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Family, friends remember mass murder victims

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — One was remembered as a wonderful friend who was always ready with a compliment, another as a tiny dancer with huge courage. The third was a skilled drummer who exemplified the statement all is good.

Three young people were remembered at funerals in Calgary on Monday — all victims in the worst mass murder in the city’s history.

Jordan Segura, Kaiti Perras and Josh Hunter were stabbed to death along with Zackariah Rathwell and Lawrence Hong at a house party April 15. The party was being held to mark the end of classes at the University of Calgary.

A fellow party-goer, Matthew de Grood, has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.

Segura’s funeral was the first of the day. The 22-year-old was a religious studies student at the University of Calgary and had worked for the past year at McInnis and Holloway, the funeral home where the service was held.

A plain wooden coffin was covered with a bouquet of white carnations and white roses sat at the front.

A photo montage showed him as a youth and with family and friends.

Jayda Shreenan, friends with Segura since high school, reassured more than 300 mourners that the university student wasn’t alone when he died — he was surrounded by those who loved him.

“Myself and a couple of friends were with him right at the end and I want you all to know that Jordan was not alone,” said Shreenan, choking back tears.

Shreenan remembered Segura as a generous and wonderful friend, who was always ready with a compliment.

“I am so thankful that I was able to have Jordan in my life. It wasn’t long enough, but the impact he made on me and the inspiration that he is something I’m going to take with me for the rest of my life,” she said as mourners wiped away tears.

“I look out and see all of these people who just loved him so, so much. What happened a week ago is an absolute tragedy and he was taken from us far, far too soon.”

Segura’s older brother, Jullien, said Segura was all about integrity and speaking the truth.

He drew chuckles from the crowd when he talked about how he took being the big brother very seriously.

“I would pick on him just because I was bigger, but I made sure everyone knew that only I was allowed to pick on him,” he said.

“It is great to hear that Jordan spoke so highly of his family when he was with his friends. We are

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Tyler Watt, 12, works on his short game shot as he joins other golf enthusiasts on the driving range at the River Bend Golf and Recreation Area on Monday. With the snow off the range, there was a lineup of golfers tuning up their swing in the bright sunshine Monday. The golf course itself is not open for play yet, as staff are still cleaning up from the winter and some snow remains on the course, said general manager Andrew Gilchrist. River Bend will post an announcement on its website when a date for opening is determined, which will possibly be in early May.

Town of Innisfail waiting to assess damage from hydrocarbon spill

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Mourners hug outside the church after the funeral for Josh Hunter, victim of April 15 mass stabbing, in Calgary on Monday. See more photos from Monday’s funerals on page A3. grateful for all of them. His friends were his family.”

Mourners heard Segura had two tattoos — one of his grandfather’s favourite car, a Bel-Air, and another showing a red heart with “mom” written through it.

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Longboarder fighting for his life after having severe head injury

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While an oil slick found in a drainage stream that feeds into Dodds Lake in Innisfail has been contained, town officials will have to wait for the lake to thaw to see what, if any, damage has been done.

Cleaning efforts continued all last week after a 15-metre-long oil slick was discovered on April 11. At an upstream site, a damaged 2,000-litre holding tank let loose hydrocarbons into the stream.

Craig Teal, Innisfail director of planning and operational services, said the town’s environmental consultant, AMEC Consulting, was in town and gave the town direction for taking care of the spill.

“We put out additional booms as a precaution,” said Teal.

“We’re pretty confident the hydrocarbons have been contained and we’ve been putting in absorbent

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pads and cleaning that out since the incident began.”

Contaminated vegetation on the shores of the drainage stream was removed.

“With the ice on the lake we were not able to get out and do any testing of the water in the lake,” said Teal. “Over the course of the next few weeks, we will continue to monitor, on a daily and weekly basis.”

As well, after rain they will monitor the lake and drainage streams for hydrocarbons that may seep in from the runoff.

“Once the ice is off the lake, we will be asking our consultants to go out and do some more testing,” said Teal. The testing is dependent on how long the ice takes to melt.

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A 22-year-old longboarder from Red Deer is fighting for his life after losing control of his board on a residential street in Sylvan Lake on Sunday.

Sylvan Lake RCMP Cpl. James Allemekinders said three men were longboarding down a hill on Old Boomer Road around 2:20 p.m. when two of the men wiped out on asphalt road after hitting some loose gravel.

Witnesses said the men were travelling at a “high rate of speed.”

One man suffered a severe head injury and was transported to the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary by STARS Air Ambulance.

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Religious programs, masses mandatory at Catholic schools

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BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Students attending schools in the local Catholic school division are expected to attend religious programming, whether they are Catholic or not.

Earlier this month, an Ontario parent went to court to challenge a school division policy that mandated religious programming for all students in the Catholic school his son attended. In an Ontario Superior Court decision, Justice Ted Matlow ruled that non-Catholic students should not have to participate in liturgical activities or religious retreats.

While the Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division accepts pupils of all faiths into its schools, and boasts quite a large number of non-Catholics in its classrooms, the division makes it clear to all registrants that Catholic teachings and activities will be central to the education a student receives.

When non-Catholic parents seek admission into a division school, that school’s principal is to interview the parents to ensure they understand their child will be expected to participate in religious studies classes and co-curricular liturgical events.

On the division’s student registration form, parents are required to sign under a statement that says they are “fully supportive of the religious and moral objectives” of the school division.

Red Deer Catholic board chair Guy Pelletier said he is not aware of any requests having been made for an exclusion from religious programming.

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Brent Higgins of AAA Electric pulls an electrical cable through a trench at the Lions Campground in Red Deer on Monday. Twelve full-service sites are being added to the campground along the banks of the Red Deer River this spring. The campground will open for the season on May 1.

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with a cacophony of mouth clicks.

He said Hunter viewed making new friends as confirmation that the world was a wonderful place.

“He permitted access to anyone who showed interest. He exposed himself but he wasn’t vulnerable.

He was Everyman,” Gammell said.

“Josh had moral standards. They were the kind that were quietly demonstrated, like the way he treated everyone around him. He would hang with little children as if they were his old friends. If he was going to a movie with his buddies, he wouldn’t hesitate to include his parents. Who does that?

“He knew exactly who he was. He stood on the distant horizon that many of us gaze at longingly. He occupied that horizon.”

A funeral for Rathwell was to be held Tuesday and a service for Hong is scheduled for Wednesday.

De Grood, who is the son of a senior Calgary po-

and provided first aid while waiting for help to arrive.

Allemekinders said the three men were not wearing helmets or other safety gear.

“Common sense needs to apply when you’re doing that kind of activity, you have to wear helmets,” said Allemekinders. “You have to wear things like gloves and other safety equipment.”

Allemekinders said stunting under the Traffic Safety Act can net a lawbreaker a $402 fine.

Stunting is defined as performing or engaging in any stunt or other activity on a highway that is likely to distract, startle or interfere with other users of the highway.

“It just doesn’t apply to drivers,” he said. “It can apply to somebody standing on the side of the road distracting drivers or in this case, this could apply to skateboarders or longboarder,” he said. “Generally I can’t speak in this incident you see skateboarders utilizing roads that have hills as a track to gain speed to go fast. ... A lot of times you see them weaving in and out of traffic. That’s not acceptable.

Traffic laws apply. That’s our concern. Safety equipment and being in a safe place.”

No charges have been laid but the incident is under investigation. No names are being released. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

A reggae version of the original Bread song Everything I Own played in the background. Segura had mentioned to a co-worker once “that’s the song I want played at my funeral.”

“I would give everything I own, just to have you back again,” the lyrics said.

The funeral for Perras came next. Her family had encouraged mourners attending the service to don “colourful attire.”

There was overwhelming grief but also laughter as the 23-year-old was remembered as a dancer, sister, artist and confidante. Perras took dance for several years at Counterpoint Dance Academy.

The young woman’s uncle told mourners that she was “a tiny girl with such huge courage.”

Dance instructor Shannon Hearn said Perras was an integral part of the Counterpart Dance Academy. Hearn said Perras’s heart and graciousness made her an exceptional human being. Perras was part of the dance school for more than a decade.

Sandy Koskie also spoke of her niece’s love of dance.

Photo by STEVE DILLS/Sylvan Lake News When Perras was dancing, she STARS personnel transfer an injured longboarder to their helicopter. was truly free, natural and at Dodds Lake is not a potable peace, Koskie said. water source. Innisfail is on a lice officer, was due to appear in court Tuesday.

Two trees are to be planted in memory of Perras municipal water line, getting its water from the Red He had completed a psychology degree from the at a Calgary park in the fall and a dance scholarship Deer River.

University of Calgary last year and had been accepthas been started in her name.

However, Dodds Lake is used for recreational ed into law school for the fall.

Mourners at Hunter’s funeral, the last of the three activities such as boating, waterskiing and tubing.

Monday, heard from a family friend that Hunter’s Swimming is not encouraged by the town. love of music wasn’t limited to his band, but touched Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource all facets of his life.

Development investigators were on scene shortly Hunter and Rathwell were members of the band after the spill and Environment Canada was also inZackariah and the Prophets. The group had just The man was in stable condition in the intensive volved in the investigation. played at an album release party on the weekend be- care unit at last report.

Because the spill was smaller in nature, cleanup fore they were killed.

Another 22-year-old man was treated for minor and remediation is left to the town and the company Family friend Peter Gammell drew laughs when injuries at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre responsible for the spill. he recalled how Hunter had an annoying habit of and released. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com drumming his thighs or replicating a musical beat The third man maintained control of his board

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THE FACE OF GRIEF Photos by THE CANADIAN PRESS Three young people were remembered at funerals in Calgary on Monday — all victims in the worst mass murder in the city’s history.

CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: A lone mourner sits curbside after the funeral for Josh Hunter; Pallbearers carry the casket of Kaiti Perras; Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, right, signs the guest book as he arrives at the funeral for Josh Hunter; Mourners gather at the funeral for Jordan Segura; Mourners arrive for the funeral of Kaiti Perras; Holding hands, young mourners arrive at the funeral for Jordan Segura.

The information session is being held at Sacred Heart Church at 5508 48A Ave. in downtown Red Deer.

For more information, visit www.frhenrivoisin. rdcrs.ca or call the school at 403-341-4548.

BRIEFS Clearview Ridge Catholic school holding open house Parents of elementary school-age children are invited to learn more about a new Catholic school in Clearview Ridge to open in September.

The finishing touches are being put on Father Henri Voisin School, a pre-kindergarten to Grade 5 school to be operated by the Red Deer Catholic Regional School Division.

It will open with a capacity for 300 students. With the addition of modular classrooms, it will be possible to expand the school to a 500-capacity operation.

From 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday, parents are invited to learn about the new school, meet teachers and other staff who will be at the school, and register their children. Red Deer Child Care representatives — who will run before- and after school-care programs for pupils — will also be on hand to provide information.

The school is to serve students who live in the Garden Heights, Clearview Ridge, Clearview, Timberstone, Rosedale and Deer Park (north of 39th Street) neighbourhoods. Children need not be Catholic to attend the school.

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CATHOLIC: Majority happy with teaching

The Red Deer Public School Division is bringing to an end a long-standing program that has catered to students with severe behavioural issues.

In line with the division’s efforts around inclusive education, the segregated Stepping Stones program offered out of Grandview Elementary School will wrap up at the end of this school year. It has been running for decades, bringing elementary-age students of different grade levels together into a single classroom, but with diminishing populations. Last year there were eight students in the program; only two enrolments were expected for next school year.

In 2013, division superintendent Piet Langstraat described the program as being for the few students whose behaviour is so extreme that they cannot be catered to in a regular classroom. Along with curriculum, the program’s focus was on teaching students appropriate social skills and providing them with strategies to manage anger and resolve conflicts, with a specially-trained teacher and educational assistants there to provide support.

But with less than a handful of students, the division has opted to end the program and put the children back into regular classrooms.

“We’ve been working really hard over the last

Woman charged after vehicle collides with wall of bank A woman has been charged after her truck hit the wall of a bank in Bashaw on Monday.

Bashaw RCMP responded to the single-vehicle collision at the Servus Credit Union around 2:30 p.m.

A 57-year-old woman backed into the south side wall of the bank, causing the wall to collapse. No one was injured but RCMP say significant damage was caused inside the bank.

The woman is due in court in early June.

Alcohol and drugs were not a factor in the collision.

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creased at a high clip in recent years, with the division consistently rating higher on achievement tests and educational benchmarks than its local public counterpart.

A division-wide survey last school year found that 90 per cent of students are satisfied with what is being learned in religious studies. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

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“Clearly they are Catholic schools and there is an expectation that the religion program is not optional, and attendance at masses is not optional. We have lots of students who aren’t Catholic and we have lots of students who are of other non-Christian faiths, and we have never had that raised as an issue.

“Some folks do think that our schools are exclusive — that it’s only for Catholics — but that’s not the case. We welcome anybody who’s prepared to have that Catholic faith embedded in the programming of the schools,” said Pelletier.

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few years to move to more of an inclusive education model. Bit by bit we’ve just been noticing over the years less referrals to these congregated programs,” explained deputy superintendent Stu Henry.

He said pupils have successfully transitioned out of the program over the years, and with educational assistant supports in the classroom, the current students can as well.

“I think we’ve just learned so much more how to keep kids engaged than we used to. A lot of these kids who were getting in trouble years ago are just more engaged in a regular classroom these days,” said Henry.

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Ignoring wasted money THE ECONOMIC ACTION PLAN ISN’T WORKING, BUT DOES ANYONE CARE? In an age when almost any kind of information is available to anyone who knows how to look for it, you’d think it would be almost impossible that an agency with all the resources of government would fail at getting its message out.

In an age when government seems to know more about you personally than you may be comfortable with them knowing, GREG how could they NEIMAN fail to figure out that they can’t get you on board with their plans?

The answer to both questions can be obtained reading news reports on Canadians’ reactions to the federal government’s costly Economic Action Plan advertising.

It costs $100,000 to put a 30-second ad into TV coverage of this year’s NHL playoffs. At those prices, you’d think government would expect some kind

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of payoff for placing them. So would taxpayers.

But not only are those ads woefully ineffective, the predominant viewer response to them now reads onto the scale of annoyance.

And therein lies the answers to our questions, or partial answers anyway.

In our information age, it appears that getting a government’s message out regarding its policies and objectives is actually pretty difficult. Especially if the message is more about message than action.

On the Economic Action Plan alone, about $133 million has been spent to convince you of the plan’s merits. But that $133 million worth of advertising is falling on deaf ears.

One report on the government website dedicated to informing Canadians about the plan (www.actionplan.gc.ca) has averaged 12,600 hits a day. But a poll taken in April calling on 2,000 Canadians found only three people who had visited the site.

Curious, I checked out the site myself and found it rather uninformative.

I found three tips on tax deductions that I could not use (I haven’t adopted any children; I am not a first-time charitable donor; and I have no caregiver costs to deduct). Any professional tax filing agency would already have that

information.

The rest was what news people call “government bumph.”

There, saved you the trouble.

And the last time anyone checked (which was a long time ago), there have been zero calls to the toll-free 1-800-O-Canada phone line, which the ads direct us to use. Operators are still standing by.

Worse, a poll taken last November (and released over the Easter weekend, when fewer people pay attention to the news), shows the all-time lowest approval rate of government performance for the plan — 38 per cent.

Polling on government advertising is mandatory under federal rules. If government is spending our money on advertising, we who pay for it all are entitled to know if the ads work.

The approval rating of respondents has averaged about 43 per cent since the program began in 2009. But as of last September, Canadians’ acceptance of the ads — and their cost — has hit a wall.

So rather than improving the product, the government decided to stop asking for approval rates on the polling they are required by law to do.

All they ask now is whether you recall seeing the ads and whether you did anything as a result.

Well, did you and did you? There’s your answer.

It’s not that the government doesn’t want to know we don’t approve of costly ads for programs that have very little effect on employment rates or small business prospects. One ad in the series once promoted a government support program that didn’t even exist.

The government’s own in-house polling knows all that, and more, about our opinions. The uncomfortable questions about our approval have been lifted from the polls because the results must be publicly reported.

They know but they don’t want you to see a report that they know.

It is pretty amazing that telling Canadians about the thousands of new jobs created or the businesses that have prospered because of the Economic Action is so difficult. Maybe because there’s not a whole lot to talk about, considering the money that’s been spent.

But do not believe the government does not want to know if you approve of their spending. They do. They just don’t want to alert you that they know the program isn’t working.

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Canada’s fixed election date stays unfixed It may be written in law, but it’s certainly not carved in stone.

In fact, our federal fixed election date is anything but.

Opposition parties are preparing for a federal election to be held not on Oct. 19, 2015, the fixed date for the next vote, but next spring, about a year from now.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has found a rationale to ignore a fixed election date in the past in a minority parliament, but it would be exTIM traordinary for him to do so HARPER with a majority.

Extraordinary, but perfectly within his right.

Under legislation pushed

by Conservatives after watching in frustration as Liberal Jean Chrétien picked the most advantageous moment to seek his trip to the voters, the next election is to be held the first Monday in October in the fourth year after the previous vote.

But the legislation does not override any decision by the Governor General — taken at the behest of the prime minister — to dissolve Parliament. And when Harper’s decision to make an end run around his own legislation in 2008 was challenged in the courts, he was found to be well within his rights and there was no differentiation between minority or majority governments in the court decision.

Liberals and New Democrats may be simply prudent, ensuring they are not caught flat-footed.

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Or they may be sowing the seeds of doubt simply to give the impression that Harper is preparing to break a promise, even if there has been no recent signal to that effect from his office. But Harper himself may have signalled just that when he responded to former interim Liberal leader Bob Rae in the Commons on June 20, 2012.

“We have noted,’’ Harper said, “that the date in law for the next election currently conflicts with several provincial elections that will occur at the same time.

“We are talking to our friends in the provinces about how to resolve this. I can assure parliamentarians we will bring forward a proposal on this well before the next election.’’

The federal date does conflict with elections in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories and Prince Edward Island. It could also potentially conflict with campaigns in Newfoundland and Labrador and, in the extremely unlikely event that the Kathleen Wynne government survives until then, Ontario.

Both Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall have asked Ottawa to move its federal election date, but both provinces have the ability to push their votes to the following April if Harper does not move.

Would it be easier to move a federal campaign up to next spring — when the Conservatives would be at the usual four-year expiry date for a government anyway — or juggle campaigns in almost half the provinces in the country?

Opposition parties see the provincial conflicts as a canard, but one which could be used by a prime minister who will want to seize on momentum from a

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surplus, pre-election budget likely to be tabled next March, meaning we could be in a federal campaign a year from today.

Moving the vote up six months or so has enormous repercussions.

If Harper wants to go that route, speculation about his future will soon become irrelevant because he would be rapidly approaching a window where he would not give his party time to properly choose a successor if he wants to step down before a spring campaign.

His contentious elections act would also have to speed its way to Royal assent so that one key provision, which has the backing of all parties, can take effect.

New Democrats have flagged a clause in the bill that provides for a six-month phase-in period to build a robocalls registry, which compels companies to register the calls with the CRTC. If Harper wants to go to the polls next May, the elections act will have to be given Royal assent by November in order for the registry to be established for the election.

A spring election would also likely occur during a period of transition for students, making it more difficult for them to vote. They would be more likely to vote for either Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau or NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, if historic voting patterns hold.

Harper can take us to the polls next spring and he just might. But to respect at least the spirit of his own law, he should do what he promised “and bring forward a proposal well before the next election.’’

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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 HOUSING FIRST

Strategy may not be helping homeless youth

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An Economic Action plan sign is pictured in Mississippi Mills, Ont. The Finance Department has ordered its pollsters to stop asking Canadians potentially embarrassing questions about Economic Action Plan advertising.

Feds pull troublesome questions about Economic Action Plan ads OPINION POLL MAY EMBARRASS GOVERNMENT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Finance Department has ordered its pollsters to stop asking Canadians potentially embarrassing questions about Economic Action Plan advertising.

In 10 public-opinion surveys since 2009, Canadians were asked whether they took any action as a result of seeing ads placed with newspapers, TV, radio and the Internet on the benefits of the Economic Action Plan, the catch-all Conservative government brand.

Results have been in sharp decline in recent years, with only a tiny fraction of those polled in 2013 saying they visited the EAP website or called a tollfree number, as the ads urge.

And so the Finance Department now has eliminated the question altogether, along with three other questions that asked Canadians to rate the government’s performance. There, too, the numbers had been dropping to new lows.

“The common measurement tool is periodically revised and was most recently modified last fall, in order to streamline data collection to questions most useful in assessing a campaign’s objectives — notably recall, recognition and message retention,” department spokesman Jack Aubry said in an email.

The Finance Department paid pollster Harris Decima almost $31,000 to conduct a truncated survey of 2,000 Canadians in early November about their reactions to a pair of 30-second TV ads and two radio ads.

The ads’ content was described in detail to respondents, but as few as 13 per cent recalled seeing or hearing the action-plan spots, which ran between Oct. 7 and Nov. 3 last year.

And there was no data collected on any specific actions respondents might have taken in response to the ads, or on their rating of the government’s performance, because those questions were quietly dropped from the survey.

The Conservative government ran yet another set of action-plan ads between Feb. 17 and March 31 this year, following the Feb. 11 budget.

Aubry confirmed there are no survey questions being asked about any actions taken or about government approval ratings.

Previous Finance polls have showed the govern-

ment’s approval ratings in decline, from the mid-40 per cent range initially in 2009 to about 38 per cent in the last two surveys in April and June last year.

