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Crime rate drops FALLS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE 1972

BY TERRY PEDWELL THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s police services are once again reporting fewer crimes, a continuing trend that has cut the national crime rate to its lowest level since 1972.

But the latest figures from CITY CRIME STATS Statistics Can- ON THE DECLINE A2 ada don’t mean the job of fighting crime is done, says Peter MacKay, who took on his role as federal justice minister one week ago.

The police-reported crime rate fell by three per cent in 2012 compared with the previous year, Statistics Canada reported Thursday.

The severity of crimes committed was also down by three per cent in 2012, according to StatsCan’s Crime Severity Index (CSI).

Police-reported crime has been on a steady decline since peaking in 1991.

Police services reported nearly two million incidents involving criminal activity in 2012, roughly 36,000 fewer than in the previous year. “The police-reported crime rate has followed a downward trend, and, in 2012, reached its lowest level since 1972,� Statistics Canada said in its latest report.

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The Greatest Water Gun Battle Ever didn’t quite live up to its name Thursday at Sylvan Lake but those who did participate did seem to be having a fun time. Amanda Siminoski and her daughter Kailee of Devon shown here got in to the spirit of the event soaking each other and all others who came in to range of their water guns.

The event was sponsored by the Town of Sylvan Lake and held at Centennial Park on Lakeshore Drive Thursday afternoon.

Corn maze pays tribute to cycling race

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

TOUR OF ALBERTA

A design paying tribute to the Tour of Alberta is in the works for the Lacombe Corn Maze.

George Berry, local organizing chairman of the Tour of Alberta, confirmed the owners of the Lacombe Corn Maze are planning to have the tour’s logo ready just in time for the inaugural professional cycling race in September.

Some of the world’s top cyclists will race on Alberta roads from Sept. 3 to 8.

The race starts in Edmonton and fin-

ishes in Calgary. Red Deer is the finishing community for the second stage of the six-staged race.

Berry said excitement for the race is building throughout the cycling community and around Alberta. A guide to stages and the communities in the Tour of Alberta is featured in the August/September issue of Canadian Cycling Magazine.

The next two sponsors who sign up for a $5,000 sponsorship Tour of Alberta package could potentially have

the opportunity to ride in a team car or a support vehicle for the entire second stage. “We’ll give them transportation up to Devon so they don’t have to worry about that,� said Berry. “They will hop in a team car and be right in the centre of the action.�

Details are still being worked out for the festival on Ross Street in Red Deer and the logistics. Berry expects everything to kick into high gear in the 30 days before the race. “We’re only 42 days away,� said Berry.

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Good Samaritan buys 500 coffees at Easthill Centre Tim Hortons

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI AND THE CANADIAN PRESS ADVOCATE STAFF Tim Hortons at Easthill Centre was one of three stores in Canada where people were treated to free coffee in a wave of customer copycat generosity on Thursday.

At about 9:30 a.m., a man came into the Tim Hortons and paid for 500 cups of coffee for fellow customers — for a total of $850.

The extreme Good Samaritan coffee trend previously struck a Tim Hortons in Edmonton on Monday, Calgary on Wednesday, and both Ottawa and Edmonton on Thursday. “He wanted to do the same,� said manager Katie Evans who did not recognize the anonymous coffee donor.

She did not know if he was from Red Deer.

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a.m. to about 1 p.m. both at the drivethrough and in the store. “It was pretty awesome to see everyone’s expressions. Everyone was very happy,� Evans said.

She has worked for Tim Hortons for five years and regularly sees customers pay for strangers’ coffees. “Usually you get pay-it-forward in the drive-through, but it only lasts about 10 cars.�

As news spread on social media, some skeptics speculated that the donations were part of an elaborate publicity stunt by the coffee chain.

But Tim Hortons spokeswoman Michelle Robichaud said that’s not the case. “As brilliant as this is I can assure you that Tim Hortons has nothing to do with the Good Samaritans that have been purchasing coffees across the country,� she said.

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Elaine Halter, left, and her daughter Heather Bettenson of Red Deer stopped in to the Tim Hortons store in East Red Deer Thursday afternoon although they did not get a free cup of coffee they were happy to hear others were able to get one of the 500 free cups bought by someone earlier in the day.

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AHS DECLARES MEASLES OUTBREAK

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

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County of Red Deer firefighters extinguish a barn fire north of Red Deer on the C&E Trail at Range Road 392 on Tuesday. County crews were joined by firefighters from the Town of Sylvan Lake to fight the blaze that started as a grass fire. Ross Smith, the property owner, said he was burning some grass when the flames got away from him. The blaze continued to rage after he had emptied his fire extinguishers. The barn was built in 1934, said Smith, who was using it to store equipment, fertilizer and some tires. An RV trailer on the property was also destroyed by the flames. Red Deer County fire chief Tom Metzger said his firefighters battled the blaze aggressively to keep the tires stored in the barn from igniting. “We didn’t lose much, and no one was hurt,” said Smith, adding the only injury was to his pride.

Driver appeared drunk at collision: witnesses

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

RODNEY ARENS TRIAL

Two pedestrians who testified on Tuesday at the trial for the Canada Day 2010 fatal collision say the driver accused of the crime appeared intoxicated at the scene.

Rodney Ross Arens, 36, is charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death and six other charges, including refusing to provide samples of his breath to collision investigators.

Witnesses at the trial have testified that a black truck sped through the intersection at Taylor and Kerry Wood

Drives at speeds of 75 to 80 km/h, striking a small car that was making a left turn towards Bower Ponds.

Anouluck “Jeffrey” Chanminaraj, 13, who was riding in the front passenger seat of the car, died at the scene.

His older sister and brother were injured.

“When (the driver) got out of the truck, he stumbled around a bit like he had been drinking,” said Crown witness Amanda King, 26, of Rocky Mountain House, during her testimony in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench.

King said the driver looked at the

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Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason announces he will step down as party leader at the legislature in Edmonton on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2014. Mason says there’s a window of opportunity to capture more progressive voters but a fresh face at the helm is needed to do it.

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damage to his truck and heard him say, “I guess I’m not driving this away.”

She said he was slurring his speech some and said he needed a smoke. He stood by his truck until the police arrived.

“It looked like he was trying to make sense of what happened,” King said.

When the driver was asked to walk a straight line for the police, she said he didn’t need to walk far before he was handcuffed.

King said she was walking on Kerry Wood Drive, on the east side of the intersection.

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Mason stepping down as NDP leader

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EDMONTON — Alberta NDP Leader Brian Mason says he is stepping down as head of the party effective Oct. 19.

Mason, who is 60, says it’s time to allow someone else to try to rejuvenate the party.

“It’s been an honour and a privilege to serve the party and the public in this role,” he said as he announced his decision Tuesday.

“I am proud of the work that we have all done together, but I believe that it is time for a new leader to tackle the changing political landscape and lead us into the next election.”

He said the party, which has four sitting members right now, needs to reach out.

“We need to ... go beyond our traditional supporters so that there is a strong and very effective group of MLAs in the next legislature, after the next election, that will stand up to the

Wildrose and possibly to the PCs as well.”

Mason suggested he’s laid the groundwork with solid organization, increased financial capacity and a much younger membership.

“I think the party is ready for prime time, and I just think it needs a different leader to get it to the next level.”

Mason, a former transit bus driver, took over leadership of the provincial New Democrats in 2004.

He served on Edmonton city council for 11 years before making the jump to provincial politics in 2000 when he won a byelection.

He was re-elected in a general election the following year and has held a seat ever since. He is currently member of the legislature for Edmonton Highlands-Norwood.

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A formal measles outbreak has been declared for three areas of the province — including the Central Zone.

The declaration from Alberta Health Services comes with a few changes on how the health authority is dealing with those who may be particularly vulnerable to contracting the disease. Effective immediately: ● Infants between the age of six and 11 months who live in the Central, Calgary or Edmonton zones or will be travelling within the areas are eligible to receive an early additional dose of the measles vaccine. The early dose will also be available to any children within the age range who are travelling to other jurisdictions where outbreaks have occurred, such as the Philippines, Brazil, and B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. ● Children aged four and over who attend day cares, day homes or schools within the three outbreak zones who have not received their second dose of the measles vaccine are advised to get it as soon as possible.

A seventh case of measles in Central Alberta was reported last week, and 22 have occurred in the province in 2014, limited to Calgary, Edmonton and Central Alberta. Last year, Southern Alberta experienced an outbreak when 40 cases were reported.

Infants typically receive the first of two doses of the measles vaccine at the age of 12 months. AHS says the early dose it is making available will provide short-term protection during the period of “increased risk of exposure.”

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Town of Innisfail approves $20,000 for Tour of Alberta

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Wheels are in motion for the Town of Innisfail to welcome the best in the professional cycling world in September.

Town council gave the green light to hosting the

Tour of Alberta’s start of the second stage while approving $20,000 and road closures for the competition on Monday.

Last week, the Tour of Alberta named the seven communities with hosting duties — Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Wetaskiwin, Strathcona County, Red Deer and Innisfail — from Sept. 2 to Sept. 7.

Riders will now start in Innisfail and likely finish

the day in Red Deer on Sept. 4.

“I don’t think $20,000 is out of the picture for the exposure for both nationally and internationally for this,” said Innisfail Mayor Brian Spiller.

“Hopefully we can get the service groups, the chamber and the schools involved to make it a real community event.”

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WALKING AT WESTLAKE

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Enjoying the warm spring weather Pam Towers takes Clover, a Dachshund-Shih Tzu mix, for a walk around the ponds in Westlake on Tuesday. Today should be another great day. Environment Canada is calling for a high of 19 C in the Red Deer region under mostly sunny skies.

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OUTBREAK: Vaccine offered free of charge Children should still receive the two regular doses even if receiving the early shot.

Central Zone medical officer of health Dr. Digby Horne said part of the reason for declaring the outbreak was to justify the use of the vaccine in those under one year. Two infants in the Edmonton Zone have contracted measles in 2014.

“That’s not something that’s normally done because there’s concern about the mom’s antibodies still being in the child’s system at that time and interfering with the response of the vaccine. ... But in the setting of an outbreak there’s consideration that the risk of infection is such that giving this dose might reduce the risk of infection during that time, with the recognition that at 12 months of age then you have to give the normal dose,” said Horne.

The dose being made available to toddlers is the same that is regularly administered at the one-year mark. Horne said how effective it will be in each infant will vary based on their mother’s antibodies still present.

On the standard immunization schedule, the first dose of the vaccine is considered effective in 95 per cent of the population, with the second dose bringing effectiveness to very near 100 per cent.

Typically, children receive their second shot between the ages of four and six. Approximately 40 students at a Red Deer elementary school who had not received the second shot were ordered to stay home from school for three weeks earlier this month, after a child at the school contracted measles. The students will be able to return to school on Thursday.

AHS notes that any persons who have already received both of the regular doses do not require any additional vaccine against measles. No further action is being recommended for those between the ages of one and four who have received their first dose.

Measles vaccine is offered free of charge at all times, and will continue to be available by appointment through public health offices. Horne said some mass immunization clinics for Red Deer will likely be announced soon.

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An outbreak in B.C.’s Fraser Valley that saw 400 cases of measles reported in a month was declared over Monday. Last fall, an outbreak was declared in Alberta’s south after 40 cases in the Lethbridge area were confirmed.

The number of current cases is comparatively small, but Horne said the outbreak designation has merit as a broad preventive measure. In the B.C. and Southern Alberta instances, health officials could target immunizations to defined communities with low vaccination rates.

“Here, with importations from other countries or in the zones north and south of us, we just can’t pinpoint the risk that much. It is preventive, hoping that we reduce the number of cases in infants, because measles is more severe in kids under five and people over 20,” said Horne.

Anyone uncertain about their own or their child’s immunization history can contact their local public health office or Health Link Alberta at 1-866-408-5465 to find out their status.

The Central Zone stretches from Drayton Valley to Sundre in the west and Drumheller to Lamont and Lloydminster in the east.

Most of the potential exposure sites related to the seven Central cases in 2014 have been in Red Deer.

Other locations included Blackfalds, Stettler, and Camrose.

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TRIAL: ‘It appeared to me he was drunk’ Her head was turned to speak to a friend behind her so she didn’t see the crash. But she heard it and turned to see the car spin about four times.

Crown witness Teagan Jones, 27, of Red Deer, said he was on the east side of the intersection waiting to cross and saw the truck speed up as it came down the hill on Taylor Drive and hit the car.

“The light was yellow and the truck continued to drive through the intersection,” Jones said.

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Mason, the son of an electrical engineer and one of four children, was born Oct. 12, 1953 in Calgary, but moved to Edmonton at age 21 to continue university.

His mother was a Liberal and his father a red Tory who later helped found the Reform party. His grandfather was a Tory senator.

At the University of Alberta, Mason studied politics and ran for arts rep on student council. He served as director of the Federation of Alberta Students and pushed then-premier Peter Lougheed on reforms for tuition rates and student loans.

After post-secondary schooling, he drove a transit bus through Edmonton’s lower-income north end to support his wife and young family. It was during this time that he came to see the challenges of those living on the fringe.

He ran for city council in 1989 to represent that same north end. By the time he left city hall for provincial politics 11 years later, his district had sports facilities, transit upgrades, a library and a medical centre.

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walking up to the car to see if I could help. I remember seeing the dead boy.”

Jones said the driver of the truck stumbled when he got out of his vehicle, swore when he looked at the damage to the front of the truck, lit a cigarette and stumbled again as he made his way back into the truck.

He said the driver didn’t pay any attention to the car.

“It appeared to me he was drunk,” said Jones, who demonstrated in the court room how the driver stumbled, then corrected himself.

Jones, who is the general manager of a local restaurant, said having worked in the restaurant industry for a few years, he sees people consume alcohol to excess on a daily basis and recognizes how they behave.

When defence lawyer Donna Derie-Gillespie asked if the truck driver could have been injured, Jones said he couldn’t tell, but it was possible.

The trial continues Wednesday. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Man guilty in child’s death

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — The two-year-old twin girls were the size of six-month-old babies.

When paramedics were called to the Edmonton townhouse in 2012, court heard, they were looking for a sick toddler and became confused when they could only find two wee ones bundled into infant car seats.

Then they looked more closely: skin was hanging loose on their pale little bodies, their ribs stuck out from their chests and they were covered in scabs and bruises.

One of them, known in court only as M, wasn’t breathing and needed CPR. After several months on life support in hospital, and a fierce court battle, doctors took her off the machines and she died.

On Tuesday, her father pleaded guilty to manslaughter for his role in M’s death. The man also pleaded guilty to aggravated assault of the surviving twin and failing to provide the necessaries of life.

The 36-year-old mumbled his pleas, then sat with his arms crossed in the prisoner’s box, occasionally wiping his nose, as lawyers read out agreed facts in the case.

The Crown and defence have not settled on a recommended sentence. One is to be handed down at a later date.

The girls’ mother still faces several charges, including second-degree murder. She’s pleaded not guilty and court heard her husband’s admissions do not apply to her culpability. A trial before a judge

without a jury has been set for late May but, because she has changed lawyers several times, it’s not certain if it will go ahead.

The surviving girl, as well as a healthy older brother, were placed in foster care after their parents were arrested nearly two years ago. Under Alberta’s child protection laws, the family cannot be identified.

Court documents show the parents immigrated from Algeria in 2008. The husband worked night shifts as a machinist and the wife stayed at home with their three children.

The father admitted that while he didn’t physically hurt the twins, he knew they were malnourished and suffering.

He “continued to leave the twins unprotected in an abusive unsafe environment wherein the twins continued to be physically abused and deprived of the necessaries of life,” said one document.

There were no reasons given in court Tuesday as to why the twins were treated in such a way. More details are expected at the father’s sentencing hearing.

When police and paramedics were called to the home on May 25, 2012, court heard they noticed the girls’ bedroom smelled of urine. There was only a mattress on the floor with a sheet and two pillows.

Documents say M, weighing 13 pounds, was in a more emaciated state than her sister. When she got to hospital, M needed an immediate blood transfusion. She had a bed sore on her tail bone. X-rays showed she had thinning bones.

Her sister had no hair. Her skinny fingers and

Khadr release hinges on case before Alberta Appeal Court

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toes were almost white. She couldn’t move her legs and hands, was unable to stand and needed help to hold a bottle of milk. She weighed 16 pounds.

Doctors said, for their age, the girls should have been between 22 and 25 pounds and must have been chronically deprived of food.

“There is no alternative hypothesis to explain the severe malnutrition and resulting inadequate growth,” a doctor said in one of the court documents.

The documents further said the mother told police that the twins had been playing on the stairs, fell and hit their foreheads. Three days later, the mother noticed something wasn’t right with M because the girl didn’t want to eat. The woman said she called her husband at work, and he called 911 before driving home.

That September, while in custody, the parents argued in court that M should be kept on life support.

They cited their Islamic beliefs and love for the girl.

A lawyer appointed to represent the child asked the court to side with her doctors, who agreed she was virtually brain dead and would never wake up.

She had suffered repeated bouts of pneumonia and would need many invasive, risky medical procedures just to remain on a breathing machine.

A Court of Queen’s Bench judge cast doubt on the couple’s motives for wanting to keep their daughter alive and ruled she be taken off machines. The Alberta Court of Appeal sided with the lower court, ruling it was in the child’s best interests to let her die. Lawyers for the parents applied to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay, but a panel of justices rejected the bid. The girl died later that day.

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Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr turns to Alberta’s top court Wednesday in hopes of having his eight-year prison term recognized as a youth rather than an adult sentence.

While the legal arguments are technical, the consequences are important in terms of how the prison system treats Khadr and for his chances of a speedier release.

At issue before Alberta’s Court of Appeal is whether Correctional Service of Canada has correctly interpreted the sentence handed down by an American military commission in 2010 after he pleaded guilty to five war crimes committed as a 15-year-old.

The commission — which makes no distinction between youth and adult punishment or between consecutive and concurrent sentences — ordered Khadr jailed for a further eight years.

However, in translating the sentence into Canadian terms following his transfer from Guantanamo in September 2012, Canadian authorities placed him in adult custody.

Essentially, Khadr’s lawyer argues he is serving a “global” eight-year term for all five offences to which he pleaded guilty. The government argues he is serving five concurrent eight-year terms for each conviction.

While the government concedes his sentence for murder in violation for the rules of war can only be interpreted as a youth sentence under Canadian law, it insists the other four — attempted murder among them — are adult sentences.

“Canadian law recognizes that a person cannot serve both youth and adult sentences simultaneously,” the government argues in its appeal factum.

As a result, it maintains Court of Queen’s Bench Associate Chief Justice John Rooke was correct in

‘I’VE NEVER BEEN IN A COURTROOM WHERE YOU’VE HAD SOMEONE GET A JUVENILE SENTENCE FOR MURDER AND AN ADULT SENTENCE FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER ALL AT THE SAME (TIME). IT JUST DOESN’T MAKE SENSE.’ — DENNIS EDNEY LAWYER

siding with prison authorities that the Toronto-born Khadr, 27, should serve his time as an adult.

Khadr’s lawyer Dennis Edney maintains Rooke and the government are wrong. He argues the eightyear sentence must be deemed a juvenile one.

“I’ve never been in a courtroom where you’ve had someone get a juvenile sentence for murder and an adult sentence for attempted murder all at the same (time). It just doesn’t make sense,” Edney said in an interview from Edmonton.

“He was a juvenile when the offence occurred and he was given a juvenile sentence and the courts should recognize that.”

The prisoner was transferred back to the medium security Bowden Institution in Innisfail from a psychiatric prison in Saskatoon, where he was recovering from surgery to his shoulder. Khadr, then 15, was found horribly wounded after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002 when U.S. forces captured him.

He was accused of throwing a hand grenade that killed an American special forces soldier but maintains he only pleaded guilty before the military commission to get out of Guantanamo Bay.

EDMONTON — The only declared candidate so far in the Alberta Tory leadership race says there’ll be no coronation if former federal cabinet minister Jim Prentice decides to run.

“I know that (coronation idea) is a very strongly held view amongst some people who have other interests, and I think that would be a disaster for the province of Alberta,” Ken Hughes said Tuesday.

Hughes said politics — and political parties — benefit from races between strong candidates.

The former municipal affairs minister says he has a Ken Hughes wide support base and will tour the province this summer in his Ford F-150 truck to get the word out about his long experience in business and politics.

Prentice, a former Calgary MP, has not officially entered the race to replace former premier Alison Redford.

But on Monday a source close to him said Prentice is putting a team together and there’ll be an announcement in the coming days.

Some members of the Tory caucus, including Human Services Minister Manmeet Bhullar and associate ministers Kyle Fawcett and Dave Rodney, have already pledged their support.

Some party members and political observers have named Prentice the front-runner.

Hughes said he’s not worried about him, by default, becoming the underdog.

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Spiller said they have lots of time to sort out the details but he anticipates it will be a huge celebration and send-off.

Red Deer city council will decide whether it will host the finishing stage at its May 12 meeting. Council will also be asked to foot a $100,000 bill, plus allow for road closures.

George Berry, Red Deer’s organizing committee chairman, said he is confident that council will welcome the tour after the good showing in 2013. The committee will also seek financial support from Red Deer County, Lacombe County and Sylvan Lake.

Sylvan Lake Mayor Sean McIntyre said he is thrilled that the town could be part of the route.

McIntyre said he would welcome the tour with open arms.

“I watched the festivities last year in Red Deer and it was really exciting to see,” said McIntyre. “I know Sylvan Lake’s portion of this race won’t be to that magnitude but I am still really excited that Sylvan Lake is going to be part of the route.”

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CALGARY — Power generator TransAlta Corp. told a sometimes testy meeting with shareholders on Tuesday that it will fight price-fixing allegations levelled earlier this year by Alberta’s electricity market watchdog.

“We are unwilling to passively accept unfounded allegations,” board chairman Gordon Giffin told investors at the company’s annual general meeting.

“If you will give us the benefit of the doubt, I believe that we will establish that confidence is justified.”

Alberta’s Market Surveillance Administrator alleges TransAlta (TSX:TA) manipulated the province’s electricity market by shutting down power plants to drive up prices in 2010 and 2011.

TransAlta undertook an internal review of the matter, Giffin said.

“While we determined that certain process improvements could be made, we did not find that the

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XL foes lack perspective We would think with the newest delay in the Keystone XL pipeline — the project intended to get Alberta’s oilsands product to the southern United States for refining and sale — that the detractors would become silent.

Not so.

Citing recent court developments south of the border, U.S. President Barack Obama has announced there would not be a decision on approval of the U.S. portion of the pipeline until next year.

DAVID After years of NAGY parades of celebrity anti-oilsands advocates occurring in the heartland of Alberta, the protests have now shifted to where they rightfully belong — south of the border.

We have acknowledged the existence of our own problems related to the energy industry — although our provincial government would have us believe things are not as bad as others say.

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In Washington over the past week, horses walked through the streets. Teepees and settler wagons adorned the National Mall. And the self-described “CIA” — the “Cowboys and Indians Alliance” — marched in traditional clothing and promised to fight together against a common foe, the Keystone XL pipeline.

Lost in the howls for action to stop the project are the American connections to the black gold that is to flow through the pipeline.

This is a large, sad case of Americans complaining about Americans.

Big American energy companies hold some of the leases from where the ‘dirty’ oilsands oil is to be extracted, with Conoco Philips and Shell among them. And Alberta mineral lease records also show that a Koch Industries subsidiary holds leases on 1.1 million acres of oilsands lands. The subsidiary is the biggest non-Canadian and industry-leading lease holder in the oilsands area.

The protesters are ignoring these facts as they continue to complain about the “dirty oil” from Alberta.

Days of protest will undoubtedly leave a stain on Obama’s front door.

Images of celebrities chaining themselves to the gates of the White House are hardly new.

But perhaps American protesters should notice what is happening in their own backyard.

If any Hollywood stars have threatened to shut down an oilfield in the heart of greater Los Angeles, it hasn’t yet hit the media.

A 1,000-acre oilfield has operated just west of downtown Los Angeles since the 1920s.

But go ahead, rail against the dirty oil from Alberta. Never mind that fracking has occurred in Los Angeles for decades — and near the San Andreas fault.

Certainly there’s a James Cameron movie epic waiting to happen there.

Over the Inglewood field’s history 1,600 wells have been drilled. Today, the oilfield covers about 1,000 acres, making it one of the largest contiguous urban oil fields in the United States.

Those oil wells operate within sight of hundreds of swanky homes.

But they must not be close enough to the Hollywood hills to spoil the movie stars’ views.

And what about other oil and gas pipelines that already cross the Canada-U.S. border?

A 2013 Congressional Research Service report referred to 100 pipelines, which included operating or proposed oil, natural gas, and electric transmis-

sion lines, and it counted pipelines crossing both the U.S.-Mexico border and the U.S.-Canada border.

If only operating pipelines that cross the Canadian border are counted, then there are 29 natural gas pipelines and 17 oil pipelines, for a total of 46.

That’s still dozens of pipelines already carrying energy products across the border. We cannot recall any furor over those older pipelines.

When we talk about the Keystone XL pipeline, understandably there are opponents. Some landowners do not want their property disturbed.

The Keystone pipeline has not been halted, only delayed, and perhaps because Obama hasn’t got anything to lose for the moment.

But even of the protesters and landowners fighting the battle in the courts win, the oil would most probably roll through America anyway — by rail — as some railways have already said they will allow.

One day Obama will have to make a win-lose decision about the pipeline.

A victory for oil companies and defeat for protesters.

Until then, opponents and supporters of the pipeline will only continue to hurt each other.

David Nagy is an Advocate editor.

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Strife in Ukraine will not spawn a world war With due apologies to God, Voltaire and Ukrainians, I must point out that if Ukraine did not exist, it would not be necessary to invent it. It is not a great power, it has no resources the world cannot do without, and it is not a “vital strategic interest” to anybody except the Ukrainians themselves. Not even to the Russians, although they are acting at the moment as though it were.

Bosnia was nobody’s vital strategic interest either. It isn’t now, and it wasn’t a hundred years ago.

But Bismarck warned in 1898 that if there was ever another major war in Europe, it would come out of “some damned silly thing in the BalGWYNNE kans,” and an assassination in DYER Sarajevo in 1914 fulfilled his prophecy to the letter.

Some things have changed since then, however. The next world war will not come out of Ukraine (which is only slightly northeast of the Balkans) no matter what happens in the next few weeks and months. Russia might invade Ukraine, there might even be a new Cold War for a while, but there will be no fighting in Europe beyond Ukraine’s borders.

Indeed, apart from the Balkans there has been no full-scale war in Europe for the past 69 years, and

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there was never the slightest risk that the fighting in the 1990s would spread beyond the borders of former Yugoslavia.

Indeed, there was probably never a single day during the 45 years of the Cold War when either side seriously considered attacking the other.

The reason was simple: they knew what would happen next, even if neither side used the thousands of nuclear weapons at its disposal. Twice in 30 years, in 1914-18 and 1939-45, a major war using modern weapons had been fought over almost all of Europe’s territory.

On the first occasion, they lost a generation of young men. The second time, most countries from Germany eastwards had around 10 per cent of their populations killed — and most of the casualties that time were civilians. Half of the continent’s great historic cities were reduced to ruins even without the help of nuclear weapons.

It was a very expensive education, but the Europeans did finally learn their lesson: don’t do this any more.

That is why, even as Russian tanks drive right up to Ukraine’s eastern borders and the Ukrainian army prepares to die in a fight it knows it would lose, nobody else in Europe is getting ready for war. If the Russians want part or all of Ukraine, they can have it — and pay the long-term price for taking it, which would be very high. But nothing in Europe is worth blowing all of Europe up for.

Do not be alarmed by the fact that troops and planes from as far away as the United States and

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Canada are being sent to NATO countries that have borders with Russia. The numbers are militarily insignificant. Their purpose is simply to remind the Russians that the alliance will protect its own members should Moscow ever decide that it has also a right to “protect” Russian-speakers in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

Moscow does not actually need to be reminded of that. It has seized Crimea, and is toying with the idea of seizing more of Ukraine, precisely because that country does not fall under the NATO umbrella.

And it does not belong to NATO because NATO didn’t want to take military responsibility for its defence.

The collapse of the status quo is partly the European Union’s fault, for demanding that Ukraine choose between closer trade and travel ties with the EU and full membership in Russia’s “Eurasian Union.” It is even more the fault of Moscow: President Vladimir Putin has been both emotional and opportunistic. He’s scaring people, which is never a good idea.

But if he does take more or even all of Ukraine, the West will not fight him. It will just take in all the Ukrainian refugees, strengthen its eastern defences, and begin the slow process of bringing down Putin by crippling the Russian economy. That would take years, but nobody would forget about Ukraine. It is a UN member, and even China has stopped supporting the Russian position. Remember East Timor.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2014

UP TO 20,000 YOUTH FROM ABROAD COMING FOR INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE PROGRAM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Are you an employer keen to hire help from abroad, but nervous about the controversy dogging Ottawa’s temporary foreign worker program?

The government of Canada may have a solution for you.

Under the International Experience Canada program, as many as 20,000 workers aged 18 to 35 will soon be coming to Canada — just as Canadian youth begin pounding the pavement in search of summer jobs.

The program allows employers to bypass the labour market opinion process, which means there’s no need for government approval. As well, companies are not obliged to pay their workers the prevailing market wage.

The influx follows a spirited campaign by the government to attract skilled workers from abroad, including a 2012 trip to Ireland by Jason Kenney, then the immigration minister, to encourage Irish skilled workers to come to Canada.

More than half of those arriving on IEC visas are Irish and some are staying for as long as two years.

The top countries of participation are France, Ireland, Australia, the UK, Germany, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.

“Make your dream of travelling and working abroad a reality! International Experience Canada gives you the information and resources you need to travel and work in Canada,” beckons the promotional material on the government of Canada website.

In exchange, Canadians can apply to work in 32 participating countries that also include Ukraine, Slovenia and Slovakia. Government data, however, indicates that more than three times as many foreigners come to Canada under the program than the other way around.

Doug Parton of the Ironworkers union in B.C. has called on the government to crack down on the IEC, saying there are no skills assessments of the incoming workers and no requirement that companies pay workers the prevailing wage rate.

“It’s a complete free-for-all and it’s an attack on wages,” said Parton, the business agent for Ironworkers Local 97, which represents structural and reinforcing ironworkers in British Columbia.

Parton claims mines in B.C. are taking advantage of the program to bring in non-Canadian workers with none of the “checks and balances” ostensibly in place under the broader temporary foreign worker program.

One company in particular, Parton said, has been routinely bringing over dozens of temporary foreign workers under the program for more than a decade and paying them $13 an hour while providing no training whatsoever or apprenticeship opportunities to domestic workers.

“There’s been no commitment to our young Canadian workers; doors are getting slammed shut on them because companies are bringing in cheaper workers from other countries,” he said.

“No one’s anti-immigration — that’s not what this is about — it’s about making sure Canadian workers aren’t squeezed out of jobs by abusers of these programs.”

Alexis Pavlich, a spokeswoman for Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander, defended the program, which has existed since 1951.

“The IEC is a long-standing and popular program that enables limited numbers of young Canadians and foreign nationals to participate in a travel, live and work abroad cultural and economic exchange program,” Pavlich said in an email.

“Past program participants with in-demand skills and relevant experience may apply to immigrate to Canada. Our government’s priority will always be to ensure Canadians are given first crack at available jobs.”

