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Break and enter ends in wild chase SUSPECTED ATTEMPTS TO FLEE WITH STOLEN GUNS BY SNOWMOBILE, TRACTOR

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Blackfalds RCMP were led on a long, wild rural chase by a suspect who first stole a snowmobile, then attempted to take an ATV, and finally fled in a trac-

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BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The fear never stops, says Gail, for whom the price

tor full of firearms on Wednesday.

Through various means, including a Taser, police tried to stop the suspect. But he wasn’t arrested until the tractor stalled going up a hill and rolled once, with seven stolen firearms inside the cab.

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of addiction has become unbearable.

In the 22 years since she first tried cocaine, Gail, 46, has found various ways and means of feeding her habit, including dealing drugs and selling her body.

She eats healthy foods and keeps a low profile, flying under the police radar, couch surfing at night and living on the streets in the daytime.

“They (the police) see me, but they don’t know

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The suspect tried to climb a hill, but the tractor stalled. When he tried to back it down the hill, he lost control and rolled the tractor one complete revolution with the seven firearms in the cab.

exactly what I do. I’m always moving. I never stay in one spot. I know a lot of people, so I’ve never been asked if I was a prostitute.”

Gail’s fragile world shattered last October, when her son died of an overdose.

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Insurance to cover cost of replacing collapsed tents

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

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A pair of Westerner Park tent structures that collapsed under heavy snow loads this winter are being replaced at a cost of $810,000.

That expense will be covered by insurance, less a $10,000 deductible, said Westerner Park CEO John

Harms. The replacement structures are already being manufactured and are expected to be delivered the week of May 12 and erected by June 15.

“We’ll be in great shape if we can get them done by then,” said Harms.

The tents, which were among four at Westerner

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The first one, which measured 160 feet by 100 feet, came down the night of Dec. 30. The second, which was 140 feet by 100 feet, followed a week later — also during the night.

“We were in the process of removing the snow when the second one came down,” said Harms.

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HANGING QUILTS Members of the Central Alberta Quilters Guild and volunteers work to hang one of the almost 300 quilts that will be on display at Westerner Park today and Saturday. The 23rd annual show is taking place in the Parkland Pavilion and is open to the public 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. Featured guest artist Sherri Hisey of Border Creek Designs will have several examples of her work on display as well. For more information about the Central Alberta Quilters Guild, visit www. centralalbertaquilters.org.

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ADDICTION: ‘Just say no, stupid’ The second born of her three children, he struggled with mental illness as a teenager and young adult.

He needed 24-hour supervision, which he got from his drug-addicted mother, and that’s what killed him, says Gail. Her bright smile melts in a stream of tears.

“He wouldn’t have done (drugs) without me. He had to, because of his mentality. He was bipolar, manic, suicidal, depressive. He had to stay with me.”

Gail traces her own addiction to a single event when she was in her mid-20s.

She dreamed big as a child, hoping to become a figure skater and a fashion designer. She planned to have her first baby at the age of 25.

She got pregnant at 18 and was kicked out of school. Two more babies came and Gail was doing her best to take care of them. She had her tubes tied after the third child was born in 1991, the result she says of a date rape.

The man was charged but never convicted.

She says she was told she “probably deserved it.”

“I had mouths to feed and I didn’t let it bother me.

I’ve bled it all out now.”

She joined a pool league and was selected for a team. During a tournament one night in 1992, a team member offered her a couple of lines of coke, thinking it would help calm her down and improve her shot.

Gail says she was hooked from that moment. The addiction got worse 11 years ago, when her mother died. She was in Ontario at the time and hadn’t been told that her mom had taken ill at home in Red Deer.

They never got to say goodbye.

“I lost my identity. I didn’t know who I was.”

She started spending her time downtown, leaving her little boys alone while she fed her addiction.

Social services took them away. Gail was eventually allowed to visit her children but wasn’t given full access to them until they became adults.

Her son’s death was Gail’s wakeup call.

“Since (he) died, they’re more in my life now and I have every reason to live — to get straight and sober — and I’m trying my damndest.”

Staying clean is a minute-by-minute struggle.

Gail meets once every two weeks with an addictions counsellor from the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission. She hopes eventually to become a counsellor herself, turning others away from the destructive forces that ruled her life and killed her son.

She focuses on the good things around her now,

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including the two young men who still call her their mom.

“I have something to strive for. I can tell (my counsellor), I’m five days clean. I always strive to give her something good and I do.”

She warns anyone who will listen to be wary of the overwhelming power of tobacco, drugs and alcohol — especially those who, like her, have an addictive personality. She saw pictures of black lungs but that did not stop her from starting smoking at only eight years old.

“Just say no, stupid. Read up on it. Get aware of the circumstances and what using this drug will do to a person. Become aware of what you’re doing to yourself and your body and other people around you.

Talk to somebody. Keep talking.” bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com On Saturday: Drugs and alcohol are, by far, the largest contributors to crime in Red Deer, says the supervisor of the Red Deer City RCMP’s street team.

CHASE: Suspect charged The circumstances that led to the chase started at 3:30 p.m. when Blackfalds RCMP were called to a complaint of a break and enter at a rural address on Hwy 595, southeast of Red Deer in the Pine Lake area. Police said a man allegedly stole firearms as well as other items and then fled in a stolen snowmobile.

He allegedly got the snowmobile stuck and stashed the firearms in a hay bale. Police said he then attempted to steal a side-by-side ATV from another house to try to get the snowmobile unstuck.

However, he was confronted by the homeowner and fled.

At 5:09 p.m., police received a complaint of a John Deere 6400 tractor with a front-end bucket being stolen. The suspect allegedly used the tractor to pick up the firearms he stashed in the hay bale.

The complainant reported watching the tractor being driven across fields nearby.

Blackfalds RCMP began following the movements of the tractor along the fields and secondary roads around Township Road 374 and Range Road 250.

The tractor crashed through farmers’ fences and stands of trees on their properties.

A Blackfalds RCMP member stopped a nearby snowmobiler and was offered a ride on it to track the stolen tractor. Cpl. Barry Laroque said police vehicles were unable to pursue the tractor suspect because the snow was too high and they wouldn’t have traction in the fields that the tractor was crashing through.

“Our member was out walking and the snowmobiler happened by and our member asked if he would be willing to let him jump on the back of a Skidoo and follow the tracks,” said Laroque.

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TENTS: Other buildings inspected Initially it was believed that enough parts from the two structures could be salvaged to repair one.

But ultimately, both were ordered replaced.

“The insurance company went out and sought bids for both new and repair, and that’s what they decided,” said Harms.

The trusses on the new tents will be 14 feet apart, which will make those structures stronger than their predecessors with 20-foot truss spans.

Harms said the remaining two tents survived the winter, with a lot of help from Westerner staff.

“We were sure diligent about keeping the snow off of them and away from them for the rest of the winter.”

Other buildings at Westerner Park received close attention as well.

“We had the Centrium inspected prior to the Band Perry concert that we had in January, just because they were flying so many speakers and lights. We didn’t want to compromise the weight load restrictions because of the snow on the roof.”

Harms said the insurance claim is expected to have a “small impact” on the premiums paid by the Westerner in the future.

Other Central Alberta buildings succumbed to this winter’s record snowfall as well. These included several rural barns, with more than 20 cattle killed when the roof of one near Bentley collapsed. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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“He said yes and continued on, found the tractor and followed it at a safe distance. We didn’t put that snowmobile or snowmobiler in any type of risk.”

A window of the tractor was broken out and at one point a police officer attempted to use a Taser to subdue the suspect.

“It didn’t stop the tractor,” said Laroque.

“It was aimed inside the cab, there was a window broken out and the Taser was used, but it had no effect.”

At about 6:45 p.m., the suspect tried to climb a hill but the tractor stalled. When he tried to back it down the hill, he lost control and rolled the tractor one complete revolution with the seven firearms in the cab. Police said none were loaded.

The man was not injured and subsequently taken into custody. All the firearms and other stolen items were recovered.

The tractor suffered extensive damage.

Jesse Cecka, 25, of no fixed address, has been charged with break, enter and theft; theft over $5,000 for the tractor; breach of existing court orders; and multiple counts of mischief. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Man jailed for Stampede threats Deegan admitted he sent the email from his account to the fire department on May 26, 2013. The email warned there was going to be an attack at the Stampede that July and that there would be many casualties.

“There is going to be a machine-gun attack at the Calgary Stampede this year,” the email read.

“Two MG-52s rated at 1800 rpm.

There will be over 1,000+ casualties.”

Deegan said in the email that the guns could fire off more than 1,000 rounds before malfunctioning.

At the time the email was sent, Deegan was on a 12-month peace bond related to domestic violence. One of the bond’s conditions was that he was not allowed to purchase or possess any sort of firearm.

The email prompted a police investigation that led to the homes and vehicles of Deegan, his girlfriend and his parents.

Court heard police found an AR15 semi-automatic rifle, a Lee Enfield bolt-action rifle and a Norinco semiautomatic rifle at the home of Deegan’s parent.

Judge Durant pointed to psychiatric evaluations dating back to 2004 pointing to Deegan’s obsession with guns, warfare and 9-11 conspiracy theories.

She said his obsession shows “no signs of diminishing” 10 years later and jail was warranted.

“At the time the accused sent the threatening email, he had the present ability to carry out the threat. The words for me were all the more serious and terrifying because there was substance behind them.”

Deegan read a tearful statement to the court before his sentencing.

“On the day I dispatched that email I breached the trust of my family and the public. It was something that I am truly sorry for,” he said.

“I bear full accountability for these actions as a whole. If I did not do this crime, then I would be living at home with full autonomy. I stand culpable and can no longer bear being a burden to society.”

An extra month was tacked onto his sentence because he breached his peace bond. With credit given for nine months he has already spent in cus-

tody, his remaining sentence is just under 16 months.

He was also sentenced to three years probation, faces a 10-year prohibition on owning a firearm and is banned for life from having a restricted weapon.

His lawyer had hoped for simple probation but said the sentence was fair. He said his client has had his struggles.

“This particular individual was someone who suffered from a bit of stress. He suffers from (lack of) control with respect to impulsive actions and he was drinking heavily at the time,” said Greg Dunn.

“It was something he did that was stupid. It was not thought out. It was something that was impulsive and he’s really paid the price for his impetuousness today.”

The prosecutor said there is no such thing as an idle threat anymore.

“This wasn’t a fanciful threat that should be taken without any skepticism. Those days are over. Any threat of this nature has to be taken quite seriously,” said Aurelie Beland.

High cost of utilities forcing more people to rely on the food bank

Province spent $23M on communications staff: critic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A man who a judge says has an “obsession with warfare and weaponry” has been sent to jail for threatening to kill people with a machine gun at the Calgary Stampede last summer.

Patrick Deegan, 29, was sentenced Thursday to two years less a day after admitting in January that he uttered death threats and illegally possessed a firearm.

“We now sadly live in a world where threats like these have to be taken seriously,” said provincial court Judge Joanne Durant.

A sinister email Deegan sent to the Calgary Fire Department last spring was “not a fanciful threat,” the judge said.

“I do not accept this was an impulsive act.”

Durant pointed to terrorist acts such as the 9-11 Twin Towers attack in New York and the bombing at the Boston Marathon last year and said the public can no longer take safety for granted.

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF For many Central Alberta families, the extended winter is more than just an inconvenience — it has made just feeding everyone difficult.

The Red Deer Food Bank is seeing an unusually high number of people relying on their services right now, with the main issue being the cost of utilities.

“With this winter, there is a price to pay,” said food bank executive director Fred Scaife. “We keep track of the various reasons why they don’t have enough money to get by, and the answer we get more often than not right now is: ‘My utility bills are way higher than they’ve ever been before.’ ” According to Scaife, the food bank usually provides food for approximately 1,400 people per month at this time of the year, but right now they are at about 1,700. Due to the higher than normal demand, the food bank has had to dip into their long-term supplies about a month ahead of when they usually do.

This is also a tough time of the year for donations. After their big push through the winter, people’s minds, understandably, wander to the upcoming spring and summer.

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BRIEF Albertan with back trouble pained by province’s public health system OKOTOKS — A former Calgary-area dentist who paid for back surgery in Montana rather than wait to have it done in Alberta has lost his bid to sue the government over a delay in getting the procedure done in his own province.

Darcy Allen, who is from Okotoks, argued unsuccessfully in Court of Queen’s Bench that the prohibition on private health insurance in Alberta is unconstitutional.

Allen injured his back in late 2007 and was told it could take up to eight months to get an MRI scan under public health care.

A scan he had done at a private clinic confirmed disc damage and when pain medication and other treatments didn’t work, the dentist was told he needed surgery.

He was scheduled for an operation in September 2011, but he instead paid to have it done in Montana in December 2009.

Allen, who eventually had to give up his practice due to his condition, had wanted to sue the province for damages resulting from the time he spent on MRI and surgical wait lists.

‘WE KEEP TRACK OF THE VARIOUS REASONS WHY THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO GET BY, AND THE ANSWER WE GET MORE OFTEN THAN NOT RIGHT NOW IS: ‘MY UTILITY BILLS ARE WAY HIGHER THAN THEY’VE EVER BEEN BEFORE.’’ — FRED SCAIFE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RED DEER FOOD BANK

Scaife says there are no concerns about running out of food, but they may end up having to purchase more food sooner than they normally would.

“These supplies usually last us through July and August,” said Scaife.

“I know things we don’t get donated very often like canned fish, canned meat, canned fruit, that’s going to be burnt off pretty quick.”

The food bank serves more than just Red Deer — it works in conjunction with 18 smaller food banks over a 22,000-square-km area throughout Central Alberta, as well as with other not-for-profit food charities like soup der the Customs Act after a loaded gun was allegedly discovered in his carryon luggage.

The Canadian Border Services says the pilot with Skywest Airlines was trying to clear security when he was arrested a week ago.

The CSB says in a statement that Canada’s laws clearly state travellers must declare all goods, including any firearms and weapons in their possession, when they enter Canada.

The agency says every person arriving by air must complete a declaration form, and the first question requires them to say whether or not they are transporting firearms.

Joshua Petty White has been released on a $4,000 bond. He’s set to appear in court on April 29.

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Spokeswoman Betty Kelsey says customers have told them that they want to reduce the amount of cards in their wallets.

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The CTF asked for information regarding the number of communications staff broken down by ministry and the total cost within each ministry.

The documents reveal that the province employs 187 communications staff within the ministries, and 27 in the Public Affairs Bureau central office.

CTF Alberta director Derek Fildebrandt says government needs well-paid and qualified communications staff to do its job, but Alberta’s government has gone overboard.

He says when the average communications staffer costs $107,844 and there are 11 of them per minister, there is a problem.

David Sands of the Public Affairs Bureau says communications staff deliver a vital role in getting Albertans the information they want and need, “promptly, efficiently and effectively.” needed the Club Card to access savings on groceries, but Kelsey says those savings will now be passed on without the card.

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In a year, the bank distributes about $2 million worth of food, 80 per cent of which comes from direct donations.

The other 20 per cent comes from food drives like Extra Helping, which is run by the Real Canadian Superstore and their subsidiaries Extra Foods and No Frills.

Extra Helpings is an annual drive that this year started on Thursday and will run through April 24. Customers are encouraged to donate food in bins set up at each location or through a cash donation at the till.

When trying to figure out what to donate, Scaife says it’s simple — whatever you served last night for supper that came from a box or can.

Cash donations are also greatly sought, as it helps the organization keep up with demands for perishable items like ground beef, milk and margarine.

“It’s a huge success for us,” said Scaife. “Our name drifts off the radar at this time of the year, but when you’re down at Superstore ... you’re going to hear about us and I think that’s incredibly important for us, that’s almost as important as getting any kind of donation from them. When a corporate partner like them is willing to mention your name, it’s a huge impact for us.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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Marois may be doomed The sound in the background of the last stretch of the Quebec election campaign is that of PQ leadership knives being sharpened in anticipation of a poorer-than-expected showing on Monday.

Little short of a majority victory next week is likely to save Pauline Marois from becoming the latest female government leader to leave behind a provincial party in disarray.

Behind the scenes, fingers are already being pointed at her brain trust for what more and more sovereigntist insiders privately describe as the most incoherent, most dispiriting campaign that the PQ CHANTAL has ever run.

HÉBERT If the party is defeated next week, the assumption is that Marois will resign of her own free will, if not right on election night then within the days of the vote.

No one expects that she would lead the PQ in opposition in the next national assembly.

But even a minority victory might not buy Marois more than a short reprieve from her restless party.

On the heels of this campaign, a critical number of PQ members would be unlikely to countenance the notion of giving her a second chance to turn a minority government into a majority.

That would not be just because she would have allowed the big fish of a majority to get away.

When the April 7 vote was called, polls suggested that a majority PQ government was within Marois’ grasp.

But her original game plan turned out to be halfbaked. It fell apart early on, leaving her and her team to scramble their way out of a series of strategic miscalculations.

By now, it seems the PQ leader is essentially making it up as she goes along.

There was fresh evidence of that on Wednesday when Marois said that her government would help those fired from the public service for failing to comply with its secular dress code to find employment in the private sector.

Until now the PQ had never wanted to admit that the people who violated the charter would be fired.

But of even more concern to many péquistes than a mishandled campaign is the collateral damage to the unity of the PQ and the sovereignty movement that results from the controversial directions Marois has set the party on in the quest for a majority.

From day one, the notion of imposing a secular dress code on all public sector workers has divided sovereigntists.

And for many of those who dislike Marois’ brand of identity politics, her campaign hit rock bottom last Sunday.

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At a party rally in Laval, not a single PQ campaigner — including the leader herself —batted an eyebrow when feminist Janette Bertrand went off on a rant about how a charter-free Quebec could see Muslim students barring women from her condo’s swimming pool.

The same night on Tout le monde en parle, RadioCanada’s most watched talk show, Marois took more friendly fire, this time over the recruitment of media mogul Pierre Karl Péladeau as a star candidate.

Singer-songwriter Luc de la Rochellière — himself a sovereigntist — questioned how the PQ could still call itself socially democratic after bringing in one of Quebec’s most anti-union employers.

Former premiers Jacques Parizeau and Bernard Landry and ex-Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe have all taken issue with the exclusionary spirit of the draft PQ charter.

Still, early on in the campaign, they and other

sovereigntist luminaries were willing to give Marois a pass if only to ensure the election of a majority government. With one voice they lauded her recruitment of Péladeau as a great coup.

That was before the arrival of the Quebecor owner on the scene prompted an anti-referendum backlash that saw the campaign momentum shift from the PQ to the Liberals.

Marois has been backpedaling on the prospect on another referendum since then.

And so instead of spending the last week of the campaign basking in the prospect of the long-awaited opportunity to resume the march to sovereignty, the movement’s elder statesmen are left to contemplate the scorched earth that Marois has left in her campaign’s wake and to fret that there will be more if she wins on Monday.

Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

Little evidence of benefits from private health insurance

BY MARK STABILE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Canada is about to face its second court challenge over restrictions on private health insurance when Dr. Brian Day’s case appears before the courts in September 2014.

It is true that there are examples of jurisdictions that value universal health insurance coverage and also allow private insurance — the U.K. and Sweden would be two examples. But it is important to note that although these countries, among others, may allow for private insurance, they still have many of the same problems with their health care system that Canada does.

A recent review of the economic evidence on the effects of private insurance on public health-care systems that I wrote with Matt Townsend for the Encyclopedia of Health Economics suggests that there is little evidence for many of the benefits that advocates of private insurance claim will occur for those who do not make use of the private system.

The first thing to note is that very few people in most countries purchase private insurance for care covered in the public system. In the U.K., for example, it is less than 10 per cent, and in Sweden it is fewer than that. For the remaining 90 per cent plus of the population, the weight of the evidence suggests that private insurance provides little benefit for the rest of the system.

There is evidence, however, that physicians shift

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their time to the private system, resulting in fewer publicly-funded services. And there is evidence that the cases left in the public system are the most complicated and costly.

But there is little evidence that wait times in the public system go down. And there is little evidence that a private system reduces the costs of public systems. In fact, in some jurisdictions, overall costs in the public system actually went up in those cases where the tax system subsidizes people who purchase private insurance (as Canada does).

Overall, those systems that have private insurance have had to continue to grapple with issues of costs and access, much as we do here in Canada.

What is slightly more exceptional about the Canadian system is how it continues to promote inequality through two accidents of history. First, the evolution of our system from a system of mostly private insurance to one that focused on public insurance, first for hospital services, then doctors services, has left large holes in both coverage and financing. We continue to exclude prescription drugs from our basket of medically necessary goods.

Secondly, we continue to allow for regressive subsidies through our tax code for employer-provided health insurance. When we receive insurance through an employer, we don’t pay tax on the benefit the way we do with wages. It’s a lot of money — more than $3 billion a year. And people in the highest tax bracket (29 per cent plus provincial taxes, putting people in most provinces over 40 per cent) save over 40 cents on each dollar of health insurance they re-

ceive from their employer. People in the lowest tax bracket get less than half of that per dollar, making it a very regressive subsidy that contributes to inequality in this country.

We are more like the U.S. than the rest of the world in these respects, except that the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care), despite its flaws, aims to provide a much more comprehensive basket of medically necessary goods, including prescription drugs and mental health treatment when required, and takes steps to counter the inequalities generated by unfair tax subsidies. These are first order problems with the Canadian system that need to be fixed.

International comparisons can’t provide all the answers to Canada’s health-care system woes, but they can show us where there are similar problems even among differing health-care systems. Those countries with two-tier health insurance still manage to provide a reasonable quality of care for their citizens, but they continue to face many of the same challenges we do.

To really improve our health-care system we’ll have to look beyond simple solutions that other nations have shown don’t really work. Focusing on reducing the ways in which our system contributes to inequality would be a good place to start.

Mark Stabile is an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca, director, School of Public Policy and Governance and Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto and a Fellow at the Martin Prosperity Institute. This column was provided by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

I must remind you that in 2012, 80 per cent of Canadians prefer a public health-care system compared to a private one. In the same poll, when a third option to have a mixed system was in place, just over half of the respondents agreed, with Alberta having the lowest support. Still over a third still want publicly-funded health care in the same sample (http:// www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/29/canadians-mixedsystem-health-care_n_1636796.html).

Further, your government has already announced over $36 billion to be cut from transfer payments over the next 10 years to cover health-care costs.

We ask that you further represent us by publicly calling on all members of Parliament to support the negotiation of a new Health Accord in order to bring all Canadians equal access to quality of care, for the young or old, rich or poor, aboriginal or Caucasian.

By working with the provinces and territories on creating a new accord, you can help ensure equal access to health care across provinces and territories are accomplished.

You can be instrumental in creating a better, more efficient, quality public health care that includes a national pharmacare program and better home care and long-term care for our aging population.

I am optimistic that through this letter you will take the chance to publicly announce your support and realize that over 500 individuals from the Red Deer and area are asking that you side with your constituents in this matter.

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Victims rights bill ‘shallow symbolism’: critic

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — Crime victims would have more say as their cases wind their way through the justice system under a new Conservative government bill that veteran lawyers immediately denounced as crass politics.

The long-awaited legislation, part of the government’s ongoing law-and-order theme, aims to fix what Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday was a broken part of the system.

“The rights of criminals have received far more attention than the rights of their victims,” Harper said at a seniors’ centre.

“Justice is not only for the accused; it is also for the victims.”

The proposed law — similar to one passed in Ontario almost 20 years ago — would ensure victims are given information about cases in which they are involved, such as a copy of a bail or probation order, or details of a criminal’s parole.

Other measures would mandate judges to take into account the safety of victims during bail proceedings, and the harm an accused has caused during sentencing.

Several defence lawyers branded the legislation as a calculated political ploy that victims of crime had fallen for.

“The (bill) is an example of a community that has sold itself to the Conservatives for a mess of porridge,” said Clayton Ruby.

“They need rehabilitative programs and services, and compensation from the government, and they’ve

dropped all those expensive demands in favour of shallow symbolism.”

Other measures include a standardized victim-impact form that could also be used by review boards deciding what should happen to someone found not criminally responsible by reason of a mental disorder.

Another section would give victims the right to ask a court to consider ordering restitution for offences where financial losses are easy to calculate.

Frank Addario, another Toronto-based criminal lawyer, said the Conservative government’s agenda is to position itself as tough on crime, even though it knows its measures have little real-world effect.

“It’s cynicism masquerading as policy,” Addario said. “We did not need a new law for government to tell itself that it should communicate with victims about criminal cases.”

Several victims rights advocates were on hand for the announcement, including former pro-hockey player Sheldon Kennedy, who was sexually abused by his minor-league coach.

“I’m not naive to think that we’re going to flip a switch and everything’s going to be better,” Kennedy said. “But being able to have this announcement . . . is going to start the process of trying to be better at the way we handle victims, not only through the court process, but really understanding the damage that happens to victims.”

Some critics wondered who would pay for a new complaints mechanism that federal departments involved in the justice system would have to set up for those victims who feel their rights have been infringed.

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW OTTAWA — The Conservative government unveiled its long-awaited victims’ rights bill on Thursday. Here are five things to take away from the legislation: 1. People could be compelled to testify in court against a spouse. The Canada Evidence Act currently gives spouses the right to refuse to testify, except in certain specific cases such as sexual assault or crimes against youngsters. The provision is based on the notion that a married couple is one person in the eyes of the law.

2. Victims would be able to find out much more about the offender. The bill would allow victims to ask for a copy of a bail order, details on an offender’s correctional plan, a probation order or the details of a conditional or work release. They would also be able to ask for a copy of a recent photograph of the offender.

3. Victims would have the right to have the courts consider making a restitution order in all cases and to have such orders registered as a civil court judgment against the offender if the money isn’t paid.

4. Victims would have the right to read an impact statement in or outside the court, or behind a screen. The court would also allow the victim or the person speaking on their behalf to carry a photograph of the victim taken before the crime, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the trial.

5. The court must inform victims, if they ask, of any plea agreements reached between the accused and the Crown. Only two provinces — Ontario and Manitoba — have laws governing the role of victims in the plea agreement process. Ontario provides victims with access to information about any pre-trial plea arrangements. Manitoba gives victims the right to ask for information about “the possibility of discussions between the Crown attorney and an accused person, or his or her legal counsel, on a resolution of the charge.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A woman living in a suspected crack house, where she suggested the Rob Ford crack video was filmed, complained that the mayor’s “people” were stopping by every day following media reports about the video, police allege.

Elena Basso is heard on a wiretapped conversation with an alleged gang member saying Ford has “got power” and “it doesn’t matter who’s right or wrong . . . we’re going to feel the heat everywhere,” police allege.

Police summaries of the wiretaps made as part of Project Traveller — a gang, drugs and weapons investigation — are among information ordered released to the public Thursday by an Ontario Superior Court judge.

The allegations, which were included in a police request for search warrants, have not been proven in court.

Ford declared Thursday that he had been “cleared” after the provincial police force, which was tapped last month to oversee a Toronto police probe of the mayor’s activities, said it was no longer involved.

That probe, dubbed Project Brazen 2, was sparked by media reports — first published on May 16 — about a cellphone video on which Ford appears to smoke crack cocaine.

But at that time the Project Traveller investigation was well underway, including wiretaps, which allegedly captured conversations about the video.

One of those conversations, police say in the documents, was between alleged gang member Liban Siyad — who would later be arrested in Project Traveller — and Basso, whose home police allege is a “frequent hangout for crack cocaine users.”

According to the documents, Siyad tells Basso, who has a long criminal record including drug possession and trafficking, he had nothing to do with the video and both talk about “G” being responsible.

Police believe “G” is Mohamed Siad, who was also ultimately arrested in Project Traveller.

If Siyad had the video, he would bring it to Basso “directly to give to Rob,” police allege he said in the May 20 conversation.

“The (expletive) goof did it at my house,” police allege Basso said. “I got Rob’s (expletive) people and cops coming here every (expletive) day.”

The “whole area” is going to “go down” because of “G,” police allege Basso said. G screwed up her business, Siyad’s business and everybody’s business, police allege Basso said.

Siyad wanted Basso to tell Ford he didn’t have the video and Basso assured him she knows that, police allege.

“To be fair, Rob Ford, I told you guys is a big (expletive) idiot,” police allege Basso said.

It wasn’t the first time police allege they overheard Basso and Siyad discussing the mayor.

Police allege she was intercepted calling him Includes: a month earlier, saying Ford was at her house.

Siyad then called another person involved in Project Traveller and told him he was going to go deal with Ford at Basso’s house because the mayor wanted drugs, police allege.

Ford has denied that the home is a crack house.

Police believe that a widely published photo showing the mayor posing with three men — one shot dead shortly after the photo was taken and the other two accused gang members — was taken outside the home.

When asked about the photo in November, Ford said the encounter was an “one off”, but did not explain why he was there.

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Striking nurses protest during the reading of the budget outside the legislature in Halifax on Thursday. The nurses are on a legal strike that the provincial government intends to shut down with essential services legislation as early as Friday.

First Nations oppose proposed elections law

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Gladys Christiansen had a question of her own for the Conservative government as she testified Thursday before a parliamentary committee studying controversial election law changes.

“The government continually stresses the accountability of First Nations,” Christiansen, the human resources director for Saskatchewan’s Lac La Ronge Indian Band, told MPs. “What about the government’s accountability to Canadians?”

Christiansen was one of three First Nations representatives and among five witnesses in all Thursday, who uniformly criticized a massive rewrite of Canada’s election rules because of the difficulties it will present for some electors.

