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Deadly cancer rising BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Melanoma has the distinction of being one of the most preventable cancers as well as one that is fast on the rise, according to the latest statistics from the Canadian Cancer Society. The rate of melanoma has increased about 50 per cent among men and about 40 per cent among women since 1986. And over the last eight years, melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer — has accelerated 2.6 per cent annually among women. “We know that this year 570 Albertans will be diagnosed with melanoma and we anticipate the death rate will be about 100 people,” said Evie Espheter, public policy analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society, Alberta/NWT Division, on Wednesday. “Melanoma is very, very serious. If you don’t catch it early, your prognosis is not very good. It causes 80 per cent of skin cancer deaths.” She said skin cancer is also one of the most preventable types of cancer and the society is raising the alarm about the risks of using tanning beds.

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Security measures in place to protect Air of optimism hangs over pork meeting as newborns from industry has best year in a decade kidnapping Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Officials with Alberta Pork were able to use a word on Wednesday that they hadn’t uttered for years: profit. The doom and gloom that’s hung over past regional meetings of the provincial hog association was replaced with an air of optimism at the producer gathering in Red Deer. “It’s been the best year we’ve had in more than a decade,” said Will Kingma, a Bentley-area producer and vice-chair of Alberta Pork. The improved prices are due in large part to a lower Canadian dollar, which favours hog operations here relative to their counterparts in the United States, said Kingma. “Once we’re sitting at 90 cents, and a little below 90 cents, we’re competitive again.” Meanwhile, record high feed costs have come down, he said. And pig numbers in the United States have plummeted as a result of the deadly porcine epidemic diarrhea virus, which has infected some 6,400 farms in 30 states. “We’re talking six per cent less pigs coming to market, basically on the back of the PED virus in North America.” The higher prices are finding their way to store

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Almost 30 years ago — similar to the terrifying situation this week in Quebec — a baby was stolen from the hospital maternity ward in Red Deer. Today, security measures to protect newborn babies from being kidnapped from the Red Deer Regional Hospital include photo identification for authorized staff and arm bands for the mother and her partner. Alberta Health Services provided security details following the kidnapping of the newborn from the Trois-Rivieres, Que., hospital on Monday. The incident made headlines across the country after the day-old infant was snatched by a woman posing as a nurse. An amber alert issued by police that went viral on social media helped to track down the baby unharmed within three hours. In Red Deer, only authorized staff and the partner, or significant support person, may remove an infant from the mother’s presence and every infant wears an arm band that matches the one issued to the mother.

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coolers, acknowledged Kingma, but pork still offers excellent value. “It’s still a really affordable protein in comparison to, let’s say, beef or chicken.” He added that a 10 to 20 cent increase in the price of a kilogram of pork shouldn’t have a big impact on consumers, but is huge for producers. Kingma still expects ups and downs in the domestic pork industry, but said the long-term outlook is positive. “It’s not like producers are going to be forced out of the industry like they have been since 2006.” That said, Kingma doesn’t anticipate pig numbers in Canada — depleted during years of adversity — will rebound quickly. “There is nobody building right now,” he said. “We could be looking at three or four years, really, before there’s any response to this.” While delivering the chairman’s report at Alberta Pork’s Red Deer meeting on behalf of Frank Novak, Kingma noted that producers lost an average of $16 an animal over the past five years. “It’s going to take four years at $20 a pig to make all of that back. We’re experiencing some really good profits now, but it’s going to take a little bit to get us back to where we’re in a position that we feel like we can start expanding our industry again.”

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Specialized helicopters used to install infrastructure for billion-dollar power project BY ADVOCATE STAFF Fifty new steel structures teetered in the sky just west of Innisfail last week as helicopters brought in the pieces to install 20 km of power line infrastructure from Innisfail to south of Benalto. The hydro giants are a part of the $1.65 billion two-year Western Alberta Transmission Line project, a 350-km, 500 kV direct current transmission line connecting the Genesee area west of Edmonton to the Langdon area east of Calgary. Construction began in early 2013 and so far 611 structures have been installed out of the total 950, said Amber Kalyn, senior communications advisor at AltaLink. Specialized helicopters were brought in to move the structures, which are in two pieces. The top part weighs over 4,000 kg (9,000 pounds) and the bottom weighs over 2,800 kg (6,300 pounds), said Kalyn. The helicopter can move pieces to make 15 full structures per day depending on weather, she added. Crews are expected to begin stringing (installing the transmission line wire or conductor) in mid June and are preparing for that this week. The project will improve “the reliability and efficiency of the interconnected electric system.” It is on schedule and expected to wrap up in the spring of 2015.

TORONTO — Revered anchorman Knowlton Nash was remembered Wednesday as a devoted family man and top-notch journalist who always had time to help a colleague and steadfastly believed in the CBC. Peter Mansbridge, Lloyd Robertson and Sen. Pamela Wallin were among the broadcasting stars who attended a funeral for the man known affectionately to viewers of The National as “Uncle Knowlty.” Nash died Saturday at age 86 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. “Knowlton chose to share his life with his family,”

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CANCER: Tanning beds a known carcinogen “Melanoma is associated with intermittent, high intensity UV exposure and that is consistent with the type of exposure in a tanning bed,” said Espheter, of Calgary. In 2009, the World Health Organization upgraded the classification of tanning beds to a known carcinogen, the same as tobacco or asbestos and reported that using a tanning bed even 10 times increases the risk of melanoma by 50 per cent. The WHO also recommended legislation to prevent young people from using indoor tanning beds. In Canada, Alberta and Saskatchewan are the only provinces that do not regulate youth access to indoor tanning equipment. Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne said Wednesday a new law will be introduced later this year that will keep people under 18 out of tanning beds. Parental consent is an option that will likely be considered in Alberta, said Horne, but it’s not something he supports. He said he hopes other members of cabinet will back the bill when it’s tabled in the fall. “I think many of them will. I’ve talked to many of them about it already.” Espheter said nearly one in three 17-year-olds in Alberta have used tanning beds. “We know that melanoma is one the most common forms of skin cancer among the 15 to 29 age group.” Only thyroid and testicular cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma are more common for this age group. She also encouraged people to practise good outdoor sun safety by using sunscreen, covering up and staying in the shade. “No tan is a safe tan.” Ideally, the Canadian Cancer Society would like to see a movement embracing natural skin tones, Espheter said. “People don’t realize tanned skin is damaged skin. Melanocytes release pigmentation because

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said his grandson, Rev. Jesse Parker, adding that although Nash once braved war zones to deliver the news, he was even braver in real life. “That braveness lives on in our lives, in the life of the CBC, in the life of Canada, in all the lives that Knowlton chose to share his life with.” Others who packed Grace Church on the Hill in the city’s leafy Forest Hill neighbourhood included CBC journalist Alison Smith and former governorgeneral Adrienne Clarkson. At the front of the church, a framed photo of Nash sat next to a pale blue broadcast video box containing his remains. Outside, Mansbridge said that it took some time to find the vintage box, but it was the broadcaster’s wish. they’re damaged. You don’t even have to have a tan to have damaged skin.” According to the Canadian Cancer Statistics 2014 report: ● An estimated 6,500 new cases of malignant melanoma and 76,100 cases of non-melanoma skin cancer are expected in 2014. ● One in 59 Canadian men will develop melanoma in his lifetime. One in 240 will die from it. ● One in 73 Canadian women will develop melanoma in her lifetime. One in 395 will die from it. ● Together, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers (squamous cell carcinoma and basal cell carcinoma) will account for nearly the same number of new cancer cases as the four major cancers combined (lung, breast, colorectal and prostate). szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

PORK: PED virus still a threat There are still concerns, including the threat of the PED virus spreading into Alberta. It’s already been found on 58 farms in Ontario, plus others in Manitoba and Prince Edward Island. “I’d be surprised if at some point we don’t see a case happen,” said Kingma. If and when that occurs, the key will be acting quickly and decisively to prevent its spread, he said. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Collicutt Centre evacuated The Collicutt Centre was evacuated some time before 9:30 Wednesday evening as RCMP responded to an incident at the facility. The City of Red Deer posted on Twitter that people should avoid the area. No further information was available by press time. cation at any time. Michael Dawe, a longtime member of the former Red Deer Regional Hospital board, clearly remembered when a baby was kidnapped from the Red Deer hospital in 1985. “It was a tremendous wake-up call. It was at a time, in the ’80s, when you didn’t hear a lot about things like that. We didn’t think it would happen in a place like Red Deer. But we really improved security afterwards,” Dawe said on Wednesday. “I just can’t imagine the terror the mother felt.” He said the woman who took the baby was found about 15 minutes later in the hospital. The baby was missing for about half an hour before it was found unharmed in a duffle bag hanging on a hook behind a bathroom door in the lower level of the hospital. Lois Marie Petrishen, of Saskatoon, who was 28 at the time, later pleaded guilty and received a jail sentence of two years less a day and two years probation. Dawe said Petrishen went into the mother’s hospital room to check on the baby and so the mother decided to use the pay phone in the hallway. “Just as she started going down (the hall) she had a funny feeling about things, so she went back in the room and found both the woman and the baby were gone.” During her sentencing hearing, Petrishen was said to have been masquerading as a visiting doctor and mingled freely with mothers on the maternity ward, wearing a blond wig, nurse’s uniform and doctor’s smock. She decided to kidnap a baby after learning she likely wasn’t able to bear children. Dawe said she made it to the basement parkade with the baby before realizing she forgot her keys and had to go back inside the hospital. “My goodness, if she had taken off with that child. It was a real close call.” He said security measures where enhanced to require identification badges with photos for staff and both visitors and staff checked more closely. “In those days (the hospital) was quite quick to let the press know exactly what happened. They didn’t want a lot of scary stories and false rumours out there. They wanted people to know it was an isolated incident.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Road improvements major concern for North of 11A plan BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF

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Significant road improvements will need to accompany the city’s plans to develop 3,212 acres of land north of Red Deer, attendees at a city open house made clear on Wednesday. Gordon and Frances Swanson have lived for 20 years in the Red Deer County subdivision of Central Park — between the C&E Trail and Hwy 2A — two of the nearly 80 residents living in the small cluster of homes 1.6 km north of the city. As Red Deer has grown and industrial operations have moved into the area, they have seen more and more heavy traffic rumbling down the C&E Trail and the intersecting Township Road 391. The narrow, twisting C&E Trail was recently resurfaced, but Frances said it has already been “chopped up” again by the heavy units. “Twenty years, 20 years they’ve been telling us it’s going to be upgraded,” she said of the C&E Trail. “(Township Road) 391 is just in terrible condition, and used the same way.” The city presented a discussion paper for its North of 11A Major Area Structure Plan (MASP) at an open house Wednesday, a plan that in its

earliest iteration envisions an expansion of lands designated for industrial use along the Hwy 2A corridor, residential development butted up against Hwy 2 and around Hazlett Lake, and new commercial development immediately north of Hwy 11A. Annexed from Red Deer County in 2009, the land in question stretches from Hwy 2 to the Red Deer River and from Hwy 11A in the south to the CN rail line north of the city. City of Red Deer master projects planner Angus Schaffenburg said he sees any future development in the area coming alongside transportation improvements. The city has commissioned Watt Consulting to undertake a traffic impact analysis for the area, noting that there are “very serious challenges in terms of access.” “The traffic study is going to look at what other uses you could accommodate with the transportation system and what transportation system you need with different uses. So it’s trying to integrate the land use and transportation system together and look at them in an integrated way,” said Schaffenburg. The Chiles Industrial Park is already part into the area to be devel-

oped, and under the early proposal, industrial zoning would be extended on both sides of Hwy 2A. The Swansons say they already are subject to the sounds of industrial operations day and night, a problem that is not well regulated by the city. Schaffenburg said city inspections and licensing personnel are dealing with noise issues in the area, and with any expansion the city would look for ways to “mitigate noise a little bit better.” Schaffenburg described Wednesday’s efforts as “kind of a halfway step” in the development of the area structure plan — a broad, long-range planning tool that guides subdivision and development. The city is seeking input on the proposal until June 30. That input will help form the basis of a draft MASP expected in late 2014, after which there will be another period for public consultation before the MASP in its final form will go before council in early 2015. Along with the proposed mixed-use residential development, a regional community facility similar to the G.H. Dawe Centre or Collicutt Centre has been suggested for land north of Hazlett Lake. More information on the project is available at www.reddeer.ca/north11A. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

Prentice promising to cap Alberta’s debt PC LEADERSHIP BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Jim Prentice is promising to impose a debt ceiling to limit the money Alberta can borrow for roads, schools, hospitals and other infrastructure. Prentice didn’t put a number on that ceiling Wednesday, saying he would first need to see the financial details and infrastructure priorities. “Any debt we take Jim Prentice on, analogous to a family taking a mortgage, will be within our means, will be paid on an accelerated basis, and will be capped,” Prentice told reporters after a luncheon speech to the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. Under former premier Alison Redford, the province began borrowing money to pay for infrastructure. The debt figure is forecast to reach almost $9 billion this fiscal year and $21 billion by 2017. Prentice wouldn’t commit to keeping with that plan. “Until I’m at the table and can scrutinize it and prioritize the plan, I don’t know if that will be the number.” Prentice has already committed to keeping up the infrastructure borrowing if necessary to keep pace with a rapidly growing population, which now sits at four million people. “You hear it everywhere you go in Alberta, that there’s an enormous infrastructure deficit,” he said. “We will minimize the debt that is financed and we will cap that debt. “Then we will report to Albertans twice per year in a report card to en-

sure that they are comfortable with McIver wouldn’t say if he will keep what’s being built, going into debt where it’s being for capital, but ‘ONE PRINCIPLE IS THEY built and that we said he has a r e s t a y i n g o n WANT A BALANCED BUDGET. heard from Albudget.” bertans on the THE OTHER PRINCIPLE IS Prentice has topic over the promised to acpast two weeks. THEY WANT US TO KEEP celerate current “One princidebt payments to BUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE. ple is they want erase the debt in a balanced budTHOSE ARE PRINCIPLES I 15 years rather get. The other AGREE WITH.’ than 30. principle is He said if he —RIC MCIVER they want us to becomes premier, PC LEADERSHIP CANDIDATE keep building half of all future infrastructure,” surpluses will go said McIver. to debt repayment. “Those are principles I agree with. Prentice also promised Wednesday And I appreciate that may lead to some to change the budget reporting process difficult decisions, but I think that’s to deliver one clear bottom-line num- what we’re here for.” ber. Lukaszuk is touring Alberta to colUnder Redford, the province lect 500 signatures from party memchanged its reporting system to include bers to confirm his nomination by Friseparate categories for capital spend- day’s deadline. ing, day-to-day operational spending He has said Albertans have told him and savings. the budget format is too confusing. Critics, particularly the Canadian Taxpayers Federation and the Opposition Wildrose Party, say the changes are deliberately misleading and make billions of dollars in debt look like a budget surplus. Prentice did not say he would scrap the Redford system. He would only say his new budget would mean “working together with the auditor general and others to make sure they’re satisfied with how we present consolidated numbers in a manner that is not contentious.” Prentice, a former Calgary MP, is running against current members of the legislature Ric McIver and Thomas Lukaszuk. The first ballot is slated for September. Earlier Wednesday, McIver announced in Edmonton that should he win, he would restore some of the funding cut in recent years to roads and water infrastructure. McIver, like Prentice, has said he doesn’t contemplate tax hikes or tax changes to pay for infrastructure.

BRIEF Education minister overrules teachers’ union on disciplinary matters EDMONTON — Alberta’s education minister has fired three teachers for unprofessional conduct instead of suspending their licences as recommended by their union. Jeff Johnson says he felt in all three cases, the penalty imposed by the Alberta Teachers’ Association didn’t go far enough. In one case, Johnson overturned a recommendation to suspend a Wainwright teacher for six years after she was found guilty of having sex numerous times with a student. Gordon Thomas, the ATA’s executive secretary, says the firings mark the first time in Alberta that an education minister has overruled a committee decision. A task force recommended earlier this month that the association should no longer review the conduct of teachers when complaints surface and they should be handled by the Education ministry. Johnson says he’s confident he can use the task force information to work with the ATA to improve the disciplinary process.

NDP says leadership race opens June 2 EDMONTON — The race to pick the new leader of Alberta’s NDP begins June 2. The party has also announced that nominations will close on Aug. 5, with the leadership convention to be held in Edmonton on Oct. 18. Each candidate must put down a $5,000 non-refundable deposit and collect 50 signatures from party members. The candidate spending limit is $100,000. So far, only Edmonton MLA David Eggen has indicated he will run to replace current leader Brian Mason. Mason announced in April he is stepping down to put a fresh face on the party that he says is poised to make gains province-wide in the next election.

Man charged after firefighter assaulted CALGARY — A man has been charged after an attack on a Calgary firefighter who was trying to battle a house fire police believe was deliberately set. Police say they went to the home in the city’s northwest to answer a disturbance call, but discovered the small house engulfed in flames. They allege a guest of the homeowner attacked a fire captain who was trying to restrain a man who refused to back away from the blaze. Robert Kyle Chapman, who is 26, is charged with assault.

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LEDUC — Was a donkey that went missing south of Edmonton earlier this month stolen, or simply on the lamb? That’s what RCMP are trying to determine as they work to sort out the life and times of Eeyore. J. Maxwell says she found Eeyore the donkey May 12 on a rural road in distress, with infected wounds and deformed hooves, screeching in pain. Maxwell says she stayed with him for a few hours, hoping his owner would come looking for him, but neighbours said the donkey was always wandering around. But the donkey’s owners had reported Eeyore stolen. The SPCA picked up the donkey and returned him home as police consider whether to lay charges. “I couldn’t leave him like that, I don’t know who would leave him like that,” Maxwell said.

