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BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Lacombe is trying to put the brakes on lead-footed drivers.

City council got its first quarterly report on an automated traffic enforcement program introduced last year and the numbers show too many drivers go too fast.

Just over half — 100,532 of 201,036 motorists — who passed by a pair of educational radar speed display signs were going over the posted speed limit, although in most cases it was less than 10 km/h over.

The signs, which display the driver’s speed but

don’t record licence plates, were posted on the C&E Trail and 58th Street from October through December.

Similar percentage of speeders were seen by photo radar operators. Of the 1,917 vehicles monitored by the speed gun, tickets were written for 1,066 speeders. The average ticket fine was $106.

Photo radar is contracted out to Edmonton-based Independent Traffic Services.

How fine revenues are shared between the city and the contractor is “proprietary information within a contractual agreement,” says city chief adminis-

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trative officer Norma MacQuarrie in an emailed response to a request for the breakdown in revenues.

One speed demon was clocked at 131 km/h on 58th Street between 10:30 and 11 p.m.

Among the violators, 46 per cent had Lacombe addresses and the others were from outside town.

Photo radar was used at 25 locations, with many picking up no speeders. The worst stretch by far was 50th Avenue between 63rd Street and C&E Trail, where 633 photo radar tickets were recorded. 50th Street from 54th Avenue to Woodlands Drive was next highest with 197 tickets issued.

The number of vehicles recorded was relatively low because of the winter conditions, which made it difficult for photo radar operators to find a safe place to set up.

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BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Inglewood indeed will be the site of a new elementary school set to open in 2016.

The Red Deer Public Schools board has approved administration’s recommendation to locate its forthcoming school build in the southeast neighbourhood.

The location was proposed after plans to build in northeast Red Deer could not go ahead because the area is currently underdeveloped.

The build site will be what is presently an open green space at the southeast corner of Inglewood Drive and Irving Crescent, a site earmarked for a school in the 2004 neighbourhood area structure plan. The surrounding park space already features a playground, baseball diamond and outdoor rink.

President of the Anders Inglewood Community Association, Marlo Ruttan, said the board decision came as a bit of a surprise, but was overdue. When the public division was awarded provincial funding in 2011 for a new elementary school, it opted to build in Timberlands, a sparsely-populated area where significant future growth is expected.

“If you look at the area of Anders, Inglewood, Ironstone, Vanier, the new Sunnybrook — we have well over 10,000 homes. We have one elementary school, and it’s Catholic,” said Ruttan.

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Moving out of Michener has allowed many to thrive 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 Living just down the road from Michener Centre as a child, Michael Dawe was used to seeing residents walking the streets of his Michener Hill neighbourhood and occasionally stopping for a visit. So

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Dawe was unperturbed one day, decades ago, when he heard banging in the kitchen of his family home and found a Michener resident vigorously opening and shutting cupboards.

“She’d like to bolt every once in a while,” he says with a laugh, “Sometimes she got quite far before someone would phone that ‘She’s over here.’”

For Dawe and his neighbours, Michener and its charges — the higher functioning residents, at least — were never that foreign.

For others in the community, though, the buildings on the hill and the people who lived in them were segregated for a reason.

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MICHENER: Societal attitudes changed Societal attitudes changed regarding treatment of people with developmental disabilities in the 1960s, and by the early ’70s, residents were leaving Michener at a rate of about 140 per year as group homes became de rigueur. But the 20 group homes that are today part of Michener’s south site are only located there because in the mid-70s some Red Deer residents feared that a plan to disperse the homes across the city would endanger their neighbourhoods. They raised enough of a fuss that the homes were built clustered together near the institution they were partially replacing.

As one 1974 letter writer to the Advocate put it, “... as a result (of the new policy) people with the intelligence of minus 10 years in age are roaming the streets, sitting in the bars or breaking and entering while an extreme few are doing not too badly with the aid of welfare and a lot of patience from some of the kinder people in our city.”

Judy Lytton (nee Faulkner) had been allowed to leave the old Provincial Training School in the mid-60s after she earned her hairdressing licence.

Confined at the centre because she was a cross-eyed ward of the government, Lytton had no mental handicap and was deemed to be of normal intelligence during her time in Red Deer.

She became a very skilled coiffeuse by age 20, but knew she could not continue in the profession because of her past and the shame associated with handicaps at the time.

“I had been put on the spot a few times — ‘Where did you go to school?’ and ‘Where do your parents live?’ — and I thought ‘Oh my god, no I can’t even stump my way out of this.’ Now I could, but then I couldn’t even think to say ‘Oh, I went to school in Calgary or Lethbridge.’ I just froze right on the spot and I thought ‘Oh my god, I can’t continue to hairdress’ because it’s very personal. You’re everybody’s nurse, doctor, psychiatrist, teacher, you’re everybody’s everything. And I loved it, but when it came down to the crunch, nope, I couldn’t face it, because it was too painful,” said Lytton.

She moved to Edmonton from Leduc and settled into a series of good jobs and a supportive social circle, but it would not be until after Leilani Muir sued the government in 1995 that Lytton felt confident enough to speak of her past to more than just her close friends.

Harold Barnes can tell you the exact moment he was admitted to Michener — “October 8, 1965 . . .

2:15 in the afternoon” — and he’s pretty sure his last day there was Jan. 26, 1971. He and others will tell you that he should never have been confined to the centre just because he had cerebral palsy. Yet the 62-year-old knows that at the time, Michener was the safest place for him.

In his post-Michener years, Barnes lived in a few group homes and enrolled in a college program that taught him to read. Later, he would live in the old Court House Inn downtown. After some training through Cosmos, Barnes got a job at Walmart as a greeter around 1995, a job he still goes to three times a week — unless he is off travelling across the country to take in the Grey Cup, Brier, or some other sporting event.

The move to a group home allowed him more freedom, he says; when he wanted to go out and do something, he no longer had to do so as part of a big group. Nowadays he lives in a seniors lodge in West Park and hands out business cards for ‘H. Barnes Enterprizes.’

Barnes is one of hundreds of ex-Michener residents who took to advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities after leaving the institution.

Of all those people, Doreen Befus stands alone. She was, after all, the only one to have lunched with the Queen when Her Royal Highness came to Red Deer in 1990.

Befus was put up for adoption as an infant and bounced around between foster homes before she arrived at Michener, where she would spend her formative years. When she left in 1947 at age 21 to work on farms around Alberta and B.C., she entered into a world that was puzzling to her. Though she had no real mental handicap, the social isolation that she grew up with in Michener Centre stunted her development. It was not until 1977 that she was able to establish herself living independently in Red Deer.

Over the next two-and-a-half decades before she died in 2001, Befus was indefatigable in her efforts to improve the lives of those with handicaps. She peppered the Advocate’s letters page with missives reminding readers, businesses, and governments to consider the rights of the disabled and in 1983 a

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documentary film was made on her life ,which saw her back at Michener and in the community sharing her infectuousness with others.

She travelled the country telling her story and advocating for rights, earning many awards for her work. Her invitation to be among 50 people to dine with the Queen stemmed from those efforts.

What made her so special, says friend and former Michener chaplain Stuart Fraser, is that the Queen meant no more to Doreen than a severely handicapped Red Deerian did.

“She treated everybody with respect and nobody with awe,” he said upon her passing in 2001.

Today, Persons with Developmental Disabilities Central doles out two annual awards in Doreen’s honour — for self-advocacy work and leadership.

Another former resident who moved into the community and made himself known was the freespirited music lover Jackie Wyllie. His mane of long white hair, flowing as he rode his golf cart-style three-wheeler down the middle of downtown streets, made him immediately recognizable. Though only 1.5 metres (five feet) tall, Wyllie had a big personality, evidenced when an Advocate reporter visited him in hospital after a scooter mishap. Wyllie insisted that, birth records be damned, he was about to turn 47, not 77.

Despite the protestations of others, Wyllie checked himself out of Michener in 1978 after nearly 50 years there and set himself up in a downtown apartment. With a mild handicap, life on his own had its challenges. Wyllie couldn’t quite grasp the concept that he needed to regularly charge his scooter batteries and so the machine once lost juice on a highway near Rimbey, leaving him and a friend to sleep a night in the ditch before a passerby hauled them back to Red Deer.

It was through music that Wyllie thrived. In 1993, he set up his portable keyboard outside the Toronto Dominion bank downtown and busked, raising $150.

That money, plus some local business support, allowed him to put out a Christmas album in 1995 of his organ music.

Shortly before he passed away in 2003, Wyllie had decided that it was time to learn how to play the bagpipes, an admirable ambition for an 84-year-old. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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LEFT: After discharging himself from Michener Centre in 1978, Jackie Wyllie became a well-known figure in Red Deer, distinguishable by his mane of long white hair and the golf cart-style scooter he would ride in around the downtown. Wyllie also was an adept musician, and in 1995 put out a Christmas album of organ music.

TOP: Former Provincial Training School resident Harold Barnes today lives at the West Park Lodge and works as a greeter at the Walmart south store in Red Deer. He likes to go for a drive around the Michener Centre grounds every year around the anniversary date of his 1965 admission to the institution.

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ABOVE: Doreen Befus earned many plaudits and awards stemming from her advocacy work for the disabled. Tireless and relentlessly positive, Befus travelled the country telling her story of life in an institution and in the community.

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MP scolded for ‘misleading’ calls TORY MP ROB ANDERS IN NOMINATION FIGHT WITH RIVAL RON LIEPERT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Conservative party officials have chastised Tory MP Rob Anders for what they say were misleading phone calls placed during a heated nomination battle — a pointed message that they want the race to be fair and open.

Anders’ campaign for the nomination in CalgarySignal Hill placed calls to party members last week that might have left the impression they were calling from rival Ron Liepert’s campaign.

A script for the calls, which was turned over to the party’s National Candidate Selection Committee, features a person saying they are calling from the Conservatives and inquiring whether the party member will be supporting Liepert.

If the target of the call was unsure about who they would support, the caller would proceed to criticize Liepert, said a Conservative source familiar with the script’s contents. The source was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Liepert, a former provincial cabinet minister challenging Anders for the Conservative nomination, lodged a complaint with Elections Canada earlier

this week.

The Canadian Press obtained a letter sent to Anders by the selection committee, a powerful body that has the final say over who gets to run for the party. “The NCSC has concluded that the script used by your campaign was inappropriate and misleading and should not have been used,� said the letter, sent Thursday. “We require that your campaign comply with its obligations to be accurate when communicating with members of the party, as you have now agreed to do.�

Anders would not comment directly on the letter, but said he sees a difference between the party’s stance and what Liepert has said about the calls.

He said he still intends on taking Liepert to court for what he has said about the issue, and points out that some of the calls made last week also asked whether the person was supporting his campaign. “Mr. Liepert’s intention was to go ahead and distract from the endorsement from the prime minister,� Anders said in an interview. “He is intentionally trying to smear and muddy waters in order to advance his own agenda. He’s being misleading and defamatory with regard to his statements.�

Liepert said he wanted to keep any discussions

he’s had with the party private. “If the party chooses to make any comment relative to our concerns that were expressed — I will leave it up to them to make the comment,� said Liepert. “The party has been true to its word of holding a fair and open nomination process.�

There remains a difference of opinion over whether the quotes attributed to Stephen Harper, which were provided to incumbent candidates for use in their campaigns, can indeed be considered endorsements. The quotes do not use the word “endorse,� but instead praise the MP’s work in government and in caucus.

The party’s rebuke over the calls is a signal that the Conservatives are intent on living up to the promise to ensure a level playing field in nomination battles, even when one competitor is an incumbent MP. It’s the first time since the Conservatives formed government in 2006 that incumbents are not being protected from challengers.

A handful of MPs face nomination contests.

Among them is Eve Adams, now MP for Mississauga-Brampton South, who is fighting local chiropractor Natalia Lishchyna for the nomination in the new riding of Oakville-North Burlington.

Foundation for disabled says closing of Michener Centre mishandled RED DEER — A not-for-profit group that works with people with developmental disabilities says the Alberta government is mishandling the closure of Michener Centre in Red Deer.

The province has earmarked $10 million to move 125 residents from the centre for the mentally and physically disabled into community-based living arrangements.

The Lo-Se-Ca Foundation is trying to move three residents to a new home in St. Albert.

Foundation director Marie Renaud says getting answers on how the transition will work and how the money is being spent is very difficult.

According to the province, some of the money is going to severance costs at the Michener Centre.

Naresh Bhardwaj, Alberta’s associate minister of services for persons with disabilities, says the money

‘THE WAY THAT THIS IS BEING MANAGED IS JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF BUILDING ALBERTA IN AN INCORRECT MANNER.’ —MARIE RENAUD DIRECTOR, LO-SE-CA FOUNDATION

is also going toward new facilities and training.

But Renaud says the needs of the people being moved are not being addressed. “These men have lived their lives at Michener,� she says. “They were put in that institution as children and they’ve been there ever since. So they get $1,000 and likely their bedroom furniture to move out and to start again.�

Bhardwaj says it’s important the communities are well-equipped to provide services for the residents development. Among its backup sites, Inglewood was preferred to neighbourhoods like Aspen Ridge, Davenport and Timber Ridge.

The division will open a new elementary school in Timberlands later this year, and has in its capital plan a request for a kindergarten to Grade 8 school in Timber Ridge it wants by 2018. Board chair Bev Manning said the division needs elementary spaces “drastically,� and a new school in Inglewood will serve that purpose just as well as one far out in northeast Red Deer would have.

She said the division wants to hear from Inglewood residents so their needs can be incorporated into the new build.

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A realtor, Ruttan said the Inglewood neighbourhood is mostly made up of starter homes, which means a lot of young families. Not only is the Inglewood location ideal for area families, he said, it will also drive up property values.

Currently, students in the area are bused to Mountview Elementary School.

We’ve made it simpler to access The division has been allocated $13.6 million Home Care, Supportive Living and for the school, and with Long Term Care. the location confirmed, it will now send out a Starting March 24, if you need Community based or request for proposals for Continuing Care services in your community, call a architectural services.

Alberta Education has Registered Nurse at our new toll-free phone number. said it wants the school They are available to help discuss your needs. to open its doors for the start of the 2016/17 school Call year, which presents the division with a tight The toll-free line is for patients and families to call timeframe to build. with questions or inquiries about local services.

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as they move out. “As they grow older their needs are going to change and we know that, and are we going to be able to provide the needs with the new capacity we are building?�

So far, 14 people have moved out of Michener Centre; another 18 are expected to make the move over the next month or so.

Bhardwaj says the government’s goal is to make sure each person receives equal or better care than they’re already receiving. “We are absolutely committed that no one will move until an appropriate home has been found for them,� Bhardwaj says.

It’s a goal the Lo-Se-Ca Foundation is onboard with, but says is difficult to reach without clear guidelines on the process. “The way that this is being managed is just another example of building Alberta in an incorrect manner,� Renaud says. “Basically what we’re looking at is the philosophical belief that schools belong to the community. They are public property. Our wish is to be able to open up that school in ways that our community would like to see us open it up,� said Manning.

Ruttan said the area residents he has spoken to are happy about the planned location and have shared ideas on how community members could make use of the facility.

The school will be designed to accommodate 500 students upon opening, with a plan to expand its capacity through modulars to 600 by 2020. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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Lies, damn lies and budgets If you were a budget officer for any 2003-13, you might be shocked. government in Canada, I’ll bet you Saskatchewan overspent its budgets would lowball your revenue estimate in that period by about 37 per cent, the for the coming year. And (except dur- highest in the country. Their $4.3 biling election years) you would plan lion overspending earned them a D+. spending based on those estimates.

Alberta “only” overspent by about I’m ready to bet the au27 per cent, earning our thors of a report written province a C rating. Strange, for the C.D. Howe Institute though, because the dollar would do the same, if they figure is a whopping $10.2 were tasked with budget rebillion. sponsibilities.

These budget methods And when revenues — have been the Get-Out-Ofsurprise! — pan out betJail-Free card Alberta has ter than worst-case, I’d bet played for as long as most both you and the people at of us can remember.

C.D. Howe would have a list The A grade given the handy, of priorities for the federal government, in my extra cash. view, should be classified So I have to take some as an Easy A, because fedGREG exception to the snarky tone eral revenues are far more NEIMAN of both their report and the stable and predictable, as reporting done on their reare their expenses. Transport, which gives half the parency, as defined in the provinces a failing grade for report, is politically easier. budget transparency, with most of the On the expense side, the federal other half receiving a barely-passing government mostly just issues transgrade. fers to the provinces, which then have In brief, their report says most prov- to make the real-world decisions. Then, inces vastly under-estimate their in- they need to figure out how many uncomes at budget time, and then use the employed people there are, and how “surplus” revenue as a type of slush many babies will need family support fund for pet projects and goodies, with- payments. out needing legislative budget approvEasy, compared with actually buildal. ing schools, roads, hospitals and bridgWhen you look at their chart of pro- es, while delivering the social services vincial spending above budget from (like health care and education) the

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feds only partially pay for.

The skepticism expressed in the report is warranted, though. But the causes for it are hardly surprising.

Colin Busby is one of the report’s authors, and he discussed it with the friendly audience on CBC’s The Lang & O’Leary Exchange.

“Their revenue targets come in quite a bit higher than they forecast, and that’s normal given that they are getting their revenue from royalties,” Busby said. “But that does spill over on the spending side. For every dollar they get that they didn’t anticipate, about 75 cents is translating into new spending.”

Bingo. But should anyone be surprised? Here’s a better question: would anyone else do it differently?

The best aspect of the C.D. Howe report is the hardest to translate in detail for a TV news audience, or a newspaper critic.

That aspect lies in the methods all the provinces and territories use to report — and to sometimes disguise — their budget estimates, versus the actual outcomes later. You can’t compare apples to apples across the country.

Prince Edward Island overspent its budgets by less than 15 per cent in the decade measured. The dollar figure was $200 million.

That’s just a tiny slice of Alberta’s overspending. Actually, provincial yearly overspending on the island is

less than a rounding error on an Alberta budget.

Go figure. C.D. Howe apparently does. PEI was awarded a D- while Alberta got a C. But the mark reflects supposed transparency, not outcome.

Which is kind of a joke.

There are lies, damn lies and budgets. Nobody expects Alberta’s estimate for revenue to be anything else than a couple billion or more on the low side.

School boards that have to build honest budgets based on provincial spending predictions must later rewrite them when Christmas comes and the province shouts hooray and doles out cash they never thought they’d ever have. For a few days of “good” news, of course. For this, Alberta gets a passing grade?

The federal government doesn’t even know the actual rate of job availability nationally anymore, because of their cuts to Statistics Canada. So they use a data trawl of Kijiji ads instead.

And they get an A? That’s where skepticism passes into cynicism, and reports like this one from C.D. Howe appear somewhat less than reliable.

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BY ROOJIN HABIBI AND JOEL LEXCHIN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES TORONTO and HAMILTON, ON/ Troy Media/ — Why is Health Canada only letting doctors and the public know part of the story about the safety and effectiveness of new pharmaceutical drugs? Inadequate information can be as dangerous as misinformation.

Here’s how: We published a new study this week in the journal PLoS One that examines how well Health Canada informs the public about the effectiveness and safety of new drugs and why they were approved. The results are not comforting.

Normally, when a drug company seeks to market a new drug in Canada, it submits information about safety and effectiveness from clinical trials solely to Health Canada. If Health Canada agrees to allow the drug on the market, all of that information is considered commercially confidential and unavailable for public scrutiny — unless the company chooses to publish a specific study, thus making it public.

If the drug data is not published, Canadians would need to make a formal Access to Information request to

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access it, but this request may or may not be granted depending on the whim of the company owning the data.

The transparency of Health Canada’s drug review process has been scrutinized in the past — and found wanting — most recently by the Auditor General of Canada who concluded that it “did not fulfill long-standing commitments to increase the transparency of authorized clinical trials.”

Health Canada has piloted the “Summary Basis of Decision” project in response to these criticisms - an ongoing effort in place since 2004. The aim of this project is to, in the words of Health Canada, ensure that “Canadian healthcare professionals and patients will have more information at their disposal to support informed treatment choices.”

Summary Basis of Decision documents are supposed to summarize the clinical trial information that was considered by Health Canada prior to approving a new drug - and make it available to doctors and the public to enable evidence-informed decisionmaking. This should be a step in the right direction.

Unfortunately, this is not what our study found.

We analyzed documents from the first phase of the Summary Basis of

Decision project. Overwhelmingly, we found these documents to be riddled with inconsistency and ambiguity, and missing key information about the safety and effectiveness of drugs.

Looking at these documents, doctors would not be able to tell if the patients taking part in the clinical trials were similar to the ones that they see in their offices. For example, the majority of the documents did not reveal the age of patients in the trials examined, nor the number of men and women.

Over 97 per cent of documents did not give complete information about how many people withdrew from the trials and significant information about the results of the trials was missing from over two-thirds of the documents.

Knowledge about safety and effectiveness informs the list of drugs that make it onto provincial drug formularies. It helps bring to fruition highly useful syntheses of evidence answering some of medicine’s most pressing questions regarding therapeutic options.

Take the Vioxx (rofecoxib) scandal, for example, where tens of thousands of people died from taking a Health Canada-approved pain killer. It should serve as a vivid reminder that policies that thwart data transparency pose a very real threat to the health of pa-

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Had all of the clinical trial data that was in Health Canada’s possession about Vioxx been available, independent drug researchers may have been able to identify the safety problems with the drug at a much earlier stage.

We urge Health Canada to take a proactive stance in setting the record (or in this case, the evidence) straight, and publish in full the reports of clinical trials that it receives from sponsoring companies.

This certainly would not make Health Canada a trailblazer on the international scene; the United States Food and Drug Administration already publishes the full reports from its reviewers, and the European Medicines Agency is moving towards full disclosure of all information in trials by the end of 2014.

We support the voices of patients, health professionals, researchers, policymakers and industry officials, who recognize that the proper and timely dissemination of clinical trial information is not a matter of whim or inclination, but a debt long overdue to the public.

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Tory rhetoric, reality don’t match: veterans

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A veterans group says there’s a major disconnect between what the Harper government is saying in court about its obligation to ex-soldiers and reassurances from Veterans Minister Julian Fantino.

Canadian Veterans Advocacy says a decades-old commitment to care for those who served, particularly the wounded, has been abandoned by the Conservatives even as they prepare to commemorate the sacrifices of war in Afghanistan.

Federal lawyers fighting a class-action lawsuit by Afghan veterans argue the government has no special, legal obligation to soldiers and that decisions about their entitlements are matter of policy and subject to revision.

Fantino has said publicly that the government believes it does have a responsibility to service members, who are legally bound to risk their lives for the country.

Mike Blais, president of the advocacy group, says that while the Conservatives say they have an obligation, their actions go in the opposition direction.

“This government is adrift, they have lost their way,” Blais told a Parliament Hill news conference on Thursday. “They will pretend and portray they have a sacred obligation, but they are not walking the walk.”

Until Fantino or other ministers instruct federal lawyers to change their defence, or settle the lawsuit, the government’s stand is a sham, Blais said.

A spokesman for the minister pointed out that the government created new monthly financial benefits for the injured, increased funding for job re-

Father, stepmom should be found guilty of murder in boy’s death: prosecutor

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BRAMPTON, Ont. — A father and stepmother knew the escalating abuse and deprivation they inflicted on the man’s frail and sickly son would likely lead to the boy’s death, a Crown lawyer said Thursday in pushing for a murder conviction.

It’s unclear whether Garfield Boothe or his wife Nichelle BootheRowe carried out the attack that ended Shakeil Boothe’s life, but both were responsible for the months of abuse that sent him on a “downward spiral” to his death, Brian McGuire told a Torontoarea court.

Shakeil, 10, was chained to his bed “for months on end,” fed so little he grew emaciated and regularly beaten with a belt until he bled, his injuries untreated and uncared for, McGuire said.

“His two parents denied him basic medical care because to do so would expose their mistreatment of him,” he said.

Paramedics found Shakeil’s cold, lifeless body at the family’s home in Brampton, Ont., on May 27, 2011, but both his father and stepmother testified he died a day earlier. They told the court they believed he had died

from a particularly bad cold.

Court has heard autopsy results showed Shakeil suffered heavy repeated blows that caused widespread internal bleeding and overwhelmed his weakened body. He died “minutes to hours” later, the autopsy showed.

The couple is charged with seconddegree murder, but defence lawyers have argued only the person who delivered the final beating should be convicted on that charge.

The other could instead be found guilty of manslaughter, though BootheRowe’s lawyer has argued she should be acquitted because she feared her abusive husband would lash out if she intervened.

Boothe and his wife have pointed the finger at each other through their lawyers, with each saying the other had motive and opportunity.

In his closing arguments Thursday, McGuire argued both should be convicted of murder, regardless of who committed the last assault.

“Shakeil’s death cannot be separated out into different causes,” he said, noting it was the “cumulative effect” of the abuse and the beating that pushed the boy over the edge.

No specific time of death has been established, so neither accused can be ruled out in the deadly attack, he said.

training and is in the process of enacting legislation to give veterans priority hiring in the federal public service.

“More must be done and minister Fantino remains committed to improving the New Veterans Charter,” Nicholas Bergamini said in an email.

But Bergamini did not respond to the central question of whether the government will substantially alter its position in court.

The class-action case was filed in British Columbia Supreme Court in October 2012 and involves six veterans of the Afghan war. They are suing over the New Veterans Charter, which provides lump-sum payments to wounded vets for non-economic losses, such as lost limbs, as opposed to the lifetime pensions provided to veterans of previous wars.

Ex-soldiers have complained that the new system is less generous and is

designed to save money at the expense of the wounded.

The allegations in the lawsuit have not been proven in court.

The veterans ombudsman did a painstaking analysis of both systems last year and found that the new regime can be as generous as the old one, depending on individual circumstances.

But Guy Parent’s report said the fairness ends when the most-severely injured veterans turn 65. The new system, he said, leaves those without a Canadian Forces pension vulnerable to live out their final years in poverty.

Blais’ organization claims to have done its own analysis which shows veterans are severely disadvantaged, but it did not release a copy of the report on Thursday.

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BRIEF Expert says Harper’s kids and moms priority good OTTAWA — An international health group is applauding Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s decision to host international talks later this spring on child and maternal health.

Dr. Seth Berkley, chief executive of the GAVI Alliance, says a three-day international conference in May is a crucial step towards eradicating preventable diseases that kill children in poor countries.

In a world of competing development priorities, Berkley says Canada’s leadership on the issue will keep it from disappearing as just another flavour of the month.

Harper made maternal and child health his signature initiative when he hosted the G8 in Ontario’s Muskoka region in 2010.

He committed $2.8 billion over five years to spearhead a global effort to reduce the mortality rate of pregnant women and new mothers, their babies, and children under age five.