She added the program is under review, along with the broader temporary foreign worker program, “to ensure that it meets Canada’s needs and interests.”

Liberal MP John McCallum, the party’s immigration critic, expressed dismay.

“It sounds like such a wholesome thing on the government’s website — people coming to discover Canada and Canadians going abroad to do the same,” he said in an interview.

“But this is a huge concern because it seems to totally subvert what they’re trying to do with temporary foreign workers. The government appears to be actively encouraging companies to participate in a program that doesn’t even require labour market opinions.”

He accused the Tories of startling inconsistency.

“On the one hand they’re saying, ’Do whatever you want,’ and on the other hand they’re saying, ’We have a moratorium.’ That’s not exactly speaking with one voice.”

Probably years before flood work is complete

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CALGARY — The Alberta government has narrowed down the flood-prevention projects it will fund after the deluge that devastated the southern part of the province last summer.

But Environment Minister Robin Campbell concedes it will be years before all the work is completed.

The province has set aside $600 million over the next three years to pay for the highest-priority mitigation projects.

“I think we’ll be very efficient on our timelines moving forward but again there’s a lot of decisions that have to be made. It’s going to involve three levels of government and we want to make sure we get it right,” Campbell said Tuesday.

Alberta plans to move forward with preliminary designs, environmental reviews and community consultations on two water diversion and storage projects.

Initial approval has been given for an off-stream storage site west of Calgary that would divert and store water from the Elbow during flood conditions.

A dry dam at the confluence of McLean Creek and the Elbow River would provide protection for the communities of Bragg Creek, Redwood Meadows and Calgary.

A southern diversion on the Highwood River will direct flood water around the town of High River and provide options to store water that could be used for irrigation.

High River was the hardest hit area when tor-

rential downpours dumped 350 millimetres of rain over a two-day period last June. The rain hammered Calgary and communities as far away as the Rocky Mountains to the west and Medicine Hat in the east.

Flooding forced tens of thousands of people from their homes and caused an estimated $6 billion in damage.

Campbell said he understands the need for the public to see progress is being made.

“As we come closer to the end of June, emotions are going to creep up again and people are going to be uneasy. The sooner we can start showing results on the ground the better off we are going to be for people,” he said.

“One of the things I am concerned about — and we’re starting to see it more and more — is mentalhealth issues. It’s starting to come out now, so (we need) to put people’s fears at rest that we are moving forward in a timely matter.”

The city of Calgary is still studying the merits of an underground diversion channel to take water from the Glenmore Reservoir to the Bow River. A feasibility study is expected at the end of June.

The off-stream storage site west of the city could be ready in about two years. The others will take longer.

Campbell said engineering studies and environmental assessments will go ahead at the same time, but it isn’t possible to speed up the process.

“There’s a lot of assessments that have to be done at the provincial level. There’ll be questions on what

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Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Minister Robin Campbell speaks to the media about the province’s flood mitigation efforts in Calgary, on Tuesday. evokes the Department of Fisheries Act and how much Environment Canada wants to be involved,” Campbell said.

“You can’t shortcut. The process is there and has to be followed. Stakeholders have the ability to bring their concerns forward, and as a province and a government we have the responsibility to listen to those concerns.”

Aid group branded as ‘terrorist’ AUPE review NON-PROFIT IRFAN ACCUSED OF HELPING HAMAS contract offer

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Members of Alberta’s largest public-sector union are reviewing a proposed contract that stands to put a lot more cash in their wallets than the government’s previous offer.

The four-year Alberta Union of Provincial Employees deal calls for a lump-sum payment of $1,850 the first year, followed by pay increases totalling 6.75 per cent over three years. The previous offer was a lump-sum payment to cover two years followed by increases of one and two per cent in the following two years.

The union isn’t gloating in a message to its 22,000 members about the deal, which it said was reached during an “extraordinarily difficult” round of negotiations.

“It doesn’t do anybody any good to gloat,” union president Guy Smith said.

“One of the things we are trying to do is rebuild a fractured relationship with the government. We are well on the way to do that.”

Members are expected to vote on the contract with a mail-in ballot in the coming weeks, with the results expected by the middle of June.

Premier Dave Hancock has said he will urge his cabinet to ratify the contract.

The deal was announced Monday, the same day the government dropped its appeal of an injunction the union won against legislation that would have imposed an austere contract similar to ones that went into effect last year for Alberta physicians and teachers.

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Hameed also said the listing was a “nail in the coffin” for Canadian humanitarian support for “orphans and destitute” Palestinians and wondered if TORONTO — A Canadian organization that pro- the decision was politically motivated.

Even acting for IRFAN as a lawyer puts him in vided humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has been formally branded a terror- a “tenuous” position because any support for the ist group before the start of a court battle over the group could be seen to run afoul of the Criminal Code, he said, adding it is only the second time a revocation of its charitable status.

In a letter to the International Relief Fund for the Canadian domestic organization has been listed as Afflicted and Needy, the RCMP said the federal gov- terrorist group.

Meanwhile, RCMP said Tuesday it had raided IRernment had added the group to a list of “terrorist FAN’s head office in Mississauga and a residence in entities” as of April 24.

“IRFAN is now classified as a ’terrorist group’ Quebec as part of a terrorism-financing investingation. under Canadian law,” the “An extensive amount letter from Supt. Stepha‘ON ITS FACE, WE BELIEVE IT IS AN of documentary evidence ne Bonin states. with stored media, “As a consequence, UNFAIR AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL along money and other records any property or asset belonging to IRFAN is now DECISION THAT HAS BEEN TAKEN .’ were seized,” police said in a statement. frozen.”

—YAVAR HAMEED RCMP offered no further The letter offers no LAWYER FOR IRFAN details of Monday’s raids. reason for the listing deBlaney’s statement notcision but Canada Reved “severe penalties” are enue Agency has said the in place for those who run organization supported afoul of the listing law.

Hamas, itself branded as a terrorist organization.

“Canada will not tolerate terrorist activities inA statement Tuesday from Public Affairs Minister Steven Blaney noted CRA’s contention — which was cluding the financing of terrorist groups,” Blaney to be argued in court next week — that IRFAN pro- said.

“IRFAN-Canada has knowingly financed Hamas, vided aid to groups run by officials of, or who supa listed terrorist entity, for many years.” ported Hamas.

In revoking its charitable status that followed two IRFAN, based in Mississauga, Ont., sent about $14.6 million in resources to “various organizations audits over 10 years, CRA referred to unproven sugassociated with Hamas” between 2005 and 2009, the gestions from the U.S. government that IRFAN had ties to an Hamas-linked American aid group. statement said.

It also claims IRFAN “repeatedly misrepresented The non-profit IRFAN was due in Federal Court of Appeal on May 6 to contest a 2011 CRA decision its fundraising activities to the public” and that the to revoke its charitable status because of its alleged revocation decision was fair and legal.

It was not immediately clear whether the Fedties to Hamas and failure to keep proper records.

No one for IRFAN was available to comment, but eral Court of Appeal case against CRA had been rena lawyer speaking for the group condemned the list- dered moot by Ottawa’s listing decision. ing as an attack on humanitarian support for Palestinians. IRFAN did not know the terrorist listing was in the works and had no opportunity to respond or offer its side of the story, Ottawa-based lawyer Yavar OPENING FRIDAY, MAY 2 Hameed said in an interview.

There’s no evidence the group did any direct Mon. to Fri. 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. funding of Hamas, he said.

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“This listing happens days before we are to presHanging Baskets, Proven Winners, ent arguments for the first time to the Federal Court Annuals, Perennials of Appeal, so we’re very concerned about the timing with which this listing happens which completely Located 6.5 km East of 30 Ave undermines any ability for this organization to work on Delburne Hwy. as a charity,” Hameed said.

“On its face, we believe it is an unfair and uncon(403)347-4425 stitutional decision that has been taken.”

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Storm death toll passes 30 TORNADOES TEAR THROUGH SOUTH, LEAVING PATH OF DESTRUCTION

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOUISVILLE, Miss. — A dangerous storm system that spawned a chain of deadly tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses, forced frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover and left tens of thousands in the dark Tuesday.

As the storm hopscotched across a large swath of the U.S., the overall death toll was more than 30, killed Monday and Sunday in a band stretching from Oklahoma to Alabama. Forecasts showed the storm continuing to threaten residents in the Deep South Tuesday afternoon and evening, with another round of howling winds, pounding rain, flash flooding and tornado conditions possible.

Some awoke Tuesday to find their loved ones missing and their homes pulverized. In Louisville, a hardscrabble logging town hit by one of the storm’s twisters, firefighters picked through the remains of mobile homes, and twenty of them linked hands to wade through debris. Rescue workers stepped gingerly over downed power lines and trees that were snapped in half and stripped of branches.

With water and roof damage, the small local hospital’s emergency room was evacuated Monday.

“We thought we were going to be OK, then a guy came in and said, ’It’s here right now,”’ said Dr. Michael Henry, head of the ER. “Then boom ... it blew through.”

Just east of the hospital, a woman died at the daycare centre she’d run for seven years, according to the county coroner. One seriously injured child was evacuated from the centre, said state Rep. Michael Evans, D-Louisville, who is acting as a liaison for the county. The child’s condition was not known Tuesday. Evans said authorities don’t think any other children were in the centre during the storm.

“No other parents have shown up to say, ’My child was at the daycare.’

That’s why we think the day care is fine,” Evans said.

In Tupelo, crews turned from search-and-rescue efforts to cleanup in parts of the northeastern Mississippi community Tuesday. The buzzing

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Joshua Boston, right, and friend Anthony Skaggs, left, stand on what remains of Boston’s home after it was struck by Sunday’s tornado, Tuesday, in Vilonia, Ark. A dangerous storm system that spawned a chain of deadly tornadoes over three days flattened homes and businesses, forced frightened residents in more than half a dozen states to take cover and left tens of thousands in the dark Tuesday morning. sound of chain saws cut through the otherwise still, hazy morning. Massive oak trees, knocked over like children’s toys, blocked some roads.

Neighbours helped one other cut away limbs. Residents, taken aback by the damage, said they prayed that more storms wouldn’t hit the city later Tuesday.

Pam Montgomery, 54, walked with her grey Scottish terrier, Ava, in the parking lot of St. Luke’s United Methodist church in her neighbourhood.

“This does not even look like a place that I’m familiar with right now,” Montgomery said. “You look down some of

the streets and it doesn’t even look like there is a street.”

Abby Tucker, 27, described the feeling as surreal.

“You see this in movies,” she said.

“You don’t see it in your own backyard.”

In Kimberly, Ala., about 20 miles north of Birmingham, a suspected tornado hit at a crossroads before midnight Monday, tearing the A-shaped roof off the town’s Church of God. On Tuesday morning, the roof sat in a solid piece beside the red brick church.

Across the street, the cinderblock walls from an old fishing supply store

were scattered around the gravel parking lot. The building’s metal frame remained. Down the road, the fire department was flattened.

Tim Armstrong picked up pieces of splintered trees in his backyard. Armstrong, his wife and their two young daughters were home when the storm struck. He said they were listening to weather reports on television and heard an all-clear for their area.

“Three minutes later my mother-inlaw calls, says there’s a tornado in Morris,” a nearby town, Armstrong said.

“The power went out, and we went running to the middle of the house.”

Attacks in pro-government areas heighten fears of escalation

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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DAMASCUS, Syria — A massive double car bombing and a mortar strike targeted pro-government neighbourhoods Tuesday in two of Syria’s largest cities, killing at least 54 people a day after President Bashar Assad declared his candidacy for re-election.

The attacks in Damascus and Homs heightened fears of an escalation ahead of the contentious June 3 vote and showed that despite a series of battlefield setbacks, the rebels remain capable of hitting the government and its core of support.

Now in its fourth year, Syria’s conflict has left the country a chaotic tableau of localized battles whose front lines shift back and forth, but have little impact on the wider war. The map of control has remained largely unaltered: Assad holds sway in Damascus and the corridor that runs up to the Mediterranean coast, while the rebels control most of the north along the Turkish border and the Kurdish minority controls a corner in the northeast.

But the rebels are feeling squeezed in the capital, Damascus, and in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city and an opposition stronghold since the beginning of the uprising against Assad. The government has taken a two-pronged approach to crushing resistance in both areas: suffocating blockades that even-

tually force cease-fires and a fierce offensive along the Lebanese frontier that has severely restricted the flow of weapons and fighters along crossborder supply lines.

In Homs, the rebels are growing desperate as government forces ramp up their assault on the last remaining pockets of opposition in the Old City.

Among the hundreds of fighters still holding out in besieged districts, some talk of surrender while others have lashed out at the government with suicide car bombings in pro-Assad districts.

Tuesday’s double car bombing struck near the pro-government Zahra and Abbasiyeh neighbourhoods — an area predominantly inhabited by Christians and members of Assad’s Alawite sect. At least 40 people were killed and another 116 wounded, the official SANA news agency said. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also put the death toll at 40 and said more than 80 were wounded.

The explosions struck 10 minutes apart and 150 yards (meters) from each other on a busy residential and commercial thoroughfare.

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In Damascus, several mortar shells slammed into a school in the predominantly Shiite neighbourhood of Shaghour, killing 14 people and wounding 86, the state news agency reported.

The Observatory said 19 people were killed, including 14 children.

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Ukraine insurgent leader may be working for Russia

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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — A gang of suspected drug traffickers ransacked an outpatient clinic in a Rio de Janeiro slum and torched nine passenger buses during a clash with police, authorities said Tuesday.

The clash late Monday took place in the Alemao complex of slums hours after three cars were burned near a police outpost. In a separate slum to the west of Alemao, assailants set fire to five buses during a demonstration protesting the shooting death of a local resident. It’s the latest unrest to hit Rio’s slums in the weeks before the country hosts the World Cup. Rio police had earlier said four buses were torched in the clash, but raised the number to nine hours afterward.

Tensions have been rising in recent months amid an ambitious security push that sees officers enter slums long held by drug gangs then create permanent police posts.

Cambodia agrees in principle to plan to resettle boatpeople PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A senior Cambodian official has said his country has tentatively agreed to accept asylum-seekers who had been seeking to settle in Australia in a potential deal criticized by refugee advocates.

Foreign Ministry Secretary of State Ouch Borith told reporters on Tuesday there was an agreement in principle to take the asylum-seekers, who are being held in camps on the Pacific island nation of Nauru under an agreement with Australia.

However, he stressed that Cambodia had not yet approved the deal.

The boatpeople are mostly from the Middle East, South Asian countries and Myanmar, and the camps on Nauru are considered processing camps rather than settlements. Australia essentially pays Nauru for hosting the asylumseekers. It is generally assumed a similar arrangement would be worked out with Cambodia, although for permanent resettlement.

SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — When shadowy commander Igor Strelkov appeared before the cameras recently in green combat fatigues and a clipped moustache, he did more than reveal the face of the insurgency rocking eastern Ukraine. He strengthened the case that Russia is behind the turmoil.

The commander did not address Ukraine and European Union assertions that he is a Russian intelligence officer. But he told journalists that he and his men entered Ukraine from Crimea, which Russia annexed in March after an insurgency that Russian President Vladimir Putin now admits involved Russian troops. Strelkov’s assertion that many of the insurgents are not locals undermines rebel claims that the insurgency is a spontaneous uprising, rather than a co-ordinated operation backed by outside forces.

“The militia is of course strongly sprinkled with volunteers from other regions,” Strelkov said in a taped interview with Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda. He estimated that a third of the fighters are not Ukrainian. He backtracked Tuesday in an interview with Russian TV, claiming 90 per cent of the militiamen were Ukrainian.

The EU on Tuesday included Strelkov among 15 new people targeted by sanctions.

EU documents identify him as a member of the Russian military intelligence agency GRU, as do Ukrainian authorities. The commander himself was cryptic about his origins in the weekend interview.

In Moscow, a flurry of drama surrounded Strelkov’s emergence, as camera crews swarmed around an apartment building that Ukrainian TV reported to be home to his mother. Neighbors said that a “fancy black car” had turned up Tuesday morning to whisk the woman away.

Equally murky are the origins of Strelkov’s insurgents, their operations and their weapons. They have proven themselves to be ruthless and effective, running their campaign with unerring foreknowledge of Ukrainian security operations.

Strelkov said his forces obtained their weapons partly from police buildings they had taken over, adding that his men also took arms and vehicles from Ukrainian forces they fought when they entered eastern Ukraine last month.

“Russia so far hasn’t supplied us with a single machine-gun or bullet,” he said.

It wasn’t clear why Strelkov has chosen to go public now. The insurgents are seeking more autonomy from Kyiv — possibly even independence or annexation by Rus-

sia. Ukraine’s acting government and the West have accused Moscow of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear could be used as a pretext for a Russian invasion.

The belief that the Kremlin is directing the insurgents — whose mysterious origins and green fatigues have won them the moniker “little green men” — gained credence when Putin last month dropped his denials that the Russian army had been deployed in Crimea during the uprising in that region.

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U.S. offers plea deal to man it once accused of terrorism NEW YORK — The United States government revealed Tuesday that it is offering a plea deal that may result in freedom for a Tunisian man who last year was accused of plotting to build a U.S.-based terrorism cell and radicalizing a Canadian man charged in a train derailment plot.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ferrara announced the offer in federal court in Manhattan at a pre-trial hearing for Ahmed Abassi.

The plea would be to charges of making false statements and possessing an identification document with intent to defraud the United States.

Abassi has pleaded not guilty. The false statements charge carries a maximum of five years in prison. The other charge, a misdemeanour, carries a potential sentence of up to one year in prison.

Ferrara said federal sentencing guidelines would call for a sentence of up to six months in prison if the government declines to ask for a terrorism enhancement at sentencing.

If it did, the guidelines would call for six years in prison, he said.

Assistant Federal Defender Sabrina Shroff said her client has not yet decided whether to accept the deal or go to trial.

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In the background, is one of three blindfolded and bound men who are allegedly the captured Ukrainian secret service members. Strelkov has been identified as a Russian security services operative by Ukraine’s government.

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Hospital staff use slang for patients THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF DOCTORS

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS For anyone who’s been a patient or a family member attending a loved one in hospital, the expectation — or at least the hope — is that doctors, nurses and other care providers are empathetic to what ails them and respectful of their needs.

But away from the bedside, perhaps in hallways or at nursing stations, there may be quick and quiet conferences among hospital staff that suggest they are anything but.

In his new book, The Secret Language of Doctors, Dr. Brian Goldman reveals a veritable dictionary of verbal shorthand used by many physicians, nurses and other health professionals to discuss — and often diss — various types of patients and even their own colleagues.

Patient-directed slang includes such terms as: “Yellow Submarine,” referring to an obese patient with cirrhosis of the liver; “frequent flyer” or “cockroach,” for a patient who repeatedly comes to the emergency department with one health complaint after another; and “status dramaticus,” used to describe patients who noisily magnify their symptoms to get quicker medical attention.

Despite its title and contents, Goldman maintains the book isn’t meant to be just about the jargon that medical personnel trade amongst themselves.

“It’s a book about what the language reveals about the culture of modern medicine and what’s inside the heads and hearts of physicians and allied health professionals, but also the problems that they face, the challenges,” he says.

Goldman, a longtime emergency medicine specialist at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, says

disparaging slang used by some doctors and nurses often reflects the frustration they feel when faced with certain types of patients.

For instance, bariatric patients, who could weigh anywhere from 400 to 800 pounds, can pose difficulties for health providers who don’t have size-appropriate stretchers or mechanized lifts to transfer obese patients from the bed to a surgical gurney.

“And I didn’t know until I spoke to surgeons how challenging it is to operate on a patient who is morbidly obese,” he says, explaining that it takes more time to get through layers of fat to reach an organ or other operating site, there are higher complication rates, and patients often need to recover in hospital longer.

Goldman, host of the CBC Radio program White Coat, Black Art, interviewed doctors and nurses across Canada and the United States for “Secret Language.” He found slang was often used about certain groups of patients — the economically disadvantaged, those with a psychiatric illness or addiction, the chronically ill, the frail elderly, and people with dementia.

“I have never heard in the hospital where I work a phrase like ‘cockroach’ used to describe somebody who comes back again.

If I did, I would stop that person immediately,” says the 30-year ER veteran.

“And pejorative slang about seniors? I come from a hospital where we treat seniors with respect and dignity,” he says of Mount Sinai, which includes trained geriatric management nurses among staff.

“So I was really surprised to hear that in some institutions that kind of slang still exists.”

Still, Goldman admits he has favourites when it comes to medical argot.

“I like witty slang — and I’m getting into dangerous territory here — because I love puns,” says the bearded physician-author. He thinks he may even have invented one term — dyscopia — referring to a patient or family member who has difficulty coping.

“Code brown” is another. A word play on the drop-everything, come-running emergency “code blue,” code brown is hospitalspeak for feces that needs cleaning up on the ward.

Another one he learned during his research from an obstetrician is “caesarean-section consent form,” which is slang for a multi-page birth plan presented to birthing staff by a woman prior to delivery. Such a plan may comprise inclusion of the woman’s midwife or doula, certain music in the delivery suite, instruction that there be no epidural but allnatural child birth, and even no fetal heart monitoring.

“And the last thing that would ever be on the birth plan is a caesarean-section,” Goldman says half-mockingly.

“On the one hand, I should be outraged — it’s a terrible thing to say — but it reflects a certain truism. It reflects that when it comes to a meeting of minds between a woman in labour and her family and the health-care team, there may be differences of opinion.

And one of them is about birth plans.

“A birth plan is a misnomer, because you can’t plan everything that’s going to happen.”

That’s not to say that doctors aren’t the subjects of slang labels among their own colleagues: surgeons are often referred to as “cowboys,” internists as “fleas,” and ER doctors like Goldman as “referologists.”

“It means that somebody thinks that the only thing emergency physicians do is refer (to other specialists),” he explains.

WHO scientists head to Saudi Arabia TO HELP WITH GROWING MERS OUTBREAK

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Scientists from the World Health Organization are travelling to Saudi Arabia to help investigate this month’s large increase in cases of MERS — Middle East respiratory syndrome.

A spokesperson for the Geneva-based agency says the mission is a response to a request for assistance from the Saudi government.

The number of MERS infections has soared recently, with more cases being diagnosed this month alone than in the past two years combined.

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl says some WHO personnel are already in Saudi Arabia, taking part in a previously scheduled scientific meeting on health management of mass gatherings.

The two-day meeting, which ended Tuesday, was not called in response to the surge in MERS cases but sessions on the new disease are on the agenda.

Hartl says other members of the WHO team were to travel to Saudi Arabia overnight and the mission will begin today.

Saudi Arabia is the site of the world’s largest annual pilgrimage, the Hajj. A world leader in health management of mass gatherings, it hosts the WHO collaborating centre for mass gatherings medicine, one of four WHO collaborating centres that research and advise on public health related to events like large pilgrimages, the Olympics and soccer’s World Cup. The first known cases of MERS occurred in April 2012 and between then and the end of March of this year, 207 cases were reported by the WHO or affected Middle East countries.

But April has seen a sharp increase in cases, mostly in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The WHO’s official count lags far behind those announced by affected countries, which now totals more than 425 cases and over 100 deaths.

At least some of the increase comes from hospitalrelated outbreaks in Jidda, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi, UAE. But a flurry of cases has also been reported from the Saudi capital, Riyadh. And in the past few weeks Greece, Malaysia, the Philippines and Jordan have seen cases in travellers who had recently returned from Saudi Arabia or the UAE.

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The West leads the rest RESOURCES BOOST OUTPUT

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A regional breakdown of economic performance suggests Canada’s two economies drifted even further apart in 2013.

Statistics Canada says in a new report issued Tuesday that improvement in economic output last year was heavily slanted toward resource-rich regions.

The gap between the West and the rest was even more pronounced, said Bank of Montreal economist Robert Kavcic, widening to almost two full percentage points.

Saskatchewan, which also benefited from a bump in the agriculture sector, posted a 4.8 per cent surge in gross domestic product in 2013, while oil-rich Alberta realized a 3.9 per cent growth rate.

Newfoundland and Labrador, which also has a resource-based economy, actually led the country in GDP improvement with a booming 7.9 per cent acceleration, but that was somewhat misleading because it came in the wake of a 4.2 per cent slump in 2012.

Meanwhile, Central Canada continued to struggle — Ontario and Quebec squeezing out mere 1.2 and 1.1 per cent growth rates respectively — as did the Maritime provinces. New Brunswick had no GDP growth in 2013, Nova Scotia’s was a meagre 0.8 per cent and Prince Edward Island posted a 1.4 per cent advance.

Meanwhile, Manitoba and British Columbia did a little better, coming in at 2.2 per cent and two per cent growth respectively.

The weakness in Ontario and Quebec was concentrated on the troubled manufacturing sector, including an outright output decline in the auto industry, and home construction.

Kavcic said the results were “bang on” expectations, but the disparity was wider.

“But a return to more normal crop conditions in the West, and the benefit of a weaker Canadian dollar and firmer U.S. demand in Central and Atlantic Canada should help narrow the gap in 2014,” he added.

Last week, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz lamented that the recovery had produced a “hot and not (hot) economy,” but said he was hopeful a turnaround in non-energy exports was coming.

Still, he said even non-energy producing regions had benefited from what has been hot in the economy — oil.

“While different regions and sectors adjust differently and while these adjustments can be painful, they allow us to maximize the benefits of our rich energy endowment — and ultimately everyone gets the gift,” he said.

For the country as a whole, the agency said the economy grew by 2.0 per cent, following a 1.8 per cent gain in 2012.

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Commercial realtors Mike Dandurand, left, and Lyndon Rush chat at the Village Shopping Centre, which Dandurand has sold three times over the years. The two former athletes are teaming up to form Dandurand, Rush & Associates.

Dandurand returns with a Rush VETERAN RED DEER REALTOR MIKE DANDURAND FORMS A NEW COMPANY WITH AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR

Mike Dandurand has closed a lot of deals during his more than 35 years in the commercial real estate industry.

In addition to countless properties and businesses in Central Alberta, his list of transactions includes a heli-skiing facility in British Columbia, a high-rise seniors complex in Quebec and a 500-room hotel in Portugal.

But Dandurand’s most memorable was a $6,000 sale that earned him $64.93 in commissions.

“It was a small tailor shop that I’d sold to a single mom, who came from India and had little or no money but had somehow managed to save this little bit of money.”

He recalls sitting at the woman’s kitchen table and telling her a deal was in place.

“That lady cried,” he said, noting with satisfaction

that the Red Deer business went on to prosper and grew under her guidance.

“Moments like that, to me, they’re extremely rewarding.”

Dandurand’s name was conspicuously absent from the market last year, as he dealt with a life-threatening illness.

But at 67, he’s back in the game and recently struck a deal with Olympic bobsledder Lyndon Rush to create Dandurand, Rush & Associates.

“Lyndon was a real asset to recruit,” said Dandurand, who hopes to share his knowledge and expertise with the 33-year-old.

Rush obtained his Realtor’s licence in 2005, but stepped back from the industry four years later to focus on racing. Now retired from competition, he’s eager to work with Dandurand and learn from the veteran.

“I thought it would be a great fit,” said Rush, who lives in Sylvan Lake.

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West Fraser remains world’s top softwood producer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — West Fraser remained the world’s largest softwood lumber producer for a sixth consecutive year in 2013, but runner-up Canfor narrowed the gap as most of the top producers in the “Billion Board Foot Club” increased output to supply the recovering U.S. housing market and meet strong demand from China, according to an industry report.

Vancouver-based West Fraser’s production from 26 mills in B.C., Alberta and the U.S. south exceeded five billion board feet for the first time, reaching 5.15 billion net board feet or 8.3 million cubic metres.

It was followed by Canfor (TSX:CFP) at 4.75 billion board feet.

Weyerhaeuser’s (NYSE:WY) softwood lumber operations in the U.S. and Canada were in third at four billion board feet.

West Fraser’s operations include the West Fraser LVL plant at Rocky Mountain House and Sundre Forest Products.

The International Wood Markets survey said the world’s top 12 producers remained unchanged and included five Canadian and four U.S. producers, one European company, one South American firm and one company headquartered in Russia.

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Mary Brown’s Famous Chicken & Taters returning to Red Deer

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Crews from Pidherney’s do road work at the corner of Burnt Bluff Street Road and Burnt Park Drive, near the northeast corner of Burnt Lake Business Park. Industrial lands west of Hwy 2, including the Burnt Lake and Queens business parks, are developing quickly.

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The Canadian fast-food restaurant recently opened a store at 6858 Gaetz Ave., the former premises of Clancy’s Meat Co. Mary Brown’s previously operated at 3701 Gaetz Ave., but closed years ago.

Stefan Abraham, business development consultant with Mary Brown’s, said the chain is known for its fried chicken and signature sandwiches.

“It’s all hand-cut in store,” he said of the chicken, which is also marinated and breaded on site.

“We only keep it for two hours once it’s cooked, and then it’s discarded.”

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foundland in 1969, originally under the name Golden Skillet. It’s since expanded west, with the Red Deer store its 102nd.

The company has set a goal of having 200 outlets in five years, with Alberta figuring prominently in this growth.

Peter Rakovalis, franchise development manager for the company, said eight are slated to open in Alberta this year, bringing the total in this province to 30.

Kam Khurshed, who owns the Red Deer franchise, also operates the Mary Brown’s in St. Albert and Spruce Grove.

Canadian business Greg Roberts has been owned Mary Brown’s since 2007.

The Red Deer store is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week.

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FIRM: Every day different The new firm will deal in investment real estate, business brokerage, development co-ordination and leasing.

Dandurand thinks his associate’s athletic background will serve him well, both in terms of his discipline and work ethic, and the many contacts he made while racing.

Rush, who won a bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics and is World Cup champion, agreed.

“I think people who do well in sports are the kind of people who know how to get it done,” he said, describing the link between hard work and success.

“I started learning that from a very young age, playing sports.”

Dandurand also has an athletic background.

Growing up in Montreal, he played with Montreal Canadiens legend Maurice Richard’s children, who lived down the street. Dandurand was later recruited by a local tennis club, and went on to represent Montreal in the sport.

The tennis club also afforded him the opportunity to ski in the winter, and Dandurand developed into a professional skier. He competed on the Benson & Hedges pro circuit with the likes of Olympic superstar Jean-Claude Killy, and became an instructor and coach.

“I travelled extensively because of that, in Europe and the United States and Canada.”

Dandurand opened a ski shop at Mount Tremblant, which expanded to include scuba diving in the summer. After he became a certified dive instructor and hyperbaric technician, Dandurand pitched hyperbaric chambers to hospitals across Canada, including Red Deer’s in 1976.

The following year, he moved to the Central Alberta city and earned his Realtors licence. After working for several brokerages, he started Mike Dandurand Realty.

He specialized in a variety of areas, including selling foreclosed properties for banks, sourcing and developing real estate for clients, and selling businesses.

“I loved (business) brokering so much that I just stayed in it all my life.

“It’s highly specialized, it’s highly technical; every day is different.”

The industry has undergone tremendous change over the years, said Dandurand.

“Back when I started, people were writing offers on apartment buildings on residential stationery.”

He remembers when Red Deer reached a development tipping point, with national and international businesses choosing the city as a place to operate.

During 3 ½ decades in commercial real estate, a bit of déjà vu is inevitable.

