and we were able to experience so many different aspects of the Games.”

It wasn’t difficult, Weaver said, for the ice dancers to get excited for the world championships, especially considering the absence of Virtue and Moir and Davis and White.

“It leaves two spots open that weren’t there before,” Weaver said. “That leaves a lot of room for us. . . And it allows close out our season and celebrate all the strides we’ve made this year.”

Kaetlyn Osmond, an 18-year-old from Marystown, N.L., is Canada’s top women’s singles skater at the world championships, and is looking to improve on her 13th place in Sochi. Canada has a couple of pairs teams that could finish on the podium. Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford of Balmertown, Ont., won bronze at last year’s worlds, and were seventh at the Sochi Olympics.

Kirsten Moore-Towers of Waterloo, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto were fifth in Sochi and fourth at the worlds last year.

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