GAVI Alliance is one of Canada’s main multilateral agency partners, and focuses on vaccinating children in

Container in radioactive scare was improperly secured HALIFAX — Cylinders carrying radioactive material fell during unloading in Halifax because one end of a shipping container they were in wasn’t properly secured to a crane, Canada’s nuclear safety agency says.

Four steel cylinders encased in concrete and each weighing 4.5 tonnes fell into the cargo hold of a ship during unloading at the Cerescorp container terminal on March 13.

Andre Regimbald, the director general of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, said Thursday during a presentation in Ottawa that two connectors on the crane let go and the container then swung down and snapped off.

“What happened is two of the lifting points on one side ... had not been properly anchored so all of 18,000 kilograms of weight was being supported by only one side,” Regimbald told the commission.

“Due to this tremendous weight ... the side eventually sheared off as the flatrack swung downward in a pendulum motion.”

The container plummeted about seven metres into the cargo hold with the cylinders still bolted to it.

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Alberta students to learn about painful legacy of residential schools

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta students are to be taught about the horrors and the painful legacy of Indian residential schools.

The province has announced that all kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum will include mandatory content on the significance of residential schools and First Nation treaties.

Aboriginal Relations Minister Frank Oberle made the announcement Thursday to wild applause at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in Edmonton before hundreds of residential school survivors and their

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“Starting with the youngest members of our society, Alberta commits to residential school survivors, their families and communities, that Albertans will hear your stories and know your truths,” he said.

Oberle said the pledge will help heal a sad and very painful wound.

The curriculum is to include the perspectives of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples living in Alberta.

People in the audience gave Oberle a standing ovation.

There were 25 residential schools in Alberta, more than any other province.

The commission estimates there about 12,000 survivors in Alberta.

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Stressed out husband thinks connecting emotionally is high maintenance Dear Annie: I’m in my early 50s and wants a connection, but like many men, have been married to “Ralph” for two to him that means physical closeness. years. At first, he was attentive and He doesn’t need romantic gestures, so romantic, sending flowers and writing he thinks you are being frivolous. cards. We went on frequent weekend Here’s your compromise: Tell him trips where we would focus only on that once a week, you need him to look each other. into your eyes and say how much you In the past year, Ralph’s job respon- mean to him. With sincerity. In return, sibilities tripled, and so did his stress you will stop nursing a sense of neglect levels. His mother has had that he no longer focuses numerous hospitalizations, on your romantic desires as and his teenage son began much as he did before. If experimenting with drugs he cannot manage even this and alcohol. As a result, much, we fear that the roour marriage and sex life mantic personality was only have suffered. We still have a facade. a date night, but we canDear Annie: When atnot get away for a weekend tending a celebration (wedbecause there is no one to ding, bar mitzvah, etc.), I leave his son with. Most of look forward to conversing our “dates” involve Ralph with friends and family. cracking his knuckles while That desire is repeatedly I try to carry on a lightheartsabotaged by the band playMITCHELL ed conversation. ing at ear-damaging levels. & SUGAR Last night, Ralph said I’m only 50, yet find myself that even though we are terbringing earplugs so I don’t ribly busy, we should take get a headache or start to go what few moments we can deaf. Does the music have to find to have sex. I told him be so loud just for dancing? that, like most women, I respond bet- Don’t the hosts know that this level of ter if there is some romance attached, volume diminishes the enjoyment of and that I need us to really connect their celebration? — Please Turn It emotionally. I desperately want him Down to look into my eyes in a way that lets Dear Please: We’ve mentioned this me know he is still crazy about me. But before. With studies showing that exRalph says he is unable to turn off his cessively loud music can cause early stress and that married people should and severe hearing loss, we are surbe able to have a few minutes of sex prised people still find this a good without worrying about my “soap op- idea. If you are screaming to be heard era view of marriage.” He thinks it’s over the music, it’s too loud. Use earimmature of me to expect wining and plugs or walk out. The band will pipe dining before sex. down only if the hosts request it.

I offered to meet him halfway. I still Dear Annie: This is about “N.Y.,” the need the occasional connection. He 35-year-old man who thinks his mother calls that “high maintenance” and says is controlling because she puts her my ideas are unrealistic. He is very arm across him in the front seat if she different from the loving and funny comes to a sudden stop. I confess that I man I married. He absolutely refuses put my right arm across ANYONE who counseling. Am I wrong here? — High is in the front seat if I stop short. This Maintenance in Ponte Vedra Beach guy needs more than counseling. He Dear Ponte: This is not about right needs a swift kick in the butt for being and wrong. It’s about expectations, such an absolutely insufferable jerk. — adjustments and effort. The flowers M., The Villages, Fla. and notes are lovely, but it’s unrealisAnnie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy tic to expect Ralph to continue these Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime edithoughtful gestures when his brain tors of the Ann Landers column. Please is overloaded with worries about his email your questions to anniesmailbox@ son, his mother and his job. Ralph also comcast.net.

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DUBLIN, Ireland — Do you own a shaggy sheep? Ireland needs ewes.

The Irish require at least 6,000 sheep as hosts of this year’s Golden Shears World Championships. But they’re more than 1,000 short with just weeks to go before an event dubbed “the Olympics of sheep shearing.”

Organizers said Monday they need ewes, aged 12 to 14 months, to ensure

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This year’s event features competitors from 38 countries from China to Chile, including defending champion shearer Gavin Mutch of Scotland. Ireland previously hosted the 37-year-old contest in 1998.

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HUNTING HILLS LIGHTNING SENIOR BOYS BASKETBALL COACH GIVEN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD AT RED DEER COMMUNITY SPORTS AWARDS

BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF Scott Doan has dedicated the past 35 years of his life to coaching basketball.

On Thursday he received much deserved recognition when he was presented with the City of Red Deer’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual Red Deer Community Sports Awards at the Sheraton Red Deer.

“I’m overwhelmed and honoured . . .

I didn’t expect this,” he said.

Born and raised in Niagara Falls, Ont., Doan moved to Alberta in 1979 and got his first coaching position in 1980.

“I was in St. Paul and they didn’t have a basketball coach and they heard that I coached,” he explained.

“I didn’t, but they asked if I would help out and I started to like it. That’s where I mentioned it was a selfish act as I do it because I like it for me.”

Doan joked during his acceptance speech that it was a selfish act “because I love it not because of what the kids get out of it.”

Of course that’s the furthest thing from the truth. He’s coached 100s of kids over the years and enjoyed every minute of it.

“I’ve been blessed to have so many great kids, wonderful parents and worked with great coaches. I’ve received so much support, especially over the last few months.”

Doan, who is the head coach of the Hunting Hills Lightning senior boys’ team, has been battling cancer, but missed very few of the team’s games.

He had a tumor removed and is going through chemotherapy, which will last until the end of July.

“I’ll know more by then,” he said.

But if he has his way he’ll continue on the bench.

“I won’t know until the fall, whichever way the cards fall, but I hope to continue coaching,” he said.

He used a quote from the great UCLA coach John Wooden during his speech. “Wooden said ‘what happens in your life is not that important it’s how you deal with it.’ Over the last few

months I’ve learned that in every situation you handle it with dignity and with as much class as you can and most important to me, is that I like to laugh, and you need a sense of humour.”

Doan moved to Red Deer in 1988 and was recruited as a coach for the Camille J. Lerouge High School Cougars by Duane Donovan. He went with the high school to Notre Dame and in 2002 switched to the Lightning.

Doan also worked with the club basketball and has coached in the spring league for years, although this year he’s taking a step back.

“That’s what I tell myself,” he said.

“Ryan (his son) will be coaching and I can see myself going out to watch and before I know it I’ll open my mouth, that’s the way I am,” he said with a laugh.

“But really I don’t want to be coaching and not feeling well . . . we’ll see how it goes.”

Doan coached both of his sons — Ryan and Zach — over the years and both have followed in their dad’s footsteps and are involved in basketball and in the community.

“I believe in giving back to the community and my sons are now doing the same, unfortunately they’re doing it from the dark side as referees,” he joked.

Doan and his wife, Leslie, have been married for 27 years, and he calls her a second coach.

“She’s an assistant who isn’t on the bench,” he said with a smile. “We’ve been together for so long when I open my mouth to yell at a player she already has told him the same thing.”

Doan still has one more coaching duty this season as he’ll handle the boys’ Dark team at the 3A-4A Central Alberta Senior Bowl Tuesday at Lindsay Thurber.

“It will be interesting as I have one boy from Wetaskiwin whose father I coached for three years and my two sons will be officiating,” concluded Doan. ● A number of youngsters were recognized during the evening.

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Scott Doan accepts the Lifetime Achievment Award from City Councillor Tanya Handley at the 2014 Red Deer Community Sport Awards Thursday night. The awards were held at the Sheraton hotel and celebrate many athletes in the community.

Bartosak, Sorensen named athletes of the year RED DEER COMMUNITY SPORTS AWARDS

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR As the Red Deer Rebels star goaltender for two and a half seasons, Patrik Bartosak was always a man of many words.

And yet, when informed a day after the Rebels’ season ended that he would be honoured as the Red Deer open male athlete of the year, the native of the Czech Republic was actually short on comments.

“It’s definitely a big honour for me. I don’t know what to say right now,” he stated. “I really appreciate that.”

Bartosak was a Western Hockey League Eastern Conference first all-star team selection for the 2012-13 season and was named the top goaltender in not only the WHL, but the entire Canadian Hockey League.

Those accolades made him a natural for the award he was presented with during the Red Deer Community Sports Awards dinner Thursday at the Red Deer Sheraton, joining former Red Deer College Queens volleyball player

Kirsten Sorensen, who was honoured as the open female athlete of the year.

“I really don’t know much about that,” said Bartosak, in reference Patrik to the selecBartosak tion process.

“But it obviously had something to do with it and I’m happy with this award. Maybe people here will remember me in a good way now.”

As Rebels associate coach Jeff Truitt — who accepted the award for Bartosak — suggested, Rebels fans will always remember the goaltender in a kindly fashion. Truitt, who joined the club early in the 2012-13 season, is clearly a big fan of Bartosak.

“When I came in over a year ago I didn’t know Patty at all. But before long, he proved to me that, No. 1, he was a competitor, and No. 2 , he’s a great young man,” said Truitt, who represented Bartosak —

now in the American Hockey League with the Manchester Monarchs — at the awards dinner.

Bartosak was selected by Los Angeles in last year’s NHL entry draft and recently signed a three-year deal with the Kings. The 20-year-old is just starting his pro career with the Monarchs, the No. 1 affiliate of the Kings.

“I talked their goaltender guy in Manchester and he said Patrik just had his second practice with the team,” said Truitt. “He’s a work in progress and they like what they see in him. But whether he’ll get into some game action, they don’t know.”

Truitt is confident that Bartosak will one day make his way to the NHL. “The nice part about where he is right now is he knows he has to take another step up in his development,” said Truitt.

“He came over here to develop and he did develop and now that’s he turned pro he has to develop some more.

“I wouldn’t bet against him just because he’s that type of competitor. With the way he thinks and how badly he wants to succeed . . . that’s a great quality in a young man. Red Deer has had one of the best European goaltenders the last couple of year. He proved last

season and again this past year that he’s such an instrumental and a consistent guy night in and night out.”

Sorensen, a Red Deer Kirsten native who Sorensen played high school volleyball with the Notre Dame Cougars, was an exceptional setter with the Queens and was named the club’s most valuable player for the 2012-13 season and was honoured as the RDC female athlete of the year.

“She was also a phenomenal student,” said RDC athletics director Keith Hansen of Sorensen, who is currently at Memorial University in Newfoundland and is a member of the Sea-Hawks women’s volleyball team.

“Kirsten is one of those kids who did everything. She was an academic All Canadian and probably the best physical athlete on her team as far as training, strength and speed.

She was dedicated and fun to coach. Kirsten was a great setter here and she’s more than deserving of this award.”

Joe McQuay, who was a Central Alberta High School Football League all-star with the Notre Dame Cougars and offensive lineman with Team Canada for an international game versus the U.S., was honoured with the Red Deer junior male athlete of the year award.

The junior female athlete of the year award was presented to Maddison Pearman, a member of the Central Lions Speedskating Club. Pearman also skated with the provincial long and short track teams and competed in the world junior long track championship in Italy.

Other award winners: Master male athlete — Dale Belcher, boxer; Master female athlete — Bernice Fuss, power lifter; Team of the year — Rob Armitage, senior men’s world curling champions; Coach of the year — Terence McMullen, Lindsay Thurber Raiders senior boys volleyball provincial 4A champs; Kendall Dunkle minor coach of the year — Dale Henderson, long-time volunteer coach; Volunteer of the year — Val Jensen, Woody’s Triathlon; Official of the year — Matt Cassidy, WHL referee; Business contributor of the year — Scottsville Group. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate. com

Koe tries to put distractions aside for world championships

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s Kevin Koe is trying his best to avoid distractions and focus on curling as he prepares for the upcoming men’s world curling championship.

There have been a few challenges for Koe in the leadup to the competition, which opens Saturday at Beijing’s Capital Indoor Stadium. Chief among them is news that there are changes coming to his rink next season.

Koe’s current lineup features second Carter Rycroft, third Pat Simmons and lead Nolan Thiessen.

Rycroft, whose wife is pregnant, has already said he’ll be taking a year off after this season.

Kevin Martin confirmed to The Canadian Press that Marc Kennedy and Ben Hebert will be leaving his rink to join Koe’s team next season while Sportsnet reported that Brent Laing of Glenn Howard’s rink will round out the new foursome.

Koe preferred to keep his focus on the world championship and declined to comment on the coming changes.

The future plans of Simmons and Thiessen were unclear. It was the first major shakeup in what’s expected to be a summer of significant change on the men’s curling scene now that the four-year Olympic cycle is complete.

The timing is less than ideal for Koe and his teammates. Gerry Peckham, the Canadian Curling Association’s high-performance director, expects Koe to be able to lock in on the immediate task before him.

“Our analysis of his performance skills and performance attributes would suggest that he’s an incredibly focused individual and is seldom distracted by anything external to the game at hand,” Peckham said.

“I think those teammates have looked in each other in the eye again, squared their shoulders, are shaking each other’s hands and are now moving on to complete this journey of a world championship.”

Koe won gold in his only previous appearance at the world championship, taking top spot at the 2010 playdowns in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy.

At this year’s event, Canada will be a favourite along with Scotland, Sweden, Norway and China.

The 12-team field is rounded out by the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and the United States.

“Canada used to be known obviously as a big favourite going in all the time but you quickly realize how the gap is changing,” Koe said. “Our experience in 2010 was awesome in Italy and it was a great feeling to win. But this is just as important for us.

“To get to be two-time world champs would be pretty neat and kind of validate our first win.”

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Koe arrived early in the week so that he’d have time to adjust to the 14-hour time change. He was greeted by plenty of smog, heat and humidity.

He’s also still getting used to the various culinary options in the Chinese capital.

“It’s a bit of a culture shock for us,” Koe said in a recent interview. “Big difference from what we’re used to. Obviously a huge city but it will be a great experience.”

Koe had a strong performance at the Tim Hortons Brier and is enjoying another solid year on the World Curling Tour. He’s third on the money list and fourth in the order of merit standings behind only Olympic champ Brad Jacobs, Howard and Jeff Stoughton.

The only change from the 2010 lineup is that Simmons has replaced Blake MacDonald on the Calgarybased rink.

“We don’t get too excited or too worked up as a team,” Koe said.

“We’re pretty calm. Obviously the experience of being to one (world championship) will help for sure, especially when you’re coming to a foreign country where everything is different.

“At least we can rely on the experience once we actually get on the ice of knowing we’ve been to the worlds and we did well last time.”

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Mickelson mired in Texas-size funk PGA TOUR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — Long after the fog cleared at TPC San Antonio, Phil Mickelson remained shrouded in an increasingly alarming funk with the Masters two weeks away.

Mickelson shot a 5-over 77 on Thursday in the Texas Open to fall nine strokes back during the suspended first round. The 77 was Lefty’s highest score since a 78 in August in the PGA Championship.

“I had been playing real well at home, so to come out and play like this is disappointing,” Mickelson said.

“Just didn’t feel quite sharp.”

In his previous two starts, Mickelson missed the cut in the Honda Classic and tied for 16th three weeks ago at Doral in the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship. He made his only other Texas Open appearance in 1992, so long ago that the event was only his 11th professional start on the PGA Tour.

Pat Perez and Danny Lee shot 4-under 68 to share the clubhouse lead and Andrew Loupe was 4 under with seven holes to play when darkness forced the suspension of play. The start was delayed 2 hours, 40 minutes because of fog, and 45 players were unable to finish the round.

Area resident Cameron Beckman, Puerto Rico Open winner Chesson Hadley, Will McKenzie and Seung-Yul Noh shot 69, and Miguel Angel Carballo and Justin Hicks also were 3 under. Carballo had four left, and Hicks three.

Jim Furyk, Zach Johnson and Matt Kuchar shot 70.

Calgary’s Stephen Ames shot a 74 while Brights Grove, Ont., native Mike

Weir shot a 76.

Defending champion Martin Laird opened with a 72, matching Valspar winner John Senden and Jeff Maggert, a winner last week in Mississippi in his Champions Tour debut.

Ernie Els shot 74, and former Texas star Jordan Spieth had a 75.

Mickelson hit half of the greens in regulation on the Greg Norman-designed T&T Oaks Course, bogeyed three of the four par 3s and closed with a double bogey on the par-4 ninth.

“I didn’t putt well,” said Mickelson, who had 17 putts on the second nine that he played in 4-over 40. “I had a couple of three-putts that hurt. Iron play wasn’t great. I didn’t drive it bad, until that last hole.”

On the 462-yard ninth, his drive sailed so far right he hit a provisional. He didn’t need it, but it took him three to find the green and he ended up three-putting, missing from 10 and 2 feet.

“Just blocked it,” he said.

He also will play next week in the Houston Open before heading to Augusta National.

The fog kept temperatures in the 50s before it burned off and gave way to sun and readings in the 80s.

“This morning it was freezing, and I hit balls (on the practice range) in four layers of clothes,” Perez said. “Now, I’m sweating.”

One under after a bogey on the 15th, Perez finished with three birdies on putts from more than 10 feet — including a 17-footer on the final hole.

Lee, the 2008 U.S. Amateur champion at Pinehurst No. 2, finished with consecutive birdies with putts inside 13 feet on the 17 and 18.

He finished second three weeks ago in Puerto Rico.

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DOAN: Certificates Receiving U12 certificates were Isaac Aspinall and Ella Collins of the Red Deer Tennis Club, Myra Freeman and Kia Risling of the Red Deer Synchronized Swim Club, Lindsay Hall and Molly Simpson of the Red Deer BMX Club, and Taylor Macleod and Kendall Thomas of the Red Deer Skating Club,.

Picking up U15 certificates were Ireland Black of minor basketball, Tyrees Goodrunning of minor hockey, Coleman Komula and Taye Neish of BMX, Kallan Packard and Mercedes Patrick of synchronized swimming, Michael Robinson and Tereza Simonova of the tennis club and Bailey Thomas and Zoe Thompson of the skating club. drode@reddeeradvocate.com

KOE: Pretty good It’s the first World Curling Federation world championship event to be staged in China. The venue was used for volleyball competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The Chinese team skipped by Rui Liu is coming off a fourth-place result at the Sochi Games. Scotland’s Ewan MacDonald has three world titles to his name although this is his first appearance as skip.

Thomas Ulsrud, who won Olympic silver at the 2010 Games in Vancouver, will skip the Norwegian team.

“We know most of these teams and they’re all pretty good,” Koe said. “Not too many easy games out there.”

Sweden’s Niklas Edin is not back to defend the title he won last year in Victoria. Instead, Oskar Eriksson will skip the Swedish entry.

Round-robin play will continue through Thursday evening and tiebreakers will be used if needed to determine the top four teams. The Page playoff system will be used ahead of the medal games on April 6.

Koe said the ice conditions in the venue will be a huge factor.

“They do have some great icemakers but it’s really warm here,” he said. “It’s supposedly pushing 30 (degrees Celsius) here and they had an event in the facility early in the year and there was a lot of problems. But I think they’ve brought in some dehumidifiers and air conditioning to cool the arena down.

“That’s the big worry here. If the ice is good, I for sure like our chances. Bad ice would be a bit of an equalizer I think. But when you have some of the best icemakers in the world, I’m sure they’ll get it figured out.”

Canada has won gold three of the last four years at this event. Stoughton was victorious in 2011 at Regina and Howard won at Basel, Switzerland in 2012.

The Canadians are scheduled to open against Denmark’s Rasmus Stjerne on Saturday.

“You have four very solid, confident, resolved individuals (who are) mentally tough,” said Peckham.

“I think they realize the significance and the importance of this world championship to themselves individually and as a collective, and then of course representing this curling nation of Canada.

“So I think they’ve gone out the door with their game face on.”

The world championship will return to Canada next year as Halifax plays host.

MEN’S BASKETBALL FINAL The Orangemen and Woody’s RV World captured Central Alberta Senior Men’s Basketball Association championships.

The Orangemen downed the Grandview All-stars 2-0 in the best-of-three A-side final while Woody’s took the B title with a 2-0 win over Triple A Batteries.

The Orangemen stopped the All-stars 103-91 in the first game and 87-84 in the second.

Jarret Hart led the Orangemen with 34 points in the first game and 46 in the second while Ray Teskey had 10 and nine points respectively. Tom West hit 20 points and Greg Carritt 18 for the All-stars in the opener and Chris Girvan dropped in 25 and Adam Bowie 19 in the second.

Woody’s won the opening game of the series 71-68 and the second game 68-63.

Michael Gujudo had 26 points in the first game and 18 in the second for Woody’s while Jose Vizcarra had 14 and 11 respectively.

Andre Touchette hit 22 and 16 for Triple A with Andrew Smith dropping in 13 points in the first game and Zach Barry 10 in the second.

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Freddie Jacobson, of Sweden, watches his drive on the 10th tee during the first round of the Valero Texas Open golf tournament, Thursday, in San Antonio.

Chiefs win fifth straight provincial title with win over Lloydminster MAJOR MIDGET HOCKEY

BY ADVOCATE STAFF Chiefs 4 Bobcats 0 LLOYDMINSTER — The Red Deer Optimist Chiefs are putting together a dynasty.

The Chiefs downed the Lloydminster Bobcats 4-0 Thursday to win the best-of-five Alberta Midget Hockey League final 3-1 and capture their fifth straight provincial AAA title.

“It’s been a good run,” said Chiefs head coach Doug Quinn, who is also in his fifth year with the team. “Every year we have a different group, a different team. We don’t always take the best talent, but the best team.

“It’s a process where at the beginning of the year we roll all four lines and six defencemen and don’t worry about the power play or penalty killing, we give everyone an opportunity. I think that’s why they come together as a team and peak at the right time.”

Quinn usually has a few veterans each season, guys who are team leaders.

“They set the tone and attitude of the team and they all grow together,” Quinn added.

The Chiefs has their hands full with the Bobcats on Tuesday at the Arena, needing overtime to pull out a 4-3 win. But a couple adjustments and the Chiefs seemed to be in control.

“The adjustments helped a bit,” said Quinn, who brought his wingers back down a bit in the defensive zone to help with the breakout and also did a better

job of moving the puck.

‘We were also getting our shots through (on goal) better,” he said. “We played well the first two periods and in the third we got a little excited and ran around a bit, but in the end it was a complete team effort.”

Qui9nn’s team only lost once on the road during the playoffs.

“We don’t change much and have confidence,” he said. “I also thought they started to wear down as the series progressed. We put a lot of pressure on the puck and play solid defence and year after year it’s the same, individuals wear down.”

Ross Heidt gave the Chiefs a 1-0 lead in the first period with Tyler Steenbergen and Quentin Greenwood connecting in the second. Brad Makofka scored into an empty net to put the finishing touches on the victory.

Jayden Sittler was credited with 23 saves for the shutout. The Chiefs were also credited with 23 shots, although Quinn felt they had several more.

“Jayden played great, in fact he’s played well in the playoffs,” Quinn said. “He gave us constant goaltending and although we don’t give up a lot of shots, at times they’re quality shots and he was there. He was though this as a backup last year and knew what to expect.”

The two-time defending national champion Chiefs will host the Okanagan Rockets in the best-of-three Pacific Cup final, April 4-6 at the Arena. The first two games will be in the evening with the third, if necessary, Sunday afternoon.

The winner advances to the Telus Cup in Moose Jaw.

Florida, Wisconsin and Dayton advance to Elite Eight after Thursday’s wins

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FLORIDA 79 UCLA 68 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Michael Frazier II hit five 3-pointers and finished with 19 points as Florida beat UCLA 79-68 Thursday night to reach its fourth consecutive NCAA regional final.

The Gators (35-2) also extended the best winning streak in school history to 29 straight in reaching the South Regional final. The tournament’s overall top seed will play 11th-seeded Dayton on Saturday night for a trip to the Final Four.

Scottie Wilbekin added 13 points for Florida, which is back where the last three Gators seasons ended. Casey Prather had 12 points, and Dorian Finney-Smith had 10. Kasey Hill had 10 assists.

UCLA (28-9) was back in a regional semifinal for the first time since 2008 under first-year coach Steve Alford.

Jordan Adams led the Bruins with 17 points, Kyle Anderson had 11 and five assists with nine rebounds. Travis Wear added 14.

WISCONSIN 69 BAYLOR 52 ANAHEIM, Calif. — Frank Kaminsky scored 19 points and blocked six shots, and Wisconsin romped into the West Regional final with a dominant 69-52 victory over Baylor on Thursday night.

Ben Brust hit three 3-pointers and scored 14 points for the second-seeded Badgers (29-7), who jumped to a 14-point lead in the first half and never let up on the overmatched Bears (26-12).

The 7-foot Kaminsky and his disciplined teammates shredded the Baylor zone defence that played so well in the first two games. Wisconsin also methodically shut down Baylor’s talent-

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Wisconsin forward Frank Kaminsky, front, and Baylor forward Cory Jefferson watch the ball during the second half of an NCAA men’s college basketball tournament regional semifinal, Thursday, in Anaheim, Calif. ed offence while moving into its second regional final in 13 years under Bo Ryan, who has never reached a Final Four in a 700-win coaching career.

Cory Jefferson scored 15 points for the sixth-seeded Bears, who did little with their third Sweet 16 trip in five years.

DAYTON 82 STANFORD 72 MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Jordan Sibert scored 18 points, Kendall Pollard added a season-high 12 and Dayton rolled past Stanford 82-72 on Thursday to make the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight for the first time since 1984.

No. 11 Dayton (26-10) contin-

ued its underdog run and this one wasn’t particularly close. The 6-foot-4 Sibert was spectacular, slashing to the basket and draining 3-pointers, to help the Flyers lead for almost the entire night.

Dayton showed its depth early, using 12 players in the first half to slowly wear Stanford down.