“There’s a business in Red Deer that still exits — I won’t name it — I sold that one five times,” said Dandurand.

He’s sold Village Shopping Centre three times, and been called upon repeatedly to market a 90-acre parcel in Gasoline Alley.

“I sold that at least four times.”

Dandurand has three adult children — Ryan, Elise and Rachelle — and is married to Heidi, a Red Deer mortgage planner.

He’d just completed a $117-million real estate deal before undergoing treatment for cancer early last year. He closed Mike Dandurand Realty, but following his recovery joined Sundance Realty & Management in Innisfail.

“I feel like a million dollars,” he said of his current state of health, adding that he still has a passion for the industry.

“Even after 30-some years in business, I still learn new things.”

Dandurand, Rush & Associates is expected to open in early June. It will be located at No. 104, 4719 48th Ave. — the longtime premises of Mike Dandurand Realty. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

LUMBER: Output grows “With U.S. housing starts up for the fourth consecutive year, most North American companies increased output, although in different ways: some restarted curtailed mills or added shifts, while other benefited from mill capital expenditure programs or outright acquisitions,” stated Russell Taylor, Wood Markets president.

He said all but two companies posted production gains last year. The average increase was seven per cent, with two growing by more than 25 per cent.

The total output of the 12 companies was 28.95 billion board feet, up from 26.96 billion board feet.

Overall global softwood production grew by only two per cent.

Consequently, the market share of the top producers was 17 per cent in 2013, up from 16 per cent in 2012 and 15 per cent in 2011.

The biggest gainers were Georgia-Pacific, which added 430 million board feet, Canfor (411 million), Interfor (365 million) and Weyerhaeuser (250 million).

With three mill acquisitions in 2014, West Fraser’s (TSX:WFT) 30 mills have more than six billion board feet of capacity.

Four of Canfor’s 19 sawmills are in the southern U.S., while 13 are in B.C. and one in Alberta. The company sold its Quebec mill and closed its Quesnel, B.C., mill earlier this year. It continues to expand sales in China, with accounted for 24 per cent of sales in 2013, up from two per cent in 2007.

Paul Quinn of RBC Capital Markets expects that West Fraser and Canfor will take advantage of a “super cycle” to pursue acquisitions to drive growth in the next three years.

“As the housing recovery progresses, we believe that many family owned, single-mill operators (30 per cent of the 815 sawmills in North America), which have out come out of the worst cycle in history, will be looking to sell out in the boom,” he wrote in a report.

The top 20 Canadian producers expanded their output by 4.9 per cent to 18.91 billion board feet in 2013.

Twelve are based in Western Canada, with production accounting for 76 per cent of the Canadian output.

Canfor had the largest Canadian production, with its 14 mills increasing output by nine per cent last year to 4.2 billion board feet. West Fraser’s Canadian output from 12 mills grew three per cent to 3.57 billion, followed by Tolko and Resolute Forest Products (TSX:RFP). Resolute, the fourth-largest producer in Canada, slipped two spots to No. 10 in the world.

Tembec (TSX:TMB) was eighth largest with output decreasing 11 per cent to 743 million board feet.

Chief executive James Lopez said the Montrealbased company will consider spending to upgrade its sawmills once it completes a large investment to expand its Temiscaming pulp production facility, which includes upgrading a boiler and selling power to Hydro-Quebec.

“We have some very high payback projects,” he told analysts Tuesday in discussing its second-quarter results.

“Frankly, it’s stuff that other companies that invest heavily in sawmills have already done but can make a pretty drastic shift in terms of our yields, grade recovery and productivity.”

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A Whiting Petroleum Co. pump jack pulls crude oil from the Bakken region of the Northern Plains near Bainville, Mont.

Bakken oil fields mark billionth barrel of crude oil production

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BISMARCK, N.D. — Oil drillers targeting the rich Bakken shale formation in western North Dakota and eastern Montana have produced 1 billion barrels of crude, data from the two states show.

Drillers first targeted the Bakken in Montana in 2000 and moved into North Dakota about five years later using advanced horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques to recover oil trapped in a thin layer of dense rock nearly two miles beneath the surface.

North Dakota has generated 852 million barrels of Bakken crude, and Montana has produced about 151 million barrels through the first quarter of 2014, data show.

Oklahoma City-based Continental Resources Inc., one the oldest and biggest operators in the Bakken, said two-thirds of the production has come in the past three years.

“It’s been quite a revelation that’s happened there,” Continental Chairman Harold Hamm told The Associated Press. “It’s right in line with expectations.”

Hamm, an early believer in the Bakken, estimated the rich cache holds more than 20 billion barrels of oil and technology continues to improve to help recover it.

“This is tight rock and it’s quite a job to wring barrels out of it,” he said.

Experts had known for decades that the Bakken held millions of barrels of crude, but it wasn’t until oil prices reached record levels that the technology was developed to the point of being able to exploit the formation.

The Bakken encompasses some 25,000 square miles in North Dakota, Montana, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. About two-thirds of the acreage is in western North Dakota.

Unlocking the once-perplexing formation has propelled North Dakota from the nation’s ninth-largest oil producer in 2006 to No. 2, behind Texas.

The Bakken and the Three Forks formation directly below it account for about 94 per cent of North Dakota’s current oil production, which is nearing 1 million barrels a day, said Alison Ritter, a North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources spokeswoman. Three Forks production is counted toward Bakken production.

Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, said the milestone of a billion barrels of oil is less important than the Bakken’s economic impact on the region.

“Barrels are just barrels,” said Ness, whose group represents more than 500 companies working in North Dakota’s oil patch. “It’s that long-term investment that’s important. The Bakken has been a huge asset to the state, the region and the nation.”

North Dakota began producing oil in 1951, when crude was struck on a wheat farm near Tioga in the northwest part of the state. The state tallied its 1 billionth barrel of oil in 1989 and the 2 billionth barrel in 2011. The state is on track to tally its 3 billionth barrel of oil this year or next, Ritter said.

Jim Halvorson, a petroleum geologist with the Montana Board of Oil and Gas, said his state has produced 1.8 billion barrels of oil since 1916.

The U.S. Geological Survey has called the Bakken the largest continuous oil accumulation it had ever assessed. The agency, which bases its data largely on information from oil company and state drilling records, said up to 7.4 billion barrels of oil could be recovered from the Bakken and the underlying Three Forks using current technology.

Geologists and oil companies have mixed opinions on whether the Three Forks is a separate formation or acts as a trap, catching oil that leaks from the Bakken shale above. Some say it could be a combination of both.

Suncor’s Montreal coker decision coming late this year or early next THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A project that would enable Suncor Energy Inc.’s Montreal refinery to process thick, tarry oilsands bitumen from Alberta could get the green light later this year or early in 2015, CEO Steve Williams said Tuesday.

The Montreal coker project is just one way Suncor is looking to cut crude costs at the refinery, which has long relied on pricey overseas imports.

“I expect to have on my desk by the end of this year the proposal for the coker project, so we’ll be in a much clearer position toward the end of this year, maybe beginning of next year to decide whether we go ahead,” Williams told analysts on a conference call to discuss Suncor’s firstquarter results.

Suncor (TSX:SU) is not disclosing the estimated pricetag of the coker project, but Williams says it will cost much less to built in Montreal than in the cost-inflation prone northern Alberta market.

As well, much of the required equipment is already in Suncor’s hands, as an earlier iteration of the project was shelved years ago.

In the meantime, Suncor has been able to supply the 137,000 barrel-per-day facility with cheaper inland crude using rail and ship.

During the first quarter, about 20,000 barrels per day of Western crude made its way to Montreal by rail, with the expectation of hitting an average north of 30,000 barrels per day for 2014.

Suncor figures its rail

strategy saved it $20 million during the quarter, since the Montreal refinery had access to cheaper inland crude, rather than having to rely on costlier imports.

Some seaborne cargoes loaded with cost-effective U.S. crudes have

also made their way to Montreal — an option Suncor uses on an “opportunistic” basis, Williams said.

By this time next year, Suncor says its Montreal refinery should be able to get 100 per cent of its crude

from within North America — once Enbridge Inc.’s (TSX:ENB) Line 9 pipeline between southwestern Ontario and Montreal has been reversed and expanded.

That project won regulatory approval in March.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 104.69 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 53.20 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.14 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.18 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 45.73 Cdn. National Railway . . 63.26 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 165.48 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.33 Capital Power Corp . . . . . . NA Cervus Equipment Corp . . . NA Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 48.70 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 52.77 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.10 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.02 General Motors Co. . . . . . . NA Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . . . NA Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.33 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 48.27 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 63.35 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.38 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.31 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . . . NA Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 106.79 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . . . NA Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.80 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed higher Tuesday as a strong earnings report from oilsands giant Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) raised expectations for other energy companies reporting this week.

The S&P/TSX composite index climbed 52.2 points to close at 14,583.11.

Suncor posted operating earnings of $1.79 billion, or $1.22 per share, widely beating the average analyst expectation of 93 cents and its shares were up 3.05 per cent to $42.60.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.62 of a cent to 91.32 cents US. A better than expected earnings season pushed New York’s Dow Jones industrials up 86.63 points to 16,535.37.

The Nasdaq gained 29.14 points to 4,103.54 and the S&P 500 index climbed 8.9 points to 1,878.33.

After the close, social network company Twitter reported earnings per share, ex-items, showing it broke even, better than the three cent a share loss that had been expected.

Revenue of $250 million beat expectations of $241 million but its shares fell about nine per cent in after hours trading, giving back Tuesday’s advance of 4.64 per cent, amid a slightly weakerthan expected revenue forecast.

U.S. corporate earnings are currently expected to grow by 1.4 per cent in the period, compared with growth of 5.2 percent in the same period as a year earlier. Two weeks ago, companies were expected to report a decline in earnings.

Investors also looked to the U.S. Federal Reserve, which wraps up its two-day meeting Wednesday. Policy-makers are expected to further trim the central bank’s bond-buying program and provide further insight into the state of the world’s biggest economy.

Traders will also look for further indications of when the Fed might start to raise short-term interest rates,

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 18.22 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.06 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 60.13 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79.67 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.74 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.35 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 23.27 First Quantum Minerals . 21.79 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.20 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.35 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.51 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.16 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.66 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.60 Energy Aeroflex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Badger Daylighting Ltd. . . . NA Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . . . NA Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 57.50 Calfrac Well . . . . . . . . . . 38.31 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 44.95 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 1.05 Canyon Services Group. . . NA Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.02 CWC Well Services . . . . . . NA Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 25.68 which have been near zero since the financial crisis.

Suncor’s performance helped send the energy sector up 1.6 per cent as June crude in New York rose 44 cents to US$101.28 a barrel.

Traders will be taking in earnings from other heavy hitters in the sector this week, including Cenovus (TSX:CVE), Imperial Oil (TSX:IMO) and Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) amid a sharp change in the fortunes for these companies.

One of the improvements revolves around a sharp narrowing in the price between oilsands crude, known as Western Canadian Select, and West Texas Intermediate, a lighter crude used as the U.S. benchmark.

July copper was down two cents to US$3.07 a pound and the base metals sector rose 1.13 per cent.

Gold faded $2.70 to US$1,296.30 an ounce and the sector was up about one per cent.

In other corporate developments, Quebecor Inc. (TSX:QBR.B) shares were 62 cents lower to $26 with the announcement that its president and chief executive is retiring. Robert Depatie, who was promoted to the post last May when Pierre Karl Peladeau stepped down, announced Monday that he was retiring for health reasons.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,583.11, up 52.20 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,000.05, down 9.53 points TSX 60 — 832.67, up 2.50 points Dow — 16,535.37, up 86.63 points S&P 500 — 1,878.33, up 8.90 points Nasdaq — 4,103.54, up 20.14 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.32 cents US, up 0.62 of a cent

Essential Energy. . . . . . . . . NA Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 101.45 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 63.01 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.29 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 35.94 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 53.40 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . . NA Penn West Energy . . . . . . . NA Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . . . NA Precision Drilling Corp . . . . NA Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 42.60 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.45 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.74 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.20 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . . . NA Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.13 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 65.92 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96.63 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.22 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NA Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.33 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 53.90 Intact Financial Corp. . . . . . NA Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.44 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.35 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 72.75 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 36.92 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52.10 Pound — C$1.8425, up 1.06 cents Euro — C$1.5124, down 1.44 cents Euro — US$1.3811, down 0.38 of a cent Oil futures: US$101.28 per barrel, up 44 cents (June contract) Gold futures: US$1,296.30 per oz., down $2.70 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.24 oz., down 14.5 cents $715.02 kg., down $4.66 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 1,000.05, down 9.53 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 178.96 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’14 $10.60 lower $471.90; July ’14 $0.20 higher $477.20; Nov. ’14 $0.20 lower $484.50; Jan ’15 $0.10 lower $490.70; March ’15 $0.30 lower $495.90; May ’15 $0.50 lower $500.60; July ’15 $0.90 lower $503.10; Nov ’15 $0.90 lower $488.20; Jan. ’16 $0.20 lower $480.40; March ’16 $6.10 higher $486.70.

Barley (Western): May ’14 unchanged $139.50; July ’14 unchanged $140.50; Oct. ’14 unchanged $140.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $140.50; March ’15 unchanged $140.50; May ’15 unchanged $140.50; July ’15 unchanged $140.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $140.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $140.50; March ’16 unchanged $140.50; May ’16 unchanged $140.50.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 561,520 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 561,520.

Chief says would-be Alberta premier Prentice understands opposition MADE NO HEADWAY ON NORTHERN GATEWAY PIPELINE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Former federal environment minister Jim Prentice hasn’t yet formally announced his intention to seek Alberta’s premiership, but he’s already attracted a backhanded endorsement from a tough oil and gas opponent next door.

Stewart Phillip, the grand chief of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs, said he’s been “eye-to-eyeball” with Prentice in negotiations in the past and respects the willingness of the former land claims negotiator to hear his opponents’ point of view.

“I think Mr. Prentice is an intelligent, perceptive man. He deeply considers the landscape,” Phillip said in a telephone interview Tuesday.

The landscape that Prentice, currently a senior executive with CIBC, has been considering of late is the bitterly divided gulf between opponents and proponents of the Northern Gateway project, a proposed pipeline from Alberta’s oilsands to the northern B.C. coast.

Prentice was hired two months ago

by Enbridge to negotiate the pipeline with First Nations.

The move came very late in a long regulatory process that now has the project awaiting approval from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative cabinet, of which Prentice was once a member.

With his pipeline peace mission incomplete, Prentice has signalled he plans to jump into the leadership race for Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives, a job that comes ready-made with the premiership when the race concludes in September.

Notwithstanding his reputation as a skilled negotiator with experience in both First Nations and environmental files, Prentice has made no headway on Northern Gateway, said Phillip.

“My sense is at the outset he was set with the unenviable task of resuscitating a dead horse,” said the chief.

Prentice gave it a good beating, Phillip added, “but dead is dead.”

“I think he underestimated the deeply entrenched opposition to En-

bridge’s Northern Gateway proposal.”

But Phillip said the process may help Prentice bring some understanding and creative solutions to the growing energy impasse in the country.

“There’s got to be better, more creative solutions than simply pumping heavy oil sludge from the tar sands to the West Coast. There’s got to be some deeper thinking with respect to that,” he said.

“Who knows? Maybe he will look toward other solutions.”

Prentice’s pending official campaign launch may already be influencing Alberta environmental policy.

Multiple sources suggest provincial and federal civil servants have agreed on new oil and gas regulations to replace the current provincial carbon levy, which expires in September.

The province, according to sources, has agreed to a “double-double” formula that would see the current $15-per-tonne levy on large emitters who fail to reduce emissions intensity by 12 per cent doubled to a charge of $30 per tonne and reductions of 24 per cent.

But while such an announcement was said to be “imminent,” a provincial source said Prentice’s entry into the leadership race will likely push off any major news until September.

“You’re not going to have an interim premier (Dave Hancock) make a pretty significant policy development with respect to the Sept. 1 provincial regs,” said the source, who was not authorized to speak for the government.

It is more likely the province will simply roll over the current regime for an interim period, since it must be replaced before it expires Sept. 1.

The case for delay is bolstered by the entry of a clear front-runner like Prentice who has an environmentalist brand to his public appeal, said the source, and may want to put his personal stamp on the decision.

The Prime Minister’s Office confirmed Harper met with Hancock on Monday in Ottawa, where the two discussed a range of issues — including energy.

A Prentice spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

Canada losing export market share, says Poloz

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada is missing out on about $40 billion in export sales and could continue to do so for years to come as uncompetitive producers continue to lose market share, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz said Tuesday.

The central banker, who was testifying before the Commons finance committee, said there are several factors for the significant drop-off — including poor productivity and a stronger loonie, as well as the disappearance of about 9,000 exporting firms since the recession.

But the bottom line is that the “wedge” that has opened up in the non-energy export sector is the new reality and is not going away in the near future, he said.

The loss in export capacity has been the principal reason Canada’s economy continues in the slow lane at about

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Supporters of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline are seeking a swift election-year Senate vote on legislation to approve the project that environmentalists oppose strongly and the Obama administration has delayed. Pipeline advocates in the Senate, including several Democrats on the ballot next fall, hold a clear majority. Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana chairs the Senate Energy Committee and says she will seek a vote in a few weeks. Republicans want the vote to occur as part of the debate on energyefficiency legislation or as a stand-alone bill.

The bank has devoted considerable resources in trying to solve the “puzzle” of why exports in particular have yet to recover from the recession.

As an open economy “our export outlook is crucial,” he said.

In a research paper released last week, the bank found that about 55 per cent of non-energy subsector exporters — in value terms — have performed at historic levels given the current state of the external recovery, but that the remaining subsectors have lost market share and will likely continue to lag.

The governor told the MPs he expects export growth going forward to coincide with the pace of the U.S. economy going forward, but noted that remains a forecast and not yet a reality. Asked what it would take for him to consider cutting interest rates further, he said a slower than expected recovery in the export sector.

He insisted that the Bank of Canada will make a decision on raising or cutting interest rates independently of what the United States does.

The governor’s testimony ran the

gamut of controversial issues debated in the Commons recently, such as job shortages and the impact of government restraint on growth, but Poloz mostly dodged that hot political issue.

He did defend companies that had not aggressively increased spending on new equipment to improve productivity, saying it was “understandable” business has been taking a cautious approach given the turmoil of the last several years.

In general, he said he believes the U.S. economy is starting to fire on most cylinders, with business investment and government spending about to come on stream, which should increase demand for Canada exports.

He said he was not concerned about the U.S. Federal Reserve, the counterpart to the Bank of Canada, continuing to draw down on its quantitative easing program — called tapering — because he said that is occurring as the U.S. economy normalizes.

And he added that he did not believe tapering would diminish asset values.

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two per cent growth, he said, and Canadian firms have been holding back on investments and hiring.

“Make no mistake, this wedge is real and it is big,” he said.

“Right now we have about $35 to $40 billion fewer exports than our models would have predicted at this time (in the global and U.S. economic recoveries).”

That represents almost a month’s worth the country’s merchandise exports.

Poloz, along with outgoing senior deputy governor Tiff Macklem, was testifying before the committee following release of the latest central bank outlook that predicted 2.3 per cent growth this year and 2.5 next. Both will appear before a Senate committee on Wednesday afternoon.

As he has since being appointed governor last summer, Poloz again focused on the troubled Canadian export sector, particularly in the non-resource and manufacturing industries, as the necessary ingredient to push the economy into a self-sustaining growth path.

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with a top-six forward and a top-four defenceman you can build your team around. But let’s be honest, those kinds of guys aren’t really there most of the The Red Deer Rebels will enter time after the first two rounds. If you Thursday’s Western Hockey League do find those players after that it’s due bantam draft in Calgary with the to luck or other things. Getting a Grayknowledge that they will land a top- son Pawlenchuk in the fourth round as end player with their first pick, sixth we did in 2012 . . . that doesn’t happen all of the time. overall.

“The first two rounds are where And that’s about the only guarantee — if there is such a thing — that will you’re going to get those types of playcome out of the annual lottery of 14- ers, then you have to look ahead and see how things may fall. We may deand 15-year-olds.

Who that player is won’t be deter- cide we’re not going to a get a good mined until five other prospects have forward or defenceman in a certain been taken off the board, and even spot, so we’d better take one now. then Rebels assistant general manag- This year it’s a lot different draft er/director of player personnel Shaun and to a lot of the guys (scouts) who Sutter won’t be targeting any particu- have been around for a long time, it’s probably one of the weaker drafts in lar position.

“There’s still some things to play terms of skill. So it’s definitely a chalout,” said Sutter. “When we picked lenge to sort the list, that’s for sure.” sixth in 2012 and took Adam Musil, we The general consensus among WHL never thought that he was going to be scouts is that either Stelio Mattheos, a six-foot-two, there.

77-pound for“So you are ‘WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT AT 1ward who piled looking to select t h e b e s t p l a y - SIXTH OVERALL WE’RE GOING u p 1 0 3 p o i n t s (53g,50a) in 32 er (available) TO GET AN games with the and it just kind ELITE PLAYER. Winnipeg Monof depends on rchs, or Belhow things unSAYING THAT, alerive, who had ravel in front.”

IT’S THE TYPE 114 points (61-53) This year’s draft in 49 games with isn’t overly deep OF DRAFT the North Shore in superior talent WHERE THERE Winter Club Winand in fact may lack the ‘franARE GOING terhawks, will be first overall chise’ player that TO BE SOME taken by the Brandon past drafts have offered up, such REALLY GOOD Wheat Kings.

“Mattheos is as Ryan NugentPLAYERS TAKEN IN THE a big-bodied kid Hopkins and MIDDLE PART OF THE FIRST who can score and Mathew Barzal. plays a real heavy However, as SutROUND AND EVEN INTO game. I think if ter noted, there THE SECOND ROUND WHO you polled a lot of will be attractive prospects still on COULD END UP SURPASSING the (scouts) they would say he’s the board in the second round and GUYS TAKEN IN THE TOP 10.’ the top guy,” said Sutter. beyond.

— SHAUN SUTTER As for Bel“We really REBELS ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER lerive, the brother believe that at of former Rebels sixth overall we’re going to get an elite player,” he forward Matt Bellerive . . .

“He’s close, he’s the next guy in the said. “Saying that, it’s the type of draft where there are going to be some re- mix,” said Sutter. “If you want a guy ally good players taken in the middle who’s going to score and lead your part of the first round and even into team in points, those are two players the second round who could end up you look to in those areas.”

Other top-ranked players include surpassing guys taken in the top 10.

“There’s a group of guys, probably Semchuk (45-32-77 in 51 games), Kneen 40 to 50, and then it drops off pretty (22-38-60 in 69 games) and forwards Miquickly. But there’s a lot of defence- chael Rasmussen (41-46-87 in 59 games men, so that’s a good part. In this draft with OHA) and Jaret Anderson-Dolan, there’s a lot of players who kind of are who fired 67 goals and recorded 103 what they are; maybe there’s not a lot points in 50 games with the Edge Acadof room for upside. And then it kind of emy, located just west of Calgary.

Walford (11-35-46 in 50 games with depends on what you’re looking for.”

While Alberta has historically pro- OHA) is another potential top-10 pick, duced more than its share of top pros- as are Saskatoon Stallions forward pects, this year the balance of power Jake Leschyshyn (31-28-59), Lloydminresides in British Columbia with the ster Heat sniper Zane Franklin (47-42likes of forwards Jordy Bellerive of 89) and rearguards Josh Brook of the Vancouver and Brendan Semchuk of Notre Dame Hounds and Jantzen LesKamloops, along with defencemen No- lie of Lloydminster.

The list goes on and includes Sunlan Kneen of Vancouver and Scott Walford of the Okanagan Hockey Academy dre native Dominic Schmiemann, a six-foot-two defenceman who had 15 (OHA).

“There’s a lot of defencemen in B.C. points (3-12) and 76 penalty minutes and some really good forwards, too. A with Notre Dame.

“He’s a huge kid who can do a bit of lot of the more offensive forwards are everything and he’s a real good playin B.C.,” said Sutter.

Once he has made the Rebels’ first er,” said Sutter. “It probably won’t be selection, Sutter will decide if he’ll long before his name is called. He’s a immediately head in any particular real good local kid who’s going to be a real good player in our league if he direction concerning positions.

“Your first-round pick often dictates chooses to play in the league.” what you do after,” he said. “Generally you like to walk out of the draft Please see REBELS on Page B6

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

Philadelphia Flyers’ Steve Mason makes a save as Mark Streit goes for the rebound during Game 6 of an NHL first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers, Tuesday, in Philadelphia.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Going the distance SIMMONDS SCORES THREE GOALS, MASON STRONG IN FLYERS’ WIN OVER RANGERS TO FORCE GAME 7

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Flyers 5 Rangers 4 PHILADELPHIA — Wayne Simmonds and the Philadelphia Flyers are going back to New York for Game 7. There is no time to waste, too.

Simmonds scored three goals, Steve Mason stopped 34 shots and the Flyers beat the Rangers 5-2 on Tuesday night to even their first Eastern Conference playoff series at three games apiece.

Erik Gustafsson also scored as Philadelphia added a third Game 7 to the NHL schedule for Wednesday night.

While the other two series last played on Monday night, the Flyers and Rangers have a quick turnaround before their final game at Madison Square Garden.

“You’ve got to hop on the train and put it behind you. I’ve got a few episodes of ’Scandal’ to catch up on,” Mason said, referring to the TV show.

Simmonds scored in the first period and twice more in the second for his first career post-season hat trick. Mason survived a busy first period and stopped 31 straight shots until Carl Hagelin scored late in the third. Mats Zuccarello also scored for New York in the final minute.

By the third, Simmonds had ready helped stake the Flyers to a 4-0 lead and the outcome was a mere formality. Mason raised his stick in the final minutes toward a rowdy crowd that wouldn’t stop chanting his name.

Claude Giroux had an empty-netter for the Flyers, who will try for a second win in New York this series.

“We’re not ready to go home yet,” Simmonds said.

Simmonds, a 29-goal scorer who had one in the first five games, completed the hat trick with 4:41 left in the second. With a short break, Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist was yanked for Cam Talbot to open the third period.

Lundqvist stopped 19 of 23 shots. He couldn’t stop Simmonds.

“I already started thinking about (Game 7),” Lundqvist said. “You don’t want to analyze this too much. We have a Game 7 at home.”

Simmonds camped out in the dirty area, in front of the crease, and pounded home three short goals that had Flyers fans going wild. On the brink of elimination, about the only thing that could slow down the Flyers were their fans — the game was delayed for a lengthy cleanup after they littered the ice with hats.

Outplayed for most of the series, the Flyers were lucky to escape the first period with a 1-0 lead. They were careless with the puck in their own zone and had nine turnovers, which led to a ton of work for Mason, who made 13 saves in the period.

“It’s always important to feel the puck early,” he said. “I was able to make a couple of timely saves to start off the game and feel good for the rest of it. It was nice to be busy a little earlier in the game.”

Simmonds put Philadelphia in front with his third hack at a rebound on a power play.

Please see FLYERS on Page B6

Clippers owner Sterling banned from NBA for life IN UNPRECEDENTED DECISION, COMMISSIONER ADAM SILVER ALSO HANDS OUT $2.5-MILLION FINE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver delivered the swiftest, strongest penalty he could, then called on NBA owners to force Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team for making racist comments that hurt the league.

Almost unanimously, owners supported the commissioner Tuesday, as he handed down one of the harshest penalties in the history of U.S. sports.

“We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling’s views. They simply have no place in the NBA,” Silver said at a news conference.

Sterling, 80, is banned for life from any association with the league or the Clippers, and fined US$2.5 million — the maximum allowable under the NBA constitution. If three-fourths of the other 29 owners agree to Silver’s recommendation, Sterling will be forced to sell the team he has owned since 1981.

Players and others cheered Silver’s

quick action, with union officials saying that if the league’s punishment hadn’t included a mandate for Sterling to sell the team, players were considering boycotting playoff games, including Tuesday’s Golden State Warriors-Clippers matchup, the team’s first home game since the scandal erupted.

“We wanted to be a part of this decision, and we wanted Adam Silver to know where we stood. And we were very clear that anything other than Sterling selling his team was not going to be enough for us,” said Roger Mason Jr., the first vice-president of the players’ union.

Sterling’s comments — which were recorded by his girlfriend and released by TMZ on Saturday — harmed the league, Silver said.

Sponsors were threatening to abandon the NBA, and criticism was coming from fans on social media and even the White House.

Sterling criticized V. Stiviano — purportedly the female voice on the tapes — for posting pictures of her with black athletes Magic Johnson and

Matt Kemp.

“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” Sterling asks the woman on the tape.

“Sentiments of this kind are contrary to the principles of inclusion and respect that form the foundation of our diverse, multicultural and multiethnic league,” Silver said.

The NBA’s longest-tenured owner keeps his team for now — and Silver said he didn’t know if Sterling would fight to do so permanently.

But he can’t attend games or practices, can’t be involved in any personnel decisions or participate in board of governors meetings.

Just three days after the scandal broke, and hours before the Clippers hosted their biggest game of the season, Silver apologized to some of the league’s black pioneers while meting out a punishment he believed would satisfy outraged players and fans.

Silver said the ban applied only to Sterling and there had been no discussions about whether he could sell to a

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family member.

Many owners supported Silver, and none of them publicly defended Sterling.

“We applaud the firm punishment handed out today by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and appreciate the swiftness with which the NBA conducted its investigation,” Warriors coowner Joe Lacob said in a statement.

The fine will be donated to organizations dedicated to anti-discrimination and tolerance efforts, Silver said.

Sterling, with an estimated net worth of about $2 billion, did not comment, though Silver said he did not apologize for his remarks. Silver said Sterling confirmed that he was the person on the audiotapes.

Silver hasn’t even been on the job three months and already had to face a crisis that threatened the league not only financially — with several companies ending or suspending their sponsorships of the Clippers — but more importantly, socially.

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SCOREBOARD Hockey Dallas 3 Anaheim 0 Wednesday, April 23 Dallas 4 Anaheim 2 Friday, April 25 Anaheim 6 Dallas 2 Sunday, April 27 Anaheim 5 Dallas 4, OT

Wednesday, April 16 Montreal 5 Tampa Bay 4, OT Friday, April 18 Montreal 4 Tampa Bay 1 Sunday, April 20 Montreal 3 Tampa Bay 2 Tuesday, April 22 Montreal 4 Tampa Bay 3

EASTERN CONFERENCE Edmonton (1) vs. Medicine Hat (4) (Edmonton wins series 4-1) Saturday’s result Edmonton 4 Medicine Hat 3

FOURTH ROUND WHL Championship Ed Chynoweth Cup (Best-of-7) Portland (W2) vs. Edmonton (E1) Saturday, May 3 Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 4 Edmonton at Portland, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, May 6 Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, May 7 Portland at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 9 x-Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m.

Sunday, May 11 x-Portland at Edmonton, 4 p.m.

Monday, May 12 x-Edmonton at Portland, 8 p.m. x — if necessary.