Bill C-24, dubbed the Fair Elections Act by the

government, has produced a cavalcade of criticism on a variety of fronts, but two measures in particular have garnered almost universal condemnation from experts.

The bill proposes to eliminate the practice of vouching, in which a properly identified voter can vouch for the identity of someone lacking complete ID. At the same time, the bill will end the limited use of voter identification cards, issued by Elections Canada, as a proof of residency. It would also severely limit Elections Canada’s ability to communicate with people, including through voter outreach programs.

Peter Dinsdale, the acting CEO of the Assembly of First Nations, testified the changes will make it harder for aboriginals to vote. The AFN has been working with Elections Canada on programs targeted at aboriginal youth, said Dinsdale, but provisions in C-23 will end such collaborations.

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Aftershocks rock Chile QUAKES CAUSE HUGE EVACUATIONS, LEAVE DAMAGED HOMES, HIGH PRICES AND LONG LINES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS IQUIQUE, Chile — Coastal residents of Chile’s far north spent a second sleepless night outside their homes as major aftershocks continued Thursday following a magnitude-8.2 earthquake that damaged several thousand homes and caused six deaths.

No new major damage or casualties were reported, and a heavy police and military presence kept order.

The infrastructure in the area is nearly entirely intact, but with after-

shocks continuing, life has been anything but normal. Power remains out in many areas, and hospitals were handling only emergencies. Schools were closed, and large supermarkets and gas stations co-ordinated their reopenings Thursday with police and military to avoid problems with long lines of customers.

After a magnitude-7.6 aftershock struck just before midnight Wednesday, Chile’s Emergency Office and navy issued a tsunami alert, and for two hours ordered everyone living in low-lying areas along the country’s entire 4,000-kilometre Pacific coastline to evacuate.

Among those moved inland was President Michelle Bachelet, who was in the city of Arica assessing damage in the north from Tuesday night’s powerful quake.

“I was evacuated like all citizens.

One can see that the people are prepared,” she tweeted early Thursday.

Chile’s evacuation order was lift-

ed at around 2 a.m. Thursday. Some 900,000 people also were affected the night before when the entire coast was evacuated for several hours after Tuesday’s bigger quake, although the tsunami proved small.

A 6.1-magnitude aftershock 76 km southwest of Iquique shook the area again late Thursday.

The repeated aftershocks have shaken buildings and sent people running into the streets in the port of Iquique, the largest city closest to the epicenter.

About 45 minutes before the 7.6 quake, a magnitude-6.5 aftershock also rattled Iquique. The shaking loosened more landslides near Alto Hospicio, a poor area at the entrance to Iquique where about 2,500 homes had been damaged in Tuesday’s larger quake.

The Ministry of Education suspended classes again in schools in the north for Thursday, while the region’s top prosecutor, Manuel Guerra, said his office is taking action against speculators who sharply raised prices for

bread, water, milk and diapers. “They will be detained and charged,” Guerra tweeted, calling on the community to denounce “intolerable” abuses.

The largest aftershock was felt across the border in southern Peru, where people in the cities of Tacna and Arequipa fled buildings in fear.

Police Lt. Freddy Cuela in Tacna said no damage or injuries were reported.

Peru’s navy tweeted a tsunami alert for the country’s extreme southern coast, which is next to the Chilean region hit by the quakes.

Authorities have reported six deaths, but didn’t rule out the possibility others could have been killed in older structures made of adobe in remote communities that weren’t immediately accessible.

The tsunami after Tuesday night’s quake caused the sea to rise only 2.5 metres in Iquique, but that was enough to sink and damage many fishing boats, lifting some onto city streets and piling others up in the harbour.

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Syrian families await their turn to register at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) center in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Thursday. A teenager from central Syria became the one millionth Syrian refugee to register in Lebanon on Thursday, a “devastating milestone” for the tiny Arab country with about 4.5 million people of its own, the UN refugee agency said.

Number of Syrian refugees in Lebanon passes ‘devastating milestone’

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Yahya was trapped in his hometown for two years

by Syria’s civil war, moving from house to house to avoid shells and bullets.

His father was killed by a sniper. His family then fled to another town that came under a fierce government offensive.

When the teenager finally made it out of the country with his mother and two sisters, he became the latest sad statistic of the sectarian conflict: the one-millionth refugee to register in Lebanon.

The United Nations’ refugee agency, which invited reporters to witness Yahya’s registration and allowed them to interview the 19-year-old, described the 1 million figure as a “devastating milestone” for Lebanon.

There are many more Syrians inside Lebanon than those officially registered, with the Lebanese government itself estimating that at least a halfmillion are unregistered.

The UNHCR says it is registering an average of more than one refugee a minute in Lebanon, a country of 4.5 million that is seeing its resources strained by the new arrivals.

“I feel sad because this means that 1 million fled here before me to suffer

Washington county considered buying up homes in area of deadly landslide

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE — A decade before a colossal landslide buried a Washington community, county officials considered buying up people’s homes there to protect them from such a disaster.

A 2004 Snohomish County floodmanagement plan said the cost of buying Oso properties and removing residents from the path of a potential slide “would be significant, but would remove the risk to human life and structures.”

But after weighing several options, the county instead recommended a project to shore up the base of the unstable hillside above the community

about 88 km north of Seattle, according to documents first reported by The Seattle Times.

A huge log wall was eventually built to reduce landslide and flood risks.

But it wasn’t enough to hold back the square mile of dirt, sand and silt that barrelled down the hillside March 22, levelling homes and killing at least 30 people.

Some area residents and their family members say they knew nothing of the landslide danger or home-buyout proposals.

“There’s never been any document that we’ve seen regarding that,” said Irene Kuntz, whose sister Linda McPherson died in the landslide.

together,” Yahya said as he waited to register with the UNHCR in the northern city of Tripoli.

“A million is a big number for Syria and a big number for Lebanon,” he added. Yahya asked to be identified only by his first name because he feared that Syrian authorities would retaliate against his relatives who are still there.

Yahya told a harrowing story of how his family became caught up in the violence between troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad and rebels seeking his ouster. Their house in the central city of Homs was on the front line of the conflict that began in March 2011, forcing them out.

They moved frequently for their safety, Yahya said, but his father was shot to death by a sniper in September of that year.

They were finally evacuated from Homs earlier this year by the UN, and travelled to Yabroud, a rebel-held town near the Lebanese border that soon came under government attack.

On March 8, the family crossed into Lebanon, first looking for shelter for a few days in the overcrowded border town of Arsal. They moved farther west to an informal settlement outside Tripoli.

“We didn’t know where to go. We just wanted to get away from all the

shelling and fighting,” Yahya said.

The conflict in Syria, which had a population of 23 million before the civil war, has killed more than 150,000 people.

The UN estimates there are more than 2.5 million Syrians registered in neighbouring countries — nearly 670,000 in Turkey, nearly 590,000 in Jordan and about 220,000 in Iraq. More than 47,700 are awaiting registration.

Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees recorded anywhere in the world in recent history, the UNHCR said.

“For us, the one-millionth refugee is a devastating marker,” said Ninette Kelley, UNHCR representative in Lebanon. She said that in publicizing Thursday’s milestone, the UN agency wants “the world to see what it means to individuals, being torn apart by the Syrian conflict,” but also to “show what a tremendous burden the Lebanese people are bearing.”

The Lebanese government provides none of the facilities and land that Turkey, Jordan and Iraq have allocated for the refugees. Many Syrians in Lebanon live in appalling conditions, finding shelter in slums, tents and tin shacks strung with laundry lines and wedged between farms.

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PERTH, Australia — Search crews hunting for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 headed back out to a remote patch of the Indian Ocean on Friday, a day after leaders of the two countries heading multinational efforts to find the missing jetliner vowed that no effort would be spared to give closure to the families of those on board.

More resources were committed to the search Friday, with 14 planes and nine ships planning to scour a 217,000 square kilometre expanse about 1,700 km northwest of Perth, the Joint Agency Coordination Center overseeing the search said. Ten planes were involved in Thursday’s search.

The Ocean Shield, an Australian warship carrying a U.S. device that detects “pings” from the plane’s flight recorders, was expected to arrive by Friday, a spokesman for the co-ordinationcentre said.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott met with staff on Friday at the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, which is running the search efforts, and acknowledged officials have no idea how long the hunt would continue.

“It is probably the most difficult search that’s ever been mounted,” Abbott told staffers. “A large aircraft seems like something that would be easy enough to locate — but a large aircraft that all but disappeared and disappeared into inaccessible oceans is an extraordinary, extraordinary challenge that you’re faced with.”

No trace of the jetliner has been found nearly four weeks after it vanished in the early hours of March 8 on a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The co-ordination centre overseeing the search described weather in the search area on Friday as fair, with visibility about 10 kilometres and cloud above the optimum search altitude of 305 metres.

On Thursday, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak flew to Australia for briefings on the search for the Boeing 777 and to meet with Abbott, whose country is overseeing the hunt in a desolate expanse of the Indian Ocean.

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A book street vendor passes the time on her smart phone as she waits for customers in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday. The Obama administration secretly financed a social network in Cuba to stir political unrest and undermine the country’s communist government according to an Associated Press investigation.

U.S. secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS PROGRAM TO UNDERMINE GOVERNMENT WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday defended its creation of a Twitter-like Cuban communications network to undermine the communist government, declaring the secret program was “invested and debated” by Congress and wasn’t a covert operation that required White House approval.

But two senior Democrats on congressional intelligence and judiciary committees said they had known nothing about the effort, which one of them described as “dumb, dumb, dumb.” A showdown with that senator’s panel is expected next week, and the Republican chairman of a House oversight subcommittee said that it, too, would look into the program.

An Associated Press investigation found that the network was built with secret shell companies and financed through a foreign bank. The project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform.

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Texas executes killer with new supply of lethal drug HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A serial killer was put to death Thursday in Texas after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his lawyers’ demand that the state release information about where it gets its lethal injection drug.

Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, was the first inmate to be injected with a dose of newly replenished pentobarbital that Texas prison officials obtained to replace an expired supply of the powerful sedative. When asked if he wanted to make a statement before his execution, Sells replied: “No.” As the drug began flowing into his arms inside the death chamber in Huntsville, Sells took a few breaths, his eyes closed and he began to snore.

After less than a minute, he stopped moving. He was pronounced dead at 6:27 p.m. CDT — 13 minutes after being given the pentobarbital.

Terry Harris, whose 13-year-old daughter, Kaylene Harris, was fatally stabbed by Sells in 1999 in South Texas, watched as Sells was executed, saying the injection was “way more gentle than what he gave out.”

“Basically, the dude just took a nap,” the father told reporters later outside the prison.

Motorist who stopped after striking Detroit boy critical from beating DETROIT — A suburban Detroit man was in critical condition Thursday with severe head injuries after a neighbourhood mob beat and kicked him when he stopped to check on a 10-year-old boy who stepped from a curb into the path of his pickup.

The 54-year-old man, whose name was not released, was being treated at a Detroit hospital as police scoured the east side neighbourhood where he was attacked Wednesday afternoon.

The boy, David Harris, was expected to recover from his injuries, according to Desmond Key, who said he was the 10-year-old’s uncle.

The driver — who lives just north of Detroit in Macomb County’s Roseville — wasn’t at fault in the accident, said Detroit police Sgt. Michael Woody.

“A preliminary investigation shows the kid stepped off the curb in front of him,” Woody said. “No way he could have stopped in time.”

On Thursday, marked and unmarked police cruisers crisscrossed streets around Morang and Balfour where the accident occurred about 4:10 p.m. Wednesday.

First, the network was to build a Cuban audience, mostly young people.

Then, the plan was to push them toward dissent.

Yet its users were neither aware it was created by a U.S. agency with ties to the State Department, nor that American contractors were gathering personal data about them, in the hope that the information might be used someday for political purposes.

It is unclear whether the scheme was legal under U.S. law, which requires written authorization of covert action by the president as well as congressional notification. White House spokesman Jay Carney said he was not aware of individuals in the White House who had known about the program.

In response, Josefina Vidal, director of U.S. affairs at Cuba’s Foreign Ministry, said late Thursday that the ZunZuneo program “shows once again that the United States government has not renounced its plans of subversion against Cuba, which have as their aim the creation of situations of destabilization in our country to create changes in the public order and toward which it continues to devote multimillion-

dollar budgets each year.”

“The government of the United States must respect international law and the goals and principles of the United Nations charter and, therefore, cease its illegal and clandestine actions against Cuba, which are rejected by the Cuban people and international public opinion,” the statement said.

USAID’s top official, Rajiv Shah, is scheduled to testify on Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations State Department and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, on the agency’s budget.

The subcommittee’s chairman, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is the senator who called the project “dumb, dumb, dumb” during an appearance Thursday on MSNBC. The administration said early Thursday that it had disclosed the initiative to Congress — Carney said the program had been “debated in Congress” — but hours later the narrative had shifted to say that the administration had offered to discuss funding for it with the congressional committees that approve federal programs and budgets.

No arrests were made in the beating, but Woody said the boy’s father was taken into custody Thursday on an unrelated warrant.

South Korea says two North Korean cargo ship crew members dead SEOUL, South Korea — The bodies of two North Korean sailors were recovered Friday after their cargo ship went missing off the southern coast of South Korea but 11 others are still missing, South Korea’s coast guard said.

The Mongolian-flagged cargo ship, which was carrying 16 North Korean crew members, remains missing after it sent a distress signal early Friday in waters about 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of the southern port city of Yeosu, the coast guard said in a statement.

Three people were rescued and identified themselves as part of a 16-member North Korean crew on the ship, the statement said.

Rescuers later discovered two dead bodies and are still trying to find the 11 missing crew, the coast guard said.

The statement said the 4,300-tonclass ship carrying iron ore was sailing to China from the North Korean port city of Chongjin.

The coast guard said it had mobilized 13 vessels and six aircraft to search for the ship and its crew members. High waves and a strong wind are still hampering rescue operations, according to coast guard officers.

New atomic clock is 3 times more accurate than predecessor BOULDER, Colo. — Good news for people who are sticklers for punctuality: The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a new atomic clock that isn’t supposed to gain or lose a second in roughly 300 million years.

The new clock was launched Thursday. It’s located at the institute’s Boulder centre.

The clock is the nation’s civilian time standard. The U.S. Naval Observatory maintains military time.

The new clock, called NIST F-2, is about three times more accurate than the old one, called NIST F-1, the Boulder Daily Camera reported.

Banks, computer networks and others use the atomic clock to synchronize their own. The institute’s radio broadcasts are used to update about 50 million timekeepers daily. Its Internet service gets about 8 billion automated synchronization requests a day.

“Nothing here is going to change the way we live tomorrow, in terms of having a three-times-more-accurate clock,” said physicist Steven Jefferts, lead designer of the new clock.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A bomb struck along a route used by Pakistan’s former President Pervez Musharraf, going off shortly after he drove by it on his way home from the hospital, a police official and the former ruler’s spokeswoman said Thursday.

Musharraf was not harmed in the explosion and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.

The Pakistani general had survived multiple assassination attempts while he was in office. When he returned to the country last year, the Pakistani Taliban vowed to kill him.

In the latest attack, Musharraf was travelling from the military hospital in Rawalpindi where he’s been treated since January to his house in the capital of Islamabad when the blast went off early Thursday, said police official Mohammed Hayat.

Musharraf’s convoy had crossed a bridge entering the capital when the bomb exploded shortly after, Hayat said. He said the blast was caused by 2 kilograms of explosives, adding that it was not clear whether it was a remote control or time device.

Hayat said Musharraf appeared to be the target of the blast but it was not immediately clear how far his vehicle was from the explosion.

Musharraf’s spokeswoman, Aasia Ishaq, said the retired general was already at home when the blast went off and that he was fine. An aide to Musharraf who did not want to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said the convoy had left the hospital about 20 minutes earlier than planned.

Ishaq said it was up to the authorities to make sure nothing happens to him.

“All extremist and terrorist forces want to kill Musharraf,” said the spokeswoman. “If anything happens to Musharraf, the government will be responsible.”

The blast ripped up a small section, about one-yard wide, of the brick sidewalk. Police initially cordoned off the area to gather evidence but later removed the tape and traffic passed freely.

Musharraf, 70, took power in a 1999 coup and served until 2008, when he was forced to step down.

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Gens down rusty Regals

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Bentley General Craig Weller takes a shot on Power River Regal goaltender Cory McCeachraen during first period action of the first game of the McKenzie Cup at the Arena in Red Deer Thursday.

Generals 5 Regals 0 The Bentley Generals had to scrape off a bit of rust in the early stages of Game 1 of the McKenzie Cup senior AAA hockey championship Friday at the Red Deer Arena.

The Powell River Regals looked rusty throughout, and for good reason.

The B.C. representatives in the best-of-five interprovincial series were making their season debut and it showed in a 5-0 loss to the current Alberta and defending Allan Cup champs before roughly 800 fans.

The game was scoreless after 20 minutes — mainly due to the sparking play of Regals netminder David Brumby — but the Generals, who last played March 21, took over from there and cruised to victory while outshooting their guests 47-18.

“We didn’t have the best of starts. We were doing some good things but maybe because of the time off we had there was a bit of rust,” said Bentley forward Kyle Bailey, who notched a pair of goals.

“But we still took the play to them in the first period and generated some chances.

After that we settled in and played a pretty strong second and third.”

Kyle Sheen scored the only goal the Generals would need at 7:12 of the second period, accepting a nifty pass from Keenan Desmet through a pair of skates and beating Brumby with a quick shot from the edge of the circle.

Bailey connected seven minutes later — working off the wall and wiring a shot over Brumby’s shoulder — and the Generals took a 2-0 lead into the second recess.

“We got better in the second period and managed to put a couple in, and in the third it was kind of important to put an exclamation point on the game,” said Bailey, referring to his team’s three-goal final frame that included a shorthanded marker from Craig Weller and Garrett Watson’s deflection of a point shot by Scott Kalinchuk.

Bailey rounded out the scoring when he lifted a rebound over Regals’ back-up netminder Craig McCeachraen, who replaced Brumby with three minutes remaining when the Powell River starter left with a groin injury.

The Regals, who arrived in Red Deer without a single game to their credit this season, had just 15 skaters at their disposal.

“We have two more bodies coming in tomorrow,” said Powell River coach Rick Hopper.

“Not having a full lineup hurt us tonight. From the halfway point forward they (Generals) just started clinically taking up apart.

“But that’s the very first game of hockey we’ve played as a team this season. In the warmup I scouted my team to see what we had. We have some college kids but no one else has played contact hockey. Other than that, it was a good effort.”

The Regals bench boss said Brumby, who stopped 40 of 44 shots before leaving, hasn’t been ruled out for Game 2.

“He tweaked his groin,” said Hopper. “He doesn’t think it’s too bad. He might play tomorrow.”

The former minor pro veteran was clearly the visitors’ best player while turning aside a large number of quality shots.

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Ramo backstops Flames to win over Lightning

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flames 4 Lightning 1 TAMPA, Fla. — After five years Karri Ramo expected his return to Tampa to feel different, but the Calgary Flames’ goalie said it felt like a normal game.

The Tampa Bay Lightning probably wouldn’t mind if he stayed away for another five years.

Ramo finished with 31 saves, Mike Cammalleri and Kevin Westgarth scored 15 seconds apart in the first period, and the Flames beat the Lightning 4-1 Thursday night.

“I thought it might be a little bit different, but no,” Ramo said. “Things have changed so much that I didn’t notice the rink anymore. It was a normal game for me.”

Curtis Glencross scored twice in the final two minutes, including an empty-netter with 16 seconds left for the Flames.

Ondrej Palat scored with 4:04 left in the second period for the Lightning, who are locked in a tight race with Montreal for home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs. However, they couldn’t get

past a seemingly overmatched Flames team.

“We didn’t come out strong in the first period and that’s unfortunate,” Lightning coach Jon Cooper said. “Credit to Calgary because they played like a motivated club and had the goalie stand tall for them. Every team is going to be tough because this is the National Hockey League.”

Calgary took a 1-0 lead midway through the first period off some unfortunate stick handling by Lightning goalie Ben Bishop. Bishop tried to play the puck from behind the net and carelessly sent it to Cammalleri’s stick and the Calgary winger got an easy goal into the open net.

After the ensuing faceoff, Westgarth corralled a slap shot from defenceman Christopher Breen and backhanded it past Bishop on the short side to make it 2-0.

“Getting an early lead against this team is huge,” Westgarth said. “They have a pretty high-powered offence and with Steven Stamkos on the ice, no lead is safe. So getting those quick goals was nice for momentum and Karri was strong in goal.”

Palat pulled the Lightning within one as he scored off a rebound of a slap shot by Matthew Carle. Palat made a deke move to the left and flipped it past

Ramo.

That was Ramo’s only mistake as he turned away multiple scoring opportunities from the Lightning in the third period including a hard wrist shot from Stamkos with 3 minutes remaining.

“It’s frustrating, very disappointing the way we played tonight,” said Stamkos.

“It felt like we didn’t want to win the game. We didn’t put together the effort we needed to tonight.

We always seem to bring it together when we play the big teams but we needed one of those efforts tonight.”

Glencross sealed the win with his late goals.

“We managed to stay in the game,” said Flames coach Bob Hartley. “We knew that they would keep coming.”

NOTES: Bishop finished with 20 saves. ...This was Ramo’s first trip back to Tampa since being traded to the Canadiens for Cedrick Desjardins in 2010.

Ramo played 46 games for the Lightning from 2007-09 before going to Avangard Omsk in the Russian-based KHL from 2010-13. ... Lightning D Michael Kostka will be out indefinitely with a concussion after taking a hit to the head from Canadiens D Douglas Murray on Tuesday.

Blue Jays have to settle for series split with loss to Rays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rays 7 Blue Jays 2 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Two rough innings cost the Toronto Blue Jays a chance to open the season with a series win. They’ll take it, though, because it’s better than they usually do here.

Brandon Morrow gave up four runs and seven hits over five innings in his first start since last May 28, and the Blue Jays lost 7-2 to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday night for a split of the teams’ four-game series.

“I think a split’s good, coming out of here,” Morrow said. “It’s tough, the first series of the year. Obviously we would have loved to win this game, but it’s still positive to come in and play

well for the most part.”

Since winning a series in April 2007, Toronto has lost 19 road series and split two against the Rays.

“Against those four starters they threw at us, to get two wins, you’ve got to feel good, especially after getting knocked around a little bit that first game,” said Jays manager John Gibbons. “So we’ll go home feeling good.”

The Blue Jays will open a threegame series at home Friday night against the New York Yankees.

“We’re excited,” Gibbons said. “It seems like we’ve been down in Florida forever. Actually we really have, so it’ll be good to get home in front of a friendly crowd.”

Chris Archer threw six solid innings, Evan Longoria hit a three-run homer and the Rays put together four straight hits off Morrow (0-1) to score

three runs in the third.

Archer (1-0) allowed two runs, four hits, two walks and had seven strikeouts a day after agreeing to a $25.5 million, six-year deal.

Longoria hit Tampa Bay’s only home run of the series off Esmil Rogers in the seventh.

Morrow, who missed the final four months last season due to an entrapped radial nerve in his right forearm, was victimized by consecutive back-to-back choppers through the infield by Desmond Jennings and Ben Zobrist in the Rays’ three-run third.

Longoria followed with a single and it took a double play to limit the damage to three runs.

“It was just one of those things where you think you threw better than the end results,” Morrow said. “But to their credit, they did their job. They

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weren’t trying to do too much. They weren’t giving away at bats.”

Toronto got to 4-2 in the fourth on Dioner Navarro’s sacrifice fly and an RBI infield single from Brett Lawrie.

Tampa Bay right fielder and 2013 AL Rookie of the Year Wil Myers was scratched from the lineup due to flulike symptoms. Infielder-outfielder Sean Rodriguez was placed on the paternity leave list and infielder Vince Belnome was recalled from Triple-A Durham.

NOTES: Gibbons considered challenging an out call at first base in the ninth inning after a ground ball by Lawrie, but was told he was too late.

“Once the pitcher steps on the rubber and the hitter steps in the box, they nullify it,” Gibbons said. “It turned out he was out, but at the time it was questionable.”

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Seahawks and head coach Carroll to announce contract extension THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks have called a news conference for Friday morning amid a report they have reached a contract extension with coach Pete Carroll.

NFL Network reported Thursday night, citing a “source,” that Carroll and the Seahawks had reached agreement on a contract extension. Carroll’s original five-year deal with Seattle was set to expire after the 2014 season.

The Seahawks announcement did not specify the nature of the news conference and team officials would not confirm the report of an extension for Carroll.

Carroll reached the top of the NFL last season, leading the Seahawks to their first Super Bowl title.

Lured away from USC in 2010 with the chance at complete control over the football operations, Carroll tore down then rebuilt the Seahawks roster into one of the best in the NFL. He’s 38-26 in four regular seasons with Seattle and 5-2 in the playoffs.

Carroll has made competition the benchmark of his time in Seattle. It’s why quarterback Russell Wilson and cornerback Richard Sherman have become stars — because they were given opportunities in Carroll’s system.

Carroll, 62, is the second oldest coach in the NFL, but rarely appears his age. He came to Seattle because of the chance he didn’t have in his two previous stops as an NFL head coach: control. Seattle gave him the reins to the franchise, and hired him before adding general manager John Schneider to the mix, a relationship that has been marked by stability and success.

Western Shield senior women’s hockey tournament starts next Thursday Ten teams, including the Red Deer Bandits, will be involved in the Western Shield senior AA/A women’s hockey championship, beginning next Thursday at Kin City Arenas.

There are two divisions with the Bandits in Division A. They see their first action Thursday at 4 p.m. against the ESP Velocity.

They clash with Meadow Ridge Moose of B.C. at 12:30 p.m. and the Manitoba Herd at 6:30p.m.

Friday. They conclude round-robin play April 12 at 2 p.m. against the Saskatchewan Wheat

Queens. All the Red Deer games will be in Arena A. The Edmonton Renegades, Grande Prairie Panthers, the South Fraser TNT of Saskatchewan, the Kamloops Vibe and Assiniboine Community College Cougars of Manitoba are in Division B. The third and fourth place teams in each division meet in bronze medal games April 13 at 10:30 a.m. The top two teams in A Division clash for gold at 1 p.m. in Arena A and the top two teams in Division B meeting at 1:30 p.m. in Arena B.

Canada tops Scotland to qualify for 1-2 Page Playoff at curling worlds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BEIJING — Canada’s Kevin Koe swept his games Thursday to qualify for the 1-2 Page Playoff game at the world men’s curling championship.

Koe and his Calgary-based team opened with an 11-5 win over Germany’s John Jahr at Capital Gymnasium and then locked up second place with a 7-5 victory over Scotland’s Ewan MacDonald.

“We woke up today just worried about making sure that we made the playoffs,” Koe said. “We lose that game and we could be in a tiebreaker or something. The big thing was just to win and get in the playoffs and if we were in the 3-4 game, that was fine with us. We’ve done it before.

“But to get in the 1-2 game with an extra life, that’s a bonus for sure.”

The winner of Saturday’s 1-2 game will advance straight to Sunday’s final. The loser will play the winner of the 3-4 Page Playoff game in the semifinal.

The semifinal winner will play for gold and the loser will fall into the bronze-medal game against the 3-4 loser.

Koe built a big early lead in the opening game after German fourth Felix Schulze crashed his last stone on a guard in the second end. That gave Canada a steal of four and Koe added four more points in the fourth end to put the game out of reach.

In the afternoon draw, Scotland was out of playoff contention but still gave Koe a tough test. The veteran skip took the lead for the first time in the sixth end with a draw for two points.

He sealed the win with a runback double takeout in the 10th end.

“It seems like all of our games, either we’ve won easy or lost easy,” Koe said. “So it’s good for us to have a battle, tied up or close the whole way through, and to pull it out with a shot in the 10th feels good.”

Norway (10-1) closed with a 7-6 extra-end victory over Switzerland’s Peter De Cruz.

“Now we’ve got two chances to go to the final,” Ulsrud said. “I’ve never been world champion, so that’s my dream.”

The Swiss team rebounded for an 8-5 win over the United States in the evening draw to earn the third seed with a 7-4 record. Sweden and Japan also finished at 7-4 and will play a tiebreaker for the

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Canada’s Kevin Koe releases the stone during the match against Scotland at the World Men’s Curling Championship at the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing Thursday. other spot in the 3-4 game.

The Czech Republic and host China were tied in sixth place at 6-5. Germany was next at 5-6, followed by the United States and Scotland at 3-8. Russia and Denmark were tied for last place at 2-9.

Jahr announced his retirement after his German rink closed with a 10-3 rout of Scotland.

Koe won gold in his lone previous appearance at this event, taking top spot at the 2010 playdowns in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Ulsrud, who beat Koe 9-5 earlier this week, is hoping to win Norway’s first world men’s gold since 1998.

“I like where we are considering how hard we’ve had to bat-

tle,” Koe said. “We haven’t always been at our best. If we can find our ’A’ game in the playoffs, I like our chances. And even if we keep playing the way we are, we’re kind of used to it. I’m looking forward (to Saturday).

“They’re a great team and obviously they’ve had a great week.

I don’t think the first time we played them that the score was indicative of the way the game was played, just a couple of missed line calls and it could have been anybody’s game.

“But I like our chances.”

Canada has won gold at this event in three of the last four years and has qualified for the championship game in each of the last nine years.

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GENS: Discouraged Travis Yonkman wasn’t nearly as busy in the Bentley net, but still came up with a handful of stellar stops. Yonkman stoned Mike Lalonde on a breakaway, slid across the crease to take a goal away from JP Villeneuve and made a dazzling pad save on Jeff Lynch.