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Bring back prohibition BY REIHAN SALAM ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES NEW YORK — America is rushing headlong toward legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. A growing majority — 54 percent as of a Pew survey released just last month — favor legalization, and an even larger majority of millennials (69 percent) feels the same way. Colorado and Washington are the first states to move decisively in this direction, but they won’t be the last. I basically think this is an OK development. Like Mark Kleiman, a public policy professor at UCLA who is my guru on the regulation of controlled substances, I see full commercial legalization as a truly terrible idea, while I think noncommercial legalization, ideally via monopolies owned and operated by state governments, would be an improvement over the status quo. Regardless, marijuana legalization is coming, one way or another. One thing that is really striking about the new Pew data is that 69 percent of Americans believe, correctly, that alcohol is more harmful to society than marijuana. When asked if alcohol would still be more harmful to society than marijuana if marijuana were just as easy to get a hold of as alcohol is now, 63 percent said that yes, it would be. Most people see marijuana’s relative harmlessness as a reason for us to regulate marijuana as lightly as we regulate alcohol. I see things differently. The fact that alcohol is more harmful to society than marijuana is a reason to regulate alcohol more stringently than we regulate marijuana. In other words, let’s ease up on marijua-

na Prohibition and ramp up good oldfashioned alcohol Prohibition. More precisely I favor something like what the libertarian journalist Greg Beato calls, and not in a nice way, “Prohibition Lite.” Though it is true that I was raised in a Muslim household, it is not my intention to impose sharia law on you and yours. As someone who came to drinking late in life, I still marvel at its disinhibiting effects and I genuinely appreciate the good it can do by, essentially, helping awkward people have fun. I also think there is much to be said for psychoactive substances like MDMA, or Molly, which have enormous therapeutic potential. But alcohol is crazily dangerous, and it needs to be more tightly controlled. Everyone knows that Prohibition was a disaster. What most of us forget is that the movement for Prohibition arose because alcohol abuse actually was destroying American society in the first decades of the 20th century, and the strictly regulated post-Prohibition alcohol market was shaped by still-fresh memories of the pre-Prohibition era. For a nightmare vision of where heavy drinking can lead a society, consider Russia, where the pervasiveness of binge drinking contributes to an epidemic of cardiovascular disease and a death rate from fatal injuries that you’d normally see in wartime. Political economist Nicholas Eberstadt has gone so far as to suggest that drunkenness is a key reason why Russia, a country with universal literacy and a level of educational attainment that is (technically) in the same ballpark as countries like Australia and Sweden,

OTHERVIEWS has roughly the same living standards as Ecuador. Closer to home, Great Britain has seen a staggering increase in alcohol consumption since the 1990s, much of it among teenagers. Tim Heffernan, writing in the Washington Monthly, has attributed Britain’s binge-drinking crisis to its laissez-faire alcohol market, which has allowed for the vertical integration of the liquor business. America has been shielded from U.K.style liquor conglomerates by those post-Prohibition regulations that inflate the cost of making, moving and selling booze, but that’s now changing thanks to big multinationals like Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, which are working hand in glove with national retail chains like Costco to make alcohol as cheap and accessible as they can. Why would I, a great lover of the free enterprise system, want the alcohol market to be more heavily regulated? Precisely because I’m a believer in the power of the profit motive, I understand how deadly it can be when the product being sold is intoxication. For-profit businesses exist to increase sales. The most straightforward way to do that is not to encourage everyone to drink moderately, but to focus on the small minority of people who drink the most. That is exactly what liquor companies do, and they’ll do more of it if we let Big Liquor have its way. In Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know, the authors estimate that at

current beer prices, it costs about $5 to $10 to get drunk, or a dollar or two per drunken hour. To get a sense of what the world would look like if that price fell significantly, go to a typical town square in England on a weekend night, where alcohol-fueled violence is rampant, or to Russia, where the ruling class has used cheap vodka as a tool to keep the population drunk, passive and stupid for generations. We shouldn’t be satisfied with keeping the per dollar cost of getting drunk where it is today. We should make it higher. Much higher. Kleiman and his colleagues Jonathan P. Caulkins and Angela Hawken have suggested tripling the federal alcohol tax from 10 cents a drink to 30 cents a drink, an increase that they estimate would prevent 6 percent of homicides and 6 percent of motor vehicle deaths, thus sparing 3,000 lives (1,000 from the drop in homicides, 2,000 from safer highways) every year. Charging two-drink-per-day drinkers an extra $12 per month seems like a laughably small price to pay to deter binge drinking. Then, of course, there is the fact that a higher alcohol tax would also raise revenue. If you’re going to tax tanning beds and sugary soft drinks, why on earth wouldn’t you raise alcohol taxes too? If anything, 30 cents a drink isn’t high enough. Let’s raise the alcohol tax to a point just shy of where large numbers of people will start making illegal moonshine in their bathtubs. Salam, a Slate columnist, also writes for the National Review. He is the co-author, with Ross Douthat, of “Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream.”

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Chronic worrywarts are the enemies of a cleaner future BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE CALGARY — In The Future and Its Enemies — The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress, a book published shortly before the millennium, author Virginia Postrel decried widespread pessimistic attacks on humanity’s future. The list of pessimists, she observed, was long and contains some strange bedfellows. For example, despite their ideological differences, right-winger Pat Buchanan and left-winger Ralph Nader both oppose freer trade. Right-wing “nativists” and left-wing environmentalists dislike immigration. (They do so for different reasons: nativists dislike diversity and the more extreme wings of the green movement see humans as fundamentally destructive). Traditionalists and urbanists both decry big box stores and the growth of suburbs, the former for sentimental reasons and the latter because suburbs are aesthetically boring.

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On the other side, theorizes Postrel, stand optimists. They favour an “openended society where creativity and enterprise . . . generate progress in unpredictable ways.” This is where “dynamists” such as “entrepreneurs and artists, scientists and legal theorists, cultural analysts and computer programmers” thrive. This basic divide has likely always existed in human civilization, between the operationally conservative types who fear change and those who rush headlong into it. These days in Canada, almost every proposed development is met by someone, somewhere, who claims the sky will fall, or NIMBYists who resist change in their neighbourhood, and others who oppose every entrepreneurial activity that might disrupt the status quo. More cheerfully, some Canadians seek to create new opportunities, expand the economy, hire more people and provide opportunities. They might even — gasp — argue that governments are better off and have more revenues

(without raising taxes) when entrepreneurs are allowed to flourish. These dynamists might include an entrepreneur who wants to imitate Steve Jobs or a “tree-hugger” who wants a better environment. But their common strand is that they think humanity’s best days are in front and not behind of us. As an example of the negative nabobs consider how opposition to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and oil has been a cause célèbre for some, despite its relative safety and the fact it has occurred for decades. In Atlantic Canada, some provinces may benefit from more jobs and increased tax revenues if fracking were more widespread but the negative naysayers are full of fear and misinformation. A recent review in the journal Science observes: “Since the advent of hydraulic fracturing, more than one million hydraulic fracturing treatments have been conducted, with perhaps only one documented case of direct groundwater pollution resulting from injection of hydraulic fracturing chem-

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Romeo Dallaire resigning from Senate FORMER SOLDIER LEAVING THE UPPER CHAMBER BUT NOT RETIRING BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Liberal Sen. Romeo Dallaire, a career soldier best known in Canada as former commander of the UN’s ill-fated peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, is resigning — not retiring, he insists — from the upper chamber. Dallaire’s last day in the Senate will be June 17, after which he intends to focus attention on a growing portfolio of international humanitarian work, the square-jawed senator told a news conference Wednesday. The decision has nothing to do with either the shadow of scandal that has loomed over the Senate for more than a year, or with the Rwandan-born posttraumatic stress disorder that has haunted him for 20 years, he said. Rather, Dallaire, 68, said he felt there simply wasn’t enough time in his schedule to be a senator while also pursuing causes close to his heart that are related to defence and human rights in the international arena. “I have an awful lot of work ahead of me, and it was important for me to leave at this point.” Dallaire said resigning has left him

with a “torn heart” because his nine years in the Senate allowed him to champion issues including veterans and their families, a strong military to help ensure global peace, anti-terrorism, aboriginal rights and better intelligence oversight. “I think it was a very useful instrument for me to advance Romeo Dallaire things I believe in,” he said. While Dallaire’s news came as a surprise, it was quickly followed by glowing praise from all political quarters. Prime Minister Stephen Harper thanked the senator via Twitter for his service to Canadians. Conservative Sen. Hugh Segal said he was “devastated” to hear of his colleague’s decision, calling it “a huge loss.” NDP Leader Tom Mulcair called Dallaire “an extraordinary Canadian.”

Dallaire, a former lieutenant-general who retired from the Canadian Forces in 2000, was appointed to the Senate in 2005 by prime minister Paul Martin. Offered the choice of sitting as an independent member, Dallaire said Wednesday he thought he could be more effective as a Liberal. He made headlines in December when he fell asleep at the wheel of his car and crashed into a traffic barrier on Parliament Hill — an accident he attributed to the stress of the coming Rwandan anniversary. As the world marked two decades since the tragedy, Dallaire complained bitterly about lessons he says have gone unheeded — including his sense that the Conservative government wants little to do with the United Nations. He still bears the mental and emotional scars of bearing witness to the bloody genocide that erupted in the spring of 1994. “I live every day what I lived 20 years ago, and it’s as if it was this morning,” he said. “You can’t walk away from the scale of destruction, nor can you walk away from the sense of abandonment that

Spy agency gathers personal information for cyberdefence BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s electronic spy agency says it gathers and sometimes keeps personal information — including names and email addresses of Canadians — as part of efforts to protect vital networks from cyberattacks. Communications Security Establishment Canada maintains an information bank containing the personal information of “potentially any individual” who communicates electronically with a key federal computer network while CSEC is assessing its vulnerability. Information in the bank — known as CSEC PPU 007 — is held for up to 30 years before being transferred to Library and Archives Canada, says a description in the federal Info Source guide, which lists the various categories of personal information held by the government. “Personal information may be used to assess potential threats to information technology systems subject to the assessment, and to help ensure the security of these electronic systems,” the notice says. The listing sheds light on a littleknown aspect of CSEC’s work — threat assessments and technical analyses aimed at strengthening federal defences against foreign cyberattacks on government computers. The Ottawa-based spy agency has come under intense scrutiny in recent months due to leaks by a former contractor for the National Security Agency, CSEC’s American counterpart and close working ally. CSEC insists it targets only foreign

ONLINE PRIVACY communications — from email to satellite traffic — of intelligence interest to Canada. However, the spy service acknowledges it cannot monitor global communications in the modern era without sweeping up at least some Canadian information. As a result, CSEC’s cyberdefence activities are permitted through special authorization of the federal defence minister. Otherwise, they would risk contravening the Criminal Code provision against intercepting the private communications of Canadians. Records recently obtained under the Access to Information Act say CSEC planned to focus its cyberdefence operations in 2012-13 on its own computer networks and those of three other federal institutions: National Defence, Foreign Affairs and Shared Services Canada, which administers the federal secure communication channel, known as SC Net. The Info Source listing says personal information collected by CSEC during cyberdefence efforts may include a person’s full name, email address, Internet Protocol (IP) address and any incidental personal details contained in electronic routing codes, or metadata. Information from the databank may be shared with domestic police agencies “or foreign bodies” in keeping with formal agreements, the listing says. The foreign bodies are surely CSEC’s Five Eyes partners — the U.S. NSA and similar agencies in Britain,

Australia and New Zealand, said Wesley Wark, a visiting professor at the University of Ottawa’s graduate school of public and international affairs. Wark called it “remarkable” that information can be held for 30 years. “What this material does not tell us, of course, is the extent of the personal information held as a result of cybersecurity activities,” he noted. The notes released under Access to Information say that if CSEC intercepts a private Canadian communication under ministerial authorization, “it can only be used or retained if it is deemed essential to international affairs, defence or security.” Information collected during an assessment of a federal agency’s computer systems — including personal data — is destroyed once the test is complete, or sooner if it is not needed to “identify, isolate or prevent harm” to the network, said CSEC spokesman Ryan Foreman. In some cases, Foreman indicated, the personal information of a Canadian may be kept if a foreign cyberattacker engages in phishing — an attempt to compromise a government department’s system by sending a carefully crafted email that appears to originate from a known or trusted sender. In other cases, a known piece of malware might be retained and used to prevent future cyberattacks, he said. Asked Wednesday if Canadians have anything to fear, Defence Minister Rob Nicholson said CSEC works well. “There’s an independent commissioner who reports every year and has found CSEC is compliant with Canadian law and privacy laws,” he said.

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my troops and I had in the field as we continued to face that.” Playing an active political role, he has provided hope to many living with a post-traumatic stress disorder. “It doesn’t mean because we’re injured, that we’re on our knees and we’re destroyed,” he said, denying the condition had anything to do with his decision to quit the Senate. “The PTSD was not a factor in my resignation,” he said. “The way I’m looking at it, I’m going to be travelling more and more engaged internationally than I am right now, so I’m not leaving one job to find time to do other things — I’m leaving one job because I’ve got a more demanding job.” Dallaire has long used his role as senator to champion the needs of veterans, saying Wednesday that the recent rash of military suicides had hit him hard. Dallaire recently pressed the Conservatives to build a replica of the Vimy Ridge monument known as Mother Canada in Gatineau, Que., across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill — a highly visible reminder of the sacrifices soldiers make.

BRIEF Woman charged in Quebec newborn abduction TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. — A woman is facing two kidnapping-related charges in connection with the abduction of a day-old newborn from a Quebec maternity ward. Valerie Poulin Collins was charged Wednesday in Trois-Rivieres, even though she was unable to appear in court. Crown prosecutor Marie-Eve Paquet tells reporters the 21-year-old woman is unconscious and intubated in hospital. A provincial police spokesman says investigators have been unable to question the woman because of her condition. Police arrested Poulin Collins on Monday, three hours after a woman posing as a nurse snatched a 16-hourold infant from a local hospital. Officers tracked down Poulin Collins with the help of locals who recognized the woman from a photo sent out with an Amber Alert. Police arrested the woman at home and returned the missing baby girl to her parents.

Bodies of three missing canoeists recovered from icy lake in southeast B.C. NEW DENVER, B.C. — The bodies of three males have been pulled from an icy lake in southeast B.C., almost three weeks after the friends vanished in a canoeing accidents. RCMP Sgt. Darryl Little says the bodies were located in about 150 metres of water in Slocan Lake, near the community of New Denver. He says an RCMP dive team, search and rescue officials and a U.S.-based company that uses side-scan radar participated in the recovery. The males were among a group of four who were out canoeing May 10 when their vessel flipped, tossing the occupants into the icy water. Nineteen-year-old Lily Harmer-Taylor was found in the half-submerged canoe a short time after the accident but could not be revived, while 15-yearold Jule Wiltshire-Padfield, 19-year-old Skye Donnet and 21-year-old Hayden Kyle couldn’t be found. RCMP called off the search for the bodies after 10 days, but the some of the families hired the U.S. firm which spotted the bodies farther from shore where police hadn’t searched.

NDP palliative-care motion gets through Commons

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Sara Schulz, who is eight months pregnant and World Vision’s Child Health Policy Advisor, helps to set up a striking display in downtown Toronto, Wednesday, to urge world leaders to focus on the millions of “invisible” children and women who die each year of preventable causes.

OTTAWA — The House of Commons has passed an Opposition motion that calls on the federal government to come up with a national strategy on palliative care. The non-binding motion put forward by New Democrat MP Charlie Angus passed in a near-unanimous vote, with only a single Bloc Quebecois MP turning it down. It calls on the Harper Conservatives to work with the provinces and territories to ensure access to “high quality home-based and hospice palliative care.” Angus says it’s not a case of spending a lot more money — governments are already providing the services. But he says the palliative care system in Canada is a patchwork of programs that can be improved under a national strategy. The motion calls on Ottawa to develop a strategy that takes into account “the geographic, regional, and cultural diversity of urban and rural Canada,” and respects different cultures and family needs.

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THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014

Ukraine sees Russia as source of insurgence BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK, Ukraine — As separatists conceded that militants from Russia’s province of Chechnya had joined the rebellion, a Ukrainian government official cautioned Wednesday that its borders had become a “front line” in the crisis. Chechnya’s Moscow-backed strongman brushed away allegations he had dispatched paramilitary forces under his command to Ukraine, saying he was powerless to stop fellow Chechens from joining the fight. While there is no immediate indication that the Kremlin is enabling or supporting combatants from Russia crossing into Ukraine, Moscow may have to dispel suspicions it is waging a proxy war if it is to avoid more Western sanctions. In a wide-ranging foreign policy speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, President Barack Obama addressed the crisis in Ukraine by saying, “Russia’s recent actions recall the days when Soviet tanks rolled into Eastern Europe.” The Kremlin welcomed the election Sunday of billionaire Petro Poroshenko as the president of Ukraine. An advocate of strong ties with Europe, Poroshenko also favours mending relations with Russia. He replaced the pro-Moscow leader who was driven from office in February. That ouster led to Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in southern Ukraine — which triggered the sanc-

tions — and a violent pro-Moscow insurgency in the east. Reports circulate almost daily of truckloads of gunmen crossing from Russia, and authorities believe they are a vital reinforcement to the armed rebel force that has repeatedly thwarted government security operations. Intense fighting from a government offensive Monday to dislodge rebels from the Donetsk airport appeared to have died down, with only sporadic violence reported Wednesday. Ukrainian border service head Mykola Lytvyn said he has deployed all reserves to the eastern and southern frontiers. “Our border, especially in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, has become a front line that various terrorists are trying to break through,” Lytvyn said at a news conference in Kyiv. “Daily fighting with terrorists and groups of criminals near the Ukrainian and Russian border have become our routine reality.” Russians who cross into Ukraine by road must go through passport and customs control on both sides of the border, a procedure that usually takes several hours. But these controls would be virtually nonexistent for those who drive across fields. The Kyiv government condemns the roiling insurgency as the work of “terrorists” bent on destroying the country, while rebels insist they are only protecting the interests of the Russian-speaking population of the east. Russia denies mass border crossings are taking place,

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Miners march through Donetsk, Ukraine, Wednesday. Coalminers in the Donbass coalfields have gone on an open-ended strike to demand Ukrainian troops and other forces leave the Donetsk Region. although separatist leaders of the selfproclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic now freely admit their ragtag army has many foreigners, including some from the Russian province of Chechnya. Alexander Borodai, who calls himself the prime minister of the republic, said the fighters from the northern Caucasus, although not ethnically Russian, “share much of the same ideology.” “And you know, sometimes, representatives of the North Caucasus turn

out to be even more Russian than (ethnic) Russians themselves,” he added. The militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic is a force of uncertain strength, composed of units of varied provenance and abilities. At least one militiaman participating in a parade Sunday in central Donetsk wore a patch identifying him as belonging to a Cossack unit from southern Russia. Others were identified as members of a division calling itself the Russian Orthodox Army.