N.Y. Rangers (2) vs. Philadelphia (3) (Series tied 3-3) Thursday, April 17 NY Rangers 4 Philadelphia 1 Sunday, April 20 Philadelphia 4 NY Rangers 2 Tuesday, April 22 NY Rangers 4 Philadelphia 1 Friday, April 25 Philadelphia 2 NY Rangers 1 Sunday, April 27 NY Rangers 4 Philadelphia 2 Tuesday, April 29 NY Rangers 2, Philadelphia 5 Wednesday, April 30 x-Philadelphia at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

Western Hockey League Playoff Leaders G 15 12 4 11 8 6 12 7 6 10

GOALTENDING (Minimum 210 minutes played) W Corbin Boes, Por 4 Tristan Jarry, Edm 12 Marek Langhamer, MH 9 Brendan Burke, Por 8 Jordon Cooke, Kel 9

A 13 15 22 13 15 17 9 14 15 10

L 0 2 9 2 5

Pts 28 27 26 24 23 23 21 21 21 20

GAA 1.84 1.86 2.35 2.52 3.18

SO 0 2 0 1 0

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Boston (1) vs. Detroit (WC) (Boston wins series 4-1) Friday, April 18 Detroit 1 Boston 0 Sunday, April 20 Boston 4 Detroit 1 Tuesday, April 22 Boston 3 Detroit 0 Thursday, April 24 Boston 3 Detroit 2, OT Saturday, April 26 Boston 4 Detroit 2

Thursday

● Women’s fastball: Badgers vs.

TNT Athletics, N. Jensen’s Bandits vs.

Badgers, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Red Deer U16 Rage vs.

Panthers, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; Lacome Physio Shooters ar Stettler Heat, 7 p.m.

Friday

● Midget football: Calgary Mavericks at Central Alberta Prairie Fire, 7:30 p.m., Lacombe ME Global Athletic Park.

Flyers 5, Rangers 2 First Period 1. Philadelphia, Simmonds 2 (Hartnell, Giroux) 7:08 (pp).

Penalties — Pouliot NYR (holding) 5:23, Coburn Pha (cross-checking) 8:52.

Second Period 2. Philadelphia, Simmonds 3 (Schenn) 1:32.

3. Philadelphia, Gustafsson 1 (Coburn) 14:17.

4. Philadelphia, Simmonds 4 (Voracek, Giroux) 15:19 (pp).

Penalties — Couturier Pha (hooking) 6:10, Gustafsson Pha (high-sticking) 12:11, Dorsett NYR (tripping) 14:28, Simmonds Pha (roughing) 19:57.

Third Period 5. NY Rangers, Hagelin 2 (Stralman, Richards) 13:26.

6. Philadelphia, Giroux 2 (unassisted) 15:49 (en).

7. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 2 (Pouliot, Miller) 19:03.

Penalties — Hartnell Pha (cross-checking) 2:06, Dorsett NYR (diving) 2:06, MacDonald Pha (hooking) 7:37, Zuccarello NYR (roughing) 9:27, Hall Pha (fighting) 18:23, Boyle NYR (fighting) 18:23, Simmonds Pha (misconduct) 19:03.

Shots on goal NY Rangers 13 10 13 — 36 Philadelphia 13 10 6 — 29 Goal — NY Rangers: Lundqvist (L, 3-3-0); Philadelphia: Mason (W, 2-1-0).

Power plays (goal-chances)NY Rangers: 0-5; Philadelphia: 2-3.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Colorado (1) vs. Minnesota (WC) (Series tied 3-3) Thursday, April 17 Colorado 5 Minnesota 4, OT Saturday, April 19 Colorado 4 Minnesota 2 Monday, April 21 Minnesota 1 Colorado 0, OT Thursday, April 24 Minnesota 2 Colorado 1 Saturday, April 26 Colorado 4 Minnesota 3, OT Monday, April 28 Minnesota 5 Colorado 2 Wednesday, April 30 Minnesota at Colorado, 7:30 p.m.

NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Scoring Leaders

St. Louis (2) vs. Chicago (3) (Chicago wins series 4-2) 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 Chicago 4 St. Louis 3, OT Friday, April 25 Chicago 3 St. Louis 2, OT Sunday, April 27 Chicago 5 St. Louis 1

Zach Parise, Minn Nathan MacKinnon, Col Paul Stastny, Col Anze Kopitar, LA Matt Niskanen, Pgh Paul Martin, Pgh Jonathan Toews, Chi Patrick Marleau, SJ Evgeni Malkin, Pgh Jack Johnson, Clb Ryan Getzlaf, Ana Duncan Keith, Chi Corey Perry, Ana Patrick Kane, Chi Brent Seabrook, Chi Joe Pavelski, SJ Ryan O’Reilly, Col Ryan Johansen, Clb Martin St. Louis, NYR Shawn Horcoff, Dal

Pacific Division Anaheim (1) vs. Dallas (WC) (Anaheim wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 16 Anaheim 4 Dallas 3 Friday, April 18 Anaheim 3 Dallas 2 Monday, April 21

Tampa Bay (2) vs. Montreal (3) (Montreal wins series 4-0)

● Midget AAA baseball: Calgary Redbirds Black at Red Deer, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park.

Tuesday’s summary

SCORING

G 3 2 4 3 2 0 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 1

A 7 8 5 5 6 8 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 3 4 4 4 4 4 5

Pts 10 10 9 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 6 6 6 6 6 6 6

Baseball American League East Division W L Pct 15 11 .577 12 12 .500 13 14 .481 12 14 .462 11 16 .407

Detroit Minnesota Chicago Kansas City Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 13 9 .591 12 11 .522 14 14 .500 13 12 .520 11 15 .423

Oakland Texas Los Angeles Seattle Houston

West Division W L Pct 17 10 .630 15 12 .556 12 13 .480 11 14 .440 9 18 .333

GB — 2 2 1/2 3 4 1/2 GB — 1 1/2 2 2 1/2 4 GB — 2 4 5 8

Monday’s Games Oakland 4, Texas 0 Chicago White Sox 7, Tampa Bay 3 L.A. Angels 6, Cleveland 3 Tuesday’s Games Seattle 6, N.Y. Yankees 3 Pittsburgh at Baltimore, ppd., rain Boston 7, Tampa Bay 4 Oakland 9, Texas 3 Detroit 4, Chicago White Sox 3 Washington 4, Houston 3 L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota, ppd., rain Toronto 7, Kansas City 10 Cleveland at L.A. Angels, late Wednesday’s Games Detroit (Scherzer 2-1) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 0-1), 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland (McAllister 3-1) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 3-2), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 0-3) at Baltimore (Tillman 3-1), 5:05 p.m.

Seattle (Elias 1-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Phelps 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Archer 2-1) at Boston (Doubront 1-3), 5:10 p.m.

Oakland (J.Chavez 1-0) at Texas (Ross Jr. 1-1), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 4-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 3-1), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Hutchison 1-1) at Kansas City (Ventura 2-1), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 1-1) at Houston (Oberholtzer 0-4), 6:10 p.m.

Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m., 1st game Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

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

L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Tampa Bay at Boston, 5:10 p.m.

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

Atlanta New York Washington Philadelphia Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 17 8 .680 15 11 .577 15 12 .556 13 13 .500 12 14 .462

GB — 2 1/2 3 4 1/2 5 1/2

Milwaukee St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh Chicago

San Francisco Colorado Los Angeles San Diego Arizona

Central Division W L Pct 20 7 .741 14 14 .500 12 14 .462 10 16 .385 8 17 .320

GB — 6 1/2 7 1/2 9 1/2 11

West Division W L Pct 16 11 .593 16 12 .571 14 12 .538 13 15 .464 8 22 .267

GB — 1/2 1 1/2 3 1/2 9 1/2

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, ppd., rain Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 3, 12 innings Colorado 8, Arizona 5 San Diego 6, San Francisco 4 Tuesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 6, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh at Baltimore, ppd., rain Miami 9, Atlanta 0 Cincinnati 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Washington 4, Houston 3 L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota, ppd., rain Milwaukee 5, St. Louis 4, 11 innings Colorado 5, Arizona 4 San Francisco 6, San Diego 0 Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee (Garza 1-2) at St. Louis (S.Miller 2-2), 11:45 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (Colon 2-3) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 0-2), 5:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 0-3) at Baltimore (Tillman 3-1), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Harang 3-1) at Miami (Eovaldi 1-1), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (E.Jackson 1-2) at Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 4-0) at Minnesota (Gibson 3-1), 6:10 p.m.

Washington (Zimmermann 1-1) at Houston (Oberholtzer 0-4), 6:10 p.m.

Colorado (Lyles 3-0) at Arizona (Collmenter 1-2), 7:40 p.m.

San Diego (Erlin 1-3) at San Francisco (Hudson 3-1), 8:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota, 11:10 a.m., 1st game Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Minnesota, 5:10 p.m., 2nd game Milwaukee at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Colorado, 6:40 p.m.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 000 040 200 — 6 15 2 New York 011 000 001 — 3 8 0 C.Young, Furbush (6), Farquhar (8), Rodney (9) and Zunino; Sabathia, Betances (6), Claiborne (7), Leroux (9) and McCann. W—C.Young 1-0. L— Sabathia 3-3. HRs—New York, Teixeira (3).

Tam. Bay 000 001 102 — 4 8 0 Boston 000 015 01x — 7 13 1 Bedard, B.Gomes (6), Oviedo (6), Lueke (7), Jo.Peralta (8) and Hanigan; Lackey, Mujica (9), Uehara (9) and Pierzynski. W—Lackey 4-2. L—B. Gomes 1-1. Sv—Uehara (6).

Oakland 211 050 000 — 9 10 1 Texas 000 120 000 — 3 8 0 Kazmir, Cook (6), Abad (8), Doolittle (9) and D.Norris; M.Perez, Frasor (5), Tolleson (6), Cotts (9) and Chirinos. W—Kazmir 4-0. L—M.Perez 4-1.

Detroit 000 102 001 — 4 9 0 Chicago 003 000 000 — 3 7 1 Verlander, Chamberlain (8), Nathan (9) and Holaday; Quintana, Petricka (7), Belisario (8) and Flowers. W—Chamberlain 1-1. L—Belisario 1-3. Sv— Nathan (5).

Toronto 100 020 202 — 7 12 1 Kan. City 020 000 26x — 10 11 0 McGowan, Delabar (7), Cecil (7), Santos (8), Rogers (8) and Navarro; Vargas, K.Herrera (7), Crow (8), Coleman (9) and S.Perez. W—Crow 1-1. L— Cecil 0-2. HRs—Toronto, Bautista (8), Encarnacion (2). Kansas City, S.Perez (2).

INTERLEAGUE Wash.

101 000 011 — 4 9 0 Houston 003 000 000 — 3 5 1 G.Gonzalez, Stammen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton; Cosart, Bass (7), Valdes (8), Qualls (8), Fields (9) and J.Castro. W—Clippard 2-2. L— Fields 0-3. Sv—R.Soriano (5). HRs—Washington, Werth (4).

NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 001 230 000 — 6 9 1 Phila.

000 100 000 — 1 5 0 Niese, Matsuzaka (8), Valverde (9) and d’Arnaud; Hamels, R.Hernandez (5), Hollands (6), Manship (8), Camp (9) and Ruiz. W—Niese 2-2. L—Hamels 0-2. HRs—Philadelphia, Byrd (3).

Atlanta 000 000 000 — 0 3 1 Miami 003 005 10x — 9 13 0 A.Wood, Varvaro (6), Schlosser (8) and Gattis; Fernandez, Marmol (9) and Saltalamacchia. W— Fernandez 4-1. L—A.Wood 2-4. HRs—Miami, Stanton (8), Saltalamacchia (5).

Chicago 002 000 000 — 2 8 0 Cincinnati 100 011 00x — 3 11 0 Samardzija, Rosscup (6), Grimm (7), Strop (8) and Castillo; Simon, Ondrusek (7), LeCure (8), Broxton (9) and B.Pena. W—Simon 4-1. L—Samardzija 0-3.

Sv—Broxton (5). HRs—Cincinnati, B.Hamilton (1).

Milwaukee 000 300 100 01 — 5 9 0 St. Louis 300 000 100 00 — 4 9 0 (11 innings) Lohse, W.Smith (7), Henderson (8), Thornburg (9), Fr.Rodriguez (11) and Maldonado; Lynn, Lyons (6), Neshek (8), Siegrist (10) and Y.Molina. W— Thornburg 3-0. L—Siegrist 0-1. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (13). HRs—Milwaukee, C.Gomez (6). St. Louis, Y.Molina (4).

Colorado 000 202 001 — 5 11 1 Arizona 020 100 010 — 4 10 0 Chatwood, C.Martin (6), Brothers (7), Logan (8), Hawkins (9) and Pacheco; Bolsinger, O.Perez (6), Thatcher (7), Ziegler (8), A.Reed (9) and Montero.

W—Logan 1-0. L—A.Reed 0-2. Sv—Hawkins (9).

HRs—Colorado, Tulowitzki (7), Stubbs (1). Arizona, Pollock (3).

San Diego 000 000 000 — 0 3 1 San Fran. 203 010 00x — 6 9 0 Stults, Roach (3), A.Torres (8) and Hundley; Petit, Machi (7), Casilla (9) and H.Sanchez. W—Petit 2-1.

L—Stults 1-3. HRs—San Francisco, Pagan (2), Posey (6).

Collector selling unused ticket to 1966 Grey Cup game won by Roughriders

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SASKATOON — A Saskatoon-area man who collects sports paraphernalia has just the ticket for some Saskatchewan Roughrider fan out there.

Brent Goodwin is selling what he believes to be the only authentic, mint-condition, unused ticket to the 1966 Grey Cup game in existence.

On Nov. 26 of that year, George Reed would lead the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 26-14 victory over the Ottawa Rough Riders at Vancouver’s Empire Stadium.

It was the first Grey Cup victory for the Riders.

Goodwin paid around $300 for the rare item and so far he’s received offers upwards of $1,000 on Kijiji.

Although he considers himself a super-fan of the team, he says the item doesn’t have as much meaning to him because he was only three when the 1966 Grey Cup was played.

“What I’m hoping for is they’re coming out with an owner’s Grey Cup ring for 2013, now

● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Innisfail at Red Deer Renegades, 8 p.m., Dawe Centre. ● Women’s lacrosse: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 9 p.m., Kinex. ● Mixed martial arts: at Red Deer Sheraton, 6 p.m. start.

Today

San Jose (2) vs. Los Angeles (3) (San Jose leads series 3-2) Thursday, April 17 San Jose 6 Los Angeles 3 Sunday, April 20 San Jose 7 Los Angeles 2 Tuesday, April 22 San Jose 4 Los Angeles 3, OT Thursday, April 24 Los Angeles 6 San Jose 3 Saturday, April 26 Los Angeles 3 San Jose 0 Monday, April 28 Los Angeles 4 San Jose 1 Wednesday, April 30 Los Angeles at San Jose, 8 p.m. x — if necessary.

Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh (1) vs. Columbus (WC) (Pittsburgh wins series 4-2) Wednesday, April 16 Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3 Saturday, April 19 Columbus 4 Pittsburgh 3, 2OT Monday, April 21 Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3 Wednesday, April 23 Columbus 4 Pittsburgh 3, OT Saturday, April 26 Pittsburgh 3 Columbus 1 Monday, April 28 Pittsburgh 4 Columbus 3

WESTERN CONFERENCE Kelowna (1) vs. Portland (2) (Portland wins series 4-1) Friday’s result Portland 7 Kelowna 3

New York Baltimore Boston Toronto Tampa Bay

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Oliver Bjorkstrand, Por Brendan Leipsic, Por Derrick Pouliot, Por Cole Sanford, MH Trevor Cox, MH Sam Reinhart, Koo Curtis Valk, MH Nicolas Petan, Por Taylor Leier, Por Jaedon Descheneau, Koo

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that would have more meaning for me,” he said.

Goodwin has been an avid collector of Rider merchandise and has an entire room in his home near Saskatoon — a room he’s dubbed the Gopher Hole — dedicated to his impressive collection.

“I have a lot of old magazines, game programs from the ’50s and ’60s, I have the entire bobble head set that was put out in the ’60s, I have all the $100 dinner mugs, I have, yeah, quite a bit of stuff,” he said.

Last Christmas, Goodwin took a trip to Regina to pick up the last bobble head needed to complete the set. While there, he followed-up on a tip from a fellow collector about the rare ticket.

“The story goes it belonged to an uncle who lived in Vancouver, and the uncle had intended to go to the game,” Goodwin said.

“He had his ticket, he got sick, he put it in an envelope, stuffed it in a drawer. Years later he passes away. The brother goes, retrieved the items and found the ticket, and then sold it to me.”

Saturday ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Okotoks at Lacoka, 7 p.m., Ponoka Culture and Rec Complex.

Sunday ● Junior B tier 3 lacrosse: Lethbridge at Olds, 1:30 p.m., Sports Complex. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Innisfail at Lacoka, 5 p.m., Ponoka Culture and Rec Complex.

Basketball Wednesday, April 23: Dallas 113, San Antonio 92 Saturday, April 26: Dallas 109, San Antonio 108 Monday, April 28: San Antonio 93, Dallas 89 Wednesday, April 30: Dallas at San Antonio, 5 p.m.

Friday, May 2: San Antonio at Dallas, TBA

NBA Playoffs FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta 3, Indiana 2 Saturday, April 19: Atlanta 101, Indiana 93 Tuesday, April 22: Indiana 101, Atlanta 85 Thursday, April 24: Atlanta 98, Indiana 85 Saturday, April 26: Indiana 91, Atlanta 88 Monday, April 28: Atlanta 107, Indiana 97 Thursday, May 1: Indiana at Atlanta, 5 p.m.

Memphis 3, Oklahoma City 2 Saturday, April 19: Oklahoma City 100, Memphis 86 April 21: Memphis 111, Oklahoma City 105, OT April 24: Memphis 98, Oklahoma City 95, OT April 26: Oklahoma City 92, Memphis 89, OT Tuesday, April 29: Memphis 100, Oklahoma City 99 Thursday, May 1: Oklahoma City at Memphis, 6 p.m. x-Saturday, May 3: Memphis at Oklahoma City, TBA

Miami 4, Charlotte 0 Sunday, April 20: Miami 99, Charlotte 88 Wednesday, April 23: Miami 101, Charlotte 97 Saturday, April 26: Miami 98, Charlotte 85 Monday, April 28: Miami 109, Charlotte 98 Brooklyn 2, Toronto 2 Saturday, April 19: Brooklyn 94, Toronto 87 Tuesday, April 22: Toronto 100, Brooklyn 95 Friday, April 25: Brooklyn 102, Toronto 98 Sunday, April 27: Toronto 87, Brooklyn 79 Wednesday, April 30: Brooklyn at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Friday, May 2: Toronto at Brooklyn, TBA x-Sunday, May 4: Brooklyn at Toronto, TBA Washington 4, Chicago 1 Sunday, April 20: Washington 102, Chicago 93 Tuesday, April 22: Washington 101, Chicago 99, OT Friday, April 25: Chicago 100, Washington 97 Sunday, April 27: Washington 98, Chicago 89 Tuesday, April 29: Washington 75, Chicago 69 WESTERN CONFERENCE Dallas 2, San Antonio 2 Sunday, April 20: San Antonio 90, Dallas 85

L.A. Clippers 2, Golden State 2 Saturday, April 19: Golden State 109, L.A. Clippers 105 Mon.,, April 21: L.A. Clippers 138, Golden State 98 Thurs., April 24: L.A. Clippers 98, Golden State 96 Sunday, April 27: Golden State 118, L.A. Clippers 97 Tues., April 29: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, late Thursday, May 1: L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. x-Saturday, May 3: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, TBA Portland 3, Houston 1 Sunday, April 20: Portland 122, Houston 120, OT Wednesday, April 23: Portland 112, Houston 105 Friday, April 25: Houston 121, Portland 116, OT Sunday, April 27: Portland 123, Houston 120, OT Wednesday, April 30: Portland at Houston, 7:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 2: Houston at Portland, TBA x-Sunday, May 4: Portland at Houston, TBA

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Columbus 7 3 1 3 10 Kansas City 7 3 2 2 9 D.C. 7 3 2 2 10 New England 8 3 3 2 7 New York 9 2 2 5 13 Toronto 6 3 3 0 6 Houston 8 2 4 2 8 Philadelphia 9 1 3 5 9 Montreal 8 1 4 3 7 Chicago 7 0 1 6 10

GA 7 6 8 9 12 7 13 11 14 11

Pt 12 11 11 11 11 9 8 8 6 6

Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 8 5 2 1 18 Dallas 8 5 2 1 18 Salt Lake 8 3 0 5 13 Colorado 7 3 2 2 9 Vancouver 8 2 2 4 12 Los Angeles 5 2 1 2 7

GA 12 14 8 9 10 4

Pt 16 16 14 11 10 8

San Jose Chivas Portland

6 8 8

1 1 0

2 4 3

3 3 5

6 8 9

7 14 13

6 6 5

Saturday, May 3 New England at Toronto, 11 a.m.

San Jose at Vancouver, 5 p.m.

Salt Lake at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Seattle, 8 p.m.

D.C. at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Houston at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 4 New York at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Columbus at Kansas City, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, May 7 Columbus at Houston, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Seattle, 8 p.m.

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

Lacrosse NLL Playoffs FIRST ROUND Division Semifinals (Single Elimination) East Division Saturday’s game Buffalo at Toronto, 5 p.m.

West Division Saturday’s game Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

SECOND ROUND

Division Finals (Two-game Series) East Division Rochester vs. Toronto-Buffalo winner, TBA West Division Edmonton vs. Calgary-Colorado winner, TBA THIRD ROUND NLL Championship Champions Cup (Two-game Series) East champion vs. West champion, TBA

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Selected the contract of 2B Chris Getz from Buffalo (IL). Released RHP Mickey Storey.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Activated LHP Mike Minor from the 15-day DL. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled LHP Paco Rodriguez from Albuquerque (PCL). Optioned INF Carlos Triunfel to Albuquerque.

MIAMI MARLINS — Activated INF Ed Lucas from the 15-day DL. Designated 1B Greg Dobbs for assignment.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Optioned RHP Taylor Jordan to Syracuse (IL). Recalled RHP Ryan Mattheus from Syracuse.

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed OF Harrison Kain.

WICHITA WINGNUTS — Released C Chris Matthews.

Frontier League FRONTIER GREYS — Signed INF Chase Tucker.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed INF Niko Vasquez to a contract extension.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Traded RHP Zac Treece to Lake Erie for 1B Russell Moldenhauer.

LOCAL

BRIEFS Rosene, Neustaeter lead Prairie Fire past Cochrane Landon Rosene rushed for two majors and D.J. Neustaeter caught a pair of touchdown passes as the Prairie Fire singed the Cochrane Lions 45-8 in Calgary and Area Midget Football Association action at Lacombe Saturday.

Johannes Smith also hauled in a touchdown pass for the Fire, who employed Brett Barrett and David Mueller at quarterback. Owen Smith booted a field goal and four converts and the winners also scored a pair of safeties.

Cody Hawkes recorded three sacks and Tanner Olstad and Sully Larocque each had one for the Prairie Fire, who improved to 3-1 on the season and will host the Calgary Mavericks Friday at 7:30 p.m. at

LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Signed INF Adam Ford and LHP Roberto Padilla.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life and fined him $2.5 million for racist comments he made in an audio recording.

NBA — Suspended Dallas F-C DeJuan Blair for one game, without pay, for kicking San Antonio C Tiago Splitter in the head in their game on Monday.

FOOTBALL National Football League SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed S Earl Thomas to a four-year contract extension through the 2018 season.

HOCKEY National Hockey League DALLAS STARS — Reassigned F Chris Mueller and F Dustin Jeffrey to Texas (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Fired interim coach Peter Horachek.

American Hockey League SPRINGFIELD FALCONS — Announced G Jeremy Smith was returned to the team by Columbus (NHL).

ECHL ECHL — Fined Fort Wayne’s Mike Embach an undisclosed amount for his actions in an April 27 game against Reading.

Lacombe MEGlobal Athletic Park.

Pair of Grizzlys graduates commit to ACAC schools Olds Grizzlys graduates Taylor Bilyk and Ethan Jemieff have committed to Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference schools and teams for the 201415 season.

Edmonton native Bilyk, a defenceman, will join the MacEwan Griffins, while netminder Jemieff, who hails from Olds, will suit up with the SAIT Trojans.

“Its bitter sweet to say goodbye to 20-year-old players, however, knowing that these players have a chance to continue their playing careers and receive an education is something that we are very proud of as coaches. We would like to wish nothing but the best to both players and I feel very confident that they will be impact player for each of their teams,” said Grizzlys GM/ head coach Brett Hopfe.

B6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Blue Jays’ bullpen blows another one

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Royals 10 Blue Jays 7 KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Salvador Perez has gone from cold to hot in three games.

Perez homered and drove in four runs and the Kansas City Royals rallied for a 10-7 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.

Perez’s two-run double off Sergio Santos in the Royals’ six-run eighth put the Royals ahead. Perez’s four RBIs matched his career high. The Royals had scored only four runs in the eighth inning in their first 24 games.

Perez, who has three consecutive multi-hit games, homered in the seventh with Alex Gordon aboard to trim Toronto’s lead to 5-4. He was mired in a 1-for-29 skid before breaking out with seven hits in the past three games.

“I see a couple of sliders and a couple of split-finger then they made a mistake on a fastball a little inside and up and I hit it pretty good,” Perez said.

The Royals sent 10 men to the plate in the eighth, which also included Omar Infante driving in two runs after collecting six RBIs on Sunday. Nori Aoki and Jarrod Dyson added RBI singles.

“That’s the motto in here, never give up and always play like we’re in it,” Dyson said.

“You just need to scratch one, scratch two and we gained momentum and just took off from there. It was all momentum. Salvador put us back in there. That was the game-changer right there. We kind of knew we were coming back after that.”

Aaron Crow (1-1), the third of four Royals pitchers, picked up the victory with a scoreless eighth inning and has not allowed an earned run while allowing only five hits in nine innings this season.

Brett Cecil (0-2) took the loss, retiring only two of the five batters he faced.

The Blue Jays’ bullpen gave up seven runs in two innings after starter Dustin McGowan left the game.

“We just got hit tonight,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of his relievers. “We had an off day yesterday so they were fresh. We didn’t help things out. We let guys take the extra base by missing the cutoff man. You’re not going to win that way. We’ve proved that we can play good defence.”

Jose Bautista homered for the Blue Jays off Royals left-hander Jason Vargas and has reached base in all 26 games.

Melky Cabrera extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a double and triple, and drove in two Toronto runs.

He tops the majors with 41 hits.

Cabrera’s triple in the fifth scored Jose Reyes, who had doubled. Cabrera scored on Vargas’ wild pitch, putting the Blue Jays up 3-2.

McGowan, who has missed three seasons with injuries, pitched into the seventh inning, holding the Royals to three hits and three runs, two earned.

“I’m really encouraged,” McGowan said. “I went deep into the game. That’s all I’ve been wanting to do. Sometimes the results are overshadowed by the innings you’ve pitched. But good things happen when you get deep in games.”

The Royals took advantage of two walks and a wild pitch, plus a throwing error on catcher Dioner Navarro to score two runs in the second inning.

The Royals won a challenge review in the second, taking away a RBI infield single from Chris Getz.

The Royals have scored 19 runs in winning the past two games.

“It’s going to click; we know that,” Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer said of the offence. “We’re confident in our group. We’ve been getting some timely

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Toronto Blue Jays catcher Dioner Navarro, right, fails to tag Kansas City Royals’ Norichika Aoki, left, during the eighth inning of a baseball game in Kansas City, Mo., Tuesday. Aoki scored on a single by teammate Omar Infante. The Royals won 10-7. hits. It’s a great thing about this offence. It could be a different guy every day that steps up and has a big night. Salvy obviously had that night tonight.”

NOTES: Royals LHP Bruce Chen received a shot for a bulging disc in his lower back and will miss a start. Chen will attempt to a throw a side session Thursday and if that goes well would

start Saturday against Detroit. ... Getz had his contract purchased from Triple-A Buffalo, where he hit .309 in 18 games. The Jays optioned rookie IF Ryan Goins, who was hitting .150 with two extra-base hits in 60 at-bats, to Buffalo. ... The start of the game was delayed 27 minutes by rain. ... The Royals scored a season-high 10 runs and are 13-0 when scoring four or more runs.

Voice of Calgary Flames, Peter Maher, announces retirement CALGARY — Peter Maher has called his last game for the Calgary Flames.

Maher, the radio voice of the Flames since they moved to Alberta from Atlanta in 1980, announced his retirement from broadcasting at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

He called over 3,100 NHL games in his career without missing an assignment.

He most recently did play-by-play

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REBELS: Prospects Ian Scott of Calgary and Jordan Hollet of the OHA, both six-foot-two, are generally considered to be the top goaltenders available. Scott compiled a 6-15-1 record with a 3.12 goals-against average and save percentage of .916 with the Calgary Northstar Sabres, while Hollett had a 1.74 GAA with six shutouts and a 23-4-0 slate.

“Some people like Hollett, others like Scott,” said Sutter. “You can look at it like Hollett played on a real good team and Scott was on a real weak team, so I think a lot of people will lean towards Hollett just because he was successful.”

Red Deer Rebels White goaltender Dawson Weatherill might be the third stopper selected in the draft, and in fact could be picked ahead of Scott and/or Hollett. The six-foot-four Weatherill posted an 11-5-1 record with a 2.61 GAA and .927 save percentage during the past season.

“He’s a big guy who is super athletic and improved throughout the year,” said Sutter. “Everyone is looking for those big, athletic goalies.”

Red Deer Rebels White forward Jeremy Klessens is another promising prospect coming off a season in which he scored 27 goals and collected 45 points in 31 games.

“He’s a guy who has a real good shot, has some speed and plays a real strong game,” said Sutter. “Everyone wants a guy who can shoot the puck and score goals, so he’s a player a lot of teams are going to covet.”

Other Red Deer and area players with draft possibilities include Red Deer Rebels White defenceman Tyrel McCubbing (7-13-20), six-foot-one, 220-pound Red Deer Rebels Black blueliner Quinn Justinen (11-6-17, 126 PIM), and Rebels Black defenceman Dayton Playford (4-3-7, 94 PIM).

“It just depends on what you’re looking for in this draft,” said Sutter.

“There are some really good players and the thing we have to remind ourselves of is that it’s not any different than when you look at the most recent (Canadian) world junior team — the team might not have been as strong this year as in the past, but still had the best players in Canada.

“This bantam draft is no different.

Some people feel it’s a weaker draft, but these are going to be the kids who play in our league. There’s some good kids in the top 10 and yet a year from now the kids picked in the second round might end up being better than the kids from the first round.”

The Rebels have two picks in the second round — their own at No. 9 (30th overall) and Everett’s selection, 15th in the round, previously traded to Portland and then to Red Deer in the Mathew Dumba deal.

From there, Red Deer will have

announcing for radio station The Fan 960. “Since arriving in Calgary in September of 1980, I have thousands, maybe millions of people to thank for this wonderful ride that I’ve had living the dream,” Maher said.

Flames president and CEO Ken King said a tribute to Maher is being planned for next season.

Maher was well known in Calgary for his catchphrases “Yeah, baby!” and “You can put it in the win column!” He called the Flames’ lone Stanley Cup win in 1989 and Canada’s gold-medal win over the United States at the 2010

Vancouver Olympics.

The charismatic broadcaster had some words of advice to his replacement.

“Whoever is selected to take that broadcast seat, I offer nothing but the very best with this message: This is the National Hockey League,” Maher said.