No. 10 Stanford (23-13) had the superior post play, but it wasn’t enough. Chasson Randle led the Cardinal with 21 points, but shot 5 of 21 from the field. Dwight Powell added 17 and Stefan Nastic — who fouled out with more than five minutes left — had 15.

Dayton plays the winner of UCLA-Florida on Saturday.

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Phaneuf admits he erred snubbing media

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Dion Phaneuf admits he made a mistake.

The Toronto captain said Thursday he erred in not talking to reporters following the Maple Leafs’ 5-3 home loss Tuesday night to the St. Louis Blues. Phaneuf was widely criticized for blowing off the media following the club’s sixth straight loss that dropped it to 10th in the Eastern Conference standings.

“I should’ve been available, that’s about all I’m going to say about it,” the veteran defenceman said following Thursday’s practice. “I can’t remember the last time I didn’t make myself available but I should’ve been available.”

On Wednesday, a day off for the Leafs, Phaneuf told a Toronto allsports radio station he didn’t talk because he was too emotional following the loss.

“I just didn’t play well enough,” he said. “Bottom line, I wasn’t even close to the level I have to play at.

“I accept responsibility for that. I will be better.”

Phaneuf and his teammates don’t have time to fret about their respective situations. Toronto visits the Philadelphia Flyers on Friday night in one of just eight regular-season games remaining for the Leafs.

The contest is important for both teams. Philadelphia (38-37-7, 83 points) is sixth in the Eastern Conference heading into action Thursday night.

Toronto (36-30-8, 80 points) is tied in points with Columbus, Detroit and Washington, but all three clubs having games in hand on the Leafs.

With each mounting loss, the Leafs find themselves increasingly under the media microscope in Toronto. There

was no shortage of TV cameras and media at Thursday’s practice.

“If you look back two weeks ago we weren’t having to answer these questions, but the reality is we’re where we’re at right now,” Phaneuf said. “We haven’t won in six games and when you don’t win hockey games there are questions asked and there’s every right to ask those questions because it’s our job to win games.

“I’m not going to stand here and say we’ve played well, we haven’t. I know right now it seems we’re at a low point but we’ll come through it.”

And for head coach Randy Carlyle, the turnaround won’t come about by continually harping on how tight the Leafs have played during the streak.

“The more you talk about it, the more you focus on the tightness the harder it is to flush,” he said. “We have to be prepared to look at the positives that are in the hockey game, the things we’ve done well and not focus on the negatives.

“Pressure comes from within, comes from outside, it comes from everywhere. I think the amount of pressure you put on yourself to perform is really and truly who you have to answer to.”

But Carlyle didn’t sugar-coat Toronto’s current situation, either.

“We feel there’s a lot of areas in which there are some positives but you can’t look past we’ve lost six in a row,” he said. “Bottom line, there’s no other way to say it.

“We can’t feel good about ourselves but we have to prepare ourselves to play the best game of the year (Friday).”

Toronto could have defenceman Paul Ranger back Friday. Ranger left a 5-3 home loss to Tampa Bay on March 19 on a stretcher with a neck brace after being hit by Lightning forward Alex Killorn.

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Toronto Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf looks on after deflecting a puck past his own goalie as the New York Islanders teammates celebrate during third period NHL action in Toronto on January 7, 2014. Phaneuf admits he erred in not talking to reporters following the Toronto Maple Leafs’ loss Tuesday night to the St. Louis Blues.

“I feel pretty good but I’ve got to talk to the trainers and doctors and see if they can clear me to play,” Ranger said. “I think it’s just a combined decision (Friday).

“If I can help in any way I’m going to and I plan on it. I had some encouraging words from teammates and trainers saying, ’We could use you back.’ It

felt pretty good. I’m excited to get back into a game and contribute as much as I can.”

Carlyle would consider playing Ranger in Philadelphia if the defenceman was cleared medically.

“He looked good (Thursday),” Carlyle said. “As soon as the player tells us, then we have an option.”

NCAA hockey still getting bad rap in Canada

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Word that the Toronto Maple Leafs had signed defenceman Eric Knodel out of the University of New Hampshire didn’t sit well with Don Cherry.

“Leafs love those College guys,” the popular Canadian broadcaster wrote Wednesday as part of two Twitter posts. “Going to get a tryout with the Marlies.

That means he takes a spot from some guy slugging it out on the buses. If you want to make the Leafs or get a tryout just go to a US College.”

Forget for a second that Knodel wasn’t a free agent but a 2009 fifth-round draft pick out of the Philadelphia suburbs, and that playing in college was a way to help turn the raw prospect into a professional. It was still a derisive swipe at U.S. college hockey, which in Canada is often considered an inferior path to the NHL compared to major-junior leagues.

“I think that if more Canadian families were exposed to what college can do — as parents for your kid socially, athletically and academically ... I think more people would be doing it,” said University of Denver coach Jim Montgomery, a Montreal native who went to Maine and ended up playing 122 NHL games.

One opportunity for exposure is the NCAA tournament, which begins Friday and includes 109 Canadian players. There are 35 players from Ontario, 35 from British Columbia, 18 from Alberta and seven each from Quebec, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

Many of those players are trying to follow in the footsteps of several successful Canadian NHLers who went to college, including four members of the gold-medal-winning Sochi Olympic team: Jonathan Toews (North Dakota), Martin St. Louis (Vermont), Patrick Sharp (Vermont) and Chris Kunitz (Ferris State).

Among the 945 players to see NHL action this season, 100 were Canadians who played at a U.S. college.

Naturally, many went the more traditional road, through the QMJHL, OHL or WHL. But the NCAA is slowly becoming another acceptable way to get there.

“There’s no wrong path,” Phoenix Coyotes assistant general manager Brad Treliving said. “I think as a Canadian guy you grew up and you’re around major junior hockey more, so ... you’re closer to it than you are U.S. colleges, but, jeez, there’s no wrong answer. It’s an individual choice and there’s benefits to both.”

Treliving said major junior hockey is the “quicker” path to the NHL because it has more of a prostyle schedule and grind. But others point to college’s 40-game season as a better chance for some players to develop. There’s more opportunity to lift weights and practice.

“There’s the Sidney Crosbys and the Ovechkins and the Malkins of the world that could grow under a rock and are going to play in the NHL,” Montgomery said. “There’s other perfect examples — elite players like the Paul Kariyas of the world. Those are the ones everyone knows but it’s like, did he really need to go to college? Well, Paul Kariya needed to go to college because he was 155 pounds and in 18 months of college he was 175 pounds ready to play against 30-year-old men that are 225 pounds.

“It teaches you how to be a man quick.”

Craig Simpson knows the perception of college hockey has changed a lot in the 30 years since he went to Michigan State. His son Dillon enters the NCAA tournament as North Dakota’s senior captain.

Simpson, now an analyst for “Hockey Night In Canada,” said college hockey wasn’t even on the ra-

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dar when he played for the Spartans. He went on to become the second overall pick in the 1985 draft and played over 600 NHL games.

“For me it’s the greatest balance of being able to continue with your academics and still try to play at a really high level and become an NHL player,” he said.

Still, Simpson knows there are stumbling blocks to getting more Canadians to play NCAA hockey.

“I think the most part, unfortunately, a lot of parents out here (in Western Canada) anyways don’t know what the options are with U.S. college hockey,” Simpson said in a phone interview.

“They all look and they see the Western Hockey League scouts and talk to them every single day and everybody knows what the Edmonton Oil Kings or the Calgary Hitmen or Prince Albert Raiders, who they are.”

Simpson said it’s difficult for parents to get that information without having some connection. He’s proud that Dillon, a 2011 fourth-round pick of the Edmonton Oilers following his freshman season, chose to take the college route.

Not every Canadian player who might want to play college hockey is so lucky. Simpson pointed to NCAA eligibility rules that prevent teenage hockey players from going to college if they’ve been in the CHL or

participated in an exhibition game, as they’re considered professionals.

“I think it would change a lot if you see some players who are good students and maybe it didn’t work out in junior that are 18 or 19 now and had an opportunity to go to college, you’d have a lot more notoriety in Canada,” Simpson said.

Perhaps some notoriety can come from watching this NCAA tournament. Boston College defenceman Michael Matheson (Pointe-Claire, Que.) is a first-round pick and top prospect for the Florida Panthers, while Quinnipiac has Connor and Kellen Jones (Montrose, B.C.) and Matthew Peca(Petawawa, Ont.).

Wisconsin goaltender Joel Rumpel (Swift Current, Sask.) has been one of the best in the country this season and could soon follow in the footsteps of other recent Canadian college players like Matt Read, Ben Scrivens and Cory Conacher who have signed NHL contracts.

Hamilton brothers Greg and Matt Carey recently signed deals with the Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks, respectively, after playing at St. Lawrence University in upstate New York. Greg Carey came away satisfied with his direction, which was only possible because playing tier-2 junior hockey opened him up to the world of U.S. colleges.

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WHL PLAYOFFS Round 1

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WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-St. Louis 73 50 16 7 107 238 164 x-San Jose 74 47 18 9 103 227 177 x-Anaheim 72 47 18 7 101 231 182 Chicago 74 42 17 15 99 244 191 Colorado 73 46 21 6 98 224 200 Los Angeles 74 43 25 6 92 185 157 Minnesota 74 37 26 11 85 183 188 Phoenix 74 36 26 12 84 205 209 Dallas 72 34 27 11 79 203 207 Vancouver 75 34 30 11 79 183 201 Nashville 74 32 31 11 75 183 219 Winnipeg 73 32 32 9 73 202 213 Calgary 73 30 36 7 67 185 214 Edmonton 73 25 39 9 59 180 241 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. d-division leader; x-clinched playoff spot

Edmonton vs Prince Albert (Edmonton wins series 4-0) Saturday, Mar. 22 Edmonton 5 Prince Albert 3 Sunday, Mar. 23 Edmonton 3 Prince Albert 1 Tuesday, Mar. 25 Edmonton 4 Prince Albert 3 Wednesday, Mar. 26 Edmonton 6 Prince Albert 2 Regina vs Brandon (Brandon leads series 3-0) Saturday, Mar. 22 Brandon 6 Regina 3 Sunday, Mar. 23 Brandon 8 Regina 4 Wednesday, Mar. 26 Brandon 5 Regina 4 Friday, Mar. 28 Regina at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 29 x-Brandon at Regina, 6 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games Vancouver 5, Minnesota 2 N.Y. Rangers 3, Philadelphia 1 Anaheim 3, Calgary 2 Thursday’s Games Phoenix 3, New Jersey 2, SO Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, SO Boston 3, Chicago 0 Los Angeles 3, Pittsburgh 2 Montreal 5, Detroit 4 Carolina 3, Florida 0 St. Louis 5, Minnesota 1 Nashville 6, Buffalo 1 Colorado 3, Vancouver 2, OT Winnipeg at San Jose, late

Calgary vs Kootenay (Kootenay leads series 3-2) Saturday, Mar. 22 Calgary 5 Kootenay 0 Monday, Mar. 24 Calgary 7 Kootenay 6 (OT) Tuesday, Mar. 25 Kootenay 5 Calgary 4 Thursday, Mar. 27 Kootenay 6 Calgary 5 Saturday, Mar. 29 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Friday’s Games Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Medicine Hat vs Swift Current (Series tied 2-2) Saturday, Mar. 22 Medicine Hat 4 Swift Current 2 Tuesday, Mar. 25 Swift Current 3 Medicine Hat 1 Wednesday, Mar. 26 Swift Current 3 Medicine Hat 2 (OT) Saturday, Mar. 29 Swift Current at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 30 Medicine Hat at Swift Current, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston at Washington, 10:30 a.m.

San Jose at Colorado, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Florida, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Dallas at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Kelowna vs Tri-City (Kelowna leads series 3-1) Saturday, Mar. 22 Kelowna 3 Tri-City 1 Sunday, Mar. 23 Kelowna 3 Tri-City 1 Tuesday, Mar. 25 Tri-City 4 Kelowna 3 Wednesday, Mar. 26 Kelowna 5 Tri-City 3 Friday, Mar. 28 Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 29 x-Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Avalanche 3, Canucks 2 (OT) First Period 1. Vancouver, Weber 5 (Jensen, Sedin) 10:50 (pp).

2. Colorado, Duchene 23 (Benoit, McLeod) 15:40.

Penalties — Malone Col (tripping) 3:12, Landeskog Col (boarding) 10:00, Barrie Col (interference) 17:00.

Second Period 3. Colorado, Landeskog 24 (Stastny, Sarich) 8:58.

4. Vancouver, Kassian 13 (Hamhuis, Booth) 18:38.

Penalties — Sestito Vcr (fighting) 2:23, Bordeleau Col (fighting) 2:23, Jensen Vcr (tripping) 6:07, Benoit Col (stick holding) 6:24, Benoit Col (hooking) 9:49.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Matthias Vcr (hooking) 1:01, Hansen Vcr (interference) 5:46.

Overtime 5. Colorado, Barrie 10 (Duchene, O’Reilly) :55.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Vancouver 10 10 10 1 — 31 Colorado 8 12 7 1 — 28 Goal — Vancouver: Lack (LO, 15-14-5); Colorado: Varlamov (W, 36-14-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Vancouver: 1-5; Colorado: 0-3.

Portland vs Vancouver (Portland wins series 4-0) Saturday, Mar. 22 Portland 3 Vancouver 0 Tuesday, Mar. 25 Portland 6 Vancouver 3 Wednesday, Mar. 26 Portland 6 Vancouver 1 Victoria vs Spokane (Victoria leads series 3-0) Saturday, Mar. 22 Victoria 2 Spokane 1 (OT) Sunday, Mar. 23 Victoria 4 Spokane 3 (OT) Wednesday, Mar. 26 Victoria 6 Spokane 1 Thursday, Mar. 27 Victoria at Spokane, late Saturday, Mar. 29 x-Spokane at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle vs Everett (Seattle leads series 3-0) Saturday, Mar. 22 Seattle 2 Everett 1 Sunday, Mar. 23 Seattle 3 Everett 1 Tuesday, Mar. 25 Seattle 4 Everett 3 (OT) Friday, Mar. 28 Seattle at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 29 x-Everett at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s summary Ice 6, Hitmen 5 First Period 1. Calgary, Tambellini 3 (Chase) 2:04 (pp).

2. Kootenay, Descheneau 3 (Franko, Reinhart) 5:56 (pp).

3. Kootenay, Reinhart 5 (unassisted) 19:15.

Penalties — Cross Koo (tripping) 1:46, Thomas CAL (hooking) 5:39, Helgesen CAL (charging) 12:10, McPhee Koo (boarding) 14:47.

Second Period 4. Kootenay, Cable 2 (Descheneau, Reinhart) :55.

5. Calgary, Peterson 1 (Lang, Thomas) 2:44.

6. Kootenay, Alfaro 1 (Franko, Vetterl) 5:18.

7. Kootenay, Philp 4 (Murray, Reinhart) 6:23.

8. Calgary, Helgesen 1 (Brassart, Chase) 18:28 (pp).

9. Kootenay, Descheneau 4 (Reinhart, Dirk) 19:59.

Penalties — Rissling CAL (elbowing) 3:09, Dirk Koo (hooking) 11:52, Dirk Koo (interference) 16:41.

Third Period 10. Calgary, Chase 4 (Helgesen, Brassart) 12:50.

11. Calgary, Tambellini 4 (Virtanen, Fazleev) 18:46.

Penalties — Rissling CAL (checking from behind) 2:46, Vetterl Koo (tripping) 6:10, Philp Koo (fighting) 17:06, Lang CAL (fighting) 17:06.

Shots on goal Kootenay 10 7 7 — 24 Calgary 5 9 17 — 31 Goal — Kootenay: Hoflin (W, 2-0-0); Calgary: Shields (L, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Kootenay: 1-4; Calgary: 2-5.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts x-Boston 73 50 17 6 106 d-Pittsburgh 73 46 22 5 97 Montreal 75 42 26 7 91 N.Y. Rangers 74 41 29 4 86 Tampa Bay 73 40 24 9 89 Philadelphia 72 38 27 7 83 Columbus 72 37 29 6 80 Detroit 73 33 26 14 80 Washington 73 34 27 12 80 Toronto 74 36 30 8 80 New Jersey 73 31 28 14 76 Carolina 73 32 32 9 73 Ottawa 72 29 29 14 72 N.Y. Islanders 73 28 35 10 66 Florida 74 27 39 8 62

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GA 153 183 188 179 195 204 196 209 218 231 190 205 243 246 240

Predators 6, Sabres 1 First Period 1. Nashville, Sissons 1 (Clune, Nystrom) 6:26.

2. Nashville, Wilson 8 (Stalberg, Spaling) 11:44.

3. Nashville, Jarnkrok 1 (Bourque, Smith) 11:53.

4. Nashville, Weber 19 (Cullen, Hornqvist) 19:17 (pp).

Penalties — Tallinder Buf (hooking) 7:04, Deslauriers Buf (fighting) 14:28, Bartley Nash (fighting) 14:28, Buf Bench (too many men) 17:39, Larsson Buf (delay of game) 17:47.

Second Period 5. Buffalo, Ristolainen 2 (Flynn, Larsson) 2:06.

6. Nashville, Weber 20 (Josi, Fisher) 6:19.

Penalties — Fisher Nash (tripping) 12:37.

Third Period 7. Nashville, Nystrom 14 (Clune) 19:20.

Penalties — Wilson Nash (interference) 5:20, Del Zotto Nash (unsportsmanlike conduct) 19:58, Clune Nash (unsportsmanlike conduct) 19:58, Deslauriers Buf (unsportsmanlike conduct) 19:58.

Shots on goal Buffalo 4 15 14 — 33 Nashville 15 6 13 — 34 Goal — Buffalo: Hackett (L, 1-2-0); Nashville: Hutton (W, 17-11-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Buffalo: 0-3; Nashville: 1-3.

Blues 5, Wild 1 First Period 1. St. Louis, Oshie 19 (Backes, Polak) 4:43.

2. St. Louis, Oshie 20 (unassisted) 19:34 (sh).

Penalties — Polak StL (interference) 1:13, Haula Minn (hooking) 7:09, Polak StL (high-sticking) 12:10, Brodziak Minn (roughing) 17:59, Shattenkirk StL (cross-checking) 17:59, Shattenkirk StL (roughing) 17:59, Lapierre StL (roughing) 17:59.

Second Period 3. St. Louis, Schwartz 23 (Colaiacovo, Bouwmeester) 13:10 (pp).

Penalties — Koivu Minn (tripping) 3:39, Backes StL (cross-checking) 9:13, Granlund Minn (interference) 11:21, Roy StL (roughing) 20:00.

Third Period 4. St. Louis, Oshie 21 (Bouwmeester, Backes) 7:18.

5. St. Louis, Morrow 12 (Steen, Sobotka) 10:45 (pp).

6. Minnesota, Parise 25 (Coyle, Koivu) 11:11.

Penalties — Pominville Minn (tripping) 8:42, Brodziak Minn (slashing) 9:28, Brodziak Minn (misconduct) 9:28.

Shots on goal Minnesota 9 6 13 — 28 St. Louis 8 6 10 — 24 Goal — Minnesota: Kuemper (L, 12-8-4); St. Louis: Miller (W, 24-24-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Minnesota: 0-6; St. Louis: 2-5.

Second Period 2. Carolina, Tlusty 14 (Loktionov, Faulk) 2:30.

3. Carolina, Skinner 28 (Dwyer) 5:46.

Penalties — Staal Car (slashing) 8:17.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Liles Car (holding) 0:54.

Shots on goal Carolina 12 15 5 — 32 Florida 9 14 12 — 35 Goal — Carolina: Khudobin (W, 16-12-0); Florida: Luongo (L, 23-21-7).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Carolina: 0-1; Florida: 0-3.

Canadiens 5, Red Wings 4 First Period 1. Montreal, Plekanec 19 (Subban, Gallagher) 5:14.

2. Montreal, Plekanec 20 (Subban) 14:11.

Penalties — Plekanec Mtl (tripping) 7:49, Glendening Det (hooking) 13:27, Bournival Mtl (diving) 13:27.

Second Period 3. Detroit, Sheahan 6 (Glendening, Lashoff) 1:28.

4. Montreal, Desharnais 14 (Vanek) 11:03.

Penalties — Legwand Det (interference) 5:15, Quincey Det (slashing) 6:46, Gallagher Mtl (goaltender interference) 13:48.

Third Period 5. Detroit, Tatar 17 (unassisted) 1:24.

6. Detroit, Tatar 18 (Jurco, Sheahan) 4:30.

7. Montreal, Pacioretty 33 (Desharnais, Vanek) 5:48.

8. Montreal, Vanek 26 (Markov, Emelin) 11:15.

9. Detroit, Franzen 16 (Nyquist, Helm) 11:36.

Penalties — Smith Det (hooking) 16:59.

Shots on goal Montreal 9 9 11 — 29 Detroit 9 12 9 — 30 Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 31-18-5); Detroit: Howard (L, 17-18-11).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Montreal: 0-3; Detroit: 0-2.

Kings 3, Penguins 2 First Period 1. Los Angeles, Carter 26 (Gaborik, Kopitar) 15:23 (pp).

Penalties — Niskanen Pgh (interference) 13:31, Mitchell LA (holding) 16:33, Gaborik LA (tripping) 19:41.

Second Period 2. Los Angeles, Martinez 10 (Stoll, Toffoli) 6:59.

3. Pittsburgh, Kunitz 33 (Megna, Crosby) 7:33.

4. Pittsburgh, Pyatt 4 (Gibbons, Goc) 15:42.

Penalties — Glass Pgh (slashing) 4:59, Stoll LA (tripping) 10:13, Martinez LA (tripping) 12:59, Clifford LA (interference) 16:25, Adams Pgh (highsticking) 19:49.

Third Period 5. Los Angeles, Doughty 9 (Brown, Pearson) 3:51.

Penalties — Doughty LA (tripping) 0:49, Muzzin LA (high-sticking) 8:10.

Shots on goal Los Angeles 8 11 13 — 32 Pittsburgh 10 14 13 — 37 Goal — Los Angeles: Jones (W, 11-5-0); Pittsburgh: Zatkoff (L, 12-5-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Los Angeles: 1-3; Pittsburgh: 0-7.

Bruins 3, Blackhawks 0 First Period 1. Boston, Bergeron 24 (Bartkowski, Paille) 11:50.

Penalties — Bartkowski Bos (holding) 1:38, Hjalmarsson Chi (tripping) 18:12.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Third Period 2. Boston, Soderberg 14 (Kelly, Boychuk) 5:28.

3. Boston, Bergeron 25 (Marchand) 5:41.

Penalties — Kelly Bos (hooking) 7:24.

Shots on goal Chicago 8 9 11 — 28 Boston 10 6 7 — 23 Goal — Chicago: Crawford (L, 29-14-10); Boston: Rask (W, 33-14-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Chicago: 0-2; Boston: 0-1.

Lightning 3, Islanders 2 (SO) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. Tampa Bay, Callahan 14 (Gudas, Filppula) 0:29.

2. N.Y. Islanders, Strome 5 (Martin, Donovan) 1:33.

3. N.Y. Islanders, Donovan 2 (Nielsen, Lee) 9:17.

Penalties — Halmo NYI (interference) 5:33, Kucherov TB (tripping) 14:12, Stamkos TB (hooking) 19:41.

Third Period 4. Tampa Bay, Callahan 15 (Brewer) 5:50.

Penalties — Callahan TB (tripping) 0:34, Lee NYI (tripping) 13:42.

Shootout Tampa Bay wins 5-4 Tampa Bay (5) — Malone, miss; Kosta, goal; Palat, goal; Callahan, miss; Filppula , miss; Hedman, miss; Stamkos, goal; Kucherov, miss; Purcell, miss; T.Johnson, miss; Carle, goal; Killorn, miss; Salo, goal.

N.Y. Islanders (4) — Strome, miss; Nielsen, goal; Nelson, goal; Bailey, miss; Clutterbuck, miss; Martin, miss; McDonald, goal; Lee, miss; Persson, miss; Hickey, miss; Cuzikas, goal; Halmo, miss; Sundstrom, miss.

Shots on goal NY Islanders 8 9 10 4 — 31 Tampa Bay 9 12 4 2 — 27 Goal — NY Islanders: Nabokov (SO, 13-14-7); Tampa Bay: Bishop (W, 35-11-7).

Power plays (goal-chances) — NY Islanders: 0-3; Tampa Bay: 0-3.

Hurricanes 3, Panthers 0 First Period 1. Carolina, Tlusty 13 (Staal, Bellemore) 9:09.

Penalties — Winchester Fla (slashing) 1:48, Dvorak Car (Charging Major) 12:48, Dvorak Car (game misconduct) 12:48, Gudbranson Fla (roughing) 12:48.

Coyotes 3, Devils 2 (SO) First Period 1. Phoenix, Chipchura 4 (Korpikoski, Summers) 2:21.

Penalties — Summers Phx (slashing) 4:02, Gelinas NJ (interference) 9:36, Jagr NJ (holding) 12:04, Clowe NJ (cross-checking) 18:03.

Second Period 2. Phoenix, Summers 2 (Chipchura, Vrbata) 16:57.

3. New Jersey, Clowe 6 (Merrill, Josefson) 19:59.

Penalties — Korpikoski Phx (hooking) 2:11, Michalek Phx (tripping) 5:53.

Third Period 4. New Jersey, Henrique 24 (Elias, Brodeur) 10:32.

Penalties — Ekman-Larsson Phx (cross-checking) 4:16.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Phoenix wins 1-0 Phoenix : Boedker goal, Vrbata miss.

New Jersey : Brunner miss, Clowe miss, Elias miss.

Shots on goal Phoenix 8 6 11 2 — 27 New Jersey 4 13 8 3 — 28 Goal — Phoenix: Greiss (W, 9-5-2); New Jersey: Brodeur (LO, 17-14-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Phoenix: 0-3; New Jersey: 0-4.

Wheeler to Colorado Springs (PCL). Reassigned OF Jason Pridie and OF Tim Wheeler to their minor league camp.

MIAMI MARLINS — Optioned OF Jake Marisnick and INF Donovan Solano to New Orleans (PCL). Reassigned RHP Henry Rodriguez, RHP Chris Hatcher, OF Matt Angle, INF Juan Diaz and INF Austin Nola to their minor league camp.

NEW YORK METS — Selected the contract of LHP John Lannan from Las Vegas (PCL).

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Released OF Bobby Abreu. Placed RHP Mike Adams, RHP Miguel Gonzalez, RHP Ethan Martin, SS Freddy Galvis, LHP Cole Hamels and 1B Darin Ruf on the 15-day DL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with OF Starling Marte on a six-year contract. Optioned RHP Brandon Cumpton to Indianapolis (IL).