BRIEF At least 30 killed at Central African Republic church BANGUI — Muslim rebels stormed a Catholic church compound in the capital of Central African Republic on Wednesday, killing at least 30 people in a hail of gunfire and grenades, witnesses said. The attack on the compound at the Church of Fatima, where hundreds of civilians had sought refuge from the violence ravaging Bangui’s streets, is the largest blamed on Muslim fighters since their Seleka coalition was ousted from power nearly five months ago. Fears escalated late Wednesday that the new bloodshed would spark reprisal attacks on the city’s few remaining Muslims, most of whom fled the city in a mass exodus earlier this year that the UN has described as ethnic cleansing. “We were in the church when were heard the shooting outside,” the Rev. Freddy Mboula told The Associated Press. “There were screams and after 30 minutes of gunfire there were bodies everywhere.” At least 30 people were killed in the attack, according to another priest, the Rev. Paul Emile Nzale. The crisis in Central African Republic has forced nearly 1 million people from their homes, and at one point nearly 100,000 sought shelter on the grounds of the Bangui airport, which has been guarded by French and now other European peacekeepers.

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Syrian citizens vote in the Syrian presidential election at the Syrian embassy in the Stockholm suburb Danderyd, Sweden, Wednesday. The election is due to be held next week.

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YARZE, Lebanon — Tens of thousands of supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad voted Wednesday at embassies abroad, clogging entrances to the Lebanese capital for hours and clashing with soldiers overwhelmed by their sheer numbers a week before national elections widely expected to give him a third seven-year term. But reflecting the schism within Syrian society, many of the estimated 2.5 million refugees scattered across neighbouring countries were either excluded or abstained from the balloting, which they deem a mockery because it is being held in the middle of a civil war. The June 3 election is all but guaranteed to give the 49-year-old Syrian leader, whose family has ruled Syria for more than four decades, a new mandate to continue with his crushing of the armed rebellion. Backed by his Iranian allies and the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group, Assad has in recent months gained the upper hand in the fighting, seizing key territory near the capital Damascus and the country’s centre. On Wednesday, President Barack Obama said the U.S. will increase assistance to the Syrian opposition, opening the way for the likely training and possibly equipping of moderate rebels fighting to oust Assad. Nevertheless, Assad has insisted on holding elections amid the carnage, running against two little-known candidates seen as symbolic contenders. He has maintained significant support among large sections of the population, particularly among Christians, Alawites and other religious minorities. That support has been reinforced as Islamic militants gained more strength among the rebels fighting to topple him. Assad is a member of the minority Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam, while the overwhelming majority of rebels are Sunni Muslims. Bassem Zammam, a 45-year-old Syrian sculptor who arrived in Sweden as a refugee 45 days ago, said he voted for Assad “not because I like Assad, but because I like Syria.” “I like stability, I like (the safety) that we missed because of those savages,” Zammam said, adding that he initially supported the rebels but changed his view because he felt they weren’t really seeking freedom. He said rebel mortar fire had wounded his children and destroyed his house. In Sweden, which has received some 30,000 Syrian asylum seekers since 2011, Syrians from opposing sides of the conflict gathered outside the embassy in Stockholm to express their views and cast their ballots. Police stood between the two groups as emotions ran high, with pro-Assad Syrians outnumbering those opposing him. Wednesday’s expat voting in coun-

tries as far as Brazil turned into a show of support for Assad, particularly in Lebanon, long dominated by its bigger and far more powerful neighbour. Tens of thousands of Assad supporters flocked to cast ballots at the hilltop embassy in Yarze, a town southeast of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The ensuing chaos snarled traffic, trapping schoolchildren in buses for hours and forcing some schools to cancel scheduled exams. Syrian authorities have said that only those who entered Lebanon legally could vote, effectively ruling out tens of thousands of refugees — mostly opponents of Assad — who crossed through unofficial border posts for fear of authorities. About 1.1 million Syrians live in Lebanon as refugees. Even before the Syrian war, Lebanon had close to a million Syrian workers. Clashes outside the embassy compound in Yarze broke out when Syrian voters started pushing against the Lebanese soldiers in their desperation to get into the building. Soldiers beat the voters back with batons and sticks. Overwhelmed by the crowds and the heat, several people fainted. Red Cross volunteers ferried at least 20 people away, giving them water and oxygen masks. There was pandemonium inside the embassy as well. Voters pushed inside a small room with four ballot boxes and voted publicly. At times, election workers were seen grabbing the ballots and stuffing them inside the boxes themselves. No one appeared to be checking who was voting or how many times. People began arriving at dawn, some on the back of pickup trucks, others in cars and buses plastered with the Syrian white-red-and-black flag, the yellow Hezbollah flag and pictures of Assad and Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. Many abandoned their cars to walk the last few kilometres (miles) to the embassy because traffic was at a standstill. Hanging out of a car with a Syrian flag in hand, Ibrahim Hadid said he was voting for Assad. “What, you expect us to vote for the traitor Jarba?” he said, referring to the head of the main Western-backed opposition group, which is boycotting the vote. Jarba is not running in the election. In Amman, Jordan, where the government supports the rebels, Syrians lined up outside their embassy to vote. But dozens gathered outside to protest, some carrying placards that read: “Anyone who votes has no morals.” “My son was one of the people who started the protests against the regime. He was unarmed but they killed him,” said a Syrian woman from Damascus who identified herself as Um Mutazz al-Shaar.

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SEOUL, South Korea — A fire believed set by an 81-year-old dementia patient blazed through a hospital ward for the elderly Wednesday and killed 21 people in southern South Korea, mostly from smoke inhalation, police and fire officials said. The fire on the second floor of the Hyosarang Hospital in Jangseong county also injured seven people and raised concerns about lax fire regulations at a time when the nation is undergoing soul-searching about public safety following the ferry sinking last month that left more than 300 people dead or missing. Media reports noted that hospitals for the elderly such as Hyosarang, which specializes in dementia and palsy patients, are not required to have sprinklers in South Korea despite a rapidly aging population. “These are the incidents that wretchedly show the dangerous foundation on which our country is established,” the Seoul-based Hankyoreh newspaper said in an editorial on its website. Security video showed the suspect entering the room where the blaze began, and the remains of a lighter were found in that room, police station chief Noh Kyu-ho told a televised briefing. Noh said the man, identified only by his surname Kim, denied responsibility. The video footage showed the fire starting to spread from that room about two minutes after Kim left, another police officer said, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because of department rules. Hairs on Kim’s arms and hands were singed and he had moved back to his own room afterward and then quickly exited the hospital later, the police officer said. There were 34 patients and one

nurse on the hospital’s second floor at the time of the blaze, and Jangseong Fire Department officials said 20 of the patients and the nurse were killed, mostly from suffocation. They spoke on condition of anonymity because of office rules. More than 270 firefighters put the fire out after about six minutes, officials said. Officials said that 45 people, including a nurse, were on the hospital’s first floor but that they all escaped. Kim Jeong-bae, one of the firefighters who entered the building, said none of the bodies that he and his colleagues retrieved were burned and that they apparently were already dead when firefighters entered the hospital while it was engulfed in black smoke. South Korean media including Yonhap news agency earlier had reported some of the dead had their hands bound to their beds, without citing any source for the information. Fire officials later Wednesday said that report was inaccurate. Kim, the firefighter, said all the dead bodies he saw were found on beds or on the floor but none of them had their hands bound. He said the second-floor windows are barred. Two hospital officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk to the media, also said that patients were not bound to beds. The fire comes as South Korea debates long-ignored safety lapses in a country that rapidly rose from poverty and the destruction of the 1950-53 Korean War to become Asia’s fourth biggest economy. It is too early to say if safety issues were involved in this fire.

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phoons to make landfall. The fire was caused by a kerosene lamp and quickly consumed the canvas tent just after midnight Tuesday, Tacloban city disaster management officer Derrick Anido said. The shelter was one of 40 in a “tent city” in San Jose district, which was wiped out by tsunami-like storm surges and fierce winds from Typhoon Haiyan in November. Five of the children who died outright from burns and suffocation ranged in age from 4 months to 12 years old, Anido said. The woman died soon after she was rushed to a government hospital. Her 7-year-old son, who doctors declared in critical condition with burns all over his body, died later Wednesday, he said. “It happened around 12:20 ... but it was so fast that by 12:30 it was over,” Anido said, adding that everyone was sleeping when the fire broke out. “Unfortunately, after surviving (the typhoon), they were killed in a fire.”

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Deer leaps from U.S. overpass, lands on minivan containing mother, 4 kids WEST DUNDEE, Ill. — A suburban Chicago woman is grateful her family is safe after a 200-pound (90-kilogram) deer leapt from an overpass, landing on their minivan as it travelled along a highway. Heidi Conner tells The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald that the doe came to rest in the middle of the family’s Chevy on Sunday. She and her four children were travelling about 112 kph. She says the accident was bizarre, adding “nobody can believe this deer fell from the sky.” Illinois State Police say witnesses reported seeing the deer jump from an overpass onto the vehicle below. Conner says the crash totalled the van and caused minor injuries, but says the way the deer landed on the vehicle was “a miracle in itself.” Police say the animal died.

Mother and 6 children die in tent fire in Typhoon Haiyan refugee camp MANILA, Philippines — An overnight fire razed a tent used as a temporary shelter by survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, killing a woman and all six of her children, including a 4-month-old girl, officials in a central Philippine city devastated by the massive storm said Thursday. The tragedy highlights the slow progress in the resettlement of tens of thousands of survivors of Haiyan, which struck more than six months ago and is one of the world’s strongest ty-

U.S. review board approves release of Yemeni held 12 years at Guantanamo MIAMI — A U.S. military spokesman says a Yemeni prisoner has been approved for transfer from the Guantanamo Bay prison by a review panel. Army Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale says the Periodic Review Board recommended that Ghaleb Nassar al-Bihani can be transferred “as soon as practicable” from the U.S. base in Cuba. The decision was announced Wednesday. Al-Bihani appeared before the board in April as part of an effort to review the cases of dozens of men who authorities previously determined could not be charged but were too dangerous to release. U.S. officials say al-Bihani underwent terrorist training in Afghanistan and has a history of disciplinary infractions in custody. His lawyer says he was just a cook’s assistant who poses no threat to the U.S. and is seriously ill with diabetes.

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Blackhawks survive with double OT win over Kings BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blackhawks 5 Kings 4 2OT CHICAGO — Michal Handzus is every day of 37 years old and 15 seasons in the NHL. He knows he’s near the end of his career. He knows he’s slower than most of his Chicago teammates. He also knows how to finish a play in a big spot. Handzus scored at 2:04 of the second overtime, and the Blackhawks beat the Los Angeles Kings 5-4 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to stay alive in the Western Conference final. Brandon Saad made a nice pass to the middle, and the oldest player on the ice beat goaltender Jonathan Quick with a backhander for his second goal of the playoffs. The Slovak centre celebrated by pounding the boards behind the net as the sellout crowd of 21,871 roared. “Saad, two guys went on him and I got open,” Handzus said. “I was surprised I got open like that but he waited and waited and gave me a great pass.” Handzus has been all over Chicago’s lines all season long as the Blackhawks searched for a second-line centre behind captain Jonathan Toews. His biggest value right now is on the penalty kill, but it was his offence that kept alive Chicago’s title defence. “I want to help the team as much as I can,” Handzus said. “I’m playing on the PK a lot. I’m not playing very well offensively. I’m glad I came through.” Saad had a goal and two assists to help Chicago stop a three-game losing streak. Brent Seabrook, Johnny Oduya

and Ben Smith also scored, and Patrick Kane set a playoff career high with four assists. “Personally, I thought Saader was the best player on the ice tonight,” Kane said. “He was bringing so much speed and puck protection.” Game 6 is Friday night in Los Angeles. “We go home and we come out with a better effort,” Kings defenceman Jake Muzzin said. “We’ve got some experience and veterans in here who know what it takes to stop it.” Marian Gaborik and Dustin Brown each had a goal and an assist, and Jarret Stoll and Tanner Pearson also scored for the Kings, who led 4-3 after two periods. It was Gaborik’s NHL-best 11th playoff goal. Quick and Chicago’s Corey Crawford each stopped 40 shots. Los Angeles was in position to advance to its second Stanley Cup final in three years before Smith drove to the net and swept in a rebound 1:17 into the third. Smith’s third goal of the playoffs set the stage for a frantic finish as both sides pushed for the winning score. “It’s not easy,” Kings forward Justin Williams said. “Attaining your ultimate goal is never easy and we’re going to do our best to get it done.” Quick made a solid stop on Marian Hossa in overtime, and the loose puck was swept away by the Kings. Los Angeles star Anze Kopitar had a chance to win it about 9 minutes into the first overtime but his shot went off the side of the net.

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Lindsay Thurber Raider Sarah Thomas pulls in the ball on a line-out play as Notre Dame Cougar Chelsie Grabber reaches during rugby action at the Titans Field on Wednesday.

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Jays pull off another sweep to push winning streak to nine

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Blue Jays 3 Rays 2 TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have used their big bats to power their way to victories over their nine-game winning streak. On Wednesday night, they showed that stellar defence and a little small ball can get the job done too. With pinch-runner Kevin Pillar aboard after Dioner Navarro opened the bottom of the ninth with a single, Anthony Gose dropped down an excellent bunt along the first-base line. Reliever Juan Carlos Oviedo threw wide to first and Pillar came all the way around to score to give the Blue Jays a 3-2 victory over Tampa Bay and their first walk-off win of the season. “It’s not every day you’re going to come out and score 10 runs,” said Toronto infielder Steve Tolleson. “Sometimes you have to fight tooth and nail to win. The guys today really showed that and that’s why we pulled through.” Toronto opened the series with a 105 win and followed with a 9-6 victory a night later. On Wednesday, in what was likely the Blue Jays’ finest defensive effort of the year, Toronto stifled Tampa Bay all over the diamond. After both teams scored a pair of early runs, Gose made an all-world catch against the centre-field wall in the third inning to keep the game tied. In the sixth, Melky Cabrera offered a highlight-reel moment of his own with a great leaping grab against the wall in left field. Brett Lawrie of Langley, B.C., and Edwin Encarnacion got into the act too later in the frame. James Loney hit a hard chopper that the Canadian sprawled to retrieve in shallow right field. Encarnacion dived to snag the throw

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Melky Cabrera makes a leaping catch at the wall to rob Tampa Bay Rays’ Evan Longoria of a hit during MLB action in Toronto on Wednesday. to first and managed to keep his foot on the bag for the out. In the eighth, it was Toronto third baseman Juan Francisco’s turn.

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Familiarity does not necessarily breed contempt. In fact, the opposite is true with the Lindsay Thurber Raiders girls rugby team. “It’s a good group. I’ve had some of these kids for four years now,” said Raiders coach Bill Bowd, following his team’s 21-5 win over the Notre Dame Cougars in the Central Alberta High School League final Wednesday at Titans Rugby Park. “You could see the confidence this year that we didn’t have last year and this is basically the same team expect for four girls. That (familiarity) makes a big difference.” Emily Newton scored two tries and added three converts for the Raiders, who also got a try from Hope Fulton en route to sustaining an undefeated season and snaring the central zone berth in the provincial tier 1 girls championship June 6-7 at Calgary. The Raiders were undefeated in league play last year and finished sixth at the provincials. Bowd likes the potential of his current squad, but wasn’t making any predictions regarding this year’s provincial finals. “It will just depend on who is there,” he said. “We’ve already beat a couple of team from the north this season so that gives us an idea of what we’re looking at. A team like Raymond is always tough and if you’re going to get to the final you know you’re going to have a tough game.” The Raiders will at least head into the provincials with the knowledge they are clearly the best the central zone has to offer. Thurber was 3-0 against Notre Dame this season, defeating the Cougars 21-7 and 28-0 prior

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Evans dominates distance events HUNTING HILLS RUNNER WON 1,500 AND 3,000 METRE AT ZONE TRACK AND FIELD MEET BY DANNY RODE ADVOCATE STAFF It was no surprise to see Derrick Evans dominate the distance events in the senior boys’ division at the Central Alberta high school zone track and field championships at Lindsay Thurber Wednesday. The 17-year-old Hunting Hills star is one of the top distance runners in the province, having competed provincially, nationally and internationally at the club level. Evans, who moved to Red Deer in Grade 2, started running in Grade 6 and took distance running — the 1,500 and 3,000-metres — seriously in Grade 9. “I won the (Legion) nationals in Grade 9, that’s when I really got into it. I started looking up training techniques, all aspects of it. I loved the hard working aspect of it.” He won the 1,500m and steeplechase at the nationals and on Wednesday he won the 1,500 and 3,000, beating Mitch Dore of Notre Dame in both. Evans won the 1,500m in four minutes 22.48 seconds and the 3,000 at 9:09.30 with Dore at 4:49.82 and 10:00.43 respectively. Although he wasn’t pushed at all, he didn’t mind. “I treat it like training on my own and just work hard at it,” he said. He expects to get tougher competition at the provincials, which are set for June 6-7 in Calgary. “I know most of the guys I’ll be up against and they’re good guys,” he said. “I won the 1,500 in Grade 10 and last year I was third with about 100m remaining when someone stepped on me from behind and I almost finished last. Hopefully this year I get a chance to win gold or silver. It would be a nice finish to my high school career.” Evans trained with the Red Deer Titans Track Club when he was younger, then switched to a Calgary Club. “Our coach (in Calgary) left and I went to Edmonton,” he explained. “The Calgary and Edmonton Clubs gave me a chance to train with guys who run like I do. The training is competitive.” Evans did run cross-country, once, but likes the track. “I also ran the 5,000m a few times, but it’s a bit to long for me and crosscountry is also longer.”