Dropping the key survey questions has also eliminated any snarky comments previously recorded by the pollsters, including claims the ads were a “waste of money” and represented “propaganda,” cited in an April 2012 survey.

The opposition parties and even some conservative commentators have called the action-plan ads thinly disguised propaganda. Editorials at major news organizations, including the National Post and the Globe and Mail, have said the ads are a waste of taxpayer dollars, designed to promote the Conservative party with public money.

Finance Canada paid Acart Communications Inc. almost $15 million to run TV, radio and Internet ads for the Economic Action Plan in 2012-2013, the latest year for which statistics are available.

The department set aside a $10-million actionplan ad budget for 2013-2014. Aubry would not provide actual costs for the year, saying the numbers would be published eventually.

The Finance Department also commissioned a series of focus groups last October to provide feedback about Canadians’ impressions about the government’s management of the economy.

The focus-group report by Ipsos Reid included a short section detailing comments about Economic Action Plan advertising. The results strongly suggested the campaign is missing the mark.

“There was minimal unprompted recall of the Economic Action Plan (EAP) beyond vague references to having seen or heard ‘an ad’,” says the report.

“When participants were further pressed for recall of any specific EAP measures, few could answer.” Aubry said the ads nevertheless have continuing value.

“In an uncertain global economy, it is important that Canadians are aware of the measures and programs in the EAP and how they will lead to jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” he said.

“The advertising campaign highlighted key policies and initiatives flowing from the EAP.” The department has spent at least $383,000 since 2009 polling Canadians on their reaction to Economic Action Plan ads.

OTTAWA — A new report says the success of so-called “Housing First” programs could have a limited impact on young Canadians living on the streets.

The report warns against what it calls the “Housing First Jr.” approach, saying youth homelessness demands a unique focus on the developmental, social and legal needs of young people that can differ significantly from homeless adults.

The 44-page report, obtained by The Canadian Press, was written by York University professor Stephen Gaetz and is part of the so-called “Homeless Hub” series of studies on homelessness in Canada.

The Housing First approach provides individuals and families with stable housing as an initial first step towards addressing other social issues, rather than the other way around.

It was founded in the early 1990s in New York as an inner-city experiment. Since then, it’s had an 85 per cent success rate in the U.S. in permanently housing mentally ill homeless people.

An estimated 30,000 Canadians sleep on the streets every night. The Conservative government is focused on the Housing First strategy, which the Mental Health Commission of Canada has concluded is showing concrete and cost-effective results in five cities.

But Gaetz says it remains an open question whether that approach works for homeless youth.

“We cannot take an established approach that works for adults and simply create Housing First Jr. by changing the age mandate,” says the study’s executive summary.

“Young people have complex needs, but these may be profoundly different than those associated with adult homeless populations.”

Social Development Minister Candice Bergen defended the government’s approach.

“Housing First is a proven, evidence-based model that is delivering better results for the most vulnerable, regardless of age, gender or ethnicity, while ensuring the tax dollars of hard-working Canadians are spent wisely,” she said in a statement.

“This model has been recognized internationally for its effectiveness and is helping people here at home.... We are proud to be focusing our efforts and resources on programs that will have the largest, long-term impact.”

Canadian communities are free to invest in other proven approaches at the local level, such as specific initiatives for homeless youth, she added.

A massive pilot project called At Home-Chez Soi was created in 2008 following a $110-million investment from the federal government. The program helped find and pay for homes for mentally ill homeless people in five cities across Canada, and also provided recipients with as many social services as they needed to stay housed.

As of April 1, the Conservative government’s $600-million Homelessness Partnering Strategy shifted to a Housing First approach.

But Gaetz’s study, entitled “Coming of Age,” suggests Housing First isn’t necessarily effective for homeless youth.

“Whether and how it works for youth still remain an askable question,” the summary states.

Gaetz cites other research that argues that while many young people thrive in a Housing First environment, those with mental health and addiction issues “find that the choice and independence offered by the model” can be overwhelming.

The report suggests governments develop strategies to prevent young people from ending up on the streets after leaving child protection, mental health or juvenile detention facilities, identify a stronger role for schools as part of the solution and help strengthen families while offering young people a way back home.

“We also understand that many young people can no longer return home or in some cases have no home to go to,” the report says.

“For these young people we need strong models of accommodation and supports that will help them move forward with their lives.”

The study concluded that Canada also needs to make broader, societal changes to truly vanquish the plight of homelessness.

Air Canada baggage handlers to be fired over luggage incident

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Two Air Canada baggage handlers set to lose their jobs over a video showing bags being dropped several metres into a bin on the ground were working under intense pressure to move the items quickly, their union said Monday.

Bill Trbovich, a spokesman for the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, said when there’s no more room for carry-on luggage inside a plane, handlers are forced to take the rest outside in a rush to be stowed elsewhere so the flight isn’t delayed.

But the stairs up to the plane are so steep, it would be dangerous to hurry down, Trbovich said.

Meanwhile, “management is pushing them to get the planes out on time,” he said.

The video, taken by a passenger on board a plane at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, shows one worker dropping baggage about six metres from the stairs to a luggage bin on the ground while another baggage handler works below.

Air Canada, which has dealt with backlash since the video was posted on YouTube on April 18, said the two employees have been suspended and will be fired as a result of the incident.

They have been told “their employment will be terminated pending the outcome of our investigation,” spokeswoman Angela Mah said in an email.

The airline has apologized for what it calls the “totally unacceptable mishandling of our passengers’ baggage captured on video.”

The video is titled “How Air Canada Handles Your Baggage” and has prompted some to vow never to fly with Air Canada again.

Some, however, have come to the airline’s defence, saying it shouldn’t be judged by one incident.

Trbovich said it’s not yet known whether the union will file a grievance.

But he stressed the airline could help prevent such incidents by enforcing its own carry-on restrictions. Employees are also under increased scrutiny now that everyone can shoot photos and video on their phone, and it’s not enough to just do your job safely and to the best of your abilities, he said.

“You’re constantly looking over your shoulder,” he said.

“You go about your business trying to do your job and you’ve got to be cognizant of where you are to make sure you don’t hurt yourself or fall down or something, and to worry about whether somebody’s taking your picture through an airplane window.”

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Sale of game in the North leaves Inuit society conflicted

BY BOB WEBER THE CANADIAN PRESS

COUNTRY FOODS

IQALUIT, Nunavut — The hunter grabs one of his delicacies by its furry, frozen ear and waves it in the air.

“Caribou heads for sale!” he cries. “Caribou heads for sale!”

Eager for the makings of a tasty soup, customers flock to his table at an open-air market in Iqaluit, where fresh-from-the-land food has been on occasional offer since 2010. Tables piled with caribou, seabirds, seaweed, seal — the “country foods” of the traditional Inuit diet — sell out in minutes.

Meanwhile, Facebook groups for the buying, selling and trading of country foods from fish eggs to muskox now have thousands of members.

A whole caribou? Without the hide, $300. Arctic char? Each fish, $20.

Faced with the growing cost of gas for their snowmobiles and bullets for their guns, Inuit hunters are increasingly putting their harvest up for sale.

Some say it’s a good way to keep hunters on the land, office-bound Inuit in touch with their roots and people from going hungry in communities where store-bought groceries are expensive.

Others worry about the safety of uninspected meat and the possible overhunting of now-valuable game animals.

And some call selling game a betrayal of sacred Inuit traditions.

“People that are still thinking in the old tradition say that it’s not the Inuit way of life to sell to others,” said James Eetoolook of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., which looks after the Nunavut land claim. “You have to share what

you have.”

Sharing a hunt’s bounty is still common. But under their land claim, Inuit also have the right to sell it.

A recent study by the Royal Society of Canada suggested that might be one way to increase the overall food supply and ensure all Inuit can feed their families.

Research has found nearly three-quarters of Inuit preschoolers live in homes without a sure supply of food. Half of youths between 11 and 15 sometimes go to bed hungry.

Two-thirds of Inuit parents also told a survey that they sometimes ran out of food and couldn’t afford more.

“If people can’t get their traditional country food with their own family, then they have to get it somewhere,” said co-author Harriet Kuhlein.

“To commoditize it will help some people get it. It’s one part of the picture.”

Will Hyndman, who organizes the Iqaluit market, said there are many reasons it’s so popular.

“In Iqaluit, there’s a lot of Inuit who come from other communities. They might not have their own gear or they don’t know the land around here or they’re separated from their traditional sharing circle. A lot of seniors don’t get access to as much as they want.”

Some staples, such as caribou, simply aren’t available everywhere because local herds are too small to hunt. Selling game from a region where they are plentiful gives everyone access, said Eetoolook.

It’s also a way for Inuit to earn money from what they do best.

“The cost of snow machines or any other machines are very high now,” Eetoolook said. “You need money in order to live these days.”

Drikus Gissing of Nunavut’s Environment Department acknowledges that the chance to make a dollar from a buck could put pressure on caribou herds.

“We are concerned, especially with the large amounts of caribou being shipped from the mainland to the Baffin region. But we cannot limit that trade unless we can prove there’s a conservation concern.”

The department plans to survey caribou herds in central Nunavut this spring, in part to determine the impact of market hunting. If there is a problem, the department has to convince the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board to impose a total allowable harvest.

“That’s the only way of restricting the harvest,” Gissing said.

None of the food for sale has been inspected, with the exception of walrus, which is prone to the parasite that causes trichinosis.

But Wanda Joy of Nunavut’s Health Department said that hasn’t been a problem. Given the territory’s weather, most of the food is kept frozen from tundra to table.

“Hunters take their traditional knowledge in terms of preparation and hunting and butchering,” said Joy. “We don’t see a huge potential for anything to go wrong.”

Still, Eetoolook acknowledges something will have to be done.

“We need to know whether the country food is safe to eat. We don’t have that kind of establishment. We are talking about it and eventually it will be available, I hope, in the near future.”

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Fires in 2 B.C. regions force families from their home VANCOUVER — Two homes in separate regions of British Columbia have been gutted by early morning fires, but no one has been hurt.

Both fires broke out at around 6 a.m. on Monday, one in Coquitlam in Metro Vancouver and the other in the southern Okanagan community of Oliver.

In the Coquitlam blaze, flames in the garage jumped to the home, while the Oliver fire began in the house and spread to an adjoining building damaging businesses including the office of Liberal MLA Linda Larson.

Causes of both fires are under investigation, but a family of four in Coquitlam and a family of five in Oliver escaped unharmed.

Firefighters also handled a blaze in the wall of a two-storey office building in downtown Vancouver early Monday morning.

The building was under renovation and suffered smoke damage when the flames spread up the small space from the main floor to the second floor before being doused.

Water levels, flood threat recede in New Brunswick village PERTH-ANDOVER, N.B. — A voluntary evacuation order has been lifted in the northwestern New Brunswick village of Perth-Andover, bringing relief to the community that was devastated by flooding two years ago.

A massive ice jam breached the Grand Falls dam north of the community early Sunday and started heading for Perth-Andover, prompting concerns the St. John River would spill its banks.

But Justine Waldeck, a spokeswoman for the village, says the jam passed safely through the village, coming to a rest downstream above the Beechwood dam where another patch of ice is located.

She says the water is flowing freely under the ice jam and water levels have dropped.

The voluntary evacuation order issued Wednesday affected 49 homes and 35 families heeded the warning. River Watch warned last week that PerthAndover could see flooding reminiscent of March 2012 when flood waters caused extensive damage and forced the evacuation of 185 homes.

Candidate faces pressure from pro-life group MAN SET TO BE NEXT PREMIER OF NEWFOUNDLAND

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The man poised to become the next premier of Newfoundland and Labrador is facing pressure from a pro-life group to follow the lead of Prince Edward Island in restricting abortion access in the province.

Frank Coleman’s views on abortion have sparked controversy after he said Friday that he attends a rally each year in Corner Brook, N.L., opposing abortion. His position on the matter has sparked uproar on social media from some who have condemned him for his participation in the annual right-to-life walks.

Coleman issued a statement Friday saying he won’t deny his beliefs, but he does not intend to force his personal views on others. He has declined interview requests since.

Pro-Life NL said Monday it finds Coleman’s comments about not imposing his pro-life views puzzling.

Patrick Hanlon, a spokesman for the group, said he hopes Coleman’s conscience will guide him in using the influence he will wield as premier.

“We expect a lot from Frank Coleman,” Hanlon said. “A good conscience doesn’t allow one to believe something privately but to publicly say something else.”

Hanlon said ideally, he would like to see Newfoundland and Labrador

follow the lead of P.E.I., the only province that does not provide any abortion services. Women who live in that province require a doctor’s referral and the request is reviewed by a medicare medical consultant before they can have publicly funded abortions.

“We know that it’s going to be a challenge to get to the ideal, but in the meantime, there are certain things that politicians can do,” Hanlon said.

A spokeswoman for Newfoundland and Labrador NDP Leader Lorraine Michael said she is supportive of a woman’s right to control her own body and leads a party that is officially prochoice.

But Jean Graham said Michael is not entirely comfortable “with the rush to condemn Mr. Coleman based on his religious beliefs.”

“Were those beliefs ever to manifest themselves in government action, or Progressive Conservative policy or platform, she would be the first to condemn him, mind you,” Graham said in an email.

“But until there is some sign of him actually attempting to reverse the gains we have made in the past 30 years in this province, he should be allowed to hold his views.”

Coleman, whose family business includes a chain of grocery stores, became the sole Progressive Conservative leadership contender last Thursday after his only competitor dropped out of the race.

Premier Tom Marshall replaced Kathy Dunderdale in January when she stepped down from the position, but he has done so only on an interim basis until a leadership convention scheduled for July.

Stephen Tomblin, a professor of political science at Memorial University, said in an interview that the public

interest in Coleman’s pro-life views stems from a vacuum of information about the future premier’s beliefs and policy positions.

“In public life you’re supposed to have positions, ideas and an agenda,” he said. “The lack of a debate has resulted in people looking for other kinds of things to talk about.”

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Restaurant investigated after Stowaway Canadian workers dismissed mussel surfs EMPLOYEES SAY THEY LOST JOBS TO FOREIGN WORKERS tsunami debris to B.C.

The federal government said Monday it is investigating a Saskatchewan restaurant where two long-serving waitresses say they and two others recently lost their jobs to temporary foreign workers.

Employment Minister Jason Kenney has asked his department to investigate the Brothers Classic Grill and Pizza in Weyburn, Sask., a spokeswoman for the minister said Monday.

It’s just the latest in a series of investigations launched in the wake of a flurry of reports from across Canada about alleged abuse of the Conservative government’s controversial temporary foreign worker program.

Sandy Nelson and Shaunna JennisonYung told the CBC they were among several servers at the restaurant who were fired last month and replaced by government-approved temporary help from outside Canada.

Nelson, who is 58, had been employed by the restaurant for 28 years.

In an interview Monday, Nelson said she still doesn’t understand how she could be out looking for a new job while foreigners remain employed at the restaurant where she worked for nearly three decades.

“I think they expected me to just walk away with my tail between my legs,” said Nelson, who has since found part-time work.

All of the restaurant’s staff members received discharge letters in March, she added; some were offered their jobs back, including two temporary foreign workers.

Any allegations of abuse of the temporary foreign workers program will be investigated, said Alexandra Fortier, a spokeswoman for Kenney.

“We’ve asked Employment and

Social Development Canada to investigate this case,” Fortier said in an email.

“Our government will not tolerate any abuse of the temporary foreign worker program. Our message to employers is clear and unequivocal — Canadians must always be first in line for available jobs.”

The restaurant’s owners did not immediately return phone calls Monday.

Dozens of people from across Canada and elsewhere lashed out at the establishment on its Facebook page, many of them calling for a boycott.

searches for local and Canadian talent, including longer and broader searches.

But that can make it nearly impossible for some small businesses to find qualified workers, said Richard Truscott, Alberta regional director for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

“There is a need to tighten the program for those that attempt to misuse the program,” Truscott said.

“But what they’ve done is seriously impaired the ability for small firms to use the program in a legitimate way to find qualified people to work in their business.”

Still, many unions are up in arms over the program, which they say was never — SANDY NELSON meant to be used to fill low-skilled jobs such as those found at fast food restau“This weeks special? Laying off rants.

Canadian employees and scamThe B.C. Federation of Labour ming the foreign worker program said it was considering launch... replacing Canadians with for- ing a boycott of McDonald’s if the eign workers,” scoffed Tim South- chain doesn’t commit to stopping ernwood of Edmonton. the use of temporary foreign work“I hope you guys are happy! ers.

You just bought yourselves a milEmployers such as Canadian lion dollars worth of bad advertis- Tire and Sears, as well as grocery ing!” stores including Loblaws, are alAdded Susie Moloney of Asto- so among major users of the proria, N.Y.: “I hope you’re boycotted gram. right out of business.”

The government warns of “seControversy over the program rious criminal sanctions,” inhas been growing since February cluding fines and jail time, if after reports that dozens of Cana- employers lie on their applicadian oilsands workers in Alberta tions about their efforts to hire were laid off and replaced with Canadians. temporary foreign workers from In the end, Nelson said she Croatia. hopes all of the attention being Ottawa also launched investiga- brought to the program will result tions last month after media re- in more changes to prevent abuse, ports that said three McDonald’s and that a clear message is delivrestaurants in British Columbia ered to her previous employers. were allegedly violating the rules “I want monitoring systems of the program. to be set up so this type of thing Along with the “urgent” in- doesn’t happen to (other) people,” vestigations, the federal govern- Nelson said. ment has also tightened the pro“And basically, I want justice gram rules. Companies are now out of this. What was done to us is required to do more extensive not acceptable.”

‘I THINK THEY EXPECTED ME TO JUST WALK AWAY WITH MY TAIL BETWEEN MY LEGS.’

Former deputy prime minister Herb Gray dies at 82 THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Herb Gray, a former deputy prime minister and one of Canada’s longest-serving parliamentarians, died Monday at the age of 82.

The federal Liberal party said Gray passed away peacefully at an Ottawa hospital.

“Beloved by all, Herb devoted a lifetime to his party and his country, in both good times and bad,” Liberal leader Justin Trudeau said in a statement.

“He has left behind an immense legacy unmatched by most in Canadian history.”

Gray’s career in federal politics Herb Gray spanned nearly four decades, starting in Opposition to John Diefenbaker and sweeping to victory with Jean Chretien’s third Liberal majority government in November 2000.

The man sometimes known as The Gray Fog was a master of deflection in the House of Commons, embodying the place where opposition questions disappeared in a miasma of polite, monotonal verbiage.

Constituents, however, said he was a down-toearth politician who always looked beyond party lines when it came to their concerns.

Gray leaves behind wife Sharon Sholzberg, and two children, Jonathan and Elizabeth, and eight grandchildren.

The Windsor lawyer was first elected to the Commons in 1962 at the age of 31.

He would remain undefeated for 12 successive elections in his Windsor West riding. In the November 2000 election, he captured over 20,000 votes, more than twice that of his nearest competitor.

Gray became the first Jewish cabinet minister in Canadian history, appointed as minister without portfolio by former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

He later held various cabinet portfolios including national revenue, consumer and corporate affairs and industry.

He took over as deputy prime minister in 1997 from Sheila Copps, who resigned amid a scandal over the Liberals’ unfilled promise to scrap the GST. Copps remembered Gray Monday as a friend and “a great Canadian.”

Meanwhile, former federal Liberal leader Bob Rae called Gray a man who “served Canada with such distinction and care.”

Gray, known for conservative suits and cautious answers, served as Chretien’s point man on

many issues, including the APEC controversy and the Shawinigate affair, deflecting opposition questions about a hotel loan in Chretien’s constituency.

He also headed up the file on residential school abuse, working with aboriginal groups to settle outstanding claims.

A popular figure on Parliament Hill, he was regularly voted one of its sexiest MPs. In his riding, he was affectionately known as “the godfather of politics,” and a coalition of Windsor, Ont., non-profit groups named a building after him.

When he stepped in as interim Opposition leader in 1990, he was often backed by a chorus of Liberal caucus members chanting “Herb, Herb, Herb.”

Passionate about politics, he was also known for his love of political satire, and regularly tuned in to CBC’s Radio’s Royal Canadian Air Farce and Double Exposure.

He never took himself too seriously, said Garry Fortune, a longtime assistant.

“The two of us have had to practically pull over because of our fits of laughter, especially when they do their imitations of him,” he said.

Gray would often deliver one-liners during meetings that would go over other official’s heads, aides said.

A classical pianist, Gray also had a love for rock ’n’ roll, listening to the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Bob Seeger. He once attended a Boy George concert.

Gray had battled several health problems in recent years, including a heart condition and a bout with cancer. He was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus in 1996 but recovered after radiation therapy. He also had an operation in 1999 to treat a prostate condition unrelated to the cancer.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A sea creature at risk of going extinct in Asia is proving to be a survivor, but after an arduous ocean journey it’s not welcome to find safe haven in British Columbia.

A non-indigenous mussel that likely hitchhiked its way across the Pacific ocean has been discovered on suspected tsunami debris from Japan’s 2011 earthquake.

The federal fisheries department has identified the species as a mussel called mytilus coruscus, and said it “has not conducted a full risk assessment.”

It said the creature arrived on a single piece of debris and is believed to have originated in Japan, but would not provide further details.

So far, the mussel appears to be the only “hitchhiker” verified as making an international arrival following the East Asia catastrophe that created a massive surge of water, casting about five million tonnes of debris into the sea.