Acquired OF Keon Broxton from Arizona for a player to be named and assigned him to Altoona (EL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Signed LHP Mike Gonzalez to a minor league contract. Optioned LHP Xavier Cedeno, OF Jeff Kobernus, RHP Ryan Mattheus and 1B Ted Moore to Syracuse (IL) and C Sandy Leon to Harrisburg (EL).

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Signed F James Nunnally to a second 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Agreed to terms with DT Domata Peko on a two-year contract extension through the 2016 season.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed S James Ihedigbo.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Agreed to terms with RB Knowshon Moreno on a one-year contract.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed G Vladimir Ducasse.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with LB Shaun Phillips on a multiyear contract.

WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Re-signed CB E.J. Biggers to a one-year contract.

Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed QB Pat White.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Recalled D Ramus Ristolainen and F Johan Larsson from Rochester (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Recalled G Mike McKenna from Springfield (AHL).

DALLAS STARS — Signed F Alex Guptill to a two-year, entry-level contract. Recalled F Chris Mueller from Texas (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Recalled F John Persson from Bridgeport (AHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed G Philippe Trudeau to an amateur tryout contract.

MILWAUKEE ADMIRALS — Signed F Braden Pimm to an amateur tryout contract.

ECHL READING ROYALS — Signed F Jon Swavely to an amateur tryout agreement.

SOUTH CAROLINA STINGRAYS — Signed D Kevin Ryan.

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA — Waived D Carlos Borja.

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Signed general manager John Doyle to a contract extension.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Placed LHP Craig Breslow and RHP Steven Wright on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 21.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned INF Justin Sellers to Columbus (IL). Reassigned RHP Matt Capps, C Luke Carlin, RHP Shaun Marcum and C Matt Treanor to their minor league camp.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned INF Eugenio Suarez to Erie (EL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Claimed OF Alex Presley off waivers from Minnesota. Designated LHP Raul Valdes for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Returned LHP Patrick Schuster, a Rule 5 draft pick, to Arizona, where he was assigned to Reno (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Assigned LHP Scott Diamond and OF Chris Parmelee outright to Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Reassigned RHP Danny Burawa, RHP Chris Leroux and LHP Fred Lewis to minor league camp.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Chris Young on a one-year contract. Designated LHP Bobby LaFromboise for assignment.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed LHP J.A. Happ on the 15-day DL. Optioned C Erik Kratz to Buffalo (IL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Assigned RHP Archie Bradley to their minor league camp.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Optioned RHP Ernesto Mejia to Gwinnett (IL).

COLORADO ROCKIES — Optioned C Mike McKenry, INF Josh Rutledge and INF Ryan

Red Deer’s Chayse Marion has chance to be drafted at MLB Draft Red Deer’s Chayse Marion is among a list of Canadians who could be picked in the Major League Draft this year.

Marion, a six-foot-three 220-pound first base-

man, plays at McNeese State University. He led the Cowboys in batting this season with a .391 average. He has 34 hits, six doubles, one home run and 18 RBIs.

Basketball

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.

Soccer Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts Houston 2 0 0 6 Columbus 2 0 0 6 Toronto FC 2 0 0 6 Philadelphia 1 1 1 4 Sporting KC 1 1 1 4 Chicago 0 1 2 2 New York 0 1 2 2 New England 0 2 1 1 Montreal 0 3 0 0 D.C. 0 2 0 0

GF GA 5 0 5 1 3 1 3 3 2 2 4 5 3 6 0 5 2 6 0 4

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA FC Dallas 2 0 1 7 7 4 Seattle 2 1 0 6 4 2 Vancouver 1 0 2 5 5 2 Real Salt Lake 1 0 2 5 5 4 Chivas USA 1 1 1 4 5 6 Colorado 1 0 1 4 3 1 Portland 0 1 2 2 2 4 San Jose 0 1 1 1 3 4 Los Angeles 0 1 1 1 1 2 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday, March 29 Chicago at D.C. United, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Sporting Kansas City at Colorado, 4 p.m.

Houston at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Portland at FC Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Toronto FC at Real Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.

Columbus at Seattle FC, 8 p.m.

New England at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Indiana 52 20 .722 — y-Miami 48 22 .686 3 d-Toronto 40 31 .563 11 1/2 Chicago 40 31 .563 11 1/2 Brooklyn 37 33 .529 14 Washington 36 35 .507 15 1/2 Charlotte 35 37 .486 17 Atlanta 31 40 .437 20 1/2 New York 30 42 .417 22 Cleveland 29 44 .397 23 1/2 Detroit 26 45 .366 25 1/2 Boston 23 48 .324 28 1/2 Orlando 20 52 .278 32 Philadelphia 15 57 .208 37 Milwaukee 14 58 .194 38 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB x-San Antonio 55 16 .775 — x-Oklahoma City 52 19 .732 3 d-L.A. Clippers 51 22 .699 5 Houston 49 22 .690 6 Portland 46 27 .630 10 Golden State 44 27 .620 11 Memphis 43 28 .606 12 Phoenix 43 29 .597 12 1/2 Dallas 43 30 .589 13 Minnesota 35 35 .500 19 1/2 Denver 32 40 .444 23 1/2 New Orleans 31 40 .437 24 Sacramento 25 46 .352 30 L.A. Lakers 24 47 .338 31 Utah 23 49 .319 32 1/2 d-division leader; x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division Thursday’s Games Portland 100, Atlanta 85 Houston 120, Philadelphia 98 Milwaukee 108, L.A. Lakers 105 L.A. Clippers 109, Dallas 103 Friday’s Games Charlotte at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 5 p.m.

Boston at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Cleveland at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Miami at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Chicago, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Utah at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 7 p.m.

New York at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

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

Saturday’s Games Detroit at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 6 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

New Orleans at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, March 30 Chivas USA at New York, 1 p.m.

Baseball Tampa Bay Cleveland Los Angeles Seattle Baltimore New York Detroit Toronto Oakland Kansas City Houston Texas Chicago Boston Minnesota

MLB Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W L 16 6 19 8 17 10 17 11 13 9 16 12 14 12 14 13 13 13 11 15 10 15 10 15 9 14 10 16 8 15

Pct .727 .704 .630 .607 .591 .571 .538 .519 .500 .423 .400 .400 .391 .385 .348

NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct San Francisco 17 10 .630 Miami 18 11 .621 Pittsburgh 14 10 .583 Washington 15 13 .536 Arizona 12 11 .522 Colorado 14 13 .519 New York 14 14 .500 St. Louis 11 13 .458 San Diego 10 12 .455 Cincinnati 14 17 .452 Chicago 13 18 .419 Milwaukee 12 17 .414 Atlanta 12 18 .400 Los Angeles 6 10 .375 Philadelphia 9 17 .346 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto 10, N.Y. Yankees 6 Detroit 1, Philadelphia 0 St. Louis 3, Washington 2 Atlanta 9, Miami 2 Pittsburgh 2, Minnesota 1 Baltimore (ss) 5, Boston 4 San Diego 9, Kansas City 5 L.A. Angels 6, Oakland 2 Texas 5, Seattle 3

Chicago White Sox 9, Cincinnati 5 Cleveland 10, Milwaukee 3 San Francisco 8, Colorado 6 Arizona 14, Chicago Cubs 4 Houston 9, N.Y. Mets 6 Tampa Bay 4, Baltimore (ss) 4, tie Thursday’s Games Washington 4, N.Y. Mets 0 Detroit 9, Atlanta 3 Toronto 3, Philadelphia 0 Miami 6, St. Louis 4 N.Y. Yankees 4, Pittsburgh 2 Chicago Cubs 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Cincinnati (ss) 8, Milwaukee 2 Cincinnati (ss) 9, Arizona (ss) 1 Cleveland 3, Arizona (ss) 2 Boston 4, Minnesota 1 Tampa Bay 4, Baltimore 3 L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, late Oakland at San Francisco, late Friday’s Games Boston vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Miami vs. N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Toronto, 5:05 p.m.

Houston vs. Texas, 6:05 p.m.

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

Cleveland vs. San Diego,7:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

Colorado vs. Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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

Saturday’s Games Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. Toronto at Montreal, 11:05 a.m.

Miami vs. N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Minnesota vs. Boston, 11:05 a.m.

Houston vs. Texas, 12:05 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 12:05 p.m.

Kansas City at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle vs. Colorado, 1:10 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs at Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

Cleveland vs. San Diego, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, 7:05 p.m.

Golf Valero Texas Open Thursday At TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course San Antonio Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 (36-36) Partial First Round Pat Perez 35-33 Danny Lee 35-33 Will MacKenzie 35-34 Seung-Yul Noh 33-36 Cameron Beckman 36-33 Chesson Hadley 37-32 Aaron Baddeley 35-35 Freddie Jacobson 35-35 Michael Thompson 34-36 Charlie Beljan 37-33 Carl Pettersson 36-34 Stuart Appleby 38-32 Zach Johnson 34-36 Jim Furyk 35-35 Charley Hoffman 36-34 Ben Curtis 36-34 Heath Slocum 34-36 Alex Aragon 35-35 Jim Renner 35-35 Brice Garnett 34-36 Brian Harman 35-35 Scott Brown 34-36 Matt Kuchar 37-33 Ted Potter, Jr. 36-35 Brendon Todd 36-35 Erik Compton 36-35 Brooks Koepka 38-33 Alex Prugh 35-36 James Hahn 37-34 Cameron Tringale 36-35 Andres Romero 37-34 Jason Kokrak 35-36 Martin Flores 36-35 Jerry Kelly 34-37 Brian Davis 35-36 Chad Collins 37-34 Briny Baird 36-36 Richard H. Lee 37-35 Joe Durant 37-35 Ryan Palmer 36-36 J.B. Holmes 36-36 William McGirt 37-35 John Merrick 35-37 Martin Laird 36-36 John Senden 35-37 Troy Matteson 36-36 Branden Grace 35-37 Ben Martin 35-37 Jeff Maggert 36-36 Daniel Summerhays 34-38 David Lingmerth 38-35 Tommy Gainey 38-35 Mark Wilson 37-36 Greg Chalmers 38-35 Charlie Wi 37-36 Jim Herman 37-36 Brendon de Jonge 35-38 D.H. Lee 38-36 Nicolas Colsaerts 36-38 Kevin Chappell 37-37 Bryce Molder 37-37 John Mallinger 35-39 Ryo Ishikawa 37-37 Bronson La’Cassie 37-37 Lee Williams 39-35 Kevin Tway 38-36 Stephen Ames 39-35 Russell Knox 38-36 Sean O’Hair 37-37 Morgan Hoffmann 37-37 Ernie Els 40-34 Brendan Steele 36-39 Nicholas Thompson 38-37 Scott Langley 36-39 Jordan Spieth 33-42 K.J. Choi 36-39 Mark Anderson 40-35 Will Wilcox 36-39 Wes Roach 37-38

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LPGA-Kia Classic Thursday At Aviara Golf Club Carlsbad, Calif.

Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 6,593; Par: 72 (36-36) (a-amateur) First Round Paula Creamer 34-33 Mariajo Uribe 32-35 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 33-35 Shanshan Feng 35-33 Cristie Kerr 33-35 Mi Hyang Lee 33-35 Tiffany Joh 35-34 Azahara Munoz 35-34 Inbee Park 34-35 Lizette Salas 34-35 Lexi Thompson 36-33 Marina Alex 34-36 Katie M. Burnett 34-36 Dori Carter 34-36 Victoria Elizabeth 36-34 Julieta Granada 37-33 Rebecca Lee-Bentham 35-35 Stacy Lewis 34-36 Mo Martin 34-36 Caroline Masson 35-35 Ai Miyazato 36-34 Becky Morgan 34-36 Se Ri Pak 35-35 Brooke Pancake 34-36 So Yeon Ryu 34-36 Kelly Tan 34-36 Ayako Uehara 33-37 Michelle Wie 37-33 Sun Young Yoo 37-33 Silvia Cavalleri 35-36 Cydney Clanton 35-36 Veronica Felibert 34-37 Katie Futcher 36-35 Karine Icher 35-36 Eun-Hee Ji 35-36 Katherine Kirk 34-37 Gerina Piller 36-35 Beatriz Recari 36-35 Ashleigh Simon 35-36 Yani Tseng 34-37 Sandra Changkija 36-36 Na Yeon Choi 36-36 Mi Jung Hur 35-37 Pat Hurst 35-37 Moriya Jutanugarn 34-38 P.K. Kongkraphan 38-34 Seon Hwa Lee 36-36 Belen Mozo 39-33 Ji Young Oh 35-37 x-Mariah Stackhouse 34-38 Jenny Suh 36-36 Christel Boeljon 36-37 Julia Boland 36-37 Carlota Ciganda 38-35 Laura Diaz 36-37 Natalie Gulbis 37-36 Juli Inkster 37-36

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2014 TORONTO BLUE JAYS PREVIEW

Jays’ season will hinge on pitching HITTING AND DEFENCE SOUND BUT PITCHING A CONCERN

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Five storylines to watch this season

TORONTO — Toronto manager John Gibbons says Starting Pitching the Blue Jays will go as far as There are more than a their pitching takes them this few question marks here, season. which isn’t promising conBuckle up, then. It could be sidering the Jays starters another bumpy ride through went 46-57 last season with the talent-rich American a 4.81 ERA. Knuckleballer League East. Gibbons believes R.A. Dickey, left-hander the Jays will score runs in 2014 Mark Buehrle and Brandon while blunting opposition atMorrow lead the rotation tacks with good defence. with Drew Hutchison and But when it comes to pitchDustin McGowan completing, the Toronto manager ing the quintet — at least seemed to be lowering expecto start with. The Jays will tations as the pre-season wore carry an eight-man bullpen, on. however, to have extra arms “We don’t have to have a if needed. shutdown rotation, just keep us in the game, somewhat Anthopoulos-Gibbons match the opposition and let General manager Alex the offence take over,” he said Anthopoulos brought John during spring training.

Gibbons back last season to “We really like our bullpen, manage the Jays after John (it’s) strong. We can match up Farrell departed for Boston. pretty good down there and Anthopoulos rolled the dice our defence is much improved prior to last season, bringing if we can keep everybody on in a list of big-name playthe field as well. So we’re feelers from the Miami Marlins ing pretty good, but we’ve got and New York Mets, along to get some starting pitching.” with other recruits. The big From where, some might shakeup failed big time. The ask.

GM went the other route The Jays have been unable this off-season, with only a to add to the rotation of the few moves. If Toronto conteam that went a disappointtinues to fail on the field, ing 74-88 after loading up on how much longer does Antalent. Take away an 11-game thopoulos — or the affable win streak last June and 2013 Gibbons — have? was a truly dismal season.

Toronto’s starters went 46Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Attendance 57 with a 4.81 earned-run averAbout the only thing that age in 2013. Only Minnesota Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher R.A. Dickey delivers a warmup pitch before starting in a spring went up last year for the had a higher starting ERA training baseball game in Dunedin, Fla. Toronto manager John Gibbons says the Blue Jays will go Blue Jays was attendance.

(5.26). as far as their pitching takes them this season.

Despite the poor results, Toronto pitchers ranked 2013 attendance reached 25th in the majors with a 4.25 lic is healthy again after hav- a big year for the 27-year-old 2,536,562 for an average of ERA. Playing in the hittering surgery to remove a tu- centre-fielder. A career .248 31,315 at the Rogers Centre. friendly confines of the Rogmour from his lower back. He hitter, Rasmus had a banner That marked a considerable ers Centre, Toronto gave up played through pain in 2013, season last year when he hit jump from 2012 when at195 home runs — only the Balhitting .279 with 30 RBI in 88 .276 with 22 homers, 66 RBIs R.A. Dickey tendance totalled 2,099,663 timore Orioles yielded more games after joining the Jays and an .840 OPS (on base plus The erudite knuckleballer for an average of 25,921.

(202). as a free agent from San Fran- slugging). His OPS has risen had a slow start last season The Jays jumped from 23rd Big right-hander Josh Johncisco. It’s been a new-look from .517 to .689 to .840 in his before rallying to finish with to 14th in total attendance son left town after failing to Cabrera this spring. He hit time in Toronto. His 2013 pera 14-13 record and 4.21 ERA. among MLB teams. Will Todeliver. Free agent Ervin San.431 through his first 19 spring formance earned him a oneDickey went 8-10 with a 4.69 ronto fans remain on the tana chose the friendlier contraining games and showed ERA prior to the all-star good defence in the outfield. year, US$7-million deal, up bandwagon if the product fines of the NL East in signing game and 6-3 with a 3.56 ERA Cabrera is healthy enough from the $2.3 million he made disappoints again this seawith Atlanta. after. His goal is to start 2014 that he will spell Rasmus in the year before. Another son?

Pitching has been the keyquality season and he is lookthe way he finished 2013. He centre field as needed. word at Toronto’s spring training at even bigger numbers. A Defence knows improvement is needing with one player after anslick fielder, Rasmus covers a One positive this season ed. other fumbling the chance to Dioner Navarro lot of ground in the outfield. looks to be defence with a “Because I’m going through join knuckleballer R.A. DickThe Jays are the fifth team healthy Melky Cabrera plus the AL East again this year,” in five seasons for the chunky ey, left-hander Mark Buehrle Drew Hutchison Colby Rasmus and Jose Bauhe said. “So although they catcher from Venezuela, who and Brandon Morrow in the One of the few pitching tista in the outfield and Rydidn’t see the real me, I feel takes over from the departed rotation. an Goins adding his fielding like especially early on in the J.P. Arencibia. At five foot success stories of the spring, With a combined salary of skills to an infield already season, I’m still looking for nine and 205 pounds, Navarro Hutchison played his way into US$39 million this season, the the starting rotation. Hutchibrimming with talent in big three of Dickey ($12 milother weapons.” is not your conventional pro son consistently threw strikes that area with Brett Lawrie lion), Buehrle ($19 million) Dickey believes his prepa- athlete body type. in spring training, with 16 and Jose Reyes. The Jays and Morrow ($8 million) need ration has been superior this But the Jays pitchers underachieved on defence to produce. spring, without the distrac- seem to like him. And after strikeouts and just one walk last season with Cabrera not Who will help them was a tion of the World Baseball the season Arencibia had in in his first three outings. Just moving as well as he is ca23, his major league experimystery for most of the spring.

Classic.

2013, anything is an upgrade. pable of and Maicer Izturis J.A. Happ (who will start “I feel more ready,” he Navarro calls an aggressive ence consists of 11 games in and the departed Emilio the season on the disabled said. “I’m going to take that game, with an emphasis on 2012 when he went 5-3 before Bonifacio not performing list with a back issue), Esmil into the season with me. It’s throwing the first strike and being shut down and underthat well in the infield. going Tommy John surgery.

Rogers and Todd Redmond all no guarantee than things getting ahead of the hitters. failed to make a case for win“We’re all impressed,” are going to be just perfectly “Attack, attack, attack,” is The Bench ning a starting job. manager John Gibbons said smooth. But at the same time, his choice to go at hitters.

With Toronto going with Drew Hutchison, who reof his spring showing, citing a the way I feel brings a level A career .251 hitter himan eight-man bullpen, the turned last fall from Tommy of confidence with it that you self, Navarro hit .300 in 89 harder-than-expected fastball Jays bench will be very thin.

John surgery, did pitch his don’t have when you’re not as games last season for the Chi- with good command.

Backup catcher Josh Thole, way into the rotation. In his “The ball jumps on you prepared. So I’m thankful for cago Cubs. The move to the whose main job is to handle first three spring outings, the that.”

Jays has been good personal- more than I ever thought it Dickey, is a career .251 hitter 23-year-old right-hander gave did,” he added.

“And he does The 39-year-old, who will ly for the 30-year-old Navarro, whose average dropped to up just three runs in 9.2 inwork with catcher Josh Thole, who makes his family home it easy. It’s basically effort.175 in limited major league nings for an ERA of 2.79. Perfinished the spring with a 5.79 70 kilometres from Dunedin less. He’s great at hitting both action last season. The other haps more importantly, he sides of the plate, with some ERA. in Riverview, Fla. two are outfielder Moises struck out 16 while walking good off-speed stuff.”

Sierra and utility infielder one.

Gibbons compares him to Melky Cabrera Colby Rasmus Maicer Izturis. The bench is “We want strike-throwers,” The 29-year-old left-fielder Rasmus is eligible for free former Blue Jay and current weaker without the retired said Gibbons. from the Dominican Repub- agency in 2015, making this Met Shaun Marcum.

Mark DeRosa and departed Happ walked nine, struck Rajai Davis. And Toronto out eight and gave up 16 runs and utility infielder Maicer Iz- starts at catcher in place of to hurt that body,” the manpinch-hitters hit .212 last while compiling a 20.57 ERA turis. the departed J.P. Arencibia ager said, drawing laughs. season, 16th in the majors. in his first four spring training Janssen, whose spring has with Thole serving as Dickey’s The good news is that the outings against major-league once again been limited to personal catcher.

Jays enter the season healthy, opposition.

Navarro is on his fifth team although Reyes is nursing a tional. Goins’ bat remains a protect his shoulder, will be Rogers and Redmond reg- the closer once again. He con- in five seasons. sore hamstring. question mark. istered spring strikeouts (22 verted 34 of 36 save opportuniFans may do a double-take Cabrera, who required surDespite the constant quesand 17, respectively) but gave ties in 2013. at the 30-year-old Venezue- gery to remove a tumour in his tioning over pitching, it was up runs. Rogers’ ERA was 9.37 Santos will serve as his set- lan’s chunky shape. But Gib- lower back last season, has a much more relaxed spring while Redmond’s was 5.40, up man with left-handed re- bons, a former catcher him- been wielding a hot bat while training than last year when both in their first six outings. lief help from Cecil and Loup. self, has no issue with the five- turning heads in the outfield. the team was under intense Asked if he believes the Delabar and Jeffress offer ve- foot-nine 205-pounder.

Bautista has also been media scrutiny.

Jays have enough pitching, “As long as he hits and he locity, although Jeffress’ conswinging freely — and suc“We’re not picked to win slugger Jose Bautista offered catches,” Gibbons said with a cessfully — after two injury- the World Series so I think trol can be dodgy. optimism.

The starting lineup is set grin. shortened seasons (a hip issue that’s probably why there’s “Talent-wise yes. There’s Early reviews on Navarro in 2013 and wrist in 2012). with Melky Cabrera, Colby less attention. I guess that’s a no doubt that in this room we have been positive, with pitchToronto ranked 15th in the good thing,” Lind said. “You have enough guys that are tal- Rasmus and Bautista in the ers applauding his handling ented enough to lead us into outfield and Brett Lawrie, Jo- of the staff. Even Gibbons majors in hitting in 2013, with don’t have to get pulled in so many different directions with having a great season,” he se Reyes, Ryan Goins and Ed- couldn’t resist a one-liner, a .252 average. win Encarnacion/Adam Lind With Lawrie, Reyes and the different media outlets. It alsaid. however, after Navarro essmooth-fielding Goins, expect lows us to concentrate more It’s all about translating manning the infield.

It’s a big season for Rasmus, caped injury following a foul infield defence to be excep- on baseball.” that talent into execution and tip in spring who is eligible to become a results. training.

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Hutchison excels as Blue Sens’ Ryan to Jays blank Phillies 3-0 undergo sports

hernia surgery, will miss rest of the season

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEARWATER, Fla. — Drew Hutchison gave up one hit in 5 1-3 scoreless innings and led the Toronto Blue Jays past the Philadelphia Phillies 3-0 on Thursday.

Hutchison is scheduled to start Toronto’s second regular season game against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday. He allowed a single to Jimmy Rollins in the fourth, walked three and struck out three.

The right-hander beat out several candidates, including Todd Redmond, Esmil Rogers and Ricky Romero, for a spot in the rotation. He was 5-3 with a 4.60 ERA in 11 starts as a rookie last season.

“I battled today,” Hutchison said. “I wasn’t really crisp. I got behind way too much, actually.

But on days like that, I can come back and make good pitches, it’s a good sign.”

Dioner Navarro hit a sacrifice fly off Phillies starter A.J. Burnett in the fourth. Gabe Jacobo added a two-run single in the eighth.

Burnett gave up three hits with one walk and six strikeouts in five innings. The right-hander signed a two-year, $22.5 million deal with Philadelphia in February after spending the last two seasons with Pittsburgh.

HAMELS PITCHES Phillies starter Cole Hamels (left shoulder inflammation) pitched two innings in a minor league game, his first outing of the spring.

The left-hander said he felt well after recording nine outs and throwing 20 of 30 pitches for strikes against Pittsburgh’s Triple-A players.

“I’m really pleased and really confident, and what I’m able to do now is to truly get spring training in,” Hamels said. “Obviously it’s a little late, but I feel healthy and I think that’s really the key.”

Hamels plans to join the Phillies in Arlington

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toronto Blue Jays Brett Lawrie hits a fourth-inning single in a spring exhibition baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., Thursday. The Blue Jays won 3-0. for their season opener against the Rangers on Monday before returning to the team’s training complex in Clearwater to continue his rehab.

STARTING TIME Blue Jays: Hutchison said despite close competition, he never doubted his chances to make the rotation and is prepared to show he belongs.

“For me, I expected to make the team,” Hutchison said. “This is not anything (surprising).

I expected to make the team and now I’m ready to go perform.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Phillies: Outfielder Domonic Brown was held out of the game because of lingering flulike symptoms. Manager Ryne Sandberg expects the 2013 All-Star to play on Friday against Pittsburgh.

Blue Jays: Shortstop Jose Reyes missed his fifth straight game with left hamstring tightness.

He is expected to play on

Friday against the New York Mets in Montreal.

First baseman Edwin Encarnacion said he feels better, but was given the day off after being hit by a pitch on his right forearm Wednesday against the Yankees.

ABREU RELEASED The Phillies released outfielder Bobby Abreu on Thursday to allow the 40-year-old to explore an opportunity with another team.

Philadelphia’s decision to part ways with Abreu came one day after the 17-year veteran was informed by the organization that he would not make the 25-man opening day roster.

In 17 games this spring training, Abreu batted .244 with two RBIs and 10 walks, but struggled defensively.

“We just felt like at this stage of the game, he wouldn’t be a fit for us,” general manager Ruben Amaro said. “It was a tough decision. Not just because of how it affects

our roster, but also as a person. Bobby is a great guy. He really made an effort to make this team.

It obviously was a goal of his. We decided he wasn’t prepared to do that to help us at this time.”

Abreu signed a minor league deal in January with the hope of returning to the majors for the first time since 2012 when he appeared in 100 games with the Angels and Dodgers.

MORE MOVES Philadelphia placed left-hander Cole Hamels on the 15-day disabled list along with righthanders Mike Adams, Miguel Gonzalez and Ethan Martin, shortstop Freddy Galvis and first baseman Darin Ruf. Toronto put left-hander J.A. Happ on the 15day DL.

OTTAWA — Already all but eliminated from playoff contention, the Ottawa Senators will now play the remainder of the season without their leading goal scorer.