But overall, the Generals were in command pretty much the whole way.

“Hopefully they’ll be discouraged for tomorrow,” said Bailey. “But I doubt it. They’ll probably come back harder so we’ll have to be ready.”

Based on past experience, Hopper suggested Game 2 will be more competitive.

“Tomorrow night is a new night,” he said. “The same thing happened to us last year up in Fort St. John (during the B.C. senior AAA final versus the Flyers). We lost the first game 7-3 and the radio guys were saying it was all over. Instead, our guys regrouped and made it a five-game series.”

Game 2 goes tonight at 8:30 p.m., with a third game set for Saturday at 3 p.m. Additional games, if needed, will be played Sunday and Monday.

“The story of the series is it’s always going to be a quick turnaround, so we have to put this behind us as soon as we can,” said Bailey. “We have another big game tomorrow and tonight’s all for nothing if we lose.”

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Quick recovery for Mickelson AMONG FIRST-ROUND LEADERS AT HOUSTON OPEN AFTER WITHDRAWING IN SAN ANTONIO

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HUMBLE, Texas — Phil Mickelson did more than prove to just himself that he’s ready for next week’s Masters on Thursday.

The five-time major winner showed to everyone that he’s fully recovered from last week’s muscle pull and likely to be a factor in this week’s Houston Open as well.

Without so much as a practice round this week at the 7,441-yard Golf Club of Houston, Mickelson opened with a 4-under par 68 and was among the leaders following Thursday’s opening round.

The bogey-free performance was a far cry from last week when Mickelson was forced to withdraw during the third round in San Antonio after pulling a muscle in his right side “I’m surprised because I was worried about the Masters,” Mickelson said. “I was certainly worried about Houston, but it healed a lot quicker. I felt great today; didn’t feel any pain or discomfort and didn’t even think about it.”

Mickelson is three shots back of first-round coleaders Bill Haas and Charley Hoffman, both who finished at 7 under. Hass had five birdies on his back nine, while Hoffman needed just 27 putts to earn a share of the lead.

Keegan Bradley and Matt Kuchar lead a group of five golfers at 6 under. J.B. Holmes, Erik Compton and Jim Renner are also at 6 under, with 10 golfers are at 5 under.

Of the 144 players in the field, 113 finished at even par or under on an overcast and occasionally misty day.

“The greens are absolutely perfect,” Haas said.

“I think the scores are reflective on that. They were a little slower, but part of that, too, is the weather.

It was like a little dewy mist out there all day, which played a part in the speed of the greens.”

Mickelson and Bradley were part of a threesome with Webb Simpson, who also finished 4 under. All three players in the group navigated the course without a bogey in their morning rounds.

Former world No. 1 Rory McIlroy, playing in the afternoon and one of the five top-10 players in the world in the tournament, finished with a 2-under 70.

While Haas and Hoffman shared the lead after Thursday’s play, it was Mickelson — who was forced to withdraw during last week’s third round in San Antonio after pulling a muscle in his right side — who was the centre of attention leading into next week at Augusta National.

Mickelson has won the Masters three times, the latest coming in 2010, but his status was in doubt fol-

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Hunter Mahan hits out of a bunker on the eight hole during the first round of the Houston Open golf tournament on Thursday, in Humble Texas. lowing last week’s injury.

The left-hander, however, underwent treatment in the days following his departure from San Antonio — along with fitting in two days of light practice at Augusta National — and appeared in top ball-striking form on Thursday.

“One of the things I really worked on hard today was staying focused on each shot,” Mickelson said. “I needed to play here this week and really challenge myself in that regard to give myself the best chance for next week.”

Opening on the back nine at the former Redstone Golf Club, which was renamed the Gold Club of Houston following an ownership change, Mickelson was bogey free despite needing 31 putts.

He made the turn at 2 under following a 16-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th, and he birdied both of the par 5s on his back nine to put himself squarely

in contention. Mickelson won the Houston Open in 2011, and the course’s Masters-like setup — including slick greens and tight rough — is a key reason he’s returned every year since.

“He was striking it, he was hitting it long and great,” Bradley said of Mickelson. “He seems like it was feeling a lot better today than it was in San Antonio.”

Kuchar, who finished tied for fourth at last week’s Texas Open, had three straight birdies in the middle of his round on Thursday — highlighted by a 47-foot birdie putt on the 445-yard par-4 second hole.

McIlroy, one of five of the top 10 players in the world in the field, was as low as 3 under before a pair of bogeys on the back nine.

World No. 10 Dustin Johnson withdrew following an opening 8-over par 80.

Feng takes early lead at Kraft Nabisco MICHELLE WIE, SE RI PAK ONE SHOT BACK IN LPGA’S FIRST MAJOR

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Amy Yang hits from a bunker on the 15th hole during the first round at the Kraft Nabisco Championship golf tournament Thursday in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Yang finished the round at 68.

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Angel Yin was asked if there was a player she wanted to meet this week at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, but was too shy to approach.

“Michelle Wie,” said Yin, the 15-year-old high school freshman who shot a 4-under 68 on Thursday to finish a stroke behind her idol after the first round.

“If she sat next to me and said ’Hi’ to me, I’d probably run.”

The 24-year-old Wie laughed when told about Yin’s response.

“It’s crazy,” Wie said. “These girls are starting to make me feel really old.”

Wie played a four-hole stretch in 5 under, showing off all the talent that made her a star in her early teens and helped attract players like Yin to golf.

“I just felt comfortable out there,” Wie said.

Wie ended up a stroke behind leader Shanshan Feng, lipping out a 3-foot par putt on the par-3 17th and settling for par and a 67 on the par-5 18th.

“I’ll take it,” Wie said. “I’ll take a 67 here.”

Feng shot a 66 in perfect morning conditions at Mission Hills in the first major championship of the year. The 24-year-old Chinese player had seven birdies and a bogey.

“This morning, it was playing easier because there was no wind,” Feng said.

Wie birdied the par-5 ninth and par4 10th, made a 25-foot eagle putt on the par-5 11th and moved into a tie for the lead with a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-4 12th.

She got up-and-down for par from near a steep face in a bunker on the par-4 15th, hitting to 1 ½ feet with her left foot almost 2 feet above her right.

“Just was aggressive on the holes I

needed to be and conservative on the other holes,” Wie said Wie is making her 12th start in the tournament. She was ninth in 2003 at age 13, fourth the following year and tied for third at 16 in 2006.

“I think when you’re younger you’re kind of fearless,” Wie said. “You don’t know what failure is.”

Wie has two LPGA Tour victories, winning the 2009 Lorena Ochoa Invitational in Mexico and the 2010 Canadian Women’s Open. She has been in the top 16 in all five of her starts this year, finishing a season-best fourth in Thailand.

“I’m so grateful to have rounds like these,” Wie said.

Feng won the 2012 LPGA Championship to become the tour’s first Chinese winner and had two victories late last year. She tied for 16th last week in the Kia Classic.

“The beginning of this year I was kind of a little lost because I lost a little weight and my swing kind of changed a little,” Feng said. “I wasn’t swinging very comfortably.”

Paired with 58-year-old Hall of Famer Amy Alcott, Feng rebounded from a bogey on 15 with a birdie on par-4 16th and closed with two pars.

“I made a bogey on 15, and she was like, ’OK, let’s make two birdies back in the last three holes,”’ Feng said.

“I was like, ’Yes, ma’am.’ Then I only made one.”

Alcott shot an 81 in her 36th start in the event she won in 1983, 1988 and 1991. In 1988, she became the first player to take the now-traditional victory leap into Poppie’s Pond.

“She was very sweet starting off and we were talkative,” Alcott said. “She hits it very solid. Just a very, very talented young player.”

Se Ri Pak birdied her final hole to match Wie at 67. The 36-year-old Pak won the last of her five major titles in 2006.

Olympic champion Moyse keeping options open BOBSLED COMPETITOR LOVES ATHLETIC CHALLENGES BUT NOT READY TO DECIDE ON RETURN AS AN ATHLETE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Olympic bobsled champion Heather Moyse has barely had time to catch her breath since returning home from the Sochi Games.

After a welcome-home celebration in Summerside, P.E.I., she has been busy criss-crossing the country in recent weeks for speaking engagements, meetings and sponsorship appearances.

Like usual, Moyse’s daytimer is full and she’s been racking up the air miles. But for the first time in ages, there is no firm sporting goal in sight.

“I just need to sit and do nothing,” Moyse said.

“But I have no doubt I will have that itch to get physical again.”

The question is which sport will be next on her list?

In addition to her bobsled dominance with pilot Kaillie Humphries, Moyse has competed at the last two women’s rugby World Cup tournaments. She has ruled out playing at the 2014 event this summer in

France.

Moyse also reached an elite level in track cycling when she gave that sport a try.

She’s 35 now and isn’t sure where her path will take her. Moyse plans to continue with her motivational speeches and will head to China this August to serve as an athlete role model at the Youth Olympics in Nanjing.

“There’s a part of me that misses something like that totally different life than being an athlete,” Moyse said in a recent interview.

“But I don’t know. I really hope that if a lot of this motivational stuff takes off, I can see myself doing a little bit of life coaching, especially for younger athletes or for young adults who are trying to have maybe the courage to change paths and do something different.”

Moyse and Humphries successfully defended their Olympic title at the Sanki Sliding Center last February.

The victory came just three months after Moyse returned to the World Cup circuit with a victory

in her first race after taking a long break from the sport. She had returned to the Calgary training centre just weeks before that and wowed the national bobsled brass with a record push time.

The mission was classic Moyse — try to conquer a big goal and in doing so, raise the bar even higher.

“I almost feel like a rejuvenated athlete,” she said.

“And for me, I love those athletic challenges. So although yes, I want a break, I feel like I would want to find something (later on). It may not be bobsledding, it may not even be rugby or cycling, I have no idea.

“I’m not ready to decide on where my focus is going to be but I see myself wanting to do that.”

Moyse has time to consider her options. Rugby sevens will make its debut at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janiero.

A return to the bobsled for the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea is also a possibility.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Florida Buffalo

77 76

27 21

42 46

8 9

62 51

184 146

254 226

WESTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-St. Louis 76 52 17 7 111 243 169 x-Anaheim 76 50 18 8 108 247 193 x-San Jose 77 48 20 9 105 237 188 x-Colorado 76 49 21 6 104 233 206 x-Chicago 77 43 19 15 101 251 202 x-Los Angeles 77 45 26 6 96 195 162 Minnesota 77 39 26 12 90 191 194 Dallas 76 37 28 11 85 220 216 Phoenix 77 36 28 13 85 207 218 Vancouver 77 34 32 11 79 185 209 Winnipeg 78 34 34 10 78 216 230 Nashville 76 33 32 11 77 190 229 Calgary 77 32 38 7 71 198 227 Edmonton 77 26 42 9 61 190 257 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division

EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Brandon (7) (Edmonton leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result Edmonton 5 Brandon 0 Saturday’s game Brandon at Edmonton, 12 p.m.

Tuesday, April 8 Edmonton at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 9 Edmonton at Brandon, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 11 x-Brandon at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Medicine Hat (4) vs. Kootenay (6) Saturday’s game Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday’s game Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, April 9 Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 10 Medicine Hat at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Saturday, April 12 x-Kootenay at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 2, Ottawa 1 Detroit 3, Boston 2 Anaheim 3, Edmonton 2 Los Angeles 4, Phoenix 0 Thursday’s Games Chicago 3, Minnesota 2, SO Colorado 3, N.Y. Rangers 2, SO Columbus 2, Philadelphia 0 Carolina 4, Dallas 1 Toronto 4, Boston 3, OT Calgary 4, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 2, Buffalo 1 Pittsburgh 4, Winnipeg 2 Los Angeles at San Jose, late

WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelowna (1) vs. Seattle (5) (Kelowna leads series 1-0) Thursday’s result Kelowna 6 Kelowna 2 Saturday’s game Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, April 8 Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, April 9 Kelowna at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

Friday, April 11 x-Seattle at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Rockets 6, Thunderbirds 2 First Period 1. Kelowna, Linaker 2 (Goulbourne) 2:16.

2. Kelowna, Chartier 4 (Severson, Cooke) 4:32 (pp).

3. Seattle, Barzal 1 (Hickman, Gropp) 7:44.

4. Kelowna, Severson 1 (Merkley, Stadel) 19:42 (pp).

Penalties — Bowey Kel (interference) 0:15, Theodore Sea (high-sticking) 3:34, Troock Sea (slashing) 13:37, Elliot Sea (boarding) 17:53.

Second Period 5. Seattle, Delnov 2 (unassisted) 3:07.

6. Kelowna, Olsen 2 (Merkley, Severson) 13:04 (pp).

7. Kelowna, Bowey 2 (Linaker) 19:49.

Penalties — Troock Sea (roughing) 10:10, Wardley Sea (checking to the head) 12:15, Eansor Sea (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 20:00, Baillie Kel (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 20:00.

Third Period 8. Kelowna, Severson 2 (Kirkland, Olsen) :24.

Penalties — Elliot Sea (tripping) 2:31, Kirkland Kel (high-sticking) 4:28, Merkley Kel (slashing) 15:09.

Shots on goal Seattle 9 10 6 — 25 Kelowna 13 16 6 — 35 Goal — Seattle: Kozun (L, 0-2-0); Kelowna: Cooke (W, 0-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Seattle: 0-3; Kelowna: 3-6.

Oil Kings 5, Wheat Kings 0 First Period 1. Edmonton, Pollock 4 (Kulda, Reinhart) 1:50.

2. Edmonton, Eller 1 (Bertolucci, Irving) 2:25.

Penalties — Moroz Edm (elbowing) 5:43, Samuelsson Edm (interference) 11:41.

Second Period 3. Edmonton, Sautner 1 (Reinhart, Pollock) 12:22 (pp).

4. Edmonton, Kulda 2 (Lazar) 17:25.

Penalties — Gabrielle Bra (holding) 10:47, Hawryluk Bra (cross-checking) 20:00.

Third Period 5. Edmonton, Samuelsson 1 (Lazar, Mayo) :47 (pp).

Penalties — Waltz Bra (holding) 1:13, Hawryluk Bra (delay of game) 3:23, Pilon Bra (roughing) 6:54, Quenneville Bra (roughing) 12:50, Quenneville Bra (interference) 18:23.

Shots on goal Brandon 3 8 4 — 15 Edmonton 12 19 14 — 45 Goal — Brandon: Papirny (L, 0-1-0); Power plays (goal-chances)Brandon: 0-2; Edmonton: 2-7.

GF 246 237 200 210 227 213 205 212 227 217 186 195 219 212

GA 165 191 192 187 206 213 215 203 244 231 198 212 252 250

Shootout — Colorado wins 1-0 NY Rangers : Zuccarello miss, St. Louis miss, Richards miss.

Colorado : Barrie goal, O’Reilly miss, Landeskog miss.

Shots on goal NY Rangers 8 15 3 5 — 31 Colorado 9 7 16 5 — 37 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (LO, 31-23-5); Colorado: Varlamov (W, 39-14-5).

Power plays (goal-chances) — NY Rangers: 0-5; Colorado: 0-4.

Blue Jackets 2, Flyers 0 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Letestu Clb (slashing) 1:02, Read Pha (hooking) 10:54, Foligno Clb (hooking) 13:51, Calvert Clb (boarding) 17:31.

Second Period 1. Columbus, Wisniewski 7 (Letestu, Tyutin) 17:07 (pp).

Penalties — Streit Pha (delay of game) 6:41, Johansen Clb (hooking) 8:37, Couturier Pha (slashing) 15:13.

Third Period 2. Columbus, Dubinsky 16 (Atkinson, Wisniewski) 3:20.

Penalties — Giroux Pha (slashing) 19:37.

Shots on goal Columbus 9 9 9 — 27 Philadelphia 10 17 10 — 37 Goal — Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 28-19-5); Philadelphia: Mason (L, 31-18-7).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Columbus: 1-4; Philadelphia: 0-4.

Hurricanes 4, Stars 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Bellemore Car (tripping) 12:20.

Second Period 1. Carolina, Staal 19 (Liles, Dwyer) 2:30.

2. Carolina, Faulk 5 (Liles, Terry) 4:08 (pp).

3. Carolina, Liles 2 (Terry, Faulk) 7:06 (pp).

4. Dallas, Seguin 34 (Nichushkin, Daley) 9:44.

Penalties — Nemeth Dal (delay of game) 2:46, Nemeth Dal (hooking) 6:16, Gerbe Car (tripping) 19:47.

Third Period 5. Carolina, Nash 10 (Bellemore) 7:40.

Penalties — Chiasson Dal (high-sticking) 11:00, Garbutt Dal (slashing) 12:08, Benn Dal (slashing) 13:12, Seguin Dal (misconduct) 13:12, Garbutt Dal (misconduct) 14:26, Staal Car (hooking) 15:56.

Shots on goal Dallas 13 10 11 — 34 Carolina 8 11 13 — 32 Goal — Dallas: Lehtonen (L, 30-19-10); Carolina: Khudobin (W, 18-12-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Dallas: 0-3; Carolina: 2-5.

Friday’s Games Montreal at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Washington at New Jersey, 5 p.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Calgary at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Anaheim, 8 p.m.

Portland (2) vs. Victoria (3) Friday’s game Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s game Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m.

Monday, April 7 Portland at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, April 8 Portland at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Thursday, April 10 x-Victoria at Portland, 8 p.m. x — if necessary.

Saturday’s Games Philadelphia at Boston, 11 a.m.

Colorado at St. Louis, noon Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 3 p.m.

Winnipeg at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

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

New Jersey at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

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

Thursday’s summaries Flames 4, Lightning 1 First Period 1. Calgary, Cammalleri 25 (unassisted) 10:20.

2. Calgary, Westgarth 4 (Breen) 10:35.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. Tampa Bay, Palat 20 (Carle, Callahan) 15:56.

Penalties — Brodie Cgy (cross-checking) 0:26, Killorn TB (holding) 6:20, Butler Cgy (slashing) 9:36.

Third Period 4. Calgary, Glencross 11 (Cammalleri, Russell) 18:04 (pp).

5. Calgary, Glencross 12 (unassisted) 19:44 (en).

Penalties — Giordano Cgy (tripping) 4:27, Brewer TB (tripping) 17:41.

Shots on goal Calgary 8 10 7 — 25 Tampa Bay 5 15 12 — 32 Goal — Calgary: Ramo (W, 15-13-4); Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 37-13-7).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 1-2; Tampa Bay: 0-3.

Blackhawks 3, Wild 2 (SO) First Period 1. Minnesota, Coyle 11 (Spurgeon, Suter) 14:19.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Chicago, Smith 11 (Saad, Leddy) 2:29.

Penalties — Versteeg Chi (slashing) 10:06, Haula Minn (roughing) 13:15, Minn Bench (too many men) 13:15, Morin Chi (roughing) 13:15.

Third Period 3. Chicago, Bickell 11 (Morin) 2:45.

4. Minnesota, Haula 4 (Fontaine) 18:06.

Penalties — None.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Shootout — Chicago wins 1-0 Minnesota : Parise miss, Koivu miss, Pominville miss.

Chicago : Sharp miss, Hossa goal, Smith miss.

Shots on goal Minnesota 9 10 6 2 — 27 Chicago 5 10 8 3 — 26 Goal — Minnesota: Bryzgalov (LO, 9-8-8); Chicago: Crawford (W, 30-15-10).

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

Avalanche 3, Rangers 2 (SO) First Period 1. NY Rangers, Moore 4 (Zuccarello, Pouliot) 2:10.

Penalties — Dorsett NYR (slashing) 13:33, Landeskog Col (hooking) 16:50.

Second Period 2. Colorado, Benoit 7 (Mitchell, O’Reilly) 5:57.

3. NY Rangers, Stepan 16 (Klein, Girardi) 15:30.

Penalties — Brassard NYR (hooking) 8:38, McLeod Col (holding) 11:10, Mitchell Col (interference) 15:55, Brassard NYR (holding) 19:11, Landeskog Col (tripping) 19:40.

Third Period 4. Colorado, Barrie 11 (Stastny, Johnson) 19:08.

Penalties — Moore NYR (slashing) 2:29, Landeskog Col (slashing) 7:26.

Overtime No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Maple Leafs 4, Bruins 3 (OT) First Period 1. Toronto, Ranger 5 (D’Amigo, Rielly) 6:00.

2. Boston, Marchand 23 (Bergeron) 6:56.

3. Toronto, Bozak 18 (Kessel, Franson) 19:48.

Penalties — Lucic Bos (roughing) 8:48.

Second Period 4. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 30 (Kessel) :52.

Penalties — Miller Bos (tripping) 11:13, Lucic Bos (fighting) 11:13, Clarkson Tor (fighting) 11:13.

Third Period 5. Boston, Lucic 22 (Krejci, Bartkowski) 5:03.

6. Boston, Bergeron 28 (Marchand, Miller) 12:51.

Penalties — Ranger Tor (interference) 8:22, Kulemin Tor (holding) 18:46.

Overtime 7. Toronto, Kadri 19 (Franson, Gardiner) 2:51 (pp).

Penalties — Krug Bos (holding) 1:52.

Shots on goal Boston 11 9 17 1 — 38 Toronto 10 11 5 5 — 31 Goal — Boston: Johnson (LO, 17-3-2); Toronto: Reimer (W, 12-13-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Boston: 0-2; Toronto: 1-3.

Blues 2, Sabres 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 1. St. Louis, Lapierre 8 (Reaves) 1:59.

Penalties — Flynn Buf (interference) 3:57, Morrow StL (high-sticking) 8:14, Sobotka StL (holding) 11:08.

Third Period 2. St. Louis, Morrow 13 (Sobotka, Schwartz) 18:08.

3. Buffalo, Hodgson 18 (Ennis, Leino) 19:04 (pp).

Penalties — D’Agostini Buf (slashing) 3:12, Backes StL (interference) 18:50.

Shots on goal Buffalo 3 10 12 — 25 St. Louis 6 10 12 — 28 Goal — Buffalo: Lieuwen (L, 1-3-0); St. Louis: Elliott (W, 18-5-2).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Buffalo: 1-3; St. Louis: 0-2.

Penguins 4, Jets 2 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Bennett 3 (Crosby, Jokinen) 12:44.

Penalties — Stuart Wpg (tripping) 10:44, Pyatt Pgh (hooking) 19:29.

Second Period 2. Winnipeg, Jokinen 17 (Wheeler, Byfuglien) 2:52.

3. Winnipeg, Redmond 1 (Kane, Halischuk) 9:42.

4. Pittsburgh, Adams 5 (Stempniak) 18:47.

Penalties — Scuderi Pgh (tripping) 5:35.

Third Period 5. Pittsburgh, Martin 3 (Neal, Crosby) 7:42 (pp).

6. Pittsburgh, Gibbons 5 (unassisted) 16:24.

Penalties — Stuart Wpg (hooking) 7:31, Crosby Pgh (interference) 10:25.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 8 6 7 — 21 Winnipeg 6 6 3 — 15 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 37-18-4); Winnipeg: Pavelec (L, 21-26-7).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Pittsburgh: 1-2; Winnipeg: 0-3.

Baseball Boston Tampa Bay Toronto Baltimore New York

American League East Division W L Pct 2 1 .667 2 2 .500 2 2 .500 1 2 .333 1 2 .333

Detroit Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City

Central Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 2 1 .667 2 1 .667 1 2 .333 0 2 .000

Seattle Houston Texas Oakland Los Angeles

West Division W L Pct 3 0 1.000 2 1 .667 2 1 .667 1 2 .333 0 3 .000

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2014

Local Sports

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

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE GP W L OT Pts y-Boston 77 52 18 7 111 y-Pittsburgh 77 49 23 5 103 x-Montreal 77 43 27 7 93 N.Y. Rangers 78 43 30 5 91 x-Tampa Bay 77 42 26 9 93 Philadelphia 76 39 28 9 87 Detroit 76 36 26 14 86 Columbus 76 39 30 7 85 Toronto 78 38 32 8 84 Washington 76 34 29 13 81 New Jersey 76 32 28 16 80 Carolina 77 34 32 11 79 Ottawa 76 32 30 14 78 N.Y. Islanders 76 31 35 10 72

B4

GB — 1/2 1/2 1 1 GB — 1/2 1/2 1 1/2 2 GB — 1 1 2 3

Milwaukee (Estrada 0-0) at Boston (Peavy 0-0), 12:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Pelfrey 0-0) at Cleveland (Salazar 0-0), 1:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (E.Johnson 0-0) at Kansas City (Guthrie 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 0-0) at Toronto (McGowan 0-0), 5:07 p.m.

Texas (Saunders 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Odorizzi 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 0-0) at Houston (Harrell 0-0), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (C.Young 0-0) at Oakland (Straily 0-0), 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Cleveland, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Yankees at Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Baltimore at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Chicago White Sox at Kansas City, 12:10 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Houston, 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

Texas at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m.

Washington Miami Atlanta Philadelphia New York

National League East Division W L Pct 3 0 1.000 3 1 .750 2 1 .667 1 2 .333 0 3 .000

GB — 1/2 1 2 3

Thursday’s Games Kansas City at Detroit, ppd., rain Minnesota 10, Chicago White Sox 9 Boston 4, Baltimore 3 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 2 N.Y. Yankees 4, Houston 2 Seattle at Oakland, late

Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 2 1 .667 2 1 .667 1 2 .333 1 2 .333 1 2 .333

GB — — 1 1 1

Friday’s Games Baltimore (M.Gonzalez 0-0) at Detroit (A.Sanchez 0-0), 11:08 a.m.

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego

West Division W L Pct 4 1 .800 3 1 .750 1 2 .333

GB — 1/2 2

Wednesday’s Games Detroit 2, Kansas City 1, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 7, Minnesota 6, 11 innings Oakland 6, Cleveland 1, 1st game Boston 6, Baltimore 2 Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 0 Texas 4, Philadelphia 3 Houston 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 Cleveland 6, Oakland 4, 2nd game Seattle 8, L.A. Angels 2

Colorado Arizona

1 1

3 5

.250 .167

2 1/2 3 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Atlanta 1, Milwaukee 0 Pittsburgh 4, Chicago Cubs 3, 16 innings Colorado 6, Miami 5 Cincinnati 1, St. Louis 0 Washington 5, N.Y. Mets 1 Texas 4, Philadelphia 3 San Francisco 2, Arizona 0 L.A. Dodgers 5, San Diego 1 Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 6 Miami 8, Colorado 5 Washington 8, N.Y. Mets 2 San Francisco 8, Arizona 5 Friday’s Games Atlanta (Hale 0-0) at Washington (Zimmermann 0-0), 11:05 a.m.

Milwaukee (Estrada 0-0) at Boston (Peavy 0-0), 12:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (R.Hernandez 0-0) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 0-0), 12:20 p.m.

Arizona (Delgado 0-0) at Colorado (Nicasio 0-0), 2:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Vogelsong 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 1-0), 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Miller 0-0) at Pittsburgh (Cole 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Cincinnati (Leake 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (Mejia 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

San Diego (Stults 0-0) at Miami (Koehler 0-0), 5:10 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Cincinnati at N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago Cubs, 12:20 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Dodgers, 2:10 p.m.

Atlanta at Washington, 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

San Diego at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Arizona at Colorado, 6:10 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Montreal D Douglas Murray for three games, without pay, for an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay D Michael Kostka during a game on April 1.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled D Nathan Beaulieu from Hamilton (AHL).

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Assigned D Marc Cantin from Bridgeport (AHL) to Stockton (ECHL).

American Hockey League BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed F Josh Holmstrom to an amateur tryout contract. Released F Brock Montpetit.

GRAND RAPIDS GRIFFINS — Announced assistant coach Spiros Anastas will become hockey coach at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta after the conclusion of the team’s Calder Cup playoff run.

HARTFORD WOLF PACK — Signed D Justin Baker to an amateur tryout contract.

BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with C George Kottaras on a minor league contract and assigned him to Columbus (IL).

DETROIT TIGERS — Claimed LHP Mike Belfiore off waivers from Baltimore.

MINNESOTA TWINS — Reinstated LHP Brian Duensing from paternity leave. Optioned RHP Michael Tonkin to Rochester (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Voided the March 29 option of INF Jake Elmore to Sacramento (PCL) and placed him on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 28. Assigned OF Michael Taylor and INF Hiro Nakajima outright to Sacramento.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed INF-OF Sean Rodriguez on paternity leave. Recalled INF Vince Belnome from Durham (IL).

National League NEW YORK METS — Placed OF Chris Young on the 15-day DL. Activated 2B Daniel Murphy from

paternity leave.

American Association AMARILLO SOX — Signed OF Jason Martin.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES — Signed OF TJ Mittlestaedt.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed RHP Eric Brooks and LHP Ryan Carpenter.

SIOUX FALLS CANARIES — Signed 1B AJ Kirby-Jones and INF Stephen Branca. Released LHP Jack Van Leur and INF Anthony Trajano.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Waived F Erik Murphy.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Announced Mary Wilson is the controlling owner.

CHICAGO BEARS — Agreed to terms with T Eben Britton on a one-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed S Danieal Manning.

Today

● Bowling: Heritage Lanes Traditional Open, noon start. ● Midget AAA hockey: First game of best-of-three Pacific Cup (Alberta/B.C.) championship, 5 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● Senior AAA hockey: Second game of best-of-five McKenzie Cup (Alberta/B.C.) championship — Powell River Regals vs.