Scientists predicted some of the wreckage would eventually turn up on B.C. shores, although provincial environment officials now say the volume has been lower than anticipated.

About 70 per cent of the debris sank off the Japanese coast, leaving 1.5 million tonnes to be dispersed by ocean currents, sink elsewhere or be swirled into giant garbage gyres.

“We believe that the greatest risk for major debris has passed,” said an email from the Environment Ministry.

But officials did single out the mussel survivor, which marine life experts say is a situation that should be taken seriously.

The species likely turned up on floating driftwood or some other surface it could cling to. But that also signals a possibility it could have entered Canadian waters, said Paul Valentich-Scott, a mollusk specialist in California.

Precautions should always be taken when a new creature surfaces in an unfamiliar environment, he said.

“Think of weeds in your yard. If they’re let go, they’ll take over everything,” said Valentich-Scott, with the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

“That’s exactly what happens with introduced invasive species. It takes over all the available space and pushes everything out.”

However, he believes that would be the worst case scenario and doesn’t expect such trouble likely with this particular species.

A survey of several prominent B.C. aquatic centres turned up no experts familiar with the mussel.

But a 2012 study in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, forwarded by the Vancouver Aquarium, sheds some light. It describes mytilus coruscus as the “most favoured commercially” among about 20 mussel species in Korea, inhabiting the coastal areas of Eastern Asia including Korea, Japan and China.

“During the past few decades, this species has become endangered due to the loss of habitats and overfishing,” the paper says.

The fisheries department said the federal government has an action plan to address the threat of aquatic invasive species, but did not specify how it applies.

A joint committee set up manage tsunami debris issues was the first to identify the stowaway mussel as a potential concern.

In draft minutes released to The Canadian Press under Access to Information laws, a bullet point suggests the debris with “isolated potential invasive species” surfaced in Ucluelet, on Vancouver Island’s West coast.

William Austin, director of the Khoyatan Marine Laboratory on Vancouver Island, said it’s not uncommon for non-native species to show up in coastal waters.

He said it may be a good idea to conduct surveys along the coast to track whether the mussel has latched onto any other new homes.

“Just recording all this stuff doesn’t get you very far, necessarily,” he said.

“My own feeling is this is one of the things you want people in government to be able to be involved in.”

Valentich-Scott said it’s not easy to distinguish between mussels. In fact, the mytilus coruscus looks similar to the black-shelled mussels common to the West Coast.

The broader family, or genus, of this mussel tends to cluster in large groups, he said, suggesting there probably wasn’t just one aboard the debris.

He said officials in California take the potential introduction of new species very seriously.

After the disaster in Japan, the country’s government gave Ottawa $1 million to be shared among West Coast organizations, three First Nations and the district government of Ucluelet for cleaning up debris.

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TransCanada customers are firm on XL COMPANIES TO SHIP CRUDE ON MULTIPLE PROPOSED PIPELINES, AS WELL AS BY RAIL

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KEYSTONE PIPELINE DELAY

CALGARY — TransCanada Corp. says its customers are still “100 per cent” behind its proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, despite dimming prospects that shovels will be hitting the ground any time soon.

Company spokesman Shawn Howard says there’s even a waiting list, should more room come available on the proposed US$5.4-billion pipeline, which would enable oilsands crude to flow to the U.S. Gulf Coast, a lucrative market where refineries are thirsty for that heavy product.

“We announce and advance privately-funded projects like Keystone XL by understanding what the best business and market decisions are, not short-

term political calculations. We will do the same here,” he said in an email, following Friday’s news that the Obama Administration is unlikely to decide on the project until next year at the earliest.

The U.S. regulatory process for the contentious project is in its sixth year. The latest setback caused TransCanada’s shares to drop about 3.7 per cent to $49.42 in Monday afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

TransCanada had hoped a legal dispute over the pipeline’s route in Nebraska would not further hold up a decision at the federal level, but the State Department on Friday said it needs more time to make

a recommendation in light of the uncertainty.

“Energy infrastructure projects like Keystone XL are designed to meet a need — and that need has not has changed,” Howard added, noting the United States continues to import eight to nine million barrels daily.

While Canadian oil companies may still support the project, they’re not putting all of their eggs in the Keystone XL basket. Most are hedging their bets by committing to ship their crude on multiple proposed pipelines, as well as moving it to market by rail.

“The market’s going to continue to do what it’s been doing the last three years,” said Reynold Tetzlaff, national energy leader at PwC Canada.

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Pipeline workers slam Obama for delay

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo courtesy of Gary and Joan Trimble and Red Deer District Archives

The Cub Dance Hall in 1943, built by Willard Trimble of North Red Deer, was where soldiers training to fight Nazi Germany in the Second World War and local residents went to kick up their heels.

Site of former wartime dance hall to be redeveloped

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF If the vacant lot at 5913 54th Ave. in Riverside Meadows could speak, it would probably belt out a big-band tune.

The empty lot beside a 7-Eleven has been vacant for a long time and went back on the market in the past year.

Red Deer historian Michael Dawe said Willard Trimble built the Cub Dance Hall on the site just after the Second World War broke out.

Trimble had an orchestra that played at dances three nights a week at the hall throughout the war.

“During the war, we had large numbers of military guys. On the nights they had off, they didn’t particularly want to sit in the barracks. They wanted to go out and

find some activity,” Dawe said. “(Cub Hall) was a very active social centre on the main road in and out of town. It was a very successful venture.”

At its peak, 1,800 soldiers trained in Red Deer, he said.

“In those days, Red Deer the city would have been 3,000. At one point with the people at the Penhold air base and the ones at the army camp, there were almost as many people in uniform as there were civilians.”

An air force base at Bowden as also in operation so Red Deer was a major military location during war, he said.

Trimble named it Cub Hall because he had proudly restored a Piper Cub airplane, Dawe said.

“He just finished building it and war broke out, and they didn’t allow the flight of private airplanes.

“He was grounded for the re-

mainder of the war.”

During its heyday, Cub Hall was on a busy road near a coffee shop popular with truckers in a bustling area of North Red Deer.

After the war, Trimble sold the building and it was converted into a residence until it was eventually demolished.

Glen Goodall, the property’s owner and RE/MAX real estate agent, said the land has been rezoned to allow commercial, residential or office space.

He’d like to see a building with commercial space on the bottom and residential on the upper floors.

“I think it’s a great little property for a developer who wants to do something really unique in that area. Once you go up four storeys, you’d have view of the river,” Goodall said. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

VOWS TO INCREASE RELIANCE ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centres with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by its devices and online services.

The iPhone and iPad maker is detailing its efforts to cultivate a greener Apple Inc. in an environmental section on the company’s website that debuted Monday.

The site highlights the ways that the Cupertino, Calif., company is increasing its reliance on alternative power sources and sending less electronic junk to landfills.

Apple had already been distributing gift cards at some of its 420 worldwide stores in exchange for iPhones and iPods still in good enough condition to be resold.

Now, all of the company’s stores will recycle any Apple product at no charge. Gift cards won’t be handed out for recycled products deemed to have little or no resale value.

The offer covers a wide array of electronics that aren’t supposed to be dumped in landfills because of the toxins in them. In the past

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seven years alone, Apple has sold more than 1 billion iPhones, iPods, iPads and Mac computers.

The new initiative, timed to coincide with Tuesday’s annual celebration of Earth Day, strives to position Apple as an environmental steward amid the technological whirlwind of gadgets and Internet services that have been drawing more electricity from power plants that primarily run on natural gas and coal.

Technology products and services accounted for about 2 per cent of worldwide emissions in 2012, roughly the same as the airline industry, according to statistics cited by environmental protection group Greenpeace in a report released earlier this month. Some of biggest electricity demands come from huge data centres that house the stacks of computers that process search requests, store photos and email and stream video.

These online services, often dubbed “cloud computing,” collectively consume more electricity than all but five countries — China, the U.S., Japan, India and Russia.

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“What the company wants to do is use all our innovation and all of our expertise to make the planet more secure and make the environment better,” Lisa Jackson, Apple’s vice-president of environmental initiatives, said in a Monday interview. Jackson ran the Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama before joining Apple last June.

Apple CEO Tim Cook underscored the commitment by narrating a 1 minute, 44 second video about the company’s efforts to protect the environment. “To us, better is a force of nature,” Cook says in the video.

The campaign appears to be more than just public relations stunt, based on Greenpeace’s high praise for Apple in its recent review of the technology industry’s environmental responsibility.

Among the 19 companies covered in the report, Greenpeace described Apple as “the most innovative and most aggressive in pursuing its commitment to be 100 per cent renewably powered.”

Greenpeace also gave high marks to Apple rival, Google Inc., and Facebook Inc., which makes one of the most popular apps on the iPhone and iPad.

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Not guilty pleas entered in fatal California pipe blast

Apple unveils free recycling of all its devices

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

American pipeline workers are blasting a decision to delay the Keystone XL process, saying the move by the Obama administration has erased a few thousand high-paying jobs this summer.

One union — the Laborers’ International Union of North America — called the move gutless, and accused the government of announcing it on a holiday weekend in the hope fewer people would be paying attention.

One member of that union says his phone is ringing off the hook.

Ron Berringer says he has received more than 30 calls since Friday, when the U.S. State Department announced Keystone XL would be delayed indefinitely. A presidential permit is on hold, apparently until next year at the earliest.

Union members are calling to ask what the move might mean for their livelihoods — and Berringer cringes every time the phone rings.

“When they call, I almost dread even picking it up,” said Berringer, a semi-nomadic construction worker and shop steward for his Nebraska-based union local.

“I know what they’re gonna talk about, and I know what I’ve got to tell them. And what I’ve got to tell them is, ’I just don’t know.”’

Berringer is among the thousands of workers who will build the rest of Keystone XL, if it ever gets approval.

Their role has become central to the debate, with pipeline proponents arguing it will create thousands of construction jobs. Opponents, however, insist it will only result in a few dozen permanent jobs once it’s complete.

The pipeline hardly seems like a macroeconomic game-changer in Nebraska, which has the third-lowest unemployment rate in the country — just 3.7 per cent last month. Even President Barack Obama has played down the project’s potential jobs impact, calling the claims of its proponents overblown.

Berringer, however, insisted the project would make a difference in thousands of lives.

Construction is an unpredictable business, and pipelines mean guaranteed income for an entire season, he said — not to mention tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay, weekend bonuses and per diems as crews work extra-long hours in an attempt to get the bitumen flowing by winter.

Berringer is growing frustrated with having to tell his fellow workers year after year that the pipeline isn’t happening.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. pleaded not guilty Monday to a dozen felony charges stemming from alleged safety violations in a deadly 2010 natural gas pipeline explosion that levelled a suburban neighbourhood in the San Francisco Bay Area.

As survivors of the blast looked on, attorneys for California’s largest utility entered the plea in federal court in San Francisco to 12 felony violations of federal pipeline safety laws.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero noted prosecutors’ request to increase the maximum fine PG&E could face to more than $6 million, if the court decides the company somehow benefited financially or saved money as a result of criminal misconduct.

San Bruno city officials hailed the ruling as a positive step and said they believed company officials should be charged as well.

“We look forward to PG&E being fined the maximum amount allowed by law to send a message not only to that corporation but to the industry,” San Bruno City Manager Connie Jackson said. “Individuals within the corporation certainly had responsibility for making decisions ... that led to the disaster in San Bruno.” PG&E said the company is holding itself accountable and does not believe any employee intentionally violated federal regulations.

No individual PG&E employees have been charged criminally. Prosecutors could file superseding indictments naming individuals if the investigation warrants.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 106.92 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.68 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 15.75 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.05 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 17.75 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — Falling mining stocks pushed the Toronto stock market slightly lower Monday as traders looked to a heavy slate of earnings news coming out this week.

The S&P/TSX composite index declined 6.71 points to 14,493.68.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.01 of a cent to 90.79 cents US. New York’s Dow industrials closed up 40.71 points to 16,449.25, the Nasdaq composite index was 26.03 points higher at 4,121.55 and the S&P 500 index climbed 7.04 points to 1,871.89.

After the close, Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) posted adjusted earnings for the first quarter of 66 cents a share, four cents lower than analyst estimates.

Rogers acquired additional wireless spectrum during the January auction for $3.3 billion, which will be needed to allow consumers to stream NHL games on their mobile devices.

Rogers scored a $5.2-billion multiyear deal last fall for the Canadian rights to all NHL games and its shares inched up a penny to $44.28.

Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) reports Tuesday and its results will be impacted by falling commodity prices.

Copper prices have tumbled 11 per cent this year and coal prices have fared even worse, falling from US$300 a tonne in 2011 to about $120 a tonne. Teck shares slipped 30 cents to $24.01.

Meanwhile, Canadian Pacific (TSX:CP) also reports Tuesday and investors will look to see how severe winter weather affected the railway in the quarter and how increased petroleum shipments have lifted the bottom line. CP shares climbed 78 cents to $163.99.

The tech sector in particular will be in focus as traders take in earnings during the week from tech heavyweights including Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. The results are being released following a sharp correction in the tech sector that has seen the Nasdaq index drop about

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.34 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 61.42 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77.60 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.93 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.03 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 25.73 First Quantum Minerals . 21.01 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26.53 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 8.97 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.02 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.49 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.02 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.84 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.01 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.09 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 39.40 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 70.25 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.41 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 54.92 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 44.49 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 24.04 Canyon Services Group. 14.83 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 32.14 CWC Well Services . . . 1.0700 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 25.54 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.91 five per cent this month.

After the close, Netflix reported quarterly earnings per share of 86 cents, three cents ahead of estimates.

Elsewhere on the corporate front, TransCanada shares fell $1.92 to $49.38 after the U.S. government said Friday that it needs more time to prepare its recommendation to President Barack Obama on the company’s Keystone XL pipeline.

Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) shares were down 78 cents to $19.03 as the Wall Street Journal said that merger talks between the Toronto-based mining company and Newmont Mining had broken off last week. However, sources told Bloomberg and others that the issues separating the two parties are minor, leaving open the possibility that the deal could still happen.

The gold sector was the biggest weight, down about 0.4 per cent as June bullion fell $5.40 to US$1,288.50 an ounce.

The metals and mining sector was down 0.34 per cent with May copper unchanged at US$3.04 a pound.

The TSX energy sector was off 0.05 per cent as May crude in New York added seven cents to US$104.37 barrel.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close of Monday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,493.68, down 6.71 points TSX Venture Exchange — 997.21, down 1.56 points TSX 60 — 826.86, down 0.46 of a point Dow — 16,449.25, up 40.71 points S&P 500 — 1,871.86, up 7.01 points Nasdaq — 4,121.55, up 26.03 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 90.79 cents US, down 0.01 of a cent Pound — C$1.8498, up 0.06 of

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KEYSTONE: Rail used more “The market continues to basically do a workaround where they use rail more; there have been some pipelines that have been reversed in the U.S. and some pipelines that have been added at a smaller scale.”

With the 830,000-barrel-per-day Keystone XL proposal stymied, outlets to the Gulf coast refining hub have opened over the past few years.

The Seaway pipeline between the Texas coast and a major oil storage hub at Cushing, Okla., has been reversed and expanded by Enbridge Inc. (TSX:ENB) and Enterprise Products Partners L.P., shipping about 400,000 barrels per day since early 2013. The companies aim to more than double that in the coming months.

Meanwhile, TransCanada started up its own Cushing-to-Texas pipeline in January, with the expectation of shipping an average of 520,000 barrels a day in its first year of operation.

The Gulf Coast line was originally pitched as part of the Keystone XL project, but the Obama administration rejected it a few years ago citing environmental concerns in Nebraska. The company decided to break the project up into two parts, going ahead with the southern leg first, as it does not cross an international border and therefore did not need the federal go-ahead to proceed.

The Gulf Coast line links up with TransCanada’s existing Keystone system, which has been delivering crude to the U.S. Midwest since 2010 and to Cushing since 2011.

“The market access situation is absolutely improving,” said Lanny Pendill, an energy analyst at Edward Jones.

“There’s no question about it. Rail has played a big role to date, and rail will continue to fill the void in the midterm.”

But he said Keystone XL is still needed because it’s the more economical option.

Absent any viable alternative to get significant volumes of oilsands crude directly to the Gulf Coast, Pendill doesn’t see TransCanada or its supporters abandoning hope in Keystone XL. The other major proposed export pipelines out of Alberta — not without their own significant political risks — are aiming at other markets, such as Asia and Europe.

“This is really the only major pipe-

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ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $3.60 lower $463.30; July ’14 $6.00 lower $473.30; Nov. ’14 $6.30 lower $487.80; Jan ’15 $6.50 lower $494.40; March ’15 $6.70 lower $500.50; May ’15 $7.10 lower $506.10; July ’15 $6.40 lower $510.90; Nov ’15 $8.50 lower $495.90; Jan. ’16 $8.50 lower $487.40; March ’16 $8.50 lower $487.40.

Barley (Western): May ’14 $6.40 lower $139.00; July ’14 $1.00 lower $140.00; Oct. ’14 $1.00 lower $140.00; Dec. ’14 $1.00 lower $140.00; March ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; May ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; July ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; Oct. ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; Dec. ’15 $1.00 lower $140.00; March ’16 $1.00 lower $140.00; May ’16 $1.00 lower $140.00.

Monday’s estimated volume of trade: 439,060 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 439,060.

line that is increasing capacity going all the way down to the Gulf Coast. And any alternative would likely be crossing the Canadian-U.S. border, just like Keystone, so I would not anticipate a close alternative to come up unless you’re talking about shipping oil from a different region other than the oilsands.”

Rogers faces tough Q1 SOFT WIRELESS RESULTS HURT PROFITS, REVENUES

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A combination of fewer wireless customers switching carriers and a lack of flashy new smartphones were a drag on the wireless division of Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B), helping to pull down firstquarter results, the Canadian telecom giant said Monday.

Rogers reported that net income in the period dropped 13 per cent to $307 million or 57 cents per share from $353 million or 68 cents per share a year earlier.

On an adjusted basis, the results missed analyst expectations, coming in at 66 cents per share, four cents below the average estimate of 70 cents per share, according to a survey by Thomson Reuters.

Operating revenues were relatively steady at $3.02 billion, marginally below the $3.03 billion reported in the comparable year-earlier period.

Executives outlined several reasons for the stagnant growth.

“There were really no iconic devices,” Rogers president Rob Bruce told analysts on a conference call.

“The (Samsung Galaxy S5) launch fell into the second quarter.”

But that was only one factor contributing to weakness in the quarter, as the wireless division came under pressure from price changes in its phone packages.

On average, a Rogers customer paid a wireless bill of $57.63 a month in the latest period, about $2.05 less than a year earlier, mainly because of reworked monthly packages and lowerpriced roaming charges.

Wireless revenues — by far the biggest part of its business — dropped by two per cent to $1.73 billion. The division has been stung by a move by the federal government to shorten the length of cellphone contracts to two years from three years.

Rogers reported 2,000 net additions to its post-paid wireless subscriber base in the quarter, which is thousands of subscribers lower than a typical quarter.

After a bitter winter, U.S. economy warms

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Spring’s thaw is reviving the economy, too.

A recent batch of government and business reports show a U.S. economy emerging from winter’s deep freeze.

Economists had expected growth to accelerate in 2014 after two years of slow and steady improvement. But an unusually bitter winter sent factories, hiring and consumer spending into hibernation.

Now, as temperatures rise, the economy is regaining momentum. Factories are busier. Consumers are spending more. Banks are making more loans to businesses. Companies have bigger plans to invest in plants and equipment. And the improvement appears to be widespread across the country.

“The weather really played havoc.

There were ice storms in Georgia. That is not something you see every day,” said Michael Dolega, senior economist at TD Economics. “Now, as Americans have dug themselves out and everything has melted, you’re going to get a bounce back.”

An index based on several leading economic indicators— including employment, consumer confidence, stocks and interest rates — shot up for the third straight month in March, the Con-

ference Board, a business research association, said on Monday. The index’s 0.8 per cent gain to 100.9 “suggests accelerated growth for the remainder of the spring and the summer,” said Ken Goldstein, a Conference Board economist.

Many economists expect the economy to grow at an annual rate of 3 per cent or more from April through June, up from an estimated 1.3 per cent the first three months of the year. The positive economic news has sparked a rally on Wall Street the past week.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is up 0.9 per cent for the year and is near its record close of 1,890 set April 2.

Helping to drive the growth have been recent increases in manufacturing after tumbling in January. Factory production climbed 0.5 per cent in March, after a 1.4 per cent surge the previous month, the Federal Reserve reported last week. This suggests that manufacturers anticipate that demand from businesses and consumers will increase.

After the winter slowdown, recovering motor vehicle sales have boosted revenue for companies such as Batesville Tool & Die in Batesville, Ind. “We feel like the auto industry is all the way back from before the recession,” said Jody Fledderman, the company’s president and CEO.

WORKERS: Waiting “They tell me, ‘Well, how am I gonna make house payments and car payments and stuff?’ And I felt sad for them, because I don’t have an answer for that,” he said.

“There’s a lot of Laborers who would’ve made sure they were able to pay all their bills. They could’ve got their head above water. Now their head’s gonna go below water.”

The Obama administration has cited the uncertainty in Nebraska, where the pipeline’s proposed route is currently the subject of litigation, as the reason it can’t make a decision on the pipeline for now.

Nearly one-quarter of landowners in that state are refusing to sign easement deals with Calgary-based pipeline builder TransCanada Corp., and they’re in court fighting a law that would have forced them to open up their property.