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Meriah Wiart of Castor clears the bar at 1.5 metres to win the senior girls high jump during the Zone track meet at Lindsay Thurber on Wednesday. Evans will attend the University of Victoria on a track scholarship next year and take geophysics. “I chose Victoria as I don’t like the snow and they have a good running community and school,” he said. As well Evans is looking to get below four minutes in the 1,500m and 8:50 in the 3,000m. He would also like to make the junior national team. “Last year I tried to make the World Youth team, but it never worked out,” he said. Jonathon Allen of Eckville won the senior boys’ aggregate title with 34 points while Kolton Hueppelsheuser of Bentley and Dore had 23 points each. Natasha Smallwood of Wetaskiwin edged her teammate Mary Krause 30-

28 to win the senior girls’ title. Cassandra Vleeming of Lindsay Thurber (LTCHS) was third with 20 points. The junior girls’ title went to Nicole Torpe of Provost with 34 points, three ahead of Rachel Hyink of Bentley and 10 ahead of Kelsey Lalor of LTCHS. Jaedon Norton of Wetaskiwin won the junior boys’ crown with 25 points while Ben Holmes of LTCHS had 22 and Jeandre Visser and Sebastian Dupuis of Wainwright had 18 each. Dacia Gramlick William E. Hay of Stettler finished with 34 points to take top spot in the intermediate girls’ division with Chantel Park of Lacombe second with 28 points and Madison Oxton of Wetaskiwin third with 25. The intermediate boys’ division was won by Brayden Posyluzny of Notre

Dame with 28 points, two ahead of David Erasmus of St. Thomas Aquinas of Provost and six ahead of Noah Mulzet of LTCHS. Bentley captured the team title in the 1A division with 166 points with Eckville accumulating 106 and Spruce View 68. Wainwright won the 2A title with 154.5 points with Central Alberta Christian High School of Lacombe at 49 and Delburne 47. Wetaskiwin had 379 points, Lacombe 285 and Camrose 223 in the 3A division while in 4A LTCHS finished with 460 points, Notre Dame with 127.5 and Hunting Hills 122. For top three finishers in each individual event see Scoreboard on Page B3 drode@reddeeradvocate.com

Bourque redeems poor season with big playoffs BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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BROSSARD, Que. — There was a running joke during the NHL regular season about how Rene Bourque would almost score, or almost complete a pass, or almost make a hit. Not a lot went beyond the ’almost’ stage for Bourque as the former twotime 27-goal scorer with the Calgary Flames finished 13th in team scoring on the Montreal Canadiens with nine goals and seven assists in 63 games. But in the playoffs, Bourque has arrived. The left-winger’s hat-trick in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final helped Montreal stave off elimination with a 7-4 victory over the Rangers and gave them new life heading into New York for another win-or-go-home matchup in Game 6 on Thursday night. The Rangers lead the best-of-seven series 3-2 and must win at home to avoid a return to the hyper-loud and energized Bell Centre for Game 7 on Saturday night. “At the end of the regular season, we saw Rene engaged in the game a lot more, moving his feet, being physical, going hard to the net,” coach Michel Therrien said Wednesday. “He’s doing a lot of good things. “You can’t expect a player to score three goals every night or even score every game. But even when he doesn’t score, he’s playing solid hockey. He’s getting involved physically. And last night, for me, it was leadership. It was a huge game for us. He came up big, and that’s good not only for him, but for us.”

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NHL: Greatest Crawford had a kick save on Stoll in the first OT after Toews turned it over in the Blackhawks’ zone. “Overtime, I’ve seen a lot of games, been involved in a lot of games,” said Chicago coach Joel Quenneville, a former defenceman. “That might have been the greatest overtime I’ve seen.” Back at home for Game 5 after a disastrous stay in Los Angeles, the Blackhawks put together a terrific start. But the Kings weathered the storm and then stepped up their attack in the last part of the first period. Seabrook, Oduya and Saad helped the Blackhawks to a 3-1 lead just 11:06 into the game. Chicago’s second line of Saad, Andrew Shaw and Kane was a headache for Los Angeles all night long, creating numerous high-quality scoring chances. But the Kings grabbed the momentum back with a terrific sequence with 7 minutes left in the first. Quick made a great stop on Toews, and Kopitar set

In 16 playoff games, Bourque has eight goals and three assists, and has become one of the team’s most effective forwards in a duo that was put together near the end of the regular season with centre Lars Eller. In the post-season, he’s tied with Max Pacioretty for third in team scoring behind defenceman P.K. Subban with 14 points and Eller with 13. He leads the team in the Rangers series with four goals and two assists. And he was tied for second in NHL playoff goals with Jonathan Toews and Jeff Carter, behind Los Angeles King Marian Gaborik, who had 10. “It was definitely a good game for me to step up and help the team,” the 32-year-old Bourque said after his first career playoff hat-trick. Bourque’s regular season was so bad he was made a healthy scratch for the first time in his career for five games in March, amid reports the Canadiens were trying to trade him and a contact worth $3.3 million per year for two more seasons. That’s when he realized he needed to step up his game and he found it with Eller, another player who struggled on attack all season. “We’ve been clicking, even from the (first round) Tampa series and the (conference semifinal) Boston series too,” said Eller. “We’re riding a wave.” Asked what difference he sees in Bourque, Eller said: “Confidence, and he’s having more fun now. I don’t think it’s been fun all the time for him while he’s been here. So those are the things

up Gaborik at the other end to get the Kings within one. It was reminiscent of Game 2, when Quick denied Seabrook on a 2-on-1 and the Kings went on to score six straight goals in a 6-2 victory. This time around, Brown had a nice rebound goal after Crawford made a great save on Gaborik, and Pearson made it 4-3 with a wrist shot from the right circle at 13:08 of second. Pearson deftly used Blackhawks defenceman Niklas Hjalmarsson as a screen on his fourth goal of the playoffs.

JAYS: Good call He made a great diving snag off the bat of leadoff hitter David DeJesus and an inning later, Lawrie was at it again by barehanding a slow chopper on the fly and whipping it to first base in time. “It was just one of those days that we just refused to lose,” Tolleson said. On the winning play, Pillar broke for third when he saw the ball roll down the left-field line and third-base coach Luis Rivera made a gutsy decision to send

that stand out the most — him having fun and having confidence back in his game.” Bourque scored three consecutive goals for his team against the Rangers, the first of which gave Montreal a 4-1 lead and led to star goalie Henrik Lundqvist being pulled for Cam Talbot in the second period. Only 58 seconds after the Rangers tied the game 4-4 on a power play, Bourque scored his second. He added the insurance goal 6:33 into the third frame. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, Bourque was the first Canadien to score three times in a game where the team was facing playoff elimination since Maurice (Rocket) Richard against Toronto in the 1945 semifinals. He is the first Canadien with a playoff hat-trick since Andrei Kostitsyn in 2010, and the first to get one in a conference final since Guy Lafleur in 1975. When he was acquired from the Flames in 2012, Bourque had only been in the playoffs once, scoring one goal in five games in 2009. He had two more goals in a five-game first-round loss to Ottawa last season. “He’s a guy that wants to win,” said defenceman Josh Gorges. “Whatever happened throughout the course of the year, he just kind of put behind him and he’s realized that this is the important time. “This is the time when guys have to step up and elevate their game. He’s been a beast for us in these playoffs, the way he’s been competing, driv-

him home with nobody out. “I wanted to score,” Pillar said. “When I saw the ball go by, I mean Luis is aggressive over there. I mean worst-case scenario, Gose is probably standing at third base with one out. He made a good call there.” The speedy Gose has been showing consistency with his bunting ability this season and it paid off. “I got it down tonight,” he said. “I just tried to move the runner and good things happened.” Toronto starter Liam Hendriks and Tampa Bay starter Chris Archer both gave up two earned runs over six innings. Blue Jays left-hander Rob Rasmussen came on for the seventh and Matt Joyce greeted him with a ground-rule double. Toronto manager John Gibbons quickly went to the bullpen for Dustin McGowan, who gave up just one walk over two scoreless innings. Aaron Loup (2-1) worked the ninth as Toronto (3222) completed the three-game sweep. Tampa Bay (23-31) entered the series on a four-game winning streak. The three straight losses have sent the Rays into the division basement.

ing the net, and all the little things. And he’s getting rewarded for his hard play.” Bourque took a slashing major and a 10-minute misconduct in the skirmishes that broke out at the end of the game and now is second on the team with 27 penalty minutes, three behind Brandon Prust. Prust will return from a two-game suspension incurred when he blindsided Derek Stepan in Game 3 of what has been a nastier than expected series between two teams known for skating and skill. It started in the opener when New York’s Chris Kreider crashed feet first into the Montreal net, putting star goalie Carey Price out for the series with a right knee injury. Then came the Prust hit on Stepan, and Ranger Dan Carcillo’s 10-game suspension for shoving a linesman. In Game 5, New York defenceman John Moore was ejected for a blindside hit that left Dale Weise wobbly, although Bourque and Eller’s rightwinger returned late in the game. There was also a head-butt by New York’s Derek Dorsett late in the game on defenceman Mike Weaver. “It’s become really emotional,” said Gorges. “At this stage, it doesn’t matter who your opponent is, you’re looking at two teams trying to get a chance to play for the Stanley Cup. “When you have that, it doesn’t matter who the opponent is. There is enough passion and emotion put into those games right there that you’re going to start getting some of that rivalry and heatedness. It makes the games fun to be part of.”

Rangers’ Moore suspended two games for hit on Montreal’s Weise THE CANADIAN PRESS NEW YORK — The NHL has suspended New York Rangers defenceman John Moore for two games for an illegal check to the head of Montreal forward Dale Weise in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference final. Moore was given a major penalty and ejected from Tuesday night’s game in Montreal when, at 10:41 of the third period, he nailed Weise with a blindside open-ice hit that was almost identical to Montreal forward Brandon Prust’s unpenalized hit on Derek Stepan in Game 3. Weise’s helmet was knocked off after Tuesday night’s hit and he was wobbly when he got up, with teammate P.K. Subban grabbing him in a bear hug for support. He left for

treatment but returned to the bench late in the period. The NHL Department of Player Safety explained on a video on the league’s website that Moore drove upwards when he hit Weise, making the forward’s head the primary point of contact. The league said that Weise made no sudden movements prior to the hit, so the onus was on Moore to avoid contact with Weise’s head. Prior to the NHL’s ruling, Rangers coach Alain Vigneault argued that any extra discipline against Moore for the hit was unnecessary. “It doesn’t meet the league standard as far as a late hit,” Vigneault said Wednesday. “It was a hit that Johnny caught him a little high in the chest, (the) player didn’t see it coming. “It probably warrants the penalty that was given on the ice. Other than that, I don’t see what else it could warrant, but I’ve been surprised before. We’ll see what happens.”

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Local Sports ● Senior high boys soccer: Alix at Innisfail, 4:15 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Gary Moe Volkswagen vs. Nighthawks, North Star Sports vs. Printing Place, 6:30 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Women’s fastball: Red Deer U16 Rage vs. Panthers, Rage vs. Lacombe Physio Shooters, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park; N. Jensen’s Bandits vs. TNT Athletics, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; Badgers at Stettler Heat, 7 p.m.

Friday ● Senior high girls soccer: Sylvan Lake

at Lacombe, 4:15 p.m.; Notre Dame at Hunting Hills, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt East. ● Senior high boys soccer: Lacombe at Sylvan Lake, 4:15 p.m.; Hunting Hills at Notre Dame, 4:15 p.m., Collicutt West. ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Red Deer, 6:45 p.m., Great Chief Park. Senior C lacrosse: Calgary Irish at Blackfalds, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.

Saturday

● Men’s third division rugby: Calgary Knights at Red Deer, 1:45 p.m., Titans Park. ● Men’s second division rugby: Lethbridge at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m., Titans Park.

NHL Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Edmonton Warriors at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Innisfail Arena Blue. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Strathmore at Lacoka, 7 p.m., Lacombe Barnett Arenas; Red Deer at Innisfail, 7:30, Arena Blue.

Wednesday’s summary

EASTERN CONFERENCE N.Y. Rangers 3, Montreal 2 Saturday, May 17: N.Y. Rangers 7, Montreal 2 Monday, May 19: NY Rangers 3, Montreal 1 Thursday, May 22: Montreal 3, NY Rangers 2, OT Sunday, May 25: NY Rangers 3, Montreal 2, OT Tuesday, May 27: Montreal 7, NY Rangers 4 Thursday, May 29: Montreal at NY Rangers, 6 p.m. x-Saturday, May 31: NY Rangers at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Sunday ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Eckville, doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Wranglers at Lacoka, 3 p.m., Lacombe Barnett Arenas; Strathmore at Red Deer, 6:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: St. Albert at Red Deer, 4 p.m., Kinex.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Los Angeles 3, Chicago 2 Sunday, May 18: Chicago 3, Los Angeles 1 Wednesday, May 21: Los Angeles 6, Chicago 2 Saturday, May 24: Los Angeles 4, Chicago 3 Monday, May 26: Los Angeles 5, Chicago 2 Wed., May 28: Los Angeles 4, Chicago, 5, OT x-Friday, May 30: Chicago at Los Angeles, 7 p.m. x-Sunday, June 1: Los Angeles at Chicago, 6 p.m. FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Baseball L.A. Dodgers 6, Cincinnati 3 San Francisco 4, Chicago Cubs 0

Detroit at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 32 22 .593 28 24 .538 26 25 .510 23 29 .442 23 31 .426

GB — 3 4 1/2 8 9

Detroit Chicago Minnesota Kansas City Cleveland

Central Division W L Pct 29 20 .592 28 27 .509 24 26 .480 24 28 .462 24 30 .444

GB — 4 5 1/2 6 1/2 7 1/2

Oakland Los Angeles Texas Seattle Houston

West Division W L Pct 32 21 .604 29 23 .558 27 26 .509 26 26 .500 22 32 .407

GB — 2 1/2 5 5 1/2 10 1/2

Tuesday’s Games Toronto 9, Tampa Bay 6 Boston 6, Atlanta 3 Milwaukee 7, Baltimore 6, 10 innings Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland 1 Houston 3, Kansas City 0 Minnesota 4, Texas 3 St. Louis 6, N.Y. Yankees 0 Detroit 6, Oakland 5 L.A. Angels 6, Seattle 4 Wednesday’s Games Houston 9, Kansas City 3 Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 2 Boston 4, Atlanta 0 Milwaukee 8, Baltimore 3 Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 2 Texas 1, Minnesota 0 N.Y. Yankees 7, St. Louis 4 Oakland 3, Detroit 1 Seattle 3, L.A. Angels 1 Thursday’s Games Texas (N.Martinez 1-1) at Minnesota (Deduno 1-3), 11:10 a.m. Detroit (Porcello 7-2) at Oakland (J.Chavez 4-2), 1:35 p.m. Kansas City (Shields 6-3) at Toronto (Dickey 5-4), 5:07 p.m. Atlanta (Minor 2-3) at Boston (Peavy 1-2), 5:10 p.m. Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-6) at Houston (Peacock 1-4), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Shoemaker 2-1) at Seattle (Maurer 1-3), 8:10 p.m. Friday’s Games Colorado at Cleveland, 7:05 p.m. Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Texas at Washington, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Toronto, 7:07 p.m. Tampa Bay at Boston, 7:10 p.m. Baltimore at Houston, 8:10 p.m. San Diego at Chicago White Sox, 8:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Oakland, 10:05 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R VMartinez Det 49 185 24 Rios Tex 53 207 25 AlRamirez CWS 55 211 30 Cano Sea 52 205 24 MiCabrera Det 49 192 26 Altuve Hou 54 230 29 Kinsler Det 48 206 35 MeCabrera Tor 53 223 35 Brantley Cle 52 200 32 NCruz Bal 50 193 38

H 63 68 69 67 62 73 65 70 62 59

Pct. .341 .329 .327 .327 .323 .317 .316 .314 .310 .306

Home Runs NCruz, Baltimore, 19; Encarnacion, Toronto, 16; JAbreu, Chicago, 15; Pujols, Los Angeles, 14; Donaldson, Oakland, 13; Bautista, Toronto, 12; VMartinez, Detroit, 12; Moss, Oakland, 12; Ortiz, Boston, 12. Runs Batted In NCruz, Baltimore, 48; MiCabrera, Detroit, 44; Encarnacion, Toronto, 44; JAbreu, Chicago, 42; Moss, Oakland, 42; Donaldson, Oakland, 41; Brantley, Cleveland, 39. Pitching Buehrle, Toronto, 9-1; Tanaka, New York, 7-1; FHernandez, Seattle, 7-1; Porcello, Detroit, 7-2; Scherzer, Detroit, 6-1; Keuchel, Houston, 6-2; Kazmir, Oakland, 6-2. Saves Holland, Kansas City, 14; Perkins, Minnesota, 14; Rodney, Seattle, 13; Nathan, Detroit, 12; TomHunter, Baltimore, 11; Uehara, Boston, 11.

Atlanta Miami Washington New York Philadelphia

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

National League East Division W L Pct 28 24 .538 28 25 .528 25 27 .481 24 28 .462 23 27 .460 Central Division W L Pct 32 22 .593 29 24 .547 23 29 .442 22 28 .440 19 32 .373 West Division W L Pct 34 19 .642 29 24 .547 28 25 .528 24 30 .444 22 33 .400

Wednesday, June 4: TBD Saturday, June 7: TBD Monday, June 9: TBD Wednesday, June 11: TBD x-Friday, June 13: TBD x-Monday, June 16: TBD x-Wednesday, June 18: TBD

GB — 1/2 3 4 4 GB — 2 1/2 8 8 11 1/2 GB — 5 6 10 13

Tuesday’s Games Colorado 6, Philadelphia 2 Miami at Washington, ppd., rain Boston 6, Atlanta 3 N.Y. Mets 4, Pittsburgh 2 Milwaukee 7, Baltimore 6, 10 innings St. Louis 6, N.Y. Yankees 0 San Diego 4, Arizona 3

Wednesday’s Games N.Y. Mets 5, Pittsburgh 0 San Francisco 5, Chicago Cubs 0 Philadelphia 6, Colorado 3 Miami 8, Washington 5, 10 innings Boston 4, Atlanta 0 Milwaukee 8, Baltimore 3 N.Y. Yankees 7, St. Louis 4 San Diego 6, Arizona 12 Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, 10:10 p.m.

Basketball NBA Playoffs CONFERENCE FINALS (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 1-5) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 1-0), 5:05 p.m. Atlanta (Minor 2-3) at Boston (Peavy 1-2), 5:10 p.m. San Francisco (Vogelsong 3-2) at St. Louis (J.Garcia 1-0), 6:15 p.m. Cincinnati (Cingrani 2-4) at Arizona (Collmenter 3-2), 7:40 p.m. Pittsburgh (Cole 4-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 5-3), 8:10 p.m.