Bentley Generals, 8:30 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Saturday

● Bowling: Heritage Lanes Traditional Open, 9 a.m. start. ● Senior AAA hockey: Third game of best-of-five McKenzie Cup (Alberta/B.C.) championship — Powell River Regals

vs. Bentley Generals, 3 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● Midget AAA hockey: Second game of best-of-three Pacific Cup (Alberta/B.C.) championship, 7 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Sunday ● Bowling: Heritage Lanes Traditional Open, 9 a.m. start, finals at 4 p.m. ● Midget AAA hockey: Third game of best-of-three Pacific Cup (Alberta/B.C.) championship, if necessary, 2 p.m., Red Deer Arena. ● Senior AAA hockey: Fourth game of best-of-five McKenzie Cup (Alberta/B.C.) championship, if necessasry — Powell River Regals vs. Bentley Generals, 7:30 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Miami 52 22 .703 — y-Indiana 53 23 .697 — x-Toronto 43 32 .573 9 x-Chicago 43 32 .573 9 x-Brooklyn 40 34 .541 12 x-Washington 39 36 .520 13 Charlotte 37 38 .493 15 New York 33 43 .434 20 Atlanta 32 42 .432 20 Cleveland 31 45 .408 22 Detroit 27 48 .360 25 Boston 23 52 .307 29 Orlando 21 54 .280 31 Philadelphia 16 59 .213 36 Milwaukee 14 61 .187 38 WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-San Antonio 59 17 .776 — x-Oklahoma City 55 19 .743 3 y-L.A. Clippers 54 22 .711 5 Houston 49 25 .662 9 Portland 49 27 .645 10 Golden State 46 29 .613 12 Dallas 44 31 .587 14 Memphis 44 31 .587 14 Phoenix 44 31 .587 14 Minnesota 37 37 .500 21 Denver 33 42 .440 25 New Orleans 32 43 .427 26 Sacramento 27 48 .360 31 L.A. Lakers 25 50 .333 33 Utah 23 52 .307 35 x-clinched playoff spot; y-clinched division

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

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

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

Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 119, Orlando 98

Indiana 101, Detroit 94 Washington 118, Boston 92 Charlotte 123, Philadelphia 93 New York 110, Brooklyn 81 Toronto 107, Houston 103 Miami 96, Milwaukee 77 Chicago 105, Atlanta 92 Minnesota 102, Memphis 88 San Antonio 111, Golden State 90 Denver 137, New Orleans 107 L.A. Clippers 112, Phoenix 108 Sacramento 107, L.A. Lakers 102 Thursday’s Games Oklahoma City 106, San Antonio 94 Dallas at L.A. Clippers, late Friday’s Games Denver at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

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

Milwaukee at Chicago, 6 p.m.

New Orleans at Utah, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 8 p.m.

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

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

Saturday’s Games Minnesota at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 5:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Curling 2014 World Men’s Curling Championship BEIJING — Standings and results Thursday following the tiebraker at the 2014 Men’s World Curling Championship, to be held through Sunday: Country (Skip) W L x-Norway (Ulsrud) 10 1 x-Canada (Koe) 8 3 x-Switzerland (de Cruz) 7 4 t-Sweden (O.Eriksson) 7 4 t-Japan (Y.Morozumi) 7 4 China (R.Liu) 6 5 Czech Republic (Snitil) 6 5 Germany (J.Jahr) 5 6 Scotland (E.MacDonald) 3 8 U.S. (Fenson) 3 8 Russia (Drozdov) 2 9 Denmark (Stjerne) 2 9 x — clinched playoff berth. t — will play tiebreaker.

Czech Republic 8 Germany 4 Scotland 7 Russia 5 Switzerland 8 Sweden 6 Draw 14 Sweden 6 Canada 2 Japan 8 Germany 7 Norway 11 Russia 2 U.S. 6 Denmark 5 (extra end) Draw 15 Canada 11 Germany 5 Norway 6 U.S. 4 Russia 6 Denmark 5 Sweden 11 Japan 4 End of Round Robin Tiebreaker Thursday’s result Sweden (O.Eriksson) 8 Japan (Y.Morozumi) 7 PLAYOFFS Friday’s games Page Playoffs One vs. Two Norway (Ulsrud) vs. Canada (Koe), 5 a.m.

Three vs. Four Switzerland (de Cruz) vs. Sweden (O.Eriksson), 9 p.m.

Saturday’s games Semifinal One-Two loser vs. Three-Four winner, 2 a.m.

Bronze Medal Semifinal loser vs. Three-Four loser, 8 p.m.

Sunday’s game Gold Medal One-Two winner vs. Semifinal winner, 1 a.m.

Thursday’s rsults Draw 16 Canada 7 Scotland 5 Norway 7 Switzerland 6 (extra end) China 6 Japan 4 Czech Republic 8 Denmark 7 Draw 17 Czech Republic 10 Russia 6 Germany 10 Scotland 3 Sweden 6 China 5 Switzerland 8 U.S. 5 Wednesday’s results Draw 13 China 8 U.S. 4

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Columbus 3 3 0 0 7 Kansas City 4 2 1 1 5 Houston 3 2 1 0 6 Toronto 3 2 1 0 3 Philadelphia 4 1 1 2 4 New England 4 1 2 1 2 Chicago 4 0 1 3 6 New York 4 0 1 3 4 Montreal 4 0 3 1 3 D.C. 3 0 2 1 2 Western Conference GP W L T GF Dallas 4 3 0 1 9 Salt Lake 4 2 0 2 8 Vancouver 4 2 0 2 7 Seattle 4 2 2 0 5 Chivas 4 1 1 2 6 Colorado 3 1 1 1 5 Portland 4 0 2 2 3 Los Angeles 2 0 1 1 1 San Jose 3 0 2 1 4

GA 2 4 2 4 4 6 7 7 7 6 GA 5 4 3 4 7 4 6 2 6

Pt 9 7 6 6 5 4 3 3 1 1 Pt 10 8 8 6 5 4 2 1 1

Saturday’s games Seattle at Portland, 1 p.m.

New York at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Philadelphia at Chicago, 3 p.m.

Toronto at Columbus, 4 p.m.

Colorado at Vancouver, 4:30 p.m.

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

Dallas at Houston, 6 p.m.

Salt Lake at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Los Angeles at Chivas, 1 p.m.

Saturday, April 12 Salt Lake at Philadelphia, 2 p.m.

Colorado at Toronto, 2 p.m.

Chicago at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Houston at New England, 3 p.m.

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

Seattle at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Chivas at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 13 Columbus at San Jose, 1 p.m.

Lacrosse National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct. GF x-Rochester 13 9 4 .692 149 Buffalo 13 8 5 .615 141 Philadelphia 14 5 9 .357 157 Toronto 14 5 9 .357 171 Minnesota 13 3 10 .231 129

GA GB 119 — 137 1 171 4 1/2 180 4 1/2 157 6

West Division GP W L Pct. GF GA x-Edmonton 13 13 0 1.000 162 106 Calgary 13 8 5 .615 169 157

GB — 5

Colorado 14 5 9 .357 149 184 8 1/2 Vancouver 13 4 9 .308 141 157 9 x — clinched playoff berth.

Friday’s games Calgary at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Rochester at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Calgary at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Golf PGA-Houston Open Thursday At Golf Club of Houston, The Tournament Humble, Texas Purse: $6.4 million Yardage: 7,441; Par: 72 (36-36) First Round Bill Haas 30-35 — Charley Hoffman 32-33 — Keegan Bradley 34-32 — Matt Kuchar 34-32 — J.B. Holmes 32-34 — Erik Compton 34-32 — Jim Renner 33-33 — Stewart Cink 35-32 — Michael Thompson 31-36 — Ben Curtis 34-33 — Camilo Villegas 36-31 — Justin Hicks 31-36 — Sergio Garcia 34-33 — Charl Schwartzel 32-35 — Jhonnattan Vegas 34-33 — Jason Gore 35-32 — Shawn Stefani 33-34 — Joe Ogilvie 33-35 — Ernie Els 34-34 — Webb Simpson 34-34 — Phil Mickelson 34-34 — Chris Kirk 35-33 — Jonathan Byrd 34-34 — Angel Cabrera 35-33 — Retief Goosen 33-35 — Chris Stroud 34-34 — Andrew Loupe 37-31 — Michael Putnam 35-33 — Cameron Tringale 35-33 — Matt Jones 36-32 — Bryce Molder 36-32 — John Rollins 34-34 —

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Steve Stricker Davis Love III Freddie Jacobson Martin Flores Brice Garnett Brendan Steele Paul Goydos Greg Chalmers Padraig Harrington Ryo Ishikawa Kyle Stanley Charlie Beljan Chad Collins Peter Uihlein Matteo Manassero Brendon Todd Trevor Immelman

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LPGA-Kraft Nabisco Championship RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Scores Thursday from the $2-million LPGA-Kraft Nabisco Championship, played at the par-72 (36-36), 6,738-yard Mission Hills Country Club, Dinah Shore Tournament Course: First Round a-denotes amateur Shanshan Feng 33-33 — 66 Se Ri Pak 34-33 — 67 Michelle Wie 34-33 — 67 Amy Yang 33-35 — 68 a-Angel Yin 33-35 — 68 Cristie Kerr 34-35 — 69 Jennifer Rosales 34-35 — 69 Jiyai Shin 34-35 — 69 Chella Choi 33-37 — 70 Tiffany Joh 35-35 — 70 Haeji Kang 36-34 — 70 Morgan Pressel 35-35 — 70 So Yeon Ryu 35-35 — 70

RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 4, 2014 B5

Blues set record with win over Sabres NHL ROUNDUP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BLUES 2 SABRES 1 ST. LOUIS — Brian Elliott stopped 24 shots, and the St. Louis Blues beat the Buffalo Sabres 2-1 on Thursday night for their franchise-record 52nd victory.

Maxim Lapierre and Brenden Morrow scored as St. Louis improved to 14-2-0 in their last 16 games against Buffalo. The previous record for wins in a season belonged to the 1999-2000 Blues, who won 51 games on their way to their last Presidents’ Trophy.

Elliott’s shutout string ended at 166 minutes, 33 seconds, but he still moved to 18-5-2 overall and 10-1 at home this season. He was coming off a 1-0 win at Pittsburgh when he had 33 stops.

St. Louis (52-17-7) also moved into a tie with Boston for the most points in the league with 111. The Bruins lost 4-3 to Toronto in overtime.

Buffalo’s Cody Hodgson scored a power-play goal at 19:04 of the third period.

MAPLE LEAFS 4, BRUINS 3, OT TORONTO (AP) — Nazem Kadri scored 2:51 into overtime, giving Toronto the win.

Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic and Patrice Bergeron scored for Boston, which lost back-to-back games for the first time since Feb. 26 and March 1.

Chad Johnson made 27 saves.

Bergeron tied it at 12:51 of the third against backup goalie James Reimer, after Lucic scored 5:03 into the final period.

Paul Ranger, Tyler Bozak and James van Riemsdyk scored for Toronto, which finished the game without goaltender Jonathan Bernier.

It remains to be seen how severe Bernier’s injury is. He left 7:22 into the third period after Ranger pushed Patrice Bergeron into him.

AVALANCHE 3, RANGERS 2 DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s Tyson Barrie scored in the final minute of regulation, and then scored again in the shootout.

Semyon Varlamov had 29 saves for Colorado, which has won five in a row.

Varlamov also stopped each of New York’s attempts in the shootout.

The Avalanche maintained a threepoint lead on the Blackhawks for second place in the Central Division. The Blackhawks beat Minnesota in a shootout but still lag behind Colorado with 10 days left in the season.

Henrik Lundqvist had 35 saves for the Rangers, who gained a point on Philadelphia despite the loss. Derek Stepan and John Moore scored for New York.

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Colorado Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov blocks a shot by New York Rangers left wing Rick Nash during the second period of Thursday night’s game between the Avalanche and Rangers in Denver.

BLACKHAWKS 3, WILD 2, SO CHICAGO (AP) — Marian Hossa scored the lone goal in the shootout, and the banged-up Blackhawks stopped a three-game slide.

Chicago goaltender Corey Crawford made 25 saves through overtime, and then stopped all three Minnesota attempts in the shootout. Hossa connected on the Blackhawks’ second attempt in the tiebreaker by powering a shot through Ilya Bryzgalov.

It was Chicago’s first game since coach Joel Quenneville said captain Jonathan Toews would miss the rest of the regular season due to an upperbody injury.

The Blackhawks also were without Patrick Kane, another star forward who is expected to miss the rest of the regular season because of a lowerbody injury.

Chicago did get Bryan Bickell back from an injury, and he scored a tiebreaking goal in the third period. Ben Smith also scored for the Blackhawks.

Charlie Coyle and Erik Haula scored for Minnesota.

BLUE JACKETS 2, FLYERS 0 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sergei Bo-

brovsky stopped 37 shots for his fourth shutout of the season, leading Columbus to its first win in Philadelphia.

James Wisniewski and Brandon Dubinsky scored for the Blue Jackets, who were 0-5-1 in Philadelphia since the franchise’s inception in 2000.

Led by Bobrovsky, a former Flyer, the Blue Jackets moved closer to clinching their second-ever playoff berth. They closed within two points of the Flyers for third place in the Metropolitan Division.

The Flyers have lost three straight and were shut out for the second straight time.

PENGUINS 4, JETS 2 WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Paul Martin returned after an 18-game absence and scored the winner to help Pittsburgh eliminate Winnipeg from playoff contention.

Martin, who was out with a broken hand, made it 3-2 with a power-play goal at 7:42 of the third period.

With Jets defenceman Mark Stuart in the penalty box for hooking, James Neal sent a pass into the slot for Martin, who fired a one-timer by goalie Ondrej Pavelec.

Brian Gibbons added an insurance

goal when the Jets turned over the puck and he beat Pavelec with a low shot at 16:24.

Pittsburgh (49-23-5) won the NHL’s Metropolitan Division title before the game was over because Philadelphia lost to Columbus earlier in the evening.

HURRICANES 4, STARS 1 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — John-Michael Liles had a goal and two assists to lead Carolina to the win.

Liles, Eric Staal and Justin Faulk scored during a run of three goals in a 4:36 span of the second period.

Riley Nash added a key late goal and Chris Terry had his first two NHL assists to help the Hurricanes win their second straight game. Carolina has the league’s second-worst power play but scored twice with the man advantage.

Anton Khudobin made 33 saves to help Carolina beat Dallas for the first time since 2009.

Tyler Seguin scored for Dallas, which had won three in a row. Kari Lehtonen made 13 saves but was pulled after allowing three goals. Tim Thomas took over and finished with 15 stops.

Yankees finally beat Astros to get first win of season MLB ROUNDUP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS YANKEES 4 ASTROS 2 HOUSTON — Rookie Yangervis Solarte had three hits in his first major league start and Derek Jeter drove in a run to give the New York Yankees their first win this season, 4-2 over the Houston Astros on Thursday night.

Solarte singled during a two-run third inning that put New York up 2-1. He doubled in the fifth and scored on a single by Jeter to make it 3-1.

Houston cut the lead to one in the bottom half before Solarte came through again, this time with a single that drove in Ichiro Suzuki.

Solarte also had a nifty defensive play at third when he grabbed a liner hit right at him by Jose Altuve for the third out in the eighth.

Ivan Nova (1-0) allowed two runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings. David Robertson, who took over as closer for Mariano Rivera, pitched a perfect ninth for his first save.

Houston starter Brett Oberholtzer also went 5 2-3 innings, allowing five hits and three runs.

TWINS 10, WHITE SOX 9 CHICAGO (AP) — Chris Colabello had a careerhigh six RBIs, Oswaldo Arcia hit a go-ahead triple and Minnesota avoided a season-opening sweep.

Trailing 9-8 heading into the ninth, the Twins scored twice off Chicago closer Matt Lindstrom (0-1), who blew his first save chance in two opportunities.

Trevor Plouffe hit a tying RBI single with two outs before Arcia’s triple off the wall in centre gave Minnesota a 10-9 lead.

Glen Perkins picked up his first save after squandering Minnesota’s lead Wednesday. He got Paul Konerko to ground to third to end the game, giving manager Ron Gardenhire his 999th career win.

Caleb Thielbar (1-0) allowed Marcus Semien’s goahead homer in the eighth.

RED SOX 4, ORIOLES 2 BALTIMORE (AP) — David Ortiz had three of Boston’s 12 hits off Wei-Yin Chen, and the Red Sox got

an effective pitching performance from Felix Doubront and four relievers.

Xander Bogaerts also had three hits for the Red Sox, who took two of three in the season-opening series between AL East rivals. Boston finished with 14 hits, 12 of them singles.

Matt Wieters had three hits for the Orioles, and Chris Davis had two hits and scored twice.

Doubront (1-0) allowed two runs and six hits in 5 2-3 innings, and Boston’s bullpen maintained its 0.00 ERA with 3 1-3 innings of three-hit relief. Koji Uehara needed only seven pitches to retire the side in the ninth for his first save.

Chen (0-1) gave up four runs in 5 2-3 innings.

a shaky first inning as an emergency starter in place of ailing Jordan Zimmermann, and the Nationals rallied past the Mets for an opening three-game sweep.

Ryan Zimmerman tied his career high with four hits.

Zimmermann, 19-9 last year, was fine Wednesday but developed a fever overnight and was throwing up.

Roark (1-0) got just two swings and misses in the first two innings and fell behind in a 30-pitch first.

He wound up allowing just the two runs and six hits in six innings with three walks and five strikeouts — including his final four batters.

Wheeler (0-1) gave up three runs and seven hits in six innings.

CARDINALS 7 REDS 6 CINCINNATI, Ohio — The St. Louis Cardinals overcame another long delay and Todd Frazier’s two homers on Thursday, holding on to beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 and take two of three in their seasonopening series.

The first pitch was delayed 3 hours, 42 minutes because of rain. The Cardinals then emerged from their two-game hitting slump by knocking Homer Bailey (01) out of the game in the fifth inning. Jhonny Peralta homered to get it going.

Lance Lynn (1-0) gave up Jay Bruce’s two-run homer and Frazier’s solo shot during five innings.

MARLINS 8, ROCKIES 5 MIAMI (AP) — Giancarlo Stanton singled home the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning, capping a comeback to help the Marlins beat the Rockies.

Casey McGehee had two hits and three RBIs for the Marlins, who scored 27 runs while winning three of four games in the season-opening series.

The Marlins were 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position for the afternoon before Christian Yelich made the score 5-all in the eighth with a two-out RBI single off Matt Belisle (0-1).

A.J. Ramos (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth. Steve Cishek followed with a scoreless ninth for his 31st consecutive converted save opportunity, and his second this year.

GIANTS 8, DIAMONDBACKS 5 PHOENIX (AP) — Angel Pagan hit a three-run home run in San Francisco’s five-run eighth inning and the Giants rallied to beat Arizona in a game that was halted briefly in the top of the first due to a swarm of bees in the outfield.

Paul Goldschmidt and Mark Trumbo each hit tworun home runs and Arizona led 5-3 after seven, but the Giants teed off on reliever Will Harris (0-1) in the eighth to take three of four games from the Diamondbacks.

Brandon Belt hit his third home run of the series and Brandon Hicks had a pinch-hit solo shot for the Giants.

Jean Machi (2-0) got one out for the victory.

NATIONALS 8, METS 2 NEW YORK (AP) — Tanner Roark recovered from

WHL PLAYOFF ROUNDUP

Oil Kings swarm Wheat Kings for 5-0 win in series opener THE CANADIAN PRESS OIL KINGS 5 WHEAT KINGS 0 EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oil Kings overwhelmed the Brandon Wheat Kings en route to a 5-0 win in Game 1 of their second-round Western Hockey League playoff series Thursday.

Ashton Sautner, Henrik Samuelsson, Mads Eller, Edgars Kulda and Brett Pollock each scored for Edmonton.

Tristan Jarry made just 15 saves in

net for Edmonton with most of the action at the other end of the ice.

Wheat Kings goalie Jordan Papirny was forced to make 40 saves. Edmonton outshot Brandon 12-3 in the first, 19-8 in the second and 14-4 in the third.

ROCKETS 6 THUNDERBIRDS 2 KELOWNA, B.C. — Damon Severson scored twice as the Rockets cruised to a win in Game 1.

Severson added two assists, while Madison Bowey, Rourke Chartier, Cole Linaker and Ryan Olsen also scored for Kelowna.

Mathew Barzal and Alexander Delnov had a goal apiece for Seattle.

Jordon Cooke finished with 23 saves in net for the Rockets.

Seattle’s Taran Kozun meanwhile stopped 30 shots.

CUBS 3, PIRATES 2 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jason Hammel pitched twohit ball into the seventh inning and the Cubs edged the Pirates for their first win of the season.

Hammel (1-0) allowed a run, struck out five and walked one in 6 2-3 innings to help the Cubs avoid their worst start in 17 years.

Emilio Bonifacio went 2 for 4 and scored twice to continue his torrid start. The Chicago centre fielder hit 11 for 16 (.688) during the opening three-game series.

Wandy Rodriguez (0-1) struggled early in his first start in 10 months but settled down late. The lefthander allowed three runs on five hits with a walk and five strikeouts.

HOCKEY CANADA

Bob Nicholson expected to step down as Hockey Canada president and CEO THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Bob Nicholson will announce he’s stepping down as Hockey Canada president and CEO at a press conference Friday in Toronto.

Nicholson confirmed his departure in an email, calling it the “greatest job in hockey in the world” that he will truly miss and adding that it was time for new leadership to take the organization to another level.

Nicholson has held the position for over 15 years and been involved with

Hockey Canada going back to 1990.

In the email, sent to several members of the media, Nicholson credited Murray Costello for giving him a start with Hockey Canada and the ability to build on what already existed.

Before going to Hockey Canada, he spent six years as senior vice-president of the Canadian Hockey Association and two years as vice-president of programs with the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association.

Under Nicholson’s watch, Canada has won seven Olympic gold medals, 12 world junior titles, five men’s world championships and 10 women’s world championships.

A Hockey Canada spokesman would not comment on the reports of his departure, and would only confirm that a news conference has been scheduled for early Friday afternoon at the Toronto Maple Leafs’ practice facility.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 4, 2014

Bouchard ousts Williams at Charleston FAMILY CIRCLE CUP TENNIS Croatia’s Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-1.

Jankovic has reached the Family Circle quarter-finals in six of the past seven seasons. She’s been beaten by a Williams sister each of the last two years, falling to Venus in 2012 and to Serena in last year’s championship finals.

Jankovic struggled early as the 20-year-old Tomljanovic fought off a set point to tie the opening set at 5-all.

Jankovic then won eight of the next nine games to move forward.

“I missed that overhead on my set point, which was kind of frustrating, and we levelled it at 5 5,” Jankovic said.

“But I was able to stay calm and regroup and finish that set. So that was very important.”

Williams’ defeat was part of a difficult day for past champions of the claycourt event. Along with 2004 winner Williams, two other previous Family Circle champs in Sabine Lisicki (2009) and Samantha Stosur (2010) lost thirdround matches.

Lisicki, the fourth seed, fell to German countrywoman Andrea Petkovic 6-1, 6-0. Stosur, seeded seventh, was beaten by No. 9 seed Lucie Safarova 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.

The loss ends a run of success for the Williams family on the courts here.

Sister Serena was the two-time defending tournament champion before losing Tuesday night. Venus played with the Washington Kastles on the green clay to win the 2012 World Team Tennis title.

Venus Williams had been bothered by an illness that she said limited her endurance this week. She had to come from behind in her first two matches here to face Bouchard and did not have enough stamina to wait out her opponent’s solid, flat ground strokes.

“That kind of made it more challenging. I mean I think normally I would probably be able to challenge the points a little bit longer and just make her play more shots and just be more willing to play longer points,” Williams said.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Eugenie Bouchard serves to Venus Williams during the Family Circle Cup tennis tournament in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Venus Williams couldn’t dig herself out of a hole this time and lost to Montreal’s Eugenie Bouchard 7-6 (6), 2-6, 6-4 at the Family Circle Cup on Thursday.

The 33-year-old Williams had fought back in each of her first two matches to advance. She seemed to follow the same game-plan in this one, rallying from a set down to win the second set and lead 2-1 in the third.

That’s when the 20-year-old Canadian, took over, breaking Williams’ serve twice down the stretch including the final game.

“I think I’ve shown to myself how mentally strong I can be,” said Bouchard, seeded sixth at the Family Circle. “Today was really a mental battle. It was a bit ugly at times and tough on the court, but I fought through it.”

Bouchard finished things off by reaching Williams’ drop shot and pushing it into the open court for her first victory over the seven-time Grand Slam champion.

“She played a lot more consistently than I did,” Williams said. “I think my errors really hurt me a lot today. Just a lot of up and down, a lot of errors.”

Especially in two key stretches when it looked as if the 33-year-old Williams was ready to take control.

Bouchard was ahead 5-3 in the opening set when Williams rallied and held two set points in the tiebreaker. But Bouchard won the next four points, including a crisp backhand for a winner to secure the set.

When Williams moved on top in the third set, Bouchard did not panic but dug in to move on to her third quarterfinal round this year.

“I’ve just kind of raised my game a little bit and was extra solid on those important points,” Bouchard said.

Bouchard will next face secondseed Jelena Jankovic, the 2007 Family Circle champion who at No. 8 in world is the highest-ranked player remaining in the tournament. Jankovic defeated

Patterson’s return is perfect timing for Raptors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Patrick Patterson’s recent return from injury was cause for celebration for the Toronto Raptors.

And that says everything about Patterson’s path from an almost-afterthought to a key cog in the Raptors’ roster.

Patterson played 25 minutes in Wednesday’s 107-103 victory over the Houston Rockets in his second game back after missing 11 with an elbow injury. He finished with eight points, plus a block, a steal and an assist.

“He did (look more comfortable),” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said. “The rust is still there, especially on his shot. Usually those shots are money.

“But it’s just going to take a little time and all the workouts in the world can’t duplicate the way the games are going to be. But he’s coming. Again, it’s going to probably have to come a little quicker than we expected.”

Quicker because Amir Johnson is battling a bad ankle and sat all but three minutes in Wednesday’s game.

And quicker because, with seven games to go, Toronto is battling for a favourable opponent in the post-season and needs all the help it can get.

The Raptors (43-32) are third in the Eastern Conference and two-and-a-half games ahead of the Brooklyn Nets for the Atlantic Division title.

The 25-year-old Patterson was side-

NHL THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — The NHL has suspended Montreal Canadiens defenceman Douglas Murray for three games for an illegal check to the head of Tampa Bay

lined with a sprained collateral ligament in his right elbow. With his elbow wrapped in a brace, he played eight minutes in his first game back — Monday’s 93-83 loss at Miami. He said he definitely felt an improvement on Wednesday.

“Yeah, it’s all about getting my wind, getting my feet underneath me, getting more involved with the team, having more opportunities,” he said. “Trying to get back in the swing of things, getting my body comfortable, pretty much getting my feet wet and focusing on my jump shot and scoring. Getting used to the brace and getting used to shooting with something on my arm like that.”

Patterson, who is averaging 8.7 points and 5.3 rebounds since he was acquired in the seven-player trade in December that sent Rudy Gay to Sacramento, has been huge off the bench for Toronto. His contributions prompted Casey to call the 6-9, 235-pound forward a “godsend” for the Raptors.

It was obvious how sorely he was missed when the bench was outscored 59-11 in a loss two weeks ago to Phoenix.

Casey said he’ll continue to increase Patterson’s playing time.

“It has to (go up), and it will,” the coach said. “We want to bust off the rust, just coming back after missing 11 games like that is tough for anybody, get those windpipes blown out and rust off.”

The Raptors host the Indiana Pacers on Friday, and then travel to Milwau-

Lightning defenceman Michael Kostka.

The incident occurred with 2:13 left in regulation of the Lightning’s 3-1 home win over the Canadiens on Tuesday.

Murray was assessed a match penalty for an illegal check to the head on the play.

Kostka was on the ice for several minutes after

the hit. A stretcher was brought out, but Kostka left the ice on his own power. The Lightning say Kostka was diagnosed with a concussion.

Murray will forfeit $23,076.93 in salary. He will return for Montreal’s second-last regularseason game next Thursday at home to the New York Islanders.

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He jumped to the defence of Kentucky coach John Calipari, who’s been harshly criticized for his ability to attract one-and-done stars destined for the NBA. He has nine freshmen on his roster, and five could go in the first round of the draft, including twins Andrew and Aaron Harrison.

“This group has overcome so much adversity, everyone was against them all year long, talking about their youth and inexperience, and lack of effort and too much hype around the twins, and this and that,” Patterson said.

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Patterson will have one eye Saturday on what’s happening down in Arlington, Texas. His Kentucky Wildcats are facing the Wisconsin Badgers in the Final Four semis.

“I wish I could be there,” Patterson said. “I’m not saying ’unfortunately we have a game,’ but if it wasn’t for the game I’d be there sitting in the front row with them.

“Best-case scenario, I feel like it’s a calling from God that after that Milwaukee game we don’t have a game until Wednesday. So if they win — and they will win — on Saturday, as soon as the game is over, I’m flying straight to Texas and I’ll be there for the championship.”

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Does hitting help a team win?

NUMBER CRUNCHING REVEALS THAT PILING UP HITS CAN JOLT CLUB’S WIN TOTAL

BY ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Hockey is a physical game, and hitting is a big part of it.

Commentators and fans alike extol the virtues of hitting your opponent and wearing them down. In the advanced stats community, however, hitting is viewed in a much different light.

The general opinion is that hitting has very little value and may even be a bad thing, because good teams don’t hit very much. According to the advanced stats community, the data just doesn’t support the argument that hitting helps teams win.