Berringer’s brother Jason is in a similar spot. He’ll be busy the next four weeks, helping to repair a Nebraska City power plant. Then he’ll add his name to a list of union members looking for their next job, hoping something comes up by summer.

“It’s not good,” Jason said.

“I wish these (pipeline opponents) would get online and actually look and see what it costs them in the end, whether putting it though Nebraska or buying it from a foreign country. I know Canada’s a foreign country, but they’re our neighbours, too.”

BLAST: Tragic event “We want all of our customers to know that we’re working hard to build the safest and most reliable gas system in America,” the company’s statement said. “The legal process will ensure that all of the facts related to this tragic event are fully reviewed.”

Prosecutors allege that PG&E knowingly relied on erroneous and incomplete information when assessing the safety of the pipeline that eventually ruptured and sparked a fireball that destroyed 38 homes, killed eight people and injured dozens of others.

Nearly four years later, the neighbourhood is still recovering.

Recently winning the 2013 Business of the Year award, Bilton Welding and Manufacturing Ltd. designs, engineers and manufactures custom energy equipment.

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We provide hands-on training and an opportunity to work on some of the most interesting projects and applications in the energy sector.

We currently have career opportunities for a professional;

ESTIMATOR The successful candidate will prepare cost estimates, review, validate, and submit estimates for product manufacturing, projects, or other services as required. This position is responsible for a wide range of project cost estimating and all associated functions within a group of skilled professionals.

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Healthy trade-offs need to be done right Dear Annie: I am quite a bit over- lose weight any other way. Have you weight. My 29-year-old daughter is con- tried programs like Weight Watchers cerned that I might have a heart at- or Overeaters Anonymous? tack and die on her. Meanwhile, she Have you seen a nutritionist about has been smoking cigarettes since she eating in a more healthful way? Have was 16 years old. She said you attempted an exercise to me, “If you have gastric program or checked at your bypass surgery, I will quit local gym for a personal smoking.” My sister says I trainer? These are all steps should absolutely do it beyou should take to get your cause I might be saving my weight into a healthy range. daughter’s life. That is an So here’s a better barawful burden to place on gain: Tell your daughter me. Of course, I would love that you will get into a diet to lose weight, but someand exercise program while thing as drastic as gastric she works on giving up cigabypass surgery is frightenrettes. ing to me. Am I being selfSomeday, she may have ish by not wanting to have a 29-year-old daughter who MITCHELL the surgery? — Need Your worries that her mother will & SUGAR Help die from smoking. We wish Dear Need: Not at all. you both the best.

We know your daughter’s Dear Annie: This is a heart is in the right place plea to women everywhere. and that she is worried about you. But When I use a public restroom and surgeries, including gastric bypass, there is urine splashed all over the come with serious risks. Such surgery toilet seat, I want to scream. If there is a last resort for those who are mor- is another stall, I will use it instead, bidly obese and have been unable to but otherwise, I am stuck cleaning off

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this mess with a wad of toilet paper before I can use the seat. Then I have to find my hand sanitizer. So here’s the simple request: Ladies, if you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie, wipe the seatie! -- Grimacing in Sarasota Fla. Dear Grimacing: We are on your side. But in all fairness, women often don’t want to sit on a public toilet, and if there are no paper seat covers, they may feel it is necessary to hover over the seat. Also, sometimes the flush itself creates splashing, which is not the woman’s fault.

So, ladies, please check the seat before you leave the stall and be considerate of the next woman.

Dear Annie: I am so glad “Not a Prude” addressed the issue of “undressed” women in the TV news. It is vulgar and sad. I can get past the sleeveless dresses, but I’m sick of the cross-legged, too-short skirt pose and the deep cleavage.

What happened to sitting behind a news desk? Why do we have to see anyone’s legs? I am not a prude, but I refuse to watch any news station where the women dress this way. Our society

glorifies sex. I remember one female announcer saying that the reason women wear dresses is because “the man wears the pants.”

I wonder whether she wears dresses at home with her husband. It is degrading and sexist for any TV producer to insist that the female employees wear inappropriate clothing just to get more viewers. And it is sad for any woman to give in to that pressure in order to keep her job. Wearing short dresses and showing cleavage is unprofessional and sends the wrong message to other women and young girls who want to succeed in the professional world.

-- Another Woman Speaking Out Dear Another: If enough people stop watching the stations that promote men as professionals and women as sex symbols, maybe things will change.

Annie’s Snippet for Earth Day (credit John Muir): When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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U.S. President Barack Obama plays doubles tennis with a youth partner during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, Monday on the tennis court on the South Lawn of the White House is Washington.

TUESDAY, APRIL 22 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Jack Nicholson, 76; Ryan Stiles, 54; Sherri Shepherd, 46 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today is a positive day for being confident in relationships.

Try keeping your feet on the ground as there a tendency to go overboard and this will lead you to take foolish risks. Be conscious of your intentions. Only take actions when it is leading towards known harmony, and everyone will be pleased with the outcome.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will be when working with others in your local community will prove to be emotionally rewarding for you. Reworking past working partnerships will allow your dreams to flourish and your LARISA MAIRA career to take off OZOLINS on more grand scale than ever before.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The greater emotional clarity you have at this stage, the better off one to one relationships will go. Make sure to know your limits and stay clear of those who push you beyond

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them into the red zone. Strive for peace and compromise and nothing will fail you today.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your work life might cause you some friction today. If handled with care and diplomacy, you will be doubly rewarded for your efforts. Do not take any foolish risks with your health and also when driving. Stick within your limits and be mindful when dealing with others.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Provocations from friends might lead you to spend your money unnecessarily today. Be mindful, your intention is to compromise with others, but your resources also need the same consideration. Past issues with friends will resurface to be dealt with once and for all.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Over promising with family members will lead to friction for you today. Compromise is the key to this transit today. Be conscious of your intent to find harmony and let balance and your energy levels be your guiding light today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You might feel overly confident in your abilities now and could over promise. Watch out and be mindful that you will feel frustrated if you do not speak up for yourself in calmly and rationally with others now. Be mindful not to overdo your desire to help, find that happy medium.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There is a great need for you to feel connected with others. Be mindful that this might have you spending more money than you would like.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There is a great need to show others all that you have learned. Take it step by step now, find the proper flow.

Giving too much information will lead to a burn out for you and others. Be conscious of what you would like to impart onto others and let it flow out naturally.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are feeling more and more liberated from your fears as each day moves forward. Do not take foolish risks with your money at this stage today, or become overindulgent and forget your have to pay bills.

Today you will have to find the harmony between thinking up practical solutions and actually applying them.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are confidently applying the knowledge you’ve learned recently towards your health and everything. Make sure to find that proper balance as it will help you with endurance at this stage. Watch out in exerting yourself in any direction, accidents could happen today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are passionately conquering each fear one by one. Make sure you understand that life is not one big obstacle course. Pursue your passions and fears will melt away. Friends will guide you towards your dreams which will create more harmony for you now.

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RETHINKING

OLD RELIABLE One of the food staples in my house is bananas.

Like eggs and milk, bananas are always used up daily and always bought when I go on a grocery expedition.

This is a habitual ritual that I grew up with — my mom MADHU always said, BADONI “if there are no bananas in the house, then it feels like there is nothing to eat.” And, I would have to agree!

For me, and maybe for many others, bananas are the old reliable fruit that never disappoints. They are available all year round and always seem in season. They aren’t deceptive, like a strawberries in the winter months, looking juicy red and tempting on the store shelves, but tasteless when you sink your teeth into them.

There is no guesswork when it comes to picking the right banana, either — you rarely see anyone lifting, tapping, sniffing or manhandling a banana. With just about the right amount of yellowness, sweetness is guaranteed; and if you buy them a little green, you simply let them hang out in the fruit basket and they will ripen.

The only negative characteristic about the fruit is that they are very delicate and bruise very easily.

Another unique attribute is that it tastes different at every stage of ripeness. When the peel is green to yellow, the flavour of the flesh is bland and its texture is woodsy. As the peel changes to brown or black, it has a sweeter flavour and more of a banana aroma, but still keeps a firm shape when cooked.

No matter what its exterior looks like, though, the inside of the fruit will remain white to creamy yellowish, unless of course it has gone beyond the overripe stage.

Because of its different taste and texture at various stages, the banana can also be used in variety of recipes.

Green skinned bananas have a potato-like texture, making them ideal for serving them as fries; just peel and cut into strips and fry like its potato counterpart.

In Asian countries, raw bananas are used to make curries, soups and stir-fries.

When they are overripe, they are perfect as a base ingredient for a range of delicious cakes, breads, desserts, smoothies and shakes. Let us not forget about banana breads and muffins. Everyone loves them and we all have a tried and true recipe.

Not only are they great in sweet dishes, but bananas are extremely versatile and compliment chicken, pork and savoury breads. In a recent chili cook-off that I attended, a contestant added a banana to the chili,

‘IF THERE ARE NO BANANAS IN THE HOUSE, THEN IT FEELS LIKE THERE IS NOTHING TO EAT.’ — OLD BADONI SAYING

AVAILABLE YEAR ROUND AND ALWAYS IN SEASON, BANANAS ARE A VERSATILE FRUIT THAT CAN BE USED IN EVERYTHING FROM BREADS AND DESSERTS TO CURRIES, SOUPS AND STIR-FRIES

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Bacon Wrapped Banana

Healthy Banana Cookies

¼ cup soy sauce 1 tablespoon honey 4 ripe bananas, each cut into 5 chunks 10 slices of bacon, halved crosswise 20 toothpicks Whisk soy sauce and honey together in a large bowl; add bananas and stir to coat bananas in marinade. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Remove banana chunks and reserve marinade. Set oven rack about six inches from the heat source and preheat the oven’s broiler. Wrap bananas with bacon and secure by threading a toothpick through the bacon. Dip wrapped bananas in reserved marinade and arrange on a baking sheet. Broil in the preheated oven until bacon is browned and crispy, eight to 10 minutes.

3 ripe bananas 2 cups rolled oats 1 cup dates, pitted and chopped 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Preheat oven to 350 F (175 C). In a large bowl, mash the bananas. Stir in oats, dates, oil, and vanilla. Mix well, and allow to sit for 15 minutes.

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until lightly brown.

creating a unique sweet, spicy flavour profile.

In using my recipes, I decided to go for something healthy, something ethnic, something different and, of course, something a little “bacony.”

Banana facts ● Storing bananas in the refrigerator will make the skins turn black, but you can still eat them. ● To ripen green bananas, put them in a paper bag.

Banana and Brie Savoury Muffin 4 eggs 1 1/3 cup self raising flour ½ cup melted butter 2 bananas, chopped 125g brie, chopped Mix the melted butter into

the four eggs, then fold in the flour. Stir in the chopped bananas and brie into the muffin mixture. Fill each muffin tin and bake at 390F (200C) for 20 minutes.

Savoury Banana Pastry ½ cup ripe mashed banana 1 cup flour Red chili powder to taste Salt to taste 1 tablespoon oil Oil for deep frying Combine the banana , flour, salt, red chili powder and a tablespoon of oil in wide bowl and make a soft dough. Divide the dough into small balls and roll out the dough into thin circles. Cut them into diamond shapes.

Heat oil for deep frying and fry the diamond cuts until golden colour. Remove from the oil and store in a airtight container. Serve with a cup of chai.

● A banana tree is not really a fruit tree, but a herb, with a trunk that is a stem of tightly wrapped leaves. The banana we eat is the fruit (technically a false berry) and the black piece that sometimes remains on the end of the banana is the dead flower. ● Amongst sport fishermen, there exists a belief that bananas on a boat are unlucky;, ● According to the leading producer and distributor of bananas, Chiquita, bananas are the most popular fruit. There are more bananas eaten than apples and oranges com-

TOP LEFT: Not only are they great in sweet dishes, but bananas are extremely versatile and compliment chicken, pork and savoury breads — like in muffins infused with banana and brie cheese.

TOP RIGHT: Mashed bananas replace the sugar and the eggs in these healthy cookies.

LEFT: Banana acts as a binder in this Indianinspired spicy sweet snack that is best enjoyed with an afternoon cup of chai.

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bined. In fact, the average American eats 27 pounds (12.25 kg) of bananas every year. ● Banana contains about 422 mg of potassium (a little less than half a gram), making bananas a potassium super fruit — that’s 13 per cent of the daily-recommended amount of potassium from only one banana!

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

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40 years as a rock ’n roll refugee TOM PETTY REFLECTS ON 40 YEARS OF SONGWRITING AS HE RECEIVES ASCAP’S FOUNDERS AWARD

LOS ANGELES — Forty years of practice has made songwriting harder, not easier, for Tom Petty.

“As life goes by, you get a little more carefree or distracted by other things and you have to really police yourself — I do — into sitting down and doing something that pleases me,” the 63-year-old rocker said.

“Plus, I’m trying to do things that I haven’t done before and not go over the same ground.”

The writer behind such hits as American Girl, Mary Jane’s Last Dance and I Need to Know will accept the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers’ Founders Award on Wednesday in Los Angeles.

Previous honorees include Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Billy Joel.

“It’s very nice to get an award for songwriting,” Petty said. “I’m duly impressed.”

His process is much the same as it’s always been: Sit down with the guitar and see what comes.

When inspiration strikes, “it’s a very

real magic,” he said.

So magical, in fact, that he hesitates to examine it too closely.

“It’s really hard to explain because I don’t really understand it myself,” he said.

“I know that when we have time booked, like when we set aside time to make a record, that’s when I usually get pretty — I guess I get on the job as far as making sure I have enough songs, you know.”

He sits and plays, recording bits here and there.

The next day, he listens to what he did and either develops or scraps it.

Touring takes him out of the songwriting groove.

“It takes me a few months after a tour to get back into the headspace to write songs.”

Petty and his band just finished their latest album, Hypnotic Eye, set for release this summer. That allowed time for him to check out Jimmy Fallon’s recent duet — as Petty — with Stevie Nicks.

“I was amazed by how well they did the Heartbreakers,” he said. “It was brilliant. Very funny.”

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers also signed on as the headliner of

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Tom Petty performs on Day 4 of the 2013 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn. Songwriting has gotten harder, not easier, with time, says Petty, who will receive top honours from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers on Wednesday, for his four decades in music. the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco this August, along with Kanye West.

Steven Universe is first female-created show in Cartoon Network’s history

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35th anniversary to be marked with shows of Blood Brothers

BY NICK PATCH THE CANADIAN PRESS In spearheading the joyful animated gem Steven Universe, Rebecca Sugar became the first solo female show creator in the 21-year history of the U.S.-based Cartoon Network.

It’s a good talking point, if only Sugar wanted to talk about it.

“Before the show came out, I think someone must have pointed that out (to me),” she said in a telephone interview.

“It’s very hard to think about because there’s just so much work going on.

“I think more than anything early on I felt really different (more) because I come from the East Coast and I went to school in New York, and a lot of animators are really California-based.

“More than anything,” she added, “that’s the thing I’ve felt is different about what I’m doing.”

Well, how about the fact that the show’s rambunctious title character (based on Sugar’s reallife brother, Steven) lives with three intergalactic warrior women known as the Crystal Gems, who act as guardians of the universe — surely there’s a certain empowerment at work there?

“This is a tough one,” she responds after a pause.

“The Gems are, first and foremost, these extraordinary fantasy characters.

“It’s hard to even think of them in those terms because they’re not human beings.

“What I like about those characters in the show is that they’re very distilled and exacerbated versions of different parts of myself, and now at this point, different parts of everyone in the crew, because everyone’s a little like one of those characters sometimes.

“I think that really transcends gender completely.

“I hope these characters are relatable to everyone and there is an even playing field in terms of who you can identify with, because that really goes beyond anything like that.”

Indeed, what Sugar is aiming for is univer-

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Steven Universe lives with three intergalactic warrior women known as the Crystal Gems, who act as guardians of the universe. sal appeal, a show that charms men and women, adults and children alike.

It’s a lesson she learned on Adventure Time, an ostensible children’s program that amassed a dedicated adult following for its sprawling mythology and cleverly constructed whimsy.

Sugar was a storyboard artist and writer on 19 episodes of that beloved series, earning two Emmy nominations while crafting some of fans’ most-cherished instalments, including What Was Missing, Incendium and Fionna and Cake.

Steven Universe premieres in Canada on Teletoon this Thursday night, but the first season has already aired Stateside.

Sugar worked furiously to put that set of episodes together while balancing contributions to Adventure Time.

But the lessons she learned on the cult favourite series proved invaluable, particularly in terms of helping to angle her new series at a diverse audience.

“If you’re going to tell a universal story, the first thing you have to do is just look at what you want,” she said.

“What you wanted when you were young, what you want now.

That’s how you make something that everyone can find something in.

It’s so personal and it’s so honest.

“If something’s being written aggressively for a demographic, it’s easy to forget what you want.”

Sugar also wrote 17 songs for Adventure Time and her giddy songwriting has become a strength of her new show, too, though she’s careful to have the characters break into tune sparingly.

Her first instrument was the hammer dulcimer, an instrument so “esoteric” that “nobody has one, so (Sugar) could never show off.”

She tried piano, but “wasn’t super good at it,” and has enjoyed the “idiot-proof” omnichord. But her instrument of choice is the ukulele, portable and “insanely easy to play.”

“I need things that are easy,” she says with a laugh. “I never finish learning any instrument.”

Her brother actually plays the accordion but she chose not to write that skill into his cartoon counterpart.

“I thought it would be too cartoony,” she said with a laugh. “I didn’t think people would believe it.”

Otherwise, her plucky protagonist — perennially sandal-clad with bushy curly locks and a goofy grin plastered on his face — is still largely derived from her younger brother.

The musicians haven’t yet met, but Petty said, “Everybody loves Kanye West, right?”

For 35 years, the Innisfail Town Theater has delighted audiences and to celebrate, they plan 10 shows of Blood Brothers, a play by Willie Russell.

The play tells the story of twins separated at birth. It compares their growth and life paths through nature versus nurture.

The performances start on Thursday with the general performance at the Ol’ Moose Hall in Innisfail, 5103 49th St. Doors open at 6 p.m. with the show starting at 7 p.m.

Tickets to the general show cost $20 and can be

purchased from The Leg Man in Innisfail, at 5036 50th St. or by calling 403227-5966.

A Sunday brunch performance is scheduled for May 4 with doors opening at 12 p.m. and the show starting at 2 p.m.

Tickets to the brunch show cost $40.

The eight other shows, all dinner theatre performances, are scheduled for April 25 and 26, and May 1, 2, 3, 8, 9 and 10.

Doors open 6 p.m. with the show starting at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets to the dinner theatre cost $40.

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FRONT HUNTING HILLS BIKE-A-THON Hunting Hills High School is hosting its second annual 24 hour BikeA-Thon on Thursday.

Fifty teams of students, teachers and community members will take turns riding stationary bikes for 24 hours starting at 2:30 p.m. Closing ceremonies get underway at 3:30 p.m. on Friday. Team members who are waiting their turn to pedal can sleep, eat and participate in a range of activities including a guest speaker, local performers and a hypnotist. The event hopes to raise funds to provide mentoring programs, speakers, wellness grants and other school activities that help promote resiliency, personal growth and well being in students. Each team member must raise $100 to participate. The school is also looking for companies and businesses to sponsor or donate to this event. To sign up to ride the bikes, visit www. huntinghills.rdpsd.ab.ca or call Tania Diletzoy at 403342-6655 ext. 1112.

SPRING GALA SATURDAY Slap those knees with popular comedian, author and radio host Phil Callaway of Three Hills and sway to the music with classically trained vocalist Cindy Palin of Olds on Saturday. The entertainment is part of the Shalom Counselling Centre’s annual Spring Gala. Tickets are $20 and proceeds go towards families and individuals in Central Alberta receiving counselling for emotional and relational challenges.

Doors open at 6 p.m. for a silent auction. The program begins at 7 p.m.

The gala takes place at Balmoral Bible Chapel at 55th Street and Rutherford Drive in Red Deer. For more information and tickets, call 403-342-0339.

I LOVE MAIN STREET EXHIBIT An opening reception for a new exhibit I Love Main Street is set for the Flatiron Museum (5005 50th St.) in Lacombe on Thursday. The reception begins at 6 p.m., following Main Street celebrations at 5. It will feature a silent auction of framed historic photos of Lacombe and Chateau Wines wine tasting. The event is hosted by the Lacombe and District Historical Society. Admission is free.

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Water collects in a holding pond as the snow dump in the Edgar Industrial Area on the north end of Red Deer melts.

Handling the meltdown CITY HAS 3 SITES WHICH MANAGE RUNOFF FROM SNOW STOCKPILED DURING WINTER

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Let it melt, let it melt.

The city’s three snow storage sites have what it takes to handle the thawing from this winter’s record snowfall.

City of Red Deer Public Works manager Greg Sikora said there are no environmental concerns because the two permanent sites and a temporary site were prepared and developed to manage the melt.

“Any runoff or debris is collected within the site and managed within a series of physical weirs, wet ponds and storm treatment facilities that would restrict that transport of sediment floatables or debris into the river,” said Sikora.

Sikora said the drainage from storage areas is typically a pond facility that allows settlement of the sediment. There is also a

storm treatment facility to catch the hydrocarbons, the floatables and the sediment components in the water before it discharges into the storm system to the Red Deer River.

In late January, the city was forced to refuse private contractors access to its snow storage sites because the two permanent sites had reached full capacity.