The Senators announced forward Bobby Ryan would undergo surgery in Montreal Thursday to repair a sports hernia. He will miss the final 10 games of the regular season.

“Bobby has been dealing with the discomfort of this injury since it was sustained in November,” said Senators general manager Bryan Murray. “Both Bobby and our medical staff were hopeful that we could hold off from having surgery until the completion of the season, but he aggravated the condition last Saturday in Dallas to the point that surgery is now the only option.”

Ryan, who was acquired last July from the Anaheim Ducks, scored a team-leading 23 goals and had 48 points in 70 games.

Ryan scored 18 of his 23 goals by Dec. 31 and there was much speculation as to what was the cause of his recent lack of productivity. It now appears the injury played a big factor.

“Well he certainly started very, very well,” said Murray on the Senators team website. “He shoots the puck awfully well, he scored some goals, his line obviously carried the team early on. He was a big part of that.

“I think after the hernia started to get aggravated a little bit he seemed to shoot the puck a bit less.

Overall, very happy and satisfied with his overall play and we know he’ll be a real contributor going forward.”

Ryan’s teammates were aware of the discomfort the winger was dealing with and offered their support.

“He battled through it and tried to work through it and it was something they were trying to give him help and he played well through it,” said linemate Kyle Turris.

“It will be nice when he’s healthy and feeling better and able to get back at it.

“We knew it had been nagging him for a while and for him to battle through it and continue to try playing is something that we all respect him for.”

Ryan’s injury has created an opportunity for Mark Stone, who was recalled from Binghamton in the American Hockey League after Ryan aggravated the injury last weekend.

“There’s still lots of hockey to be played and I want to make an impression and I want to stay up here,” said Stone, who has a goal and an assist in his last two games.

“I want to continue to play consistent hockey and stay up here for those ten games and hopefully make a good audition for next year.”

Raonic falls to Nadal in Sony Open quarterfinals

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MIAMI — Canadian Milos Raonic put up a fight but could not earn the upset as top seed Rafael Nadal recovered to win their quarter-final matchup in a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 comeback at the Sony Open Thursday.

The Thornhill, Ont., product cemented his return next week to the ATP top 10 as he won his first career set against Nadal after four losses in the series.

Raonic rolled over slightly on his ankle as he dived for a return in the third set but appeared to shake it off near the end of the two-hour, 34 minute struggle.

The Canadian was held to eight aces and one break for serve from just three chances. He had 28 winners to Nadal’s 26.

Raonic and Nadal duelled for 52 minutes in a tight opening set. The only true opening came in the final game.

Nadal lost his first career set against Raonic as he sent over a per-

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Nadal put over a nervous double fault to lose the opener, his first dropped set of the tournament.

But the Raonic magic began to fade in the second set after he started to lose pace on his weak second serve, with Nadal going up a double break for 4-0.

Raonic contributed a pair of costly double-faults to end both of his losing games as the Spaniard took control, gathering his trademark momentum.

The 23-year-old Canadian saved a break point to start the third set as the contest started to peak. Nadal got a break for 4-3 after Raonic had rallied from 0-30 down but eventually hit the next with a backhand to drop serve for the third time.

Nadal held for 5-3 and earned the victory two games later, sealing his move into the semifinals on a forehand winner down the line for the first of three match points.

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SAITAMA, Japan — Canada’s Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford won a pairs bronze medal at the world figure skating championships Thursday while Mao Asada of Japan set a world record to get first in the women’s short program.

Duhamel, from Lively, Ont., and Radford, from Balmertown, Ont., were third with 210.84 points.

Teammates Kirsten Moore-Towers of St. Catharines, Ont., and Dylan Moscovitch of Toronto were fourth.

Duhamel and Radford, who were seventh at the Sochi Olympics, also won bronze at last year’s world championships in London, Ont. “In some ways I think that this bronze medal feels even better than the last one,” Radford said. “This season was just a lot more difficult

and we had a lot more downs than we did last season. Especially after the Olympics, with our sort of disappointing result, we had to really pull ourselves together and to shift our point of view to just go out here and do it for ourselves.

“And then to go out there and to actually do it and be back on the podium, it’s a huge thing for us. We are just so proud of ourselves.”

Germany’s Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy won the gold, claiming their fifth title in the event they have dominated since 2008.

Skating to Chopin’s Nocturne, Asada hit her trademark triple Axel at the start of her routine and completed all her remaining jumps to finish with 78.66 points, surpassing the previous record of 78.50 set by Yuna Kim at the Vancouver Olympics.

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that we were still going to go strong right until the end.”

Savchenko and Szolkowy were solid on all their elements in their program to “The Nutcracker,” and earned 224.88 points to beat Russia’s Olympic silver medallists Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov, who had 215.92 points.

“A fifth title is quite amazing,” Szolkowy said.

“We did and very good performance yesterday and were very good today.”

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Skating to music from the “Alice in Wonderland” soundtrack, Duhamel fell on a triple Salchow in what was supposed to be a threejump combination for the Canadian pairs team.

It was an otherwise clean performance.

“When you make a mistake as a figure skater, you need to put that mistake behind you as quickly as possible and continue skating as if you were skating cleanly. And we’ve been able to do that before, but at the Olympics after we made one mistake, things started to unravel a little bit,” Duhamel said. “So we were really aware, as soon as I fell, that was not going to take away from our performance,

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tion of this season, I am happy to skate the best short program,” said Asada, a two-time world champion. “My mission here is to perform both programs perfect so already half is done and tomorrow I want to focus on showing everything I have practised.”

Carolina Kostner of Italy was second with 77.24 points followed by Julia Lipnitskaia of Russia, who had 74.54 points.

Kim, the defending champion, has retired and Olympic gold medallist Adelina Sotnikova of Russia isn’t competing at the worlds.

Kaetlyn Osmond of Marystown, N.L., was eighth and Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket, Ont., was 14th.

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TORONTO — Georges St-Pierre’s road back to the Octagon is suddenly a lot bumpier.

The former UFC welterweight champion, currently on hiatus from mixed martial arts but still training with an eye to a future return, revealed Thursday that he requires knee surgery.

“Tore my left ACL in training. Surgery in a few days,” St-Pierre said via Twitter. “Rehab, pain, hard work, no shortcuts I’ll soon be back at 100%.

Thanks for the support.”

The Montreal mixed martial artist confirmed in a text to The Canadian Press that it is not the same knee that required reconstructive surgery in December 2011.

“I’m OK,” he said.

St-Pierre vacated his title in December saying he needed time away from the sport. But he kept training.

The 32-year-old fighter has said he plans to return to MMA but has not provided a timeline.

GSP has had his share of injuries.

In the fall of 2011, he sustained a minor left knee problem and pulled hamstring. He believes that led to overcompensating with his right leg when he returned to training. An attempted takedown during a wrestling drill led to a torn anterior cruciate ligament and a small tear to his internal miniscus.

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ReThink Red Deer will present their year end review and further discuss keys that the organization implements.

This will include informing attendees on the importance of an ecofriendly lifestyle. The meeting will take place from 1 to 2 p.m. in room 1007A at the college.

Those looking to attend are asked to RSVP at info@rethinkreddeer.ca or contact Rene Michalak at 403-986-7981. Seating is limited.

SPRING FEVER SPREADING AT CANYON SKI HILL They’ve caught a touch of Spring Fever at Canyon Ski Hill — and they want to pass it around. General manager Dave Martel and his crew plan to end the 2013/14 ski season with a blast this weekend, offering lift tickets at $5 each, and capping off with day themes and then Sunday’s Slush Cup. It’s been a weird season, with plenty of snow balanced against many days when it was too cold to open the lifts, says Martel. He’s looking forward to a busy weekend with more fresh powder for those last few runs, with prizes including a season pass for 2014/15.

Martel and staff invite people to dress up and play the part for Tight and Bright on Friday, Retro Days on Saturday and the Slush Cup on Sunday, the final day of skiing until fall. Lifts are open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with entertainment by the Dirty Coveralls on Sunday.

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WOMAN WHO SUFFERED CARDIAC ARREST THANKS PARAMEDICS

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A few months after a 34-yearold Red Deer woman suffered cardiac arrest in her home, she is thanking the fire medics who saved her life.

Sarah Fahey, was playing a game on her phone when her heart stopped around 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 11.

Fahey, a local veterinarian, said she doesn’t remember anything beyond that she was waiting to check on a sick patient that evening.

Her quick thinking boyfriend, Derek Galloway, started cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) right away and called 911. Galloway works for Alberta Paramedical Services Ltd. as an emergency medical responder.

Fahey said emergency services arrived within five minutes, which is key to why she is alive today.

Fahey’s heart was started with a defibrillator before she was sent to the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre and later Calgary’s Foothills Hospital.

Fahey spent about two weeks at the hospital undergoing test after test.

She said she never had any problems with her heart before that day in December.

A cardiac arrest occurs when there is an electrical malfunction in the heart that causes an abnormal heartbeat. A heart at-

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Sarah Fahey is all smiles as she stands with City of Red Deer firemedics Brett Nickel, left, and Bob Munn, right, two of four-man crew who saved her life in early December. Missing are firemedics Morgan Moen and Rob Walker. tack can occur when there is a blockage that prevents oxygenrich blood from reaching the heart.

The doctors determined that she may have a genetic condition called Long QT syndrome.

Fahey will undergo testing to confirm a diagnosis.

Doctors told her without the rapid defibrillation she would have died that day.

“The survival rate is only about five per cent for cardiac arrest,” said Fahey. “The key to surviving cardiac arrest is

immediate CPR and defibrillation under six minutes.”

A cardioverter defibrillator was put into her chest in the chance that it happens again, the device will shock her heart.

A few weeks ago, Fahey stopped by the fire station to show her appreciation to the four-man crew — Morgan Moen, Bob Munn, Rob Walker and Brett Nickel.

“They saved my life,” she said. “It was also part of the healing process to finally get to meet them. I wanted them to

know I was okay and that their efforts saved a life.”

Fahey said it was also nice for them too because they know the statistics and they usually never find out what happens to their patients.

Galloway, who comes from a family of emergency services workers, said this story isn’t about his girlfriend or him but the good work these crews do every day.

“It’s good for them to get some recognition,” said Galloway. “They do their job, drop somebody off at the hospital and that’s the end of it for them.

The one guy said in his 18 years it has happened twice where someone in Sarah’s state survived. It’s rare that somebody comes in to say thank you.”

Fahey said she wants people to realize the importance of knowing CPR because the majority of cardiac arrests occur at home.

“Starting CPR right away is key to saving someone’s life,” said Fahey. “If more bystanders would do more CPR it would significantly improve survival rates from cardiac arrest.”

An hour before Fahey’s cardiac arrest, Keith Doerksen of Huxley, 53, also underwent cardiac arrest at Parkland Mall.

His wife, a nurse, performed CPR before the medics arrived.

Doerksen spent time at Foothills with Fahey. He is also doing well. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The search for a missing Edmonton woman resumed Thursday, with Rocky Mountain House RCMP and Search and Rescue scouring the area where her vehicle was found.

Anina Hundsdoerfer, 32, was reported missing by her roommate on Sunday, but her last known location was at her office in Edmonton on Saturday between 1 and 3 p.m.

Her vehicle was found Anina a b a n d o n e d Hundsdoerfer Tuesday afternoon on the side of the Forestry Trunk Road (Hwy 734), about 25 kms north of the North Fork Road junction, Hwy 752. Staff Sgt. Bill Laidlaw said the area is very remote.

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The vehicle was found by an Alberta Fish and Wildlife officer, who then notified Edmonton police’s missing persons unit, who contact Rocky RCMP to confirm the finding.

Edmonton police said that while there is no indication of foul play, Hundsdoerfer’s disappearance is out of character and “there are concerns for her well-being.”

The isolated area is about an hour away from Rocky Mountain House, about 60 kms south of Nordegg. She had left her cross-country skis at home when she left.

Laidlaw said it looks like the only prints of any description that may have been around the vehicle when they arrived on scene were that of a grader operator that was working.

“We have checked a couple of cabins. There are ranger cabins and she was not in them,” said Laidlaw.

“We’re in there digging and waiting for the weather to clear in hopes of getting somebody up in the air to do some search and rescue. Right now we’re limited to ground and we’re limited by the amount of snow, tremendous amount of snow in there.”

Olympian Clara Hughes stopping here as part of mental illness campaign

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Olympian Clara Hughes will stop in Red Deer as she cycles across Canada to raise awareness about mental illness.

The six-time cycling and speed-skating medallist began Clara’s Big Ride for Bell Let’s Talk in Toronto on March 14 and wraps up in Ottawa on Canada Day. Her 110-day journey will take her to 95 communities along the route.

Hughes will be in Red Deer at Parkland Mall on May 31 and June 1.

Family Services of Central Alberta and other local groups are organizing two events using the tag line, Clara’s Big Ride Hits Red Deer.

Details are still being sorted out but Judy Scott, manager of children and youth services said the event is shaping up to be an awesome party.

“It’s about promoting mental health,” said Scott.

“We are looking at it as a way to talk about mental health in a positive and upbeat way.”

Hughes is likely to arrive from Calgary around 5:30 p.m. The celebration will get underway at 4 p.m. and run until about 6:30 p.m.

The next morning Hughes will give a youthgeared breakfast talk at the mall starting at 8:30 a.m.

Scott said they are seeing more people and young people in particular struggling with mental health.

She said it is important to celebrate good mental health, support those who are struggling and take away the stigma.

For more updates visit www.fsca.ca or for more information on the ride visit www.clarasbigride.bell. ca. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Anina Hundsdoerfer;’s car was found Tuesday on a remote area of Forestry Trunk Road (Hwy 734), about 25 kms north of the North Fork Road junction, Hwy 752.

The search continued Thursday in hopes of finding the woman. “We’re looking for any information from anybody who might have been out in that area, or even anyone who may have seen that vehicle in the Red Deer area,” said Laidlaw.

Hundsdoerfer’s blue Toyota Echo was recovered by police, but Laidlaw said they hope to get in touch with someone who may have seen it between Sunday and Tuesday.

The vehicle is a two-door with Alberta licence plate HUZ 936.

Hundsdoerfer is described as Caucasian about 1.75 cms (five feet nine inches) tall and weighs

about 72 kgs (160 pounds). She has shoulder-length brown hair and blue eyes. She may be wearing a burgundy long winter coat, dark form-fitting pants and glasses.

Anyone with information that may assist in locating Hundsdoerfer is asked to contact either the Edmonton Police Service at 780-423-4567 or #377 from a mobile phone, or the Rocky Mountain House RCMP at 403845-2881.

Anonymous information can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or online at www.tipsubmit.com. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate. com

Hospital proposes parkade 5-LEVEL FACILITY TO HOLD 1,100 VEHICLES

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A five-level parkade with 1,100 parking spaces planned for Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre will almost double the number of parking stalls at the hospital.

Currently, 1,200 parking stalls exist at the hospital, including staff, outdoor and underground parking.

Kerry Bales, chief zone officer with Alberta Health Services Central Zone, said people are always looking for parking at the hospital.

“There’s quite a significant need for the spaces. We’ve heard this from patients, visitors, physicians, staff,” Bales said on Thursday.

There are about 750 staff parking spaces at the hospital, including outdoor and underground, and 700 staff are on a wait list for on-site parking.

The estimated $44-million parkade, with elevators, will be built where outdoor staff parking exists on the north side of 39th Street, across from the hospital’s main entrance. Only about 10 outdoor public parking spaces would be eliminated.

“For the most part, public and patient parking shouldn’t be impacted during construction.”

AHS will develop, own and operate the parkade that will be available to patients, visitors and staff. Construction is anticipated to begin in the fall

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and take about 18 months to complete.

“It is going to be constructed from a foundation perspective, to be able to do an additional two levels if needed or when needed in the future.”

AHS will be taking out a loan to pay for the parkade.

“The loan is financed by the parking fees so there’s no patient care dollars being put towards this project,” Bales said.

As some of the staff parking will be displaced by the parkade, alternate parking will be made available to affected staff during construction.

“We know we’re going to have to have temporary parking for staff. We’re kind of looking at what our options might be.

“There’s definitely no extra parking capacity on site. We’re going to have to find something off site, obviously as close a possible.”

AHS is holding a public open house to share information about the parkade project on Wednesday. The drop-in event will run from 5 to 8 p.m. in the hospital’s South Complex common area, near the main doors.

AHS must still apply for a city development permit for the project so it has not yet gone before Red Deer’s municipal planning commission for approval.

For more information on the project visit — http://www.albertahealthservices.ca/9763.asp szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Horner focuses on budget, not race EXPECTS BUSINESS AS USUAL IN CABINET BETWEEN NOW AND THE LEADERSHIP VOTE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR If Doug Horner has aspirations to become premier of Alberta, he kept them to himself on Thursday.

The province’s finance minister made no mention of the pending leadership race during a presentation at a Red Deer Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

When he was later asked by media about his plans, Horner confirmed Doug Horner that he’s been urged by a number of people to seek Alison Redford’s former job and discussed the possibility with

his wife.

“We have to pass this budget in the legislature and I think it’s important that I steer that through,” he said, referring to the financial plan that his Progressive Conservative government tabled on March 6. “At the appropriate time we’ll make the decision.”

Horner added that he expects it to be business as usual in cabinet between now and the leadership vote in September.

“I don’t anticipate that (acting) Premier (Dave) Hancock is going to make any kind of drastic changes to any of the lineup. We’ll wait and see what happens with anybody who might want to step out to run in the race, but my focus right now is on the budget.”

Horner spent most of his time at the Chamber gathering, which attracted more than 100 people, pitching that budget.

He described Alberta’s rapid growth, noting how 105,000 people moved into the province last year.

Three hurdles stand in the way of continued prosperity, said Horner: market access limitations, skilled labour shortages and inadequate infrastructure.

The third, he suggested, was the most worrisome.

“If we don’t build the infrastructure to allow people to get to work, to get home, to enjoy recreation, to get to school, to get a post-secondary education, to have the health care that they and their family are going to need, they’re not going to come.

“And if they don’t come, nobody fills the jobs, the jobs go somewhere else; and if the jobs go somewhere else, the investment goes somewhere else; and if the investment goes somewhere else, guess what happens to our economy? It

goes south.”

The proposed budget seeks to address the infrastructure problem through heavy capital spending on schools, post-secondary institutions, health care facilities and roadwork, said Horner.

Although Alberta’s debt load is projected to grow from its current $14 billion to $21 billion by 2017, Horner defended his government’s fiscal strategy.

The cost of borrowing is currently very low, he said, the assets being financed will last for decades and a plan is in place to repay the debt.

Horner pointed out that the Alberta government’s operational spending is slated to rise just 3.7 per cent this year — down sharply from the 7.3 per cent average increase in recent years.

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Grain backlog bill welcomed

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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With lots in the first phase of Queens Business Park nearly exhausted, interest in Phase 2 of the city-owned subdivision west of Hwy 2 has grown.

Queens Business Park grows WORK EXPECTED TO START SOON ON SECOND PHASE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Building in Queens Business Park should soon spill into the second phase of the industrial/ commercial subdivision west of Hwy 2.

“The pipes are in the ground,” said Red Deer land and economic development manager John Sennema about development work on the next stage. “We’re going to do the surface work for it this year.”

With only a 4.47-acre industrial lot and about five acres of commercial land remaining in Phase 1, Sennema is eager to see the next quarter of city-owned land on the market.

“My whole goal, based on the economic development strategy that we did, is to have a continuous supply of industrial land,” he said. “That’s one of the biggest things we can do to facilitate economic growth.”

Although its above-ground infrastructure has still to be completed, Queens’ second phase is attracting strong interest.

“We’ve got folks coming in the

door every day,” said Sennema.

The 97 developable acres includes 40.4 acres of light industrial, 36.07 acres of eco-industrial, 15.82 acres of heavy industrial and 4.75 acres of commercial land.

“We already have pending sales for our light industrial land of 26 acres,” said Sennema. “Our heavy industrial we have about 2 ½ acres, and our light eco-industrial we have about four or five acres already pending.”

The eco-industrial lands are intended to promote things like energy-efficient building design, pedestrian movement, stormwater conservation and community amenities, said Sennema. Businesses there might also collaborate in the efficient use of each other’s by-products, he added, with the potential for the city to facilitate such partnerships.

Specific development guidelines for the eco-industrial area have yet to be finalized, said Sennema, but he hopes a proposal will be presented to city council this spring.

The requirements shouldn’t be too onerous, he said.

“I think a lot of companies are

doing this stuff already, when it comes to water conservation, and reduction in waste materials and things like that. What we’re trying to do is encourage that kind of behaviour.”

Ultimately, said Sennema, being in the Queens eco-industrial area could enhance the image of companies.

Meanwhile, work has begun on an industrial area structure plan for two quarters of city land that will make up the next phases of Queens Business Park.

“I think the IASP will be completed probably this summer or fall,” said Sennema.

“Then we have to do the servicing study.”

Although demand for commercial lots in Queens Business Park has not been strong, he expects this will change as the industrial build-out proceeds.

“That’s pretty typical, even in residential development.”

Two quarter sections of privately owned land south of Queens Business Park are also being developed. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Canada could be Europe’s alternative to Russian gas — but not any time soon

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — With western sanctions threatening to tighten the taps on Russian energy exports to Europe, Canada could become an alternative supply source — but not any time soon.

The Conservative government has been pushing for Canada to expand its energy export reach by building new oil pipelines to coastal waters, as well as multibillion-dollar plants that would enable natural gas to be transported by tanker overseas in an ultrachilled liquid form.

The crisis in Ukraine is adding urgency to those efforts, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Thursday in Ottawa.

“I think, if anything, it under-

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“And it’s an important reminder that opportunities are not all exclusively south of the border or to the Asia-Pacific region but also to our traditional allies in Europe.”

German chancellor Angela Merkel was asked about the possibility at a news conference in Berlin on Thursday, alongside Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Her enthusiasm for Canada as a potential energy provider was tempered by its current lack of export infrastructure.

Germany gets 35 per cent of its gas from Russia, she said, with the rest coming from Norway, the U.K. and elsewhere.

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Baird noted that some countries, like the Baltic states, are fully reliant on Russian energy.

The continent as a whole now gets about a third of its natural gas from Russia. By the end of the decade, about half of its gas demand will need to be met by outside sources — whether that’s Russia or LNG from abroad, said Barry Munro, head of Ernst & Young’s Canadian energy practice.

“There are probably a bunch of North American LNG guys who see these developments as creating a market opportunity for them to move gas to Europe,” he said.

But it’s not going to happen quickly. Exports of liquefied natural gas from Canadian shores are several years off.

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A pair of Alberta cabinet ministers are pleased with federal legislation that seeks to reduce grain shipment backlogs, but they think more needs to be done to address the problem.

Finance Minister Doug Horner and International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas shared their views during a Red Deer Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday — one day after the Canadian government announced it would amend the Canada Grain Act and the Canada Transportation Act to encourage increased shipments of grain.

The proposed measures include allowing the Canadian Grain Commission to regulate how much a grain company must pay farmers if it doesn’t meet contracted delivery dates, establishing a penalty of up to $100,000 for rail companies that fail to move a minimum amount of grain, and extending interswitching limits from 30 km to 160 km so that Prairie grain elevators have greater rail service.

“I’m happy with what they did in the legislation but the problem still exists,” said Horner.

“We as western provinces are going to have to sit down finally and say, ‘OK, is there a way that we can look at a long-term fix . . . to handle the surges in volumes that we’re going to have because we’re commodity based?’”

He added that financial penalties on rail companies that fail to meet their delivery responsibilities is a good step.

“The rail companies didn’t appear to have any consequence to not delivering cars on time.”

Dallas also said the federal legislation is a positive step. But he pointed out that last year’s harvest was exceptionally large, and bottlenecks extend beyond the rail lines.

Rather than finance and build a system that can handle a one-in-20-year crop, Dallas suggested continuous improvements so that the system will function more efficiently.

Meanwhile, Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart said in a letter to federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz that “more aggressive steps were required.”

And the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association said there are good things in the legislation, but they’re inadequate to tackle the current backlog.

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Alberta small business are most optimistic Small business owners in Alberta are now the most optimistic in the country, based on a recent survey by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

The national association determined that the level of business confidence in this province is 72.7 on a 100-point index. That’s up about two points from the level found in February, and moves Alberta ahead of British Columbia — whose 71.2 score was down 0.2 points.

Amber Ruddy, a senior policy analyst with the CFIB, noted that this is the first time in nine months that independent businesses in Alberta were the most optimistic in Canada.

After Alberta and British Columbia, Saskatchewan had the next highest score, at 66.4. Newfoundland & Labrador came in at 65.9, followed by Ontario (63.7), Manitoba (61.4), Quebec (58.7), Nova Scotia (57.9), Prince Edward Island (57.6) and New Brunswick (56.9). The national average was 64.1.

Hiring intentions of independent business owners in Alberta remained strong in March, with 34 per cent of respondents saying they planned to hire fulltime employees in the next three months. Five per cent thought their workforce would shrink.

“Short-term hiring plans remain very strong, which is traditionally the case for this time of year in Alberta,” said Ruddy.

CFIB said business confidence index levels normally range between 65 and 75 when an economy is growing at its potential.

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Report urges specialized technology to help companies track fraud

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Bribery and corruption are most often at the centre of company fraud, with questionable payments often listed as “gift” or “cash withdrawal,” says a study by consulting firm EY. Following the money trail — who is taking money out and where it is going — is complicated and can take a suite of software and technologies to get a complete picture, the Toronto consulting firm said Thursday.

That includes not just evaluating the numbers, but also key words in volumes of company emails and reports.

“Where there’s smoke, there’s fire,” said David Meadows, associate partner of EY’s fraud investigation and dispute services practice in Toronto.

Meadows said he has seen some interesting descriptions for payments, “even one as crazy as ‘customer fee.’ What the heck is that?”

EY said the high cost of forensic data technology is holding many Canadian companies back

from widening their reviews, but notes that financial institutions and energy companies are doing the most on fraud detection.

Canada has been in “a little bit of denial” about the problem, Meadows said, but the issue has been highlighted in Quebec where bid-rigging and inflated contracts in the construction industry have been brought to light in a corruption inquiry.

“Now that it’s come to the attention of everybody and everybody is realizing it’s not OK.” Montreal engineering and construction giant SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC) is among those that have been dealing with allegations of corruption and fraud in recent years.

The reputation of the SNCLavalin was tarnished when it disclosed in March 2012 that an internal investigation had found that $56 million in questionable payments had been made. SNC’s former chief executive, Pierre Duhaime, was “relieved of his duties”’ and was later charged with fraud involving $22.5 million in payments related to the construction of a Montreal hospital.

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HORNER: Surplus forecast “You can’t keep doing that,” he said. “It’s not sustainable.”