We certainly believe in the value of looking at data, which helps find patterns that give us insight. But how you look at the data is critically important.

When it comes to hockey, some patterns are obvious just from following your favourite team. Some are only noticeable when one examines very large numbers of games. But still other patterns remain hidden, no matter how much data you have. Unless you know how to look for them.

The relationship between hitting and winning is one such hidden pattern.

The thing is, the key to uncovering this pattern has been known for quite some time.

Advanced stats people recognized long ago that a team can only deliver hits when they don’t have the puck. And not having the puck is bad. So bad, in fact, that the negative

effect of not having the puck overwhelms any positive effect of hitting. So, if you look at the data, you’ll see that good teams don’t hit much — simply because those good teams have the puck a lot.

For some reason, a lot of the analyses on hitting stop at this point. Some even go on to conclude that hitting may be detrimental. This is just poor analysis.

The next logical step should be to isolate the effect of hitting separate from the effect of not having the puck.

So that’s what we did. And, as should be no surprise to anyone who watches hockey, the relationship between hits and winning really stands out.

To see this pattern in its simplest form, we looked at every game from 2007-08 to 2012-13. We considered the probability of winning as a function of a team’s hits, their opponent’s hits and a measure of puck possession.

The result is that, once you take out the effect of possession, more hits means more wins. Increasing your hit differential (your hits minus the other team’s) by just one hit leads to an increase in the probability of winning of just under one percentage point, although this effect varies depending on where you’re start-

ing from.

The graph depicts the amount by which the probability of winning increases as your hit differential becomes more favourable by one hit.

This is, in other words, the marginal benefit to hitting. As the graph indicates, if a team is outhit by 10 hits and adds one more hit in its favour, its odds of winning increase by about 0.93 percentage points.

Each additional hit becomes more valuable than the last one, until the differential gets to +2 hits, where the benefit of one more hit is about 0.97 percentage points, after which the value of each additional

hit declines. The benefit of one more hit is always positive, however.

So, over the course of an 82-game season, delivering three more hits per game and avoiding two is thus associated with, on average, four additional wins. Ask the Leafs how valuable four more wins would be right about now.

Now all this does not mean that in order to win more, a team should go around hitting like crazy.

Teams should take hits as they come, and not force the issue. So these estimates need to be considered in that context. But it is clear that hits

are an important and valuable part of the game.

For more on the methodology and results, go to depthockeyanalytics.com.

The Department of Hockey Analytics employs advanced statistical methods and innovative approaches to better understand the game of hockey. Its three founders are Ian Cooper, a lawyer, former player agent and Wharton Business School graduate; Dr. Phil Curry, a professor of economics at the University of Waterloo; and IJay Palansky, a litigator in Washington, D.C., former high-stakes professional poker player and Harvard Law School graduate.

Gillis wants to see a different style CANUCKS GM SAYS TEAM HAS TO GET BACK TO WHAT MADE IT SUCCESSFUL off exit. The Canucks have struggled to score under Tortorella and sit six points back of the final playoff spot in VANCOUVER — Vancouver Ca- the Western Conference with just five nucks general manager Mike Gillis games to play.

Vancouver took the Boston Bruins wants his team to get back playing the style that got them to within one vic- to Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup final, but it became clear to some after tory of the Stanley Cup. And with the Canucks set to miss that series that the team needed more the playoffs for the first time in six toughness to get over the hump. Gillis years, Gillis spoke candidly on Team seemed to admit Thursday that was the wrong course for the 1040 radio on Thursfranchise. day, appearing to take ‘PEOPLE LOVE TO “The running of this a shot at embattled head coach John TorPICK SOMEONE TO team is my responsibility and I really feel torella.

BLAME, BUT THE over the last couple of “I want us to play up-beat, puck possesREALITY IS THAT AS seasons we’ve chased that have sion, move the puck AN ORGANIZATION goalposts been moving and got quickly, force teams away from our core WE’VE DEVIATED into mistakes, highprinciples of how I transition game,” Gillis FROM SOME OF THE want this team to play said in the interview.

THINGS THAT MADE and how we want to “I think we have the personnel to do it. If US SUCCESSFUL AND perform and the tempo we want to play with,” we don’t have the personnel to do it, they’ll SOME OF THE THINGS said Gillis.

“People love to pick be changed.

THAT I KNOW WILL BE someone to blame, but “That’s my vision, SUCCESSFUL. .’ the reality is that as that’s how I believe an organization we’ve you are going to win — MIKE GILLIS deviated from some of in the Western ConferVANCOUVER CANUCKS GM the things that made us ence and the Nationsuccessful and some of al Hockey League. If you look at the top teams in the West, the things that I know will be successthere isn’t a lot that separates any ful. We’re going to get back to those of the teams in the West, but the top levels.

“We have the personnel to do it and teams play that way. That’s the way we we just have to be committed and have played.”

Tortorella has preached a defence- the guts to carry it out.”

Gillis would not commit to Tortorelfirst, puck-pressure, shot-blocking style since taking charge of the club la’s future or even his own in the interin the off-season after Alain Vigneault view, only saying that everyone will be was fired following a first-round play- up for a review after what has turned

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into a disastrous campaign.

“I’m not sure if I’ll be back next season,” said Gillis.

“I think everyone’s open for evaluation. I think we’ve had players that have severely underperformed. Our team has underperformed. I think that we’re all open to evaluation and we all deserve evaluation and that’s what’s going to come.

“Having said that, I have a clear vision of where we (have) to go. I had one six years ago. I have one today that we have to execute on in order to compete for the Cup in the Western Conference, and that’s what I intend to do.”

Gillis appeared to leave the door

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FRONT MAG DISPLAY CELEBRATES LIBRARY’S CENTENNIAL The Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery has teamed up with the Red Deer Public Library to showcase a century of the library’s history. On April 11, Red Deer Public Library: 100 Years of Discovery 19142014 will be on display at the MAG. The exhibit will journey down 100 years, showcasing the library’s beginnings and bringing it full circle to what it is today. It will also showcase the individuals who were diligent about opening a library in a small town that held roughly 3,000 people. With photographs and archival documents on display, the exhibit will be both visual and informative. In celebration of the exhibition, the RDPL will host a Strawberry Tea Exhibit Opening in the museum’s Discovery Studio from 2 to 4 p.m. on April 11. Red Deer Public Library: 100 Years of Discovery 1914-2014 will be on display until Sept. 2.

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Medical pot in Olds?

CENTRAL ALBERTA TOWN ONE OF SEVERAL BEING CONSIDERED

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF A medical marijuana business may have its eye on Olds.

Town chief administrative officer Norm McInnis said the town has been informed it is a possible destination being considered by a medical marijuana operation.

It is too early to know if it will turn into

a serious proposal. Under the federal government’s application process for potential medical marijuana producers, the local governments in communities that are being considered as potential locations must be informed.

McInnis said he had the impression that Olds was only one of a number of locations being considered.

Little information about the potential business opportunity has been provided.

“(It was) pretty generic, just that they are planning to build a facility within the new federal guidelines.”

It is likely that Olds would need to change its bylaws.

“I think we would for sure. I haven’t had a good look at it, but I can’t see it fitting under any of the current definitions that we have.”

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SPECIAL NEEDS INVEST HELP Two Servus Credit Union investment specialists will answer questions about registered disability savings plans at the Aspire Special Needs Centre (4826 47th Street) on April 14. Attendees may learn about beneficiaries, opening an RDSP, grants and bonds, types of payments and investments and more. The free information sessions are for those who may have children with special needs or those caring for someone who might qualify for the disability tax credit. Sessions are scheduled from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Seating is limited. To register, call 403-340-2606 or email info@aspirespecialneeds. ca.

TEACHERS HONOURED Ten Central Alberta educators are among the 130 semifinalists selected for the 2014 Excellence in Teaching Awards presented by Alberta Education. By being selected for the shortlist, the teachers will each be granted $1,500 to be used for professional development. From the 130 semifinalists, 20 teachers will be selected to receive the teaching awards in May. The locals named as semifinalists are Bradley Clapp (Olds); Corinne Brown, Scott Cline, Brian Johnson, Bryce Pearson, Lisa Robertson, Richard Zimmerman (Red Deer); and Mandy Cuellar, Angela Sola, and Jeremy Ziebart (Sylvan Lake).

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Violinist Heidi Baumbach and pianist Cheryl Cooney perform works by Dvorak, Korngold and Beethoven on Thursday afternoon in the Red Deer Public Library’s Snell Auditorium. The First Thursday concert series at the library is a free event, although donations are accepted. Tea and coffee are provided by Cafe Noir. The concert is also streamed live at http://www.rdpl.org/programs/live each month.

WOMAN’S AND WELLNESS SHOW Charges, convictions pile up for Blackfalds man Fashion, fitness, lifestyle featured

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

A man awaiting sentence for a guilty plea to drugs and trafficking offences has since been arrested on vehicle theft charges, released on bail and arrested again on new vehicle theft charges — all within a week.

Jesse Bissonnette, 29, of Blackfalds was arrested on Monday on vehicle theft charges, just three days after getting bail on charges related to a separate rash of vehicle thefts from the Blackfalds/Lacombe area.

Blackfalds RCMP were called to a complaint of a Dodge Ram truck stolen from a residence on Monday. About two hours after the truck was reported stolen, the complainant observed it being driven outside of Blackfalds where a male suspect parked the truck and was picked up in a red Chevrolet truck.

The complainant obtained the licence plate of the Chevy and contacted RCMP, who responded to the location.

Police found the Chevy and arrested two males. The subsequent investigation led to Bissonnette being charged with three counts of failing to comply with a recognizance, theft of a mo-

tor vehicle, possession of a controlled substance, possession of property obtained by crime and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle.

On March 24, he pleaded guilty to possession of the proceeds of crime, possession of drugs, and possession of drugs for trafficking charges. He will be sentenced on these charges on Aug. 19. They stem from an investigation by Sylvan Lake RCMP last September. Police said they received calls of two suspicious men with a car that had broken down on Rainy Creek Road about six km west of Sunbreaker Cove.

Police said one of two men broke into a nearby barn and took off on a dirt bike he found inside. One suspect was arrested at the scene and the other was apprehended on Aspelund Road west of Blackfalds.

It was determined by police that the broken-down car had been stolen in Blackfalds earlier and was involved in a robbery and assault at a Sylvan Lake gas station.

Another man arrested in connection with this incident pleaded guilty in October and is serving a four-year sentence on drug and property offences.

The Woman’s and Wellness Show is coming to Red Deer for a first time this weekend.

The event will feature a number of special speakers Saturday and Sunday.

Sign up online to shred some pounds with celebrity fitness coach Tommy Europe on Saturday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. during his Shred Bootcamp.

Europe is best known as the host of two shows on Slice network, The Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp and Bulging Brides. He will also be signing free autographs and taking pictures with fans for $5.

Actor Jerry Douglas of The Young and Restless will appear on Sunday at 1:15 p.m., followed by a presentation of jazz songs from his upcoming album The Best is Yet to Come at 3 p.m. Douglas, who played John Abbott on the television series, will sign free autographs and take pictures with fans for $5.

On Saturday at 11:50 a.m. and Sunday at 2:15 p.m., Stephan Wilmes, ayurvedic therapist, alkaline coach and founder of Ayurveda Wellness Center in Germany, will give a seminar on how to stay beautiful and healthy.

On Saturday at 2:45 p.m. and Sunday at noon, Lise Watier Cosmetics makeup artist Chelsea Chute will present a seminar about skin care, as well as give makeup and beauty tips.

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O-Net project requires more money

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

$8-MILLION LOAN IN OLDS

Olds town council has agreed to loan up to $8 million more to complete a fibre optic network.

Council voted at its last meeting to borrow up to $8 million from the Alberta Capital Finance Authority. That money will then be loaned to the Olds Institute for

Community and Regional Development — of which the town is a partner — to put the finishing touches on the network.

Offered through O-Net, the network is billed as Canada’s fastest, communityowned optic Internet network.

It will provide high-speed Internet service — one gigabit (1,000 megabits) per sec-

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ond of bandwidth — to business, organizations and residents across the community.

That is many times faster than the maximum downloads speeds offered in many large cities, let alone a community of about 8,500.

About 200 businesses and homes have been hooked up so far with another 200 on a waiting list.

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NS budget forecasts $279M deficit

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — University students in Nova Scotia are losing a tax credit aimed at keeping them in the province while funding will be increased to improve student-teacher ratios in classrooms in a provincial budget Thursday that was short on cuts and new spending.

Finance Minister Diana Whalen made no secret of the fact the Liberal party’s first budget since it was elected in October would contain a deficit, and the government is forecasting a shortfall in 2014-15 of $279 million.

The government plans to spend $9.9 billion in this fiscal year, which includes a $455-million increase in expenditures. Most of that was already promised by the province’s previous NDP government, with just $80 million earmarked for new Liberal programs.

Whalen described the budget as “the foundation for the work ahead” as the Liberals wrestle with an economy that a leading academic recently warned is on a path to financial disaster unless changes are made.

“We have undertaken a series of measures to meet our commitments and effectively respond to Nova Scotia’s clearly articulated desire for a new direction,” Whalen told the legislature.

The changes being made by the government are modest, with health spending and home-care services getting small increases.

There is a hike in the education budget over a four-year period, which includes $7.2 million to help cap class sizes at 20 students from Primary to Grade 2. The Education Department said the money will be spent to hire 180 new teachers.

The government is also adding some money to early literacy initiatives and bringing back a reading program that was axed in 2011.

But less than a week after eliminating interest on the provincial portion of student loans, the govern-

ment is killing a graduate retention rebate that gave grads a maximum annual tax credit of $2,500. The interest-free loans is expected to cost the government $1.6 million annually, but getting rid of the tax credit is estimated to save $49.5 million.

Jonathan Williams, executive director of Students Nova Scotia, said the move was a “betrayal” of students who want to stay and work in the province.

“There are lots of things driving graduates away and this budget is not going to help,” said Williams.

He said a more useful tool would have been converting loans to grants that are tailored to students needs, much like Newfoundland and Labrador recently announced.

“That wouldn’t have taken up all the money that the graduate retention rebate was worth,” he said.

But Whalen defended the savings resulting from the elimination of the graduate retention rebate, saying the program wasn’t working.

“We’re trying to make smart investments and this one was money that was not doing what the credit said ... retaining young people.”

Whalen said the government will focus instead on programs aimed at helping graduates enter the workforce. They include a new graduate scholarship for innovation and research worth $1.85 million and a $1.6 million program aimed at helping employers train new graduate workers.

In health, the government will spend $10.6 million on programs intended to recruit and hire doctors in rural areas of the province.

There are no new tax measures in the budget and the government is maintaining the harmonized sales tax at 15 per cent, scuttling an NDP promise to begin lowering the tax this year.

The estimated net debt is expected to grow to $14.6 billion, up from $13.9 billion forecast in last year’s budget. That amounts to about $16,000 for every man, woman and child in Nova Scotia.

Progressive Conservative Opposition Leader Jamie Baillie said the Liberals are adding to the debt

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N.S. Finance Minister Diana Whalen fields questions at a media briefing before delivering the Nova Scotia budget in the legislature in Halifax on Thursday. burden when they should be balancing the ledger.

“If they had simply held the line on spending, Nova Scotians would have a balanced budget today and a chance at real tax relief,” said Baillie.

But Whalen said cost-cutting and restraint measures over the last four years have resulted in huge costs for programs that require funding such as home care and various community services initiatives.

She said the government was also paying $137 million in 2014 as part of three-year public-sector wage settlements.

A tax review that is underway will eventually give the government a sense of where it should go regarding future spending, she added.

BC levies $1M in fines for Burns Lake blast

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — A fiery explosion at a British Columbia sawmill that killed two workers and hurt 19 others has resulted in what’s believed to be the largest penalty imposed on an employer in provincial history, Labour Minister Shirley Bond said.

But the more than $1 million in fines and fees against Hampton Affiliates, the owners of the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, B.C., isn’t enough for the widow of one of the dead workers.

Maureen Luggi, whose husband Robert was killed in the January 2012 blast, said Thursday that the fine isn’t acceptable and she still wants an independent inquiry into the cause of the explosion.

“It doesn’t even come near the value of the loss, the injury and the impact that this has had on the community and families of Babine Forest Products,” she said in an interview.

Luggi and other victims of the blast and the Opposition NDP have called on the B.C. government to hold a public inquiry to examine the cause of the blast and review the subsequent investigation.

Carl Charlie, 42, was also killed in what some of the surviving workers described as a terrifying inferno.

A report on the cause said the blast was preventable, but no charges were laid after B.C.’s Criminal Justice Branch declared that flaws in the original investigation greatly diminished the likelihood of a criminal conviction.

WorkSafeBC charged Hampton Affiliates a penalty of $97,000, and a claims cost levy of almost $915,000.

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Passengers relieved to be off ferries stuck in ice-choked Cabot Strait Hundreds of passengers aboard two ferries that became stuck in the ice off Cape Breton finally set foot on dry land Thursday after the vessels managed to churn through the clogged waters of the Cabot Strait.

The MV Blue Puttees was delayed on its way to North Sydney with about 350 people on board after it became trapped in ice within a few kilometres of the dock.

A second ferry, the MV Highlanders, arrived in Port aux Basques, N.L., with about 450 people on board after it struggled through the ice-choked strait.

Marine Atlantic spokesman Darrell Mercer said the MV Highlanders managed to move free of the ice

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POT: Outcry in Cremona A medical marijuana facility has been approved in the Cremona area of Mountain View County.

Outcry at the lack of public consultation before approval prompted the county to change its bylaws to restrict future medical marijuana operations to industrial or business parks. The initial application was approved without requiring a public hearing because it fit the definition of an agricultural operation.

Health Canada lists 12 authorized medical marijuana producers on its website, but there have reportedly been hundreds of applications submitted by others interested in the lucrative business.

Medical marijuana users were to have stopped producing their own as of Tuesday, but they have been given a temporary reprieve while the issue goes before the courts. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

CHARGES: Arrest in March On March 25, Bissonnette was arrested by Blackfalds RCMP investigating a rash of vehicle thefts from Blackfalds and the rural area south of Lacombe.

He is alleged to have driven past an RCMP vehicle at a high rate of speed on Hwy 2 south of Red Deer on that day. A pursuit ensued and after getting off the highway, the vehicle ended up on a dead-end road where it is alleged to have struck an RCMP vehicle before being brought to a stop.

posited into an accident fund.

The WorkSafeBC statement said the actual claim cost associated with the incident is nearly $5.2 million.

“The dollar value of a penalty or levy does not and cannot reflect the loss of lives and the pain and suffering of workers and families,” a WorkSafeBC news release said.

Employers, workers, an owner, a supplier, a union or a member of a deceased worker’s family can appeal a penalty or claims cost, WorkSafeBC said.

A written statement from Hampton Affiliates said the company was disappointed to learn of the fine and would be appealing.

The statement noted that the Crown said Babine’s due diligence in managing risks was enough to counter charges recommended by WorkSafe.

WorkSafeBC didn’t perform an appropriate investigation, the statement said.

“For WorkSafeBC to now propose a significant administrative penalty seems disingenuous, especially in light of this record, and the fact that WorkSafeBC must weigh the same considerations of due diligence as the Crown.”

Any Dispute between the company and WorkSafeBC shouldn’t be taken out of context, the statement said.

“Our sorrow, both for our people impacted and the community of Burns Lake, will always be present. Since the accident, Babine has worked with other industry leaders to analyze dust risks and develop related processes to ensure this will never happen again.”

Bond said that no amount of fine or penalty comes close to healing the wounds of the victims and their families.

“No one needs to suggest that any kind of mon-

etary value, no matter what the number is, will ever bring comfort to the families,” she said.

“I want to assure you this is a rare occurrence.

The size (of the penalty) is probably the largest penalty ever levied in British Columbia.”

Bond said the penalty does not amount to the costs of the WorkSafeBC investigation.

“Premiums are paid to cover this,” she said. “This is a levy on top of the premiums the company has paid.”

After learning of the fine, NDP Leader Adrian Dix renewed his call for a public inquiry into the deadly explosion.

“The fines, 90 per cent of them are cost recoveries for WorkSafe, which was clearly their priority, only 10 per cent of them represent a fine to Hampton for the death, the killing of two people and the injury of 19,” he said.

Late last month, the B.C. government announced a safety plan would be put in place to try to prevent other sawmills from exploding.

The government said the number of inspectors would be doubled to 20, and a plan would be implemented to limit the potential for combustible dust.

A report issued in January said the mill explosion could have been prevented. Investigators found the company knew it had an inadequate dust collection system, even after a similar explosion and fire a year earlier.

No charges were laid in the blast, in part, because the Crown said investigators failed to obtain search warrants or warn witnesses of their charter rights before taking their statements.

Just months after the Burns Lake mill was flattened, the Lakeland sawmill in Prince George exploded in fire, killing Alan Little, 43 and 46-year-old Glen Roche.

Thursday morning.

The Crown corporation said the Blue Puttees left Port aux Basques at 11:45 a.m. local time Wednesday and hit ice about 15 hours later off the northern coast of Cape Breton.

The Blue Puttees, aided by the MV Atlantic Vision, escaped the ice at about 4 p.m. and docked in North Sydney about a half an hour later.

“We were concerned about the northeasterly wind when we were mentioning this a few weeks ago, and of course we had that big nor’easter that moved in a few days ago, and that pushed the ice into Sydney harbour,” said Mercer.

“At some places the ice thickness is up to eight feet, so trying to get through that is pretty challenging.”

Passengers were on the ferry for more than 24 hours.

The ferry had an ample supply of food and fuel and the captain updated the passengers regularly by intercom and briefings in the common room, he said. Cara Wyllie a Blue Puttees passenger, tweeted at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday “We broke through the ice and are sailing on.

“Lots of rolling due to the high seas. Looks like we will get home today.”

Dallaire says Conservatives are ‘second-guessing’ the cost of veterans

Bissonnette was charged with eight counts of possession of stolen property and one count each of dangerous driving and flight from police. He was granted bail last Friday before being arrested again on Monday on the new charges.

He will appear in Red Deer provincial court today. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

SHOW: Plenty of vendors More than a 100 vendors will be present at the show. People can also receive swag and samples, as well as view some fashion shows.

The show will run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Prairie Pavilion at Westerner Park.

Advanced tickets can be purchased at Safeway stores or online at reddeerwomansshow.com for $5.

Admission at the door is $8. Children under 12 get in free.

O-NET: Hook-up help It is expected about 1,000 will be connected by the end of this construction season and O-Net has built its business plan on the assumption that about onethird of the community’s 3,600 properties will buy in.

O-Net’s website offers a residential package for cable TV, Internet and phone for $169.98 a month.

One of the latest challenges has been finding contractors to undertake the short hook-ups to each home or business, said McInnis. To speed up that process, O-Net is putting together its own team to undertake most of the technical work, leaving contractors to do the basic underground work.

OTTAWA — Sen. Romeo Dallaire, a former Canadian Forces lieutenant-general, says some Conservative MPs have been grousing about what it costs to take care of Canada’s veterans.

Dallaire, best known as the former commander of the ill-fated peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, says he’s been hearing complaints about the roughly $3.8 billion the government spends each year on Veterans Affairs.

He made the comments in an interview with The Canadian Press before testifying today at the House of Commons veterans committee.

Dallaire, who did not name names, says the attitude about the price tag is one that he says “has been sniffing its way around the Conservative hallways.”

The rumblings stand in stark contrast to the Harper government’s political message, which has been to insist that the Conservatives bend over backwards for veterans. As well, in a class-action lawsuit brought by Afghanistan veterans in B.C., the government is arguing there is no “social contract” between the country and its soldiers, The money loaned by the town will be drawn on as needed. About $5.4 million is earmarked for capital purchases and to cover anticipated operating shortfalls for this budget year.

Completing the network in town will cost $1.9 million and $680,000 has been set aside as a contingency.

The town has now provided $14 million in loans and secured a $4-million line of credit to get the network off the ground. A $2.5-million provincial grant has also been used.

That last loan puts Olds within $4 million of its maximum debt recommended by the province.

To provide more financial flexibility, the town plans to apply for $14 million in additional debt space on the assumption the Internet loans will be paid back.

McInnis said he has spoken with provincial representatives and expects no difficulty in having the debt limit raised.

O-Net expects to be making money by 2015. Any profits will be plowed back into community initiatives.

“It takes about a year for the revenue side to catch up. But their business plan suggests they’re going to be in a positive revenue situation by the end of 2015.”

O-Net is the marketing brand of Olds Fibre Ltd., the private company owned by the Olds Institute for Community and Regional Development, made up of the Olds Agricultural Society, Olds and District Chamber of Commerce, Olds College and Town of Olds. Eight public and two associate members, Mountain View County and Chinook’s Edge School District, make up the institute, which also provides electricity through Mountain View Power, an electrical supplier whose profits are put back into the community. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

BUSINESS

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City council considering green industrial park

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR City council will consider a blueprint for a green industrial park at its April 28 meeting.

Red Deer’s Planning Department is drafting ecoindustrial design guidelines for a 36-acre parcel in Queens Industrial Park, west of Hwy 2. If adopted, those guidelines will provide additional development criteria for such things as sustainable building design and site development techniques.

Kim Fowler, the city’s planning services director, said the draft guidelines even identify plants that have minimal water needs and environmentally friendly building materials.

“If approved, this eco-industrial area would give businesses the unique opportunity to invest in and be part of a development that is environmentally

conscious, and gains economic value for waste products or by-products,” she said.

The latter benefit relates to the opportunity for businesses to locate near others that generate materials they could use in their own operations.

“So if you have pallets coming out one end of a shipping company, then someone else who makes wood products can use it right beside you,” explained Fowler.

In addition to the potential savings an energyefficient building might provide, there would also be human resources benefits, including reduced sick time, she said.

“They’re a lot healthier buildings to work in, as well as being environmentally friendly. People oftentimes forget that.”

Fowler said an eco-industrial area would be likely to attract businesses that specialize in environmentally sustainable services and products.

The initiative is consistent with the objectives of the city’s design and economy charters, she said, as well as its corporate strategic plan, environmental master plan and economic development strategy.

“The decision to explore an eco-industrial area is in response to a community need, business need and social need,” said Fowler. “This is the first time we’re looking at something like this in an industrial sector, and we believe businesses and developers will be interested because it simply makes good environmental, social and economic sense.”

The Planning Department is seeking input from businesses and developers by next Friday. These feedback could help with the formulation of the draft guidelines, said Fowler. “This is a new concept for Red Deer, and connecting with potential businesses owners will help us ensure it is a success.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

IN THE OPEN

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Shaw Cable’s Jim Claggett mans the camera as Westerner Park marketing and sponsorship manager Erin Gobolos, right, interviews Shaw Cable’s videographer/reporter Jonna Semple in the newsroom of the Shaw Cable building in Red Deer. Shaw opened its doors to the public Thursday to show off what they do in the office and to get some feedback from the community on what they can do better, said Shaw programing supervisor Chas Teather.

Rogers says NHL fans will benefit from latest wireless spectrum purchase

Fall in commodity prices could put strain on farmers

BY ADVOCATE STAFF

$3.3-BILLION PURCHASE WILL HELP COMPANY HANDLE INCREASED TRAFFIC FROM HOCKEY FANS Telecom analyst Troy Crandall said Rogers needs a strategy for its big spending on spectrum and the NHL deal, and may end up offering sports fans new MONTREAL — Rogers Communications is betting packages for their mobile devices.

“If you’re going to spend that much on two differconsumers — especially NHL hockey fans — will be watching more video on their tablets and smart- ent things — the exclusive content for the NHL and phones with its recent $3.3-billion purchase of wire- you’re going to buy that much wireless spectrum — logic puts two and two together,” he said. less spectrum.

Telecom analyst Greg MacDonald of Macquarie Rogers said Thursday the new spectrum will help it better handle increased traffic on its network, Capital Canada said he questions how much consumers will want to pay and will completo stream live sports, ment its 12-year ‘IF YOU’RE GOING TO SPEND THAT but added that Rogdeal with the NHL MUCH ON TWO DIFFERENT THINGS – ers expects that live for the English and sports will add to its French national THE EXCLUSIVE CONTENT FOR THE NHL monthly revenue per broadcast rights to AND YOU’RE GOING TO BUY THAT MUCH customer. all games, includ“But I don’t think ing the playoffs WIRELESS SPECTRUM – LOGIC PUTS TWO the market is going to and the Stanley AND TWO TOGETHER.’ see a conclusion on Cup final on all of this within the next its platforms.

— TROY CRANDALL The additional TELECOM ANALYST year,” said MacDonald. spectrum will alRogers was able to low more consumers to be on its network at the same time watching successfully bid on paired blocks of 700 megahertz a hockey game on their mobile devices, giving them spectrum and won 22 licences across the country, a consistent and fast experience, the Toronto-based except in the Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. telecom company said.

The spectrum — needed to make cellphone net“Mobile video consumption tends to be around big events and often times, those are sporting events works operate — is considered valuable because of and there’s no bigger sporting in this country than its ability to penetrate elevators and underground hockey,” said David Purdy, senior vice-president of parking lots in big cities and to travel longer distances in rural areas.Rogers said winning paired blocks content at Rogers (TSX:RCI.B).

“So it will allow for us to manage what we think is of spectrum — needed to make cellphone networks going to be an incredible, explosive growth in terms operate — is like having more lanes on a highway.

The recent spectrum auction in January raised a of the consumption of mobile video.”

Last November, Rogers scored a $5.2-billion record $5.27 billion for the federal government.