A temporary snow site was opened on the North Highway Connector road right-of-way in east Red Deer.

The site fit the bill because it was located on an unconstructed road with storm drainage and storm treatments.

Sikora said the temporary site met all the requirements for a storage facility, which is the reason it was chosen out of 50 possible sites.

Sikora said the heat of rain generates the most runoff. On hot days, there is less runoff.

“Rain days are the worst days

that melt the snow,” said Sikora.

“But the strong infrastructure and the containment systems have been sized to contain that discharge rate. The third site was constructed for the purpose of draining the road under one-infive-year peak events. Our snow runoff is less than that.”

November alone was the snowiest month ever recorded by Environment Canada for Red Deer, coming in at 62.5 cm versus a mean average of 16.6 cm for the month.

Just over 20 cm blanketed Red Deer in January, followed by a mere 2.6 cm in February and 29.6 from March 1 to 26 (also above the monthly average of 20.4 cm).

Today’s expected high is 14C, with a low of 4C, in Red Deer.

Rain is in the forecast for late today and Wednesday, and then temperatures will cool for the rest of the week. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

Fire at salon quickly put out

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BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF A fire at a nail salon in Parkland Mall forced people to wait in the parking lot as crews responded and quickly handled the situation.

Shortly after 11 a.m. on Monday morning, three fire trucks and an ambulance were dispatched to the Walmart entrance of Parkland Mall, at 4747 67th St. in Red Deer, after the report of a fire coming from the nail salon.

Alty Kanten and Kailey Wall were getting their nails done together on Monday morning when they noticed smoke.

“All of a sudden there was smoke coming out of the back room,” said Kanten.

“They reacted quite well in there, they hit the power right away, got everybody out, ran for fire extinguishers.

“All of a sudden there was a big racket.”

The mother and daughter left the smoke-filled nail salon in a hurry.

“When they realized they couldn’t put it out, they got everybody out really quick,” said Wall.

“There was lots of smoke, but you couldn’t see any fire.”

Pat Mulrooney, Red Deer Emergency Services platoon chief, said no one was injured as a result of the shortlived fire.

“It was clothing in the dryer that ignited,” said Mulrooney.

“They attempted to put it out with some extinguishers

Calling all gardeners.

The City of Red Deer’s public garden plots will be up for rent at the Cemetery Services at the Alto Reste Cemetery office on Wednesday.

The previous year’s gardeners will be given the opportunity to renew their applications first.

The remaining spaces will be available on a first-come, first-rent basis.

New renters will be allowed to apply from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the site located 3.6 km from 30th Avenue on Hwy 11E. Two plot sizes are available — $26 for a medium (five by 12 metres or six by 10 metres) and $41 for large (10 x 12 metres).

Plots are located at Red Deer College Gardens, Parkside Gardens (off Nash Street behind 52nd Avenue) and Piper Creek Gardens (south of 19th Street on 40th Avenue –medium only).

The preferred payment is cheque and must be made during the application process.

The garden plots will be ready for planting when weather and ground conditions permit.

Once gardens are tilled and plots are staked, gardeners may begin planting. Gardening season ends on Oct. 13.

For more information, contact city Parks Amenities at 403-342-8303.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

City of Red Deer Emergency Services personnel work outside the main doors of the Parkland Mall Walmart as they worked on a Monday morning fire in the nail salon. and when our guys arrived, there was still some fire contained to that dryer.”

Walmart and the rest of the mall was evacuated shortly after the fire trucks arrived on scene.

Smoke from the fire was contained to the front entrance of the Walmart, where there is a photolab and the nail salon, and away from the rest of the mall.

The doors between the

Walmart entrance and the store kept the smoke out of Walmart.

Once the fire was extinguished, fire crews set up a fan to vent the area and remove as much smoke as they could.

Walmart and the rest of Parkland Mall had reopened early Monday afternoon following the fire. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

The globe-trotting African Children’s Choir returns to Red Deer in June to present choruses of spiritual and traditional African songs.

The group, featuring 18 Ugandan children between the ages of nine and 11, will perform at the New Life Fellowship Church on June 6 at 7 p.m.

The program will include beloved children’s songs as well as gospel favourites.

The concert is free and open to the public, hosted in partnership with Kentwood Alliance Church in Red Deer.

Donations are welcome and a free-will offering is taken to support the organization, going towards projects involved in education, care and relief and development.

Started in 1984 by Ray Barnett, who was travelling in the war-torn country of Uganda, the choir is now run by its nonprofit parent organization, Music for Life, and works in seven African countries including Kenya, Sudan, Ghana, Rwanda, Nigeria and South Africa.

Music For Life has educated over 52,000 children and impacted the lives of 100,000 people through its programs. It has gone on to build children’s homes and special literacy schools.

One to three choirs are touring the world at any given time, with some performing at least 200 shows per year.

Members of the African Children’s Choir have performed for Queen Elizabeth II’s diamond jubilee and also sang alongside artists such as Paul McCartney, Mariah Carey and Keith Urban.

Most recently, the choir accompanied South African opera singer Pumeza Matshikiza on some tracks for her debut album.

The choir will also perform in Edmonton, Calgary, Canmore and other spots across Alberta this summer. They are currently singing in Montana.

The church is located at 20 Kelloway Cres. in Red Deer. For more information, visit www.africanchildrenschoir.com.

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Death count in Korean ferry sinking tops 100

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JINDO, South Korea — One by one, coast guard officers carried the newly arrived bodies covered in white sheets from a boat to a tent on the dock of this island, the first step in identifying a sharply rising number of corpses from a South Korean ferry that sank nearly a week ago.

Dozens of police officers in neon green jackets formed a cordon around the dock as the bodies arrived Tuesday. Since divers found a way over the weekend to enter the submerged ferry, the death count has shot up. Official said Tuesday that fatalities had reached 104.

Families, meanwhile, wait in anguish for word of their loved ones, trying to piece together small clues written on a white signboard, before finally getting enough information to make a positive identification.

When Lee Byung-soo saw his 15-year-old son’s body in the tent he knew he was dead, but he wanted so much for him to be alive.

“Stop sleeping!” the truck driver yelled as he hugged Lee Seok-joon. “Why are you sleeping so much? Daddy will save you!”

He pumped his son’s chest and blew into his mouth to try to resuscitate him, “but I could only smell a rotting stench.”

This is the kind of heartbreak that awaits the families of about 200 people still missing from the submerged ferry Sewol, or at least those whose relatives’ bodies are ultimately recovered. Families who once dreamed of miraculous rescues now simply hope their loved ones’ remains are recovered soon, before the ocean does much more damage.

“At first, I was just very sad, but now it’s like an endless wait,” said Woo Dong-suk, a construction worker and uncle of one of the students. “It’s been too long already. The bodies must be decayed. The parents’ only wish right now is to find the bodies before they are badly decomposed.”

After the bodies are pulled from the water, police and doctors look for forms of ID and take notes on the body’s appearance, clothing and any identifying physical marks such as moles, said a Health Ministry official who was helping co-ordinate the effort and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.

Lee Seok-joon arrived as Body No. 41. The official description bore few details: a boy. Mole on forehead. Wearing a pair of Adidas track pants.

The bodies are transported to Jindo island, about an hour’s boat ride away, as rescuers notify families waiting at the port, or at a gymnasium where many are sheltering. Bodies without IDs are described to officials in Jindo who relay the details to the relatives.

Stowaway survives long flight in jet wheel well

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN JOSE, Calif. — A 15-year-old boy found his way onto an airport’s tarmac and climbed into a jetliner’s wheel well, then flew for five freezing hours to Hawaii — a misadventure that forced authorities to take a hard look at the security system that protects the nation’s airline fleet.

The boy, who lives in Santa Clara, California, hopped out of the left rear wheel well of a Boeing 767 on the Maui airport tarmac Sunday, according to the FBI. Authorities found the high school student wandering the airport grounds with no identification. He was questioned by the FBI and taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was found to be unharmed.

FBI spokesman Tom Simon in Honolulu said the teen climbed into the left rear wheel well of the first plane he saw in San Jose.

“He got very lucky that he got to go to Maui but he was not targeting Maui as a destination,” Simon said.

He passed out in the air and didn’t regain consciousness until an hour after the plane landed in Hawaii, Simon said.

When he came to, he climbed out of the wheel well and was immediately seen by airport personnel who escorted him inside where he was interviewed by the FBI, Simon said.

It was not immediately clear how the boy stayed alive in the unpressurized space, where temperatures at cruising altitude can fall well below zero and the air is too thin for humans to stay conscious.

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A Ukrainian soldier stands guard near an armored personnel carrier at Boryspil airport outside Kiev, Ukraine on Monday. U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden on Monday launched a high-profile visit to Ukraine to demonstrate the U.S. commitment to Ukraine and push for urgent implementation of an international agreement aimed at de-escalating tensions even as violence continues.

U.S., Russia trade warnings RUSSIA TOLD IT HAS DAYS, NOT WEEKS TO ABIDE BY ACCORD

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Russia has “days, not weeks” to abide by an international accord aimed at stemming the crisis in Ukraine, the top U.S. diplomat in Kyiv warned Monday as Vice-President Joe Biden launched a high-profile show of support for the proWestern Ukrainian government. Russia in turn accused authorities in Kyiv of flagrantly violating the pact and declared their actions would not stand.

Biden, the highest-ranking American official to visit Ukraine during its conflict with Russia, planned to meet with government officials in the capital of Kyiv today.

The vice-president also planned to announce new technical support to help the fledgling government with energy and economic reforms.

Biden’s trip comes days after the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and Europe signed an agreement in Geneva calling for Moscow to use its influence to get proRussian forces to leave the numerous government buildings they now occupy in cites throughout eastern Ukraine.

The U.S. asserted on Monday that publicly available photographs from Twitter and other media show that some of the troops in eastern Ukraine are Russian special forces, and the U.S. said the photos support its case that Moscow is using its military to stir unrest in Ukraine.

There was no way to immediately verify the photographs, which were either taken from the Internet or given to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe last week by Ukraine diplomats.

In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov re-

jected charges that Moscow was behind the troubles in eastern Ukraine and failing to live up to the Geneva agreement.

“Before putting forth ultimatums to us, demanding fulfilment of something within two-three days or otherwise be threatened with sanctions, we would urgently call on our American partners to fully recognize responsibility for those whom they brought to power and whom they are trying to shield, closing their eyes to the outrages created by this regime and by the fighters on whom this regime leans,” Lavrov told a news conference.

Words and actions by Ukrainian leaders are “absolutely unacceptable,” he declared.

The U.S. has warned that it will quickly order new economic sanctions on Russian officials and entities if Moscow doesn’t follow through on the provisions in last week’s accord. Gregory Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, said it was still too early to tell whether the deal would succeed, but he added, “The ball is really in Moscow’s court in terms of whether they’re going to take this diplomatic off-ramp.”

“There needs to be concrete results,” Pyatt told reporters in Kyiv. He said the U.S. would make a decision on whether the agreement is working in “days, not weeks.”

While last week’s agreement offered a glimmer of hope that the crisis in Ukraine could be resolved peacefully, the accord appears to be fragile at best.

The armed pro-Russia groups have refused to leave their occupying positions in eastern Ukraine until the country’s acting government resigns.

And there was a burst of violence Sunday, with three people killed during a shootout at a checkpoint that was manned by pro-Russian troops.

Settlement of 40-year-old Cyprus conflict is possible this year

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Turkish Cypriot leader said Monday that a settlement of the 40-year-old conflict that divided the Mediterranean island is possible this year.

Dervis Eroglu told reporters after meeting U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that negotiations with Greek Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades on reunifying Cyprus, which resumed in February after a 20-month stalemate, could produce results.

Cyprus was split into a Greek Cypriot south and a Turkish Cypriot north in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by Cypriot supporters of union with Greece. Turkish Cypriots declared an independent state in 1983, but only Turkey recognizes it and keeps 35,000 troops there. Cyprus joined the European Union in 2003, but only the south enjoys membership benefits.

The two sides have been trying to strike an accord for decades, with U.N. support.

Talks resumed in February after the two leaders took a different approach and agreed on a document outlining key provisions of an envisioned federation.

“Our target remains ... the settlement of the Cyprus problem in the shortest possible time,” Eroglu said. “We have the support of the secretary-general in this regard. He has been encouraging the both sides.”

The Turkish Cypriot leader said the current negotiations are aimed at bridging the remaining gaps between the two sides.

“We’ll try to bridge our differences and find a comprehensive settlement in the shortest possible time,” Eroglu said. “we said a settlement is possible within this year. We can finalize a settlement, and take it to ... separate simultaneous referenda, in 2014.”

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TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014

MOM DOESN’T WANT KIDS TO GROW UP WITH IDEA OF HATE We have all heard it, the age old saying, ‘Hate is an ugly word.’ I had never taken much thought to the adage before though, because I too have been guilty of using the word.

The little humans have been bugging me all morning to bring them to the park and by noon I give in. I tell them I will go and have a quick shower (yes, I’m a stayat-home mom and sometimes I don’t shower until noon), make some lunch and then we will go.

After exiting my five-minute heavenly shower I find that Sophie has readied herself for our outing by coloring her entire body head to toe in pink and purple magic markLINDSAY er. She is now running around BROWN the house yelling some sort of gibberish about being a color- ME PLUS THREE ful marker princess.

To Lars’ dismay I run a bath for the girl, putting our park play off a bit longer once again.

It has now been thirty minutes and Sophie’s bath water is ice cold, but she still splashes in it gaily.

“Mom lets go to the park!” Lars’ patience has worn thin and he is now chomping at the bit to hit the road.

“Yes Lars we will go, but I have to get Sophie out of the tub and get her ready, so we will be a bit yet.”

“I want to go now! I hate you Mama.”

As the words cross my five-year-old’s lips I cringe outwardly and explain why that term is unacceptable one to use in our home.

My plea is not heard though over the incessant blaring that now is coming from the bathroom.

I turn my back to Lars and move towards Sophie, who has heard her brothers fit, and in a copycat manner has joined in on his obsession with the word ‘hate’.

I get to the bathroom and the entire floor is covered in water, Sophie looks up to me with a smile and in the sweetest voice one could ever imagine says, “I hate you Mama.”

“Do you even know what that means Sophie!? It hurts Mama’s feelings, and we will not be going to the park if you two keep saying this.”

“It okay- I hate park, I hate swing, I hate Yary (Larsy), I hate Daddy, I hate bathtub….” I hate, I hate, I hate, I hate!

It goes on like this while I yank the girl out of the tub, and pick out a shirt that she obviously hates.

Right through lunch and into the afternoon’s activities I am hearing the word buzz through my mind. I am ready tell the both of them that I hate how they are acting, but I stop myself because that would only fuel the fire.

I would love to tell you that I have resolved the issue and once again all is well in the Brown household.

Unfortunately this is not so, I continue to get the word hurled at me every couple of days.

I have made it clear to the adults in the kids’ life to try not to use this specific language while around my parrots, and for the most part they oblige. It

What we know: Is it truth or perception?

Anecdotal Evidence “There is no truth. There is only perception.”

– Gustave Flaubert, influential French writer and novelist “You’re wrong,” he said. “I see everything clearly.”

“You just told me that the world is a scary place.”

“And I’m right,” he replied. “Just look around you.”

With that statement, he began to list off all the observations that supported his assertion: world conflicts, economic upheaval, loss of jobs, crime rates, fractured families. I was speaking with an acquaintance on the topic of perception versus reality and how each of us sees the world through a particular lens of perception — through a uniquely personal set of filters. My assertion: no matter how unbiased we might attempt to be, our worldview MURRAY is bound to be influenced FUHRER by our past experiences and conditioning, our beliefs, values and expectations.

I went on to explain that I could ask another person about the state of the world and receive a completely different answer.

I’ve had people say to me that the world is finally waking up from a fitful sleep, breaking free from the shackles of old and outmoded ways of thinking and being, challenging the status quo, embracing our commonality rather than our differences.

“And those people would be delusional,” he said.

Sadly, most people have bought into their own viewpoint so completely that they won’t budge even when there’s ample proof to suggest a bigger picture.

Without being consciously aware of it, many of us spend the lion’s share of our day (and life) immersed in our limited perceptions — seeing only what we want to see and experiencing only what we expect to experience.

Perceptions begin to form the moment we’re born when our parents share with us their concept of the world.

In addition, our culture quickly indoctrinates us into believing a variety of apparent truths which most of us buy into without judgment.

Once we develop a thought system of any kind, we tend to live by it and to teach it. But guess what; much of it’s just a big ruse.

Robert B. Cialdini is Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Arizona State University and author of the New York Times best-seller Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion.

According to Cialdini, humans naturally act in a way that is consistent with past actions and beliefs.

The tendency is called congruency, which means we tend to act and perceive things in a manner that is in keeping with our beliefs and values — with what we “know” to be true.

But is it true?

To understand perception, we must first understand a little something about the human mind.

When I took my training in hypnotherapy years ago, I was fascinated by a statistic: the conscious mind is able to process about 2,000 bits of information per second.

Filters in the brain control the flow of information and protect the conscious mind from overload.

In contrast, the unconscious mind is busy processing

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about four billion bits of information per second; thus what we call reality is only one-half of one-tenthousandth of one per cent of what’s out there.

While the subconscious mind is busy taking it all in, the conscious mind is only acutely aware of a tiny portion of it.

To make matters worse, we begin to further filter this limited information.

To put it into perspective, imagine walking into your local Chapters and reading one paragraph of one page of one book and then claiming to know and understand the content of the bookstore.

The truth is we tend to experience what we expect.

Our perceptions are influenced by what we have been conditioned to see.

As thinking beings, we continually try to make sense of our world.

That’s not a bad thing except (without awareness) any piece of information that doesn’t fit with what we know to be true is altered without us even knowing it.

Our mind filters and reinterprets events and, like a traveller packing for a trip, folds, squeezes and bends everything we experience until it finally fits into the tight and tiny suitcase of our limited belief system.

Perceptual filters are a gift when used appropriately.

They filter out the extraneous so that we may focus our attention on the pertinent. Without them, we’d accomplish very little — everyday distractions would overwhelm us.

However, filters that remove the joyous, the remarkable and the possible from our lives distort our worldview and can damage our self-esteem.

Consider the filters that distort your self-image.

What filters are still in place from early programming and painful experiences of the past?

Most people who suffer with poor self-esteem have a set of filters in place that distort everything from their own appearance to their potential for happiness.

If you’re willing to set aside what you know for just 24 hours, I’d like to share with you a simple exercise that just might be life-changing or, if nothing else, perception-changing.

For the next 24 hours you are going to actively look for certain things.

And you’re going to begin with something simple — the colour green. I’d like you to make the following conscious intention: “I hereby intend, for the next day of my life, to look for the colour green.” Nothing special is required. Just keep your eyes open. And then simply notice if your conscious awareness has made a difference in the number of green items you see.

This simple experiment will prove that what you see in life is nothing more than what you look for and expect.

“Some people despair about the darkening direction of the world today,” wrote internationally acclaimed writer, speaker and teacher, Margaret J. Wheatley.

“Others are excited by the possibilities for creativity and new ways of living they see emerging out of the darkness.”

And I’m not suggesting that you become a pessimist or an optimist but rather that your conclusions be based upon the unbiased observations of an open mind combined with a healthy dose of critical thinking. It takes courage to challenge your perceptions.

Give it a try.

Murray Fuhrer is a self-esteem expert and facilitator. His new book is entitled Extreme Esteem: The Four Factors. For more information on self-esteem, check the Extreme Esteem website at www.extremeesteem.ca

CDC officials say a second wave of flu is causing widespread illness in six northeast states

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — A second, milder wave of flu is hitting the Northeast.

Months ago, the flu season seemed to be winding down. But health officials on Friday reported widespread flu-like illnesses in six states. Rhode Island is the latest to join the list which includes Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, New Jersey and New York.

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the flu season started in December and peaked by mid-January, and most of the illnesses were swine flu.

But, as happens some years, there’s a second wave of a milder flu strain.

Online: CDC report: http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/summary.htm

hasn’t helped, so my censorship has been in vain.

I’m still not sure what it is about the word that hits my ear in just the wrong place.

There are plenty of other words out there that I am sure my kids have or soon will be indulging in, not that I will be all too happy about that either; it is just this word, which boils my blood to no end.

I think that the root of this problem is not with the word itself, but what it holds.

I worry that they will grow to be adults who quickly jump to hatred instead of learning all sides of a story.

The individuals who are too lazy or self-involved to delve deeper into real issues, but find that blindly hating can diminish all sorts of problems. I am concerned because hatred can connect with prejudice, and prejudice leads to all kinds of trouble. I worry because the other bad words of life are just that, words….But hate is a feeling, and can easily become a way of life.

And I never want my children to live that type of existence.

But right now, to these two small people, it is only a word.

A word that has a vague connotation with anger.

I will never be able to know what is in store for the future, but I do hope that with love and perseverance we will be able to teach these babes that life will hold much more promise without hate guiding their way.

For hate truly is one of the ugliest words out there.

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

Choice typical of sandwich generation Question: We’re considering taking my elderly mother into our home, rather than placing her in a nursing facility.

This decision is especially difficult because we still have three children living with us. Would this new arrangement impact family dynamics?

Jim: In a big way — and you should be prepared for blessings, as well as challenges.

On the plus side, you’ll have the emotional and practical support of your family as you take on the weighty task of meeting your mother’s needs.

There’s also the potential of realizing a strong sense of family unity and cohesiveness as you share in the caregiving JIM responsibilities.