“Treat every game, every broadcast with respect and reverence.

“Remember, it’s an honour to be a broadcaster in the greatest league in the world.”

Prior to working for the Flames, he called Toronto Maple Leafs games

from 1977 to 1980.

Maher said he became interested in broadcasting when he realized he was better at talking than playing hockey.

“My boyhood dream of being a goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs turned into my young adult reality of being the play-by-play reality of being the broadcast voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs,” Maher said to laughs.

The native of Campbellton, N.B., was recognized for his contributions to hockey broadcasting in 2006, when he received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame.

their own selection in each of the following rounds, the exception being the third and seventh, when the Rebels will pick in the spots belonging to Kamloops and Brandon. ● OHA defenceman Jonathan Smart is projected as a possible late firstround pick by scouting service Western Elite Hockey Prospects. He’s the son of former Red Deer minor hockey and WHL player Jason Smart and the grandson of Russ Smart of Red Deer.

Meanwhile, Prince Albert Raiders defenceman Jake Hobson, the son of former Rebels coach Doug Hobson, is ranked 39th by Western Elite. ● Former Rebels forward Colten Mayor has committed to the University of Western Ontario and will suit up with the Mustangs next season.

Mayor, who played with the Rebels for three seasons before being dealt to the Regina Pats 11 games into the 2012-13 campaign, concluded his junior career this past season by sniping 31 goals, collecting 75 points and racking up 172 penalty minutes in 55 games with the Whitecourt Wolverines of the AHL, tying for the league lead in scoring. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

the Rangers have lost 12 straight games in which they had a series lead.

“It was one of those nights where we just couldn’t execute,” Rangers centre Brad Richards said. “This team is not going to be thinking about what happened tonight. It’s over once we get on the train. You have to move on quick.”

“As a proud member of the National Basketball Association, we stand strongly in our belief that the comments attributed to Mr. Sterling have no place in our society or sport. Our organization will always work to contribute to a culture of diversity and acceptance in this league and fully support the actions taken today. We thank commissioner Adam Silver, and all of the NBA players, for their leadership on this important issue.”

Sterling’s Clippers have been one of the most incompetent franchises in pro sports, and would have been home by now in most of their seasons. But this team is a title contender led by Doc Rivers, a black coach whom Sterling brought from Boston and paid $7 million a year.

Rivers cancelled practice Monday and declined a meeting request from Sterling. He wouldn’t address whether he would return next season if Sterling were still in control.

That might not be an issue if the owners vote to oust the owner.

Sterling is estranged from his wife and had been dating Stiviano, 31. In court documents, Stiviano describes him as a man “with a big toothy grin brandishing his sexual prowess in the faces of the Paparazzi and caring less what anyone else thought, the least of which, his own wife.”

Silver said when he first heard the audio, he hoped it had been altered or was fake, but thought it was Sterling.

And it doesn’t matter if Sterling didn’t realize he was being recorded, Silver said.

FLYERS: Pumped up Across the street, the rain-delayed Philadelphia Phillies rang the home run Liberty Bell in celebration of the goal.

Simmonds, a 6-foot-2, 183-pound forward, was just warming up.

Brayden Schenn stripped New York’s Dan Girardi of the puck, and then lost control in front of the crease.

Simmonds was perfectly positioned off to Lundqvist’s right side and pounded in the trickling puck for a 2-0 lead just 1:32 into the second.

Simmonds again was just outside the crease to knock in his third goal late in the second for the 4-0 lead.

“We knew the situation,” Simmonds said. “You’ve got to get pumped up for games like this.”

After a sloppy first, the puck just seemed to bounce Philadelphia’s way.

Gustafsson, who did not play the first five games, came storming out of the penalty box in the second period, his stick hit the puck in a flash and he scored for a 3-0 lead.

“It was a lot of fun when I saw the puck come down to me,” he said. “I think it took a fortunate bounce.”

Mason, who had never won a postseason game until this season, was hardly challenged in the last two periods as he chased the shutout. He snared Benoit Pouliot’s point-blank shot in the second period and made an out-of-nowhere kick save against John Moore in the third.

“If we win Game 7, it’s going to feel even more special because it’s over there,” Giroux said.

The Rangers had scored four goals in three other games this series. New York is 13-2 in series it has led 3-2, but

NBA: Different level The NBA survived the Indiana Pacers’ brawl with Detroit Pistons fans, and referee Tim Donaghy betting on games he officiated. But this brought a different level of outrage, particularly because the league could have done something sooner about Sterling, who has faced federal charges of civil rights violations and racial discrimination in his business dealings.

“This has all happened in three days, and so I am hopeful there will be no long-term damage to the league and to the Clippers organization,” Silver said. “But as I said earlier, I’m outraged so I certainly understand other people’s outrage.”

After the announcement, the Clippers’ website had a simple message: “We are one.”

“We wholeheartedly support and embrace the decision by the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver today. Now the healing process begins,” the Clippers added in a statement.

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Habs look for power play ‘momentum’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens are wondering where their power play has gone.

What used to be their best weapon has mostly been firing blanks for the last month or so.

And while they didn’t need it much to sweep the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of NHL playoffs, it could come in awfully handy when they face the Boston Bruins in an Eastern Conference semifinal later this week.

The Canadiens went 0-for-23 over the final eight regular season games with the man advantage and scored on only two of 13 chances against the Lightning, although one was Max Pacioretty’s series-clinching goal with 43 seconds left in Game 4 in Montreal.

It has got to where they don’t talk about scoring goals so much as building “momentum” off the power play.

“We worked on the power play (Monday) and we’ll work on it more,” coach Michel Therrien said this week.

“We want to create momentum on the power play and we’re working with that in mind.”

The Canadiens have spent a lot of time in practice over the past month trying to find answers.

Early in the season, they were scoring regularly until opponents started keying on P.K. Subban’s big point shot.

Since then, the Canadiens have had trouble finding a winning formula.

They will need it to keep the bigger, more physical Bruins honest and to match the Boston power play, which went 6-for-16 in a five-game win over the Detroit Red Wings in the opening round.

The Bruins used to labour on the power play. They beat Montreal in seven games in a 2011 first round series despite going 0-for-23 with the man advantage.

But that was before they picked up slick point man Torey Krug, which allowed them to move towering Zdeno Chara into a much more effective position in front of the opposing team’s net.

Subban looks to the 2011 Bruins as proof that a team can win even if the power play is struggling.

“The year they won the Cup, I don’t think that had many power play goals,” he said. “The power play is one thing, but I think the most important thing is generating momentum on a power play.

“You’re not always going to score, especially when you play a team with a good penalty kill. But you try to create opportunities and generate momentum and really grind down their forwards and defence.”

They hope to catch fire against the Bruins. In the first round, there were times they had dazzling puck movement, and other times when they looked like marionettes following a choreographed routine.

It may just be taking more time than expected for trade deadline acquisition Thomas Vanek to make his mark

on the first power play unit with Pacioretty and centre David Desharnais.

Vanek has had a big impact on their even-strength play, and facing Boston may be just what he needs to help the power play get going as well. The Austrian has 30 goals and 62 points in 55 career regular-season games against the Bruins, most while he played for the Buffalo Sabres.

Penalty killing is also a concern.

The Canadiens were fourth best in the NHL this season with an 85.1-percent kill rate, but gave up two goals on only seven chances to Tampa Bay (71.4 per cent). Boston killed 90 per cent of Detroit’s advantages.

The penalty killing units should be bolstered by the return of Travis Moen from a concussion. The left-winger missed the last nine games of the regular season and the first round of playoffs after he was injured in a March 24 game against the Bruins.

He has been skating on the fourth line with Daniel Briere and Dale Weise. Rookie Michael Bournival played well in that spot in the first round.

“I haven’t decided on our lineup,” said Therrien. “To prepare Travis, I’ve got to have him practice with players who might have a chance to play. But he’s a guy with experience. He’s a big body and he kills penalties.”

The Canadiens will face the Bruins for a record 34th time in the post-season. Montreal has won 24 series, but the Bruins have won seven of the last 11, including the last two.

Avalanche hope home-ice advantage in series continues for Game 7 against Wild

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SUNRISE, Fla. — With a relatively young team, Florida Panthers general manager Dale Tallon is of the belief that the club needs an experienced coach behind the bench.

And with that, Peter Horachek’s time as interim coach is over. The Panthers fired Horachek on Tuesday, after Florida went 26-36-4 under him this past season. Horachek had no previous NHL coaching experience before replacing Kevin Dineen on Nov. 8 and while Tallon lauded the interim coach’s work, he simply thinks that a change in direction is needed.

“We just felt as a group that it wasn’t quite the right fit with the direction that we’re headed in,” Tallon said.

Tallon said there’s no timetable for finding a new coach, other than that the team wants to make a hire before the draft in late June. He said Peter Laviolette, who was fired by the Philadelphia Flyers early this season, is on his list of candidates, and there’s also speculation he could target former Nashville coach Barry Trotz.

“We’re going to interview every possible candidate and take our time and make the right decision,” Tallon said.

Horachek had been the coach of Florida’s AHL affiliate in San Antonio before being summoned to lead the Panthers. Tallon said Horachek will not remain with the organization in any capacity.

Brown, Getzlaf, Toews named finalists for Mark Messier award

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Patrick Roy was quite calm and even cracked a few jokes as his team went through a light workout.

No signs of stress at all.

Of course, the first-year Colorado Avalanche coach has been in a few pressure-packed Game 7 situations as a Hall of Fame goaltender — 13 to be exact.

His players? Not as much experience. A dozen had never been to the post-season before this year.

And yet Roy’s hardly fretting over his team’s emotional state heading into a decisive final game Wednesday night against the Minnesota Wild, with the winner moving on to face the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks.

On the contrary, Roy’s reminding his youthful team of one simple thing: Enjoy the moment.

“How good is this?” Roy said.

“They’re excited about it and they should be. ... We’re playing Game 7 in our building, in front of our fans.”

In this series, home ice is a pretty big deal. All six games in this tightly contested matchup have been decided during the waning moments, with the home team capturing each one.

Wild coach Mike Yeo has a stirring pregame speech all prepared for just the occasion, a few well-chosen words to put into his players’ ears before they hit the ice and hear the clamour of the crowd.

Care to share the highlights?

“Then it wouldn’t be very inspirational,” Yeo joked.

Minnesota will try to neutralize the noise with another sizzling start. The Wild have scored the first goal in four of the games. “(Game 7s) are the best and also the worst,” Yeo said. “You have so much on the line — the players laying it all

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Colorado Avalanche left wing Gabriel Landeskog celebrates his goal against the Minnesota Wild with teammates Paul Stastny and Nathan MacKinnon in Game 2 of an NHL first-round playoff series on April 19, 2014, in Denver. out there, the passion and the energy of the building and the fans. There’s just so much at stake.”

Avs forward Maxime Talbot stressed “having fun” to rookie Nathan MacKinnon, who’s tied with Zach Parise for most points (10) in the NHL playoffs so far. Talbot knows the butterflies will be present for players such as MacKinnon — and it’s something to embrace.

“That’s why we play the game,” said Talbot, who scored twice in Game 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup final to lift Pittsburgh to a 2-1 win over Detroit.

“That’s the coolest thing about hockey. As much experience as you have, you have to take these butterflies and turn them into excitement and energy, and that’s definitely the feeling I have right now.”

Roy believes that Game 7 will hinge on, what else, the goalies.

Semyon Varlamov won a team-record 41 games in the regular season, breaking the mark held by Roy. The goalie nicknamed “Varly” has faced a barrage of shots in this series, coming up big in several games.

“Varly’s always the brick out there,” Talbot said. “We know he’s going to make the big saves.”

The same can be said of Darcy Kuemper, who has a 1.53 goals- against average since stepping in for Ilya Bryzgalov in Game 2. Although Kuemper can’t ever remember playing in a Game 7, he said that Monday’s game — a 5-2 win in which the Wild sealed it and extended the series by scoring two empty-net goals — was good practice.

NEW YORK — Dustin Brown of the Los Angeles Kings, Ryan Getzlaf of the Anaheim Ducks and Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks are the three finalists for the Mark Messier NHL Leadership Award.

The award is given annually “to the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice, during the regular season.”

Brown has spent his entire 10-year NHL career with the Kings, serving as their captain for the past six seasons.

Known for his physical style of play, he donates US$50 per hit to a different charity each season among other charitable initiatives.

The 29-year-old Ithaca, N.Y., native is a finalist award for the third straight season.

Getzlaf scored a career-high 31 goals and ranked second in the NHL with 87 points to lead the Ducks to their best season in franchise history.

Anaheim’s captain since 2010-11, Getzlaf has also been active in charity work off the ice.

The 28-year-old Regina native is a finalist for the first time.

Toews has served as the captain of the Blackhawks since 2008-09, when he was just 20-years-old. He has already led Chicago to two Stanley Cup titles, and off the ice works with various children’s charitable causes.

The 25-year-old Winnipeg native is a finalist for the second time after finishing as a runner-up in 2012-13.

Messier, a former captain with the Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers and Vancouver Canucks, selects the three finalists and ultimate winner of the award.

Sharks look to avoid full collapse in deciding game against Kings SAN JOSE, Calif. — It should come as no shock that the Los Angeles Kings and San Jose Sharks are preparing for a Game 7 of their first-round series considering how tightly contested this fierce California rivalry has been over the last few years.

The surprise is how the teams got to Wednesday night’s win-or-go-home game.

The Sharks were dominant early, winning the first three games and making former playoff MVP Jonathan Quick look rather pedestrian as he allowed 16 goals in those losses.

But the Kings responded to win three straight games by three goals to force the showdown in San Jose for a spot in the second round against Anaheim.

“We understand what’s at stake,” Sharks forward Joe Pavelski said.

“There was the possibility the series was going to go to seven. We probably didn’t think it was going to get there this way, but we’re here now and guys will be ready to play.

The Kings are the ninth team to force a Game 7 after losing the first three games. Three of the previous eight finished the job although the Sharks can take solace in the fact that they avoided that same collapse in 2011 when they rebounded from three straight losses to beat Detroit 3-2 at home to advance to the Western Conference finals.

San Jose jumped on top early that

game with two first-period goals before holding on for the win.

“We were a confident bunch,” Sharks captain Joe Thornton recalled.

“We felt like our game was missing in a couple games, but then we slowly got it back. This year is kind of the same way.”

Getting an early lead Wednesday would most definitely ease any nerves as the Sharks haven’t had a lead at any point in those three losses.

That has allowed the normally stingy Kings to tighten things up even more defensively, and eliminate all those odd-man rushes that fueled San Jose’s 13-goal outburst in winning the first two games.

“I think our attitude has changed within the last three games,” Kings forward Justin Williams said. “Our backs are against the wall. It’s win or go home, so we have a lot of character, we’ve stepped up so far, and we need to keep doing it.”

Williams scored two goals apiece in games 4 and 6. He also scored both Los Angeles goals in a 2-1 win in Game 7 of a second-round series against the Sharks last year, giving him five goals and four assists in four career Game 7’s that were all won by his team.

Another performance like that could help the Kings join Philadelphia (2010), the New York Islanders (1975) and Toronto (1942) as the only teams to overcome a 3-0 deficit to win a best-ofseven series.

“I think history is something we look at, look back when we’re done playing and say, ’We did that,’ but that’s not re-

ally something we’re thinking about,” Williams said. “We’ve spotted them three games, and we’ve been able to come back to tie it, but it doesn’t mean anything to us if we don’t win it.”

This series has played out in stark contrast to last year’s roller-coaster seven-game series won by Los Angeles when goals were at a premium and the home team won every game.

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Los Angeles has held San Jose’s stars like Thornton, Pavelski, Marleau and Logan Couture in check the last three games.

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Retro relievers enjoy early success TEAMS ARE GOING BACK TO K-ROD, HAWKINS WHO ARE HAVING FAST STARTS TO THE SEASON BEING BACK IN CLOSER ROLES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The closer role can be so volatile in the majors. Young relievers with rocket arms can turn quickly into pitching sensations. Old standbys sent to setup roles can be thrust back into the ninth in an instant.

Francisco Rodriguez has lived through both scenarios.

The Milwaukee Brewers closer leads a pack of veterans who have returned to late-game prominence. LaTroy Hawkins, 41, is the oldest, having picked up his eighth save Monday for Colorado. The Mets have turned to 38-year-old Kyle Farnsworth to help close out games following a seasonending injury to Bobby Parnell and the struggles of Jose Valverde.

But no closer has had as a surprising start as the 32-year-old Rodriguez, who has a Brewers franchise-record with 12 saves by the end of April entering Tuesday.

The 13-year veteran has 316 saves, two behind 17th-place Rick Aguilera on the career list.

“One day I will sit down and check out the numbers and see how far and how I happy I (am) to have a nice career. But not right now,” Rodriguez said after picking up a save last week in a 5-2 win over the Cubs at Miller Park.

What makes Rodriguez’s start even more remarkable is his unusual spring training.

Visa problems in his native Venezuela delayed his arrival at camp by about two weeks. Then in mid-March, Rodriguez accidentally stepped on a cactus during an off day.

Jim Henderson, who finished last season 2013 with 28 saves for Milwaukee, was the presumed closer before Rodriguez surprisingly trotted out in the ninth on opening day and proceeded to get the save in a 2-0 win over Atlanta. Manager Ron Roenicke said he had turned to Rodriguez temporarily as Henderson worked to regain velocity.

Rodriguez hasn’t given up the job since.

His own velocity isn’t what it once was, though Rodriguez is following the well-worn path of other veterans who have become more complete pitchers as they age.

“With having the off-speed pitches, he’s got guys guessing on what he’s throwing,” Roenicke said. “When I think he’s going to throw fastball,

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Colorado Rockies relief pitcher LaTroy Hawkins is congratulated by catcher Wilin Rosario after closing out the Rockies’ 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres, Tuesday, April 15, 2014, in San Diego. Hawkins is part of a pack of veteran relievers who have returned to late-game prominence. it’s something else. When I think, ’OK, here comes the off speed,’ OK here’s the fastball.”

A look at five retro relievers and other bullpen highlights in the first month of the season.

K-ROD: Rodriguez’s early-season dominance is only part of the story for a Brewers bullpen that was one of the best in the game in April. Left-hander Will Smith, a key addition from Kansas City, said Rodriguez’s competitiveness has rubbed off on teammates in a relief corps consistently holding foes at bay in tight games.

“He prepares well, he prepares the other guys in the bullpen well,” Roenicke said about Rodriguez’s influence.

“You need a veteran presence to do that, especially with the way we’re using our bullpen.”

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turned to a familiar name in the offseason to settle a bullpen that had an NL-worst 4.23 ERA in 2013. Hawkins returned to Coors Field after spending the 2007 season in Denver. His eighth save came in an 8-5 win Monday over Arizona.

FARNSWORTH: Hawkins held the closer’s role last year in New York.

This season, Farnsworth is the Mets’ third closer in less than a month. He’s had a so-so start with two saves and one loss since being anointed closer April 20. And even then he may not have a lock on the job given Daisuke Matsuzaka picked up a save April 24 after Farnsworth had pitched in three of the previous four games.

ANGELS: Setup man-poster child Joe Smith doesn’t have the closer pedigree of Rodriguez, but he might be hoping he can still follow K-Rod’s success

story after being placed in the stopper role while Ernesto Frieri works out his problems. The eight-year veteran with the sidearm delivery picked up his first save in a 6-3 win Monday over Cleveland. It was just his fourth save in 451 career games.

Smith said he had fun after waking up with a feeling he would get a shot against one of his former teams.

“It doesn’t matter what inning I’m throwing. I pitch people the same,” Smith said.

REDS: A year after not recording a save, Jonathan Broxton is closing games again for Cincinnati, at least temporarily. He had four saves in as many chances going into Tuesday in holding the role until Aroldis Chapman returns from facial injuries sustained from getting hit by a line drive in spring training.

Toronto FC to get Defoe back from injury soon Raptors have SOCCER drawn inspiration from fans in playoff series

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TORONTO — In the moments before the Toronto Raptors took the court for Game 4 in Brooklyn, they huddled in the locker-room and watched footage of their fans gathered back home in Maple Leaf Square.

The Raptors went on to win Game 4 and even up the series and say they’ve drawn inspiration from the swell of support they’re receiving in their home city.

“I told the team, the fans are doing their part, we’ve got to do our part as a team, as a group of guys to lead the fight on the court, because the fans are behind us 100 per cent and they’re loud and they’re very proud. And they should be,” Raptors coach Dwane Casey said.

The Raptors expect a repeat of Sunday, when a capacity crowd of 2,500 red-clad fans jammed Maple Leaf Square to watch the game on the giant screen outside the Air Canada Centre. Thousands more packed the roads leading up to the ACC in a raucous outdoor celebration similar to the city’s playoff party during the Maple Leafs’ brief run last year.

“Oh man, it’s unbelievable, our fan base,” Raptors point guard Kyle Lowry said. “It makes you want to just be a part of it. Things that we’re doing right now and the way the fan base is going out there, we want to go out there and play hard and give them a reason to keep coming back and packing Maple Leaf Square and packing the ACC. “We need our fans, we love our fans. . . We can’t wait to see (Wednesday) night, the vibe and the energy we’re going to get.”

The series has been a spirited battle even before the first ball was tossed up, thanks to general manager Masai Ujiri’s now-famous F-bomb.

It’s been a fierce fight on the court. Casey said Kyle Lowry looked like he’d been through a 15-round bout after Game 4, and the coach expects both teams to come out swinging in Game 5 on Wednesday.

“It’s not going to be all smiles and bubble gum and fruitcakes. . . It’s going to be a street fight,” Casey said. “That’s the way we’ve got to come out, with that mentality.”

The Raptors, said Lowry, were caught on their heels Game 1 of the series. The less-experienced Raptors — three of the team’s starters had never made a playoff appearance — weren’t prepared for how physical post-season action would be. They lost that game.

They put up a fight in Sunday’s Game 4 victory in Brooklyn, holding the Nets to just three baskets in a scrappy fourth quarter. But they were forced to battle back from a lackadaisical third quarter, a bad habit the Raptors haven’t been able to shake all season long.

“We’ve got to compete like that for 40-plus (minutes),” Casey said. “The third quarter has been our nemesis. . . that’s what we have to remedy, coming out of the locker-room at halftime with that desperate disposition.”

Despite being the No. 3 seed, the Raptors were considered underdogs in this series based on playoff experience.

DeMar DeRozan said they’ve played with a chip on their collective shoulder with that underdog mentality all season, so this is nothing new.

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TORONTO — Striker Jermain Defoe says he is back to 100 per cent and ready to play for Toronto FC — and England.

“It’s been really frustrating because when you get off to a good start, you just want it to continue as long as possible,” said Defoe, who scored three goals in his first two games in Major League Soccer before being sidelined with a hamstring strain in late March.

“But it happens. It’s football, you get little niggles.

Luckily enough it wasn’t something that was too serious. It was just a case of resting and doing your rehab stuff. But yeah it feels fine now. I feel 100 per cent. I’ve worked really hard. So maybe I’ll come back stronger than I was before, which is important for the team.”

Saturday’s game against the visiting New England Revolution (3-3-2) will mark five weeks since Defoe walked off the field favouring his hamstring in the 61st minute of a 3-0 loss to Real Salt Lake. Thanks to a bye, he only missed three games with Toronto (3-30) going 1-2-0 in his absence.

Defoe, speaking to reporters after practice Tuesday, rubbished the suggestion that the injury layoff may affect his chances at making England’s World Cup squad. England manager Roy Hodgson plans to name his 23-man roster on May 13.

“I missed three games. It happens in football, players get injured,” said the 31-year-old Defoe, who has won 55 caps for England. “But if you miss three games and that changes the fact that you could, I don’t know, go to a tournament, that’s crazy.”

Manager Ryan Nelsen says he has not heard from the English camp. “Not yet,” he said.

Defoe, for one, does think much talk is needed.

“I don’t feel like I need to sell myself to anyone because I’ll just let my football do the talking. I’ve done that since I made my professional debut at 17 ...

I’m sure the manager knows what I can do.”

Defoe said not only is he 100 per cent physically, he feels stronger than he did before.

Toronto FC officials have said privately they had to put the brakes on Defoe, who has acknowledges he is not known for his patience during injury layoffs.

Defoe’s final days at Tottenham were marred by another hamstring injury.

“It’s a case of just getting it (the hamstring) strong again. Maybe I didn’t do that before,” he said.

“I think now I’ve really given it time to heal,” he added.

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BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF

TREE PLANTING BEE The Bower Community Association is hosting its annual Fun Tree Planting Bee on May 10. People are asked to meet at Bower Hall at 85 Boyce St. at 9:15 a.m. and tree planting will run from 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided, as well as a prize draw once all the planting is done. Phone Larry at 403-347-6994 for more information.

LENDING CUPBOARD LUNCHEON A luncheon in support of a cupboard full of needed medical supplies is set to take place in May. The fifth annual ladies luncheon in support of the Lending Cupboard Society is scheduled for May 22. Starting at 11:30 a.m. at the Black Knight Inn, at 2929 50th Ave. in Red Deer, people are invited to have a lunch with their friends while learning about the Lending Cupboard. The society provides Central Albertans with new or used medical equipment for as long as they need it at no cost. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased by calling the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre at 403755-6626 or 1-800-6618792, or by visiting www. bkticketcentre.ca. For more information, call 403-343-8936 or 403-3466292.

BIKE SWAP DAY ON MAY 9 Alberta Bike Swap, a non-profit dedicated to getting Albertans active by helping them buy or sell a bike, is hosting a swap day in Red Deer on May 9 at the Bower in Community Centre. Drop off for the bikes is from 4 to 7 p.m. while sales will go from 7:15 to 8:45 p.m.

Volunteers help ensure bikes are safe to ride and sold at a reasonable price. Half of the profit from each bike sold goes back to the local biking community with the other half going towards future bike swaps. For more information, go to www. albertabikeswap.ca or email at albertabikeswap@ gmail.com. They can also be found on Twitter at @ albertabikeswap.

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One or two extra dialysis stations at a minimum will be added to the dialysis unit at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre over the coming weeks, according to a top official with Alberta Health Services.

Three Red Deer dialysis patients had been left with little choice except to travel to outlying units in Rocky Mountain House and Wetaskiwin over the past month as the Red Deer unit has been operating over capacity for some time.

AHS announced late last week that no one would have to continue to travel for treatment.

The demand for dialysis in the unit ebbs and flows, said Kerry Bales, chief zone officer for the Cental Zone with AHS, and the demand is slightly down again at the moment.

“Those three people were asked to move because we didn’t have the capacity at the time . . . . It was a matter of timing; we had been working to get those pieces in place before we exceeded capacity . . . . It’s a

challenge . . . but it was already underway passing it through a machine as the patient to have those people come back to Red sits in a chair. It takes four hours and is Deer before the news release came out,” typically required three times a week.

Bales said.

There are 20 chairs or stations in Red He couldn’t comment on how many more Deer’s unit, allowing 120 people to dialyze chairs exactly per week. would be addAHS is ed to increase working on imthe capacmediate, shortity but said it term and longwould be “one term planning or two minifor the dialysis mally.” unit in Red He said they Deer, Bales are confident said. that those piec“In the imes will be in mediate, we’re — KERRY BALES, WITH AHS place to handle putting in some the demand capacity so if when it spikes again in the short term. the demand exceeds what the current unit Bales said there will not be a “signifi- is able to do, we’ll have the option and cacant cost” to the immediate plans for added pacity to provide some renal dialysis somecapacity, noting however there will have to where in the hospital on inpatient units.” be some work done to make sure the chairs Bales said he does not anticipate any paand water system are accommodated but tients having to travel outside of the city for “we’re not talking about major renovations the treatment again. to do this.”

Dialysis removes waste from the blood of Please see DIALYSIS on Page C2 patients who have lost kidney function, by

‘IT WAS A MATTER OF TIMING; WE HAD BEEN WORKING TO GET THOSE PIECES IN PLACE BEFORE WE EXCEEDED CAPACITY.’

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Artist’s rendering of expected appearance of part of Rocky Mountain House’s Main Street project.

Ground being broken for Rocky downtown facelift

BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Rocky Mountain House’s Main Street has gone under the blade — well, the shovel.

Construction for the street’s major, three-phase facelift began on Friday with crews wrapping up the milling (salvaging old asphalt) by Monday and plowing ahead with the concrete removal and servicing installation at the 50th Avenue and 50th Street intersection.

The work is part of a $10.18-million project to completely overhaul and revitalize the main drag’s infrastructure, including new sidewalks, new sanitary, water and storm lines and a more attractive streetscape overall with trees, lamp posts and a variety of planters.

It is an intensive endeavour that is much needed, said Mayor Fred Nash.

“The pipe that was designed to last 45 years is now 63 years old,” he said referring to the sewage drainage along Main Street.

“You’ve got to do it, otherwise you’ll be spending money on cleanup.”

While the project is expected to take three years, Nash said it’s important to remember construction will only happen over about six months each year and affect only two blocks at a time.

This year’s work will see the area from 48th Avenue to 50th Avenue ripped up along Main, also called 50th Street.

Next year, the backhoes and jack hammers will target 50th Avenue to 52nd Avenue. The third sum-

mer will mark the project’s finale with landscaping and street furniture installation, such as benches and tree grates.

The upgraded Main Street should also be wheelchair accessible by the end of construction, Nash said, depending on the participation on businesses.

While access to the street during construction has been a concern as traffic is largely restricted and downtown parking non-existent, there will be boardwalks up for pedestrian traffic, which should be 99 per cent uncompromised, according to Nash.

“The difference is now you may have to walk a block or two to get to the stores instead of parking right in front,” he said.

The town is also in discussion with private landowners to see if they can set up a designated temporary parking lot closer to the downtown to compensate for the lack of parking.

— MAYOR FRED NASH “We’ve got a very experienced general contractor and the merchants are working with us and landowners.

“The town is helping out, the Chamber of Commerce is helping out. We’re all in it together,” Nash said.

Pidherneys, the company awarded the construction tender, will do its best to cause as little inconvenience to the public and business owners as possible, said Charles MacDonald, Pidherney’s civil operations manager.

“It’s a pretty involved, complicated infrastructure project because we still have to keep access open for all the businesses,” MacDonald said.

‘WE’VE GOT A VERY EXPERIENCED GENERAL CONTRACTOR AND THE MERCHANTS ARE WORKING WITH US AND LANDOWNERS. THE TOWN IS HELPING OUT, THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS HELPING OUT.’

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Happy flash mobs planned Clap along Red Deer if you feel happiness is the truth.

A local marketing and design service hopes anyone and everyone will be a part of their tribute to the popular Pharrell Williams song Happy.

Looking to join a growing number of YouTube videos paying homage to the song, Red Deerians are invited to get in on the action with video shoots happening in Red Deer throughout the week.

As part of it, a flash mob has been planned for Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at Veterans Park, at Ross

Street and 49th Avenue.

According to a release, the video will have about 50 to 70 scenes showing people dancing to the song around Red Deer.

The video is expected to be released sometime in the first week of May. “Don’t be surprised if you see people suddenly start dancing while crossing a street or who knows where else,” said Kerstin Heuer, flash mob organizer.

For more information, visit www.reddeerians.ca.

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

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The Social Credit Party’s policy convention has outlined new platforms that bolster the group’s social conservative credentials.