EASTERN CONFERENCE Miami 3, Indiana 1 Sunday, May 18: Indiana 107, Miami 96 Tuesday, May 20: Miami 87, Indiana 83 Saturday, May 24: Miami 99, Indiana 87 Monday, May 26: Miami 102, Indiana 90 Wednesday, May 28: Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m. x-Friday, May 30: Indiana at Miami, 6:30 p.m. x-Sunday, June 1: Miami at Indiana, 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s Games Colorado at Cleveland, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m. Texas at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m. San Diego at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. San Francisco at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. Cincinnati at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE San Antonio 2, Oklahoma City 2 Monday, May 19: San Antonio 122, Oklahoma City 105 Wednesday, May 21: San Antonio 112, Oklahoma City 77 Sunday, May 25: Oklahoma City 106, San Antonio 97 Tuesday, May 27: Oklahoma City 105, San Antonio 92

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Tulowitzki Col 51 168 45 Puig LAD 47 179 28 Utley Phi 47 188 30 Lucroy Mil 49 187 20 MaAdams StL 52 194 16 Pagan SF 48 185 27 CGomez Mil 48 192 35 YMolina StL 47 186 22 Stanton Mia 53 198 38 SSmith SD 45 146 20

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ton, 27.61. 3. Stevenson, 28.62. 400m: 1. Smallwood, 1:02.67. 2. Stevenson., 1:06.55. 3. Brooke Hardy, ND, 1:10.40. 800m: 1. Smallwood, 2:26.87. 2. Jessica Oscar, St D, 2:39.08. 3. Corey Garbutt, WEH, 2:51.80. 1,500m: 1. Kirsten Ramsay, Lac, 5:26.55. 2. Emily Braun, Cam, 5:34.34. 3. Oscar, 5:47.46. 3,000m: 1. Ramsay, 11:22.21. 2. Braun, Cam, 12:48.02. 3. Leah Reid, Buck, 14:02.80. 80m hurdles: 1. Celine Dewit, CAC, 13.62. 2. Katlynn Kyle, ND, 14.46. 3. Kelsie Smale, LT, 14.71. 4x100m relay: 1. Lindsay Thurber, Jodi Huston, Kelsie Smale, Bryna Cline, Alysia Andersen, 53.65. 2. Wetaskiwin, 54.24. 3. Camrose, 55.62. High jump: 1. Meriah Wiart, Gus, 1.55. 2. Bailey Durie, Bas, 1.47. 3. Cassandra Vleeming, LT, 1.45. Pole vault: 1. Mary Krause, Wet, 2.30. 2. Emma Ripka, Wet, 2.10. Long jump: 1. Vlemming, 4.75. 2. Krause, 4.64. 3. Bryna Cline, RT, 4.64. Triple jump: 1. Cline, 9.91. 2. Hayley Bickford, Bent, 9.28. 3. Kodi Betts, Bas, 9.10. Shot put: 1. Betts,9.46. 2. Emma Newton, LT, 8.83. 3. Vicky Seeger, Hugh, 8.36. Discus: 1. Katrina Rangen, Eck, 28.32. 2. Krause, 24.61. 3. Wiart, 24.49. Javelin: 1. Emily Lister, Inn, 31.41. 2. Isabelle Lauener, LT, 25.36. 3. Sharnelle Umphrey, Tof, 20.80. 4x400m relay: 1. Wetaskiwin,Natasha Smallwood, Madison Stephan, Madison Oxton, Serina OPeek, 4:25.37. 2. Hunting Hills, 4:45.93. 3. Lindsay Thurber, 4:51.87. Boys Junior 100m: 1. Jeandre Visser, Wain, 11.33. 2. Ben Pasiuk, LT, 11.71. 3. Carson West, HH, 11.74. 200m: 1. Visser, 23.37. 2. West, 23.74. 3. Spencer Burton, Cam, 24.11. 400m: 1. Jaedon Norton, Wet, 56.51. 2. Gabe McGraw, Wain, 57.30. 3. Ben Holmes, LT, 57.58. 800m: 1. McGraw, 2:13.96. 2. Robert Chauvet, LT, 2:18.40. 3. John Krause, Wet, 2:19.90. 1,500m: 1. Caleb Weber, LT, 4:45.08. 2. Ben Isaac, LRT, 4:45.21. 3. Alex Omeasoo-White, Erm, 4:47.18. 3,000m: 1. Amad Waas, Lac, 10:18.0-4. 2. Chauvet, 10:32.43. 3. John Gette, Inn, 10:36.65. 100m hurdles: 1. Gernil Szmyts, Lac, 14.89. 2. Wyatt Bosse, HJC, 15.52. 3. Chris Lusk, Wain, 16.55. 4x100m relay: 1. Wainwright, Jeandre Visser, Ty Lysons, Sebastian Dupuis, Tyler McDonald, 48.44. 2. Lindsay Thurber, 49.33. 3. Wetaskiwin, 49.39. High jump: 1. Kevin Szymanek, DT, 1.62. 2. Holmes, 1.62. 3. Parker Lindseth, Cent, 1.60. Pole vault: 1. Jeremiah Huo, LT, 2.80. 2. Alex Toohey, Wet, 2.65. 3. Krause, 2.35. Long jump: 1. Holmes, 5.54. 2. Norton, 5.38. 3. Froilan Roque, Wet, 5.30. Triple jump: 1. Brian Castro, Eck, 11.61. 2. Roque, 10.75. 3. Szmyts, 10.69. Shot put: 1. Sebastian Dupuis, Wain, 12.42. 2. Cody Hodgson, Wet, 12.22. 3. James Anderson, Con, 10.88. Discus: 1. Johnny Carr, Car, 33.65. 2. Austin Steele, Lac, 32.03. 3. Hodgson, 30.27. Javelin: 1. Dupuis, 41.95. 2. Pasiuk, 37.73. 3. Mason Fournel, Alix, 37.70. Intermediate 100m: 1. Nick Boomer, LT, 11.08. 2. Romario Turner, Cam, 11.36. 3. Cody Knight, Lac, 11.58. 200m: 1. Boomer, 23.23. 2. Knight, 23.87. 3. Jordan Snopek, Lac, 24.14. 400m: 1. David Ermasus, STA, 53.62. 2. Snopek, 55.55. 3. Shawn Rowe, ND, 58.24. 800m: 1. Erasmus, 2:09.21. 2. Scott Kohlman, Bas,

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2:11.34. 3. Noah Mulzet, LT, 2:18.99. 1,500m: 1. Kohlman, 4:38.58. 2. Mulzet, 4:44.81. 3. Jaden Bernatsky, CAC, 4:51.55. 3,000m: 1. Mulzet, 10:10.04. 2. Brad Brooks, Wet, 10:26.46. 3. Brant Saretsky, Wain, 10:52.93. 100m hurdles: 1. Brayden Posyluzny, ND, 13.17. 2. Knight, 14.20. 3. Kai Poffenroth, Bent, 15.81. 4x100m relay: 1. Lacombe, Jess Hagel, Cody Knight, Archer Peters, Jordan Snopek, 47.62. 2. Camrose, 47.96. 3. Lindsay Thurber, 48.90. High jump: 1. Poffenroth, 1.80. 2. David Wright, Wet, 1.72. 3. Matt McNary, Wet, 1.65. Pole vault: 1. Tyson Hueppelsheuser, Bent, 2.00. Long jump: 1. Posyluzny, 5.81. 2. Snopek, 5.47. 3. Erasmus, 5.45. Triple jump: 1. Carter Chalifoux, LT, 11.81. 2. Cam Black, LT, 11.31. 3. Hueppelsheuser, 11.07. Shot put: 1. Chris Andrews, Lac, 14.80. 2. Aaron Abrahamson, Wet, 14.33. 3. Posyluzny, 11.82. Discus: 1. Andrews, 39.96. 2. Poffenroth, 36.73. 3. Abrahamson, 33.42. Javelin: 1. Darcy Perkins, New N, 31.28. 2. Kavaia Waqatabu, Lac, 40.58. 3. Zach Stonehocker, Wain, 38.48. Senior 100m: 1. Jonathon Allen, Eck, 11.30. 2. Andrew Kim, WEH, 11.46. 3. Daniel Jensen, Wet, 11.58. 200m: 1. Allen, 23,54, 2, Cole Sugden, WC, 23.65. 3. Braden Deagle, WEH, 23.84. 400m: 1. Mitch Dore, ND, 53.30. 2. Sugden, 53.36. 3. Trent Hebert, Wet, 54.62. 800m: 1. Bryan Cole, Cam, 2:21.95. 2. Berin Brand, 2:26.11. 3. Chris Marr-Laing, LT, 2:29.21. 1,500m: 1. Derrick Evans, HH, 4:22.48. 2. Dore, 4:49.82. 3. Trent Kowal, Cam, 4:52.36. 3,000m: 1. Evans, 9:09.30. 2. Dore, 10:00.43. 3. Kowal, 10:05.43. 100m hurdles: 1. Cody Domoney, LT, 14.84. 2. Kolton Hueppelsheuser, Bent, 15.81. 3. Richard Nordin, Hay, 15.82. 4x100m relay: 1. Eckville, Jonathon Allen, Merle Saari, Carson Schneider, Cole Sugden, 46.74. 2. Lindsay Thurber, 47.37. 3. William E Hay, 48.65. High jump: 1. Jordan Sinnamon, SV, 1.67. 2. Allen, 1.65. 3. Carson Schneider, Bent, 1.65. Pole vault: 1. Ricky Luebke, Wet, 3.32. 2. Hebert, 3.15. 3. Hueppelsheuser, 2.80. Long jump: 1. Clayton Wong, LT, 5.83. 2. Scott Irvine, LT, 5.82. 3. Deagle, 5.59. Triple jump: 1. Aiden Smaill, HJC, 12.41. 2. Wong, 12.26. 3. Hueppelsheuser, 11.68. Shot put: 1. Allen, 12.88. 2. Leon Sadler, Cam, 12.69. 3. Danny Bergen, New N, 11.39. Discus: 1. Tyler Newsham, SV, 31.10. 2. Daniel Upham, Ryley, 31.50. 3. Jesse Holsworth, Cent, 30.85. Javelin: 1. Newsham, 41.97. 2. Parker Fox, Del, 41.29. 3. SaDair Nobel, Lac, 38.64. 4x400m relay: 1. Wetaskiwin, John Krause, Jaedon Norton, Brad Brooks, Trent Hebert, 3:52.74. 2. Camrose, 3:53.36. 3. Wainwright, 3:57.14. Legend: Bas — Bashaw. Bent — Bentley, Bless — Blessed Sacrament, Wainwright. Buck — Buck Mountain. Cam — Camrose. Car — Caroline. CAC — Central Alberta Christian High School. Cebnt — Central High, Sedgewick. Con — Consort. DT — David Thompson. Day — Daysland. Del — Delburne., Eck — Ecvkville. Erm — Erminskin, Hpobbema. DFor — Foresburg. HJC — H. J. Cody, Sylvan Lake. Hay — Hay Lakes. HH — Hunting Hills. Inn — Innisfail. Lac — Lacombe. LRT — Lindsay Thurber. New N — New Norway. ND — Notre Dame. Pro — Provost. SV — Spruce View. StA — St. Thomas Aquinas, Provost. Tof — Tofield. Wain — Wainwright. Wc — West Central, Rocy Mountain House. Wet — Wetaskiwin. WEH — William E. Hay, Stettler.

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Ovechkin, Crosby at NHL crossroads For years, the Washington Capitals This season, the Caps missed the and Pittsburgh Penguins have been playoffs, and that ended McPhee’s run linked in many of the same conversa- as general manager and snuffed out tions, which makes it particularly in- Adam Oates’s brief career as Washteresting now that both hockey clubs ington coach. The Pens, meanwhile, find themselves at a crossconsidered a second-round roads at the same time. loss to the Rangers a devasThe Penguins, obviously, tating setback and removed have achieved much, much GM Ray Shero. The status of more since drafting Sidney head coach Dan Bylsma is Crosby than have the Capiunclear. tals since George McPhee While there are other delivered the timely tank players involved, and some and won the first pick of significant ones, the Caps the 2004 draft and the right and Pens are still defined in to select Alexander Ovecha major way by Ovechkin and kin. Crosby, respectively. Still, because Crosby Indeed, in Washington, and Ovechkin were at one the choices of Brian MacLelDAMIEN time seen to be well above lan as GM and Barry Trotz to COX the fray as the NHL’s 1-2 coach were immediately acpunch for marketing and companied by the same quesmarquee value, it seemed tion: What in hell are they like these were franchises going to do about Ovechkin travelling on parallel tracks. and his maddening minus-35 inability That was never more so the case to lead this team forward? than in the spring of 2009 when they That’s what this is about, now. It’s met in a terrific second-round playoff no longer the unmentioned elephant joust, with the Pens prevailing four in the room. Bruce Boudreau worked games to three. Pittsburgh went on to with Ovechkin, Dale Hunter benched win the Stanley Cup. him and Oates tried to change him, or The Caps, meanwhile, have spun at least the side of the ice he played their wheels. After their noteworthy on. Oates, an analyst for CBC’s Hockplayoff clash with Pittsburgh punctu- ey Night in Canada these days, told ated by dueling hat tricks, they were an Edmonton radio show this week stunned in the first round by Montreal that he enjoyed coaching Ovechkin the next spring, and haven’t made it and didn’t fight with him, but acknowlpast the second round since, or ev- edged changing the not-so-young-anyer with Ovechkin as a member of the more Washington captain — set to turn hockey club. 29 before next season starts — won’t be

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easy for anyone. “The biggest challenge is you’re fighting a lot of years of habit,” he said. Trotz, with support from MacLellan, has never, ever had to work with a player like this, certainly not during his 15-year association with the Nashville Predators. Will he change for Ovechkin, or will Ovechkin have to change for Trotz? That’s the question that matters because more of the same from No. 8, despite the big goal numbers, will keep this team mired in the second half of the NHL. This has been evident for some time. It was sketched out by Gare Joyce and yours truly when we collaborated on a book about Ovechkin after the painful spring of 2010, but some tried to portray it as an anti-Russian attack from pro-Crosby writers, while pom-pom waving owner Ted Leonsis preferred to pander to his star. Only now, after a decade of watching his hero fall short of expectations, is Leonsis willing to listen to a new message. Before, he was apparently unaware MacLellan even worked for the team, let alone was in possession of opinions contrary to Caps orthodoxy. The fact that the Caps are hosting the Winter Classic next January and will thus have HBO 24/7 cameras following them around next fall will only accentuate this as the NHL story to watch. In Pittsburgh, the challenge is different, although Crosby, for really the first time, absorbed some withering media criticism this spring. That said,

he won the scoring championship and was the captain when Canada won gold at the Olympics, so he still has a stronger resume than Ovechkin (sorry, the worlds don’t cut it) when it comes to his combination of personal and team accomplishments. The bigger issue for the Pens, who have yet to decide on a new GM, is dealing with some serious salary-cap issues and the fact Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are moving into the second half of their careers. Pittsburgh TribuneReview writer Rob Rossi pointed out this week that neither Mario Lemieux nor Wayne Gretzky won a Cup after their 28th birthdays, and this summer Crosby turns 27 and Malkin 28. Depth and goaltending are particular problems in Pittsburgh, and the contracts of Crosby, Malkin, Marc-Andre Fleury and Kris Letang complicate the club’s ability to address them. You certainly get the sense that this may be the point at which the Penguins and Capitals aren’t really linked any more, or at least not as much. They’re as different as they are alike. Players like Steven Stamkos, Henrik Lundqvist, Jonathan Toews, Ryan Getzlaf and Anze Kopitar have caught up to Nos. 87 and 8 when it comes to the best and brightest of NHL stars. Beyond that, nobody sees Pittsburgh and Washington as teams with limitless futures any more. The golden talents of Crosby and Ovechkin allowed these two clubs to exist above the muck for years. Now they’re in it with most everybody else.

Pacers hold off foul-plagued Heat and elimination Pacers 93 Heat 90 INDIANAPOLIS — Paul George scored 31 of his 37 points in the second half Wednesday night and almost single-handedly kept the Indiana Pacers alive in the Eastern Conference finals with a 93-90 victory over the Miami Heat. The Pacers still trail 3-2 in the bestof-seven series. Game 6 will be played Friday night in Miami. It took a frantic effort just to extend the series, even with the foul-plagued LeBron James held to just seven points in 23 minutes. Chris Bosh led the Heat with 20 points missed a potential goahead 3-pointer in the closing seconds. Indiana turned a 50-41 deficit into a 64-57 lead after three, then led by as much as 11 in the fourth. But Miami’s last-ditch rally made it 91-90 with 16 seconds to go before Indiana held on. Miami failed to clinch its fourth straight Eastern Conference title. The Pacers played like a desperate team trying to save their season. They chased shooters all over the floor, ran down loose balls, even put themselves in harm’s way. Lance Stephenson appeared to hurt his left shoulder in the third quarter after a hard fall and still finished the game. But hard falls and tough plays were a theme all night for a team that had been roundly criticized for its lack of effort in Monday night’s loss. “We just played. Our backs are against the wall right now so that’s all we can do,” George said. “We were in a position that if we lost this game, we’re going home so I think that was in the backs of everybody’s minds.” Until George amped it up in the second half, it looked like the Heat would close out the series with a fourth straight win. But unlike Game 2, when the Pacers

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couldn’t stop Dwyane Wade and James late, the Pacers fended off the closing charge from the two-time defending champs — barely. George’s incredible ability to hit big shot after big shot and a defence that refused to give the lead away late eventually saved the Pacers, and only after they twice failed twice to take advantage of James’ absence in the first half. The Pacers finally figured it out midway through the third. “I just felt it. I felt in rhythm. I had to be aggressive,” George said. “I tried to come out and be aggressive to start this game off and I was getting looks. I got hot.” Trailing 50-41 with 6:56 left in the third quarter, George started the comeback with a layup and ended the 11-0 run with a steal and dunk that gave Indiana a 52-50 lead with 3:54 left in the quarter. It was the first time Indiana led since 24-22. Miami quickly tied it on Udonis Haslem’s layup. Then the Pacers thought they had seized control. George hit a 3-pointer and Lance Stephenson drove in for a layup to make it 57-52, and when George hit a buzzer-beating 3 to end the third, the Pacers led 64-57. Indiana extended the lead to as much as 77-66 when George followed another steal with a dunk. But when James re-entered, Miami took off. The Heat scored nine straight to make it 77-75 and finally tied it at 81 on James’ only 3 of the night with 3:51 to play. Indiana got a short bank shot from West and 20-foot jumper from George to make it 85-81. Bosh and Rashard Lewis, who had 18 points, each hits 3s in the final 1:16 to cut the lead to one, but George hit a 3 and David West made 1 of 2 free throws to seal it. “It’s going to be a totally different ball game (in Miami),” George said. “But we have to rise to the challenge. It will be a fun matchup.” the 70th minute for the Montreal Impact to salvage a 1-1 draw with Toronto FC on Wednesday in the first leg of the Canadian Championship. Mapp dribbled through Toronto’s back line and beat a lunging Steven Caldwell to fire a shot past goalkeeper Joe Bendik. It was the Impact’s only shot on goal all night. Doneil Henry scored on a header for Toronto in the 20th minute. The second leg is next week in Montreal. The winner will represent Canada in the 24-team CONCACAF Champions League from August to October.