DALY Then there are the potential benefits for your kids as they experience firsthand the importance of sacrifice and service in the interest of others.

This can become a vital part of their character growth. There’s also the opportunity for them to develop a special relationship with their grandparent.

On the other side, the stability of your family will likely be affected.

With these changes, your children’s social lives will probably be disrupted and their personal freedom may be restricted in some ways. And you and your spouse will at times be caught in between the competing needs of your kids and your mother, while your own needs frequently take a backseat.

This is what people have in mind when they talk about the “sandwich generation.”

There’s obviously a lot here to pray about as you consider the equally legitimate questions of your responsibility to your mom and your family’s wellbeing. In short, there are no simple solutions to the challenges you’ll face if you take her in.

It will involve a delicate balancing act and place you in a position where you will have no choice except to rely on the grace and wisdom of the Lord from one moment to the next. And that’s a good place to be.

Question: My teenagers often go to films that have racy content. My heart tells me that it’s probably not a good thing, but I have nothing more to go on than that. Can you help?

Bob Waliszewski, Director, Plugged In: I recently received an email from a young man who explained how his struggle with lust was linked to his television and movie choices, and not surfing inappropriate Internet sites. He’s not alone.

Hollywood has become a super-teacher to an untold large number of young people. As Tinseltown instills its own brand of sexual “values” via motion pictures, young people are embracing what they’re being taught.

This isn’t simply my opinion; mounting research is saying the same thing.

For instance, two RAND Corp. studies found that teens exposed to sexualized television and music were more likely to become sexually active compared to their peers who had limited exposure.

Researchers at Dartmouth College had similar findings regarding the power of sexualized motion pictures.

I believe that your teenagers already have a tough fight in guarding their hearts and minds without consuming risque media.

Once, after a speaking engagement, a young man came up to me to argue for a film that I had labeled as inappropriate.

His view was that the “art” trumped content. My response was to completely ignore the acting and special effects.

Instead, I asked him if a certain sex scene and another involving nudity had ever caused him to struggle with his thought life. To this day, I’ve never had an answer. The man lowered his head and walked away.

Armed with the research, which is easy to find online, I’d suggest you have a heart-to-heart talk with your teens. It’s never too late to lay down safe boundaries.

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

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LUANN April 22 1991— Brian Mulroney promises a Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs will settle all land claims by the year 2000.

1979 — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones give a benefit concert for the blind in Oshawa, Ont., as part of Richards’ release on drug charges.

1963 — Lester Bowles Pearson is sworn in as Canada’s 14th prime minister. He suc-

ceeds John Diefenbaker, PM since June 21, 1957. Pearson is PM until April 20, 1968.

1945 — Canadian army halts front operations in western Holland due to the need to feed the starving Dutch people, their fields flooded and their barns looted by the retreating Germans.

1915 — Germans release poisonous chlorine (mustard) gas across the fields of Flanders towards French Algerian troops at Ypres, which opens up a 6.5-km gap. The Canadian 13th Battalion stands firm under heavy shelling; many Canadians are gassed.

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Coming back stronger MORE THAN 32,000 TAKE PART IN BOSTON MARATHON A YEAR AFTER DEADLY BOMBING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BOSTON — Some ran to honour the dead and wounded. Others were out to prove something to the world about their sport, the city or their country. And some wanted to prove something to themselves.

With the names of the victims scrawled on their bodies or their race bibs, more than 32,000 people ran in the Boston Marathon on Monday in a powerful show of defiance a year after the deadly bombing.

“We’re marathon runners.

We know how to endure,” said Dennis Murray, a 62-year-old health care administrator from Atlanta who finished just before the explosions last year and came back to run again.

“When they try to take our freedom and our democracy, we come back stronger.”

The two pressure-cooker bombs that went off near the end of the 26.2-mile course last year killed three people and wounded more than 260 in a spectacle of torn limbs, acrid smoke and broken glass.

But the city vowed to return even stronger, and the victory

by Meb Keflezighi — the first American in 31 years to win the men’s race — helped deliver on that promise.

On Twitter, President Barack Obama congratulated Keflezighi and Shalane Flanagan, the top American finisher among the women, “for making American proud!”

“All of today’s runners showed the world the meaning of BostonStrong,” Obama wrote.

The race was held under extraordinary security, including 100 new surveillance cameras, more than 90 bomb-

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Meb Keflezighi, of San Diego, Calif., celebrates his victory in the 118th Boston Marathon Monday, in Boston. sniffing dogs and officers posted on roofs.

As runners continued to drag themselves across the finish line in the late afternoon, more than six hours into the race, state emergency officials reported no security threats

other than some unattended bags.

Kenya’s Rita Jeptoo won the women’s race in a courserecord 2 hours, 18 minutes, 57 seconds, defending the title she won last year but could not celebrate because of the

tragedy.

Keflezighi, who did not run last year because of an injury, won the main event this year in 2:08:37.

A 38-year-old U.S. citizen who emigrated from Eritrea as a boy, Keflezighi wrote the

names of the three dead on his bib along with that of the MIT police officer killed during the manhunt.

As he was presented with the trophy and golden laurel wreath, The Star-Spangled Banner echoed over Boylston Street, where the explosions rang out a year ago.

“I came as a refugee, and the United States gave me hope,” said Keflezighi, who was welcomed by fans chanting “U.S.A.!”

“This is probably the most meaningful victory for an American, because of what happened last year.“ At 2:49 p.m., the time of the first explosion, the crowd at the finish line observed a moment of silence — then broke into some of the loudest cheers of the day, with whooping, clapping and the clanging of cowbells.

This year’s starting field of 32,408 included 600 people who were given special invitations for those who were “profoundly impacted” by the attacks, and almost 5,000 runners who were stopped on the course last year when the bombs went off.

“Today, when I got to that point, I said, ’I have to do some unfinished business,”’ said runner Vicki Schmidt, 52, of Nashville. She added: “You can’t hold us back. You can’t get us down. Boston is magical. This is our place.”

Some of the victims themselves returned for a ceremonial crossing of the finish line.

“It was hard. It was really hard,” said Heather Abbott, who wore a “Boston Strong” sticker on the black prosthesis where her left leg used to be.

“I was really nervous. I didn’t want to fall. ... I’m just glad we made it.”

Blackhawks blank Blues in Game 3

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blackhawks 2 Blues 0 CHICAGO — Corey Crawford was there every time. Slap shots, wristers, backhands and tips, he stopped each one of them.

The Chicago Blackhawks needed a rebound game from their goaltender, and he delivered in a big way.

Crawford made 34 saves in his third career post-season shutout, and the Blackhawks got back into their playoff series with the St. Louis Blues with a 2-0 victory in Game 3 on Monday night.

“I’m just going shot by shot,” Crawford said. “It’s all I could do the whole game was worry about the next one and focus on the next shot and stop that. I don’t want anything else going through my mind through that hockey game.”

Jonathan Toews and Marcus Kruger scored as the defending Stanley Cup champions bounced back after a pair of overtime losses in St. Louis. Toews’ 21st post-season goal was only the second score by a Blackhawks forward in the series.

“Three games in a row. It’s been a very intense series and extremely close,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

Ryan Miller shook off another slow start and finished with 23 saves, but Toews’ shot at 4:10 of the first went through the goaltender’s legs and was the only score for most of the game.

“It’s not a good goal. We’ll leave it at that,” Miller said.

It was quite a turnaround for Craw-

ford, who was upset with his play after Saturday’s 4-3 loss. Barret Jackman’s winning goal in Game 2 went through Crawford, prompting the goaltender to say he had to play better for Chicago to win.

Quenneville met with Crawford on Sunday, and he responded with one of the best games of his career.

“We have a lot of one-on-one meetings throughout the season, but we get ramped up at playoff time,” said Quenneville, a former NHL defenceman.

“I generally stay away from the goalies. We chatted. Basically I was commending him on accepting that responsibility (for the loss).”

Crawford drew chants of “Corey! Co-rey from the capacity crowd at the United Center. He was helped by a sound performance by Duncan Keith and Chicago’s defencemen, who stepped up without the suspended Brent Seabrook.

The Blackhawks killed three St. Louis power plays, while the Blues’ penalty-kill unit went 4 for 4, including a 5-on-3 disadvantage in the second.

“We knew this was going to be a long series, but we really played hard, we really played well,” St. Louis coach Ken Hitchcock said. “We did a lot of the things we needed to do to win the hockey game, but you’ve got to give their goalie credit. He was good, especially late.”

The Blues, who scored tying goals late in regulation in each of the first two games, pulled Miller with 57 seconds left, but the Blackhawks held on.

Kruger stuffed home an empty-netter

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford makes a glove save on a shot by St. Louis Blues centre Steve Ott as Johnny Oduya (27) watches during the first period in Game 3 of a first-round NHL Stanley Cup playoff series game Monday, in Chicago. in the final seconds.

Game 4 is Wednesday night.

Each team was without a key contributor after Seabrook wiped out Blues centre David Backes with a big hit in Game 2. The five-minute major and game misconduct penalty for Seabrook led to Vladimir Tarasenko’s ty-

ing power-play goal with 6.4 seconds left.

Seabrook was suspended for three games by the NHL, putting Sheldon Brookbank in the lineup for the first time in the series. Playing with Keith, Brookbank turned in a solid performance in his 19th career playoff game.

Trio of goals two minutes apart lifts Pens past Jackets

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Penguins 4 Blue Jackets 3 COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Pittsburgh Penguins also have another P-word going for them: patience.

Brandon Sutter, Lee Stempniak and Jussi Jokinen scored in a span of 2:13 of the third period to revive the Penguins from yet another two-goal deficit in a 4-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday night.

Now up 2-1 in the best-of-seven series, the Penguins got off to a horrible start, but took charge in the final two periods.

“It’s not ideal, especially when it’s 2-1 and you fall behind (by two goals) again,” said captain Sidney Crosby.

“Typically, it’s not the way you win hockey games. But it showed a lot of character and a lot of patience.”

A two-goal lead has been poison so far in the series. Columbus also blew a

3-1 lead in Game 1, then the Penguins returned the favour Saturday night.

In each case the opponent scored the final three goals, the Blue Jackets taking their first playoff victory in doubleovertime just 48 hours earlier in Pittsburgh.

All three games have ended 4-3.

“Anytime a team gets a lead they find a way to give it up,” Sutter said.

Game 4 is Wednesday night here.

Down 2-0 early and then 3-1 in the third, the veteran Penguins scored on three consecutive shots.

Coach Dan Bylsma called a timeout after goals by Boone Jenner and Jack Johnson staked the Blue Jackets to a 2-0 lead 3:18 in before a raucous, overflow crowd of 19,148. The Penguins collected themselves and then collected another comeback win.

“We needed to reset,” Bylsma said.

The surge began with less than 2 seconds left in the second period when Brooks Orpik rifled a hard wrister

past Columbus goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, making it 2-1.

Just over a minute into the third period, the Blue Jackets pushed the lead back to two goals. Brandon Dubinsky, who had two assists, spun and fired a backhander that hit the glove of teammate Cam Atkinson and beat a surprised Marc-Andre Fleury.

Fleury slammed the door after that.

“I took it one shot at a time, tried to keep within the game,” he said. “Just make the next save.”

His high-powered offence did the rest. The Penguins found their game, dominating with a 41-20 advantage in shots on goal and controlling the pace.

Paul Martin’s shot from the point was redirected by Sutter. Just 1:10 later, Stempniak took a short pass from Kris Letang and waded in from the right wing, beating Bobrovsky.

“A lot of guys here have won and been on long runs,” said Stempniak.

“They kept their belief. I think every-

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body just fed off of that. We generated a lot of shots and had a lot of opportunities. It was good to just keep going with it.”

Then Jokinen redirected Olli Maatta’s shot from the point and it glanced in off Columbus defenceman James Wisniewski, thoroughly deflating a crowd waiting to celebrate an historic win.

“We played well,” Maatta said. “At the end, it was a couple of bounces.”

Columbus’ last best chance came with 30 seconds left when Fleury made a blocker save on Ryan Johansen’s hard shot.

“They’ve got a good team over there,” said Dubinsky, who had two assists for the Blue Jackets, matching Martin and Beau Bennett of the Penguins.

“We just have to find a way to rebound and be resilient. We have been all year long, so I’m confident in this group.”

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WHL PLAYOFFS Round 3 Edmonton vs Medicine Hat (Edmonton leads series 2-0) Friday, Apr. 18 Edmonton 8 Medicine Hat 3 Sunday, Apr. 20 Edmonton 3 Medicine Hat 1 Tuesday, Apr. 22 Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 23 Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Apr. 26 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Monday, Apr. 28 x-Edmonton at Medicine Hat, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 29 x-Medicine Hat at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Western Hockey League Playoff Leaders CALGARY — Western Hockey League playoff statistics (through April 21): SCORING G A Pts Sam Reinhart, Koo 6 17 23 Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por 12 10 22 Trevor Cox, MH 8 14 22 Brendan Leipsic, Por 9 12 21 Curtis Valk, MH 12 8 20 Jaedon Descheneau, Koo 10 10 20 Cole Sanford, MH 8 12 20 Derrick Pouliot, Por 4 16 20 Taylor Leier, Por 4 12 16 Jagger Dirk, Koo 4 12 16 Nick Merkley, Kel 3 13 16

L 1 4 7 2 2

Stars 3, Ducks 0 First Period 1. Dallas, Benn 2 (Horcoff, Daley) 19:25.

Penalties — Allen Ana (high-sticking) 9:43, Benn Dal (hooking) 17:15.

Second Period 2. Dallas, Nichushkin 1 (Seguin, Sceviour) 17:15.

Penalties — Goligoski Dal (high-sticking) 1:41, Lovejoy Ana (hooking) 6:12, Mueller Dal (interference) 14:43, Getzlaf Ana (roughing) 18:14, Roussel Dal (roughing) 18:14, Perry Ana (holding) 19:29, Daley Dal (slashing) 19:29.

Third Period 3. Dallas, Garbutt 2 (Eakin, Roussel) 7:52.

Penalties — Connauton Dal (cross-checking) 9:23, Allen Ana (interference) 11:49, Fiddler Dal (roughing) 14:27, Perreault Ana (slashing) 14:27, SmithPelly Ana (misconduct) 14:27, Nemeth Dal (misconduct) 14:27, Maroon Ana (misconduct) 14:48.

Shots on goal Anaheim 13 17 7 — 37 Dallas 9 6 7 — 22 Goal — Anaheim: Andersen (L, 2-1-0); Dallas: Lehtonen (W, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Anaheim: 0-6; Dallas: 0-3.

St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (St. Louis leads series 2-1) Thursday, April 17 St. Louis 4 Chicago 3, 3OT Saturday, April 19 St. Louis 4 Chicago 3, OT Monday, April 21 Chicago 2 St. Louis 0 Wednesday, April 23 St. Louis at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25 Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 x-St. Louis at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Kelowna vs Portland (Series tied 1-1) Friday, Apr. 18 Kelowna 5 Portland 4 Saturday, Apr. 19 Portland 5 Kelowna 3 Tuesday, Apr. 22 Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 23 Kelowna at Portland, 8 p.m.

Friday, Apr. 25 Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Sunday, Apr. 27 x-Kelowna at Portland, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Apr. 29 x-Portland at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary.

GOALTENDING (Minimum 60 minutes played) W Tristan Jarry, Edm 10 Eetu Laurikainen, SC 2 Marek Langhamer, MH 8 Brendan Burke, Por 8 Jordon Cooke, Kel 9

Third Period 2. Chicago, Kruger 1 (Saad, Handzus) 19:40 (en).

Penalties — Kruger Chi (holding) 2:34.

Shots on goal St. Louis 15 8 11 — 34 Chicago 7 11 7 — 25 Goal — St. Louis: Miller (L, 2-1-0); Chicago: Crawford (W, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)St. Louis: 0-3; Chicago: 0-4.

Central Division Colorado (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Colorado leads series 2-1) Thursday, April 17 Colorado 5 Minnesota 4, OT Saturday, April 19t Colorado 4 Minnesota 2 Monday, April 21 Minnesota 1 Colorado 0, OT Thursday, April 24 Colorado at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

GAA 1.82 2.17 2.22 2.52 2.73

SO 2 0 0 1 0

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston (1) vs. Detroit (WC) (Series tied 1-1) Friday, April 18 Detroit 1 Boston 0 Sunday, April 20 Boston 4 Detroit 1 Tuesday, April 22 Boston at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 Boston at Detroit, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 26 Detroit at Boston, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Montreal (3) (Montreal leads series 3-0) Wednesday, April 16 Montreal 5 Tampa Bay 4, OT Friday, April 18t Montreal 4 Tampa Bay 1 Sunday, April 20t Montreal 3 Tampa Bay 2 Tuesday, April 22 Tampa Bay at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 x-Montreal at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m.

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Dallas (WC) (Anaheim leads series 2-1) Wednesday, April 16 Anaheim 4 Dallas 3 Friday, April 18 Anaheim 3 Dallas 2 Monday, April 21 Anaheim 0, Dallas 3 Wednesday, April 23 Anaheim at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 25 x-Dallas at Anaheim, 8:30 p.m.

Telus Cup Canadian Midget Championship At Moose Jaw, Sask.

San Jose (2) vs. Los Angeles (3) (San Jose leads series 2-0) Thursday, April 17 San Jose 6 Los Angeles 3 Sunday, April 20t San Jose 7 Los Angeles 2 Tuesday, April 22 San Jose at Los Angeles, 8 p.m.

Thursday, April 24 San Jose at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m. x — if necessary.

PRELIMINARY ROUND W L T GF GA Prince Albert 1 0 0 4 1 Chateauguay 0 0 1 3 3 Okanagan 0 0 1 3 3 Halifax 0 0 1 2 2 Moose Jaw 0 0 1 2 2 Toronto 0 1 0 1 4 Note: Two points for a win, one for a tie.

Monday’s summaries Penguins 4, Blue Jackets 3 First Period 1. Columbus, Jenner 1 (Skille, Johansen) 1:38.

2. Columbus, Johnson 3 (Dubinsky, Savard) 3:18.

Penalties — Savard Clb (hooking) 4:21, Anisimov Clb (delay of game) 15:40, Johansen Clb (holding) 18:08.

Second Period 3. Pittsburgh, Orpik 1 (Bennett, Martin) 19:58.

Penalties — Jenner Clb (goaltender interference) 1:57, Niskanen Pgh (cross-checking) 4:59, Scuderi Pgh (interference) 8:51, Foligno Clb (unsportsmanlike conduct) 15:17, Neal Pgh (boarding) 15:43.

Third Period 4. Columbus, Atkinson 1 (Dubinsky, Calvert) 1:04.

5. Pittsburgh, Sutter 2 (Martin, Bennett) 5:53.

6. Pittsburgh, Stempniak 1 (Kunitz, Crosby) 7:03.

7. Pittsburgh, Jokinen 2 (Maatta, Malkin) 8:06.

Penalties — Letang Pgh (hooking) 12:53, Wisniewski Clb (slashing) 16:02.

Shots on goal Pittsburgh 16 10 15 — 41 Columbus 7 8 5 — 20 Goal — Pittsburgh: Fleury (W, 2-1-0); Columbus: Bobrovsky (L, 1-2-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Pittsburgh: 0-6; Columbus: 0-4.

Wild 1, Avalanche 0 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Malone Col (roughing) 2:07, Stoner Minn (roughing) 2:07, Holden Col (slashing) 7:19, Cooke Minn (high-sticking) 7:19, Coyle Minn (roughing) 9:57, Benoit Col (holding) 18:29, Talbot Col (roughing) 18:29, Stoner Minn (roughing) 18:29, Prosser Minn (roughing) 18:29.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Cooke Minn (kneeing) 2:02, Talbot Col (slashing) 5:09, Niederreiter Minn (slashing) 11:36, Parise Minn (high-sticking) 14:45, Guenin Col (interference) 17:19.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Parenteau Col (hooking) 9:35.

Overtime 1. Minnesota, Granlund 1 (Pominville, Parise) 5:08.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Colorado 8 7 5 2 — 22 Minnesota 22 9 13 2 — 46 Goal — Colorado: Varlamov (LO, 2-1-0); Minnesota: Kuemper (W, 1-0-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)Colorado: 0-4; Minnesota: 0-3.

Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh (1) vs. Columbus (WC) (Pittsburgh leads series 2-1) Wednesday, April 16 Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3 Saturday, April 19 Columbus 4 Pittsburgh 3, 2OT Monday, April 21t Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3 Wednesday, April 23 Pittsburgh at Columbus, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers (2) vs. Philadelphia (3) (Series tied 1-1) Thursday, April 17 NY Rangers 4 Philadelphia 1 Sunday, April 20t Philadelphia 4 NY Rangers 2 Tuesday, April 22 NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Friday, April 25 NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 27 Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 10 a.m.

Blackhawks 2, Blues 0 First Period 1. Chicago, Toews 1 (Keith, Brookbank) 4:10.

Penalties — Shaw Chi (interference) 12:35, Bickell Chi (hooking) 18:16.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Lapierre StL (boarding) 7:10, Polak StL (cross-checking) 9:20, Bench StL (too many men) 16:57, Steen StL (hooking) 18:20.

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Pts 2 1 1 1 1 0

Monday’s results Chateauguay 3 Okanagan 3 Halifax 2 Moose Jaw 2 Prince Albert 4 Toronto 1 Tuesday’s games Prince Albert vs. Chateauguay, noon Toronto vs. Halifax, 4 p.m.