Alberta’s operational revenue is projected to rise by 5.4 per cent, netting out a surplus of $2.6 billion.

Horner also said that the province’s exposure to fluctuating energy markets is diminishing.

“Twenty-one per cent of our operational revenue is non-renewable resource revenue,” he said of the decreasing share of royalty revenues. “That’s a trend that is in the right way.”

Horner also pointed out that the province has budgeted for the discounted price that Alberta crude is subject to because of the difficulty getting it to coastal ports — the so-called bitumen bubble.

“We’re not planning on this going away.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

GRAIN: Prices depressed “Grain prices to farmers will remain artificially depressed until the backlog is cleared up and the elevator system has the capacity available to offer competitive bids for our grain,” association president Levi Wood said in a news release.

“As long as the elevator system remains plugged, price offers to farmers are likely to remain below market value.”

In addition to the record harvest, CN and CP Rail have blamed cold weather that required them to use shorter trains.

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EY said it’s too easy to blame a company’s accounting department, noting that it’s a company’s executive leadership that sets the standard for what is acceptable business practice.

“If they turn the cheek, then the accounting side is not going to care because they will think it’s acceptable,” Meadows said.

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners said, based on its recent study, that the most common methods of fraud in Canada involves billing schemes and corruption.

Companies already know they have to take steps to prevent fraud, said Scott Patterson, spokesman for the organization in Austin, Tex. The EY fraud report, done between November 2013 and January 2014, looked at 11 countries.

The study found that only 26 per cent of those surveyed used forensic analytics software.

The report did not include Canada, but EY said the Canadian situation mirrors what is going on worldwide involving companies with anywhere from 150 to thousands of employees.

CN said Wednesday that it was “disturbed by Canadian government legislation introducing heavyhanded regulatory intrusion into rail grain transportation.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com With files by The Canadian Press.

GAS: Domino effect “Good or bad, one of the realities is that these are big, complex, very expensive projects which take a lot of time,” said Munro.

And, in any event, the vast majority of Canadian projects in the works would be pointed in the opposite direction — on the West Coast and aimed at growing Asian markets ravenous for energy.

But Ed Kallio, director of gas consulting at Ziff Energy in Calgary, said he expects Canada’s natural gas industry to benefit from a domino effect of sorts.

There are a host of liquefied natural gas export terminals planned for the U.S. Gulf Coast — a handful of which have been approved by the U.S. government — that could send cargoes to Europe instead of Asia via the Panama Canal. Canadian West Coast LNG projects could then backfill the Asian demand.

“Of course the Europeans would have to pay a higher price for that gas,” said Kallio, noting gas currently fetches US$18 per 1,000 cubic feet in Asia versus US$10 in Europe.

“But what price do you put on your energy security? It’s one thing to pay a bit more for your gas, but it’s quite another for Granny to freeze in the dark,” he said.

“I think even if there aren’t energy sanctions on the Russians, that Europe is going to begin to wean itself off that Russian gas and look more and more to LNG in the Atlantic Basin to serve their needs.”

In Canada, the East Coast has been quieter on the LNG front than the West — but there is some action.

For instance, the Goldboro LNG project in Nova Scotia, planned

by Pieridae Energy (Canada) Ltd., last year signed a major German utility as a long-term customer.

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The S&P/TSX composite index took back 5.26 points to 14,178.84, pressured by gold and tech stocks.

The Canadian dollar was ahead 0.24 of a cent to 90.46 cents US. The Commerce Department said the U.S. economy grew at a 2.6 per cent annual rate from October to December, slightly more than previously estimated, as consumer spending rose at the fastest pace in three years. Analysts had been expecting a growth rate of 2.4 per cent.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Labor Department said jobless claims fell 10,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 311,000, the lowest since late November and a hopeful sign that hiring could pick up.

Yet despite the encouraging data, the number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes fell for the eighth straight month in February, indicating that real estate sales will likely slow over the next few months.

Wall Street reacted to the mixed economic news with little fanfare as the Dow Jones industrials fell 4.76 points to 16,264.23, the Nasdaq shed 22.35 points to 4,151.23 and the S&P 500 index dipped 3.52 points to 1,849.04.

Some of the losses in New York were exacerbated by news from Citigroup (NYSE:C), which announced after markets closed Wednesday that the Fed has turned down its capital plan, saying it had failed its post economic crisis “stress test.”

The rejection means that the bank will not be able to pay out bigger dividends to shareholders or go ahead with a planned buyback of more of its own stock.

Meanwhile, there was a slew of corporate news for investors to digest in Canada.

Lululemon Athletica Inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) said profits held steady in the fourth quarter, the busiest season for retailers. The U.S.-listed Vancouver company had to deal with several setbacks last year, including the way it handled a problem with its black Luon pants, which some customers reported were see-through when they wore them. The yoga-wear maker beat revised analyst expectations by four cents with earnings of 75 cents per share.

Resolute Forest Products Inc. (TSX:RFP) said it plans on spending US$105 million to upgrade its pulp and paper mill in Calhoun, Tenn., a decision it says will help lower costs and boost capacity. Its shares dipped 38 cents, or 1.86 per cent, to $20.

Meanwhile, shares in smartphone maker BlackBerry closed down nearly two per cent, or 19 cents, to $9.96 as it prepared to report fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on Friday. The struggling Waterloo, Ont., tech company has been making changes to its business model since last year in efforts to stay competitive against the likes of Apple and Samsung.

In commodities, the June gold bullion contract took back $8.60 to US$1,294.80 an ounce — the first

Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.27 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 69.27 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.22 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.22 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.52 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 36.45 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.49 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.21 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 52.04 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 67.56 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.27 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 43.80 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.82 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.21 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.39 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.39 time it’s closed below US$1,300 in six weeks.

The May copper contract gained three cents to US$2.99 a pound, while oil added $1.02 to US$101.28 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,178.84, down 5.26 points TSX Venture Exchange — 985.35, down 17.90 points TSX 60 — 811.65, down 0.97 of a point Dow — 16,264.23, down 4.76 points S&P 500 — 1,849.04, down 3.52 points Nasdaq — 4,151.23, down 22.35 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.65 cents US, up 0.43 of a cent Pound — C$1.8325, down 0.16 of a cent Euro — C$1.5160, down 1.30 cents Euro — US$1.3742, down 0.53 of a cent Oil futures: US$101.28 per barrel, up $1.02 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,294.80 per oz., down $8.60 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.724 oz., down 27.4 cents $730.58 kg, down $8.81 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Thursday at 985.35, down 17.90 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 194.34 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $0.60 higher $458.80; July ’14 $0.60 higher $468.20; Nov. ’14 $0.30 higher $484.40; Jan ’15 $0.30 higher $491.90; March ’15 $0/50 higher $499.20; May ’15 $0.80 higher $506.10; July ’15 $0.80 higher $510.80; Nov ’15 $0.80 higher $500.80; Jan. ’16 $1.10 lower $492.30; March ’16 $1.10 lower $492.30.

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.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 354,800 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 354,800.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST

WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.10 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.95 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 25.25 First Quantum Minerals . 20.09 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.46 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.35 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.46 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.96 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.55 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.37 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 29.72 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 39.22 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 63.60 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.12 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 53.42 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 41.79

PRESSURE WASHERS, PARTS WASHERS, WATER HEATERS

Welcome Chad Huseby Servus Credit Union is pleased to welcome Chad Huseby as the new branch manager at our Taylor Plaza branch.

A graduate of the Bachelor of Commerce program at the University of Alberta, Chad has worked in the credit union system since 2008. As the Taylor Plaza branch manager, he looks forward to helping branch staff provide great financial advice to our members in the area.

Chad is also a strong believer in volunteerism. He is currently the treasurer of both the Hockey Alberta North Central Zone Referees Committee and the Parkland Baseball League.

Stop by the branch and say hello to Chad.

Taylor Plaza branch, 400, 6730 Taylor Drive

403.347.0731

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COMPANIES

General Motors Co. . . . . 34.51 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.22 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.96 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 47.28 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 66.74 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 39.78 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.81 TransCanada . . . . . . . . . 49.61 Consumer Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.80 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 102.56 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.17 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.45 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 16.83 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.20 Shoppers . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.34 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.20 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.14

SCIENCE

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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014

MULTIPLE-TRANSITING PLANET SYSTEMS

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Municipal Planning Commission Decisions On March 19, 2014, the Municipal Planning Commission issued the following decision for development permit applications: Discretionary Use Approval: Timberstone Laebon Developments Inc. – site development for two, four storey multi-family buildings, with a total of 146 units, 216 parking stalls and 4946m2 of landscaped area (a relaxation of 174.73m2) (3.4%), to be located at 31 Timberstone Way. You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 11, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.

Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

File image by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

This handout artist conception provided by NASA depicts multiple-transiting planet systems, which are stars with more than one planet. The planets eclipse or transit their host star from the vantage point of the observer. This angle is called edge-on. Our galaxy is looking far more crowded as NASA confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets circling stars other than our sun. Four of those new planets are in the habitable zones where it is not too hot or not cold.

NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope nearly doubled the number of planets scientists have discovered in the galaxy, pushing the figure to about 1,700. Twenty years ago, astronomers had not found any planets outside our solar system.

Astronomers discover pink new world at outer reaches of the solar system LOS ANGELES — Peering into the far reaches of the solar system, astronomers have spied a pink frozen world 7 ½ billion miles (12 billion kilometres) from the sun.

It’s the second such object to be discovered in a region of space beyond Pluto long considered a celestial wasteland. Until now, the lone known resident in this part of the solar system was an oddball dwarf planet spotted in 2003 named Sedna after the mythological Inuit goddess who created the sea creatures of the Arctic.

The latest discovery shows “Sedna is not a freak. We can have confidence that there is a new population to explore,� Yale University senior research scientist David Rabinowitz said in an email.

He was one of Sedna’s founders, but had no role in the new find detailed in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.

For years, astronomers hunted in vain for other Sednas in the little-studied fringes of the solar system.

The new object, 2012 VP113, was tracked using a new camera

on a ground telescope in Chile by Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., and Chad Trujillo of the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. Trujillo was part of the team that found Sedna.

Like Sedna, VP is also a dwarf planet.

It’s jokingly nicknamed “Biden� after Vice-President Joe Biden because of the object’s initials.

It measures about 280 miles (450 kilometres) across, or half the diameter of Sedna.

Unlike red and shiny Sedna, the newfound object is more pink and much fainter, which made it hard to detect.

By contrast, Earth is about 7,900 miles (12,713 kilometres) across and located 93 million miles (149.66 million kilometres) from the sun.

Sedna and VP reside in what’s known as the inner Oort cloud in the outer edge of the solar system where some comets such as the sun-diving Comet ISON are thought to originate.

ISON broke apart last year after brushing too close to the sun. “Finding Sedna so far away seemed odd and potentially a fluke. But this one is beginning to make it look like that might be a

typical place for objects to be. Not at all what I would have guessed,�

Mike Brown, an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, said in an email.

Brown led the Sedna team, but was not part of the new discovery.

Far from being deserted, Sheppard and Trujillo estimate there are probably thousands of similar objects in the inner Oort cloud. “These objects are not unique.

There’s a huge number out there,�

Sheppard said.

Not all of them will be visible to telescopes because they’re so far away and it takes a long time for them to swing by the sun.

Sedna and VP were spotted at their closest approach to the sun, which allowed light from the sun to hit the objects and bounce back to observatories on Earth.

VP is currently the third farthest object in the solar system after dwarf planet Eris and Sedna, but it has an eccentric, elongated orbit that can take it out to 42 billion miles (67.6 million kilometres) from the sun.

Sedna can loop out as far as 84 billion miles (135 million kilometres) from the sun at its farthest point.

On March 25, 2014, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Deer Park 1. Sorento Custom Homes – a 34.7m2 addition to an existing single family dwelling and attached garage, located at 62 Donald Close.

Golden West Industrial 2. Axiom Architecture Inc. – a 929m2 addition to an existing industrial shop for Badger Daylighting, located at 6740-65 Avenue.

3. Axiom Architecture Inc. – a 585m2 addition to an existing truck storage building for Badger Daylighting, located at 6740-65 Avenue.

Waskasoo 4. Capeling Mulder LLP - a 0.31 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard, to existing detached garage, located at 5708-45 Avenue.

West Park 5. Fox Hollow Enterprises Inc. – a 0.32 metre relaxation to the existing front yard setback, to a proposed deck and privacy screen, to be located at 5542-36 Street.

Discretionary Use Clearview Ridge 6. True-Line Contracting Ltd. – a new, 2 bedroom secondary suite, to be located within a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 133 Connaught Crescent.

West Park 7. N. Rudolph – a new, 2 bedroom secondary suite, to be located within an existing single family dwelling, located at 26 Wright Avenue.

You may appeal Discretionary approvals to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 11, 2014. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw. Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8399.

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Development Officer Approvals

C6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, March 28, 2014

† When you spend $250† in-store before applicable taxes and after all other coupons or discounts are deducted, in a single transaction at any participating store location [excludes purchases of tobacco, alcohol products, prescriptions, gift cards, phone cards, lottery tickets, all third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners, etc.) and any other products which are provincially regulated], you will earn the points indicated. Product availability may vary by store. We are not obligated to award points based on errors or misprints.

Get 25,000 when you spend $250† in-store.

That’s $25** in rewards.

Offer valid Friday, March. 28th to Thursday, April 3rd, 2014

Tresemmé 30% BONUS shampoo or conditioner 1.17L, selected varieties 680649 5545198846

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400 / 420 mL, selected varieties 798898 3700006239

Gear bodywash 443 mL or deodorant 76-113g selected varieties 778760 5800031187

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L’Oreal Kids shampoo or conditioner 265 mL, selected varieties 471632 6533801708

Crest 3D white toothpaste 85-165 mL or OralB Artica Advantage toothbrush 1’s 300561 5610004600

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Gavison heartburn relief tabs 60 / 100’s or liquid 600 mL selected varieties 849519 4203710321

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Iron Kids Gummies 180-200’s selected varieties, 407597 68370218007

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Prices are in effect until Thursday, April 3, 2014 or while stock lasts.

Quantities and/or selection of items may be limited and may not be available in all stores. No rainchecks. No substitutions on clearance items or where quantities are advertised as limited. Advertised pricing and product selection (flavour, colour, patterns, style) may vary by store location. We reserve the right to limit quantities to reasonable family requirements. We are not obligated to sell items based on errors or misprints in typography or photography. Coupons must be presented and redeemed at time of purchase. Applicable taxes, deposits, or environmental surcharges are extra. No sales to retail outlets. Some items may have “plus deposit and environmental charge” where applicable. ®/™ The trademarks, service marks and logos displayed in this flyer are trademarks of Loblaws Inc. and others. All rights reserved. © 2013 Loblaws Inc. * we match prices! Applies only to our major supermarket competitors’ flyer items. Major supermarket competitors are determined solely by us based on a number of factors which can vary by store location. We will match the competitor’s advertised price only during the effective date of the competitor’s flyer advertisement. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES (note that our major supermarket competitors may not). Due to the fact that product is ordered prior to the time of our Ad Match checks, quantities may be limited. We match identical items (defined as same brand, size, and attributes) and in the case of fresh produce, meat, seafood and bakery, we match a comparable item (as determined solely by us). We will not match competitors’ “multi-buys” (eg. 2 for $4), “spend x get x”, “Free”, “clearance”, discounts obtained through loyalty programs, or offers related to our third party operations (post office, gas bars, dry cleaners etc.).We reserve the right to cancel or change the terms of this program at any time.

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C7 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, March 28, 2014 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE

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March 28 1982 — Mark Messier and Dave Lumley, of the Edmonton Oilers, each score a goal before the 24 second mark of a hockey game against the L.A. Kings, to record the fastest two goals by one team, at the beginning of a game, in NHL history.

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sion prohibits ‘sales talks or spot advertising’ on Sundays.

1885 — General Frederick Dobson Middleton leaves for the west in command of 5,000 troops to fight the North West Rebellion. They reach the end of the CPR on April 2, and splits up with Middleton going to Batoche, Otter sent to Battleford, Strange goes after Big Bear.

1795 — Spanish evacuate trading post at Friendly Cove to British.

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AMVIC Licensed. ±Finance offers are now available on new 2014 Murano S AWD (L6RG14 AA00), CVT transmission/2014 Pathfinder S 4X2 (5XRG14 AA00), CVT transmission/2014 Juke® SV FWD (N5RT54 AA10), M6 transmission. Selling Price is $36,368/$31,678/$21,813 financed at 0%/2.9%/0% APR equals 156/182/182 bi-weekly payments of $233/$192/$120 for a 72/84/84 month term. $0/$0/$0 down payment required. Cost of borrowing is $0/$3,361.76/$0 for a total obligation of $36,368/$35,040/$21,813. Conditions apply. ≠Representative semi-monthly lease offer based on new 2014 Rogue S FWD (Y6RG14 AA00), CVT transmission. 3.9% lease APR for a 60 month term equals 120 semi-monthly payments of $138 with $1,850 down payment, and $0 security deposit. First semi-monthly payment, down payment and $0 security deposit are due at lease inception. Prices include freight and fees. Lease based on a maximum of 20,000 km/year with excess charged at $0.10/ km. Total lease obligation is $18,420. Conditions apply. ‡ $4,000 Cash Discount is based on non-stackable trading dollars and is applicable to all 2014 Murano models, except 2014 Murano S, AWD (L6RG14 AA00), CVT transmission. The $4,000 cash purchaser’s discounts is only available on the cash purchase of select new 2014 Murano models (excluding the L6RG14 AA00 trim model). The cash purchaser’s discounts will be deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance rates. This offer cannot be combined with any other offer. Offer valid March 21-31, 2014. Conditions apply. X $36,368/$31,678/$21,813 for a new 2014 Murano S, AWD (L6RG14 AA00), CVT transmission/2014 Pathfinder S 4X2 (5XRG14 AA00), CVT transmission/2014 Juke® SV FWD (N5RT54 AA10), M6 transmission. Conditions apply. V Models shown $42,718/$43,778/$31,493/$34,848 Selling Price for a new 2014 Murano SL (L6TG14 AA00), CVT transmission/2014 Pathfinder Platinum 4X4 (5XEG14 AA00), CVT transmission/2014 Juke® SL AWD (N5XT14 LN10), CTV transmission/2014 Rogue SL AWD Premium model (Y6DG14 BK00), CVT transmission. ‡≠V Freight and PDE charges ($1,750/$1,560/$1,695/$1,630), air-conditioning tax ($100) where applicable, certain fees where applicable (AB: $20 tire recycling tax), manufacturer’s rebate and dealer participation where applicable are included. License, registration, insurance and applicable taxes are extra. Finance and lease offers are available on approved credit through Nissan Finance for a limited time, may change without notice and cannot be combined with any other offers except stackable trading dollars. Retailers are free to set individual prices. Offers valid between March 1-31st, 2014. ∞Ward’s Large Cross/Utility segment. MY14 Pathfinder vs. 2013 Large Cross/Utility Class. 2014 Pathfinder S 2WD with CVT transmission fuel consumption estimate is 10.5L/100 KM CITY | 7.7L/100 KM HWY | 9.3L/100 KM combined. Actual mileage will vary with driving conditions. Use for comparison purposes only. Based on 2012 EnerGuide Fuel Consumption Guide ratings published by Natural Resources Canada. Government of Canada test methods used. Your actual fuel consumption will vary based on powertrain, driving habits and other factors. 2014 Pathfinder Platinum model shown. ^Based on 2014 Canadian Residual Value Award in Compact Utility Vehicle segment. ALG is the industry benchmark for residual values and depreciation data, www.alg.com. *All information compiled from third-party sources including manufacturer websites. Not responsible for errors in data on third party website. 12/17/2013. Offers subject to change, continuation or cancellation without notice. Offers have no cash alternative value. See your participating Nissan retailer for complete details. ©1998-2013 Nissan Canada Inc. and Nissan Financial Services Inc. a division of Nissan Canada Inc.

C8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, March 28, 2014

ENTERTAINMENT

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FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2014

Contributed photo

Twenty years after exploding onto the rock charts in the post-grunge early-90s, Collective Soul plays a sold-out concert on Wednesday, April 9, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre.

Coming full circle COLLECTIVE SOUL FRONTMAN ED ROLAND BELIEVES THE BAND’S LATEST ALBUM REACHES BACK TO ITS ROOTS AND BUILDS ON WHAT BEEN ESTABLISHED

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF

Twenty years after exploding onto the rock charts in the post-grunge early-90s, Collective Soul frontman Ed Roland still hears from fans who credit his songs for changing their lives.

“It happens all the time,” said Roland. Whenever gratitude is expressed for his inspirational tunes, Shine, The World I Know, Better Now, or You, he reacts by thanking his fans right back.

“I’m humbled by their listening and appreciation of my music. . . If a song I wrote changed their life — they also changed my life,” said the Georgia-based singer and keyboardist, who’s thankful he has a music career.

“It’s the only thing I know how to do.”

Roland’s sole goal when he start out performing in Atlanta’s underground music scene in the mid-1980s was to make a livelihood from playing his own songs.

After facing early rejection from record labels, he got his first inkling that maybe his tunes were good enough when a Florida radio station began playing Shine from a 1993 demo album he’d made.

It became the station’s most requested song — even though there wasn’t even a Collective Soul at the time. The demo disc had been made by assorted musicians Roland recruited to record some of his tunes in his basement.

After getting mounting requests to perform Shine live, Roland hastily formed a band with guitarists Dean Roland (his brother) and Ross Childress, drummer Shane Evans, and bassist Will Turpin. And it

became the original Collective Soul lineup.

The group that plays a sold-out concert on Wednesday, April 9, at Red Deer’s Memorial Centre, was signed to Atlantic Records and began a musical journey that’s so far lasted two decades.

Collective Soul has produced seven No. 1 radio hits over that time — including December, Where the River Flows, Heavy, Precious Declaration and Listen — and eight albums that sold more than 10 million copies around the world.

Although there have been some personnel changes along the way (the band’s line up now consists of the Roland brothers, Turpin, guitarist Jesse Triplett and drummer Johnny Rabb) the group’s ninth album, See What You Started By Continuing, is expected out this summer.

Roland believes Collective Soul comes full circle with the release, which both reaches back to the band’s roots and builds on what been established.

Fans can look forward to “more rock and roll music,” said Roland — albeit, with reflective lyrics that examine interior landscapes and relationships.

“I’m not a great storyteller writer,” the 50-year-old admitted. “I’ve only written a few ballads.” His songs are generally based on his own observations and experiences.

The son of a Baptist minister has always maintained that his group is not Christian, but that his own belief system has undoubtedly influenced his songwriting. Since your formative years are part of who you are, he said, you can’t help them creeping into your music.

The writing muse strikes him any time of day, but “never when I’m sleeping — I like my sleep too

much,” said the chuckling musician, who turns his brain off at night.

Songs on the upcoming release reflect his life as a married father of two sons. Roland’s oldest boy, now 15, inspired Am I Getting Through, a song about having “correct communication.” Roland believes it’s important to ensure that his teenager is listening.

“I’m always saying, ‘Are you hearing what I’m saying?’ ‘Am I making myself clear’?”

Another new song, Comes Back To You, is about having someone very special “who’s the cornerstone of your life.” Roland skirts a question about whether the song was written for his spouse by saying “It could be about a wife” — or anyone else that you love and is central to your existence.

Looking back at the last two decades, he gets a strange feeling of the years passing by in a blur, and yet so many things happening. “Just like in anybody’s life, It’s been a pretty long time . . .”

One significant factor is his formation of a second band, Ed Roland and the Sweet Tea Project, with other musicians. This more country-flavoured group allows the singer a nice musical change of pace, including more relaxed performances “with less jumping around than Collective Soul concerts.”

Since the next Sweet Tea album comes out in 2015, Roland feels he can alternate working and touring with both bands.

This year, the focus is on Collective Soul. Before taking last year off from touring, Roland said, “we were busy for 19 years . . . (but) I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Noah floods the screen and mind Noah Three stars (out of four) Rate: 14A Darren Aronofsky’s Noah is a mad allegory of the Bible’s most destructive episode, a contradictory yet consuming film of axe-swinging pacifists, benevolent rock monsters and a strangely ambiguous God. “Let me tell you a story . . . ” Russell Crowe’s title patriarch says to his family midway through, as he proceeds to relate the conventional biblical creation saga, prelude to the coming global flood and animal-filled escape vessel he has foreseen in hallucinatory visions.

But the strict Sunday school account of Noah’s Ark is not the one pursued by Aronofsky and co-writer Ari Handel, who PETER previously teamed for the conHOWELL siderably trippier The Fountain. Here again they explore big ideas about man versus nature and free will versus predestination, but do so with stronger characters, a more propulsive narrative and absolutely no fear of absurdity or anachronism.

They seek both to instil awe and to provoke debate.

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The Bone Skate, the earliest form of skate, is part of a display on the evolution of equipment and athletic footwear at the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. The exhibit entitled Steps Through Time shows how skates, ski boots and soccer cleats have evolved over the years.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● Batteries (Not) Included: Red Deer College Annual Year End Exhibition will be held at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery from March 29 to April 27. This annual exhibition reflects many of the ideas and themes taught at the college and represent the variety of subject, materials, and forms deemed vital to the next generation of young artists. See www.reddeermuseum.com ● Somewhere in the Hills by Samantha Williams-Chopelsky will be featured at Harris-Warke Gallery from March 30 to May 3. The opening reception is April 4, 6 to 8 p.m. ● Breathing Spaces by Artists a la Carte will be open at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre, March 31 to April 30. There will be a reception on April 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. ● A Mixture of Everything by Jennifer Holmes-Gohring will be on display at The Hub on Ross Gallery from April 1 to 30 with a reception on April 4 from 5 to 7 p.m. followed by music by Soulful Noize from 7 to 9 p.m. ● Untitled Photographs by Jim McKinley will be shown at Velvet Olive from April 1 to 30. ● Untitled by Jericca Bradshaw will be shown at Café Pichilingue from April 1 to 30. ● Full Circle: Four Seasons by Arlene Oberg — a landscape exhibit — will run March 29 to April 18 at Gallery on Main in Lacombe. ● The Wonders of Anime by Deborah Torrance and Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley is featured at The Hub on Ross Gallery, March 1 to 28. ● The Color of Inner Peace by Arts a la Carte is open at Marjorie Wood Gallery at Kerry Wood Nature Centre until March 28. ● Untitled Paintings by Sasha Grinnell will be featured at Velvet Olive from March 1 to 31. ● Untitled by Monica Sheline are on display at Café Pichilingue from March 1 to 31. ● totems of the masculine by Matt Gould will be featured at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery from March 8

to May 11. See Gould’s primitive and elemental medium of leather, stitched and hand-tooled to create a series of totems.