However, the auction failed to immediately entice blockbuster deal with the National Hockey League, a coup against big telecom competitor Bell and its a fourth national player into the Canadian wireless market to provide more competition.

TSN sports channel.

Telus (TSX:T) spent just over $1.14 billion for 30 liBell (TSX:BCE) also has been a rival in mobile television, but now Rogers can offer NHL and profes- censes, while Bell spent $565.7 million for 31 licenses sional baseball content, as the owner of the Toronto and says it will start deploying the spectrum in rural and remote areas right away.

Blue Jays.

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A sharp decline in ag commodity prices could put farmers in a financial squeeze, says a crop market analyst with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development.

Charlie Pearson said in a recent Agriculture Financial Services Corp. (AFSC) release that prices of most commodities, including wheat, canola and barley, have dropped about 40 per cent from last spring — the result of lower world values and last fall’s bumper crops in Western Canada. However, the cost of inputs like fertilizer, seed, herbicides and fungicides haven’t dropped proportionately. Jason Wood, a production crop economist with Alberta Agriculture, said in the same release that fertilizer prices dipped and then returned to the same seasonal highs in February, and diesel fuel increased 13 per cent between January 2013 and January 2014.

Most seed and chemical costs held steady, he added, but treated canola seed varieties rose by two to 14 per cent.

Meanwhile, the backlog of grain awaiting shipment to export markets is creating cash flow challenges for farmers and keeping grain and oilseed prices lower, said Pearson. “Margins will be a lot tighter than the last few years. Farmers will have to assess every input they use to ensure it gives them the best bang for their buck.”

AFSC is urging producers to consider crop insurance as part of their risk management strategy.

“Most producers will invest $200 to $300 or more per acre into their crops over the growing season, and they don’t want to risk losing that to a hailstorm or some other unexpected weather event,” said Nancy Smith, who is with the Alberta Crown corporation that administers crop insurance on behalf of the provincial and federal governments.

Last year, said Smith, about $295 million was paid out on crop insurance claims across Alberta. Roughly $219 million of this was triggered under policies’ hail endorsement riders. Losses covered under policy production guarantees accounted for $36 million.

This figure was amongst the lowest ever, said Smith, which reflected the fact that even farmers with hail damage last year were able in many cases to achieve above-average yields.A further $38.8 million was paid out under spring price endorsement riders, which were triggered when commodity prices fell by 10 per cent or more between spring and fall.

The deadline to register for crop insurance is April 30.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 104.30 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 52.75 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.67 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.07 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.16 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Cdn. National Railway . . 61.98 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 169.70 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 41.01 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.68 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.50 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 49.56 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.65 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 30.00 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.44 General Motors Co. . . . . 35.44 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.72 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.50 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 48.50 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 66.53 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.10 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.69 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 46.40 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 105.92 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.10 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.98 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.46 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 17.55 MARKETS CLOSE

TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower on Thursday as attention shifted to key jobs figures that will offer more insight into the direction both the Canadian and U.S. economies.

The S&P/TSX composite index lost 56.90 points to 14,402.21, on weakness across most major sectors.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.03 of a cent at 90.59 cents US. Traders were focused on the U.S. economy ahead of the U.S. non-farm payrolls report due early Friday after the week was filled with encouraging signs of improvement.

On Thursday, the Institute for Supply Management’s nonmanufacturing index rose to 53.1 in March, a indicator that the service sector is starting to see growth.

The U.S. Labor Department said hiring remains stable at levels seen before the recession, as the number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose by 16,000 last week, to a seasonally adjusted 326,000.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrials ended flat, down 0.45 of a point to 16,572.55 while the Nasdaq dropped 38.72 points to 4,237.74.

The S&P 500 index fell 2.13 points to 1,888.77.

In commodities, June bullion dropped $6.20 to US$1,284.60 an ounce, as investors moved away from the precious metal on signs of further growth in the U.S. economy.

The price of oil closed above US$100 a barrel with the May contract for light crude up 67 cents at US$100.29. May copper dipped 1.9 cents at US$3.027 a pound.

Economists expect that the latest American job creation figures will show that businesses started hiring more workers in March as the bad winter weather subsided.

Consensus expectations suggest that around 195,000 new positions were created, which would be a steady improvement from recent months.

In Canada, analysts expect about 25,000 jobs were added last month, which would be an improvement over the decline of 7,000 in February.

In other economic data, Statistics Canada reported that

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.53 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.92 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.46 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 25.15 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 20.24 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 26.77 First Quantum Minerals . 19.52 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.14 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.71 Labrador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.73 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.66 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 38.08 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.18 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.32 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.35 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 43.15 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 65.64 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.70 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 54.86 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 43.55 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.93 Canyon Services Group. 13.80 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.76 CWC Well Services . . . . 1.160 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 24.36 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.77 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 97.93 a rebound in exports pushed the country’s trade balance with the world to a surplus of $290 million in February from a deficit of $337 million in January.

Toronto’s main stock index has risen nearly six per cent since the start of the year and sits near levels that haven’t been seen since the summer of 2008.

However, questions have persisted over whether the S&P/TSX Composite is headed toward a ceiling.

“I’m one of those guys that’s very surprised how (well) the TSX did this first quarter,” said Sadiq Adatia, chief investment officer of Sun Life Global Investment.

Considering the outlook for the economy, and the most recent slate of earnings, the fundamentals of Canada’s main stock exchange don’t hold up, Adatia said.

“It’s just about a matter of time before we have a decent pullback in the TSX,” he added.

“As more data comes out on the Canadian market, we’re going to realize the economy really is not that strong.”

Shares of Hudson’s Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) dropped five per cent after it reported the acquisition of U.S. luxury retailer Saks helped sales increase nearly 75 per cent in the fourth quarter, while its profits dropped about 66 per cent, to $29.1 million from $86.8 million a year ago. Its stock was off 96 cents to $17.86.

Goldcorp (TSX:G) has extended the deadline for its hostile takeover bid for Osisko Mining (TSX:OSK), a day after Osisko announced a friendly deal involving Yamana Gold (TSX:YRI), and two of Canada’s largest pension funds. The bid was set to expire Friday, but has now been pushed until 5 p.m. ET on April 15.

Overseas, the European Central Bank kept its key policy rate unchanged, saying that despite evidence the economy of the 18-country eurozone is weak and inflation is declining, interest rates will remain at 0.25 per cent.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Thursday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,402.21, down 56.90 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,001.96, down 4.33 points

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 59.80 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.44 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 34.07 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 51.69 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.86 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.44 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.190 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.38 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 39.21 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.33 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 13.85 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.72 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 69.77 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 73.82 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 64.86 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94.81 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.80 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.90 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.56 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 53.58 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 68.79 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.52 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.09 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.91 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.92 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51.59

TSX 60 — 822.84, down 4.08 points Dow — 16,572.55, down 0.45 of a point S&P 500 — 1,888.77, down 2.13 points Nasdaq — 4,237.74, down 38.72 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.59 cents US, down 0.03 of a cent Pound — C$1.8314, down 0.33 of a cent Euro — C$1.5140, down 0.49 of a cent Euro — US$1.3715, down 0.69 of a cent Oil futures: US$100.29 per barrel, up 67 cents (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,284.60 per oz., down $6.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.754 oz., down 17.2 cents $731.54 kg., down $5.53 ICE FUTURES ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $5.00 higher $459.00; July ’14 $5.00 higher $469.00; Nov. ’14 $4.90 higher $484.20; Jan ’15 $4.90 higher $491.50; March ’15 $4.90 higher $498.40; May ’15 $4.80 higher $504.80; July ’15 $4.80 higher $509.50; Nov ’15 $4.80 higher $499.50; Jan. ’16 $4.80 higher $491.00; March ’16 $4.80 higher $491.00.

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: 678,420 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 678,420.

Canadian firm that developed space cameras unaffected by actions against Russia

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — A top official with the Vancouver company behind two cameras on the International Space Station says it hasn’t been affected by actions taken against Russia over its involvement in Ukraine.

The situation is “unsettling and hasn’t been helpful” but has had no effect on the operations of UrtheCast Corp., CEO Scott Larson said in a statement Thursday.

Except for co-operation related to the space station, NASA has severed ties with Russia and its employees are prohibited from travelling there.

But Larson pointed out that travel by his employees hasn’t been affected.

“We’ve got engineers going to Russia all the time,” he said.

“People are over there for two weeks at a time and back for two weeks and back and forth, so it hasn’t had an impact.”

NASA said in a statement Wednesday it will continue to work with the Russian space agency to maintain continuous operation of the space station.

But in a memo sent to workers, NASA has barred its employees from emailing or holding teleconferences with their Russian counterparts.

Some Canadian businesses with ties

to Russia have expressed concerns they could be affected by federal sanctions against Russia.

Larson pointed out that in the past, the space outpost has survived much worse in terms of geopolitical conflicts, citing Afghanistan as one of many examples.

“This isn’t the first time that there’s been some disagreement between the various partners of the International Space Station and they’ve seemed to be able to figure it out,” he added.

When contacted, the Canadian Space Agency had no comment on NASA’s moves. A CSA official would only say it had nothing to add.

Two UrtheCast cameras — one that shoots photos, the other video — were successfully installed on the exterior of Russian section of the space station in January by two cosmonauts.

UrtheCast (TSX:UR), which partnered on the project with Russian aerospace firm RSC Energia, also announced the release of its first Earth photos. They were captured March 28 by its still camera.

Larson called it a “big milestone,” coming just three years after the company first started.

One image is centred around the city of Moneague, Jamaica. The second is a view of the urban area surrounding Santa Cruz de Mara, Venezuela.

Mozilla co-founder resigns as CEO

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich is stepping down as CEO and leaving the company following protests over his support of a gay marriage ban in California.

The non-profit that makes the Firefox browser infuriated many employees and users last week by naming Eich head of the Mountain View, Calif.based organization.

At issue was Eich’s $1,000 donation in 2008 to the campaign to pass California’s Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that outlawed same-sex marriages. The ban was overturned last year when the U.S. Supreme Court left in place a lower-court ruling striking down the ballot measure.

Eich’s contribution had drawn negative attention in the past but took on more weight when he was named CEO. Mozilla employees and users criticized the move on Twitter and elsewhere online. Earlier this week, dating website OKCupid replaced its usual homepage for users logging in with Firefox with a note suggesting they not use Mozilla’s software to access the site.

The departure raises questions about how far corporate leaders are allowed to go in expressing their political views.

“CEOs often use their station to push for certain viewpoints and get some muscle for those viewpoints,” said UCLA management professor Samuel Culbert. “But if you are going to play the game you have to think of both sides.”

Company leaders have to be conscious of what impact their own views may have on the success of their organization, Culbert argues. While some leaders, such as Starbucks Corp. head Howard Schultz, have been outspoken in their political positions, it is often in a vein that is line with the ethos of his company. Culbert said that taking a position that is divisive can both drive away customers and hurt employee morale.

The onus is also on the corporation and its board to assess whether anything that a candidate has done or said in the past will adversely affect the company’s reputation, said Microsoft

Corp. Chairman John Thompson, who led a five-month search that culminated in Microsoft hiring Satya Nadella as its new CEO in February.

“When you run a public company or any visible organization, what you think and what you say is always going to affect the company,” said Thompson, “You have to be mindful of how things you do and say will affect your customers, your employees and your investors.”

Eich said in a statement Thursday that Mozilla’s mission is “bigger than any one of us, and under the present circumstances, I cannot be an effective leader.”

His resignation represents an aboutface from his confident and sometimes defiant remarks in an interview published earlier this week by the technology news service Cnet. Insisting that he was best choice to be CEO, Eich told Cnet that it would send the wrong message if he were to resign or apologize for his support of Prop. 8.

“I don’t think it’s good for my integrity or Mozilla’s integrity to be pressured into changing a position,” Eich said. “If Mozilla became more exclusive and required more litmus tests, I think that would be a mistake that would lead to a much smaller Mozilla, a much more fragmented Mozilla.”

At another point, Eich said that attacks on his beliefs represented a threat to Mozilla’s survival. “If Mozilla cannot continue to operate according to its principles of inclusiveness, where you can work on the mission no matter what your background or other beliefs, I think we’ll probably fail,” he said.

Mozilla chairwoman Mitchell Baker apologized for the company’s actions in an open letter online Thursday, saying that Eich is stepping down for the company’s sake.

“We didn’t act like you’d expect Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We’re sorry. We must do better,” Baker wrote.

She said that Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech and that “figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.”

Mozilla is still discussing what is next for its leadership.

TD CEO bullish on U.S. economic recovery

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The CEO of TD Bank expressed a bullish view of the U.S. economic recovery on Thursday, while warning that Canada risks losing its competitive edge if small and medium businesses don’t export more of their goods.

Much has changed since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, Ed Clark told shareholders at the bank’s annual meeting in Calgary.

“The big news is that the U.S. is back,” he said.

“Indeed, America, which was once described as the epicentre of the global financial crisis, is now viewed as the potential growth engine of the world.”

Clark listed off a number of factors that are contributing to the brighter picture south of the border. For instance, the real estate recovery is picking up steam, consumer spending is improving, America’s energy sector is booming and the U.S. is now seeing the “on-shoring” of jobs.

That’s good news for a bank that has a strong U.S. presence. TD has more retail locations in the U.S. than it does in Canada — nearly 1,300 along the east coast. It opened 24 new branches last year and anticipates opening 34 more this year.

There’s the opportunity to do more in that market, he told reporters following the meeting.

“We know that there are a lot of upper commercial or lower corporate companies that would love to do business with us,” he said.

But TD isn’t keen to get into more “sophisticated stuff” than that in the United States.

“We do not want to be Goldman Sachs in the United States. We don’t think we can be Goldman Sachs there.”

There’s also the opportunity for “more plain vanilla security dealer business” in the U.S. “That’s all very profitable business and that’s where we’re trying to grow.”

Meanwhile, Clark said when it comes to non-commodity exports, “Canada is losing its competitive edge.”

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FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2014

A good book can be the perfect Easter gift THREE SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUNG READERS Why I love Hockey

By Daniel Howart $12.95 If you have a little person in your life who said “he shoots, he scores!” before he/she said “Mama,” or “Daddy,” then you have someone who needs this book.

It has hard pages and is subtitled: For Hockey Fans in Children’s Very Own Words.

The players are animals in clothes, but a beaver drives the Zamboni and he seems to know what he’s doing.

Big Horn sheep are out to early practice, and a seal stops the puck at the net.

Otherwise, a Canada goose would have scored..

If features nice bright illustrations by Daniel Howart and is sure to please those budding NHLers.

Hegley must run back and forth and meet many babies to prove that babies are truly fab.

This features nice bright art and a cheerful message.

Hi, Koo: A Year of Seasons

By Jon J. Muth $19.99

Here is a new book by Jon J. Muth, known to many readers for The Three Questions.

PEGGY This is a real treasure with the story FREEMAN told mostly in Haiku, though the author plays with the usual rhythm of five syllables, then seven then five.

There is also a trail of ABCs throughout the telling of the seasonal changes.

The art is soft watercolour and the scenes very familiar to children.

Six pages tell fall’s story. For example: these Babies Don’t Bite leaves fall forever, my broom awaits. And eating

By David Bedford and Tor Freeman warm cookies on a cold day is easy. $8.99 Panda is alone at first, but then friends come to If a baby is coming to your house — or even if call, a boy and a girl. Its playtime.

Winter comes and in the snow this cat vanishes that’s not the case — this is a very sweet book with a — just ears and twitching tail. And then, “Snowfall good message for growing families.

Hegley, who happens to be a young donkey, dis- gathers my footprints, I do a powdery stomp.” Finalcovers his mother is going to have a baby. He runs to ly: “Morning crocuses! Winter is old now and closes her doors.” his friends with the good news.

Spring comes with: “New Leaves new grass new Pigmeal, Sheeply and Cowhide, his friends, are not impressed, because their moms are going to have sky, spring!”

And my favourite: “Too much TV this winter my babies, too, and Pigley has heard that babies pull eyes are square let’s go OUT and play.” tails.

Summer comes, play is all outside. “Water catches Hegley runs back to tell his mom this terrible news, but on the way he meets 10 baby rabbits, nine every thrown stone, skip-skip-splash!”

Near the end, they stand on their heads in the baby guinea pigs and eight baby kittens. Mom assures him babies don’t pull tails, in fact babies are grass. “Come again! Visit your upside-down fuzzyeared friend.” fab!

This is a lovely book!

But his friends are not convinced. Their next ruPeggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer. mour is “babies bite!”

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Frog Music: interesting premise, bloated execution

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Frog Music

By Emma Donoghue Little, Brown and Co. In 1876 in San Francisco, amid a heat wave and smallpox epidemic, an idiosyncratic frog-catching, pants-wearing, bicycle-riding woman is fatally shot through the window of a railroad boarding house.

This real-life unsolved murder is the basis of Emma Donoghue’s new novel, Frog Music. The story is told through Blanche Beunon, a burlesque dancer who is in the same room when her friend Jenny Bonnet is killed. The novel goes back and forth between the shell-shocked, mystery-solving Blanche and her earlier, erotic-dancing, carefree self. Along the way, Donoghue masterfully transports readers to an era of dung-covered cobbled roads, unspeakably cruel baby farms, deep suspicion of Chinese immigrants and unruly saloons.

What Frog Music lacks, however, is the gripping storytelling that made Donoghue’s previous novel Room — about a mother and son held captive — such a beautifully poignant read. The premise of Frog Music is wild enough, and yet Donoghue pushes it over the top with explicit sex scenes, then bogs it down with daily minutiae that does little to enhance the story or its characters — or make us care for them much. Even the central whodunnit question doesn’t garner much suspense and is ultimately resolved without much satisfaction.

Ironically, the Author’s Note section of the book, which explains what characters and facts came from historical records and newspaper articles, was a more interesting read than the novel that preceded it.

John Banville gives an Irish lilt to legendary novelist Raymond Chandler’s L.A. LIKE us facebook.com/thecityofreddeer

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The prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville also turns out highly regarded crime novels, including Holy Orders and Vengeance under the pen name Benjamin Black. The Chandler estate hired him to revive Philip Marlowe, and the result is Banville/ Black just-released The Black-Eyed Blonde. she interviewed Banville on stage at the university.

These books convey “an appreciation and wonder at the world around us,” she says.

“The prose is capable of achieving the potency of poetry.

By contrast, his Benjamin Black novels are moody, atmospheric affairs, set in Dublin in the 1950s. Vengeance, Christine Falls, Holy Orders — they all follow Quirke, a pathologist who winds up in a series of unsavoury events.

So when his agent and a representative of the Chandler estate suggested writing a Philip Marlowe novel, Banville didn’t really blink.

“Richness of texture” is what Chandler was about, he says, and he thought he could probably do that.

Early last summer, Banville read through some of Chandler’s classics and watched The Big Sleep as a refresher course.

He wrote The Black-Eyed Blonde in a few months, about the same pace he writes his other crime novels, finishing in September.

One thing he did not do was go to Los Angeles to soak up the feel, consult maps, get the right number of stories for the right buildings, things like that.

Chandler was no stickler for L.A. topography, either, he says, and he took the same licence.

One of Banville’s proofreaders was Candice Bergen, a friend and L.A. native, and he says the actress kept messaging him with corrections about the city’s details.

“I said, ‘It’s a book of fiction, not a travelogue,’ ” he recounts, laughing. “I don’t research. I make it up.”

The results are Chandleresque, sure, but you can see Banville’s sense of fun.

Most tongue-in-cheek may be the scene in which a Mafia don is taking Marlowe on a drive along Cahuenga, then making a turn onto Chandler Boulevard.

“Nice street, Chandler,” Marlowe observes. “Nothing mean about it: it’s broad and clean and welllighted at night.”

Cahuenga and Chandler are real thoroughfares, but Banville slips the latter in as a shout-out to the old man himself.

“Nothing mean” is a play on the oft-repeated description that Chandler wrote about “the mean streets of L.A.” And “clean and well-lighted,” as any English major can tell you, is a riff on Ernest Hemingway’s short story, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.

“I like Marlowe,” Banville is saying, talking about how he got to know the man in the course of writing the book.

Come now, we’ve got time, why not another Chardonnay while we talk this down? The afternoon spills out ahead.

“Marlowe, he’s old-fashioned,” Banville continues, settling in. “He would have fit in at the Knights of the Round Table. He believes nobility is still possible ... he’s an unreconstructed romantic, which I suppose I still am.”

Ray Chandler’s L.A. It’s still hard to see it clearly, that teardrop of affection in the eye.

Neely Tucker writes for The Washington Post

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WASHINGTON — Clare Cavendish. Irish dame, gorgeous, loaded, living in early 1950s L.A. Got a husband and a boyfriend. The first one is no good and louting about. The second is no good and can’t be found. The lady wouldn’t mind getting rid of the first but wants the second one back.

A woman like this, a situation like this, she can’t go to the cops.

Philip Marlowe, private eye, that’s the ticket she needs — except that Marlowe’s creator, legendary L.A. novelist Raymond Chandler, took the Big Sleep express more than half a century back.

What’s a fictional girl to do?

Enter Irish writer John Banville, the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist who also turns out highly regarded crime novels under the pen name Benjamin Black.

The Chandler estate hired him to revive Marlowe. So in the just-released The Black-Eyed Blonde, Banville/Black/Chandler’s ghost has Cavendish and Marlowe stand up, cast shadows and wrestle with the truth, treachery and one another.

It’s vintage L.A., toots: The hot summer, rain on the asphalt, the woman with the lipstick, cigarette ash and alienation, V-8 coupes, tough guys, snubnosed pistols, the ice melting in the bourbon; the City of Angels as it probably never existed.

“The worst thing you could do,” Banville says over lunch, his soft Dublin lilt falling faintly on the ear, “is write a solemn, serious Chandler homage. ... I had fun with all of it. I hope that communicates itself.”

He’s 68, slim, not tall, wearing the author-on-booktour uniform of slacks, dress shirt, tie and a sport coat.

Sitting in a hotel restaurant late last week, he’s soft-spoken at first (you almost have to lean forward) — then he gets that mischievous twinkle and is in full swing as your charming Irish novelist and storyteller, the uncle or granddad you always wish you’d had.

This thing he’s doing, a new Marlowe novel? It’s not a trifle.

Raymond Chandler is an icon of American lit. He started writing late in life, after his business career collapsed (due in part to the Depression, in part to his drinking) but did as much as anybody to create the now ubiquitous hard-boiled genre. The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, The Lady in the Lake, Farewell, My Lovely.

Humphrey Bogart played Marlowe in the film version of The Big Sleep, which became a staple of cinema; Chandler co-wrote the screenplay to Double Indemnity, which did the same.

His books were so good that people have had a hard time leaving it alone, like that good bourbon in the decanter in the kitchen.

One of Chandler’s literary descendants, Robert B. Parker, was hired in the 1990s to finish the novel Chandler was working on when he died, Poodle Springs.

Parker then did another one from scratch.

And there was an anthology of Marlowe short stories by a collection of writers.

Two decades passed.

Meanwhile, Banville was working as a journalist in Dublin, writing one poetically dense novel after another and building an international reputation.

Today, he’s one of the most decorated novelists on the planet.

The Sea won the Man Booker Prize in 2005, over the likes of Salman Rushdie, J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan. There’s the Franz Kakfa Prize, the Irish PEN Award, the Guinness Peat Aviation Book Award (one of Europe’s richest prizes), the Lannan Literary Award for fiction, you get the idea.

The Sea sold nearly 200,000 print copies in the United States alone, according to Nielsen Bookscan, which captures about 70 per cent of the print market but none of the e-book trade.

“The Banville books have a serious intellect and a great sensuality running through them,” says Molly McCloskey, a novelist and professor of creative writing at George Washington University.

An American who has lived in Ireland since 1989,

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LIFESTYLE Husband worried about wife’s relationship with male colleague Dear Annie: In the past four years, my wife has become friendly with a male co-worker. The two of them phone each other often and send an enormous number of text messages, often more than 100 a week.

These calls and text messages are not work related. At her mother’s house, she disappears into the bathroom for a long stretch, and when I check our cellphone account, I see that she was on the phone with him during that time. I also have overheard parts of their conversations in which she complains that he hasn’t made enough personal time MITCHELL for her.

This guy picks her up on & SUGAR holiday mornings and takes her out for breakfast. In fact, any day they have off of work, he comes to our house while I’m at my job.

During this same period, my wife changed her hairstyle, purchased blouses that show more cleavage and started wearing thong panties. She insists that she and this co-worker are just friends, but with all of these things going on, I find it hard to believe there isn’t more to it.

Our children are grown and married. We have discussed getting a divorce on multiple occasions. My wife wants to keep the house, but can’t afford to pay me for my half of it.

I have tried to move forward with a separation, but she fights me every step of the way. I don’t know what to do anymore. Any suggestions? — Had Enough Dear Had: You are moving toward a divorce, but would you rather your wife stop seeing the other guy so you can reconcile?

Would she give him up?

If you are considering a reconciliation, insist that your wife go with you for counselling and see what can be repaired. Otherwise, talk to an attorney about a legal separation. Your wife’s co-operation, while helpful, is not a necessity, provided money doesn’t become the sole focus.

Dear Annie: I’ve been seeing “Charles” for two years, and I am at my wits’ end with his eating habits.

He just turned 21 but eats like a five-year-old.

During a meal, he chews with his mouth open, smacks his lips and speaks with his mouth full. He makes a giant mess and refuses to wipe his hands if they get food on them, saying, “It doesn’t bother me.”

Charles frequently attends family get-togethers at my house, where it is impossible to ignore the lipsmacking and open-mouth chewing.

Both of my sisters and my parents have said something confidentially to me regarding Charles’ eating habits.

I once or twice kindly asked when we were alone whether he could chew with his mouth closed. He laughed it off, saying his parents tried to teach him table manners when he was younger, but they didn’t stick.

Charles just started a new job where lunch meetings are frequent. I’d hate for him to embarrass himself in front of his bosses. How do I address the situation? Apparently, my kind requests are not getting the job done. — Fed Up in Wisconsin Dear Fed: Don’t be so kind. Explain to Charles that most civilized people are disgusted by such habits, and that he risks his reputation (and promotions) at work if he cannot demonstrate basic table manners.

Ask whether he’d like you to sign him up for an etiquette class. That boy needs serious help. We hope he has the intelligence to admit it.

Dear Annie: This is for the son who called his dad cheap. My father grew up during the Depression and often went to bed hungry. He didn’t buy anything unless he needed it. He saved for a rainy day, and I am so grateful he did. It allowed us to put my mother into an excellent nursing home. He wanted us to never be as poor as he had been. Thank you, Dad. — Your Child

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Wedding contest for gay couples works to close legality gap in U.S.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union’s primary work is litigation, but this month it’s moonlighting as a wedding planner as part of its role in the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage across the United States.

The beneficiaries are five gay and lesbian couples from across the U.S. who, out of a field of some 400 entries, were announced this week as winners of the ACLU’s My Big Gay (Il)Legal Wedding contest.

Each couple lives in a state where same-sex marriage is outlawed. They will get logistical and financial help — up to $5,000 — from the ACLU to get married the week of April 28 in one of the 17 states, plus Washington D.C., which do allow gay marriage.

The contest, launched in December, has coincided with a surge of court victories for supporters of same-sex marriage in several states that currently ban it. Federal judges have struck down bans in Michigan, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia, and ordered Kentucky and Tennessee to recognize out-of-state gay marriages, though stays have been issued pending appeals.

James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Project, said the wedding contest highlights the type of problems faced by gay couples in the nearly 30 states where

marriage-equality lawsuits have been filed.

“We live in this crazy time, with a patchwork of protections, where you can go across the border and get married,” he said.

“The problem is that when you turn around and go back, you’re not going to be considered married by your home states. That’s not the way it should work in America.”

The winners were selected by contest organizers from among the 25 couples who received the most votes in online balloting. The ACLU said nearly 200,000 votes were cast. The winners: ● Jeromy Manke and Brian Jensen of Reno, Nev. Jensen, a hair stylist, and Manke, a human resources consultant, have been engaged since June 2012 and plan a California wedding at nearby Lake Tahoe. ● Tamara Sheffield and Maryja Mee of Salisbury, N.C. They’ve been a couple since meeting in college 24 years ago, and have become activists in the quest to legalize same-sex marriage in North Carolina. ● Humberto Niebla and Rafael Vasquez of Paradise Valley, Ariz.

The couple, who have been dating for six years, expressed hope of having a 1920s-themed beachfront wedding in California. ● Jeff Robertson and Jeremiah Pyant of Houston. Pyant, a flight attendant, and Robertson, an ad executive, met four years ago aboard a plane that Pyant

was working on. They got engaged in December and hope to marry aboard a hot air balloon taking off from Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, and flying over the border into New Mexico, where it’s legal. ● Megan and Lindsey Smith of Chattanooga, Tenn. Megan, a real estate agent and insurance broker, and Lindsey, a nurse, met three years ago, and since then have founded an advocacy group called Tennessee Marriage Equality. Lindsey also recently changed her last name as a show of commitment; she had entered the contest as Lindsey Wagoner.

The couple had a wedding celebration in Chattanooga on Sunday, even though Tennessee doesn’t recognize gay marriages, and they plan to be legally wed in a few weeks in Washington, D.C., outside the U.S. Supreme Court building.

“It was beautiful,” Megan said of Sunday’s event. “But according to Tennessee, we’re still legal strangers to each other.”

Dozens of the couple’s close friends and family members were on hand for the celebration, but there was a notable absence — Megan’s father, who is a minister.