Moose Jaw vs. Okanagan, 7:30 p.m.

Friday ● Senior women’s lacrosse: Capital Region Saints at Red Deer Rage, 9 p.m., Kinex.

Pass Ravens at Olds Stingers, 2:30 p.m. ● Senior C lacrosse: Edmonton/Spruce Grove Tomahawks at Blackfalds Silverbacks, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday

Saturday

● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lacoka Locos at Innisfail Yetti, 3:30 p.m,

● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Crowsnest

Basketball WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 1, Dallas 0 Sunday, April 20: San Antonio 90, Dallas 85 Wednesday, April 23: Dallas at San Antonio, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 26: San Antonio at Dallas, 2:30 p.m.

Monday, April 28: San Antonio at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 1, Indiana 0 Saturday, April 19: Atlanta 101, Indiana 93 Tuesday, April 22: Atlanta at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Thursday, April 24: Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 26: Indiana at Atlanta, noon x-Monday, April 28: Atlanta at Indiana, 6 p.m. x-Thursday, May 1: Indiana at Atlanta, TBD x-Saturday, May 3: Atlanta at Indiana, TBD Miami 1, Charlotte 0 Sunday, April 20: Miami 99, Charlotte 88 Wednesday, April 23: Charlotte at Miami, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 26: Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 28: Miami at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Brooklyn 1, Toronto 0 Saturday, April 19: Brooklyn 94, Toronto 87 Tuesday, April 22: Brooklyn at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25: Toronto at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Sunday, April 27: Toronto at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

Washington 1, Chicago 0 Sunday, April 20: Washington 102, Chicago 93 Tuesday, April 22: Washington at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25: Chicago at Washington, 6 p.m.

Sunday, April 27: Chicago at Washington, 11 a.m. x-Tuesday, April 29: Washington at Chicago, 5 or 6 p.m.

Oklahoma City 1, Memphis 1 Saturday, April 19: Oklahoma City 100, Memphis 86 Monday, April 21: Memphis 111, Oklahoma City 105, OT Thursday, April 24: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 26: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 29: Memphis at Oklahoma City, 6, 7 or 7:30 p.m.

Golden State 1, L.A. Clippers 0 Saturday, April 19: Golden State 109, L.A. Clippers 105 Monday, April 21: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday, April 24: L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 27: L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 1:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 29: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Portland 1, Houston 0 Sunday, April 20: Portland 122, Houston 120, OT Wednesday, April 23: Portland at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, April 25: Houston at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 27: Houston at Portland, 7:30 p.m.

Transactions

Wednesday’s games Halifax vs. Chateauguay, noon Okanagan vs. Prince Albert, 4 p.m.

Toronto vs. Moose Jaw, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Sports Transactions

Thursday’s games Okanagan vs. Halifax, noon Chateauguay vs. Toronto, 4 p.m.

Moose Jaw vs. Prince Albert, 7:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Okanagan vs. Toronto, 9:30 a.m.

Halifax vs. Prince Albert, 1 p.m.

Chateauguay vs. Moose Jaw, 4:30 p.m.

End of Preliminary Round Competing Teams Grenadiers de Chateauguay (Quebec) Halifax McDonald’s (Nova Scotia) Moose Jaw Generals (host) Okanagan Rockets (B.C.) Prince Albert Mintos (Saskatchewan) Toronto Young Nationals (Ontario) Esso Cup Canadian Women’s Championship At Stoney Creek, Ont. PRELIMINARY ROUND W OW OL L GF GA Pts Stoney Creek 2 0 0 0 11 1 6 Weyburn 2 0 0 0 6 3 6 Sudbury 1 0 0 1 6 3 3 Edmonton 1 0 0 1 3 4 3 Fraser Valley 0 0 0 2 0 4 0 Moncton 0 0 0 2 2 13 0 Note: Three points for a regulation win, two for an overtime/shootout win and one for an overtime/ shootout loss.

Monday’s results Stoney Creek 3 Fraser Valley (B.C.) 0 Sudbury (Ont.) 5 Moncton (N.B.) 1 Weyburn (Sask.) 4 Edmonton 2 Tuesday’s games Moncton (N.B.) vs. Edmonton, 10 a.m.

Fraser Valley (B.C.) vs. Weyburn (Sask.), 1:30 p.m.

Sudbury (Ont.) vs. Stoney Creek, 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Fraser Valley (B.C.) vs. Moncton (N.B.), 10 a.m.

Edmonton vs. Sudbury (Ont.), 1:30 p.m.

Stoney Creek vs. Weyburn (Sask.), 5 p.m.

Thursday’s games Fraser Valley (B.C.) vs. Sudbury (Ont.), 10 a.m.

Moncton (N.B.) vs. Weyburn (Sask.), 1:30 p.m.

Edmonton vs. Stoney Creek (Ont.), 5 p.m.

End of preliminary round

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Sent 3B Will Middlebrooks to Pawtucket (IL) for a rehab assignment.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP Blake Wood to Columbus (IL). Reinstated DH Jason Giambi from the 15-day DL. DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Luke Putkonen on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Saturday.

Selected the contract of OF J.D. Martinez from Toledo (IL). Transferred OF Andy Dirks to the 60day DL. HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed RHP Scott Feldman on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 18.

Recalled RHP Collin McHugh from Oklahoma City (PCL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Optioned RHP Josh Wall from Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled LHP Nick Maronde from Salt Lake.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Bryan Mitchell to Trenton (EL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Claimed INF Andy Parrino off waivers from Texas and optioned him to Sacramento (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned LHP C.J. Riefenhauser to Durham (IL). Reinstated RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo from the 15-day DL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Sent RHP Jake Arrieta to Daytona (FSL) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Placed OF Michael Cuddyer on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 18.

Recalled INF Charlie Culberson from Colorado Springs.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Jose Dominguez from Albuquerque (PCL). Optioned INF-OF Chone Figgins to Albuquerque.

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent 2B Rafael Furcal to Jacksonville (SL) for a rehab assignment.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned RHP Rob Wooten to Nashville (PCL). Recalled RHP Alfredo Figaro from Nashville.

NEW YORK METS — Selected the contract of OF Bobby Abreu from Las Vegas (PCL). Optioned OF Andrew Brown to Las Vegas.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed LHP Wandy Rodriguez on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Jared Hughes from Indianapolis (IL).

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned RHP Jorge Rondon to Memphis (PCL). Recalled LHP Tyler Lyons from Memphis. Named Craig Unger general manager of Memphis and Ben Weiss senior advisor.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Toronto general manager Masai Ujiri $25,000 for using obscene language in a public setting.

MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Announced the retirement of coach Rick Adelman.

NEW YORK KNICKS — Fired coach Mike Woodson and assistant coaches Jim Todd, Darrell Walker and Herb Williams.

UTAH JAZZ — Announced coach Tyrone Corbin will not be offered a new contract.

FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed WR Josh Morgan to a one-year contract.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Exercised a 2015 contract option for WR A.J. Green.

DETROIT LIONS — Named Kevin Bastin trainer. Signed CBs Aaron Hester and Nate Ness.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed CB Josh Gordy to his qualifying offer. Placed C Phil Costa on the reserve/retired list. Agreed to terms with S Colt Anderson.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Named Joe Cicini head of security, Dan Caspersen head of human resources and announced Brandon Shore will work in human resources for the team’s training facility.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed QB Josh Freeman.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Announced S Brandian Ross signed his exclusive rights tender. Acquired a 2014 seventh-round draft pick from Seattle for QB Terrelle Pryor.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed CB Stephon Morris and WR Jason Barnes.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled Fs Alex Broadhurst, Terry Broadhurst, Phillip Danault, Ryan Hartman, Drew LeBlanc, Brad Mills, Brandon Mashinter, Mark McNeill and Garret Ross, Ds Mathieu Brisebois, Adam Clendening and Brian Connelly, and G Kent Simpson from Rockford (AHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Named Bill Scott assistant general manager.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Agreed to terms with F Connor Brickley on an entry-level contract.

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Assigned F Linden Vey to Manchester (AHL).

American Hockey League MANCHESTER MONARCHS — Released D Ben Danford from his amateur tryout agreement.

ECHL ECHL — Suspended Ontario F Jeremy Yablonski indefinitely and fined him an undisclosed amount.

SOCCER National Premier Soccer League PENSACOLA CITY FC — Named Gary Hindley coach and Don Maples assistant coach/goalkeeper coach and director of camps, clinics and personal appearances.

Baseball

Detroit Chicago Kansas City Minnesota Cleveland Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston

GB — 1 1 1/2 2 2 1/2 GB — 1 1 1 1 1/2 GB — 2 1/2 4 1/2 6 8 1/2

Sunday’s Games Cleveland 6, Toronto 4 Detroit 2, L.A. Angels 1 Miami 3, Seattle 2 N.Y. Yankees 5, Tampa Bay 1, 12 innings Minnesota 8, Kansas City 3 Chicago White Sox 16, Texas 2 Oakland 4, Houston 1 Boston 6, Baltimore 5

New York Miami Philadelphia

Monday’s Games Baltimore 7, Boston 6 Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3 L.A. Angels 4, Washington 2 Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit 1 Texas at Oakland, late Houston at Seattle, late Tuesday’s Games Kansas City (Shields 1-2) at Cleveland (Salazar 0-2), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-0) at Washington (Jordan 0-2), 5:05 p.m.

Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 1-1) at Toronto (Dickey 1-3), 5:07 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Leesman 0-0) at Detroit (Verlander 2-1), 5:08 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Price 2-1), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 2-0) at Boston (Lester 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 0-0) at Oakland (Milone 0-1), 8:05 p.m.

Houston (McHugh 0-0) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 1-2), 8:10 p.m.

Atlanta Washington

National League East Division W L Pct 13 6 .684 11 9 .550

GB — 2 1/2

Golf

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Colorado San Diego Arizona

10 9 .526 9 11 .450 8 10 .444 Central Division W L Pct 15 5 .750 11 9 .550 9 11 .450 8 11 .421 6 12 .333 West Division W L Pct 12 7 .632 11 9 .550 11 10 .524 9 11 .450 5 17 .227

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 3, 14 innings Miami 3, Seattle 2 Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 2, 14 innings Washington 3, St. Louis 2 Cincinnati 8, Chicago Cubs 2 L.A. Dodgers 4, Arizona 1 Philadelphia 10, Colorado 9 San Francisco 4, San Diego 3 Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 5 L.A. Angels 4, Washington 2 Atlanta 4, Miami 2, 10 innings

3 4 1/2 4 1/2 GB — 4 6 6 1/2 8 GB — 1 1/2 2 3 1/2 8 1/2

Pierzynski. W—W.Chen 3-1. L—Buchholz 0-2. Sv— Tom.Hunter (5).HRs—Boston,D.Ross (1),Napoli (4).

N.Y. Mets 2, St. Louis 0 Chicago Cubs 5, Arizona 1 Milwaukee 4, San Diego 3 Colorado 8, San Francisco 2 Philadelphia at L.A. Dodgers, late Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati (Cueto 1-2) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 1-0), 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Skaggs 1-0) at Washington (Jordan 0-2), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Fernandez 2-1) at Atlanta (A.Wood 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 3-1) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 1-0), 5:10 p.m.

Arizona (McCarthy 0-3) at Chicago Cubs (Hammel 2-1), 6:05 p.m.

San Diego (Kennedy 1-3) at Milwaukee (Gallardo 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

San Francisco (Bumgarner 2-1) at Colorado (Morales 1-1), 6:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Burnett 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 3-1), 8:10 p.m.

Kan. City 000 030 000 — 3 6 0 Cleveland 000 202 00x — 4 11 3 Guthrie, K.Herrera (7) and S.Perez; McAllister, Rzepczynski (7), Allen (8), Axford (9) and Y.Gomes.

W—McAllister 3-0. L—Guthrie 2-1. Sv—Axford (7).

HRs—Cleveland, Brantley (4), Kipnis (3).

Chicago 000 000 300 — 3 5 0 Detroit 010 000 000 — 1 9 2 Joh.Danks, Belisario (7), Lindstrom (9) and Nieto, Flowers; A.Sanchez, Krol (7), E.Reed (8), J.Miller (9) and Avila. W—Joh.Danks 2-0. L—A.Sanchez 0-2. Sv—Lindstrom (2).

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Wild fend off Avalanche

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Habs credit balanced attack for 3-0 series lead over Lightning Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Minnesota Wild centre Mikael Granlund shoots the puck around Colorado Avalanche defenceman Erik Johnson and Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov to score the game-winning goal during overtime of Game 3 of an NHL first-round playoff series in St. Paul, Minn., Monday.

Darcy Kuemper made 22 saves, and the Wild goalie in his first career playoff start was just as good as Varlamov. He said he had a feeling this would be another onegoal game.

“I just tried to stick with it and make the saves I had to,” Kuemper said. “My teammates were obviously playing unbelievable and making it easy on me. I was just trying to do my job and stay sharp.”

After the Avalanche line of Nathan MacKinnon, Paul Stastny and Gabe Landeskog combined for 17 points and seven goals over the first two games, the Wild kept them from doing any damage. The Wild shuffled their lines, with veteran Dany Heatley’s move off the scratch list the most notable change, and played their style.

They didn’t get enough guys to the net for long rebounds Varlamov has a tendency to produce, but they completely controlled the flow, even if there wasn’t much to show for it.

“We were a little on our heels.

We could’ve been a little bit better, played a little more simple,” MacKinnon said.

After wasting a 4-2 lead in Game 1, giving up the tying goal with 13 seconds left to Stastny, as well as the overtime winner, the Wild badly needed to recapture some energy.

They did from the opening faceoff, firing up a crowd that’s been waiting 11 years for a playoff series victory.

The Wild finally figured out how to contain the super-fast MacKinnon, forcing the 18-yearold wonder to have to stay in his own zone. They had the Avalanche on their heels for the majority of regulation. Cooke was all over the ice in his 100th career playoff game, colliding with just about every white Colorado jersey.

“We didn’t play up to what we’re capable of, there’s no doubt.

But I’d rather give them credit.

They played well. They were sharp. They were the better team on the ice,” Roy said, adding yet more praise for Varlamov.

Stars shine bright at home with shutout win over Ducks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Stars 3 Ducks 0 DALLAS — Kari Lehtonen had 37 saves, with some tremendous stops, for his first career postseason victory, and the Dallas Stars beat Anaheim 3-0 Monday night in their first home playoff game in six years.

Dallas captain Jamie Benn skated out of the penalty box to score late in the first period, and 19-yearold rookie Valeri Nichushkin added a goal for the Stars in Game 3 of the best-of-seven series. The top-seeded Ducks won each of the first two games at home, both one-goal results.

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Lehtonen, who held up through five Anaheim power plays, had a kick save near the end of one of those in the final minute of the first period. That came right before Benn came out of the penalty box and skated toward the other end for the winning goal.

Trevor Daley, the only Stars player left from their last playoff team in 2008, passed to Shawn Horcoff, who shot. The ricochet was knocked into the net by Benn with 35 seconds left in the first period.

It had been 2,162 days since the Stars last hosted a playoff game, May 19, 2008, a 4-1 loss to Detroit in the clinching Game 6 of the Western Conference finals.

This one ended with “Kari! Kari” chants.

Lehtonen had been 0-4 in the playoffs, including two losses with Atlanta in 2007, with a 4.58 goalsagainst average and .858 save percentage.

Moon back to lead Midget AAA Braves for 2014 season MINOR BASEBALL Cam Moon returns as head coach of the Carstar ProCollision Braves midget AAA baseball team for the 2014 season.

Moon and his 16-man roster opens play Sunday with a doubleheader in Strathmore. Their home opener is April 30 against the Calgary Red Birds Black at 6:30 p.m. at Great Chief Park.

Dwayne Lalor returns as head coach of the Servus Credit Union bantam AAA Braves while Chuck Blackburn is the head coach of the peewee AA DQ Braves.

Darcey Steeves will coach the Dick’s Auto mosquito AA team 1 while Collin Berglund will handle coaching duties with the Gord’s First Line mosquito AA team 2.

Kathy Lalor will be on the bench for the peewee AA North Star Braves with Cam Junck handling the Boston Pizza bantam AA squad and Kurt Simon the midget AA team.

A new feature on the local baseball calendar this year is the Red Deer Minor Baseball Association AAA tournament July 4-6 at Great Chief Park. The tournament will include teams in the mosquito AA and peewee, bantam and midget AAA divisions. ● The Red Deer Rage Fastball Association sees Murray Phillips the head coach of the U18 midget program with Darcy Marshall handling the U16 bantam A team, Carter Gibson the B squad and Terry Nieth the C team.

Clayton Cassidy is coaching the U14 peewee A team with Rob Glover coaching the B team and Todd Darcy and Richard Smalley the C teams. Jeff Kelley will coach the U12 squirt team with Larry Lowe directing the B team and Patrick Feser and Lee Booth the C teams. Dan Kusk will coach the U10 mite team and Jeff Zinken the B team.

Benn had been penalized for hooking right after Daley was having words with Anaheim captain Ryan Getzlaf. The back-and-forth with Daley and Getzlaf carried into the second period, and they had to be separated in the opening minute — just before an eerie replay for Ducks defenceman Stephane Robidas when he broke his right leg again.

Robidas had to be helped off the ice after his leg bent awkwardly when a sliding Ryan Garbutt of Dallas undercut him. The team said the latest fracture was just above the one he sustained Nov. 29 while with Dallas. He didn’t play again until being traded to Anaheim last month.

Fans cheered for the 37-year-old Robidas, chanting “Robi, Robi!” as he left the ice before being transported to a hospital.

Nichushkin, 19, took a pass from Tyler Seguin late in the second period and scored on a one-timer from the top of the right circle through the legs of Frederik Andersen, the rookie goalie who stopped 66 of 71 shots in Anaheim.

Garbutt added a goal in the third period.

It was a frustrating night all around for the Ducks, and their dynamic scoring duo of Getzlaf and Corey Perry. Late in the second period, Getzlaf and Perry were exchanging punches with different Dallas players during the same stoppage in play.

Antoine Roussel delivered a roundhouse left to Getzlaf, who had already thrown a punch and was wearing a half-visor to protect the stitches from taking a puck to the face in Game 1. Meanwhile, Stars defenceman Alex Goligoski and Perry were going at it.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — When Lars Eller and Rene Bourque are outscoring anyone on the top line, you know that something is going right for the Montreal Canadiens.

But it took until the playoffs for the Canadiens to find the balanced attack they have sought all season.

Getting offensive production from all four forward lines has helped them win the opening three games of their first-round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

They can sweep the best-of-seven series with a win on Tuesday night at the Bell Centre.

“That’s a big strength,” Eller said Monday. “I can’t stress how important it is to have everybody involved, everybody contributing.”

Players who underachieved on attack all season, notably Eller and Bourque, have found new life in the post-season. It has helped the normally low-scoring Canadiens average four goals per game against the Bolts, who are missing top goaltender Ben Bishop to an arm injury.

Bourque, a two-time 27-goal scorer who had a dreadful campaign of only nine goals, has three in as many games in the playoffs while playing left wing with centre Eller and right-winger Brian Gionta.

Eller, who had 12 goals in 77 games including stretch of 24 games with only one assist, has two goals and shares the team scoring lead with four points with Brendan Gallagher and defenceman P.K. Subban.

The Eller line has produced five goals, one more than Gallagher’s unit with Tomas Plekanec and Brandon Prust.

The top line of David Desharnais, Max Pacioretty and Thomas Vanek has scored only twice, but has combined for 29 shots in three games.

The fourth line of Daniel Briere with Michael Bournival and Dale Weise has only one goal, but it was a big one as Weise scored in overtime in Game 1.

“Right now we have momentum and we’re riding that wave,” said Eller. “We knew depth was going to be important and I think a big part of why we’re having success is we have all four lines contributing in one way or another.

“I guess the playoffs are just bringing out the best in all of us.”

The Lightning are aware they have dug themselves a deep hole.

Only three teams have ever come back from a three-game deficit to win an NHL playoff series, most recently the Philadelphia Flyers against Boston in the second round in 2010. The Canadiens are 31-0 when holding a 3-0 lead.

Tampa Bay had its best outing in Game 3 on Sunday night, but dropped a 3-2 decision. They thought they had a 2-1 lead in the second period, but Ryan Callahan’s goal was waived off due to Alex Killorn’s incidental contact on goalie Carey Price.

“That was obviously a tough one to swallow,” said Lightning star Steven Stamkos. “A couple of calls didn’t go our way.

“We can’t dwell on it now. We realize the situation we’re in. We just have to win one game. Our backs are against the wall. I’m pretty sure you’re going to see a good effort from us. That’s our motto right now: Just win one, then let’s go back home and see what happens.”

Some wondered if Stamkos would be fit to play after taking an accidental knee to the head from Canadiens defenceman Alexei Emelin late in the second period. He returned for the third, but admitted later he took a major whack to the head.

“I feel pretty good so, yeah, I’m expecting to play,” he said. “I got tangled up with Prust there and slid in. I don’t think Emelin saw me and I got a pretty good knee to the head. Now that I saw it, I don’t think there was any intention or anything.”

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Wild 1 Avalanche 0 OT ST. PAUL, Minn. — For three periods, Mikael Granlund and the Minnesota Wild were flinging puck after puck at Semyon Varlamov, who was busy playing the part of impenetrable force.

Finally, in overtime, such persistence produced a reward.