See www.reddeermuseum.com, or phone 403-309-8405. ● Open and Closed: Mixed Media by Wendy Meeres will be featured at the Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch from March 4 to April 27. Keys and doors — they can open, close, be inviting or hindering? What words, stories and images will Meere’s work inspire? ● Steps Through Time is a look back on the evolution of select sports footwear now on at Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and Museum. Explore the progression and evolution of various equipment, glimpse the history and the modifications, that make sports equipment, to make it faster, safer and more comfortable. See www.ashfm.ca, or phone 403-341-8614.

LIVE DATES ● Blarney Stone welcomes Tribune kicking off their Canada Slays Tour in promotion of their latest album Tales, on April 5. ● The Hideout hosts Toronto songwriter Jerry Leger on April 1. ● The Vat hosts Bend Sinister on April 5 an Vancouver’s Ninjaspy on April 26. ● Enmax Centrium hosts Hedley on April 6 with Classified and USS as special guests. On April 10, standup phenomenon Jeff Dunham will be on stage as part of his Disorderly Conduct Tour along with his sidekicks including Walter the Grumpy Retiree, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, Bubba J, Peanut, José Jalapeño, and Little Jeff. Tickets at www.ticketmaster.ca, 1-855-985-5000. ● The Memorial Centre welcomes John McDermott on April 4 as part of his Twentieth Anniversary Tour. Tickets available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, 403-755-6626.

To have your establishment’s live bands included in this space, fax a list to Club Dates by 8 a.m. on Wednesday to 403-341-6560 or email editorial@reddeeradvocate.com.

Speed singled out in crash that killed actor

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Fast & Furious star Paul Walker and friend Roger Rodas were going up to 94 mph in a 45 mph zone in a Porsche with two nine-year-old tires when they lost control, hit a light pole and died immediately when the car burst into flames, according to a new investigation of the November accident.

Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and California Highway Patrol concluded that unsafe speed, not mechanical problems, caused the Nov. 30 crash, the sheriff’s department said Tuesday.

Based on post-crash calculations, accident reconstruction specialists with the Highway Patrol believe Rodas was driving his 2005 Porsche Carrera GT between 81 mph and 94 mph, according to their investigative report. The CHP declined to comment.

The Associated Press reported in December that investigators had found no evidence that the car had mechanical problems and had ruled out debris or other roadway conditions.

Subsequently, Porsche sent engineers to Califor-

nia to review the rare car’s wreckage. Though it was badly mangled and burned, the engineers were able to do a thorough analysis. They found no problems with the car’s electrical systems, brakes, throttle, fuel system, steering, suspension or other systems.

“The results of the investigation show that, according to all the available evidence, this crash was caused by dangerous driving at speeds much too high for the road in question,” Porsche said in a written statement. “We stand by our Carrera GT and by the investigation.”

The conclusion about the speed was based on a “yaw” mark that one of the car’s tires left on the road in an area of industrial office parks in Santa Clarita, about 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

Walker starred in all but one of the six Fast & Furious blockbusters, which glorify muscle cars and risky driving.

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NEW YORK — Broad City, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s series on Comedy Central, finishes its triumphant, hilarious, silly, bizarre, stoned-out-ofits-mind first season this week. If you’ve been watching, you know how great this season has been. If you haven’t been watching, I am so jealous, because you get to start watching TV’s funniest comedy right now.

I liked the show, and especially Ilana Glazer’s radical insouciance, from the beginning, but it took a few episodes for me to fully appreciate how original the series really is. The pilot was full of beats that are familiar from Sex and the City, The Odd Couple and Girls, among other shows. Abbi’s overworked, undersexed and stressed; Ilana’s fully-baked. Under Ilana’s influence, Abbi gets out of work by pretending she has to get AIDS test results. All of this made it easy to mistake Broad City for yet another jerk show, an NYC tragicomedy about friendship and ambition starring one girl who was all id and another who was mostly superego.

But Broad City is too sweet and silly to ‘GLAZER AND sweat the zeitgeist. It presents friendship JACOBSON ARE in your 20s as, above EXCEPTIONAL all, joyful and free.

PHYSICAL Ilana and Abbi have a dedicated best friendCOMEDIANS, AND ship that is a constant BROAD CITY PAYS source of delight and support, a co-depenATTENTION TO dence that’s sustainGESTURES AND ing, not undermining.

It’s a relationship that BODY LANGUAGE trumps awful jobs and AND SIGHT GAGS bad roommate situations and niggling worIN A WAY EVERY ries, and permits both COMEDY SHOULD.’ women to be exactly who they are. (Amy Poehler is a producer of Broad City, and the show has more of Parks and Recreation’s super kindness in its DNA than anything else.) Abbi and Ilana are constantly in motion: except for one hurricane-related bottle episode, they roam New York City, bopping from place to place on foot or the subway (it goes without saying they can’t afford cabs), the whole metropolis their playpen, people — as specific and strange as they are — their playthings.

Not to make too much out of Ilana and Abbi’s drug of choice, but Broad City is the TV equivalent of a stoner: extremely good-natured, a little surreal and spacey, loose, emitting a palpable contact high.

It’s not fixated on punch lines, but is really invested in putting over an expansive, anything-goes spirit.

The show’s storylines spring from specific, small observations — Penn Station is terrifying; receiving packages in New York is Kafkaesque; clogged toilets are embarrassing — and then take on a surreal twist.

A guy breaks up with Abbi rather than go to Penn Station; Abbi has to trek on a boat to an abandoned warehouse on an island only to fail to pick up that package; Ilana is, of course, a clog savant. Ilana and Abbi react to all these situations like they are perfectly normal, just another day living in the city.

Both Glazer and Jacobson are exceptional physical comedians, and Broad City pays attention to gesture and body language and sight gags in a way every comedy should. Glazer drips with presence: she bobbles her head, snakes around, dances and does voices with contagious swag. And Jacobson is willing to toss her body around like a rag doll. In the second episode, P*$$y Weed — which is where I suggest you start — a beyond-stoned Abbi freaks out and tries to roll slickly out of the dentist’s office, like an awkward worm, in a sequence that makes me laugh just to think about. In another episode, when they break into an apartment because Ilana has lost her keys, they discover a giant bowl of candy by the door. Once Abbi determines it contains Nerds, she dips both hands in like a parched traveler at an oasis.

Abbi and Ilana are not an odd couple, but perfect partners in crime. In this week’s finale, they find themselves curled up on a hospital gurney having a good time when nearly anyone else wouldn’t be able to manage it. But they’re together and that’s all the good time they ever need.

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What celebrity divorces NOAH: Comes on like tell us about ‘having it all’ the original hippie

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When celebrities announce that they are separating or divorcing, as Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin did Tuesday in a post on Paltrow’s lifestyle site, it’s obviously a different matter than when friends or family explain that their marriage has failed. Among other things, we can just observe the spectacle play out on magazine covers and social media, rather having to listen to the aggrieved parties and mediate between people we love. But precisely because our involvement is indirect, and consists more of conjecture than fact, our reactions to these splits actually say a lot about our larger ideas about marriage.

Female celebrities have more resources than most of us going into marriage: They are financially independent, able to spend plenty of money on childcare and all the accoutrement involved in keeping a marriage spicy. Theoretically, married entertainers achieved the holy grail for modern womanhood, the nebulous dream of “having it all,” even if we have yet to define what “it” or “all” actually consists of, or figured out the standards for “having it” actually are. So when celebrity marriages fall apart, the particular variety of our judginess or sympathy provides some insight into what we think “having it all” actually means, and what we believe is the right way to go about getting it.

The “She Thought She Could Buy It All” Divorce: The snark comes out in earnest when a lady celebrity who married in haste announces her separation. Kim Kardashian’s pre-Kanye West marriage to NBA player Kris Humphries, to whom she became engaged seven months after they started dating, and was married to for 72 days before filing for divorce, is a perfect example. Who knows what their year-long relationship was actually like? But the year-long cycle from dating to divorce made it easy to suggest that Kardashian had gone shopping for a husband whose level of fame and professional success matched her own.

Our suspicion of famous women who rush to the altar indicates that we think marriage is work, and that the marriages that count as “it” or “all” are ones we arrive at after due consideration. We end up showing our skepticism of instant romance, of the very Hollywood narratives that suggest you can lock eyes across a crowded room and find true love, even as we discount the particular pressure famous women face to have a commensurately famous and successful spouse. It’s reassuring and self-satisfying to look at a woman like Kardashian and say she makes bad decisions, or that she neglected to put in the work and the patience that a more sensible woman might have invested in her relationship. But that suggests we know some sort of guarantee for making a marriage last, which brings us to our next category.

The “She Really Was Smug About Everything, Wasn’t She” Divorce: The tide of Gwynethfreude that is breaking over the Internet is particularly tsunamilike because, since founding her newsletter Goop in 2008, part of Paltrow’s business has been telling other women how to live glamorous and complete lives.

That her marriage broke up casts doubt on the certainty with which she recommended everything from $425 cleanses to Turkish towels. We can let go of both relationship envy and fear of missing out all in one go! But at the end of the news cycle, Gwyneth still wins, or she will once she’s got the server capacity for Goop restored (as of this writing, the announcement had crashed the site). As Slate television critic Willa Paskin put it on Twitter, “gwyneth is getting all the traffic for herself! it’s like selling baby pics directly to the tabloids but w/o selling picture of your baby!” Paltrow used the word of her split to promote an idea called “conscious uncoupling,” transitioning

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Paltrow and her husband, Chris Martin of Coldplay, announced on Tuesday that they were separating. smoothly from married-lady guru to the woman who is headed for a better divorce than the rest of us.

The “If She Can’t Make It Work, No One Can” Divorce: Sometimes, when a celebrity couple breaks up, it actually is an occasion for sincere mourning.

Maybe we have fond, unconflicted feelings for the lady in question. But those announcements often cause more twinge than gloating because they challenge what we thought we knew about what makes a good relationship.

Take a couple like comedians Amy Poehler and Will Arnett. Both had good careers, marked by artistic integrity rather than egregious selling out. They had two adorable children. And perhaps most important for the purposes of our imaginings, Poehler and Arnett seemed equally fun — the sort of couple you’d want to have to dinner. It was easy to take them as role models for the balance of their marriage, the pleasure they appeared to take in their sons and their lack of sanctimoniousness. They had a life, rather than a lifestyle. And they ended up divorced.

If talented, seemingly pleasant people can see their marriages fail, then maybe none of know any secrets. And maybe none of us can have it all.

For better or worse (mostly better), they claw at the incongruities inherent in the story of the Flood, the most obvious being the “why” question. Why would a loving and forgiving God (always referred to as “the Creator”) wish to destroy all of humanity, so soon after He created it?

This troubling thought doesn’t immediately vex Noah, last son of Eden’s righteous Seth, whom Crowe portrays with outer devotion but inner turbulence.

It’s a performance far better than most he has given in his assignments of late, especially his misbegotten villain in the recent bomb Winter’s Tale.

Crowe’s Noah comes on like the original hippie, a man so devoted to life and nature that he chastises his son for picking a flower. Yet he can go full ninja when provoked, brandishing axe, knife or rod to smite anyone who threatens his family: wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly), sons Shem (Douglas Booth), Ham (Logan Lerman) and Japheth (Leo Carroll), plus adopted daughter Ila (Emma Watson).

As if the landscape isn’t forbidding enough — Matthew Libatique’s mobile lens shoots unaltered Icelandic terrain that already looks apocalyptic — Noah and his clan must be on constant lookout for murderous and carnivorous city dwellers, who have incurred the Creator’s wrath by ravaging the planet’s natural resources. They’re led by Tubal-cain (Ray Winstone in full villain mode), a vile descendant of Eden outcast Caine.

Noah has in his corner his wizened grandfather Methuselah (Anthony Hopkins), who helps him divine the Creator’s unspoken wishes through platitudes and servings of tea apparently laced with hallucinogens.

True to Bible basics, Noah sets out to build a giant Ark filled with his family, a matched gender set of all the Earth’s birds and animals and a mandate to created “a new Eden” once the 40-day waters subside.

A subplot pitting environmentalists against barbarians brings currency to the chronicle, but not at the expense of Aronofsky’s grander plan, which is to fully illustrate and dramatize the Flood and its internecine aftermath.

If nothing else, Noah succeeds as pure spectacle, offering up nightmare sights and sounds of Old Testament reckoning that top anything previously brought to the screen (and that thankfully aren’t presented in 3-D).

Awe-inspiring crane and helicopter shots show the Ark’s assembly in a forest ringed by Tubal-cain’s hordes, who threaten to invade at any moment — and do when the rains begin to thunder out of the heavens. The story flies by, even at 137 minutes.

The film gets the big picture so right, with added oomph by Clint Mansell’s grandiloquent score, it’s easier to forgive the many instances where the smaller details fail.

Aronofsky and Handel bring emotional fireworks to the film’s final act, when the story returns to the contradictions inherent in humans being asked to do violence in the Lord’s name.

Noah’s family is torn asunder and his mental stability is threatened as sexual and societal tensions aboard the Ark reach a potentially violent impasse between religious fundamentalism and human compassion.

It’s here where the acting truly exceeds spectacle, and Noah asks its most thoughtful question: what would it profit a man to placate a silent and inscrutable God, yet lose his humanity and family in so doing?

Mister Owita’s Guide to Gardening; How I learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart

by Carol Wall $28.95 Putnam Pub Here is a gentle story, slow paced but worth reading. It is a biography about Carol Wall, but also about Giles Owita, a young black man, from Kenya; a gardener.

I chose it for the word gardening, although our gardens are still under the snow, it doesn’t hurt to dream of green yards and flower beds. However, in spite of the title, this book is not really about gardening either. It’s about living.

Carol Walls did not like flowers, she did not like putting her hands in the soil, but the yards on her street were blooming and lovely and CarPEGGY ols patchy lawn looked downFREEMAN right neglected. She needed a gardener, and Mr Owita was recommended to her.

Giles Owita was employed at the Grocery store, the Garden store and also worked after hours making peoples gardens bloom.

He was tireless it seemed, and cheerful and friendly.

So he begins to work for Carol, pruning and feeding and bringing her untidy garden back to life.

The story takes place in Virginia, and not everyone has been welcoming to Giles and his wife and family, he remains cheerful and seems to rise above the barbs aimed his way.

As Carol and Giles become friends, she tells him about her sister’s death, her family and her fight with Cancer. There has been, as in all families, some

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bad management, some parenting mistakes, and a lot of bad luck. Giles is a listener, who offers a kind response.

One day when Carol is worrying, (she is always worrying), about her old parents; her father stricken with Alzheimer and her mother forced into an old folks residence because of her husbands illness, Giles tells her what the people of his family and tribe believe. “Tribal beliefs are based on reverence for ancestors . . . In our culture, the elderly, whether living or deceased, are revered. Our ancestors live below, (he pointed to the ground) and are our foundation. From that place they offer special wisdom. If I dreamed of my father, I would say, “my father has brought a dream.”

The wisdom of the dream would be shared with the whole village.” Carol begins to remember the good parts of her life with her parents.

So they garden and they learn from each other.

They share a deep belief and worship at the same Church. As time goes by Carol learns from Giles about “Lok” the daughter he and his wife chose to leave behind in Kenya.

Two people with troubles and worries, but one says, “ How can I live with all these things to Everything you need for Spring Break worry about?” The other says, “Worry is a part of living.” (with great food in between) The time comes when the life of Giles is threatened and Carol must find some inner strength to help the friend who has been a life line to her.

A personal and touching biography.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

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announcements Obituaries 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.

BAYLEY Adam William It is with great sorrow and heartache that we announce his sudden passing on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at the age of 33. Adam was born at the University Hospital in Edmonton, AB on April 23, 1980, but lived most of his life in Red Deer. Although his life was short, it was well lived and full. His smile was infectious and his eyes always twinkling. He leaves behind his mother, Linda Bayley, and his sister Jennifer Bayley; his aunts, Patricia Winters and Diana Anderson, and his uncle, Craig De Graff; his cousin, Janet Jensen, her husband Kelly and children Katelyn and Tanner, all of Red Deer, AB; as well as his extended family and many life-long friends.

He is predeceased by both sets of grandparents and his father. A Celebration of his life will take place on April 23, 2014, at the Balmoral Community Hall from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Details of the event may be found and condolences sent via the Parkland Funeral Home’s website at www.parklandfuneralhome.com

GIBSON 1936 - 2014 Donalda “Donnie” Gibson of Red Deer passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on February 27, 2014 at the age of 77 years. A Celebration of Donnie’s life will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, located at the intersection of Highway 11 (55 Street) and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, April 4, 2014 at 3:00 p.m.. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the STARS Foundation, Box 570, 1441 - Aviation Park NE, Calgary AB T2E 8M7.

Condolences to Donnie’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials @yahoo.ca.

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TESSIER Elsie Elsie Tessier (nee Lange) passed away at the Michener Hill Extendicare at the age of 83 years on March 23, 2014.

Elsie was born in Poland May 10, 1930 and immigrated to Canada in 1951. Here she met her husband Archie Tessier and married in 1952.

They had one daughter Marlene in 1954. Elsie was an avid cook, baker and gardener with a passion for sports; winning numerous trophies in badminton and bowling that lined her shelves. Her flowers and garden were the talk of the neighbourhood. After Archie passed away in 1992, Elsie volunteered at the Downtown House and sang with the Happy Gang Singers for many years. Elsie is survived by her daughter Marlene (Alan) Fengstad; 2 sisters, Lili Thimian (Harry) and Alma Kohl; brother Harry Lange (Debbie); sister in-law Joan Lange; and numerous nieces and nephews. Many thanks to Elsie’s dear friend Lorna Heemerycky for her kind care and dedication over the last few years. The family would like to thank the Doctors and Nurses at the Red Deer Hospital for their kind care and also the staff at Extendicare Michener Hill for the tender and compassionate care they provided. A private family service will be held at a later date. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

WALTERS Sandra Lee Sandra was born April 14th, 1956 and lost her battle with cancer on March 25th, 2014 at the age of 57 years.

Sandra is survived by her husband Robin, along with eight siblings; Ruth, Diane, Delorus, Brian, Shirley, Bruce, Wendy, Gerald, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Sandra was predeceased by her loving parents; Colleen and Ron Walters. She will be greatly missed by her family, friends and all who knew her.

Gone, but not forgotten. Rest in peace. 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

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HOUSEMAN, Marguerite 1930 - 2014 With saddened hearts we gently pass over our most treasured Mom and loved one into the heavenly hands of God. Mrs. Marguerite Grace Houseman of Red Deer, AB passed away suddenly on Saturday, March 22, 2014 at the age of 83 years with her daughter Lynda by her side. Marg was born October 19, 1930 in Edgerton, AB and grew up on the family farm in Battle Valley District near Ribstone, AB where she and her 7 siblings were raised. Through the years they remained a close family getting together when possible and you could always expect some “antics”.

Mom also maintained close ties with George’s family. Mom came to Red Deer where she attained her MDN (Mental Deficiency Nursing) Degree in 1952 at Provincial Training School (Michener Centre). It is there where she met Buster and on August 31, 1953 they were married. Marg worked until the early 60’s then became a stay at home Mom and devoted herself to caring for Dougie and Lynda. Later in life Marguerite and George became members of Gaetz United Church, volunteering their time and developing many friendships.

Marg could always be relied upon to provide baking for various functions. She enjoyed gardening, bowling, travelling and get togethers with friends.

Whenever Dougie was at home she always took the time to play “crokinole” with him. She never really mastered the game, much to the delight of Dougie because he would always WIN! Mom and Dad did everything together and in March, 2009 Marguerite lost Buster after 55 years of marriage. Needless to say, this was a significant life change and a large void in her life. Marguerite is survived by her daughter, Lynda (Wayne Windross) and special son, Doug. Sisters: Mary Dorland, Gerry Shacker, Ethel Yakimowich, and numerous sister and brotherin-laws, nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by her parents, Nellie and Jim Smith, husband George (Buster), brothers Jim, Bob and Bill and sister Eleanor as well as many other special relatives. A Memorial Service in Marguerite’s honor will be held at Gaetz Memorial United Church, 4758 Ross Street, Red Deer, AB,T4N 1X2 on Friday March 28, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Family interment at Alto Reste Cemetery at 12:00 p.m. We wish to thank Dr. Stewart, Dr. Donnelly and most recently Dr. Nogareda, E.R. and R.T. staff for their care. If so desired, memorial donations may be made to Gaetz United Church or charity of one’s choice.

Messages of condolence may be left for the family at www.myalternatives.ca.

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Obituaries MADUKE Bonnie Louise July 30, 1947 - Mar. 24, 2014 Bonnie Maduke (nee Wightman), beloved wife of Ted Maduke, passed away Monday, March 24, 2014.

Bonnie was born in Francis, Saskatchewan but lived in Alberta most of her adult life.

Bonnie was a fun-loving, vivacious wife, mother, grandmother and friend who will be missed by all. Bonnie is survived by her husband Ted, mother Beryl, sister Karen, brother Daryl, daughter Kim, son Todd and four grandchildren: Ryan, Alena, Theo and Timothy.

As per Bonnie’s request, there will be no service.

Heartland Funeral Services Ltd., Didsbury entrusted with arrangements. 403-335-4773 www.heartlandfuneralservices.com

McEACHERN Albert Melvin “Mel” Albert Melvin “Mel” McEachern of Lloydminster, beloved husband of Betty McEachern, passed away peacefully at the Lloydminster Hospital on Sunday, March 9, 2014 at the age of 84 years. He leaves to mourn his loving wife, Betty; son, Rick McEachern and his wife, Jane of Lloydminster, AB; his daughter, Carol Sadlemyer and her husband, Bob of Olds, AB; grandchildren, Bradley Sadlemeyer (Amanda), Jessica McEachern (Travis Cockrum), Myles McEachern, and Amanda Sadlemyer (Brandon Besaw); also great grandchildren, Rebecca and Robert Sadlemyer, Kenley Cockrum; and numerous other relatives and friends.

The Funeral Service will be held on Saturday, March 29, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. from Sunnybrook United Church, 12 Stanton Street, Red Deer with Reverend Linda Ervin officiating.

Interment will follow at Alto Reste Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Mel’s honor may be made directly to the charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-3319.

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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 Langdon, 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 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 CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

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P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

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LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

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Innisfail Insurance Services Ltd. is accepting applications for LICENSED BROKER, Level 2 status. Must have 3 yrs. exp. Commercial exp. an asset. F/T position.

The successful candidate must be a self-motivated professional, possessing excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Applicants must enjoy working in a very busy team oriented environment. Salary to commensurate with experience. Please forward resumes to: Carol Peterson Box 6039 Innisfail, AB T4G 1S7 Fax: 403- 227-3910 Email: cpeterson@ innisfailinsurance.com

OIL & GAS OPERATOR Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate Purchaser oil and gas operator. Applicants NexSource Power Inc. must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or Sylvan Lake, AB, CANADA journeyman instrument mechanic and possess We are currently looking strong mechanical skills, for an experienced person be quick learners, motivated to coordinate material purand hard working and live chases for a busy oilfield or be willing to relocate Electrical Instrumentation Company. Must have within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This experience with electrical and instrumentation parts position offers a challenging and fittings. Must have work environment, attractive benefits with competitive strong computer skills and pay and significant room good knowledge of MS Excel.

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Responsibilities: Please submit resumes * Sourcing and purchasing materials Attn: Human Resources * Creating purchase orders. email:kwolokoff@ * Sending purchase orders bearspawpet.com to vendors.

Fax 403-252-9719 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 * Maintaining adequate document controls.

Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 * Shipping and Receiving * Inventory control Please submit your resume and salary expectations to jobs@ nexsourcepower.com or SERVICE RIG FAX 403-887-4945 Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd is seeking exp’d FLOORHANDS & Restaurant/ DERRICK HANDS

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $9.95 $10.88/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings.

Start date as soon as possible. No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. Fax: 403-782-9685 or Call 403-848-2356 Cameron Bay Holdings Inc. o/a McDonald’s requires a RESTAURANT MANAGER for our Gasoline Alley Stores, located at 37479 Hwy 2, and 37428 Hwy 2, Red Deer.

Yearly salary is between $38,000.00 - $43,000.00.

Must have 3 to 5 yrs exp. and be able to supervise 30 to 70 employees. Flexible hours needed as both restaurants are 24 hours.

McDonald’s experience is preferred but we will consider all applicants.

Benefits and bonus program offered. Fax resume to 403-783-4251 or email to cbay22@telus.net

EAST 40TH PUB REQ’S P/T / F/T COOK Apply at 3811 40th Ave.

If you are a positive, highly THE RANCH HOUSE organized, self motivated RESTAURANT and confident person with requires a great people skills and are F/T & P/T LINE COOK. looking for a part time CROSS CITY Call David 403-358-4100 position you need to talk to us.

JANITORIAL CO for interview/appointment This is a great opportunity SEEKING A F/T COM/ or fax resume to learn about an interesting 403-358-4116 industry that is relevant to WINDOW CLEANING SUP for RD and area. many peoples lives.

SYLVAN LAKE Req: fluent in written †Property Management SLOPITCH and oral english, 2- 3 years is a fast paced industry ANNUAL GENERAL exp in a supervisory roll, where†priorities†and goals MEETING clean driving record, are ever changing. † at the community centre, criminal record check, job April 7th at 7 p.m. physically demanding.

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THE RUSTY PELICAN Benefi ts after 3 mos. $19/hr entertaining 6 hours a day 16 teams total. is now accepting resumes Fax resume 403-342-1897 position dealing with people for experienced Mail to #4, 4608-62 St. and files in a healthy and SERVERS and DISHRed Deer, AB. T4N 6T3 fun atmosphere. You will be Hotel WASHERS. Must have Locally based, home every Lost supporting both maintenance Ref’s & Pro-Serve. night! Qualified applicants and leasing teams.

RAMADA INN & SUITES Apply within: 2079-50 must have all necessary BIG REWARD OFFERED. Please email your resume Legal Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. valid tickets for the position req’s. ROOM ATTENDANTS to: info@hpman.ca.

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Bearspaw offers a CHAPMAN Approx. 35 hrs/wk. Bonus side of blue sapphire. very competitive salary program. Rate: $13.50/hr.

RIEBEEK LLP Yellow gold. and benefits package Computer and Sales & Applicants may apply in is seeking a Very sentimental, along with a steady people skills a must. person at 6853 - 66 St. Distributors Legal Assistant it’s almost like my mother work schedule.

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Please submit resumes: 403-342-4433 or email: Estate Conveyancing, to 778-628-7778 or Find something to sit on Attn: Human Resources SOAP Stories is seeking 5 info@ramadareddeer.com retail sales reps. Selling work in a diverse legal 403-346-6336 Email: in Classifieds environment. The ideal hr@bearspawpet.com soap & bath products.