Party Leader Len Skowronski said existing Alberta political parties that brand themselves as conservatives have left behind their social conservative beliefs.

He calls “on all Alberta social conservatives to join the Alberta Social Credit Party in stopping this downward slide of moral standards to the lowest common denominator.”

The party held a policy convention on Saturday in Innisfail and outlined new party policies, with a focus on sex education and adoption.

“We had a very good discussion,” said Skowronski.

“We had some young people who have come into the party, very intelligent, knowledgeable and gung ho about getting our party going.

“A lot of these people are pro-life, so we are the only party that really stands for the preborn children and other things like traditional marriage . . . . There are two parties that claim they are conservative, but they’re not conservative anymore, they’re not even fiscal conservative.”

The Socred party wants to teach children as part of sexual education the impact having a baby will have on their lives “so they will fully understand the consequences of their actions.”

They also want to require that children be taught in school from a young age that there is a government body that will match babies with loving, caring families.

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Jewelry stolen from horse show RCMP are advising the public to be on the lookout for approximately $7,000 worth of stolen jewelry taken from a horse show over the weekend.

According to police, 30 pieces of handmade jewelry with values between $175 and $275 were stolen from an exhibitor booth at the Mane Event expo at Westerner Park in Red Deer between Friday evening and Saturday morning.

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RCMP report 30 pieces of handmade jewelry with values between $175 and $275 were stolen from an exhibitor booth at the Mane Event expo at Westerner Park in Red Deer between Friday evening and Saturday morning. colour, while 20 are turquoise. The pieces are made of rare stones and beads.

Anyone with information relating to the theft is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Drama festival starts Drama lovers can indulge in 26 local plays during the Zone 4 High School Drama Festival at Hunting Hills High School starting today.

The Zone 4 festival includes plays from Hunting Hills, Lindsay Thurber and Notre Dame high schools in Red Deer, as well as H.J. Cody (Sylvan Lake) and West Central High School (Rocky Mountain House).

Plays range in length from about 20 minutes to about an hour. Play titles include: Postponing The Heat Death of the Universe, The Zoo Story, Not Enough Rope, A Matter of Husbands, To Burn a Witch, 13 Ways to Screw Up Your College Interview, When God Comes to Breakfast and Take Five.

The four-day festival runs today to Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The cost is $5 per day.

The best four plays will be selected to represent the zone at the provincial drama festival at Red Deer College on May 8, 9 and 10.

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Ponoka taxes rising

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF It will cost a little bit extra to live in the Town of Ponoka this year.

Council voted recently to raise taxes by 5.35 per cent in an effort to bring them in line with similarly sized Alberta communities. There will also be an increase of five per cent for commercial taxes.

The jump in taxes is expected to bring in an extra $256,000 this year, giving the town a budget of $22.3 million — $15.3 million for operating and $7 million for capital expenses.

“We’ve always been lower than most other municipalities, so we’re really just trying to get back into the middle of the pack in comparative terms,” said acting CAO Betty Quinlan.

“We’re just finding it difficult to manage the operations on less tax dollars than comparable communities, and at the same time not to increase taxes too much.”

According to Quinlan, last year, an average tax assessment in similar communities for residential properties was about 6.7 per cent and Ponoka was at 6.2 per cent; non-

residential assessments were at 9.7 and Ponoka was at 8.2 per cent. The breakdown had Ponoka residents paying about $140 less per capita than these other communities.

The residential tax increase results in $33 per $100,000 more for residential assessment.

In other words, To someone with a home worth $300,000, this means a bump of about $99 in their tax bill for the year.

The commercial tax increase comes out to $41 per $100,000 more.

The increase will be offset by a drop in the Rimoka Foundation and school requisitions by $14 per $100,000, for a net offset of $29 per $100,000.

One of the biggest project on the books for this year is a full replacement of all water meters, an $875,000 investment that the town has spent the last three years saving for.

“It really updates the technology,” said Quinlan. “You can read everything once a month, you don’t have to have someone physically go out there ... and you can monitor use if there are any kind of problems.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Optometrists allowed to order lab tests, prescribe drugs THE CANADIAN PRESS Optometrists will soon have an expanded role in Alberta.

The Alberta government announced Tuesday that it is increasing the scope of practice for optometrists.

Health Minister Fred Horne says it will come into effect this fiscal year and optometrists will be responsible for primary eye care.

Horne says in most cases patients will no longer need to travel to another community for eye care.

He also says optometrists will be able to order lab tests, prescribe drugs, treat certain types of glaucoma and order and apply ultra-

sound tests.

Horne says optometrists will now get paid to do things they are trained and licensed to perform.

“With nearly 645 optometrists in more than 80 Alberta communities this means that Albertans will have faster, more convenient access to essential vision care close to where they live, places like the centre we’re in today, with greatly reduced wait times,” Horne said.

provides education and information to freehold mineral owners, research issues of concern to freeholders and act as a common voice on matters that affect freehold mineral ownership.

The group will hold its annual general meeting on May 3 at the Crossroads Church, near the intersection of 32nd Street and Hwy 2.

Starting at 9 a.m. with registration, followed by the annual general meeting, the day includes a panel discussion on sustaining the group featuring current Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Ken Hughes, agriculture minister Verlyn Olson and Wildrose energy critic Jason Hale.

The event costs $30 per person or per couple for non-members and $20 per person or per couple for members, with memberships available at the door. Lunch costs $10.

For more information call the FHOA at 403-245-4438, Else Pedersen at 403-783-3433, email morganallen@ fhoa.ca or visit the website www.fhoa. ca.

Highways clean-up organized Volunteers will soon take to Alberta’s highways to clean up the mess that starts to show once the snow has thawed.

Drivers are asked to be aware and recognize these volunteers are in a vulnerable position that close to speeding traffic. They will be wearing safety vests picking up the garbage, earning money for community organizations.

Last year, the provincial government contributed $904,070 to 618 volunteer organizations that helped

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DIALYSIS: More staff needed Staffing will be impacted, Bales said, as more nursing hours will likely have to be provided.

“This doesn’t necessarily mean adding staff; it could mean existing staff working more hours or sharing staff among other programs,” he said.

They are also looking at solutions connected to changes in the scheduling for dialysis patients, extending the hours of the unit and possibly doing more intensive renovations to expand the space.

Bales said he hopes to have an answer as to what the longer term decision is before the beginning of summer. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

ROCKY: Total upgrade “It involves the total replacement or upgrade of the existing underground utilities and that includes water, sewer, storm, electrical. ... And the removal of all the existing concrete sidewalks and then the replacement of the existing services to each of the buildings.”

He said realistically, the first block will be “pretty messed up” for at least the next two months and unplanned factors, like bad weather, can throw a

clean up more than 10,500 km of roadways.

Organizations can earn between $55 and $100 per kilometre cleaned, with the higher amounts given to the messiest, those closest to urban centres. Volunteers must be at least nine-years-old, attend a safety training program and be under adult supervision.

Regular groups who participate include 4-H clubs, Scouts, Girl Guides, Rotary clubs, sports teams and various non-profit groups. Groups must be registered with the province as a nonprofit organization to participate.

City report looks to future A new City of Red Deer annual report highlights last year looks to the future.

A total of 1,000 copies of 35-paged document were designed, copied and printed for $4,993, but the city is encouraging residents to read the material online. The publication is available at www.reddeer.ca.

Mayor Tara Veer said the report is another way for the city to be transparent and accountable to citizens.

Veer said many organizations tell their financial story through an annual report to shareholders.

“We wanted to do that for our community as one more method of communication,” said Veer.

The 2013 report highlights the city’s centennial, the progress on the Queens Business Park development, community initiatives and other events.

The report was revealed at council on Monday.

If residents want a paper copy of the publication, they are asked to call 342-8147.

wrench into the construction schedule.

Everything was on track on Tuesday and MacDonald said he expects construction to go until Sept. 15 this year.

The town’s popular Marketplace on Main event that runs for 10 weeks every Thursday evening throughout the summer will not be affected by construction; it will simply take place further up on Main.

The downtown festival, boasting an auto show, live music and numerous vendors, brought out thousands to Rocky last year. It kicks off on June 26. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate.com

PARTY: A call for ethics And they propose to expand the influence of Alberta Adoption Services to work with pregnant women who do not have the parenting skills to be a parent or the desire to be a parent, to match them up with prospective parents who want to adopt a child.

In a release, the Social Credit Party said the Progressive Conservative party and Wildrose are racing to lose their social conservative roots, with the Wildrose getting rid of their social conservative policies at their last annual general meeting.

“We’re going to put up the banner and say those people who still stand for morals and ethics have a party to vote for,” said Skowronski.

For more information on the Social Credit party, visit www.socialcredit.com. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Man gets 5-year term for home invasion A Red Deer man who pleaded guilty to several offences including home invasion was sentenced to more than five years in prison in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday.

Robin James Gilroy, 37, also pleaded guilty to five charges relating to fraud, possession and use of stolen identities including credit cards, fuel cards, safety tickets, drivers’ licences and uncashed cheques.

He originally faced 46 related charges.

Crown prosecutor Ed Ring told the court that Gilroy surprised a man and a woman at a Penhold residence by bringing a crow bar and what looked like a small semiautomatic handgun to a pre-arranged meeting on Jan. 27 to reimburse the woman who had problems with a cellphone Gilroy sold her.

Ring said Gilroy instead demanded money from the pair and a man with baton and bear

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spray accompanied Gilroy into the house.

The woman hid in a bathroom but Gilroy and his accomplice broke down the bathroom door.

They stole $100, gift cards and two cellphones.

Police tracked down Gilroy, who was found with a pellet gun rather than a handgun and stolen identity cards and cheques.

Ring recommended eight to nine years in prison, arguing it was

still a serious armed home invasion that showed “a degree of sophistication and planning.”

Defence lawyer Patty MacNaughton recommended five to six years in prison because her client and the woman were known to each other as a result of drug transactions.

He did not break into the house and there was no gratuitous violence during the incident that

only lasted about 10 minutes.

She said Gilroy was addicted to crystal meth.

Judge Jim Mitchell sentenced Gilroy to a global sentence of five years and 11 months, that included four years for home invasion. He was given four months credit for being in custody since his arrest.

Gilroy also received a life-time weapons prohibition and an order was made for a DNA sample.

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Celebrate your great neighbours this May. The City of Red Deer has launched the Great Neighbourhoods program inviting residents to take pride in their community.

This year’s overall theme is Small acts build great neighbourhoods.

Each week in May boasts a theme – Welcome Week (May 1 – May 10); Safety Week (May 11 – May 17); Participation Week (May 18 – 24) and Celebration Week (May 25 – May 31).

Emily Damberger, a city community and program facilitator, said there are many neighbourhood aspects that give residents a sense of belonging and pride.

“You can start a community project, like a community garden or a Green Deer cleanup, or start something small,” says Damberger.

“Just by taking a few minutes to connect, participate and celebrate your neighbourhood, you help build a great neighbourhood.”

Red Deer’s Great Neighbourhoods’ program provides resources and activities to help residents explore their neighbourhood, including the Activities in Belonging Guide and Activ Kidz Neighbourhood Discovery Book.

Both guides are available online.

“Exploring your neighbourhood can be easy and fun,” said Damberger. “Go for a walk, say hello to a neighbour, lend out your ladder, keep an eye on suspicious activity, plant a garden, play in the park, or host a Block Party with neighbours. These are all great ways to keep pride in your neighbourhood.”

For information about the Great Neighbourhoods Program, visit www. reddeer.ca/great.

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On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 starting at 9:00 AM over 400 hundred students and staff of St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School (382139 Street, Red Deer AB T4N 0Y6) will participate in AED and CPR awareness training. Kim Ruether will also be there to tell her empowering story on how to save a life. By training these children early they hope to make them safe and to cut down on workplace incidents as they enter the workforce. All AED’s are registered at Alberta Health Services.

Statically students are subject to the same risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) as the elderly. Without immediate intervention, only 2-5% of SCA victims survive. However, according to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada when an AED and CPR are immediately available, the chance of survival from SCA may increase by 75% or more. A person is at slightly higher risk of death from sudden cardiac arrest during or right after vigorous exertion, such as sports.

“We’re hoping these kids will become safety ambassadors with skills they can carry throughout their lives,” says Vogt. “So, if they see an incident they are able to grab a defibrillator and help.”

Another organization dedicated to providing training in health and safety in the workplace is the Jobs Safety Skills Society. The JSSS is a registered nonprofit organization started in 1993 in partnerships with educators, industry, government and the community; its goals are to ensure youth are properly trained as they enter the workforce and to help significantly reduce injuries and fatalities to youth.

The JSSS was conceived in 1991 by a small group of safety professionals together with educators lead by Dr. Michael Alpern. After consulting with concerned teachers about the unacceptably high rates of injuries and fatalities to youth, Alpern, who was then working at Alberta Education, decided to do something about it and in 1993 the JSSS program was formalized.

In 1995 Alberta Education approved the JSSS’s JobSafe courses and the Society developed a series of instructor resource manuals and materials. They have three Alberta Education courses: Workplace Safety Systems, Workplace Safety Practices and Agricultural Safety; as well as providing a list of JobSafe Ambassadors to speak to students about safety.

The program’s success with teachers and students

is evidenced by the increasing number of schools offering the program. In 1997, 159 Alberta high schools had implemented the program with 620 students taking part. By January of 2014 these numbers have increased to 840 schools with more than 62, 000 students from Alberta, Saskatchewan and the NWT being certified in JobSafe courses.

On May 8, the JSSS will launch the Professional Development in Health and Safety for Teachers instructional resource titled The ProD. Established as a professional development tool, this resource is designed to encourage and support the integration of basic safety principles and practices into lesson plans and instruction. The ProD consists of 10-online modules with each focusing on four key safety processes: maintain a safe work area; create a safe work plan; keep it safe while working; and leave it safe for the next person. Upon completion of each module teachers earn a ProD Certificate of Completion.

Like other resources the Society provides to schools, The ProD will be provided to teachers free of charge.

JSSS is funded solely from community and corporate donations. With the ongoing support of business’, government and educational communities, JSSS hopes each Alberta junior high and high school student will graduate from their safety courses and make a difference in helping to reduce workplace injuries and fatalities to our youth.

For more information on the Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools project on youth safety visit their website at reddeercatholicregionalschools. ab.ca.

For more information about the Job Safety Skills Society visit jobsafetyskills.com.

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NAOSH Week and Canadian Society of Safety Engineering display (CSSE) and Community Open House

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An opportunity for local community residents and NOVA Chemicals’ Employees to become more familiar with and ask questions about NAOSH Week and the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE).

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If you’re just counting on luck to keep you safe, consider this: every day, two to three Albertans needlessly risk their lives by contacting an overhead or underground power line.

In 2013, that translated into approximately 782 power line incidents in Alberta - a significant decrease from the 934 incidents reported in 2012.

The highest risk exists for Operators of large equipment including farmers and truck drivers. They are typically males between the ages of 18 to 50 – working in utilities, oil and gas, construction, farming and transportation industries.

Despite generally knowing how to protect themselves, deadlines and productivity pressures often lead to skipping safety steps. The problem is further fuelled by an attitude of complacency born of routine tasks and a false sense of invincibility. The fact is, regardless of how experienced an Operator might be, no one is invincible when it comes to the hazards of power lines.

That’s where the Joint Utility Safety Team (JUST) comes into play. Since 2006, Alberta’s electric utilities and the Government of Alberta have been working together to tackle a common concern about Alberta’s high volume of power line incidents. The precedence is to drive home the “WHERE’S THE LINE?” message to Operators – to remind them to always ask themselves this question and to know the answer before starting any work.

To this end, JUST’s sustained awareness advertising has focused on providing Operators with “in-the-moment” reminders because looking out for their own safety is their duty and first priority.

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through a safety mindset. Complacency is also a concern, given that farmers are often switching back and forth between many routine tasks. Additionally, many farmers don’t realize that the size of their equipment – like tractors and sprayers – has increased while the height of power lines has remained the same, creating a safety issue both when using and transporting equipment.

Changing attitudes isn’t a quick fix

With the majority of farm power line incidents occurring during the busy spring seeding and fall harvesting seasons, JUST has partnered up with Rocky Mountain Equipment (RME) to reach farmers during this critical time of year. RME specializes in equipment for agriculture and construction.

“The secret to keeping customers for life is keeping them alive,” says Mo Gudzowaty, Corporate General Manager, Health, Safety and Environment, with RME. “If farmers aren’t educated about safety, it’s either serious injury or death; neither is a viable option.” RME hosts a series of customer clinics over the spring and summer months about using sprayers, tractors and combines. This year, clinics will include power line safety presentations and demonstrations

by JUST’s safety leaders. “We want to involve our customers – many of whom are also our employees – in safe operating practices. That includes arming them with best practices for

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JUST’s results to date have been very positive but must continue to be vigilant about raising awareness of how these dangerous incidents can be prevented. As of fall 2013, awareness among Operators of the “7 Metres Safe” message (safe distance between equipment and above ground power lines) reached 35% - an increase from the reported 9% in 2008. As well, 59% of those who had heard a radio spot had thought about the ad at, or en route to, the job site.

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With employers playing such a critical role in influencing Operators and imparting safety practices, JUST is continuing efforts to reach out to employers. Employers take the safety of their workers to heart – like that of their own family – and Operators count on that. Yet some managers often underestimate the frequency and magnitude of risks power lines pose to their workers. A “single” workplace incident often has devastating and far-reaching consequences beyond the victim, impacting the lives of their families, coworkers and first responders...as well as the employer’s business.

JUST’s ongoing initiatives such as business-to-business advertising, search engine marketing, media relations and social media have resulted in 10,427 unique visitors to wherestheline.ca in 2013, up from 8,429, roughly a 20% increase, in 2012. In addition, JUST has been expanding its efforts through community building – establishing relationships within and across key industries. This includes speaking at conferences, strengthening its relationship with Alberta Transportation, enhancing oil and gas connections with Cenovus, PennWest and CAPP and entering into partnerships like the one with Rocky Mountain Equipment.

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So why such a disconnect? Although farmers understand that power lines are dangerous, they don’t seem to self-identify with the issue. There are a number of likely contributing factors. Exempt from Occupational and Health Safety legislation, farmers are less likely to have taken power line safety training than those working in other industries. As their worksite and home are often one and the same, they aren’t always assessing their environment

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With National Health and Safety week rapidly approaching it is easy to be reminded of the importance of health and safety in the workplace.

The goal, however, is to make health and safety a year-long priority. While concerns of safety in the workplace are a common worry many people do not know the reality: that it is most often the youngest workers in our society that suffers the most in the workplace. There are a number of reasons for this: the young, mostly males, feel indestructible and they have limited workplace knowledge, experience, or training. Two organizations are trying to change this by giving health and safety knowledge to students while they are still in school; and in the process are making schools themselves that much more safe for our students. These organizations are the Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools and the Job Safety Skills Society.

The Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools have had a long partnership with the Parkland Regency Safety Committee (part of the Alberta Constructions Safety Association (ACSA)) and together they have been a big part of NAOSH. Both have wanted to be proactive, to train students on the importance of safety, and to give back to the community. The Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools made the decision to train students just entering the workforce, or about to, in grades 6, 7, 8, 9 and to train them in first aid. One of the problems administrators immediately recognized was the lack of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) in their schools. It has become a mission of these administrators to not only put an AED in every school, but to train students and staff in their use.

In February of this year an AED Unit was donated to Ecole Camille J. Lerouge School by Kim Ruether, founder of Project Brock. Ruether established the project after her 16-year-old son suffered a tragic cardiac arrest on the volleyball court. It was Ruether’s hope that by training staff and students in first aid and AED use future tragedies could be avoided. As a result of her generous donation over 400 students and staff were trained to use these life-saving devices.

“If every student learned the effectiveness of CPR and AED use through awareness and skill drills, we would have an entire nation trained to save lives within a few decades!” says Ruether. Project Brock has been extremely successful already in helping schools increase survival rates by promoting AED’s, education, registration and legislation.

“We got such great feedback from both parents and students that we decided we were going to keep doing them for all our schools,” says Lisa Vogt of Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools. “The AED program is not just about installing AED’s in school buildings in hope that staff and students will know what to do in an emergency. The program includes, equipment maintenance, ongoing Standard First Aid CPR/AED training of staff, education, and awareness training for students. Above all, the most important outcome of the program is to prepare people to take action in saving a life of sudden cardiac arrest victims”.

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NAOSH Week – North American Occupational Safety and Health Week - was first launched in June 1997, marked by an agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico. The Canadian Society of Safety Engineering’s (CSSE) Canadian Occupational Health and Safety Week (COHS) had been observed for ten years previously (1986-1996). During the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks between the governments of Mexico, United States, and Canada, workplace safety within the boundaries of all three nations was discussed by government labour department representatives. Canada’s representative at these talks was familiar with Canada’s COHS Week and suggested to his Mexican and American counterparts that their countries may wish to become involved in a similar endeavor.

Subsequently, CSSE was approached for permission and support to expand the COHS Week format and experience to Mexico and the United States. After many meetings between Labour Canada and the CSSE COHS Committee in 1995, the proposal to expand the COHS format into the North American arena was formalized with the CSSE Board of Directors at their spring 1996 meeting. It was agreed that CSSE would adopt the North American concept and implement it in place of the Canadian Week. Labour Canada agreed to ensure that CSSE was the officially recognized safety organization responsible for NAOSH Week. Labour Canada would also play the lead political role for North America for three years, after which there would be a review. CSSE was responsible for all management, marketing, policy, and administration related to NAOSH Week, and was deemed the proprietor and governing body.

In September 1996, the agreement was taken to the NAFTA meeting and all parties agreed to the proposal. NAOSH Week was established. NAOSH Week was implemented under this agreement between 1997 and 2000. Since 2000, the responsibility and management of NAOSH Week has continued under CSSE’s leadership. Partnering with the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety (CCOHS), and the Labour Program of Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), and Threads of Life, CSSE CANADIAN SOCIETY OF works hard to promote SAFETY ENGINEERING (CSSE) and encourage the goals Central Alberta Chapter of NAOSH. Along with the efforts of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), NAOSH Week The CSSE is Canada’s largest and most established continues to be a truly professional organization for Health and Safety continent-wide event.

Practitioners, with over 4,500 members across Canada and In September 2007, the over 1400 members in Alberta.

Board of Directors of the “The mission of the CSSE is to be the premier organization CSSE approved the creation for health, safety and loss prevention specialists.” of an “Occupational Safety The Central Alberta Chapter holds their meetings monthly. and Health Professional (OSHP) Day” that would be If you are a safety, health or loss prevention specialist or have an interest in promoting health and safety in industry, please celebrated every year on check out the CSSE website at www.csse.org or contact Dan the Wednesday of NAOSH Trottier, Central Alberta Chapter Chair, Week. Occupational Safety at (403) 347-0005, and Health Professional email: dan.trottier@tatonga.ca Day has been set aside as a day in which to recognize THE CSSE IS THE OFFICIAL SPONSOR OF the ongoing efforts of NAOSH occupational safety, health and environmental North American professionals to protect our Occupational Safety and Health Week people, our organizations May 4 to 10, 2014 and our way of life.

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MAY 4 – 10, 2014 SAFETY & HEALTH: A COMMITMENT FOR LIFE. MAKE SAFETY A HABIT May 4 - 10 has been designated as this year’s North American Occupational Safety and Health (NAOSH) Week. Now in its’ eighteenth year, governments, employers and workers across the continent of North America will take time out from their normal activities to promote the importance of preventing injury and illness in the workplace and at home.

The goal of NAOSH Week activities and events is to focus the attention of all stakeholders on this important topic and encourage them to equip themselves with tools, information and knowledge, educate each other with positive attitudes and behaviours that will convey commitment and confidence at work, at home and in the community.

The responsibility of NAOSH Week is managed through an effective partnership with the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering (CSSE), the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety (CCOHS), the Labour Program of Human Resources & Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) and the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).

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Jefferson Mays, centre, during a performance of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, at the Walter Kerr Theatre in New York. The musical romp in which a poor man comically eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title nabbed a leading 10 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday.

A Gentleman’s Guide the musical to beat

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TONY AWARDS

NEW YORK — The musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, a comedic romp in which a poor man eliminates the eight heirs ahead of him for a title, nabbed a leading 10 Tony Award nominations on Tuesday.

Nominations were spread out for most other shows, reflecting the lack of a juggernaut this year.

Canadians nabbed some prominent nominations including Richmond Hill, Ont.-raised Les Miserables star Ramin Karimloo for best actor in a leading role in a musical and Nick Cordero of Hamilton, Ont., for best actor in a featured role in a musical for Bullets Over Broadway.

Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a cult off-Broadway hit that this season stars Neil Patrick Harris, won eight nominations, while After Midnight, a musical celebrating Duke Ellington’s years at the Cotton Club nightclub, got seven, tied with Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Twelfth Night.

“I’m in shock,” said Lena Hall, a Broadway veteran who earned a best featured actress in a musical for her gender-bending part beside Harris in the rock show Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

The lesson she said of her nomination — in addition to always jump at the chance to work with Harris — is to “do what you believe in and do what you love.” Hall, who has appeared in Cats, Tarzan and Kinky Boots, said she was waiting to call her parents who were still asleep in San Francisco. “I really wasn’t expecting this at all. This is crazy.“ The nominations also made waves for snubbing some big names, including Denzel Washington, Daniel Radcliffe, James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Michelle Williams, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig.

The musicals up for the big prize are: After Midnight, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Aladdin, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Shows that failed to make the cut include Bullets Over Broadway, Rocky, If/Then and The Bridges of Madison County.

“It’s good to be acknowledged,” said Andy Karl, who plays Rocky and has transformed his body over three years into a fearsome boxer. “It’s nice to know it was worth the time and effort.”

Of the lack of a best musical nomination for the show, he said he was disapand New York City.

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pointed, adding: “That’s how the Tony cookie crumbles.”

A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was nominated for best book

by Robert L. Freedman, best original score for Freedman and Steven Lutvak, best costumes by Linda Cho, best direction by Darko Tresnjak, Jonathan Tunick’s orchestrations, best featured actress in a musical for Lauren Worsham, best scenic design for Alexander Dodge and for its two lead actors: Jefferson Mays and Bryce Pinkham.

Disney’s Aladdin, an adaptation of the 1992 animated movie featuring a rambunctious genie, earned five nominations, including one for James Monroe Iglehart, who plays the genie.

“I know it sounds cliche, but I’m so happy to be nominated. I get to sit down at the Tonys. I’m not in the back.

I’m not watching it on television. I get to sit. There’s a ticket with my name on it,” Iglehart said. “And I don’t have to pay for it!”

Five-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald earned a leading actress in a play nomination for Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. That’s the one female acting category in which she hasn’t already notched at least one win, meaning she is in a position to make history as the Tonys’ first grandslam performance winner.

NEW YORK — Star Wars: Episode VII finally has its stars. May the Force be with them.

After months of carefully guarded secrecy and endless Internet speculation, the cast of the latest incarnation of the space epic was unveiled Tuesday on the official Star Wars website by Lucasfilm and the Walt Disney Co. Starring in J.J. Abrams’ new Star Wars are: John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Max von Sydow, Andy Serkis and Domhnall Gleeson.

The companies declined to name the characters each will play, though Driver, the breakout star of HBO’s Girls, is widely expected to be playing the film’s feature villain.

They join returning Star Wars veterans Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher. Peter Mayhew is also back as Chewbacca and Kenny Baker will reprise RD-D2.

“It is both thrilling and surreal to watch the beloved original cast and these brilliant new performers come together to bring this world to life, once again,” director and co-writer Abrams said in a statement. “We start shooting in a couple of weeks, and everyone is doing their best to make the fans proud.”

Disney will release Star Wars: Episode VII, which will be set 30 years after 1983’s Return of the Jedi, in December 2015. Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, and immediately put a new Star Wars trilogy into development.

The Episode VII cast is a mix of fresh faces, up-and-comers and established names.

The 22-year-old British actor Boyega is best known for the 2011 science fiction monster movie Attack the Block.

Ridley, also a young British actor, is largely unknown. She has appeared in several British TV series, including Mr. Selfridge.

Like Driver, Isaac is a recent breakout star, following his acclaimed performance in the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis.

The 30-year-old Irish actor Gleeson has appeared in numerous films, including 2012’s Anna Karenina and both parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

He’s acted frequently on stage, earning a Tony nomination in 2006 for his performance in The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

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Don’t let a cluttered house create family conflict Dear Annie: Our daughter and her ill will with your daughter. Not everyhusband are extremely poor house- one’s standards of cleanliness will be keepers. They are successful in educa- up to yours, and while they may not tion and at their jobs, but utterly fail want company, it is not dangerous. when it comes to cleaning.

However, if there is old food They never invite people getting moldy on the carpet, to their house. The mess bugs crawling all over the embarrasses our two young floor and rats in the closets, grandchildren, who make it is a health hazard to the unsolicited comments about children and should be rethe condition of their home ported. when they stay with us. We We suggest you tell them once mentioned the state of that you understand how their house years ago and terribly busy they are and were told to butt out. ask whether you can gift When my son-in-law was them with a professional hospitalized, the family cleaning service as your performed a cleaning interbirthday, anniversary and vention. Unfortunately, it Christmas presents. (Feel MITCHELL didn’t last, and things are free to add Mother’s Day, & SUGAR back to the usual. We don’t and Father’s Day if you can know how to encourage afford it.) Don’t make negcleanliness without creatative remarks about their ing a conflict. Any suggeslack of housekeeping skills. tions? — Concerned Grandparents If they refuse your kind offer, invite Dear Concerned: How messy? If it is the kids over more often and leave the clutter (not hoarding), leave it alone. rest alone.

A messy house is no reason to create Dear Annie: I’m a 59-year-old non-

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lationship, making one partner completely dependent on the other. If this is what is happening in your marriage, please contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline (thehotline.org) at 1-800-799-SAFE. Dear Annie: You’ve printed a few letters about parents who are estranged from their kids. I have not spoken to my mother in years. She is a meddler and a self-centered person who is more interested in her image than in what’s right.

Years ago, I went through a nasty divorce, and Mom sided with my exwife in court. When the truth came out, I was given full custody of my son.

My mother never showed remorse for her actions or even said so much as “I’m sorry.” My son is now 18, and she has never tried to contact him. I have learned not to let her hurt or control me. I am OK with my life the way it is.