Granlund’s diving goal 5:08 into overtime gave the Wild a 1-0 win over Varlamov and the Colorado Avalanche in Game 3 on Monday night to pull within 2-1 in the bestof-seven series.

Semyon Varlamov stopped 45 of 46 shots, a franchise playoff record for shots on goal by the Wild.

“It felt like we were taking it to ’em pretty good, so to not get frustrated at that point, not start to drift and get away from our game, that’s what good teams do,” a proud Wild coach Mike Yeo said.

Granlund, who had a careerhigh seven shots on goal, sliced toward the crease and moved parallel to the net with some slick stick work. Avalanche defenceman Erik Johnson, who saved Game 1 by racing to swat away a shot on an empty net, lost his balance and tried unsuccessfully to dive at Granlund, who then began to fall forward. Granlund extended his stick to knock the puck in, and the celebration ensued.

“We were playing really good.

We were creating chances. We got rewarded. We need to just keep playing like that,” Granlund said Game 4 is at Xcel Energy Center on Thursday, when the Avalanche will be without defenceman Tyson Barrie. He took a knee-to-knee hit in the second period that yielded a penalty for Matt Cooke and a medial collateral ligament injury for Barrie. Coach Patrick Roy said he’ll be need four to six weeks to recover.

“Knee on Tyson Barrie is without a doubt the play of the game.

We lost our best offensive defenceman,” Roy said, expressing confidence the NHL will suspend Cooke.

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LUNT Edward J. On April 9, 2014, long time resident of Edmonton, AB, formerly of Penhold, AB, passed away at the age of 79. He leaves behind: his wife Janice (nee Flieger) of 56 years; 5 children: David (Brenda), Diane, Jim, Shawn (Jodi) and Michelle (John) Sauder; 8 grandchildren and one greatgrandson. A private family service will take place in the summer of 2014. in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alberta Heart & Stroke Foundation, Alberta Cancer Foundation or the Canadian Diabetes Association.

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Obituaries THOMPSON Loretta 1925 - 2014 Mrs. Loretta Evelyn Thompson (nee Pillman) passed away peacefully at the Covenant Care, Villa Marie, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, April 18, 2014 at the age of 88 years.

She was born on June 22, 1925 at Castor, Alberta.

Loretta leaves to mourn her passing, her family, Tom (Janice) Mansell, Donna Henfrey, Robert (Lori) Mansell, all of Red Deer, Brenda (David) Davis of British Columbia, four grandchildren, Dana (Jason) Sansregret of Consort, Alberta, Breanna and Jordyn Mansell of Red Deer, and Shane Mansell of Red Deer, three great grandchildren, Cole, Sage and Jayde Sansregret of Consort. She is also survived by a brother, Ken (Edith) Pillman of Rimbey, Alberta, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Loretta was predeceased by her parents, Elmer and Laura (nee Logan) Pillman At Loretta’s request, no Funeral Service will be held. In loving memory of our mother, a tree will be planted at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium’s Memorial Tree Park, Gasoline Alley, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Loretta’s honor may be made directly to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta and N.W.T. at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca or to the Alberta Cancer Foundation at www.albertacancer.ca.

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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STEVENS Jamelle Dee Aug. 18, 1971 - Apr.16, 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jamelle Stevens of Beaumont, Alberta. Jamelle was born on Aug. 18, 1971 in Calgary.

She moved to Red Deer with her family in 1979, where she lived through her high school years and completed a Secretarial Sciences diploma at RDC. She then moved to Calgary where she worked as a stenographer for the Gov’t of Canada. She then moved to Ponoka where she worked for first the RCMP and then the Federal Institution in Hobbema. Jamelle then got a job for Environment Canada in Edmonton and moved to Beaumont. She returned to school and received her Bachelor of Arts degree then began working for Human Resources with the Gov’t of Canada. Jamelle is predeceased by her father Dale, and is survived by her three sons, Keenan, Bryant and Colin and mother Sharon Stevens. She is also survived by her brothers Scott (Shantelle Boatright), Dean (Nicole) and Carter Kokotylo, her sister Amanda, as well as her nieces Taylor, Sara, and Sequoia and nephews Eric and Dakota. A Viewing will be held from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at Serenity Funeral Service, 5311 - 91 Street, Edmonton. A Funeral Service will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 with viewing one hour prior at Eaglemont Church, 5002 - 62 Street, Beaumont. Interment to follow in Clearwater Cemetery, Beaumont. Memorial donations may be made to the Cross Cancer Institute, Angels In Memoriam Anonymous or the Beaumont Amateur Hockey Association.

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Raptors unfazed by NBA greats Garnett and Pierce NBA PLAYOFFS

TORONTO — Jonas Valanciunas was five years old when Kevin Garnett earned his first of 15 NBA all-star selections. He was 11 when Garnett was named the league MVP. Valanciunas — now 21 — went toe to toe with the 37-year-old Garnett in Toronto’s loss to the Brooklyn Nets in Game 1 of their playoff series last Saturday. And if there was any sense of awe in the name on the back of the Brooklyn jersey he was guarding, the young Valanciunas didn’t show it, laying down a monster game in his postseason debut.

“He was not intimidated, he wasn’t fazed by the physicality or guarding a legend like KG. You’re talking about a guy who is going to be in the Hall of Fame,” said Raptors coach Dwane Casey.

“I told our guys, ’You’ve got to respect them because those guys have accomplished a lot in this league. But you can’t fear them.’ KG would think less of him, knowing him, if it was anything less. Respect him, but you can’t fear him. (Valanciunas) did that.”

The Raptors host Game 2 of the series on Tuesday, then it shifts to Brooklyn for Game 3 on Friday and Game 4 on Sunday.

Valanciunas had 17 points and 18 rebounds in the opener of the sevengame series, while holding Garnett to five points. While many of the Raptors appeared overwhelmed by the enormity of their first playoff appearance in six seasons — for some players, it was

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their first playoff appearance, period — Valanciunas looked especially fired up from the opening tipoff.

When asked Monday about guarding Garnett, Valanciunas merely shrugged.

“He’s the same Garnett in regular season, so I’m playing him the same way. Just maybe adding 10 per cent more effort,” Valanciunas said, laughing.

On Garnett’s infamous trash talking: “I don’t understand English. So I’m OK.” More laughter.

On whether Garnett was a player he looked up to growing up in Utena, Lithuania: “His last name is really famous, so I heard about him when I was a kid.”

Respect, but no fear.

What helped Valanciunas keep the nerves at bay, Casey believes, is that’s he’s accustomed to playing in front of noisy, passionate crowds.

“That’s one thing with the Euroleague, he’s played in some big games over there for his country,” Casey said.

“He was not fazed by the crowd, by the moment, by it being the playoffs.

I thought he did a good job of fighting the physicality, getting inside, rebounding, using his length against KG and (Nets centre Mason) Plumlee.”

As the Raptors’ season continues, so does Valanciunas’s development.

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He scored a career-high 26 points earlier this month, less than three days after he was charged with drunk driving.

“It’s a positive. Him growing over the last month or so has really been a positive for our season,” Casey said.

“He’s our future. He’s our starting centre for a while to come so it’s great to see. Plus, he’s a great kid.”

Raptors guard Greivis Vasquez, meanwhile, grew up watching the Nets’ other NBA legend Paul Pierce.

He even attended Pierce’s basketball camp when he was a kid.

The 36-year-old Pierce was huge down the stretch in Game 1, scoring nine of his 15 points in the final three minutes. Asked if there was one thing he learned from Pierce’s camp, Vasquez replied, with a wide grin: “I did. How to be clutch.”

Vasquez played like he was similarly unfazed by the big names on the opposing team. Vasquez, one of four Raptors acquired in December in the trade that sent Rudy Gay to Sacramento, scored 18 points off the bench and doled out eight assists.

“You know what, to me, it’s fun,” Vasquez said. “I’m an underdog guy, so I’ve got to prove myself every day.

I wake up with 220,000 pounds on my shoulder, so I’ve got to be able to find a way to walk and get to my job.

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It’s a basketball game, man, at the end of the day we’ve all got two hands. We all can shoot. We’ve got one of the best point guards, too (in Kyle Lowry). I’ll take our chances, man.”

For the players who did look affected by the nerves in Game 1 — all-star DeMar DeRozan and Terrence Ross, to name two — Casey and his players believe Game 2 will be an entirely different story.

“We’re disappointed but we’re anxious to get a second chance at it. I think the second time around we’ll get the first game jitters away, out of us,” Casey said.

Game 2 could be a repeat of Game 1 when it comes to officiating. The Raptors weren’t on the favourable end of any calls in the fourth quarter on Saturday. They sounded resigned to the fact after Monday’s practice.

“We’ve accepted that all year long as far as not getting recognition or getting respect or even getting calls we think we should get,” said Raptors forward Patrick Patterson. “That’s happened all year long, so for us to think it’s going to change in the playoffs, we’re fooling ourselves. We have to go out there and not worry about the referees, not worry about the calls and just play basketball.”

The Raptors are hoping for a repeat performance by the Air Canada Centre crowd. A sellout crowd of 19,800 took in Game 1, clad in white T-shirts and waving white towels, thanks to a pregame giveaway.

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There’s safety in being at home KINGS HOPE TO FEND OFF SHARKS ATTACK WITH HOME-ICE EXPERIENCE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EL SEGUNDO, Calif. — Jonathan Quick and the Los Angeles Kings are home from a two-game playoff humiliation still confident they can compete against the San Jose Sharks.

Just don’t ask Quick what the Kings must change to make it happen.

“A lot of things,” Quick snapped at the Kings’ training complex Monday. “I’ve got things to do this afternoon. I don’t want to get into all of them.”

Quick isn’t known for his loquaciousness in Los Angeles, but he’s known for stopping pucks, particularly in the playoffs. The Conn Smythe Trophy winner didn’t do it nearly often enough in the first two games, yielding 12 of the Sharks’ 13 goals over just five periods.

Although Los Angeles hasn’t appeared capable of keeping up with the speedy, motivated Sharks so far, the Kings plan to rely on their playoff experience and an improved defensive effort when they host Game 3 on Tuesday night at Staples Center.

It takes more than two horrific road games to unnerve a veteran roster packed with Stanley Cup champions, according to leading scorer Anze Kopitar.

“It’s not good, but it doesn’t really matter if it’s 7-2 or you lose 3-2 in triple overtime,” Kopitar said. “It stinks, and we’ve got to get better.”

The Kings were in the same jam last year after two road losses in St. Louis to open a playoff run that stretched all the way to their second straight Western Conference finals.

But those were two one-goal defeats in St. Louis last spring. Los Angeles didn’t seem as utterly outclassed by the Blues as they did in San Jose, unable to keep pace while making dozens of uncharacteristic mistakes in puck possession, neutral-zone defence and goaltending.

As Quick suggested, the Kings have plenty to fix.

They’ve also got to forget the pickle they’re in, according to centre Jarret Stoll.

“You’ve got to park it,” Stoll said. “You’ve got to move on. ... You prepare for the game like it’s any other, but you can look back and see the situation you’re in. We know what we need from the guys. We just haven’t got it up to this point.”

At least the Kings are back at Staples Center, where they’re 10-0-1 against San Jose in the past three years. Los Angeles won all four home games in the clubs’ second-round playoff series last spring.

The Sharks’ biggest obstacle appears to be overconfidence after outclassing their heated rivals twice. But after years of playoff failure, San Jose

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San Jose Sharks’ Logan Couture, left, takes a shot against Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick during the second period of Game 1 of an NHL hockey first-round playoff series April 17, 2014, in San Jose, Calif. isn’t likely to get too happy — particularly given its unimpressive recent history at Staples Center, where the Sharks lost Czech youngster Tomas Hertl to a knee injury on Kings captain Dustin Brown’s hit early this season.

“We’ve stepped up the physicality and our speed in the playoffs here,” Sharks forward Tommy Wingels said. “I think it’s kind of caught them by surprise, and (there’s) definitely a level of frustration.”

The Kings won’t vocalize that frustration, but it isn’t tough to spot.

They allowed fewer goals than any NHL team in the regular season, but they had their two worst defensive games of the season in San Jose. Los Angeles hadn’t allowed 13 goals in any two-game span since December 2010, a year before coach Darryl Sutter stepped behind the bench and built a defensive pow-

erhouse.

Los Angeles also just managed four goals of its own. No Kings forward other than Trevor Lewis has even scored a goal in the series, with only two assists apiece from Kopitar and Jeff Carter.

Yet Sutter cast a spotlight Monday on the Kings’ depth forwards for their shortcomings at the Shark Tank, breaking with the coach’s usual practice of refusing to differentiate stars from supporting players.

“I thought that our third and fourth line and our fifth and sixth defencemen could match up better against their third and fourth line,” said Sutter, a longtime advocate for the grinders and defenceminded players who populate their depth groupings.

“It hasn’t happened yet. ... Our role players, if we can show the tenacity that their role players are showing, then we have a chance. Otherwise, we don’t.”

Emery to stay in Chicago Bulls centre Joakim Noah named NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year goal for Flyers for Game 3 against Rangers

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VOORHEES, N.J. — Calling himself a Band-Aid, Ray Emery has held the Philadelphia Flyers together nicely.

Emery will make his third straight start for an injured Steve Mason when the Flyers host the New York Rangers in Game 3 of their first-round playoff series Tuesday night. The Razor was excellent in Sunday’s 4-2 win at Madison Square Garden, making 31 saves to help the Flyers even the best-of-seven series at 1-1.

“The more frequently you play, the more comfortable you are in net,” Emery said Monday. “I appreciate being in there in consecutive games. I’m kind of a Band-Aid there while Mase gets better.”

Mason said he won’t dress for the game and his status for the series remains iffy because of an upper-body injury. He shared practice time with Emery on Monday and is hopeful to return Friday night for Game 4. Mason hasn’t played since he was injured in a collision in the next-to-last game of the regular season on April 12.

“Right now, the way Razor’s playing, there’s no hurry,” Mason said. “He’s the reason we won yesterday, so I think even if I was ready there’s no reason to take him out right now.”

Flyers coach Craig Berube wouldn’t speculate about his goalies.

“Ray is playing next game. That’s it,” Berube said.

“That’s where I’m leaving it. There’s nothing really else to talk about. The other guy is not ready, so I’m going to play the guy that is ready. And that’s it.”

Mason was 33-18-7 with a 2.50 goals-against average and .917 save percentage this season. He helped the Flyers overcome a 1-7 start and coaching change to make the playoffs.

Emery has more playoff experience, however. He helped lead Ottawa to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2007 and was a backup for the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks last year.

“Any experience definitely helps,” Emery said.

“But seeing a team be successful in the playoffs, seeing the ups and downs a team has to go through to win a championship definitely leads to a positive experience that you can learn from.”

Emery’s win Sunday was his first in the postseason anywhere in exactly three years since a 6-3 victory with Anaheim at Nashville on April 20, 2011.

It was Philadelphia’s first road win against the Rangers since Feb. 20, 2011.

Now the series shifts to the Wells Fargo Center where the Rangers will try to wrestle home-ice advantage back from the Flyers. The Rangers were 0-2 in Philadelphia this season, and have dropped four of five there. But New York set a franchise record this season by winning 25 road games.

“It’s going to be a loud building, and they’re going to come,” Rangers centre Brad Richards said. “Our regular season road record doesn’t really matter unless we can win some road games in this series.

That’s all we’re really looking at. It doesn’t matter what we did before. Starting tomorrow we need to go in and try and win a game.

The Flyers must be more disciplined against New York. They got away with six penalties in Game 2, killing off five of them.

“We have to be better. We can’t take penalties the way we are,” Berube said. “You’re going to get penalties in a game just because, but you can’t take emotional, dumb ones. It’s going to hurt you.”

The Rangers, who were twice whistled for diving, struggled on the power play and couldn’t get much going after taking an early 2-0 lead Sunday. They were outhustled, and allowed the Flyers to upset their rhythm. Goalie Henrik Lundqvist gave up three goals on 24 shots, excluding the empty-netter at the end.

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Chicago Bulls centre Joakim Noah is the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year.

The league announced the award Monday afternoon. Noah joins Michael Jordan in 1988 as the only Bulls players to win the award.

Noah got 555 out of a possible 1,125 points, including 100 out of a possible 125 first-place votes from a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters.

Indiana’s Roy Hibbert (166 points, eight first-place votes) and the Los Angeles Clippers’ DeAndre Jordan (121 points, eight firstplace votes) came in second and third, respectively.

Noah averaged career highs of 12.6 points, 11.3 rebounds and 5.4 assists this season.

The recognition comes after he helped Chicago win 48 games and capture home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs despite losing Derrick Rose to a season-ending knee injury and trading away Luol Deng. It also

comes at a time when he’s getting about as much praise for his ability on offence after being known primarily for his defence and rebounding.

Noah has improved in a big way in that area since he was drafted out of Florida in 2007 and was the Bulls’ most valuable player this season, averaging career highs of 12.6 points, 11.3 rebounds and 5.4 assists.

He’s a focal point on offence, with the ball often being funneled through him, and he remains their anchor on defence.

His ability to cover ground and rotate onto smaller players in pick-and-roll situations creates havoc for opponents. He averaged 1.5 blocks.

The recognition comes at a difficult time for Noah, whose mentor and second father figure Tyrone Green recently died.

The Bulls, who won more games after New Year’s Eve than any other Eastern Conference team, dropped the playoff opener to Washington on Sunday after blowing a 13-point lead. Game 2 is Tuesday in Chicago.

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Chicago Bulls center Joakim Noah, holds the NBA Defensive Player of the Year trophy after receiving the award, Monday, in Lincolnshire, Ill.

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SHARP INCREASE IN CASES, HOSPITAL OUTBREAKS

BY HELEN BRANSWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS It’s beginning to feel like SARS revisited.

For some of the scientists and doctors who helped the world battle the 2003 SARS outbreak, the recent rapid rise in human infections in several Middle Eastern countries caused by a cousin virus is creating a sense of sharp unease.

Cases of Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome — MERS — have shot up markedly in the past month, driven it appears by outbreaks in hospitals or among health-care workers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

“It does kind of bring flashbacks to SARS when we’re seeing more health-care associated infections. Obviously that was a big challenge here in Toronto,” says Dr. Kamran Khan, an infectious diseases physician at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital who specializes in using airline traffic data to predict the international movement of diseases.

In late March the global total of confirmed MERS cases crossed the 200 mark, two years after the first known infections occurred.

By late Saturday, the combined global count announced by the World Health Organization and national governments was closing in on 290 cases.

If all are confirmed, it will mean 28 per cent of all MERS cases will have been reported in the last month.

This week has also brought word that an event many dread but see as inevitable has again happened. MERS has spread from the Middle East to other countries.

A nurse who was infected in the UAE travelled home to the Philippines where he and several of his local contacts were promptly put into isola-

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A festival official touches the lip of a camel during the final day of Mazayin Dhafra Camel Festival about 120 km south west of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. For some of the scientists and doctors who helped the world battle the 2003 SARS outbreak, the recent rapid rise in infections in several Middle Eastern countries caused by a cousin virus is creating a sense of sharp unease. tion. And a Malaysian man who went to Mecca to perform Umrah, a Muslim pilgrimage, was infected and died upon his return to Malaysia.

Authorities from the Philippines and Malaysia were tracking down people who were on the flights those men took.

On Saturday, Greece announced it had discovered its first MERS case, in a Greek national who has been living in Jeddah, one of the current MERS hotspots.

Like embers flying off a raging bonfire, these types of travel cases will continue to happen, Khan predicts.

“Just from the standpoint of probabilities, the longer this persists, the likelihood of it showing up in other regions of the globe and causing some of

that disruption — that health, that economic disruption — is going to increase.”

A viral disease passing from animals to humans through an as yet undefined route. A respiratory illness that can be initially hard to distinguish from other cases of pneumonia, a common diagnosis in hospitals.

A disease that, because it’s hard to spot, can slip undetected into hospitals, infecting other patients and the healthcare workers who care for them. A disease that has the potential to travel.

It’s no wonder people who remember SARS are watching MERS closely.

They have been since the start, since scientists announced in September of 2012 that a few months earlier a

man in Saudi Arabia had died from an infection caused by a new coronavirus, a cousin of the virus that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome or SARS. It was later discovered that an outbreak of mysterious pneumonia cases in a hospital in Jordan in April of 2012 was caused by the virus that became known as MERS. In the intervening months cases have also been found in Qatar, Oman and Kuwait.

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It is thought that person-toperson transmission remains limited, dying out after a generation or two. But the information available outside the affected countries is limited, making it hard to gauge whether that is still the case.

Dr. Allison McGeer fought SARS and caught SARS during the large outbreak that crippled Toronto hospitals in the spring and early summer of 2003. She travelled to Saudi Arabia last spring to help investigate an earlier MERS hospital outbreak, in Al Ahsa.

McGeer is keeping a close eye on the MERS situation, but says she can’t tell what is happening with the information that is being shared.

“I’m really torn between whether this is an indication of change” — in the virus — “ or whether this is just that the disease is in fact seasonal ... and whether we’re just seeing the result of more introductions (into hospitals) resulting in more spread in hospitals,” admits McGeer, who is head of infection control at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital.

“Maybe what happened in Jeddah is a super-spreader,” she notes, referring to people who infect a large number of secondary cases.

Most of the international spread of SARS can be traced to a February 2003 event in a Hong Kong hotel, where a dying Chinese doctor unknowingly infected fellow guests who brought the virus to Vietnam, Toronto, Vancouver and Singapore, sparking a global outbreak that took months to extinguish.

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