JOSE JOSE LATIN candidate possesses an Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Part time personnel RESTAURANT IS HIRING!! $12.10 hr + bonus & comexcellent work ethic, Mail to: Suite 5309, mission. Ft No exp. req`d. required. Must have COOKS HELPER Found proven communication 333-96 Ave. NE Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. accounting experience Please drop off your and interpersonal skills, Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 and be proficient in Quick resume at #9 7110-50 Ave Red Deer. email resume to and the ability to work premierjobrd@gmail.com EYE GLASSES found on Books and Microsoft or call 403-986-5673 independently. Salary is 32 St. & 30 Ave. bike path Office. Backgound in Ag dependent on the skill level 403-986-6075 Industry is preferable. and experience. We offer Professionals Contact David at Kaun’s Trades Classifieds competitive salary and Seed Farm 403-350-2555 Your place to SELL benefits. Submit Your place to BUY CELEBRATIONS resumes to: info@ HAPPEN EVERY DAY chapmanriebeek.com FOUND black wallet on Attention: Gaylene Bobb or IN CLASSIFIEDS Avery St. 403-986-9122 fax: 403-340-1280.

REGISTRY AGENT - CSR DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH Work for a company that gives you respect, recogCompanions nizes your achievements Medical and supports your efforts ATTRACTIVE, slim senior to succeed. We require Clinic Manager Required ACCOUNTANT lady, 60’s, wish to meet a customer-minded people for Rocky Medical Clinic healthy, good sense of that are motivated, reliable Hart Oilfield Rentals Ltd. Rocky Mtn. House, AB humour gentleman for a and quick learners. Deliver See website for full posting currently has an opening in Due to our continued growth in Pidherney’s long term friendship. Reply resumes to: One Stop our Rocky Mountain House www.rockymedical.com W&S Division, we will be expanding this year. to: Box 1083, c/o Red Deer Licence Shop #7-5105 76A office for a full-time <http://www.

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• Monthly GST & PST filings • Maintain master vehicle Friday, April 4 - 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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BOILER OPERATOR needed to finish off season in Central Alberta. Must have all applicable tickets.

Fax resume to 403-886-2223 email: thera.c@telus.net

Catholic Social Services 403 347-8844 ext. 2917

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Catholic Social Services is offering a rewarding opportunity with the Approved Home Program serving a young adult male diagnosed with FASD and mild Developmental disabilities. This young man is also paraplegic ( Spina Bifida) and uses a wheelchair.

As an Approved Home proprietor you will provide ongoing training and support in addition to daily structure in a positive supportive home environment.

The successful candidate will benefit from experience with individuals with physical disabilities as well FASD and must demonstrate a creative approach for elevating internal stressor.

Part of the support for this young man also includes involvement with his medical needs.

The young man currently attends high school and has several friends with in the community.

He enjoys participating in sport activities for persons in wheelchairs ( basketball) as well as he enjoys swimming , camping and spending time outdoors.

The individual will pay Room & Board.

Part of the hiring process demands proof of a current Criminal Record check prior to starting service. Catholic Social Services will facilitate an orientation session to the Approved Home Program and on-going monthly training is offered as well.

The monthly remuneration for the successful candidate is $ 1790.00.

The individual is also has funding for 5 days of respite care per month.

Interested applicants please contact:

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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

TJ PAVING LTD. Openings for Operators & Labourers. Paving experiAPPLE AUTO GLASS ence an asset. Busy, EXP’D auto glass installer growing company, opporreq’d immed. Wage depen- tunities to move up. Great dent on exp. Good working atmosphere. Email communication/phone skills. resume: tjpaving@hotmail.

8-5 Mon. - Fri. Drop resume com or Fax: 403-346-8404. at 4801-78 St. No phone calls.

APPRENTICE PARTS TECHNICIAN F/T entry level position with a Heavy Duty Truck Dealership. Must be energetic & goal orientated.

Competitive wages. Full benefits. Email resume to: brian.triffo@nortrux.com BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Heavy Equipment Operators, Skid Steer Operators and Laborers. Send resumes to: office@bricar.ca or fax 403-347-6296

CUSTOM MUFFLER Looking for apprentice or journeyman mechanic.

Pipe bending skills would be a great asset. Wages depend on exp. Going concern shop. Fax resume to:403-346-9909 or drop off at 2410 50 Ave. Phone 403-346-7911 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 LOOKING for Framers/ carpenters 403-357-9816

WELDERS WANTED For Oilfield Manufacturing Facility

B Pressure Welders Interest in Vessel work Mig and Metal Core experience is a great asset We are looking for friendly, motivated, energetic, goal orientated team players to join our fast paced growing team!.

Please forward your resume by fax: 403-347-7867

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BUSY Central Alberta Grain Trucking Company looking for Class 1 Drivers and/or Lease Operators.

We offer lots of home time, benefits and a bonus program. Grain and super B exp. an asset but not necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers abstract and would like to start making good money. fax or email resume and comm.abstract to 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net 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

MECHANIC REQUIRED

Motor coach company looking for 4th year or journeyman. Experience with motor coaches preferred. Send resume to frontbus@platinum.ca or EXP’D CLASS 1 end dump fax 403.-347-4999 driver for local haul. Please fax resume with driver’s NEW EMPLOYMENT abstract 403-342-6881 OPPORTUNITY EXP’D Class 1 Oilfield CENTRAL CITY Hauling Driver req’d for the ASPHALT LTD. Edson area. Must have Experienced all oilfield tickets.

• Hoe Operator phone 403-742-6163 or • Class 3 Tandem Operator fax to 403-742-0303 or • Flag People email dougtank@telus.net • General Labourers • Screedman • Rakerman • Finish Roller Operator email resume: office@ccal.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

Truckers/ Drivers

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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Sierra Septic Solutions is hiring for the following position in Red Deer:

Vac Truck Operator This position is non oilfield related that requires a Class 3Q with clean abstract.

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Full training will be provided.

for both our Bonnyville and Lac La Biche Locations.

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 • Starting Wage $36 - 44/hr Clark’s offers top wages plus 10% holiday/vacation pay, overtime after 8 hrs, training, Health and Dental packages, Cell phones, Company Truck.

We are a COR Certified and ISNetworld Compliant, safety-conscious company that provides a safe and enjoyable workplace.

Fax Resume to 780-623-7451 or Email: sales@cpandh.ca

If you would like to join our team, email your resume to:

hr@sierraseptic.ca or fax to:

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880 CARRIERS NEEDED

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Allan St. / Ardell Close Andrews Close Aikman Close Arb Close / Asmundsen Ave. INGLEWOOD AREA Inglis Cres.

LANCASTER AREA Lacey Close / Lennon Close Addington Drive

IS HIRING! -

MORRISROE AREA

We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: PRECAST INSTALLATION LABORERS CONCRETE FINISHERS CARPENTERS/ WOODWORKERS STEEL REINFORCEMENT LABORERS OVERHEAD CRANE OPERATORS GENERAL LABORERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

McVicar Street / McKee Close Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres.

VANIER AREA Viscount Drive Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Vickers Close

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

www.eaglebuilders.ca Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info 378299C21-D1

Caregivers/ Aides

Job Requirements: Post-Secondary Diploma in Accounting or Finance, minimum 5 years or more experience in a similar role.

Must be well versed in accounting processes, have the ability to multitask & is a solid team player.

Must be flexible in job duties.

Comprehensive health & dental benefits offered.

Forward resumes to (403) 845-7998, or by e-mail to: humanresources@hartoil.com

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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.

Email resumes: gratiaereddeersr@ gmail.com

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Enjoy a career in the gifting business with The original basket boutique!

We are growing in Red Deer and Alberta.

780.416.2530 or www.obbgiftsfranchise.com Start your career!

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Resident Apartment Manager - Red Deer 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

GAETZ SOUTH Various Full & Part Time Positions in the Meat Department, Grocery & Cash.

Please see Customer Service for application.

We are a growing water ADULT EDUCATION purification company AND TRAINING proudly serving families across central AB. AverSPRING START age starting base pay of approx. $18/hr. with room Community Support for rapid advancement. In Worker Program house training is provided to qualified applicants.

Women in the Trades Applicants should be Program motivated, reliable, professional, and possess Math and Science for a thirst for knowledge. Call the Trades Program to schedule an interview between 10 am and 7 pm.

GED Preparation 403-356-0330

Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

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

LABOUR Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

THE TASTY BAKERY PACKAGING & COUNTER SALES P/T OPPORTUNITY No early mornings, No late nights No Sundays, Apply in person at: Bay #1, 2319 Taylor Drive (directly behind Nutters)

(Reliable vehicle needed.)

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info

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Employment Training

SAFETY

INNISFAIL

TRAINING CENTRE

Packages come ready for delivery.

No collecting.

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave.

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

(across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

MOUNTVIEW

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

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PLANT DECOR

WESTLAKE For more information phone Loren at 403-314-4316 CARETAKER wanted for private campground.

May.-Oct. Must have RCMP & child intervention check.

Monthly honorarium paid.

Please email cynfougere@hotmail.com DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Requires person for a P/T WEEKDAY POSITION with flexible hours maintaining tropical plants in local businesses.

Some knowledge of plants is an asset.

Call Terri @ 403-396-3390 Between 9 a.m. & 3 p.m.

Monday to Saturday

REQUIRED

stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

Self motivated, hard working individual for seasonal F/T landscape maintenance position. Apr. 15 - Oct. 31.

Wages range $13 - $18 /hr.

Own vehicle. Email resume onlygenesis@shaw.ca TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE FOR LAKESIDE RONA

Machinery

1520

ANTIQUE TRUNK $100 403-347-5354 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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880

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK in

Plus Selling A Huge Assortment of New Power Tools, Doors & Windows, Skylights, Moldings & Floor Trim, Broan Vaccum, Weiser Locksets, Taps & Shower Enclosures, 8’ Columns, Hardwood & Laminate Floor and Nuts & Bolts Sale Conducted by:

ALLEN B. OLSON AUCTION SERVICE LTD. Rimbey, Alberta License No. 165690 (403) 843-2747 Sale Site E-mail: abolson@ telusplanet.net Homepage: allenolsonauction.com

EquipmentHeavy

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.

GRANDVIEW AREA 41 Ave. from Ross St. to 44 St. + 4000 Block of 47 St. &44 Block of 40A Ave. $63/mo.

ALSO 40A, 41 & 42 Ave. between 39 St. & 44 St. $120/mo.

ALSO 43 Ave. Area between 39 St. and 43 St. $61/mo MICHENER AREA West of 40Ave. between Ross St. and 52 Ave. $264/mo ROSEDALE AREA

PORTABLE hose reel cart $40; galvanized garbage can w/lid $12; alum. scoop shovel $8; 30” claw bar $9; 3 saw horses 36”l x 27”h $8/ea; Coleman cooler $15; lamp and appl. timer $5; wall bike rack $5; power rake blades for lawn mower 2@15”, 1@16” all $10; 3 shelf pvc white stand 16 1/2”w x 15”d x 36”h $10; 2 outdoor wrought iron brackets for hanging plants $8 pair, new 20 oz. cotton wet mop $6 403-314-2026

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

PITTY PUPPIES,

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Livestock

2100

2140

Grain, Feed Hay

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CLEAROUT VARIOUS PARTYLITE PRODUCTS including candles.

60% off.

Large selection.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389

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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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WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

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CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

3010

FARM HOUSE, 2 bdrm. bsmt, 20 kms. west of Bowden close to Glennifer Lake $1000/mo. + DD + utils. 403-559-8847

Houses/ Duplexes

Condos/ Townhouses

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4x8 POOL TABLE & acces. + tools. 403-872-8889 DIE cast models, cars, truck, and motorcycles, fairies, dragons and biker gifts. #14 6350-67 St. east end of Cash Casino

Employment Training

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HALMAN Heights

KITSON CLOSE 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

PS1 w/10 games $70; PSP w/4 movies, 6 games $130 403-782-3847

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.

403-304-7576 or 347-7545

900

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

3090

Rooms For Rent

HOUSE privileges, non drinking, no drugs, prefer middle age or senior lady, $510/mo.

403-356-1766 877-9177

3190

Mobile Lot

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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DOWNTOWN PARKING STALLS FOR RENT. 4922 47th St. (One block south of Millennium Centre.) $75/mo. + GST 403-357-0111 or 347-4044

Condos/ Townhouses

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EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RIVERFRONT CONDOS FOR SALE in Downtown Red Deer.

Call Renee at 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

NEW CONDO Mobile office trailer 240 rent by day/month, c/w toi- 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $192,000.

403-588-2550 let, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge. Call B & L Start your career!

Enterprise 403-346-6106 See Help Wanted

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Realtors & Services

4010

4090

Manufactured Homes

1988 MOBILE HOME (16x78) 3 bdrm., 2 bath.

Has 16x20 addition & many upgrades. $35,000 obo.

To be moved this spring.

Call Dean 403-783-6164

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Income Property

13-unit apt. bldg., Red Deer Ind. metered units Below market rents Free & clear financing Call Karen Barry, Broker 403.767.9999 Email: karen @barrycommercial.com www.barrycommercial.com Barry Commercial Real Estate, Brokerage You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

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1722 SQ.FT. 2 storey 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath, over-sized dbl. garage.

Call Glen 403-588-2231 2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820

Commercial Property

4160

Lots For Sale

LOT FOR SALE IN PONOKA 50x170, zoned R4 (Multi-family residential).

Located in Riverside, close to walking trails. $105,000.

403-782-4773 or 302-4679 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550 FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

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13 ACRES highway commercial Red Deer area 403-886-2358 Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

CUSTOM BUILT

Pinnacle Estates (Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

MUST SELL 1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $184,900.

403-588-2222

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MUST SELL New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

RISER HOMES Our SPRING Ahead into a Riser Home special is upon us again.

Beautiful Modified Bi-level with a large entry, and a modern look. Large 3 bdrm., 2 bath walkout, 1563 sq. ft. of family space, large deck, large garage, wide lot with alley backing onto trail system & green, 5 pce. master ensuite, large walk-in closet.

Much, Much More!

A MUST SEE!. $432,235.

Lloyd @ 403-391-9294 Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

Automotive Services

5010

Keep the Car, Take the Money!

If you own a vehicle, get up to $10,000 today! www.thetitlestore.ca RED DEER 403-754-5104 4971 Phelan St.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Cars

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2002 SATURN SL1 4 dr, $2300 obo 403-505-3077 2000 Chrysler Neon, 2L, 4 dr., 5 spd. Clean. 403-318-3040 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Open House Tour These Fine Homes

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OPEN HOUSE Sunday 2 - 4, March 30 124 KERSHAW CLOSE 403-357-8628 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Health Care Aide Medical Office Assistant Health Unit Coordinator Veterinary Administrative Assistant Dental Administrative Assistant and more!

2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

1989 LINCOLN Mark II, 2 door, low kms., exc cond $4000. 403-343-0081

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE

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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666

Seniors’ Services

Now Open

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

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HELP FOR SENIORS: in home or facility family business est. 1999 bondable staff, great rates, gift certificates avail.

403-346-7777 helpinghandshomesupport.com

International ladies Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445

1290

Upholstery

1390

GIVE YOU OLD LAMP SHADE A NEW LOOK. Have them professionally re-covered. 403-343-0939

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Yard Care Pampering at its Escorts BEST! SPRING LAWN CLEANUP 403-986-6686 TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* Call 403-304-0678 Come in and see INDEPENDENT w/own car why we are the talk TOO MUCH STUFF? CELEBRATIONS of the town.

Let Classifieds HAPPEN EVERY DAY www.viimassage.biz help you sell it.

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OPEN HOUSE LACOMBE 60 RIVIERA DRIVE SAT. Mar. 29, 2-4 1539 sqft. Regency Park PRICED TO SELL! $434,900 Call Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

Contractors

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

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services

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

HEALTHCARE

Out Of Red Deer

1997 DODGE Stratus, exc. cond. $2500.

403-986-6378

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YOUR CAREER IN

TIMBERSTONE AREA

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

MORRISROE MANOR

LEGACY ESTATES 60yrs + condo. 403-350-5054

Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

ALSO West half of Robinson Cres, Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. Area. $84/mo.

Timberstone Way $302/mo.

3200

3020 Directory

3 level 3 bdrm. townhouse 5 appls, 1 1/2 bath, blinds, no pets, n/s, rent $1395, SD $1000.

Avail. Immed. or Apr. 1 403-304-7576 or 347-7545

HOUSE STEREO w/19” LCD TV $140; 19”HP computer monitor $50 403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

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rentals

MOUNTVIEW HOUSE, 3 bdrm., 1 bath, very clean bungalow, n/s, no pets, $1250./mo. + utils.

403-358-2380 KING SIZE BOX SPRING, $100.

SINGLE FUTON, wood base & mattress, $30.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389

1 BDRM. apt. at 4616-44 St., quiet tenant over 40 yrs old, non smoking, no pets, heat & water incl, laundry on site, rent/sec. $720/month.

Available April 1, 2014.

Ph: 403-341-4627.

FLATLAND RANCH has on offer yearling and 2 year old Gelbvieh Bulls.

We have been selling reputable bulls for 15 years Chuck 403-854-6270 CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $525. 403-346-7546

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Household Furnishings

3060

Suites

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

Horses

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GLENDALE 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1125. incl. sewer, water & garbage. D.D. $650, Avail. May 1 403-304-5337

Newly renovated bachelor & 2 bedroom suites avail. in central location. leasing@ rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

ACACIA wood footed, flower petal shaped punch bowl. $20; 12 acacia wood footed goblets, $15. Acacia wood serving bowl with decorative carving $15; Set of 5 dolls wearing formal gowns of S.E. Asia. $10. 403-342-7460

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

3 weeks old, taking GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. deposits now ! 10 males apartments, avail. immed, and 2 females..will have all rent $875 403-596-6000 shots before final sale! If LACOMBE 1 bdrm. $795; you are skeptical...come on out and meet the mom 403-782-7156 403-357-7465 and dad!! $1000 pup..$500 LACOMBE, 1 bdrm. w/balnon refundable deposit cony, recent reno, Apr.1, required...Call to set up a n/s, no children, no pets, viewing... Al@ $750/mo, DD same, 403-586-0075 403-782-2681

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Household Appliances

3030

Condos/ Townhouses

FOR ALL YOUR OFFICE NEEDS 2 BDRM. furn. apartment in call Glenn Moore Associate Sylvan Lake. $1200/mo, 403-346-6655 $600 d.d. Call 403-887-4610 www.reddeercommercial.com

HUSKY WOLF PUPS!!

1st shots, Call Kerri 403-506-3395

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Dogs

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

LATHE, ROCKWELL, 7”x36 , c/w mobile base, 2 face plates, live tail stock, 1/2 hp, some tools. $200. 403-391-6652

1760

COMBINATION FLIP CHART/MAGNETIC WHITE BOARD, Dahle brand Model 95005.

Adjustable height up to 6.5 feet. $60.

Call (403) 342-7908.

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CLEARVIEW and CLEARVIEW RIDGE AREAS Crossley St., Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres. & Cody Pl. $190/mo.

Misc. for Sale

2002 IHC 4300 Flat Deck Truck w/ 17’ 6” Flat Deck & Only 212,000 Kms

Firewood

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

WEST PARK

BUD HAYNES AND WARD’S SPRING GUN AUCTION Date T.B.A. for spring.

Taking consignments at Red Deer office.

Linda 403-597-1095 Office 403-347-5855 or Jim 403-597-1094 or Brad 780-451-4549 Appraisals avail., call Linda. www.budhaynesauctions.com www.WardsAuctions.com

Tools

“Low Cost” Quality Training

newspaper carriers needed in the following areas: BOWER

ADVANCE NOTICE

OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

Contact Loren at 403-314-4316

AFTERNOON

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Harper says Putin wants to be rival The International Monetary Fund also pledged up to $18 billion in loans to Ukraine to help it prop up its teetering economy.

When Harper and Merkel emerged from their hour-long discussion, they said they’re united in their view that Russia has grossly violated Ukrainian sovereignty by annexing Crimea.

In advance of next week’s NATO meeting in Brussels on the crisis in eastern Europe, Harper said: “No one is seeking a military escalation.”

But at the same time, Russian aggression “has the attention” of NATO, particularly NATO partners in eastern Europe, Harper added.

Merkel, asked how much pain Germany was willing to endure as a result of the economic sanctions against Russia, said she was unconcerned.

“I am quite relaxed, let’s put it that way.”

Merkel, meantime, said if Russia doesn’t de-escalate the situation, it will face further sanctions from the international community. She added that she hopes Putin makes the “right decisions” given his actions are harming the European economy as well as Russia’s.

Harper and Merkel, the two most senior members of the G7, sat down for an hour at the Chancellery in Berlin, a gleaming contemporary building overlooking the historic Reichstag. They exchanged kisses on the cheek upon meet-

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BERLIN — Chances are slim that Russian President Vladimir Putin will ever be allowed back in the G8, Stephen Harper said Thursday following a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the crisis in eastern Europe.

“He has not desired to be a partner, he’s desired to be a rival, and that’s just the reality that we have to come to terms with,” Harper, standing alongside his German friend and counterpart, told a news conference.

“I don’t see any way of a return for Mr. Putin to the table unless Russia fundamentally changes its course.”

The G7 nations — the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan — effectively booted Russia from the G8 earlier this week over its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula following a pro-Western uprising.

Harper and Merkel met shortly before the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution affirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity and deeming the annexation illegal.

A hundred members voted in favour of the resolution, while 11 opposed and 58 abstained. Such votes aren’t legally binding, but they generally provide a gauge of international opinion on critical events of the day.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, welcomes the Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper with military honors for a meeting in Berlin, Germany, Thursday. ing in an outdoor courtyard, then chatted warmly as they entered the building. While the two leaders also discussed the Canadian-German trade relationship in detail, their talks focused on the ominous events playing out in Ukraine.

“We are united in our view that President Putin’s actions are a clear and unacceptable violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” Harper said.

“President Putin’s actions are also in contravention of Russia’s obligations under the UN Charter and its agreement to respect Ukraine’s borders.”

Merkel was asked if Germany is interested in importing Canadian energy to end its dependency on Russian natural gas. The chancellor noted that Germany gets 35 per cent of its energy from Russia.

But she added that as Europe looks to diversify, Cana-

Change it or drop it, elections expert says of Conservative electoral reform

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government’s overhaul of federal election rules could make it difficult for more than half a million voters to exercise their constitutional right to a ballot, says the author of a report that’s been used to justify the crackdown.

“Either amend it or pull it,” Harry Neufeld said of Bill C-23 — dubbed the Fair Elections Act — after appearing before a parliamentary committee Thursday.

Neufeld, the former British Columbia chief electoral officer, was just one of five non-partisan experts in electoral process to tell MPs the legislation requires some major fixes. In fact all five witnesses said the bill, as written, would do more harm than good to Canadian democracy.

“My experience in 33 years in this business is that when you deny somebody the vote and they don’t think there’s a justified reason for it, they get really, really angry,” Neufeld told reporters after an hour of blistering testimony. “And sometimes they’re quite willing to take it to the courts.”

He said if the bill passes as currently drafted “there will certainly be some court cases where Charter rights are put in question.”

Following the 2011 federal election, Neufeld wrote a report for Elections Canada detailing serious irregularities in 42 per cent of cases where voters vouched for others who lacked proper identification.

Pierre Poilievre, the minister responsible for democratic reform, has repeatedly cited the report to justify Bill C-23, which would eliminate the practice of vouching.

At the same time, the legislation will end the use of voter information cards, which certain groups such as students, aboriginals and the elderly in longterm care facilities are allowed to provide as proof of residency.

Neufeld said Poilievre has been “selectively reading and quoting from my report” while ignoring the recommendations. Nor has the minister ever con-

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“I was waiting for that call and it never came,” he told the committee.

Neufeld recommends better training of elections staff to end vouching problems and more widespread use of voter information cards.

Poilievre, speaking later in the House of Commons, made no apologies.

The minister asserted he’s been quoting Neufeld’s own findings “accurately and in context” but is under no obligation to follow the report’s advice.

“At no time did I ever claim to agree with his recommendations,” said Poilievre. “I don’t agree with them, and that’s why they’re not in the bill.”

Neufeld said Thursday that about 400,000 people legally voted in 2011 using voter information cards as secondary, residence identification. Another 120,000 or so citizens voted after being vouched for.

“To me, that math is 520,000 people,” who would be hurt by the legislation, he told reporters.

Conservative MPs have argued strenuously that better Elections Canada advertising would inform voters of the ID requirements and end the need for vouching and voter information cards.

Neufeld said he wasn’t convinced.

“I’d say, generously, you might get half of those people to show up with ID, so you’re looking at at least a quarter million people who won’t be able to vote (in 2015),” he said.

“This is a fundamental right. It’s guaranteed by the Charter. It’s guaranteed by international treaties. You have the right to vote.”

Vouching has become a flash point issue for Bill C-23, but widespread concerns have also been aired over provisions that would keep the chief electoral officer from communicating with the public except for when, where and how to vote.

Canada’s current and former chief electoral officers have zeroed in on the bill’s efforts to end vouching and limit communication with the electorate.

Neufeld, along with witnesses from the Institute for Research on Public Policy, Fair Vote Canada, Civix and Samara all raised similar concerns.

da lacks the infrastructure to get its energy overseas. That means Canadian energy imports are a long-term project for Germany, Merkel said.

A senior European diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said Wednesday there are currently determined efforts under way in Europe to find alternatives to Russian natural gas.

Mulcair faces grilling on NDP use of parliamentary resources for partisan ends

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A procedural foul-up by the NDP has left leader Tom Mulcair facing a Commons committee grilling over his party’s alleged use of parliamentary resources for partisan purposes.

The Conservatives took advantage of the fact that the NDP had fewer than 25 MPs in the House of Commons early Thursday to force a snap vote on a motion from Tory MP Blake Richards.

Richards’ motion requires Mulcair to appear before the procedure and House affairs committee to answer questions about the NDP’s use of parliamentary resources to staff satellite party offices in Quebec and Saskatchewan.

He’ll also be grilled about New Democrat MPs using their free parliamentary mailing privileges to distribute partisan flyers in four ridings as they did in the midst of byelection campaigns last fall.

New Democrats insist Mulcair has nothing to hide and is happy to testify before the committee. And they’re countering with a motion of their own, asking that Prime Minister Stephen Harper also be invited to committee to explain the Conservative party’s use of government resources to fund partisan activities.

“We just thought we’d return the favour,” said NDP MP David Christopherson, who moved the counter-motion at committee. “The government seems to want to focus on this. Fine, then let’s do it, let’s bring in the prime minister and have at ’er.”

He charged that the Tories are simply trying to create a diversion so that the committee, which is studying the government’s proposed overhaul of election laws, will have less time to hear expert witnesses trash the bill. The NDP’s counter-motion was not put to an immediate vote. Conservative, Liberal and Bloc Quebecois MPs have complained that the NDP is using taxpayer-funded, parliamentary resources for purely partisan activities, which are supposed to be funded by political parties.

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