— Better Off Without 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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April 30 world. A greater appreciation for the encourCELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: agement from your spouse will leave you Jane Campion, 59; Adrian Pasdar, 48; Mi- feeling blessed and grateful. chael Waltrip, 50 VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A greater view THOUGHT OF THE DAY: of the path you are taking now Your attention will turn towards will be realized through discusworld issues and discussions for sions with friends and groups the greater good of everyone. that you are joined with. GenerCompassion will be sought out osity of spirit breeds generosity as many will want to understand of spirit and this will be realized the circumstances of others and for you as you step forward toa more structured view of the wards greater accomplishments world will be seen. True enlightin life. enment can be reached and will LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): be felt when we open our ears Communication with your to the truth and close our eyes to spouse will encourage you to past failures. step forward with greater posHAPPY BIRTHDAY: If tosibilities and optimism towards LARISA MAIRA day is your birthday, this year your career and public life. A OZOLINS will mark a positive step forward. brighter future is ahead, but you Trips to foreign lands and intermust learn to let go of the past in actions with those from other order to grab every opportunity unfamiliar locations will be highpresented to you now. lighted this year. New perspectives of your SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Business views will be seen by many as the past does negotiations are favored today. A general not intrigue you anymore. The new and those optimistic and congenial atmosphere rules things that bring your greater awareness will with one to one contacts, promising a very become commonplace this year. good start with new publishing and teaching ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is an endeavors. Travelling abroad would be highopenness to discussing finances now with lighted and favored at this time as well. family that there has never been before. If SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your you own a company, there will be a rise in daily work and routine is now working hand in sales, as others will sense your genuine want hand with a business that you own. A practito help. From that, your personal appraisal cal understanding of your work will expand to will reach new heights of awareness. include an ever expanding view of resources.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Asking for The more you work with others, the greater what you want from others now will be greatly your turnaround will be. beneficial for you.. Open conversations with CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There is others will lead to more understanding and a great possibility that someone will encourgenerosity from others at this stage. There is age your creative work today. There will be a greater awareness of optimism and positive more expansion with your work at this stage attitude which will uplift the day! which will prove to be very profitable for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The new start Learn from others now, and step in unknown with letting go of deep subconscious habits directions. There is more light there. will help stabilize your finances and will help AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A deep them flourish. Take some time to think over conversation with family members will reveal your value — what caused you to endanger more truth about your work than ever before. that in the past and what can you do now to Take a chance when it comes to this new alter the course of your life. idea you have, discuss it and apply it — it will CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your attitude be profitable for you at this time. today is bright and your vision of what could PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Converhappen with your dreams will expand today. sations with siblings will leave you feeling Trust in yourself and communicate with your optimistic. Romantic interests will also be friends. They will open doors for you that keen to share in the excitement with you and you didn’t even know existed. Give back to a it will be a successful day to get your point charity that speaks to your heart. across. There is a solid footing for your creLEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The new start ative dreams now. Be generous with others. on a professional level will leave you feeling Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally very positive about the work you can do and syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her colthe greater contribution you can make to the umn appears daily in the Advocate.

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I worked for 30 years. I now find myself with no money and no job. I have to depend on my husband for everything. He doesn’t give me money unless I beg for it. Is there anything I can do legally to persuade him to give me an allowance? He says he pays all of our bills, so I don’t need any money.

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In Memoriam CREAMER, Heleen Four years ago today (April 30) you were taken from us.

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about you and miss you so very much.

I admire you so Mom, you fought such a brave fight and I’m so very proud to be your daughter, you are the best Mom anyone could ever have.

I miss you and love you so.

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ANDAYA Eloisa 1979 - 2014 Eloisa Andaya of Red Deer, Alberta passed away at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Alberta on Wednesday, April 23, 2014 at the age of 34 years.

She was born on April 27, 1979 at Manila, Philippines.

Eloisa will be lovingly remembered by her husband, Allan and daughter, Aira of Red Deer, Alberta; as well as her father, Romeo Mostrales, mother, Fe Cervantes, two brothers, Adrian Mostrales and J.R. Mostrales, and a sister, Eunice, all of the Philippines. Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Wednesday, April 30, 2014 between the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m.

Cremation entrusted to Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, Red Deer, Alberta. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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OLSON Karen Cecilia 1951 - 2014 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Karen Cecilia Olson of Red Deer. Karen passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Monday, April 28, 2014 at the age of 62 years. She was born in Camrose, Alberta on July 15, 1951 and grew up on the farm outside Duhamel, Alberta along with two siblings, Barbara and Rod. Karen lived in Taber, Alberta until 1988 when she then moved to Red Deer. She was employed as a teacher for 30 years and taught at Riverglen School for the last 20 years until her retirement in 2011.

Karen was also a volunteer for 20 years with Central Alberta Teachers Association (CATCA). She is lovingly remembered by her husband Grant, two sons, Cory and Mark (Tonya), mother Clara, two grandchildren, Samuel and Nolan, brother Rod (Crys) and sister Barb, as well as nieces, Kaitlyn and Elizabeth and nephews, Geoff and David. Karen was predeceased by her father Ralph Tate. A Celebration of Karen’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer on Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made directly to the Central Alberta Cancer Centre, 3942 - 50A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4E7.

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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CHERNAK William (Willy) Alexander 1938 - 2014 William Alexander Chernak affectionately known as Willy by most, born December 29th, 1938 in Komarom, Hungary entered into rest April 18, 2014 at the age of 75 years. He was predeceased by his parents Jan Chernak and Saralta Sabia and his oldest son William Dale Chernak. Willy immigrated to Canada December 25, 1956.

Willy worked as an appliance technician for most of his life in Canada. He liked camping and fishing in the Rocky and Nordegg areas. Willy leaves to mourn his sons James (Bev) Chernak and Rob (Vicky) Chernak, his grandchildren Alisha, Christy, Billy, Justyn and Alyssa, his step grandchildren Chris, Jennifer, Lyndon and Shawn, and numerous great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at the Chapel of The Rocky Funeral Home, Rocky Mountain House, Alberta on Friday, May 2, 2014 at 2:00 P.M. with a lunch to follow upstairs. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made to the Good Samaritan Clearwater Center in Rocky Mountain House.

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BINDON (Annie) Mary Oct. 9, 1922 - Apr. 19, 2014 Family and friends mark the passing of Mary Bindon (nee Schmidt) who passed away peacefully at Aspen Ridge in Red Deer, Alberta at the age of 91. Mary is survived by eight children from her blended family, as well as numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, Walter Bindon in 2011.

Born in Unity, Saskatchewan, Mary lived in Kelowna, B.C. and Edmonton, Alberta before retiring to Red Deer in the 1980s. She and Walter enjoyed many years of travelling, as well as camping around Alberta.

Mary loved to share a laugh with family and friends and was known for her uncanny card playing ability. Many thanks to the staff at Aspen Ridge and at Parkland Respiratory, as well as Dr. S. Murray and Dr. M. Odendaal for their compassion and attention to Mary’s needs. A memorial reception will be held on Saturday, May 10 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. at Red Deer Funeral Home, 6150 67 Street. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made directly to the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre, 4620 - 47 Avenue, Red Deer, AB T4N 3R4. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.reddeerfuneralhome.com Arrangements entrusted to RED DEER FUNERAL HOME & CREMATORIUM 6150 - 67 Street, Red Deer.

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WATTS 1933 - 2013 Mr. Robert “Bob” Charles Watts of Red Deer, formally of Bluffton, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on December 21, 2013 at the age of 80 years. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.. at the Iola Fairview Cemetery, Bluffton, Alberta followed by a time of fellowship at the Bluffton Community Hall. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations in Bob’s honor may be directed to the to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 - Arnot Avenue, Red Deer AB T4R 3S6. Condolences to Bob’s family may be emailed to meaningfulmemorials@yahoo.ca.

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CROSBY Bruce Thurston Crosby passed away peacefully at the Lacombe Hospital, surrounded by his family, on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 at the age of 59 years. Bruce will be lovingly remembered by his wife Barb; daughter Jennifer of Lac La Biche; son, Thurston (T.J.) of Red Deer and numerous other relatives and friends. In keeping with Bruce’s wishes, cremation has taken place and the family will celebrate his life privately. The family would like to extend a “Special Thank You” to Dr. Cecil McKibbon and the nurses at Lacombe Hospital Acute Care for their exceptional care and support. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations, in Bruce’s name, may be made directly to the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre, or to the charity of your choice Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

Phone: 403.782.3366 or 403.843.3388 “A Caring Family, Caring for Families”

MAPLETOFT Kathleen Lillian Mapletoft of Red Deer passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital on April 25, 2014 surrounded by her family. She was born in Medicine Hat to parents Alex and Jenny Chomik who later moved to a farm a few miles away from Strome, AB where she lived with her brother Dave and sister Elsie. Later, Kathy moved to Red Deer where she met her best friend of over 50 years, Dorothy, and her husband of 52 years Ron Mapletoft. Together, Ron and Kathy made their home in Red Deer where she worked in the retail industry until her retirement. They have one son, Darcy and are very loving parents. Kathy was hard working, kind, and gentle.

She loved gardening, her home, and most of all her family.

Her greatest day was when she became a grandmother to Jocelyn. She will be missed very much by all who know her. She is survived by her husband, Ron Mapletoft; brother Dave Chomik; sister Elsie Bateyko; son and daughter-in-law Darcy and Beth Mapletoft; and granddaughter Jocelyn Mapletoft. Services will be held at St. Luke’s Anglican Church at 4929 54th Street, Red Deer on Friday, May 2, 2014 at 11 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to donor’s favourite charity. Condolences may be forwarded to the family at www.reddeerfunerlhome.com

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, April 30, 2014

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Dental

PERIOPARTNERS Dr. Patrick Pierce/ Dr. Janel Yu Require

RDA LEVEL II who is extremely well organized, energetic & self motivated. 4 days/wk.

No evenings or weekends.

Send resume ASAP to reddeer@periopartners.com or bring by in person, we would love to meet you.

4619 48 Ave, Red Deer.

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Farm Work

CLASS 1 driver for mixed farm operation. F/T, Email: jkinsella@xplornet.com

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Hair Stylists

ADAM & EVE UNISEX In the Parkland Mall is seeking P/T / F/T HAIR STYLISTS Please drop off resume in person.

WE are looking for a F/T or P/T journeyman or apprentice hairstylist for busy family salon in Lacombe. Great wages and benefits packages.

Bring resume to Hairapy at Lacombe Center Mall

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Janitorial

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work during shut down, $14/hr.

Fax resume w/ref’s to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

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Oilfield

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LINE LOCATOR ASSISTANT First Aid, H2S and PSTS, valid driver’s licence req’d.

Need to be physically fit.

Resume by fax 403-227-1398 or email info@accutechcanada.ca LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

If you are a team player interested in the oil and gas industry, please submit your resume, current driver’s abstract and current safety certificates to the following: Fax 403-887-4750 jjudson@1strateenergy.ca or contact Jeanine at 403-887-2147 Please specify position when replying to this ad.

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

OIL & GAS OPERATOR Bearspaw currently has a position in our Stettler field operations for an intermediate oil and gas operator. Applicants must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or journeyman instrument mechanic and possess strong mechanical skills, be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate within a 20 minute commute to workplace location. This position offers a challenging work environment, attractive benefits with competitive pay and significant room for promotion.

Please submit resumes

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PROFLO is currently seeking

Day Supervisors, Night Operators & Testing Assistants Valid Candidates must have H2S, First Aid, PST &/or CSTS Please send resume to info@proflo.net or fax: 403-341-4588 Tired of Standing?

Find something to sit on in Classifieds RED Deer based acid hauling company looking for Class 1 truck drivers.

Top industry wages and benefits package. Please fax resume and drivers abstract to 403-346-3766

CLASS 1 driver w/5 yrs. exp. and oilfield tickets.

Email resume: jkinsella @xplornet.com

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

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Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

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Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 lwiberg@reddeeradvocate.com

Earn While You Learn Full Time Employment 40hrs/wk Training & Practicum hours provided to successful candidate.

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FRANCHISE AVAILABLE!

CARRIERS NEEDED

RED DEER, AB

FOR FLYERS, RED DEER SUNDAY LIFE & EXPRESS ROUTES IN:

(SINGLE OR AREA FRANCHISE) Minimum Investment: Approximately $150,000 unencumbered We Provide: Site Selection & Design Lease Negotiations Construction Administration Training & Operations Support Menu Development Marketing For more information, contact:

INGLEWOOD AREA Ing Close / Ireland Cres.

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Drive MORRISROE AREA

Chris Chan

Marion Cres / McKenzie Cres

President 1-800-927-0366 cchan@smittys.ca

VANIER AREA

DRIVERS WANTED Bench Dog Ind is looking RED DEER for a landscape Laborer.

Hallcon is currently Starting May 5. $17 per seeking qualified drivers to hour or higher depending transport rail crews on experience. Previous throughout the surrounding experience in landscaping, area. Drivers are ideally paving stones and Allan based out of RED DEER. Block an asset. Must have No overnight stays transportation and a NON required. This position is SMOKER. Contact Richard an on call position. at benchdogind@yahoo.

Employees are responsible com or fax resume to 403for taking trips during the 782-2257 period they have designated themselves Blown-in Attic available to do so. All Insulation Installer transportation is done in Blown-In Attic Insulation Hallcon company vehicles.

Installers required, These vehicles are extensively and consistently must have experience driving a 3 ton truck with van. maintained to ensure Duties: Install attic optimal safety for our insulation into houses, drivers and clients. Drivers shops and barns, etc., must possess a valid Class drive 3 ton trucks to and 1, 2, or 4 license, with a from job sites, maintain clean driver abstract. trucks and equipment.

Assisted licensing upgrade If you are reliable, take to achieve a class 4 is pride in your job and have available. Pay is based at your own transportation to a rate of $15.38. Earning potential is based on your and from work with a clean class 5 driver’s license, availability, as our please apply. operation runs on a 24/7 We offer: 40+work week, on call basis. Both full time benefits & safety program. and part time employees are welcome. Semi-retired, Resumes will be accepted retired, full time, and part

BY EMAIL ONLY, time employees are please no phone calls. welcome. Please forward Only those resumes and current driver selected will be contacted abstract to Shane Flack at for an interview. Email: asmabnorth@gmail.com. bbcowie@telus.net NO PHONE CALLS CLEANERS F/T Comm/ PLEASE Res, physically fit, $14/hr.

Reply to: Ascent Cleaning Services RR4, Box 4, Site Business 3 Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4 Opportunities

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Enjoy a career in the gifting business with The original basket boutique!

We are growing in Red Deer and Alberta.

780.416.2530 or www.obbgiftsfranchise.com

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

SPRING START •

GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

• • • • • • • •

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Hanna Drumheller Innisfail Paintearth Drayton Valley Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

GLENDALE

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

Family owned and operated since 1974, Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent appliance retailers in Western Canada.

Trail offers excellent training & a competitive compensation & benefit plan.

We are currently looking to expand our workforce at our Red Deer location 2823 Bremner Ave.

Service Coordinator Contract Sales Administrator Customer Service Representative-P/T Trail is always looking for people who want opportunities to grow, take initiative and work well within a team environment.

If you are looking for a challenging and rewarding career with Trail Appliances, please submit your resume and cover letter stating the position you are applying for to: reddeerjobs @trail-appliances.com or by fax: (403)342-7168.

We thank all interested applicants; only those chosen for an interview will be contacted. Security checks will be conducted on successful candidates.

FLAG PERSON NEEDED Must have flagging ticket, clean license,, reliable, references, for more info call after 6:00 pm 403-227-3429.

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

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Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Sunday Life ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in CLEARVIEW RIDGE Cooper Cl., Carter Cl., Connaught Cres., Churchill Cl. area $195/mo.

Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

WESTPARK SUBDIVISION 35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres.

Westpark Cres.

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Dr. Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316 **************************

Duncan Cres. $71/mo.

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

MOUNTVIEW AREA Spruce Drive $62/mo.

ALSO 43 Ave to 46 Ave, between 35 st. & 37 St. $82/mo.

ALSO Springbett Drive & 44 Ave., 37 St. area $51/mo.

ALSO 44 A Ave between 32 St. & 35 St. (Includes 33, 33A & 34 St’s Culde-sacs) $102/mo.

Valentine Cres. / Vandorp St.

SMITTY’S™ CANADA LIMITED 600 – 501 18th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2S 0C7 www.smittys.ca

880

Phone Loren at 403-314-4316

ANDERS AREA Alwright Close

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FOR APPROVED LOCATION IN

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NO COLLECTING!

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Truckers/ Drivers

The papers arrive ready to deliver.

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* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 4 days per week

MOUNTVIEW SUBDIVISION 33 Street 34 Street 36 Street 38 Street 42 Ave. 43A Ave.

33A Street 35 St. Cres.

37 St. 41 Ave. 43 Ave. 44A Ave.

TIMBERSTONE AREA Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info 390884D26-E2

Canada’s Largest Family Restaurant Chain serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner to Canadians coast to coast since 1960

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Would you like to become an Optician?

4924-59 Street, Red Deer, Alberta

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RAMADA INN & SUITES DAIRY equipment supplier looking for a detail oriented req’s. Permanent Room PARTS PERSON/ Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 LABOURER hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 Strong computer skills and SERVICE RIG $14/hr. Duties incl’d but clean Class 5 req.

Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd not limited to: vacuuming, Competitive wage and is seeking exp’d dusting, washing floors, benefits package. Email WE ARE OPENING OUR FLOORHANDS & making beds, empty trash, resume: lindsay@ NEW GROCERY STORE DERRICK HANDS disinfecting & cleaning prolineinc.ca IN PENHOLD. Locally based, home every bathrooms. Performance Now accepting Celebrate your life night! Qualified applicants based bonus program. applications for must have all necessary with a Classified Must be fluent with verbal DELI MANAGER valid tickets for the position ANNOUNCEMENT l& written English, be being applied for.

PRODUCE MANAGER physically fit. Applicants Bearspaw offers a FT MACHINIST – Must have previous may apply in person at very competitive salary ROCKY MTN. HOUSE experience in these 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer and benefits package 4TH YR. APPRENTICE departments. Requires T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 along with a steady OR JOURNEYMAN strong work ethics, be able or email: work schedule.

Machinist W/ Red Seal to lead a team and work info@ramadareddeer.com Please submit resumes: Position requires a HIGH under direct supervision of Attn: Human Resources degree of skill operating store manager. Fax Email: manual Lathes, Milling resume to hr@bearspawpet.com Machines & Drill Press.

403-885-5231 or call Fax: (403) 258-3197 or Public/Co-worker Gerry 403-885-5223 Mail to: Suite 5309, communications a must; Something for Everyone 333-96 Ave. NE welding skills an asset.

Everyday in Classifieds Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 CNC experience NOT required. Competitve Start your career!

SOUTHPOINTE wages and benefits.

Truckers/ See Help Wanted COMMON and BOWER Please fax: 403-844-2634 PLACE Mall Locations. or email: gtdblh@telus.net Drivers Positions for Only successful applicants SUPERVISORS. Looking will be contacted. for motivated and hard GOODMEN working individuals. Having your own transportation is ROOFING LTD. a plus. On the job Requires training, but experience in TR3 Energy is at the fast food is an asset, and SLOPED ROOFERS forefront of reclamation must be avail. to work all LABOURERS and remediation in the oil store location hours. & FLAT ROOFERS & gas industry Please specify which store you are applying for, and if Valid Driver’s Licence BFI Canada Red Deer is hiring We are currently you require an LMO to preferred. Fax or email Waste Collection recruiting for: work in Canada. Email info@goodmenroofing.ca resume to awbsp@ or (403)341-6722 Drivers and Helpers.

Heavy Equipment xplornet.ca NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Class 3 Driving position.

Operators & Monday to Friday.

Labourers HOURLY taper needed.

Competitive Wages. Paid Sales & $25-$30/hr. depending on benefits. Must be able to experience.

Call Steve Distributors Requirements: perform physical labor, 403-350-4320 Valid Driver’s License lifting up to 50lbs, in a fast H2S Alive GRATIAE is seeking paced environment.

QUICKLINE CRANE INC. Standard First Aid 5 Retails Sales reps Training will be provided. in Blackfalds WHIMIS and/or selling skin & body care Experience in the industry is looking for a CSTS or PST products in Parkland Mall an asset, but not MOBILE CRANE & Pre-Access A&D Testing 4747 67th St. Red Deer, necessary. Successful Ground Disturbance Level 11 $12.10/hr + bonus & comm. HOISTING OPERATOR candidates must pass a with experience.

F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d.

Pre-employment Medical Must be a minimum third Please e-mail or fax your Email resumes: and Drug test. Please fax year apprentice & have resume to: gratiaereddeersr@ resume and drivers good knowledge of truck hr@tr3energy.com gmail.com abstract to 403-340-0894 mount & all terrain cranes.

Fax: (403) 294-9323 or Email jclarke@wsii.ca.

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 Competitive salaries www.tr3energy.com F/T - P/T Beauty TreatCLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d includes benefits. ment O/P, selling soap & for moving equipment.

Must have a Class 1 license. bath products $14.55/hr. + Please submit all resumes Resumes to be dropped off bonus & comm. Beauty at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Professionals by email to: cert. req’d. Location Cres. Red Deer. kyle@quicklinecrane.com Parkland Mall - 4747 67th DEEP KNEADS MUSCLE St. Red Deer. email SHUNDA THERAPY is looking premierjobrdbto@ CONSTRUCTION for a Registered Massage gmail.com Requires Full Time Therapist for room rental.

SOAP Stories is seeking 5 Carpenters Please contact retail sales reps. Selling soap 403-343-1086 & 2nd to 4th Yr. & bath products. $12.10 hr Apprentices + bonus & commission.

Competitive Wages F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d.

Restaurant/ & Benefits.

Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. TRUCKERS Hotel Fax resumes & ref’s to: Red Deer. email resume to Busy road construction 403-343-1248 or email to: premierjobrd@gmail.com company looking for Class admin@shunda.ca A &W 1, Class 3, and winch truck GASOLINE ALLEY drivers. Work is throughout Central Alberta’s Largest Alberta. Must have at least BOTH LOCATIONS Trades Car Lot in Classifieds 3 yr’s exp. Fax resume to Now accepting applications 403-309-0489 for F/T & P/T Cooks & Cashiers Wage W.R.SCOTT Equipment NEED EXPERIENCED $10.50-$12/hr. a company dealing in Class 1 drivers for short Please apply in person to compact equipment is and long haul. Full Time. either Gasoline Alley Location looking for a representative Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba or online at: aw.ca to handle equipment, & BC. Please call parts, sales & equipment PROMAX TRANSPORT CHILLABONG’S rentals. Applicant must at 227-2712 or fax resume have a valid driver’s BAR & GRILL w/abstract 403-227-2743 licence, basic computer Is seeking permanent C & C COATINGS in knowledge is an asset.

RED Deer based acid exp’d full & part time LINE Innisfail is seeking F/T Please send resume to: hauling company looking COOKS. We offer a comSandblasters and Painters dbevan@ for Class 1 truck drivers. petitive wage, fast paced, exp. with Endura an asset. wrscottequipment.com Top industry wages and friendly work environment.

Competitive wages and or fax 1-780-440-1771 benefits package. Please If you have exceptional benefits. Fax resume to: fax resume and drivers abwork ethics and a passion W.R.SCOTT Equipment 403-227-1165. stract to 403-346-3766 for cooking please email requires a driver yard your resume to PAINTER F/T F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. person for small compact intbooks@telus.net or Commercial/Residential Minimum Class 5 with air equipment yard. drop off in person. ConsidBrush/Roll Application. and clean abstract. Exp. email resume to: eration will be given to Exp. req’d. Vehicle req’d. preferred. In person to Key dbevan@ those who are avail. for a Contact Drew at CCL Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. wrscottequipment.com variety of shifts.

403-596-1829 Red Deer. or fax 1-780-440-1771

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1 RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a growing Production Testing company, based out of Sylvan Lake, is currently accepting resumes for the following positions: Attn: Human Resources email:kwolokoff@ bearspawpet.com * Experienced Fax 403-252-9719 Production Testing Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 * Day Supervisors Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

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ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2002 VOLKSWAGEN Jetta GLS 1.8L,

2006 ACURA RSX Premium auto 57,000 kms.

$10,888.

$12,888

348-8788 Sport & Import

Sport & Import 348 8788

1989 CHRYSLER 5th Ave 110,000 kms. $995. obo.

403-347-5873 or 403-350-1077

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 CADILLAC ESCALADE ESV platinum, mint

1989 LINCOLN Mark II, 2 door, low kms., exc. cond.

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

2006 CHEV. Reg cab, 8’ box, 2WD, 4.3L, auto, A/C. ONLY 49,000 km. Exc. cond. $9000 obo.

403-340-6727

$4000.

403-343-0081

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2007 FORD F-150 Lariat 4X4, htd. lthr., sunroof,

2008 Escalade ESV. Nav. Dvd camera 6 pass

$12,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

$21,888 Sport & Import 403-348-8788

$32,888

348-8788 Sport & Import

2007 H2 HUMMER, mint condition, 59,000 kms, new tires & rims, original rims and tires to buyer. Call Art 403-304-0727.

2008 FORD F-250 XL 4X4, 6.4L, 92754 kms.

$26,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2011 ALPINE 39’, 7500 w generator, king bed, 2011 GMC 3/4 ton Denali, hitch, matched to trailer, sell as unit $105,000 obo, trailer only $54,900 obo 403 358-4031

2007 INFINITI G35X DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1999 PONTIAC Sunfire GT, well maintained.

$2000.

403-346-9169

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2004 TITANIUM model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2005 HUMMER H2

$24,888 Sport & Import 348 8788

2005 KIA SORENTO, silver, 147,000 km.

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2001 SILVERADO LT 2wd, X cab, 5.3L, 166,600 kms, grey, tow pkg, $6800 obo 403-343-8206

2002 SATURN SL1 4 dr $2100. obo SOLD

$6000.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2006 GMC C4500 4X4, Duramax, 170,000 kms.

$39,888.

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2006 MERCEDES Benz CLS 500 lthr., sunroof, 115057 kms., $25,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

FWD, lthr., 41,100 kms,

$15,888. SOLD

$15000.

403-845-4146, 844-5698

2008 TOYOTA Tacoma

4WD, V6, 4 auto, cruise, air, 227,000 km. $14,900. 403-505-3113

2007 STARCRAFT, 30’, slide, solar, air, walk-around bed, sleeps 6, rear kitchen. $17,000. O.B.O. 403-358-6765

2008 VW GOLF CITY

2007 TOYOTA Tacoma V6

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

4X4, 114903 kms.,

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ALL WHEEL DRIVE 2007 530 XI BMW. Original Owner, 143,000 km. Exc. Cond. Regularly Maintained,

2008 Audi A4 2.0T

348-8788 Sport & Import

$19,888.

2007 SPORTSMAN LX, 3254, 3 slides,thermo windows, fireplace, lots of extras. MINT $27,900. trades cons. 403-598-0682

$19,888.

$19,888.

2008 GMC Acadia SLE AWD, 8 passenger, 90,485 kms, 348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 PONTIAC Solstice 26080 kms., 5 speed,

403-347-0461

2005 LEXUS ES 330

AWD, auto., loaded.

Summers & snows, 106,000 km, 1 owner, exc. cond.

Must sell.

$9,888.

Sport & Import 348 8788

$19,888.

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2011 GMC Sierra 1500 Hybrid 4X4, 6.0L, lthr., 81735 kms.,

$28,888.

2012 CHEV Silverado 2500 LTZ, diesel, lthr., tonneau cover,

$36,888 348-8788 Sport & Import

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms.,

2012 INFINITI G37X

$15,900.

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$27,888

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Fully Loaded!

2007 CHRYSLER 300 103198 kms.,

2011 FORD FIESTA. $8200, 5 spd, 11,000 km.

Exc. cond. Great on gas.

Medical reasons.

Ask for Doug **SOLD**

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Call 403-350-4323

2006 34’ Gulf Stream Yellowstone. Sleeps 4, 3 slides, new awning, washer, dryer hookup, equipped w/Arctic & Sub Arctic pkgs, custom skirt & more! $34,900. 403-8878405

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

T@B 14’, 1200 lbs., loaded.

Like New. $10,999.

SOLD

2010 ACURA MDX tech package 91,000 kms

2008 BMW X5 3.0si AWD, htd. lthr., panaroof,

$30,888

$27,888.

Sport & Import SOLD

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SPRING savings spectacular

only 58,000 kms

$

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2009 VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG

Stk #V34389A. V6, auto, loaded, 1 owner, 86,000 kms

$

25,990

2008 HONDA CIVIC DX

Stk #V44716B. 4 cyl., 5 spd., 1 owner, only 74,000 kms

$

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9,990

VOLKSWAGEN

2011 VW GOLF TDI

Stk #V34690A. auto, over 1,000 kms/ tank, 1 owner, fully inspected

$

18,990

2010 TIGUAN

Stk #VP4860. 4 motion, 2.0 turbo, auto, certified pre-owned, only 73,000 kms

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2011 VW JETTA TDI

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RENTAL STORE requires TRAILERS for sale or rent PS2 with 15 games, $75; GREEN OASIS an employee for counter Job site, office, well site or 403-782-3847 F/T or P/T seasonal and sales.

Must have storage.

Skidded or year round lawn care positions PSP 60, with 8 games, equipment and small wheeled. Call 347-7721. avail. in our residential, $120. Game Boy with 26 engine knowledge.

Retail commercial divisions. games, $50; 403-782-3847 and parts inventory Applicators are fully trained experience are assets. to apply fertilizer and/or control Tools Must be physically fit. Full Misc. for products to various time position with OT in Sale landscapes. Applicators busy season. sales@ GAS powered pressure are offered comprehensive parklandrentals.com or fax washer 3 gpm, 2000 psi, training, excellent wages 2 WOOL ACCENT MATCH403-347-7066 5.5 Honda engine (Start at $17/hr w/no exp. + ING 5X7 CARPETS $199 403-755-2760 unlimited overtime if wanted). & 1 matching oval. $45 Clean, will sell separately.

Please provide the following: DAVID WINTER • An above average work COLLECTORS HOUSES Firewood ethic and people skills in original boxes. $10/ea.

• Class 5 operator’s license Warehouse CANNON K920 Copier with minimal demerits AFFORDABLE Shipper/ Receiver machine w/metal stand.

• Green industry experience Competitive starting wages Homestead Firewood Exc. cond. $60 is beneficial but not plus regular increases.

Spruce & Pine - Split 403-352-8811 required to succeed Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 • Environmentally conscious 30 BOTTLE WINE RACK. Excellent benefits with an enthusiasm for $20. 403-346-5745 LOGS package. Opportunities the outdoors Semi loads of pine, spruce, to advance. Must be AIR CONDITIONER Many BONUS tamarack, poplar. dependable, hardworking 6000 BTU. Still in box.

Opportunities Available.

Price depends on location. and seeking a long-term $100.

403-343-6044 Email resume to: Lil Mule Logging career. Apply in person, reddeer@greenoasis.ca 403-318-4346 ALUMINUM 4’ ladder $8, or email to: Visit: www.greenoasis.ca 2/3 of 15kg. bag of Oil-Dri hartleytj@eecol.com Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner all purpose absorbent $8, 4747 - 61st Street BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / hose reel cart portable Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 $35, galvanized garbage can $10; Coleman cooler 22” x 13” alum., $15; powGarden er rake blades for lawn Supplies mower 2@15”, 1@16”, all for $10, 5 outdoor wrought TREES: Windbreak, iron brackets for hanging privacy screen, white plants $4/ea, new 20 oz. spruce trees 5’-7’ delivered wet mop $6, timer MasterLABOUR CLASSIFICATIONS & planted $60 ea. on 25 or craft 24 hr. single cycle $5, Busy road construction more. 20+ yrs experience 1500-1990 desk fan, 3 spd, $10, 25 company looking for (780)778-0223. legal file holders $10, Labours. Work is throughchrome plated wine rack out Alberta. Must have a Building holds 12 bottles $10, ice Class 5 license. Fax reHousehold scraper $8, wallmount bike sume to 403-309-0489 Supplies Appliances rack set of 2 $5.

403-314-2026 CONCRETE forming KENMORE White equipment Dura-Form 4’ x microwave oven 800W, $30.