Fan alleges Blackhawks’ goalie Crawford sprayed water in his face during Game 4 in L.A. LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police say they are investigating a battery report from a fan who says Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford sprayed water in his face during Game 4 of the Western Conference final against the Kings at Staples Center. LAPD spokeswoman Rosario Herrera confirmed the investigation for The Associated Press on Wednesday, shortly before the Blackhawks faced the Kings in Game 5 in Chicago. Crawford did not speak with the media after the team’s morning skate. “I just heard about it on my way over,” coach Joel Quenneville said earlier Wednesday. “First I heard of it. I’m not aware of the situation other than what you just said. I’m not worried about it right now. I’m worrying about the game.” The report alleges Crawford used a water bottle to spray the face of the heckling fan, who was thrown out of the arena and later filed the complaint with police. Crawford finished the game on the bench in the Blackhawks’ 5-2 loss. Police had no further details, and could not say whether charges are likely.

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Canadians advance to third round BOUCHARD AND RAONIC DREW ON MENTAL TOUGHNESS FOR WINS AT FRENCH OPEN BY THE CANADIAN PRESS PARIS — Milos Raonic bounced back from a troublesome first match and Eugenie Bouchard overcame a worrying first set as Canada’s top singles tennis players drew on mental toughness to advance to the third round of the French Open. Bouchard managed a 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 come-from-behind win over German Julia Goerges on Wednesday, while eighth-seeded Raonic beat Czech Jiri Vesely 7-6 (4), 6-4, 6-1 to reach the third round for a third consecutive year. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., came back from a break down in the first set and won the hour-long opener in a tiebreak before taking control of the match. Raonic said he is noticing signs of improvement on court after struggling somewhat in his opening match, a 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 win over Australian qualifier Nick Kyrgios. “I feel like I’m playing better today than I did three days ago, I think I dealt a little bit better with when I got things figured out as far as intensity,” he said. “I held it on a little bit better where I struggled a little bit with my match three days ago. The court is playing a little bit slower than you would expect here in Paris, but it’s been going well so far.” Raonic’s third-round opponent is 29th seed Gilles Simon of France, who will have a partisan crowd behind him. “It’s going to be tough,” Raonic said. Raonic and Simon have only faced each other once before, with Raonic winning on clay at the 2011 Estoril Open in Portugal. Bouchard struggled in the first set before rallying to join Raonic in the third round. “I wasn’t worried after the first, I just took my time,” said Bouchard. “I just really tried to forget about that I

lost the first set and just start fresh. That’s what I did for the second and third.” The 18th seed from Montreal will play Swede Johanna Larsson, who upset 12th-seeded Italian Flavia Pennetta 5-7, 6-4, 6-2. “For sure it definitely wasn’t one of my best days, but I’m proud that I was able to turn it around,” Bouchard said. “It was definitely more of a mental win today to get my game back in the right place.” Bouchard said she stayed mentally strong. “I have confidence that no matter what happens on the court, I can fight and still give my best and give myself the best chance to win,” she said. Bouchard broke the 107th-ranked Goerges to end the match, taking the victory with 21 winners and conversions on six of 13 break points. Bouchard broke twice in the second set and began the third with another break of the German as she raced to a 5-0 lead. But she lost serve in the next game after a forehand error. She immediately recovered a game later, breaking Goerges back and advancing on her first match point. “In the first set I felt I wasn’t in the right mental frame of mind, and it just wasn’t good enough for my standards,” Bouchard. “I just needed to regroup after that, and I really focused and got back to playing the way I need to play, which is stepping in, going for my shots.” Bouchard, a semifinalist at the Australian Open, arrived in Paris after her first WTA title last week in Germany. She was eliminated in the second round at Roland Garros last year, her French Open debut. In men’s doubles first-round action, Toronto’s Daniel Nestor and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic defeated Australia’s Matthew Ebden and Russia’s Dmitry Tursunov 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

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Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska returns the ball during the second round match of the French Open tennis tournament against Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France, Wednesday.

PARIS — Wind was whipping, rain was falling, and thick grey clouds overhead were foreboding as Serena Williams double-faulted, then raised her hands in despair and wailed, “I can’t serve!” As if to prove the point, Williams doublefaulted again moments later, before pushing a routine backhand wide to get broken at love. Truth is, the French Open’s defending champion couldn’t do much properly on this particular afternoon, absorbing the most lopsided loss of her 288-match Grand Slam career. Unable to figure out how to get herself going or counter her unheralded opponent’s aggressive game, Williams was beaten 6-2, 6-2 Wednesday by 35th-ranked Garbine Muguruza of Spain in the second round. “Nothing really worked,” said Williams, whose older sister Venus also lost. “I don’t know anything that actually worked.” Ever since last week’s draw, there was talk about a possible all-Williams match in the third round, which would have been their first Grand Slam meeting since the 2009 Wimbledon final. So much for that: Exactly one minute before Serena’s match began on Court Suzanne Lenglen, the 29thseeded Venus’ 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 defeat against 56th-ranked Anna Schmiedlova of Slovakia wrapped up in the main stadium. “I felt like this was a match that I was most likely going to win,” Venus said. “I don’t know how Serena felt, but I’m sure she feels like that every time she goes on the court. So I think our expectation was to play in the next round.” Instead of the 25th Williams vs. Williams encounter on tour, it’ll be the 20-year-old Muguruza vs. 19-year-old Schmiedlova. Serena’s exit came a day after a loss by No. 2 Li Na, the first time in the Open era, which began in 1968, that the top two women were gone before the third round at any major tournament. “Nobody’s safe,” summed up Patrick Mouratoglou, the coach who began working with Serena after the 2012 French Open. “Usually when she’s in trouble, she always finds a way,” Mouratoglou said. “But she’s a human being, so today she couldn’t.” The biggest beneficiary might be Maria Sharapova, who won the 2012 French Open, lost to Serena in last year’s final and poten-

tially faced a quarterfinal against the American this time. Sharapova beat 42nd-ranked Tsvetana Pironkova 7-5, 6-2 in a drizzle. Alize Cornet of France, seeded 20th, was surprised 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 by 18-year-old Taylor Townsend, an American wild-card entry ranked 205th and making her Grand Slam debut. On the men’s side, No. 15 Mikhail Youzhny and No. 20 Alexandr Dolgopolov were sent home, while No. 2 Novak Djokovic, No. 4 Roger Federer and No. 8 Milos Raonic won in straight sets. If an early stumble by seven-time major champion Venus is no longer big news — a month shy of 34, and slowed by an energysapping autoimmune disease, she’s lost in the first or second round at eight of her past nine Slams — Serena’s departure was shocking for many reasons. She owns 17 major titles, including two in Paris; Muguruza was playing in her 13th career Slam match. Serena was 54-2 on clay over the past three seasons; Muguruza was 1-1 at the French Open until this week. “I was like, ’Oh, my God, I’m winning,”’ Muguruza said, noting that she grew up watching Serena on TV. “Since I was a child, I thought, ’Oh, I want to play against Serena on centre court.’ And today was the day,” Muguruza said. “And I think I did very good.” Sure did. Most striking of all was the brevity, 64 minutes. Serena never before failed to win at least five games in a match at a major, but Muguruza regularly pounded serves topping 100 mph (160 kph) and held her own during baseline rallies. Serena had 29 unforced errors and only eight winners. “She played really smart,” Serena said. “I didn’t adapt.” So she’ll remain one major singles trophy shy of Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova, who each won 18. And make no mistake — it’s the majors that matter most to Serena, who lost in the fourth round at the Australian Open in January. She’s 24-4 with a tour-high four titles in 2014, but when asked to sum up her season, she said: “I haven’t gotten past the fourth round of a Grand Slam this year. I have a couple words to describe it, but I think that would be really inappropriate, so I’m going to leave it at that. Thank you.” With that, she left her news conference. And the tournament.

Without Tiger Woods PGA stars finally shine as summer looms BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ohio — Adam Scott celebrated his rise to No. 1 in the world by rallying to win at Colonial. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, Rory McIlroy capped off a busy week in the news by winning for the first time this year at the European Tour’s biggest event in England. In a golf world that has been without Tiger Woods for the last few months, it gave the sport some life at just the right time. Scott and McIlroy headline a strong field at the Memorial that includes nine of the top 12 players in the world, most of whom have never had a chance to share a winner’s handshake with tournament host Jack Nicklaus behind the 18th green at Muirfield Village. The Memorial typically has one of the best fields among PGA Tour events, and it signals the start of a big summer in golf — the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in two weeks, a month ahead of

the British Open and the PGA Championship right behind it. Woods, a five-time winner of the Memorial, last played March 9 at Doral. He is recovering from back surgery and withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday, saying on his website that he is physically unable to play golf at a high level. Nicklaus said Woods called him Wednesday morning to wish him well and offer his regrets for not playing, which Nicklaus said was a “very, very nice call.” “He was saying that he felt bad about not being able to be here,” Nicklaus said. “He said he’s doing well, progressing well, and he’s looking forward to getting back into the game. He misses it. I just pass that on.” Golf had been missing some excitement in his absence. It has been a peculiar year in which hardly any of the top players have won — until last week. In 28 events on the PGA Tour this season, Scott was only the third winner

who was among the top 10 in the world. The others were Zach Johnson (No. 9 at Kapalua) and Matt Kuchar (No. 6 when he won at Hilton Head). Scott nearly missed the cut at Colonial, and then closed strong on the weekend. Not since Vijay Singh in 2004 at the Canadian Open had a player won the week after he became No. 1 in the world for the first time in his career. “It’s satisfying, absolutely,” Scott said. “But I think all the things I did leading up certainly helped put me in the right mindset to play well last week, and it took a couple of days for it to show up really on the weekend. But that’s when it counts. ... Getting to No. 1 was such a journey and so much work went into it. I wasn’t going to settle for just staying there for a week.” With his win, Scott is assured of staying No. 1 when he gets to the U.S. Open. McIlroy was equally intriguing. He started his week at Wentworth by announcing that he had broken off his

engagement with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, right after the wedding invitations had gone out in the mail. McIlroy then birdied his last two holes and won the BMW PGA Championship. It was an important win for the former No. 1 and two-time major champion. He had not beaten a field that deep and strong since Dubai at the end of 2012, the sensational year that took him to No. 1 and made it look as though he would stay there. Since then, he has gone through an equipment change and a management change. And right when it looked as though his game was trending in the right direction, he went through a public breakup of what had been a very public relationship. McIlroy declined to answer one question about newspaper reports that he split up with Wozniacki over the phone saying that he was only talking about his golf. And with that win at Wentworth, golf became a fun topic of conversation again.

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Buying the right motorcycle for the right price Database You’ve got your license, you’ve got It might cost you a few extra your proper gear, now all you need dollars to run a bike’s VIN through is your motorcycle. a trusted database but can save Here are a few things to consider you multiple headaches in the end. before signing on the dotted line. It will show if the bike has been in Budget any reported accidents and detail Establishing a budget is probably the damage. It’ll also show if there the most important thing to is money owing on the bike or if outline when it comes to your new Establishing a it was reported stolen. Keep in ride. If you’re buying used, this is budget is probably mind, if the bike is from out of the particularly important. You might be the most important country, the record likely won’t tempted to spend an extra couple of thousand on the bike of your thing to outline when show. dreams. But if the dream bike just it comes to your new When I went to buy my first bike, I had my heart set on a beautiful happens to be a nightmare and Yamaha R6. It looked brand new costs you an unanticipated fortune ride. and perfect. The seller said it on repairs, you might find yourself Alexandra Straub had never been in any accidents in a pickle. and had all original parts. I left New or Used? thinking that the next day I’d be riding this beauty There are differing benefits to buying new or home. However, I paid my $20 (at the time) and used. New bikes have warranties, but a used bike found out the bike had been in two accidents that might not be too old could still have one. with damage costs of more than $3,000. If you’re Is buying either way better than the other? Not buying through a dealership, they might even necessarily. Buying used you could get a more have the bike’s history on hand for you. It never upscale model for your budget. hurts to double check. Private Sale or from a Dealership? The Myth of Displacements Speaking from experience, buying through a Many new riders like to set a cap on the cc private sale can be a good way to go, especially displacement they’re willing to get for their on a budget. I found my bike on Craigslist. But first bike. I had a reader write me asking what if you can’t pay cash up front, dealers generally he should get. He’s 6’2”, 220 pounds and had have financing or payment plan options. Private long limbs. He didn’t want anything higher than sales don’t. Dealers also have most likely done a a 250cc though. I asked him why. He said he tune-up or some service in preparing the bike for wanted something manageable for his first bike. the sale. Check the VIN through ICBC or a Trusted With long arms and legs, a 250cc bike wasn’t

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going to fit him! Or vice versa. I told him to look at cruisers, like the Harley-Davidson Sportster, Honda Shadow, Suzuki Boulevard S40, Yamaha Bolt. They might have a higher displacement but they’re going to be easy to manage and work much better with his body. What did he buy? A used 2006 Honda Shadow 750cc. And he loves it. I recommend buying a bike that you are comfortable on, both physically and mentally. Test Rides Private sellers won’t generally let you test ride, but ask. Dealers are more open to this, especially with newer models because they have demo fleets.

Mechanical Inspection If you’re buying used, and you are this close to making the decision, before you go to the bank and give up your savings, spend an extra $100-$200 to get a motorcycle mechanic to look at your potential purchase. Private sellers will generally ride the bike down to a location of your choice and let the mechanic work their magic. The mechanic will then let you know what things might need to be worked on in the near or distant future. If the seller thinks it’s too much work, then it’s your call if you want to continue to work with them. I wouldn’t buy a bike without knowing what I’m getting into. alexandra.straub@drivewaybc.ca

Picking the right ride for you Life of two wheels is incredible. Just ask anyone who rides. But part of that appeal is finding a riding style that fits your personal preference. There are many different ways to get you on the open (or dirt) road to enjoy the best of the great outdoors. I’ll suggest some new makes and models to consider in each category, but by no means are these the be-all-end-all of choices. Cruisers Cruisers have mass appeal because of their low seat heights, generally comfortable ergonomics and ability to get you from point A to B in style. Some models have the foot pegs stretched forward, some don’t. They might not be the most nimble bikes around but they certainly do have mass appeal. Better yet, they come in all different sizes, shapes and displacements making it even more accessible to riders. Bikes: Honda CTX700, Yamaha Bolt, HarleyDavidson Superlow 1200T, Suzuki Boulevard C50

Sport Tourer Want a sportier edge while still maintaining the comfort associated with riding for extended periods of time? Consider a sport touring motorcycle. They’re generally not as heavy or as elaborate as a full on touring bike, so you get the best of both worlds. Bikes: BMW K1300S, BMW K1600GT, Yamaha FJR1300, Honda VFR1200 Touring When asked how I’d describe a Touring bike I say: not small! These machines are typically heavy, but come equipped with the technology and luxuries that can take you across the country and further. Their fuel tanks are generally much bigger so you can keep going for longer. Furthermore, storage compartments, relatively speaking, are quite generous. Bikes: Harley-Davidson Electra Glide/Ultra Limited, Honda Goldwing, Suzuki Boulevard C90T B.O.S.S.

Trials Those looking into trying riding without the high speeds might fall in love with trials riding. But get ready for a workout. If you look, there’s no seat. That’s because you’re meant to stand. Trials is a slow speed type of thrill where you manage obstacles and find ways to do things that even you didn’t think was possible. Think: riding up huge logs, up steep hills and over some interesting terrain. Either way, it’s a lot of fun and both physically and mentally challenging. Bikes: Montesa Cota 4RT, Beta 200, Gas Gas TXT Pro Dirt Playing in the dirt has never been so much fun! No, really. It’s true. Whether you’re young or young at heart, dirt bikes are a great way to enjoy the outdoors. Dirt bikes are restricted to the dirt, meaning, unless you have a dual sport bike that has a license plate, you can’t ride them in the road. That said, they’re generally quite affordable and are extremely durable.

Since there are so many different kinds to choose from, I’ll list the manufacturers that make them Bikes: Honda, KTM, Yamaha, Husqvarna, There are many Kawasaki, Suzuki, different ways to get Aprilia you on the open (or Adventure Take the road less dirt) road to enjoy traveled, but take the best of the great the road when you outdoors. want! Adventure bikes have an Alexandra Straub uncanny ability to get you through some incredible terrain. Bikes: BMW F700GS/F800GS/R1200GS, Suzuki V-Strom, KTM 1190 Adventure Sport If you’re looking for the ultimate performance machine, a sport bike is the way to go. These are the bikes that are generally designed with the racetrack in mind but are street legal. They have more horsepower than you’ll ever need and harness the engineering prowess of the best of the best. That said, they have an aggressive seating position and aren’t always suited for taller riders. Then again, if we really want something to work, we make it work! Bikes: Ducati Panigale 899/1199, MV Agusta F3, Honda CBR600RR/1000RR, Suzuki GSX-R 750/1000, Yamaha R6/R1, Kawasaki Ninja Naked No, I’m not suggesting riding in your birthday suit! Naked bikes tend to have a more upright seating and handlebar position and are devoid of fancy bodywork covering the engine and mechanical components. You still get quite a bit of sportiness out of these, but without the aggressive seating and the stress on your wrists. Some Naked bikes are: Triumph Street Triple, Triumph Speed Triple, Ducati Streetfighter 848, Honda NC700X, Yamaha FZ-09. Of course, there are café racers, customs bikes and more. I could go on!