For all the couples, the fast pace of gay-marriage litigation has added some extra excitement to the wedding planning.

“As soon as we entered the contest, the court decisions started coming out,” said Jeff Robertson.

“We’re living a civil rights movement right before our eyes.”

HOROSCOPES Friday, April 4 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Barry Pepper, 44; Robert Downey Jr., 49; Hugo Weaving, 54 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: The Moon in Gemini travels pleasantly with the Sun. Welcome emotional bliss in a good dose of abundance offering us a certain relief from our daily worries and concerns. We are feeling highly enerASTRO gized. SelfDOYNA indulgence may make us forget about our personal limitations. Our good-spirited predisposition will support us to take life with a grain of salt and let ourselves embark into some adventurous ventures.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, you are entering a very busy year. You will develop new contact and create new connections that will aid you in furthering your ideals.

Make sure that your agreements are clear and concise. Your determination and courage will help you get closer to your personal wants.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): A chatty day presents to you. You will be on a roll when it comes to exchanging information or news. Calls and messages seem to pop out of everywhere. Try to keep up with today’s super energized mental energy if you don’t want to miss on anything out there.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You have such lavish taste that may cost you much more than you have initially envisioned. You can hardly resist from abstaining yourself in pleasing your most basic needs. You are

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willing to pay for all the risks this may entail.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Zest and extra oomph can get you anywhere today. You are so confident of your own abilities; you will not let anything stand in your way. Don’t get too wrapped up a possible mess up and just focus on the road ahead. Remain open-minded and master some selfcontrol.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are not at your best self and you will tend towards opting some solitude moments. Focus is not your forte point right now. Take this time to finish old tasks and meditate upon your recent activities.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A healthy dose of confidence and radiance may take you on a spiritual trip which you will actually enjoy. You do not need to be far away from home to experience fun-related activities with your favourite circle of friends.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your social standing increases. You are feeling suddenly more in demand and more popular. Your presence is highly solicited by your team members and you might have to get out of your comfort zone and deal with the spotlight you might find yourself in.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You may receive some news from a distant country. Today you will feel more spiritually enlightened and you will find out your inner philosopher side. You may consider taking some classes or simply, filling your knowledge with more sought-after wisdom.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you need some financial help, do not shy away. Go ahead and ask for it. You are pondering over your shared financial duties. Even though you may be struggling on this plane, you will feel giving towards others.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Emotional abundance can be easily achieved today by merging with someone you hold dear to your heart. Open up and be sincere about your partnerships needs. Together you will be able to work things through, as long you both remain truthful to one other.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There might be a pile of task waiting for your attention today. You may start feeling spiritually uplifted and your health condition will show signs of improvement. Stay optimistic and you will conquer all possible malefic impediments.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t miss out on all the activity that is happening out there. You can obtain much more genuine pleasure on a personal front by expressing yourself straight from the heart. A possible new romantic fling can occur at this time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Inner bliss and happiness can be achieved in your own household. Your personal life may feel uplifted or you may feel somewhat lucky today. You may consider expanding your living space so that it feels more comfortable.

Astro Doyna is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist.

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1986 — Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky gets three assists to break his own single-season record for assists. He also sets the single season National Hockey League record with his 213th point.

1949 — Canada signs the North Atlantic Treaty with Belgium, Britain, Denmark,

France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and the U.S.; becomes founding member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO members pledge to defend each other in the event of Soviet attack.

1947 — Founding of the International Civil Aviation Organization, with headquarters in Montreal.

1918 — Cabinet passes wartime orderin-council stipulating that every male between 16 and 60 be regularly employed.

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Carbon dioxide recycling becomes economically viable Carbon monoxide is a greenhouse gas emitted with the combustion of fossils fuels.

Developed countries of the world produce this gas through industrialization, power generation and the diverse modes of modern transportation.

The top 10 producing nations account for approximately 68 per cent of the world’s total output, some 34 billion tons.

China emits 10 billion tons; the U.S. is second at five billion, with India and Japan taking the next two spots at around two billion tons each (2012 estimates).

With the “easy” oil recovered, the cost of extraction and refining has increased to the point where carbon dioxide recycling to make synthetic fuels has become economically viable.

Not a special process recently invented in the last few months, this technology has been used around the world since its invention in Germany in 1925 by Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch.

The largest manufacturer of synthetic fuel, Sasol Ltd. based in South Africa, produces some 24,000 m³/day at its Secunda coal to liquids plant.

Sasol’s plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar, produces 4,500 m³/ day at the gas to liquid plant. Royal Dutch Shell runs a 2,340 m³/day in Bintulu Malaysia, China is running a 3,530 m³/day plant in their inner Mongolian region with plans to expand to 16,200 m³/ day.

The Chinese report their cost of production at US$60 BOE (barrel of oil equivalent).

Qatar and Nigeria have plants under construction and the U.S., Germany, and India all have projects on the drawing board.

So how does C02 recycling have anything to do with changing coal or natural gas to liquid?

The Fischer-Tropsch method requires multiple steps and in the indirect process, step one is to produce synthetic gas from either coal, methane (natural gas) or biomass (yes, biomass).

This synthetic gas or syn-gas is made when CO2 is introduced with the hydrogen released from the coal, methane or biomass materials

Wiring diagram for mouse brain created

using gasification or steamer methane reforming.

Once scrubbed, the syn-gas is then subjected to the next chemical reaction that is based on the end product desired to produce, e.g. gasoline, aviation fuel, diesel fuel, or methanol.

It is important to note that these chemical processes require a large energy input and if the carbon dioxide has to be manufactured, more green-

house gas is produced than captured.

However, if the carbon is already a byproduct of a coal-fired electrical plant, or a carbon capture and storage project, and if the energy input is from an alternative source like a wind farm, then the net result is to reduce the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Fischer-Tropsch fuels are free from contaminants and more energy dense than conventional

petroleum products.

With this high purity, there is less particulate matter, hydrocarbon emissions, and oxides of sulphur and nitrogen produced when synthetic fuels are subjected to combustion by conventional methods.

The overall result is a reduction in pollution and a CO2 recycling process.

CO2 recycling, used in conjunction with carbon capture and sequestration, will mitigate con-

tinued use of modern conveyances, by reducing their environmental impact.

Lorne Oja is an energy consultant, power engineer and a partner in a company that installs solar panels, wind turbines and energy control products in Central Alberta. He built his first off-grid home in 2003. His column appears every second Friday in the Advocate. Contact him at: lorne@solartechnical.ca.

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NEW YORK — Scientists have created a detailed, three-dimensional wiring diagram of the mouse brain.

That should help researchers seek clues about how the human brain works in health and disease.

It’s the first brainwide wiring diagram for a mammal at such a level of detail. While it doesn’t reveal every connection between each of the rodent’s 75 million brain cells, it shows how parts of the brain are connected.

The work was described online Wednesday in the journal Nature by Hongkui Zeng and colleagues at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle.

To create the diagram, scientists combined data from more than 1,000 mouse brains, each of which was divided into 140 slices.

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It’s a Wild Life on the road VANCOUVER-BASED POP GROUP HEDLEY BRINGS CANADIAN TOUR TO CENTRIUM ON SUNDAY

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF Hedley’s bassist Tommy Mac is still riding an adrenaline high in the wake of performing for 10,000 screaming, cellphone-waving fans in Toronto.

“It was incredible. We played the biggest show of our lives,” Mac told the Advocate the day after the big event at the Air Canada Centre.

The Vancouver-based pop group has appeared before larger crowds at outdoor festivals, but never as a headliner. And Mac considers the March 27 Toronto concert “amazing” because it proves Hedley can draw enough fans to fill a large arena.

“I found myself looking at all the cellphones and lights out in the audience and I almost forgot myself — I forgot I was on stage,” said the chuckling musician, who hits Red Deer’s Centrium on Sunday with the rest of Hedley.

The Central Alberta gig will be the third last show of the lengthy Canadian Wild Life tour. Hedley’s 35-date jaunt started in B.C. on Valentine’s Day, went as east as far as St. John’s, Nfld., and will finally wrap on April 10 in Victoria. But rather than slowing down for this last westward stretch, the group is “amping up” with opening acts rappers Classified and Mike Boyd, and the duo USS. Mac comes across as keen about playing in Red Deer as someone who hasn’t been on constant tour for nearly two months. He said he’s been performing for nine years with lead singer Jacob Hoggard, guitarist David Rosin and drummer Christian Crippin and “it never gets old . . . .

“I tell everybody I’m the luckiest man in the world and if I ever complain about anything, I should get struck by lightning!”

His band has been regularly spotlighted over the last few years — what with entertaining at the last Grey Cup half-time show, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and near annual Juno Awards ceremonies.

It sometimes seems like the ubiquitous Hedley has become Canada’s house band. But Mac hesitates to put his pop group into the same iconic category as someone like Celine Dion. “She’s Canada’s songbird . . . I don’t know if I’d want to be the one saying that (about Hedley) . . . . But I would love it if other people said it!”

The 36-year-old father of a two-year-old son feels it’s an honour to take part in a national event like the Grey Cup, which is fervently watched by other Canadians and tends to brings more fans into the fold.

Lately, the band’s popularity has been exploding with the mega-hit Anything. The single from the lat-

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Hedley’s performance at the Centrium on Sunday, 7 p.m., will be the third last show of the lengthy Canadian Wild Life tour.

HEDLEY Who: Canadian pop/rock band Hedley, with special guests Classified, Mike Boyd and USS (Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker).

When: 7 p.m., Sunday, April 6.

Where: Red Deer’s Centrium.

Tickets: $35 to $80 from Ticketmaster. est Wild Life CD has become Hedley’s fastest selling to date. The dance-able tune about never letting doubters bring you down, comes with an eye-popping video, complete with content warning about nudity.

It appears to make fun of the excesses of celebrity culture — including send-ups of twerking star Miley Cyrus.

Mac admitted he has mixed feelings about the video (which has raised some general eyebrows but no comment from Cyrus herself). He feels the more risque aspects might be objectionable, but on the other hand, the footage shows another facet of the band.

In the end, it got people talking — even some music industry people in the U.S., said Mac, who isn’t sure whether Wild Life could become Hedley’s breakthrough record south of the border, where it was just released.

Many popular Canadian bands, including The Tragically Hip, have tried to make a major dent in the American market and failed.

It’s really hard to cross over, admitted Mac. “But it’s the brass ring for us, so it’s what we always try to do . . . .”

Meanwhile, Hedley is gathering fans in Australia, New Zealand, England, Belgium and Germany, where Mac was born.

The former Canadian Forces “army brat” (named Thomas MacDonald) said he’s looking forward to the next European tour, since he’s always thrilled to return to places he remembers from his youth. “It’s cool to go back and see where I lived and the schools I used to go to . . . .”

While he gravitated towards playing with metal bands when he was younger, Mac now feels his “evolution” towards pop fits better with his populist aims: “I was always more about putting people in seats and getting them to buy albums.”

Hedley came into being when a group that Mac was formerly with lost its vocalist. Someone suggested taking on Hoggard, but Mac remembers being completely dismissive of the former Canadian Idol contestant before meeting him.

“I didn’t believe in that whole factory process . . . .”

But the two hit it off soon after meeting and Hoggard’s musical talents were undeniable, said Mac. “Jake has such a raw talent. ... He started to really learn how to write and arrange songs.”

He believes what makes the group so much fun to watch is that the musicians are clearly having a good time together on stage. “We all make each other crack up every day.” lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

Captain America meets modern-day paranoia BLOCKBUSTER TWEAKS THE BRAIN WHILE DAZZLING THE EYE Captain America: The Winter Soldier Three stars (out of four) Rated: PG In the new Captain America sequel, our unthawed avenger visits the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., to see an exhibit devoted to his Second World War exploits.

It’s the only thing in the film that sniffs of embalming fluid. Marvel’s corniest and most archaic superhero otherwise gets a thorough upgrade this time out, in thinking if not in costume, learning through multiple revelations that trust is more elusive than peace.

Subtitled The Winter Soldier, a nod to the Captain’s mysterious new cold-blooded nemesis, the movie comes PETER wrapped not only in the Stars HOWELL and Stripes but also Watergate-meets-9/11 paranoia from influences like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, the latter especially so thanks to the forceful and nuanced presence of Robert Redford.

It’s gung-ho vs. shadow as Captain America gets wise in a hurry and while being pursued. The contrast makes for the best kind of blockbuster comicbook movie, tweaking the brain while dazzling the eye.

When we first rejoin Cap (Chris Evans), aka Steve Rogers, he’s still coming to grips with the 21st century.

Having fended off the Nazi-allied HYDRA criminal organization in origin film Captain America: The First Avenger, he’s now engaged in more current heroism. Things like stopping pirates in the Indian Ocean, aided by his sexy (and sneaky) fellow S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), aka Black Widow of The Avengers alternate universe.

Cap is as valorous as ever, if also a little too virginal. He brushes off dating advice from Natasha, and admits to his new military pal Sam (Anthony Mackie) that he still needs to bone up on such popcult totems as the music of Nirvana and Marvin Gaye and such movies as Rocky.

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Cap (Chris Evans), aka Steve Rogers, is still coming to grips with the 21st century in the sequel ‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier.’

More vexing to this Greatest Generation do-gooder are the flexible ethics of S.H.I.E.L.D. The agency’s high-priority Project Insight is a gussied-up drone missile program devised to take out evildoers before they do evil (shades of Minority Report).

It finds targets by violating civil liberties on a global scale — much like what America’s National Security Agency wiretappers are actually doing — and this doesn’t sit well with the righteous Captain.

“This isn’t freedom,” he tells S.H.I.E.L.D. boss Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson). “This is fear.”

Cap has a point, one even the ferocious Fury can see. But when Fury seeks permission from his government overseer (Redford) to hit the pause button on Project Insight, the good guys barely have a chance to move before the bad guys storm in — including a one-man wrecking crew with face mask and mechanical arm known as the Winter Soldier.

And who really are the bad guys this time? That’s the beauty of the script by returning writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, brought to the screen with malevolent gusto by sibling directors Anthony Russo and Joe Russo, who were last seen helming considerably tamer material with You, Me and Dupree.

While the Russos prove themselves more than capable at handling the film’s many muscular set pieces — an elevator ambush scene is a highlight — they’re also dab hands at building a mood of unease and distrust.

It gets almost supernaturally spooky at times — is that echoes of the Twin Peaks theme in Henry Jackman’s score? — and cinematographer Trent Opaloch imparts a similar sense of totalitarian menace he also brought to the compromised cityscapes of Elysium and District 9.

And while things get a little too complicated midway through, what keeps us grounded and interested is the continuing education of Captain America, whom Evans impressively frees from his comic book origins.

“It’s kind of hard to trust somebody when you don’t know who that somebody really is,” he confides to an ally.

Cap is learning the hard way, much like the superpower he symbolizes, that an imperfect modern world doesn’t offer perfectly moral choices to complex problems.

Peter Howell is a syndicated Toronto Star movie critic.

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Samantha Williams-Chapelsky’s Somewhere In The Hills is an acrylic and glass on canvas piece on display at the Harris-Warke Gallery at Sunworks in Red Deer. The exhibit will be on display until May 3.

EXHIBITS RED DEER GALLERIES ● 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 ● The Velvet Olive presents singer/songwriter Christopher Ford on April 19. ● Blarney Stone welcomes Tribune kicking off their Canada Slays Tour in promotion of their latest album Tales, on April 5. ● The Vat hosts Bend Sinister on April 5 an Vancouver’s Ninjaspy on April 26. ● The 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 tonight as part of his Twentieth Anniversary Tour. Tickets available from Black Knight Ticket Centre, 403-755-6626.

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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 until April 18 at Gallery on Main in Lacombe. ● totems of the masculine by Matt Gould will be featured at Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery until 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?

NEW YORK — Inside Amy Schumer begins its second season on Comedy Central this week, with a sketch in which a focus group of men are asked what they think about the comedian Amy Schumer and her TV show, Inside Amy Schumer. The moderator asks boilerplate focus-group questions that the men unfailingly sexualize, with crude comments about her breasts. “Just so-so face, man” is the response to a query about the show’s balance between sketches and stand-up. “Would you DVR it?” gets a response of “I would bang her, if that’s what you mean.” There is a long side conversation about whether the men would have sex with Schumer if no one had to know about it. As the scene ends, the camera pans to show Schumer standing behind one-way glass, having just watched the room full of men tear her apart. She decides to see the bright side: “A couple of them said they would bang me?”

In its second season, Inside Amy Schumer has become the most consistently feminist show on television, a sketch comedy series in which nearly every bit is devoted in some capacity to gender politics.

But Schumer channels her perspective through an onscreen persona that is insecure, self-proclaimedly slutty, crass, selfish, glossy — onscreen, Amy Schumer thinks feminism is the ultimate F word. Thus a sketch like the focus group, in which Schumer, the writer, tackles her objectification, while Schumer, the character, takes comfort in it. This pairing is extremely canny. Schumer hides her intellect in artifice and lip gloss. By wrapping her ideas in a ditzy, sexy, slutty, self-hating shtick, her message goes down easy — and only then, like the alien, sticks its opinionated teeth in you.

Schumer is a great observer of the eviscerating, gendered detail, the seemingly innocuous convention that actually papers over hypocrisy and egotism. In her best sketch from last season, a group of women gathered on the street and failed to take compliments from one another: “Look at your cute little dress!” “Little? I’m like a size 100 now. Anyway I paid $2 for it. It’s probably made of old Burger King crowns. I look like a whore locked out of her apartment!” It was a sketch based on real-life behavior, blown up to insane and hilarious proportions, so that you could see the seeming self-effacement for what it was — competition, false humility and, above all, the perverse way women “behaving appropriately” are encouraged to behave.

Schumer has a couple of new sketches in the same format as Compliments that are not quite as satisfying, but still nicely showcase her knack for eviscerating small talk. In one, a group of women insist they’re “so bad” because of all the food they’ve eaten, while giving themselves a free pass on all other kinds of abhorrent behavior.

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SCHUMER: Feminist who makes all the jokes A sketch with men chatting about how much they love a guy’s girl gets followed to a homoerotic conclusion. In a great sketch that doesn’t follow exactly the same up-the-ante format, a man (Zach Braff, no less) gets chastised by his buddies anytime he wants to tell sordid sex stories about his wife, whom he loves: his friends think wild sex is only acceptable with women they don’t respect.

The best sketch of the new season has Schumer playing a video game not unlike Call of Duty with a male friend. Schumer picks a female avatar who, in the game, is raped by her superior. The guy Schumer is playing with doesn’t believe that it happened.

Schumer must have “done something wrong.” Meanwhile, the game starts bullying her — “You were just assaulted by a fellow solider. Do you wish to report?” “Yes.” “Are you sure? Did you know he has a family? Does that change your mind about reporting?” — before sending her to Level 25, which is all paperwork.

In an earlier bit, Schumer egomaniacally decides to take a kid to the prom as part of a PR stunt. It goes horribly wrong, but in the end, she feels it was worth it because her arms look skinny in the resulting tab-

rangy fellow whose narrow face and shaggy mop are set off by fashionably unfashionable dark-framed glasses. “That’s going to steer us in a different direction.”

Oliver & Co. dropped a few hints about what to expect last week by releasing two videos on YouTube that parodied the Republican National Committee’s latest outreach ad to young voters. The bits were a mild hit, with one racking up more than 180,000 views.

The videos highlighted Oliver’s immersion in popular culture, as well as his political worldview. Both pre-dated his arrival on U.S. soil in 2006 (he’d never been to America when The Daily Show hired him as a writer that year). He’s been talking about those subjects in his stand-up act, on his long-running podcast, The Bugle (with British pal Andy Zaltzman), and as a panelist on the BBC news-quiz program Mock the Week. loid photo. Surrounding all the skits are snippets from her stand-up, in which she, among other things, looks very polished. Male comedians, generally speaking, dress on a scale from not-trying-very-hard to not-trying-at-all. Female comedians have to look more presentable, and Schumer skews particularly girly: form-fitting dresses, long blond hair, glossy lips. Schumer’s self-presentation, along with the peppering in of low-brow dirty jokes and sketches in which she plays the vapid jerk, are extremely shrewd: Amy Schumer doesn’t “seem” like a feminist

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NEW YORK — Catching a Wednesday matinee on Broadway is so last year. The hot thing now is Thursday afternoon shows.

Three shows making the move are Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Mamma Mia! and The Phantom of the Opera. Matilda the Musical may experiment with the idea this summer.

The change means families will be able to get to see another matinee, a lifeline for family-friendly shows. And with the city bracing for summer tourists, offering a Thursday matinee lets theatre lovers cram in more shows if they come for a long weekend.

For performers, it means more flexibility and an end to five-show weekends. Elena Ricardo, who plays Sophie in Mamma Mia!, now has Sundays completely off and can go to church and brunch. “I can’t wait,” she said. “I hope other shows catch on to this as well.”

Pop star Carly Rae Jepsen, who plays Cinderella, now has her Wednesday nights free and she said she will use the time to work on her next studio album.

“A lot of the producers I’m booking time with are happier when I’m saying, ’Let’s start at 6’ versus ‘Let’s start at 10 in the morning,”’ she said. “I personally always preferred going to a matinee. I don’t know what it is — maybe having a lazy dinner afterwards — but for me the perfect New York day is catching up with friends, a matinee and then a dinner somewhere.”

The Thursday step is the latest to scramble the traditional eight-show Broadway week that has seen the addition of shows on normally dark Monday, earlier curtains on Tuesday night, the scrapping of two shows on Sunday and even nine-performance weeks during holidays.

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NEW YORK — David Letterman says he’s retiring next year as host of Late Show.

During a taping of Thursday’s show, Letterman said he has informed his CBS bosses that he will step down in 2015, when his current contract expires.

He told his audience he expects his departure will be “at least a year or so” from now.

Letterman turns 67 next week. He has the longest tenure of any late-night talk show host in U.S. television history, nearing 32 years since he created Late Night at NBC in 1982.

He jumped to CBS to start Late Show in 1993.

Jay Leno, his rival to host NBC’s Tonight Show, retired earlier this year, making way for Jimmy Fallon.

HALIFAX — Children’s entertainment company DHX Media Ltd. (TSX:DHX) said Thursday it has acquired the Epitome group of companies, producer of the hit Degrassi TV franchise, for $33 million in stock and cash.

In addition to the shows in the Degrassi franchise, the deal includes episodes of the L.A. Complex, Instant Star, Riverdale and Liberty Street.

The deal will see Stephen Stohn remain the president of Epitome. Stohn and Linda Schuyler will stay on as executive producers of all current productions.

The sale also includes Epitome Studios Inc., which owns a studio in Toronto.

“The Degrassi franchise has become a perennial favourite with teens around the world since its inception in 1980,” said Michael Donovan, CEO of DHX Media.

“With Degrassi’s enduring international appeal and suitability for digital broadcast, this iconic Canadian show represents a highly complementary addition to our library and is a compelling and logical expansion for DHX Media from kids into the global teen market.”

Under the agreement, DHX will pay $19.5 million in cash and 2.9 million DHX shares, which will be subject to a six month lock-up agreement.

DHX said it expects the deal to add to net earnings per share for its 2015 financial year.

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NEW YORK — Is there anything remotely funny about General Motors’ handling of an ignition-switch defect linked to at least a dozen deaths?

John Oliver admits it’s tough terrain. “I don’t think there were a lot of people saying, ‘Oh, great, corporate malfeasance. This is a comic gold mine,’” the British comic and news satirist recalled the other day. “It’s actually pretty grim.”

And yet Oliver and the writers of his forthcoming HBO news-parody show, Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, took a whack at it last week in a test run for the program. Applying what he learned as the “senior British correspondent” on The Daily Show, Oliver and his fellow wits found a potentially amusing angle: the media meme, pushed by GM itself, that the company would somehow handle the unfolding debacle better or differently because its new chief executive, Mary Barra, is a woman and “a mom.”

“It’s so ridiculous,” said Oliver, gleefully recalling the source material, “the amount of times people mentioned that her quintessential chromosome situation was going to be a huge benefit to her while giving exactly the same [expletive] rote responses in that situation. It was really an amazing moment. It shows that a woman could give exactly as appalling a response” as any male executive.

Score one for gender parity. And score another for the Oliver twist on the news, which could vault Last Week to the top of the crowded ranks of TV shows making merry at the expense of the news and the news media.

Loud and loquacious, Oliver, 36, owes a debt of thanks to America’s journalists, particularly the Washington kind, for the very nice career he’s having. If it weren’t for the news media’s vapidity, cupidity, general stupidity, Oliver might still be back in his native England, doing who-knows-bloody-well what.

Instead, he’s become an almost-star on this side of the Atlantic, one of the few British comic performers to make it on American television. Oliver’s work on The Daily Show was so consistently sharp — check out his classic three-part series on American hypocrisy about gun control from last year — that host Jon Stewart promoted Oliver from fake reporter to fake temporary anchor when Stewart took a leave to direct a movie last summer. Oliver nailed his big chance, winning over critics and keeping Stewart’s fanatically loyal fans tuned in for the two-month interim. (He’s also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom Community, playing an acerbic, alcoholic British professor).

His reward: HBO hired Oliver away last fall (with Stewart’s blessing, Oliver says) and handed him his own show, which debuts later this month.

As Oliver described it the other day in an interview at HBO’s midtown headquarters, Last Week will be quite a bit like The Daily Show, only once a week instead of, you know, daily. The resemblance to his former TV home doesn’t stop with the host, however.

The new show will be run by executive producer Tim Carvell, who was the head writer and co-producer on The Daily Show.

But don’t expect The Weekly Daily Show. Oliver knows he’s at a time disadvantage. The challenge, he says, will be to pick up on stories that haven’t yet been chewed over by his old friends at The Daily Show and The Colbert Report — as well as by Kimmel, Conan, Letterman, Fallon, Ferguson, Bill Maher, Seth Meyers and Saturday Night Live — by the time Last Week gets around to them.

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BROOKS Stanley James Edward 1956 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Stanley James Edward Brooks of Red Deer. Stanley passed away suddenly at home on Friday, March 28, 2014 at the age of 57 years.

Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Stan was a true East Ender.

He excelled in sports, especially hockey and had a great passion for golf, gardening and his family. He was a true adventurer, he moved to Fort St. John in the late 70’s with his life time pal, Gary Hughes. Stan worked over 30 years on the oil patch and has been a resident of Red Deer for 16 years. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife Lee-Ann, daughter Andrea Brooks of Edmonton, sons, James Brooks of Edmonton and David Shank of Fort St. John, two grandchildren, Hailey and Devin, as well as sisters, Janet, Karen and Margaret and brother David.

Stan was predeceased by his mother and father, Samuel and Emily Brooks. Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects between 11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. prior to the service at Parkland Funeral Home. A Celebration of Stan’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Monday, April 7, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Card Of Thanks HARRY BOOMER A special thanks goes out to Ed Stevenson and staff at the Sylvan Lake Funeral Home for their great care and kindness.

Thanks to Pastor Jim Rilling at the Alliance Church, for visitations, prayers and the lovely service.

The Legion Ladies Auxiliary prepared and served delicious lunch, and thanks to Branch 22 and L.A. for the Honour Guard.

The grandchildren gave a beautiful tribute to their grandfather, Eamon McCann payed a lovely tribute to Harry, and John “Butch” Boushard played Harry’s favourite song “Amazing Grace.” Nephew Kirby Boomer played beautiful piano music, and for all this, we are extremely grateful.

We have no words that can express our gratitude to the staff at Centennial Centre, Ponoka, especially Aurora House, for the wonderful care that Harry received.

For flowers, cards, phone calls, love and donations; we are so appreciative.

We are blessed to have a wonderful family and so many treasured friends.

We love you all.

Dorothy (Dot), Len & Val, Donna & families

EDGAR Bill William Gordon (Bill) Edgar passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on March 28, 2014 at the age of 71 years. Born to Margaret and William Edgar, he was raised along with his younger siblings Barb, Peg and Jim on the Edgar farm in the Crossroads District west of Red Deer. Bill, Jill and their children carried on the long Edgar tradition of farming on their farm out in the Burnt Lake District. His parents Margaret and Bill Senior and his first wife Nora predeceased Bill.

Surviving Bill are his wife Jill, his daughter Lorrie (Ralph) Cervi, his son Ian (Sarah) Edgar and his precious granddaughters Chloe Ann and Peyton Rose Edgar. Bill Celebrations is also survived by his siblings Barb (Dick) Goodall, Peg Edgar, Jim (Joan) Edgar, his special Uncle Gordon Pearce, sister and brother in-laws, many cousins, nieces and nephews. Like his grandfather, Robert Edgar, Bill had a lifelong passion for the outdoors; including farming, hunting, trapping, fishing, camping and horse back riding out in the West Country. The family would like to express their sincere thanks to the caring, compassionate staff of the 1400 Household at Michener Extendicare and to the doctors and nurses in Pauline McDonald’s Emergency at the Red Deer 100th Birthday Regional Hospital. There will The family of Pauline McDonald be a family graveside service (nee Bascombe) at 11:00 a.m. on April 11, 2014 at the Red Deer would like to invite you to join in celebrating her 100th birthday.

Cemetery. A celebration of An open house will be held Bill’s life will be held at the Saturday, April 5th, 2014 Pioneers Lodge, 4324 - 46A Ave. 1:30 to 4:00 at the Bower Kin Red Deer 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Community Centre, In Bill’s honour, memorial 85 Boyce Street, Red Deer, AB. tributes may be made to the For info call 403-747-2367 Alzheimer’s Society, 105 4419 - 50th Ave. Red Deer.