2’, 5’x2’, 7’x2’, 8’ x 2’, lots 403-352-8811 of inside corners and fillNEWSPAPER ers, most of forms are in cages. To view call Randy Household CARRIERS 403-843-1099 cell REQUIRED Furnishings 587-679-2334. For pics and detailed equipt. list ELECRIC fireplace, stone To deliver email: thepelletiers@ with brown wood trim.

VARIOUS PARTYLITE xplornet.ca 1 day a week in $150. 403-346-9635 PRODUCTS BOWDEN including candles.

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Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307 PRIVATE treatment center requires 2 night staff for Client Services Representative position.

This is a full time position from 11pm-7am and includes the following duties; light office duties, answering telephone, client support and/or resolution as needed.

Resume can be forwarded to staceygrantham@ thewholelifeinstitute.com.

Interviews by appt. only.

WEED SPRAYER required. No experience necessary. Must have valid Class 5 Drivers License.

Fax resume to 403-227-5099 or email to cdsprung@telus.net

Clothing

Sporting Goods

1860

60% off!

Large selection.

403-350-9029 or 403-343-7389

LADIES quick dry sports pants, REI, 3 pair. Like new, 30” waist, navy, dark green, beige. $50. ea.; Ladies Long Coat, stone washed denim, unlined, sz. large $40.

403-347-3741

MULE DEER head on shield $150, antlers mounted on shield $50 403-314-2026 TAILOR MADE driver RH 320TI 360 10.5 degree TS-100 shaft, very good cond, $60 403-346-0093

Travel Packages

1900

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Make your travel plans now.

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

Grain, Feed Hay

2190

TIMOTHY & Brome square bales, great for horses, approx. 60 lbs. put up dry and covered, $5/bale Sylvan area. 403-887-2798

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

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Cats

BALINESE KITTENS (2) $50. ea.

Burman Kittens (2) $50. ea.

403-887-3649

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Dogs

HUSKY WOLF PUPS!!

1 F, 1st shots, Call Kerri 403-506-3395

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CLASSIFICATIONS

MORRISROE MANOR

1100

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060 SIDING, Soffit, Fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

Eavestroughing

1130

VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs.

Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE

International ladies

Now Open

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its Escorts BEST! 403-986-6686 TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* Come in and see INDEPENDENT w/own car why we are the talk of the town.

Handyman www.viimassage.biz Services

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ALL TRADES Home Maintenance 28 yrs. exp.

Retired electrician. Call Rick 403-318-4267 ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, and roof snow removal?

Call James 403-341-0617

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COMMERCIAL Parking lot Vacuum Street Sweeping & parking lot assessments.

403-341-6900

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Seniors’ Services

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Rooms For Rent

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Yard Care

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2 parking stalls, 4914-46 St. RD. 403-346-5885 2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street.

Parking is avail. $2400/mo.

403-343-9300

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Realtors & Services

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JUNK/TREE REMOVAL, Yard/Care 403-358-1614

Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

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RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

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Automotive 2006 CHEV. Reg cab, 8’ box, 2WD, 4.3L, auto, A/C. ONLY 49,000 km. Exc. cond. $9000 obo. 403-340-6727 2004 GMC 3/4 C/C SLT leather, Duramax diesel, 200,000 kms, not oilfield, black, very nice $17,200.

403-357-8811 2001 SILVERADO LT 2wd, X cab, 5.3L, 166,600 kms, grey, tow pkg, $6800 obo 403-343-8206

1995 GMC Cheyenne 1500, located in Bashaw.

240,000 km. $3250 obo.

Call 403-318-5799 You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Vans Buses

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FREE removal of scrap vehicles. Will pay cash for some. 403-304-7585

DO YOU WANT YOUR AD TO BE READ BY 100,000 Potential Buyers???

TRY Central Alberta LIFE SERVING CENTRAL ALBERTA RURAL REGION

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1988 B250 Dodge Ram van wheelchair ramp, power controls, saftied, V8, 5.2L motor 403-227-0513

Fifth Wheels

5190

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Public Notices

NOTICE T0 CREDITORS AND CLAIMANTS Estate of

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KEVIN BARRY EMMONS 2011 ALPINE 39’, 4 slides, satellite dish, 7500 w generator, king bed, 2011 GMC 3/4 ton Denali, hitch, matched to trailer, sell as unit $105,000 obo, photos avail, trailer only $54,900 obo 403 358-4031 garybourne66@gmail.com

who died on November 6, 2013 If you have a claim against this estate, you must file your claim by May 30, 2014, with

Thomas G. Langford at Duhamel Manning Feehan Warrrender Glass LLP 5233 - 49 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta T4N 6G5

5030 5010

and provide details of your claim. If you do not file by the date above, the estate property can lawfully be distributed without regard to any claim you may have.

U-STORE IT SELF STORAGE NOTICE TO: Vanessa Aubichon Jean LeBlanc Chris Michaud Sean Steier John Super Kurt Weisser Kole Henkel Peter Odidi Terra Daley

Keep the Car, Take the Money!

If you own a vehicle, contact us today!

RED DEER 403-754-5104 4971 Phelan St.

www.thetitlestore.ca

Public Notices

Please be advised that you have until

MAY 23, 2014 to pay in full or they will be auctioned on May 31, 2014

6010 JUDICIAL SALE OF MORTGAGED LANDS

The following property is offered by sale by tender subject to the restrictions in the existing certificate of title, namely: THE SOUTH EAST QUARTER OF SECTION FOURTEEN (14) TOWNSHIP THIRTY SIX (36) RANGE FIVE (5) WEST OF THE FIFTH MERIDIAN CONTAINING 64.7 HECTARES (160 ACRES) MORE OR LESS EXCEPTING THEREOUT: HECTARES (ACRES) MORE OR LESS A) PLAN 9322629- ROAD 0.811 2.00 B) PLAN 9925046- SUBDIVISION 5.058 12.50 C) PLAN 9925347- ROAD 2.051 5.07 EXCEPTING THEREOUT ALL MINES AND MINERALS The property is an agricultural holding with modular home, detached garage, barn, 2 animal shelters, hay shelter, access road to paved Provincial Highway 54, water well, septic system, and natural gas and electrical services.

For further details, interested parties may refer to the Affidavit of Value and Valuator’s Report filed in these proceedings.

Tenders in sealed envelopes referencing the Court file number 1210-001131, accompanied by your address for notification and a certified cheque, money order or cash for 10% of the amount of the tender must be in the hands of the Clerk of the Court at the Court House, 4909 48 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 3T5 by 12:00 noon on May 8, 2014.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid into Court within 30 days, if your tender is accepted. You will be notified of the date and time when the Court will consider your tender. If your tender is accepted and you do not complete the purchase within the 30 days then your deposit will be forfeited.

The successful tenderer shall take the mortgaged lands as is. No warranties of any kind are made with respect to the mortgaged lands. The highest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

The deposits of unsuccessful tenderers will be returned to them.

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ROTOTILLING, power raking, aerating & grass cutting. Reasonable rates. 403-341-4745

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Offices

1994 37’ TERRY Park Model trailer w/12 x 20 add on room, Lakewood Village next to Sylvan Lake Golf course $28,500 403-887-6087

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1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

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MOUNTVIEW Avail fully furn bdrms for rent. Student or Working M only. 403-396-2468

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Trucks

2001 FORD F150 7700 4x4, 5th whl. hitch, new battery & mufflers, Michelin Laebon Homes 346-7273 tires, overload springs, $5985. 403-304-9813

Services

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 Contractors

Locally owned and family operated

www.laebon.com

SENIOR couple seeks to rent a 2 bdrm. condo in Lacombe.

Suite must have ground flr entry or elevator. Phone Noel or Jean at 403-782-6085

CLEAN, quiet, responsible, Furn. $525. 403-342-2627

Contractors

Riser Homes 1380 sq.ft., 2 storey, 3 bdrm., 2.5 bath.

Many upgrades, front att. garage. $371,000 incl.

GST, legal fee, appls. pkg.

Lloyd Fiddler 403-391-9294

2007 STARCRAFT, 30’, slide, solar, air, walkaround bed, sleeps 6, rear kitchen. $17,000. O.B.O. 403-358-6765

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

2004 TITANIUM model 2009 CHEV Impala LT 6 31E36MK. Loaded, many Newly renovated bachelor, cyl. 4 dr. sedan, gold mist, extras. $24,500 obo.

78,600 kms, extras, 1 own1 & 2 bedroom suites 403-347-1050 or 304-4580 available in central location. er $10,800 403-887-6087 leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031 Automotive

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

4 POST car lifts and Classic Car Finders. We have the highest quality car hoists for your house or man cave avail. Also have car shipping from USA to Red Deer along with brokering, over 300 contacts worldwide for finding your classic car. Call Kyle 403-896-7258

RECEIVE $5000.

Buy through us & be paid up to $5000. at move in. www.ResOneCash.com 403-358-9999 text / call Residential One

Cars

BIG bdrm. own bathroom, house privileges all inclusive + WIFI $575 403-302-2024

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New Home. 1335 sq.ft. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

403-588-2550

1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Adult bldg. N/S No pets 403-755-9852

Roommates Wanted

5120

Holiday Trailers

Auto Wreckers

MUST SELL

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Condos/ WANTED • 3250-3390 Townhouses

1000-1430

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

at www.garymoe.com

MUST SELL

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LARGE and medium dog kennel $75 & $40 403-506-7117

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1217 sq.ft. duplex.

4 bdrm., $191,900.

403-588-2550

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Antique Dealers and Stores

FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, prices, address, owner’s phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer www.homesreddeer.com

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CUSTOM BUILT NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

1 -4 pc bath, non drinking, TREADMILL Tempo 611. no drugs, no parties, smoking $375 obo. Call 403-347-5306 ok. Household privileges, cable internet, washer, dryer.

Female pref. pet friendly.

Serious enquiries only. $540/mo. Avail. immed.

403-356-1766 / 877-9177

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

1484 sq.ft. 1/2 Duplex Fenced back yard on creek Lovely area near walking paths, all amenities.

Hardwood floors, newly developed basement.

3 bdrms. up, 2 in bsmt.

Must sell, Buy now and move soon! $349,900 Agent selected.

403-396-5516 or 403-314-4318 Mon-Wed.

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Sporting Goods

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Close to Coronation Park & Trail System

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Pets & Supplies

Cars

2007 ACCORD 1, owner, full load. $8900. SOLD

GUN SHOW

KING SIZE BOX SPRING, DOWNSIZING - Everything must go. 403-340-1347 $100.

403-350-9029 or ELEC. floor scrubber $25, 403-343-7389 EXCLUSIVE LUXURY 36” flat screen tv w/stand Condos/ RIVERFRONT CONDOS $100 403-346-5745 MATTRESS 54”. $100.

Townhouses FOR SALE 403-343-6044 HOUSEPLANTS FOR SALE in Downtown Red Deer.

WOMEN’S SKETCHERS, Call Renee at OAK table w/4 chairs $75; - Moving unable to keep.

2 BDRM. condo townSize 6 runners.

Norfolk Pine, $30 chesterfield and love seat house unit in Sylvan, avail. 403-314-1687 for Inquiries.

Only worn twice.

2 Spider Plants, $15 & $10. $100 403-346-5745 now 403-341-9974 Stone/brown in colour.

NEW CONDO Christmas Cactus $25.

Low density workout shoe.

1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath.

SOUTHWOOD PARK WANTED Several Aloe Vera $1-$5.

TH Shape up while you walk $192,000.

403-588-2550 3110-47 Avenue, Antiques, furniture and As well as a vine $15. or jog. Asking $50.

2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, estates. 342-2514 403-782-7439 403-227-2976 generously sized, 1 1/2 HYDRAULIC jacks, 2 & 3 Lots For baths, fenced yards, WOMEN’S SKETCHERS, Stereos ton, $10/ea, oxygen acety- full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sale Size 6 runners. lene Victor regulator set Sorry no pets.

TV's, VCRs Only worn twice. $35, chrome microwave www.greatapartments.ca Stone/brown in colour.

Pinnacle Estates $20, window air conditionPLAYSTATION 1 w/8 Low density workout shoe.

(Blackfalds) er $35, scoop shovel $10, games, $60; PSP, with 4 large Shape up while you walk You build or bring your scoop shovel movies & 11 games $120; $15 403-887-4981 or jog. Asking $50. own builder.

Terms avail.

Suites 403-782-3847 403-227-2976 403-304-5555 JIG SAW PUZZLES & MISC. BOOKS. $2/ea.

AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 587-273-3436 bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown NEW Precious Moments Co-Op, no pets, Angel of Mercy Collectible.

403-348-7445 ideal gift for nurse. $50; Telephone that Red Deer EASTVIEW, 1 bdrm. bsmt.

Hospital allows, large suite, fully furnished, n/s, no buttons; $40.; child’s pets, $750/MO, for single CLASSIFICATIONS Fischer Price Wagon, $30; $875 for dbl. Utils. incld.

403-347-3741 Avail. immed.

5000-5300 NEW wood deck box, with 403-782-9357 or 352-1964 cooler inside, $100.

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. Antique & 403-347-3741 apartments, avail. immed, Classic Autos rent $875 403-596-6000 OAKLEY Sunglasses model D Whisker Silver LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. 1966 FORD Mustang /00BLK IRID, polar, SUITES. 25+, adults only Coupe appraised $15,500. never used, $85. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 Runs good. Would like at 403-352-8811 least $9500. 403-391-3456

Daily The Red Deer Advocate Daily The publishes Red Deer Advocate advertisements from companies and corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

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HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

You may contact the Plaintiff ’s lawyer as follows: D. Grant Watson Johnston Ming Manning LLP 4th Floor, 4943- 50th Street Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1Y1 Telephone: (403) 346-5591 Facsimile: (403) 346-5599

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Concerns arise about blue whale carcass RESIDENTS IN NEWFOUNDLAND TOWN FEAR DEAD ANIMAL COULD BURST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TROUT RIVER, N.L. — The 60-tonne carcass of a blue whale is rotting along the shoreline of a western Newfoundland town, triggering concerns from the community it could burst.

Emily Butler, the town clerk in Trout River, said the 26-metre long mammal is beached next to a community boardwalk and is emitting a powerful stench spreading through the town of 600 people.

Butler said she is worried about the possibility of gas expanding inside the dead animal to the point where it will rupture.

“We have a concern . . . because I’m not sure with the heat and gases that are trapped inside of this mammal if at some point in time it will explode,” she said Tuesday in an interview.

A research scientist with the federal Fisheries Department said the risk of such a blast is “very small.”

“At some point, the skin of the animal will lose some of its integrity as all of the connective tissue starts to break down,” said Jack Lawson. “Eventually, that gas will seep out . . . . It will just deflate like an old balloon.”

Still, Lawson said people should stay away from the carcass, which could be carrying viruses or bacteria that can make people sick.

“The risk will come from somebody with a sharp blade who decides they want to cut a hole in the side to see what happens, or if someone is foolish enough to walk on it,” Lawson said from St. John’s.

He said he is aware of YouTube videos showing a bloated, beached sperm whale in the Faroe Islands that suddenly explodes as a scientist uses a large, flensing knife to cut open its underside.

“With this animal (in Newfoundland), it’s highly unlikely that it’s going to happen, especially spontaneously,” he said.

Butler said the community has asked the province’s Environment and Government Services departments to remove the whale. The two provincial departments were unavailable for comment Tuesday.

Butler said the town council considered asking fishermen to tow the mammal out to sea but concluded such a task would need to be supervised by someone with expertise.

“Nobody has been properly trained in the removal of whale carcasses of this size,” she said.

Lawson said he is willing to offer advice, but he said the federal government is not responsible for removing the whale because it is above the highwater mark and is therefore the responsibility of the province.

The scientist said large, beached whales can either be buried with heavy equipment or cut up and shipped to a landfill.

The whale is one of three beached in small communities along Newfoundland’s west coast near Gros Morne National Park.

Husband of Manitoba judge investigated over nude photos dies of cancer

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG — A Manitoba lawyer who once testified his own “bizarre sexual behaviour” was to blame for an inquiry into his wife’s ability to serve as a judge has died.

Jack King’s death creates another hurdle for a stalled Canadian Judicial Council inquiry into Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Lori Douglas, whose sexually explicit photos were posted to the Internet a decade ago.

“It is with great sorrow that we confirm that our beloved husband, father and friend Jack King died peacefully early this morning after a short bout with cancer,” the 66-year-old’s family said in a brief written statement Tuesday.

“We would ask that our privacy be respected during this difficult time.”

King had admitted to taking 100 to 150 nude photos of Douglas before she became a judge, some of them showing her in bondage gear or performing sex acts. King used the photos in 2003 to harass a former client named Alexander Chapman and asked him in conversations and emails to have sex with his wife.

The matter was kept private, under a confidential settlement between King and Chapman, until Chapman went public in 2010.

The inquiry is examining four allegations against Douglas, including a charge that she failed to disclose the existence of the photos when she was screened for a judicial appointment in 2005. It is also examining whether the mere existence of the photos has undermined Douglas’s ability to serve on the bench.

When he testified in 2012, King took the blame for the entire controversy. He said his wife had no idea he had uploaded the explicit photos to the Internet or had approached Chapman with the sex proposal.

“It was essentially in pursuit of some absolutely bizarre sexual behaviour on my part,” he told the inquiry.

King described his own behaviour as “bizarre, ridiculous, stupid, self-indulgent, grotesque and so on,” and said it was part of a sexual fantasy he had.

Douglas only found out the photos were online later in 2003, King testified. Chapman had promised to return all copies under the settlement agreement reached that year, and the photos were removed from websites, King added.

The inquiry quickly became bogged down by accusations of unfairness. Douglas’s lawyer complained that the five-member committee overseeing the inquiry displayed signs of bias by having its own lawyer aggressively cross-examine witnesses who were favourable to Douglas.

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Collapsed rubble at the Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake, Ont., is shown on June 27, 2012. The discredited engineer charged in the collapse of a northern Ontario mall is asking for a judicial inquiry into the disaster to keep secret some of its report, expected in October, until the criminal proceedings against him are over.

Engineer in mall-collapse wants parts of judicial report kept secret

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The discredited engineer charged in the collapse of a northern Ontario mall is asking for a judicial inquiry into the disaster to keep secret some of its report, expected in October, until the criminal proceedings against him are over.

In an unusual move, Bob Wood notified the commission of his intent to bring a formal application for the redactions of any material in the final report relating to him to ensure he gets a fair trial.

In response, Commissioner Paul Belanger on Tuesday ordered Wood to provide the commission details of his arguments, including any legal justification, for the secrecy request by May 16.

Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS Belanger said he would make the application and Engineer Robert (Bob) its supporting materials Wood is shown at the public.

In January, provincial mall-collapse inquiry police charged Wood with in Elliot Lake, Ont., on two counts of criminal neg- June 6, 2013. ligence causing death and one of causing bodily harm.

Evidence before the inquiry was that he had declared the crumbling Algo Centre Mall in Elliot Lake to be structurally sound just weeks before part of its roof-deck parking lot caved in in June 2012. Two women died in the collapse.

In his order, Belanger said anyone involved in the

inquiry, which wrapped up hearings in October, as well as Crown lawyers or media will have an opportunity to make submissions on Wood’s application if they provide written notice by May 23.

The hearing on the application will take place in Ottawa on June 20, Belanger said.

Wood’s lawyer Rob MacRae said Tuesday he would not discuss the application until after he had filed the requested materials with the commission.

However, in his letter to the commission, he said the “grave” charges Wood, 65, faces are punishable by life.

“The interim value to the public of the information regarding Mr. Wood contained in Justice Belanger’s final report will be dramatically less than the prejudicial result to Mr. Wood,” the letter states.

Commission counsel said it would be inappropriate to comment at this stage.

The inquiry probing the causes of the collapse that killed Doloris Perizzolo, 74, and Lucie Aylwin, 37, and the emergency response to the situation heard from about 125 witnesses over 117 days.

Evidence was that the roof-top garage of the poorly designed structure leaked from the beginning and decades of water and salt penetration caused severe rusting of its steel supports.

Ultimately, a weld subject to years of corrosion snapped, sending one vehicle and concrete crashing into the mall below.

Wood, who had declared the centre structurally sound, admitted on the stand to changing his final inspection report that minimized the extent of the problems at the mall after he and his partner signed off on it.

The changes were made at the request of the mall owner Bob Nazarian, who was unhappy the mall would look bad when he was trying to get refinancing for it, Wood testified.

The commission’s report, which had been due earlier this year, is now expected before Oct. 31.

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Of mice, men ... and women in the lab DISCOVERY SAYS LAB RODENTS REACT DIFFERENTLY TO MALE RESEARCHERS THAN FEMALE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — It turns out the bestlaid research plans involving mice and men have a bit of a wrinkle — the lab rodents appear to react differently to male scientists during experiments than they do to females.

And that could skew results of numerous medical studies in which the critters are used as stand-ins for humans, suggests Jeffrey Mogil, a professor of behavioural neuroscience at McGill University, whose lab set out to test the responses of mice to male versus female experimenters.

Mogil directs a group of scientists who focus on pain, including its genetic and neurological underpinnings.

Part of their work involves inducing discomfort in lab mice with the ultimate goal of finding drugs that can relieve pain in humans.

But a funny thing kept happening: sometimes, the mice didn’t react as expected when given an injection in a limb meant to induce pain and pain behaviours, including a specific set of facial expressions known as the mouse grimace scale previously developed by Mogil’s lab.

Initially, the experimenters thought there was something wrong with the inflammatory agent they had injected.

Yet when they left the room, the mice would start exhibiting signs they were in pain, suggesting that the experimenters themselves were somehow causing pain inhibition — or analgesia — in the animals.

“This was something that people had sort of whispered about at (scientific) meetings for years, but as far as we can tell, no one ever tried to investigate whether it was true,” said Mogil, who asked his lab to conduct dozens of studies to determine whether the suspicion had any validity.

“And to our great surprise it was true, but only half-true because it was only male experimenters and not female experimenters (that affected the mice),” he said from Montreal.

In their study, published online Monday in the journal Nature Methods, Mogil’s team showed that lab rodents become stressed in the presence of male researchers. Stress leads to the release of chemicals in the body that

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It turns out the best-laid research plans involving mice and men have a bit of a wrinkle: the lab rodents appear to react differently to male scientists during experiments than they do to females. act as pain suppressors.

And the underlying reason for this rodent response? Males smell different than females.

“We found that this was olfactory because we could replace the male experimenter with a T-shirt worn by a male and that also produces analgesia,” he said. “And it has nothing specifically to do with humans, because you can use bedding from almost any animal, as long as it’s male and has testosterone.

“They’re not analgesic to bedding of mice they know. They’re only analgesic to bedding of mice they don’t know or guinea pigs or rats or cats or dogs, it doesn’t matter.

“What’s driving this effect are olfactory stimuli that are released from

the armpit, specifically ones that are released from the armpits of men in higher concentrations than in women.”

The finding is important because researchers need to be aware that the sex of an experimenter may alter the outcome of tests — and that could potentially invalidate research conclusions.

“There’s been a lot of wringing of hands and gnashing of teeth over the last year or so about the idea that preclinical research doesn’t replicate,” said Mogil, explaining that scientists have not been able to reproduce the findings of some high-profile studies involving animal models like lab mice.

Being able to repeatedly get the same results when studying an experimental drug or procedure from one

study to another is the gold standard of medical research.

So when animal research findings can’t be replicated, some researchers conclude they must be invalid, caused perhaps by false-positive test results.

“What these data suggest strongly,” Mogil said of his lab’s findings, “is that there’s another explanation, that they’re not false positives at all. What it is is that different laboratories have slightly different environments where their studies are conducted.

“So I think this provides a big part of the reason why it’s so hard to replicate. You change any little thing in the laboratory environment and your results will be different.”

Douglas Wahlsten, a genetic neuroscientist who has studied mouse behaviour extensively, says the McGill paper shows “very strong evidence” that chemical odours emanating from males can influence test results.

But Wahlsten, a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, said similar studies need to be done using different strains of lab mice, as well as in different laboratory environments to see if the findings hold up.

“The way a lab is built and set up, the way the air circulates ... are really critically important when you want to study odours,” he said from Salt Spring Island, B.C., where he now lives.

Wahlsten believes the McGill study will have some influence on other researchers, and he noted the so-called experimenter effect “needs to be taken very seriously.”

“I think that the gender of the person doing the test is a factor, and they’ve shown this,” he said. “It’s something we need to be aware of and we need to control for it to the extent that we can.”

Mogil said the study obviously doesn’t mean that scientists should get rid of male experimenters and hire only females, but should take the gender difference into account when analyzing data and reporting results.

“This is an example of things we should be taking into account, but we don’t. People simply don’t put in the methods section (of their published studies) what the gender of the experimenter was.

“But these data suggest that starting now, they really need to.”

Lawsuit takes unusual approach to gay marriage ban

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A coalition of clergy members filed a novel federal lawsuit Monday against North Carolina’s constitutional ban on gay marriage, saying it violates their religious freedom.

The clergy members said that they’d like to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies in their congregations, but that they can’t because of the “unjust law.” Their attorney, Jake Sussman, says it’s the only case to bring the First Amendment religious freedom claims among the more than 60 marriage equality cases pending in the nation’s state and federal courts.

“North Carolina’s marriage laws are a direct affront to freedom of religion,” said the Rev. J. Bennett Guess, executive minister with the Cleveland-based United Church of Christ, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit. “We feel that it is important that any person that comes into community life of a United Church of Christ congregation be afforded equal pastoral care and equal opportunity to religious services that clergy provide.”

But in North Carolina, clergy are often faced with a troubling decision: “whether to provide those services or break the law,” he said. “That’s something no clergy member should be faced with.”

Along with United Church of Christ, which has more than 1 million parishioners, a dozen clergy members and same sex-couples who want to marry were listed as plaintiffs. The defendants included North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper and several county district attorneys as well as five registers of deeds.

Noelle Talley, a spokeswoman with

the attorney general’s office, said officials there hadn’t seen the lawsuit yet.

Wake County Register of Deeds Laura Riddick said she was shocked to be named as a defendant. Her office handles marriage licenses.

“It’s ridiculous for any registry to be sued over same-gender marriage, which is a matter of state law, not county policy. Only the legislature or the courts can change the law. Our job as county administrators is to apply the law as it is, just as we will apply the law if it changes. Suing us misleads the public, wastes county taxpayer dollars and creates unnecessary conflict,” she said.

This isn’t the first legal challenge to North Carolina’s law banning samesex marriage, which was approved by voters in 2012.

The American Civil Liberties Union earlier this month launched a new legal assault on the state’s ban on recognizing same-sex marriage, urging a federal judge to quickly negate it to help children and gay couples suffering from urgent health problems.

The civil rights group said it was seeking to speed up a decision in a lawsuit filed in 2012 by citing the urgent health needs of a child who suffers from cerebral palsy who was adopted by one of the lesbian couples involved in the case.

The ACLU also filed a new lawsuit on behalf of three other lesbian couples struggling with health conditions made more difficult because they lack legal recognition of their marriages performed in other states, said ACLU staff attorney Elizabeth Gill.

The ACLU and the same-sex couples they represent argue a judge should act quickly to suspend North Carolina’s marriage ban because they are suffering immediate and irreparable

harm.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that the federal government must recognize marriages of same-sex cou-

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If desired, Memorial Donations 20, 2014 between the hours ve aunt and uncle, Pam and Henry loved his connection in Nick’s honor may be made of 10:30 and 11:45 a.m. A decades, as organist and Roger Hellevang, uncle and to the farm and the land deccca d a directly to the Red Deer Funeral Service will be held committee member. Frankie aunt, Stacy and Lenore Nephin, that he farmed. He enjoyed com m Hospice, 99 Arnot Avenue, at Parkland Funeral Home is predeceased by her uncle and aunt, Guy Nephin sports, and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 Red Deer, Alberta, T4R 3S6. his bright red husband, Gordon Albers, and and Crystal Hanson, cousin, Corvette cars and a good A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Condolences may be will be dearly missed by her Nicholas Nephin, aunt, Gail poker tournament now and Deer on Thursday, February sent or viewed at ve surviving children and Skage, grandparents, Lennox then. Henry was predeceased www.parklandfuneralhome.com 20, 2014 at 12:00 noon. spouses, Bill and Peg Sutton, and Joyce Nephin and by his father, Jack in 1985; Interment will follow at the Service and Interment Ro (Rose Marie) Caine, Wes grandparents, Ken and Peggy his wife, Diana and his stepAlto-Reste Cemetery, Red Arrangements in care of and Jeanette Albers, Warren Pritchard. Being such a kind daughter, Bridget Galay in Deer, Alberta.

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chest, leaf on his Vogt With the maple Logan pride-filled to a Canadian up and sat ready psyched himself on Saturday. get — face his competition about to do What he wasdunk tank in sub-zea Olympic dumped into — is not an ro temperatures but perhaps it should sport, of course, who took the plunge be. The 29 dippersWinterfest on Saturof fortiat Sylvan Lake’s a certain amount day required strength, after all. t de and inner C tral Alberta

A Special “Thank You” to the following businesses, which have teamed up with the Red Deer Advocate to provide daily newspapers to schools for classroom use.

C.A.F. Central Alberta Fencing - Alternative School Center - Notre Dame High School Carnival Cinema - St. Patrick’s Elementary School Corvet Construction - Joseph Welsh Elementary School

Gort’s Truck Wash - Lindsay Thurber High School

Submit your photos of your Central Alberta experiences for a chance to win a $100 GIFT CARD from McBain Camera.

403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

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Eastview Sobey’s - St. Thomas Aquinas Middle School

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ples. Seventeen states allow gay marriage, and federal judges have struck down bans in Michigan, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia.

Save-On-Foods North Hill - Normandeau Elementary School Staples Gasoline Alley - Gateway Christian School - Central Middle School Stega Group - Annie L. Gaetz Elementary School TD Canada Trust 19 St - Hunting Hills High School Western Financial Group 50 Ave - Glendale Middle School

Holiday Inn Gasoline Alley - Eastview Middle School Jumbo Car Wash - Ecole Cammille J. Larouge School

Photos submitted may be used in this year’s “Things to Do in Central Alberta” feature coming out May 10!

Millerdale Pharmacy - West Park Middle School Ramada Inn and Suites - G.H. Dawe Elementary School

Mail or Drop photos off at: 2950 Bremner Ave. Red Deer, AB.T4R 1M9 or Email to: specialsections@ reddeeradvocate.com

Save-On-Foods East Hill 22 St. - Mattie McCullough Elementary School

Deadline April 30, 2013

If your business would like to sponsor a school call

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LUANN April 30 1987 — Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and 10 premiers agree on constitutional draft called the Meech Lake Accord, to enable Quebec to join the constitutional fold.

1982 — Alberta Alsands oil project in Fort McMurray collapses despite offers of aid from Ottawa and Alberta.

1975 — The House of Commons passes the Petroleum Administration Act, which allows

Ottawa to set the domestic price of oil and gas without consulting provinces.

1941 — German U-boat torpedoes Canadian passenger ship Nerissa near Ireland and 73 Canadian army personnel are lost.

1932 — RCMP absorbs the provincial police force of New Brunswick due to near bankruptcy of the province.

1803 — Napoleon Bonaparte sells Louisiana to the U.S. for $27 million.

1789 — Parrtown and Carleton become Saint John, N.B., the first incorporated city in Canada.

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