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Editorial defending caribou lauded More than 70 years ago I taught myself to read the coloured “funnies” in the Calgary Herald. I have read the Herald, among other newspapers, constantly since. In all that time I have become so inured to the fact that the Herald would drink the tailing waters of Alberta’s energy industry, that I was totally surprised by the lead editorial, “Caring for Caribou, Iconic animal’s domain should be more expansive than 25-cent coin,” in the May 16th edition. The editorial calls on the Alberta government to stop the auction by Alberta Energy of 1700 hectares of Public Land north of Grande Cache, in the core habitat area of two herds totaling approximately BOB 178 Rocky Mountain caribou, SCAMMELL which a federal review panel says should be designated “endangered,” the highest threat level under Species at Risk legislation. “It’s simply not acceptable,” the Herald editorial concludes, “for the domain of the noble caribou to be limited to the 25-cent coin, a place of prominence it has enjoyed since the 1930s. The caribou deserves a place in nature, not just in our pocket change.” Well, if I can put in my two cents worth: this is typical two-bit environmental tokenism, too little and too late to save the Rocky Mountain caribou from the extinction it has been facing ever since big energy, mining, forestry, etc. started decimating and fragmenting its habitat decades ago. Early in the editorial the Herald just had to pull its punch with this: “Albertans … are justifiably proud of the energy industry….That doesn’t mean the industry is given carte blanche in conducting its activities. Rigorous reviews and enforcement of environmental regulations continue to raise the standard on how oil and gas are extracted in the province.” Nothing, as other editorialists are wont to write, could be further from the truth. What has the Herald itself been reading, hearing and seeing for at least the last half century in Alber-

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The burrowing owl – all but extinct in Alberta. ta? Some considerable time ago, Dr. Mark Boyce, respected University of Alberta Professor and Alberta Conservation Association Chair in Fisheries and Wildlife, publicly stated that the Sage grouse and the Rocky Mountain caribou would be the first two species to become extinct in Alberta owing to resource extraction activities. In Alberta, that is the same as saying the extinctions are the result of government negligence; it is our government that lets big oil and gas, forestry and mining get away with the damage they do to our environment, particularly our Public Land. In my lifetime the Burrowing owl has become all but extinct in Alberta and the once abundant West Slope Cutthroat trout and our provincial fish, the Bull trout, have officially reached “threatened” status. All of these losses are the result of government negligence in protecting our Public Land from the ravages government does give the resource extrac-

tors “carte blanche” to commit. Enforcement of environmental regulations? Government officials I respect tell me that you better have an air-tight case when you try to enforce environmental regulations against an oil, gas, or forestry company, because they’ll complain and you’ll be called on the carpet first thing by your boss, with your job at stake. The Herald doesn’t even wonder how it is that Alberta Energy is auctioning this Public Land. That is simply because nobody in this government is clearly in charge of administering and protecting our public land, arguably our greatest renewable resource and public asset. At least two candidates for the leadership of the Alberta Conservatives are talking about ending the “culture of entitlement” and promising that people are, and should be, the boss again. One of the worst aspects of the culture of entitlement was anyone in government feeling entitled to exercise the “royal” prerogative of doing anything they please with our Public Land. Perhaps the best (only?) thing, Alison Redford ever did was to kibosh “Potatogate,” the previous Cabinet’s under the table scheme to reward a party supporter with a sweet deal on thousands of acres of Public Land on which, allegedly, to grow spuds for chips. That was also prime, rare, prairie grassland that was also growing many scarce native bird and animal species, including Sage grouse. Our Public Land is an important part of the past, present and future of every Albertan. I have never understood why we don’t have a separate Department of Public Land to use what it should earn to manage it properly, and protect and maintain it in the public interest. Such a department should include a Commission of members appointed from the owners of the land, the people of Alberta, to decide critical matters such as whether prime Rocky Mountain caribou habitat should ever be sold by the real owners, the people of Alberta. What remains of and on the surface of Public Land will be the only public resource left to sustain future Albertans after the inevitable day — not really so far off — when the non-renewables — the oil and gas — are gone for good Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Bedding plant season starts — time to transform the yard It is bedding plant season. Greenhouses, garden centres and big box stores are full of flowering plants that all have the promise to transform the yard. Selecting the perfect plants can be overwhelming so here are a few things to remember: Take the time to walk through the entire sales area. Are the plants healthy? Are there plants that are wilting? Expect to occasionally to see a wilted plant as it is easy to miss one or two when watering but there shouldn’t be many. Is there a section of dead or soon to be dead plants? The overall look of the plants speaks volumes about the care individual plants have received. Top growth should be healthy: deep green, no areas lacking growth, no clipped LINDA tops. TOMLINSON Leaves should start close to the soil and go upwards. Lack of leaves by the soil can indicate, crowding or lack of moisture. Flowers are not essential. In fact, plants will recover better from transplant shock if the flowers are removed. The size and condition of the rootball is just as important as the top growth. Roots should be reaching the edges of the container but they shouldn’t be developed to the extent that they encircle the container and show up as white. Rootballs that are solid white when removed from the container need to be cut apart before planting or they will not venture into the surrounding soil. The best method it to take a sharp knife and cut an X through the bottom layer of the rootball. Have a plan before heading out to purchase any plant. Where are they going to be planted? Is the area in full sun, partial sun or complete shade? What size is the area? Is there a desired colour? Remember, plants do best when placed in optimum growing conditions. In the greenhouses, bedding plants are watered and fertilized on a schedule that optimizes their growth. It is unlikely that a gardener will adhere to the same schedule but making sure that annuals have easy access to nutrients is essential. This can be through compost, slow release fertilizer or adding fertilizer to the water. Find a method and fertilizer that works for you and follow the instructions on the package. Chemical fertilizer will add salts to the soil if used on a continuous basis. Flushing the soil, watering until the water runs out the bottom of the pot will help clean the soil. Flushing the soil is not as easy in a garden where it is better to fertilize less and amend the soil. Adding humus to the flowerbed to insures that there is a ready supply of nutrients before planting. With this done, water and fertilize until the plants become established. It will take the plants time for their roots to grow into surrounding soil and reach the natural nutrients. Bedding plants are an instant garden but not the only way to add annuals to the garden. The alternative it to plant flower seeds. They will not provide an instant garden, but in six weeks of good weather most are up and beginning to flower. Bachelor buttons grow to a height of two feet (60 cm) and produce a large number of small round flowers in shades of blues, pinks, and white. Once planted, they tend to selfseed adding colour for years. There are a number of different varieties of nasturtiums available: climbing and bunching. There flowers are yellow, orange and red. Pansies and violas grow quickly from seed. For a continued supply purchase the ones that will selfseed.

Sweet peas grow quickly from seed. Soak the seed for 24 hours before planting. Usually these seeds are planted in the early spring as they like the cool soil. They can be planted in the fall for next year’s crop. When this is the case, don’t soak the seeds. Poppies, love in the mist, painted tongue, asters,

candytuft, stocks, clarkia, snapdragons, calendula, godetia and sunflowers are a few that put on a great show. Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House. She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

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BLACKFALDS GARAGE SALE TO BE FOLLOWED BY CURBSIDE GIVEAWAY One person’s trash will become another’s treasure this weekend in Blackfalds. The community is hosting its 14th annual garage sale on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., followed by the traditional curbside giveaway on Sunday for the same time period to get rid of items that did not sell. Over 80 households have registered for the sale. A brochure and town map is available at www. blackfalds.com as well as at the town office, Granny’s Loonie Bin, Servus Credit Union and Blackfalds Family Foods. For more information, contact Sue Penner at 403885-6241.

The spotlight will be on the West Park/West Lake neighbourhood in Red Deer when the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre spends the week urging neighbours to talk community. Starting on Tuesday, the centre will offer its Strengthen Social Capacity, Active Neighbourhods, Focus on Community Engagement, Effect Positive Change (S.A.F.E.) Program in the first of six communities this year.

Details are still being finalized for the remaining five neighbourhoods. Residents are invited to attend “grass roots” activities to meet one another and clean up their neighbourhood. TerryLee Ropchan, executive director, said this is about community development and prepreventative step in the crime prevention spectrum. “The end result would be neighbours would get to meet each other,” said Ropchan. “They have worked on a project together and they have some pride of ownership and are happy about their neighbourhood.” For the issues that were

identified as concerns, the centre will connect residents with groups or organizations that can help fix the problems. The centre will conduct an inventory and outstanding records of the issues/concerns identified by residents. Rain or shine the first activity is a community barbecue where residents will share what they like about their area, the changes they would like to see and any concerns or issues within their community at the West Park Activity Centre at 3811 57th St. The barbecue will be served from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Donations will be accepted.

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RED DEER LEGION

First female president chosen BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

REFUGEE GROUP TO HOLD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Central Alberta Refugee Effort committee invites the public to its annual general meeting on June 11 at 7 p.m. The meeting takes place at No. 201 5000 Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP to 403-346-8818 or admin@care2centre.ca.

SPECIAL CLASS AT LAFT HUS Norwegian legends and tales are the focus of a special class at the Laft Hus in Red Deer. On June 14, from 9 a.m to 4 p.m., Ingrid Urberg, professor of Scandinavian Studies for the University of Alberta Augustana Campus, will teach the special class. People are invited to join, and bring a written or oral folk story if they wish. The event at the Laft Hus, in Heritage Square in Red Deer at 4402 48th Ave., cost $25. To register call 403-347-2055 or email norwegianlafthus@gmail. com

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RCMP officers will be there along with the Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre staff and members from various crime prevention programs. On June 5 there will be a community clean including graffiti removal from 3 to 7 p.m. Meet at the West Park Activity Centre. The centre is looking for volunteers to deliver S.A.F.E. Flyers in the area and to help with the Community Clean and Graffiti abatement on June 5. For more information, visit ww.cacpc.ca or call 403-9869904. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Glendale Science and technology school Grade 7 students J.J. Williston, left, and Nathaniel McIntosh were all smiles as they attended a fundraising event at the school on Wednesday after school. A silent auction, student art sale and a dance were held to raise funds for a needy family in the community as part of a Grade 7 and 8 leadership project.

RDC hires new administrator from board FACULTY CONCERNED ABOUT BLOATING of administration,” said Heather. “With the new dean positions and the new associate dean positions. “There are nine new positions and that Red Deer College didn’t have to look too far comes right out of operations, there is no extra when it hired its newest member of the senior funding money for that.” He added that when administrative team, you bring on new adselecting a former ministration you also member of the board bring on new support of governors. people for that posiPaulette Hanna was tion, which costs monannounced last week ey. as the college’s most Hanna has worked recent hire, filling a as a teacher, school newly created position. principal, deputy suBut the Faculty Associperintendent and chief ation of Red Deer Colsuperintendent with lege is disappointed to the Red Deer Cathosee the school’s administration expand. — KEN HEATHER, lic Regional School Hanna, who served PRESIDENT OF THE FACULTY Board. According to a press on the board from 2003 release from the colto 2010 as a member of lege in her new role the college’s board of governors, is the new associate vice-president she will provide support in leading the college’s strategic plan as the new school organiacademic starting on July 21. Ken Heather, president of the faculty said it zational structure unfolds and participate in is not the first time the college has hired a for- academic program development. mer board member. “We’re far more concerned about the bloat Please see RDC on Page C2 BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

‘THERE ARE NINE NEW POSITIONS AND THAT COMES RIGHT OUT OF OPERATIONS, THERE IS NO EXTRA FUNDING MONEY FOR THAT.’

Trial into fatal collision resumes BY BRENDA KOSSOWAN ADVOCATE STAFF The trial has resumed after a week-long recess for a Central Alberta man accused of causing a deadly collision in Red Deer just before the evening fireworks were to be set to celebrate Canada Day on July 1, 2010. Rodney Ross Arens, 36, was arrested and charged with numerous offences laid in connection with the two-vehicle crash that killed 13-year-old Anouluck Jeffrey Chanminaraj and injured his brother and sister, Jamie and Stephanie, who were 18 and 20 at the time. Court heard in earlier testimony that Stephanie had been driving her brothers to Bower Ponds to see the fireworks when her small car collided with a full-size pickup

She ran four times, coming within four votes last year, but finally the Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion has its first woman president. Bev Hanes was elected Monday night to the post after being on the legion board for 14 years. She said she still has a lot to prove in her new role. It was a bittersweet night for Hanes as the same night she won the election, her mother died. Though it has been a week of roller coaster emotions, she is looking forward to her new term. “I’m quite happy to try to revitalize the legion and to try to get out into the community more and bring our branch back to some part of the heyday,” said Hanes. She said there was a time when the Red Deer Legion had about 4,000 members in the 1970s, but now it has dwindled down to 1,200. Hanes has been a member for about 28 years, but it wasn’t until 2000 that she started serving on the board. She described the president’s role as tone setting. Comparable to a mayor on city council — while they have one vote they chair meetings and set the tone of the organization’s agenda. “I have a business background, I have a University of Alberta degree and I think I’ll be able to get a good group of people together to take a good look at our future in a different way.”

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ANTI-FLUORIDE

Group hopes to re-ignite debate BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF

truck at the intersection of Kerry Wood and Taylor Drives. Arens is charged with impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing injury, dangerous driving causing death and dangerous driving causing injury. Charges of refusing to provide breath or blood samples to police were withdrawn earlier in the trial. Now being heard before Justice Kirk Sisson in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench, the trial is currently in a voir dire, or trial within a trial, to examine the admissibility of certain evidence. Court heard testimony on Wednesday from RCMP Const. Jean-Francois Tremblay, who arrested Arens at the scene.

A new anti-fluoride group has emerged hoping to re-ignite the conversation on fluoridated water in Red Deer. Fluoride-Free Red Deer has organized a public protest, “Fluo-Ride — There’s Poison in the Water” in front of City Hall on June 13. The peaceful protest begins at 2 p.m. Danica Champion, group member, said they hope to get as many people out as possible to let their voices be heard. Champion said they want to have fluoride removed from the water supply because of the dangers. She said there is a tremendous amount of research that shows fluoride is a neurotoxin and no one should drink it.

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BRIEFS Town of Innisfail launches new website Innisfail has joined the list of Central Alberta communities that have jazzed up their websites. The town launched its new website on Tuesday. The improved site includes a number of user-friendly options allowing residents to get information on local community events and other updates. Newcomers and visitors can also use the website to get information on the community and its attractions. Developed with Red Deer’s REaction Marketing, the website allows users to access the Community Program Guide through their tablets and mobile devices. Facilities can be booked, forms downloaded and a business directory consulted, among other features. To check it out go to www.innisfail. ca Red Deer County launched its new website at the beginning of the month. New additions to the website include: a large search box for keyword searches, large homepage menus with lists of commonly accessed topics, and a scrolling home page news feature. The mobile-friendly design works with all makes of smart phones and tablets. The website is formatted for screen reading technology for those who are visually impaired. See it at www.rdcounty.ca

Sylvan Lake hires consultants to study tourism impact Sylvan Lake is hiring consultants to get a better read on the impact of tourism in the community. On Monday, council approved a winning of $29,825 bid from Banister Research and Consulting Inc. to prepare a Tourism Economic Impact Assessment. Mayor Sean McIntyre said the first step of the project is collecting baseline data, such as how many people are coming to town, how many cars are they driving, and where they are staying. “It’s so we’ll have a more empirical view of the impact of tourism in Sylvan Lake,” he said. “We have always know that tourism is part of our economy, but this will really allow us to quantify that impact.” The second phase of the project involves co-operating with Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation, which will run Sylvan Lake’s numbers through an economic impact model. Sylvan Lake was chosen for provincial funding because it was identified by the province as one of the top four

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Sweeney Todd, played by Sean Traverse, gets acquainted with his straight razor as he shares the stage with Mrs. Lovett, played by Karley Bodnarchuk, during a dress rehearsal for the Tree House Youth Theatre production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Performances for May 29, 30 and 31 and June 6, 7 and 8 take place at the Scott Block Theatre in Red Deer at 7:30 p.m. each night. For more information on Tree House Youth Theatre, go to www.treehouseyouththeatre.ca rural desired destinations outside the two major cities and mountain destinations Banff and Jasper. The other three are Drumheller, Camrose and Canmore. Total cost of the project is $60,000, which will be split between the town and province. Results of Sylvan Lake’s assessment are expected to go to council in October.

Tour of Alberta waiting on word from Sylvan Lake Tour of Alberta officials will have to wait two weeks to see if Sylvan Lake will hop on board financially. The cycle event organizers made a pitch for $30,000 to Sylvan Lake council on Monday. Mayor Sean McIntyre said council supported allowing the event to run through the community. “But we also need to weigh the impact and whether or not we’re able to commit financially to the event itself. “Certainly, we’re excited about being part of the tour, but basically a decision to financially support the event now would mean a mid-term budget

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FLUORIDE: Added to list “It’s being added to the list like lead and mercury and other neurotoxins,” she said. “It’s concerning that we can have all this information that has been released to the public from these studies and council is not acknowledging them.” According to Health Canada, “Scientific reviews conducted by a number of international agencies and by Health Canada are in agreement that the weight of evidence from all currently available studies indicates there is no link between any adverse health effects and exposure to fluoride in drinking water at levels that are below the maximum acceptable concentration of 1.5 mg/L in Canada.” Many studies have also shown that fluoridated drinking water reduces the number of cavities in children’s teeth. Champion said the protest is about raising awareness about fluoride and about having a choice. Fluoridation of Red Deer’s public water supply was mandated by a plebiscite in the 1950s. The water treatment plant is legally required to continue this practice until administration is directed by council to apply for an amendment to the province. Red Deer city council delved into the contentious fluoride debate in 2011 when it consulted with the public and hosted guest speakers on the subject. The city adds fluoride in a concentration of less than 0.8 milligrams per litres, in keeping with the latest Health Canada recommendations. Ultimately council voted to keep adding fluoride to the regional water supply in October 2012. At the time, anti-fluoride activists said the conversation would not end that day. The city supplies water to more than 145,000 customers in Red Deer, Ponoka, Blackfalds and Lacombe. Fluoride Free Red Deer is on Facebook. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

LEGION: Challenges Through her life, Hanes has worked in occupations that men dominated. Working in both the commercial real estate and insurance industries as a manager. “It was the real estate in Edmonton where there weren’t too many women managers in our offices,” said Hanes. “It’s going to be quite a challenge to be accepted, especially by some of the men who don’t feel that a woman and even a non-veteran, should be able to hold that place.” In her role as legion president she wants to reach out to the community more, and hopefully increase membership. “We’re a place where the basis is remembrance of our veterans,” said Hanes. “It is a place where families, extended families, can come on a Saturday afternoon for a party or a get together. “It’s a place where it should be inclusive have everyone feel comfortable likes a Cheers home.” She also wants to bring the Korean veterans back,

adjustment, which is a decision council will have to weigh carefully.” For a community the size of Sylvan Lake, $30,000 would be a “very significant contribution,” he said. Town administration will bring back a report to council’s next meeting on June 9, when a decision is expected to be made. The City of Red Deer has promised tour organizers $154,000 (including $100,000 in cash plus $54,000 in in-kind services). Town of Innisfail has agreed to contribute $20,000 and Red Deer County council will debate a $50,000 request at its June 10 meeting.

County stops issuing burn permits Complaints about smoke and stink have prompted Red Deer County to stop issuing burn permits in commercial and industrial areas. District fire chief Tom Metzger said there have been growing numbers of complaints — two or three a month — about thick smoke, noxious odours and potential hazardous material burning in non-residential areas.