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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

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TJ PAVING LTD. OpenBUSY Central Alberta ings for Operators & Grain Trucking Company Labourers. Paving experi- looking for Class 1 Drivers ence an asset. Busy, and/or Lease Operators. growing company, oppor- We offer lots of home time, tunities to move up. Great benefits and a bonus working atmosphere. Email program. Grain and super resume: tjpaving@hotmail.

B exp. an asset but not com or Fax: 403-346-8404. necessary. If you have a clean commercial drivers W.R.SCOTT Equipment abstract and would like to a company dealing in start making good money. compact equipment is fax or email resume and looking for a representative comm.abstract to to handle equipment, 403-337-3758 or dtl@telus.net parts, sales & equipment rentals. Applicant must Classifieds...costs so little have a valid driver’s Saves you so much! licence, basic computer knowledge is an asset.

F/T SERVICE DRIVER Please send resume to: wanted for Little Jons dbevan@ Portable Toilet Services. wrscottequipment.com Benefits. O/T in summer. or fax 403-347-4099 Drivers abstract req’d. sales@littlejons.ca or fax resume to 403-342-6179

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 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Truckers/ Drivers

860

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

880

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

RED Deer based acid hauling company looking for Class 1 truck drivers.

Top industry wages and benefits package. Please fax resume and drivers abstract to 403-346-3766

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SPRING START •

Community Support Worker Program

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Women in the Trades Program

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Math and Science for the Trades Program

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GED Preparation Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

Business Opportunities

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of the morning ADVOCATE in Red Deer

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

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in ROSEDALE AREA Rowell Cl. & Ritson Cl. $87/mo.

West half of Robinson Cres., Rich Cl., & Ryan Cl. and area $84/mo.

Call Jamie 403-314-4306

Call Prodie: 403-314-4301 for more info

35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

GAETZ SOUTH

CASH CASINO is hiring a

F/T CLEANERS

3am - 11am shift.

Need to be physically fit.

Must have reliable transportation.

Please send resume attn: Greg Tisdale gtisdale@ cashcasino.ca or fax 403-346-3101 or drop off at Cash Casino, 6350 - 67 St.

Various Full & Part Time Positions in the Meat Department, Grocery & Cash.

Please see Customer Service for application.

ANDERS AREA Allan St. / Ardell Close Andrews Close Aikman Close Arb Close / Asmundsen Ave. INGLEWOOD AREA

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* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

INNISFAIL The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

Inglis Cres.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

LANCASTER AREA

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Lacey Close / Lennon Close Addington Drive

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres

Carriers are Needed to Deliver

SUNNYBROOK AREA

Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

Sherwood Cres.

Viscount Drive Volks Place / Vanier Drive Vanson Close / Visser St. Vickers Close Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info ********************** TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

MOUNTVIEW SUBDIVISION 33 Street 34 Street 36 Street 38 Street 42 Ave. 43A Ave.

Computers

1600 1630 1650

LAMB: Free range, hormone free, freezer ready, inspected & processed to your specs. $240 per carcass.

403-704-9890

LABOUR

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood

SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 CLEAROUT 6 locations in Red Deer VARIOUS PARTYLITE ~ Halman Heights PRODUCTS ~ Riverfront Estates including candles. ~ Westpark 60% off. ~ Kitson Close Large selection. ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres.

403-350-9029 or ~ Holmes St. 403-343-7389 S.D. $1000 KENMORE White Rent $1195 to $1445 microwave oven 800W, $30.

3 bdrm. townhouses, KENMORE model 30 dehumidifier, exc. cond., $75. 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

POTTERY SOUP SET N/S, no utilities incl. with urn & label. 4 bowls, References required. casserole dish & salad bowl w/4 plates, like new, $95. 403-352-8811 4 Plexes/ METAL Shop Cabinets (3) 6 Plexes (15”x48”x25”), 2 drawer, 2 with bases. $50. each.

GLENDALE 403-346-8563 3 Bdrm. 4-plex, 4 appls., $1125. incl. sewer, water OAKLEY Sunglasses & garbage. D.D. $650, model D Whisker Silver Avail. May 1 403-304-5337 /00BLK IRID, polar, never used, $95.

403-352-8811 PLAYPEN Evenflo Pack n Suites Go $40; brass/glass shelf $20; treadmill old style GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. $20; laminate flooring apartments, avail. immed, $1/sq. ft. 403-342-5609 rent $875 403-596-6000 PORTABLE hose reel cart LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. $40; galvanized garbage SUITES. 25+, adults only can w/lid $12; alum. scoop n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 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; pow- 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. er rake blades for lawn Adult bldg. N/S No pets mower 2@15”, 1@16” all 403-755-9852 $10; 3 shelf pvc white Newly renovated bachelor stand 16 1/2”w x 15”d x & 2 bedroom suites 36”h $10; 2 outdoor avail. in central location. wrought iron brackets for leasing@ rentmidwest.com hanging plants $8 pair, 1(888) 679-8031 new 20 oz. cotton wet mop $6 403-314-2026

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MORRISROE MANOR

Pets & Supplies

1810

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 30 GAL FISH Tank with 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer accessories. $200.

Newer bldg. secure entry 403-346-8563 LOGS w/onsite manager, Semi loads of pine, spruce, 90 GAL FISH TANK with 5 appls., incl. heat & hot tamarack, poplar. access. $400; Koi (white & water, washer/dryer Price depends on location. black), 12” long, 3 yrs. old. hookup, infloor heating, a/c., Lil Mule Logging $500.; Gold Fish (large 3 car plug ins & balconies.

403-318-4346 yrs. old, $100; Tank & fish Call 403-343-7955 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner $800. 403-346-8563 BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED

Garden Supplies

1680

Resident Apartment Household Manager - Red Deer Appliances 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

1710

ELECTRIC RANGE exc. cond., $125 obo. 403-782-3398

Household Furnishings

1720

1830

Cats

BALINESE KITTENS (2) $50. ea.

Burman Kittens (2) $50. ea.

403-887-3649

1840

Dogs

HUSKY WOLF PUPS!!

1st shots, Call Kerri 403-506-3395 WOLF American Eskimo Puppies. Ready to go. Playful & cuddly $350. 403-391-9671

Sporting Goods

1860

3 CUPBOARDS 72” X 30” FOR SALE: Complete oak, $75/ea. 403-350-7799 RCBS Loading Equipment.

403-346-2181 BAR fridge $75 403-350-7799 GUN SHOW May 3 - May 4 BED, single w/large UFA Agri Centre West drawers, $45; Info: 403-347-3767 HIDE-A-BED, $40; 403-347-4111 IRON Horse gravity body lifter $50 403-309-1737 GLIDER CHAIR Dusty rose in colour. Oak frame. Exc. shape. $125. Collectors' END TABLE with drawer, shape. Top has been Items SAFETY PERSON good re-fi nished. 16”x20”. $32.

Busy road construction STAMP COLLECTION 403-346-4348 company looking for safety Over 900 CDN. Dating person. Work is throughout back to 1940’s + some the province. Experience is American. $500 obo. an asset but willing to train Bob @ 403-556-2204 the right person. Must have a valid Class 5 driver’s license. Fax resume Travel KING SIZE BOX SPRING, 403-309-0489 Packages $100.

Wanted yard maintenance 403-350-9029 or person for portable toilet TRAVEL ALBERTA 403-343-7389 business, email resume to Alberta offers LARGE sofa, blue/grey, sales@littlejons.ca or fax SOMETHING modern, good cond. $150 403-342-6179 for everyone.

403-350-7799 Make your travel plans now.

METAL corner shelf, 3 Employment shelves, 60”H $15; and 4 Training wooden wall shelves $10/ea; black vase with matching ginger jar $10; tile like clock w/black iron TRAINING CENTRE trim, $10; brushed silver OILFIELD TICKETS table lamp w/glass shade Industries #1 Choice! $25 403-309-1737 AGRICULTURAL “Low Cost” Quality Training STURDY bookcase, 3 CLASSIFICATIONS 403.341.4544 shelves, 2 lower doors 24 Hours 2000-2290 $25; loveseat, very good Toll Free 1.888.533.4544 cond., blue/green, $40 403-347-5846 R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR TIFFANY table lamp, Livestock R Confined Space blue/cream, $100; 2 highback metal bar stools R WHMIS & TDG FLATLAND RANCH w / c u s h i o n s , R Ground Disturbance has on offer yearling and $90 403-754-1015 R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. 2 year old Gelbvieh Bulls.

R D&C (LEL) We have been selling WANTED reputable bulls for 15 years Antiques, furniture and #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. Chuck 403-854-6270 (across from Totem) estates.

342-2514 (across from Rona North)

1900

900

33A Street 35 St. Cres.

37 St. 41 Ave. 43 Ave. 44A Ave.

SAFETY

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

2100

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Employment Training

900

Horses

HEALTHCARE We are currently seeking the following to join our team in Blackfalds for all shifts: - CONCRETE FINISHERS Top wages paid based on experience. Full Benefits and Uniform Package included.

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

Financial Assistance available to qualified applicants.

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rentals

Visit our website for more detailed job descriptions at

www.eaglebuilders.ca

We thank all applicants but only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

Grain, Feed Hay

Health Care Aide Medical Office Assistant Health Unit Coordinator Veterinary Administrative Assistant Dental Administrative Assistant and more!

IS HIRING!

2140

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

Call Today (403) 347-6676 2965 Bremner Avenue, Red Deer

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

3080

ROOMATE WANTED, M or F. Fully furn. 2 bdrm. apt. 403-986-1903 after 1 pm.

Rooms For Rent

3090

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 CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $525. 403-342-2627

Mobile Lot

3190

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

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For Rent

3200

DOWNTOWN PARKING STALLS FOR RENT. 4922 47th St. (One block south of Millennium Centre.) $75/mo. + GST 403-357-0111 or 347-4044

Mobile office trailer 240 rent by day/month, c/w toilet, satellite dish, TV, Stereo, fridge. Call B & L Enterprise 403-346-6106

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Realtors & Services

4010

FOR ALL YOUR OFFICE NEEDS call Glenn Moore Associate 403-346-6655 www.reddeercommercial.com

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

YOUR CAREER IN

Applicants are able to apply online or fax resume to 403-885-5516 ATTN: Human Resources or email: hr@eaglebuilders.ca.

3020 3030

278950A5

VANIER AREA

SLIPPERS size 6 medium ladies slippers, blue, velcro close, never worn $18 403-986-6321

Houses/ Duplexes

2 WOOL ACCENT MATCH- 3 BDRM. MAIN FLOOR of ING 5X7 CARPETS house Avail. Immed. $1250 & 1 matching oval. $45 + 2/3 utils. **RENTED** Clean, will sell separately.

DAVID WINTER COLLECTORS HOUSES Condos/ in original boxes. $20/ea. Townhouses CANNON K920 Copier machine w/metal stand.

LEGACY ESTATES Exc. cond. $60 60yrs + condo. 403-598-0503 403-352-8811 SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 4 METAL stacking lawn chairs w/cushions $90; 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 Winnie the Poo potty chair baths, fenced yards, $15; Radio Flyer rocking full bsmts. 403-347-7473, horse $35; 403-754-1015 Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

1870

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

MORRISROE AREA McVicar Street / McKee Close

1590

PRIVATE cleaner req’d, 1 day per week. Must have TREES: Windbreak, own transp., 8 mi. S.E. of privacy screen, white Red Deer. 403-886-4582 spruce trees 5’-7’ delivered & planted $60 ea. on 25 or PRIVATE yard maint. person req’d. 1 day/week. more. 20+ yrs experience (780)778-0223.

Own transp. req’d. 8 mi.

S.E. of R.D. 3-886-4582

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FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

1580

FP highchair $35, FP baby swing $45; Graco stroller w/car seat $75; umbrella stroller $10; new baby wooden sled w/liner $35 403-754-1015

Farmers' Market

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

NO COLLECTING!

CARRIERS NEEDED

ALBERTA HISTORY 14.5”x30” print (coloured) of Crow Chiefs signing the Peace Treaty party. $200.

403-347-7405 SEE THEM TO BELIEVE 8 Indian Warriors Shield.

Owner must sell. $75-$85 each. 403-347-7405

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

To deliver 1 day a week in BOWDEN

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

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1760

Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

SPRINGBROOK

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Antiques & Art

EquipmentHeavy

Busy road construction company looking for Labours. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

afternoons & evenings one day per week

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

1500-1990

ACER computer monitor, 17” , with 2 stand alone speakers and Keyboard. $50. 403-346-8563

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Dr. Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

CLASSIFICATIONS

Clothing

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * WESTPARK SUBDIVISION

stuff

Children's Items

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

870

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

ONLY 4 DAYS A WEEK

ALSO

MORRISROE AREA TRUCKERS

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life

Misc. for Sale

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ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

(Reliable vehicle needed.)

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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Trades

3010

FARM HOUSE, 2 bdrm. bsmt, 20 kms. west of Bowden close to Glennifer Lake $1000/mo. + DD + utils. 403-559-8847

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

4020

2 SPEC HOMES Ready for your colours.

Can be shown at any time.

10 & 98 MacKenzie Cres.

Lacombe. 403-588-8820 2 YR OLD, 1499 SQ.FT. 2 story, 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath, single garage. Blackfalds. $346,500. 587-228-1892 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

D6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Friday, April 4, 2014

BUILT in 2013 Quality 3 bdrm., 2 bath + legal bsmt. suite, smoke free, back alley access, offstreet back & front parking, incld’s 2 set of appls. & all window covering, mature area/landscaping $339,000 5018 61 Ave. Close Ponoka, 403-704-1714

Investment Opportunities

INNISFAIL: New

DUPLEX large single att. garage, 2200 sq. ft., 1.5 lots, walkout, inÁoor heat, air cond., 2 large decks, fully dev. up/down & landscaped, high eff. furnace & water heater. Room for shop. $324,900, No GST. 403-396-3203

2000 GMC 1/2 ton S/B, reg. cab, loaded, good cond, $7000 obo; 2000 GMC Yukon loaded $7000 obo 403-304-0678

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4 ALL SEASON RADIAL TIRES, 225/50RF17 94V, 870% tread remaining. $100.

403-755-2760

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Automotive Services

If you own a vehicle, get up to $10,000 today! www.thetitlestore.ca RED DEER 403-754-5104 4971 Phelan St.

MUST SELL

5030

2007 TOYOTA Yaris 78,000 kms, 403-877-6020

OPEN HOUSE

Sat. & Sun. 1-5. 22 Doran Cres. DEER PARK fully Ànished 1450 sq. ft. bungalow Fanta home, 5 bdrms,3 bath, Listed on kijiji 403-343-1683

www.laebon.com Laebon Homes 346-7273

4040

Condos/ Townhouses

EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RIVERFRONT CONDOS FOR SALE in Downtown Red Deer.

Call Renee at 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

Tires, Parts Acces.

Auto Wreckers

4100

Income Property

13-unit apt. bldg., Red Deer Ind. metered units Below market rents Free & clear Ànancing Call Karen Barry, Broker 403.767.9999 Email: karen @barrycommercial.com www.barrycommercial.com Barry Commercial Real Estate, Brokerage

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Automotive

1994 PONTIAC Sunbird, 2 dr.

Offers. 403-352-6995

Military personnel wait for a news conference to begin at Fort Hood, Texas, on Wednesday. A gunman opened fire in an attack that left four people killed including the shooter, at the same post where more than a dozen people were killed in a 2009 mass shooting, law enforcement officials said.

The gunman died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. At least 14 people were hurt in the shooting.

PUBLIC NOTICES

Unstable mental health contributed to rampage at Texas military base

Public Notices

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail.

403-304-5555

at www.garymoe.com

Locally owned and family operated

Trucks

If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim

by May 11, 2014 and provide details of your claim with: Keith R. Lamb at Johnston Ming Manning LLP Barristers and Solicitors 4th Floor, 4943 - 50 Street Red Deer, AB. T4N 1Y1 If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

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OPEN HOUSE Sat April 5, 2-4 pm

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Call Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

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Estate of John Ronald Philip Who died on August 15, 2013

1989 CHRYSLER 5th Ave 110,000 kms. $995. obo.

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services CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430 To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilÀeld service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Contractors

1100

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or Áooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

Massage Therapy

1280

1165

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

COMMERCIAL Parking lot Vacuum Street Sweeping & parking lot assessments.

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SOLDIER WHO KILLED THREE MAY HAVE ARGUED WITH OTHER BEFORE OPENING FIRE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT HOOD, Texas — The soldier who killed three people at Fort Hood may have argued with another service member shortly before the attack at the Texas military base, and investigators believe his unstable mental health contributed to the rampage, authorities said Thursday.

The base’s senior officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said there is a “strong possibility” that Spc. Ivan Lopez had a “verbal altercation” with another soldier or soldiers immediately before Wednesday’s shooting, which unfolded on the same Army post that was the scene of an infamous 2009 mass shooting.

However, there’s no indication tbhat he targeted specific soldiers, Milley said.

Lopez never saw combat during a deployment to Iraq and had shown no apparent risk of violence before the shooting, officials said.

The 34-year-old truck driver seemed to have a clean record that showed no ties to extremist groups. But the Army secretary promised that investigators would keep all avenues open in their inquiry of the soldier whose rampage ended only after he fired a final bullet into his own head.

“We’re not making any assumptions by that. We’re going to keep an open mind and an open investigation,” Army Secretary John McHugh said, explaining that “possible extremist involvement is still being looked at very, very carefully.”

A hospital official expressed optimism Thursday that all of the 16 people who were wounded in the shooting would survive. Three critically wounded patients were expected to survive. Several others were to be discharged Thursday, said Dr. Matthew Davis, the trauma director at Scott & White Memorial Hospital.

Within hours of Wednesday’s assault, investigators started looking into whether Lopez had lingering psychological trauma from his time in Iraq. Fort Hood’s senior officer, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, said the shooter had sought help for depression,

anxiety and other problems, and was taking medication.

Among the possibilities investigators were exploring was whether a fight or argument on the base triggered the attack.

Investigators searched the soldier’s home Thursday and questioned his wife, Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said.

Lopez apparently walked into a building Wednesday and began firing a .45-calibre semiautomatic pistol. He then got into a vehicle and continued firing before entering another building. He was eventually confronted by military police in a parking lot, according to Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, senior officer on the base.

As he came within 20 feet (6 metres) of a police officer, the gunman put his hands up but then reached under his jacket and pulled out his gun. The officer drew her own weapon, and the suspect put his gun to his head and pulled the trigger a final time, Milley said.

Lopez grew up in Guayanilla, a town of fewer than 10,000 people on the southwestern coast of Puerto Rico, with a mother who was a nurse at a public clinic and a father who did maintenance for an electric utility company. Glidden Lopez Torres, who said he was a friend speaking for the family, said Lopez’s mother died of a heart attack in November.

The soldier was upset that he was granted only a 24-hour leave to attend her funeral, which was delayed for nearly a week so he could be there, the spokesman said. The leave was then extended to two days.

Lopez joined the island’s National Guard in 1999 and served on a yearlong peacekeeping mission in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in the mid-2000s. He enlisted with the Army in 2008, McHugh said.

Lopez saw no combat during a four-month deployment to Iraq as a truck driver in 2011.

A review of his service record showed no Purple Heart, indicating he was never wounded, McHugh said. He arrived at Fort Hood in February from Fort Bliss, Texas.

He saw a psychiatrist last month and showed no “sign of any likely violence either to himself or others,” McHugh

said.

Shaneice Banks, a 21-yearold business-management student who lived in the same apartment complex as the Lopezes, said her husband, who also works at Fort Hood, helped the couple move in. Hours before the shooting, Banks said she ran in to Lopez when he came home for lunch and had a friendly exchange with him.

When word came out that there was a shooting at the base, Banks saw Lopez’s wife frantically calling her husband over and over, trying to reach him via cellphone from the apartment’s shared courtyard.

“She was bawling because they have a 2-year-old, and she was just holding the baby,” Banks said. “My heart just went out to her. I was trying to get her information when I could but she doesn’t speak a lot of English.”

Xanderia Morris lives next door to Banks. She also saw Karla Lopez distraught in the courtyard.

“We tried to console her.

She called some people over, and we were consoling her, and then she started up the stairs back to his apartment, and they identified him as the shooter on television. She just broke down.

We had to rush her up the stairs so nothing would happen to her,” Morris said.

Neighbours took Lopez into Morris’ apartment, where she sat crying on the sofa for a long time.

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Lt. Gen. Mark Milley said Thursday that Spc. Ivan Lopez purchased a .45-calibre pistol from Guns Galore, a store in Texas, on March 1. Authorities say Lopez opened fire Wednesday afternoon on base before killing himself with a gunshot.

Guns Galore is where Nidal Hasan bought the gun and high-capacity magazines he used to kill 13 people in a 2009 rampage at Fort Hood.

It’s also where another soldier, Naser Jason Abdo, was arrested in 2011 for plotting an attack on the base.

Employees at Guns Galore declined to comment earlier Thursday.

HONOLULU — Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel says it’s too soon to draw any broad conclusions about safety at U.S. military bases after the deadly shootings at Fort Hood, Texas.

He said Thursday that as the investigation unfolds, the Pentagon will continue to take a close look at any new lessons that can be learned from Wednesday’s tragedy and implement any needed changes to base security.

He said the Defence Department has implemented changes after other shootings, including the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood and last year’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.

He said the safety of the troops was a priority for defence leaders and commanders.

He said that while one incident was too many, the U.S. has a lot of bases around the world and they are safe places.

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Rudsak channels cool rebel

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Rudsak had some high-profile company on hand to mark a major milestone for the homegrown brand, as its fall-winter showcase doubled as a celebration of the label’s 20th anniversary.

Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier and Toronto Raptors point guard Julyan Stone took in the action from the front row at Toronto’s World MasterCard Fashion Week.

While some brands are inclined to merely mimic of-the-moment trends, Rudsak doesn’t typically deviate from much from the styles that have helped the label endure.

“When you see a perfecto (a leather motorcycle jacket), you really can’t reinvent that in multiple ways.

“You can make it fitted, looser... But it has to be timeless,” said founder and creative leader Evik Asatoorian backstage prior to the show.

Asatoorian described the “cool rebel” look as central to the label’s DNA. Rudsak did its part to offer a slight twist on its rock ’n’ roll-inspired styles, with pointed hems and floral patterns on leather jackets and the bold pops of green, navy and bordeaux hues peppered throughout the line.

The collection con— FOUNDER AND trasted the slick, skinCREATIVE LEADER tight leather minis with EVIK ASATOORIAN more voluminous accents on outerwear, notably the clusters of textured fur trimming coat collars, jacket fronts, hoods and hems.

The unification of contrasting fabrics was a distinctive design element in outerwear in particular, like shiny leather sleeves on matte coats and leather patches affixed to puffer jackets.

The pro athletes in attendance gave the new line their stamps of approval.

“I’m big into leather. I liked the tie with the leather — it was nice,” said Stone, who attended his firstever fashion show.

A leather-clad Bernier already had his eye on several pieces to potentially add to his own collection.

“I thought it was great. They had a few nice jackets that I’ll be anxious to wear next fall.”

Asatoorian credits his passion for the work as one of the key’s to the brand’s enduring success after two decades.

“For me personally, after this many years to still have the drive to look for something new, constantly for something exciting, it is a hard industry. You have to really have the love for it.

“I was fortunate to be able to consistently build our brand with product that I’m always passionate about, which is leather. About 20 years down the line, I’ve learned so much, and every year I look back, I go: ‘Wow. There’s so much more I can learn.”’

Rudsak has a showroom in New York and sells wholesale to major retailers like Nordstrom and Saks.

But Asatoorian said they have their sights set on potential expansion, ideally first in the Big Apple — then hopefully beyond.

“For me, it would be amazing to see if I could bring this brand one day to Europe, to Asia, to the international level.”

‘WHEN YOU SEE A PERFECTO (A LEATHER MOTORCYCLE JACKET), YOU REALLY CAN’T REINVENT THAT IN MULTIPLE WAYS.’

Chatto returns to Toronto with luxury furs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Farley Chatto received a warm welcome back to the Toronto runway as the longtime homegrown designer presented a collection of luxury furs.

In a recent interview, Chatto said his last official show in 2008 featured menswear, but he was motivated to return to the catwalk to show a full fur line after seeing others incorporate bits and pieces of fur in their collections.

His collection — dubbed “Far & Away” — was unveiled at Toronto’s World MasterCard Fashion Week, with luxury furs including mink, fox and chinchilla featured in a variety of coats, capelets, vests, stoles, scarves and trapper hats.

“Predominantly, the biggest change you’re going to notice is the fit. There are going to be much more fitted, much narrower,” Chatto said about the new line.

“You’re going to get nice fitted tops, narrow armholes, narrow sleeves — as much as you can do with fur — but still showing the luxury and the beauty of fur by having these beautiful sweeps, as we call it, full, flared jackets.”

As a fresh twist on the oversized furs from decades past, men are also seeing more trimmed and tailored styles of coats, Chatto added.

The line was awash in vibrant shades, with coats, stoles and infinity scarves featured in rich red, blue, green and mauve hues — sometimes fusing multiple colours within a single garment.

Womenswear designer Caitlin Power said she was inspired to work with fur following the presentation and was impressed by Chatto’s creativity. She singled out a blue and black coat in the range among her standouts.

“This is the first time I’ve seen anything from Farley, so I was blown away.”

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The high-profile Hermes Birkin bag, right, will set you back about $10,000, but more reasonable alternatives include Marc, left, by Marc Jacobs’s; Domo Arigato tote ($178) and Lululemon’s Carry Me Om tote bag ($180), whose trapezoidal shape has inspired many of the fashion handbags for spring 2014.

How to save $9,800 on a trendy tote COVETING THAT BIRKIN?

BY NANCY MCKEON ADVOCATE NEW SERVICES One of us owns an Hermes Birkin bag, and some women who’ve never seen one in person, so to speak, ask if they might hold it for a moment.

Their initial reaction is always the same: This thing weighs a ton!

Not exactly a ton.

According to the Pitney Bowes postal scale at the office, more like two pounds six ounces, empty.

And, prestige factor aside, it’s basically a tote bag, a case of the sometimes prim-looking closedflap Kelly bag being morphed into an open-top tote (on the Birkin, the flap can fold in) for modern women’s daily lives.

So we thought we would weigh a couple of other tote contenders and see how they matched up.

First up was a Marc by Marc Jacobs Domo Arigato nylon tote (and not a particularly attractive one, we’re afraid).

Stuffed with newspaper, it stood tall and weighed 1 pound 4 ½ ounces (empty, it lost 2 ½ of those ounces). Cost: $178, at Shopbop.com.

The other contender we found was the Lululemon Carry Me Om polyester tote bag, whose trapezoidal yoga-mat-holding shape has inspired so many of the fashion handbags for spring 2014. It weighed 2 pounds ½ ounce when stuffed with newspaper (so it would stand up) and 2 pounds empty.

And it has zippered compartments for sweaty things, pouches to protect your other stuff.

The mega-popular style, for some reason, is not available at the moment, but at the time cost

$180 at lululemon.com. (You can still get Carry Me Oms at the Lululemon websites in Canada and other countries.)

Hmmm, $178 or $180 against approximately $10,000. That’s a savings of, let’s see, $9,820.

So the results are clear, although it’s Olympic-ice-dancingtype judging: Hermes for incredible craftsmanship and longevity and instant recognition among fashionistas; just about any Lululemon bag for convenience and a certain on-trend cachet.

(But, just for the record, we’re not about to relinquish our Birkin.)

Nancy McKeon is managing editor of MyLittleBird.com, a Washington-based women’s-eye view of fashion, design and culture, where this story originally appeared.

Bustle looks inspired by longshoremen

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Bustle offered a tip of the cap to docker style in its upscale yet cosy range of separates for fall and winter.

“Last season, we were kind of inspired by the florals and we were in Mexico, and we kind of wanted to do something a little more rugged and a little darker — but still Bustle,” said creative director Shawn Hewson standing alongside his wife and label cofounder Ruth Promislow.

“We found these great quilting fabrics, and it took us in the direction of the Scandinavian longshoremen.”

The soft, richly textured fabric served as a centrepiece in the line, with jackets and drawstring pants among the garments in the range fashioned from the material. The collection unveiled at To-

ronto’s World MasterCard Fashion Week also included dual-toned turtlenecks, denim jackets, shawl collar cardigans and slim-fitting cargo pants, each showcasing the label’s interpretation of casual seaport style.

Bustle dialled back on the use of ultra-bright hues, featuring a more muted palette encompassing black, grey and green. No flashy patterns either, sticking largely to tried-and-true mainstays like plaid, with the print showcased on shirts, coats, pants and the inner lining of jackets.

“It’s always been a thing of ours to mix and match the patterns and textures,” said Hewson.

“In this case, we didn’t have a ton of variety in terms of the colours and the prints; so we were all about texture, mixing the textures and making sure those kind of made for interesting outfits.”

In past seasons, Bustle has

been among the select few menswear designers showing at Fashion Week. But their ranks are swelling, with Christopher Bates, Klaxon Howl, Thomas Balint and Hussein Dhalla of HD Homme among the labels also showing collections during the week.

Promislow called the surge in menswear representation on the runway “fantastic.”

“I think just more and more men are paying attention to how they look,” she said.

“Men’s fashion is becoming something that people are paying attention to in the fashion world, and men on the street are thinking about what they wear and what’s going on in fashion.”

“I think having that many menswear labels here at World MasterCard Fashion Week this season is a sign that guys are starting to embrace their esthetic even more,” Hewson added.

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