“We have been seeing increased burning of waste material in these areas, and that leads to complaints from neighbours, false 911 calls, and smoke migrating into urban areas,” said Metzger. For example, a couple of weeks ago a business in Gasoline Alley was burning wooden pallets and the huge plume of smoke led to numerous calls into the county fire hall, he said. “We have also found that many times businesses are burning prohibited materials other than what their permits are approved for,” he said, adding plastics are a common culprit. The county can ticket businesses breaking the rules under the county’s bylaws but it is a lengthy process that requires a court appearance. Burning is not allowed in city industrial and commercial subdivisions and with county industrial parks growing in size and density it’s time the county went a similar route, he said. Businesses can take their waste to the county’s transfer stations at Horn Hill, just east of Penhold; Yankee Flats, north of Spruce View; Gaetz Creek, south of Delburne; and Innisfail.

who she said may have felt slighted after the Korean War, 1950-53. “I don’t think they’ve ever been given the spot they could have,” said Hanes. “We need them to come back and help out.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

RDC: Restructuring “I don’t know how many graduates said ‘Oh we have great administration at Red Deer College,’” said Heather. “It’s the faculty and staff that the students want to be able to do their jobs and have the money, equipment and support to do all that.” The college is in the process of an administrative restructuring moving the college to a school model, with programs falling under a school such as business, creative arts, education and trades and technologies. The deans and associate deans of the schools will take over some of the responsibilities of program chairs, positions faculty used to have. The over-arching goal of the restructuring is to decrease administrative duties for faculty. “The driving force behind the administrative restructuring is to create a greater learner-centred environment for our students,” said Brad Donaldson, RDC VP academic. “Hanna’s proven expertise and passion for education will tie in very well with this important goal as she plays a role in our continuing success.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com Contributed photo

ARENS: Observations Although he had been a police officer for less than five months at the time, Tremblay said he had years of experience identifying and working with intoxicated people, including employment at a homeless shelter in Ottawa and as a security guard before that. Tremblay said he did not conduct a roadside sobriety test because he had no doubt that Arens was intoxicated. Questioned by Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker, Tremblay said other police officers were already on scene and assisting at the car, so he proceeded to the pickup truck, where he found Arens sitting at the wheel, smoking a cigarette. The man was showing various signs of impairment and was having trouble keeping his balance as he exited the vehicle to walk to the police car, said Tremblay. He gave further evidence describing the accused man’s difficulties using the phone book and dialing the phone from the RCMP cell block later on. None of these difficulties were present a few days later, when Arens returned to the detachment’s secure parking bay to retrieve tools from his truck, said Tremblay. Sisson has yet to rule on whether testimony given by Tremblay and other police witnesses can be admitted in the trial proper. Defence counsel Donna Derie-Gillespie served notice on Wednesday that she will call two police officers who were dropped from the Crown’s list of witnesses. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

With the aid of a walker, Lynne Wilson, surrounded by her family, participates in Red Deer’s MS Walk and Run on May 25 at Great Chief Park.

MS Walk and Run raises $135,000-plus Though money is still rolling in, Red Deer’s 24th MS Walk and Run has already raised more than $135,000. The goal for the May 25 event at Great Chief Park was to raise at least $160,000, however, with the window to get donations and pledges in open until June 20, organizers are confident they will meet their target. “There are outstanding pledges and there are still people out fundraising, even me personally,” said Red Deer MS Society of Canada development coordinator Kim Desjardins. “Every little bit counts.” There were 576 registered participants, including 63 runners, for the 5k and 10k courses, which included a timed component for the first time. The goal for the local MS Society of Canada chapter is to raise $600,000 this year. It will be back at it on June 7 and 8 with the annual Johnson MS Bike Tour. For more information and to register, go to www.msbike.ca.

BUSINESS

THURSDAY, MAY 29, 2014

MPC recommends larger garage limits BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Cars may be getting smaller but garages apparently aren’t. Red Deer’s municipal planning commission voted on Wednesday to recommend to city council that it increase the maximum allowable height of detached garages to 4.9 metres (16 feet) from the current 4.5 metres (14.8 feet). The issue arose after Red Deer building design consultant John Ferguson of Ferguson & Company wrote the city to request the change. He said the existing height limit makes it difficult for garages to conform with the steeper roof pitch requirements in some subdivisions, prevents many recreational vehicles and larger trucks from being parked indoors, and precludes the installation of lifts that allow one vehicle to be stored above another. City planner Tony Lindhout told the commission that the height limit for detached garages was reviewed in 2007 and again in 2009. In both cases, it was found to be within the range of other Alberta communities. A similar comparison conducted in response to Ferguson’s letter indicated an average height limit of 4.7 metres across nine urban centres. Individual limits ranged from 4.3 metres in Leduc to five metres in Edmonton, Airdrie and Fort Saskatchewan. Lindhout said garages are becoming wider and their walls higher — both of which increase building height. The commission has granted 13 re-

laxations to the maximum allowable height for detached garages during the past five years. “It provides landowners with increase flexibility in garage design options,” said Lindhout of the proposed increase to 4.9 metres. “It would reduce the number of relaxation requests before the municipal planning commission, it allows a speedier decision process, and the increase in height does not conflict with any city planning documents, statutory plans or planning tool documents.” Mayor Tara Veer expressed concerns that larger garages might adversely impact neighbouring residents. She also wondered if increasing the allowable height to 4.9 metres would lead to applications for further relaxations and even bigger buildings. “I guess that’s where I see the risk.” Lindhout pointed out that such variances would require the approval of the municipal planning commission. And Kim Fowler, the city’s director of planning services, added that allowing larger garages could help keep recreational vehicles and big trucks off the street. After a motion by citizen representative Carol Mah to increase the recommended height limit to 4.7 metres was defeated, the commission voted to recommend a 4.9-metre limit to city council. The height limit applies to “accessory residential structures,” including sheds, playhouses, greenhouses and other secondary buildings. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

Environmental groups fire legal warning shot

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Red Deer’s municipal planning commission is recommending to city council that it increase the maximum allowable height of attached garages. This garage in the alley behind a home at 45 Ave. and 53 St. is much larger and higher than garages originally built in the neighborhood.

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CLIMATE CHANGE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Environmental groups are taking inspiration from the legal fight against tobacco to fire warning shots at major energy companies over their alleged role in funding climate change denial and blocking climate-friendly legislation. Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund have sent letters to dozens of Canadian and international energy companies asking them about their guidelines for public communication and lobbying practices on climate change. The groups have also asked if corporate officers are insured against the possible spread of misinformation about the impact of greenhouse gases. It’s the opening salvo in an attempt to hold the industry accountable for what the environmental groups say is its role in slowing efforts to fight global warming. “We’re laying the groundwork for court cases to come,” Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada said Wednesday. “In many ways, the oil industry is right now where the tobacco industry was back in the 1980s.” Martin Olszynski of the University of Calgary law school said legal scholars take seriously a link between the legal actions that extracted big payouts from tobacco companies and the position of the energy industry over climate change. “It’s a live issue,” said Olszynski, who, with his colleague Sharon Mascher, hopes to publish research on the topic later this summer. “It definitely has some potential and it can’t be discounted.” The letter has gone out to 32 companies. The list includes both oil and gas majors as well as other large greenhouse gas emitters such as cement producers and coal companies. As well as energy multinationals with large Canadian operations such as ConocoPhillips and Total, it has gone to five Canadian companies: Suncor (TSX:SU), Talisman Energy (TSX:TLM), Husky Energy (TSX:HSE), EnCana (TSX:ECA) and Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ). The letter asks: “Has your company implemented a clear and specific policy to make sure it is not involved in distorting the public’s, investor’s, regulator’s, insurer’s or policy-maker’s understanding of the risks of climate change?” The letter is accompanied by documentation from government and media sources that suggests industry has funded groups that are spreading doubt about climate science. It also indicates they have obstructed advocates for greenhouse gas reduction and lobbied government against regulating and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The letter also asks if corporate officials have fully informed insurers of their involvement in any such activities.

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Bimol Debnath prepares Wednesday for the opening of B&D Designer Clothing at 4948 50th St. at the former site of Talk of the Town women’s clothing store. Debnath, who previously operated the much smaller Debnath’s clothing store at 4910 Gaetz Ave., describes B&D Designer Clothing as being similar to a factory outlet, with brand name men’s and boy’s wear at discounted prices.

Younger consumers look to digital banks BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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If the big banks want to turn millennials into customers who are as loyal as their parents were, they better increase their online and mobile presence. A new survey of Canadian and U.S. consumers found that younger bank customers are nearly twice as likely as older ones to consider switching to a branchless bank like Tangerine or opt to bank with major technology players if that option were available. Nearly 40 per cent of customers 18 to 34 years old said they would consider a switch, compared with 29 per cent of those aged 35 to 55 and 16 per cent of those over 55, according to Accenture, a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. “The game is changing for banking in Canada and the U.S., and tomorrow’s consumer is coming of age with a very different perception of what a bank could be,” said Jodie Wallis, managing director of Accenture’s Canadian banking practice. “These new customer expectations will prove disruptive to banks if nonbank entrants gain momentum and if banks do not adapt quickly.” While Canadian banks have made

some movement in that direction, they need to figure out how to properly integrate their online presence with their call centres and physical branches while also offering personal digital financial advice, she said. “The banks have to figure out how to get really good at being omni-channel, at having branches but also making those branches one part of an ecosystem of channels that includes online and mobile and potentially others that we haven’t even thought of,” she added. “It’s figuring out, “What does the experience need to be online? What’s an experience that approximates some of the things the millennials enjoy or are used to?“ Younger consumers also suggested they were more likely than older ones to want their banks to offer more services to help them with financial management and purchases, such as buying a car or a home. And 40 per cent said that if technology player Google offered banking services, they would consider banking with it. Another 37 per cent said they would consider banking with Amazon and 34 per cent with Apple. Overall, 72 per cent of respondents

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in the two countries aged 18 to 34 said they would be “likely” or “very likely” bank with at least one technology, telecommunications, retail, or shipping/ postal company that they do business with if they offered banking services. In Canada, 60 per cent of bank customers aged 18 to 34, and 47 per cent of those age 35 to 54, said they would bank with such a player. “Digital technologies are dissolving the boundaries between industry sectors. “For banks, simply being more digital versions of what they are today will not be enough to assure success in the future,” said Juan Pedro Moreno, senior managing director of Accenture’s global banking practice. “They will need to move beyond their traditional role as enablers of financial transactions and providers of financial products to play a deeper role in the lives of their customers by applying digital technology in new ways and by offering tangible value and advice based on transaction information.” Accenture conducted the survey online with 3,846 bank customers in North America between March 10 and March 18, 2014. About 70 per cent of the respondents were in the United States and 30 per cent were in Canada.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 97.60 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 51.66 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.78 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.92 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.79 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.65 Cdn. National Railway . . 65.34 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . . 18.49 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.20 Capital Power Corp . . . . 25.95 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.57 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 51.77 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 51.85 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 29.77 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.51 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.59 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 21.50 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.80 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 51.98 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 67.75 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.22 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 13.04 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 50.68 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 103.23 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.44 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.58 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 46.43 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed lower Wednesday amid pressure from the mining sector and mixed earnings reports from two of the big Canadian banks. The S&P/TSX composite index dropped 47.06 points to 14,610.96. Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) raised its dividend by two cents to 78 cents per share as it reported a quarterly profit of $1.1 billion, up 12 per cent from a year ago. Adjusted earnings per share were $1.63, up 13 per cent from the same quarter last year and 10 cents ahead of estimates. Its stock dipped 18 cents to $76.62, but the shares are still up about three per cent in the past week since the big banks starting reporting earnings. Meanwhile, shares of National Bank (TSX:NA) were down $1.17 at $45.86 after it posted a second-quarter profit of $362 million, which was down 13 per cent from a year ago. Adjusted earnings were $1.05 a share, a penny higher than analyst estimates, and it raised its dividend four per cent. However revenue of $1.28 billion missed expectations for $1.34 billion. The earnings from the two banks followed earlier reports from Royal Bank (TSX:RY), TD Bank (TSX:TD) and Scotiabank, which also beat expectations. “I think the best word to describe our banks is resilient,” said Allan Small, senior adviser at HollisWealth. “As parts of the business start to slow down, they manage to find ways to invest in other areas to make up that slowdown,” Small said. CIBC (TSX:CM) posts quarterly earnings Thursday morning. The Canadian dollar lost 0.12 of a cent to 91.95 cents US. U.S. markets were lower as the Dow Jones industrials gave back 42.32 points to 16,633.18, the Nasdaq declined 12 points to 4,225.07 and the S&P 500 index was 2.13 points lower at 1,909.78.

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 17.37 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.88 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 46.43 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59.02 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 75.53 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 17.04 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.31 First Quantum Minerals . 22.88 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 25.16 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.92 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.25 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.04 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.34 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.74 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 24.58 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 31.60 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 36.17 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 69.99 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.07 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 56.25 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 43.94 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 22.77 Canyon Services Group. 15.97 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 31.61 CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.02 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 24.94 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.57 July copper was unchanged at US$3.18 a pound and the base metals component 2.34 lost per cent. The TSX gold sector was sharply lower for a second day, down 1.6 per cent per cent, while June gold was off $6.20 at US$1,259.70 an ounce. Bullion had closed Tuesday at its lowest level since early February, amid an easing of concerns about Ukraine. Worries about higher inflation had also supported gold prices, but now economists are, if anything, more worried about deflation, particularly in Europe. At the same time, the costs of mining gold are rising, leaving analysts to wonder about what can take the gold sector higher after declining about 11 per cent this month. “Inflation is starting to creep up a little bit but (it’s) not an issue, interest rates are still low — there really is no catalyst to take the gold sector higher,” Small said. The energy sector was ahead 0.17 cent as July crude in New York slipped $1.39 to US$102.72 a barrel. In other corporate developments Valeant Pharmaceuticals (TSX:VRX) shares gave back $2.93 to $138.11 as the company upped the cash portion its hostile takeover offer for Botox maker Allergan by $10 to US$58.30 a share. The stock portion of the offer remains the same at 0.83 of a Valeant share, valuing the proposal at $162.86 per share or almost $50 billion in total. Meanwhile, Nestle says it is paying $1.4 billion in cash to Valeant for the rights to sell lip and wrinkle treatment Restylane and other skin products in the U.S. and Canada. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS TORONTO — Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading. Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,610.96, down 47.06 points TSX Venture Exchange —

BRIEF Kinder Morgan bombarded with 10,000 plus questions on Trans Mountain expansion VANCOUVER — Kinder Morgan is asking for more time to respond to over 10,000 questions submitted to the National Energy Board about the proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline. The company has until June 4 to respond to information requests from 117 of the 398 groups and individuals granted intervener status by the board for the application. The company says it cannot meet that deadline with such a large number of requests, and it has asked for a delay until June 27. Kinder Morgan’s Scott Stoness says questions cover everything from marine operations to finance and spill response, and the company is working around the clock to answer every one. Under new rules introduced two years ago by the federal government, the regulatory process has strict time limits for hearings and a final decision, but Stoness says the extension will not affect the overall timeline. Like the Northern Gateway oil pipe-

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 101.06 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 63.44 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.50 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 36.46 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 54.13 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 6.95 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.97 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.130 Precision Drilling Corp . . 13.74 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 41.86 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.13 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 15.90 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.36 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 73.18 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.62 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 68.82 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99.04 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 37.23 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.82 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.66 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 52.63 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.30 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.00 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.86 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.05 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.16 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 37.02 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.88 983.58, down 2.15 points TSX 60 — 836.73, down 3.27 points Dow — 16,633.18, down 42.32 points S&P 500 — 1,909.78, down 2.13 points Nasdaq — 4,225.07, down 12.00 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 91.95 cents US, down 0.12 of a cent Pound — C$1.8176, down 0.78 of a cent Euro — C$1.4784, down 0.24 of a cent Euro — US$1.3596, down 0.36 of a cent Oil futures: US$102.72 per barrel, down $1.39 (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,259.30 per oz., down $6.20 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.50 oz., down 1.4 cents $691.23 kg., down 45 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $7.10 higher $466.50; Nov. ’14 $7.70 higher $469.80; Jan ’15 $7.90 higher $474.70; March ’15 $8.60 higher $476.90; May ’15 $9.00 higher $478.50; July ’15 $9.00 higher $478.90; Nov ’15 $9.00 higher $473.80; Jan. ’16 $9.00 higher $467.80; March ’16 $9.00 higher $471.30; May ’16 $9.00 higher $471.30; July ’16 $9.00 higher $471.30. Barley (Western): July ’14 unchanged $150.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $150.00; Dec. ’14 unchanged $152.00; March ’15 unchanged $153.00; May ’15 unchanged $153.00; July ’15 unchanged $153.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $153.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $153.00; March ’16 unchanged $153.00; May ’16 unchanged $153.00; July ’16 unchanged $153.00. Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 536,680 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 536,680.

line, the Trans Mountain expansion is controversial and has spurred opposition from environmental groups and several First Nations.

Scotiabank to divest majority of holdings in CI Financial in $2.27B deal TORONTO — The Bank of Nova Scotia (TSX:BNS) is divesting more than two-thirds of its interest in CI Financial Inc.(TSX:CIX) through a bought deal agreement with a syndicate of underwriters worth at least $2.27 billion. Under the agreement, announced jointly with CI, it will divest 72 million common shares of the company at $31.50 per share, reducing its current 37 per cent interest to about 11.4 per cent or 32.6 million shares. That could drop to 7.7 per cent if an over-allotment option for an additional 10.8 million shares were to be exercised in full by the underwriters. If approved, the first dividend which purchasers of the shares are anticipated to be eligible to receive is the one anticipated to be paid on July 15 to shareholders of record on June 30. Scotiabank said net proceeds of the offering will be used by Scotiabank for general corporate purposes and that it expects to record a pre-tax gain of approximately $380 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2014 (about $440 million if the over-allotment option is exercised in full).

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This image provided by Google shows a very early version of Google’s prototype self-driving car. The two-seater won’t be sold publicly, but Google said it hopes by this time next year, 100 prototypes will be on public roads.

Google to build prototype car controlled by computers SELF-DRIVING CAR WON’T HAVE STEERING WHEEL OR PEDALS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Google plans to build and launch onto city streets a small fleet of subcompact cars that could operate without a person at the wheel. Actually, the cars wouldn’t even have a wheel. Or gas and brake pedals. The company says the vehicles will use sensors and computing power, with no human needed. Google Inc. hopes that by this time next year, 100 of the two-seaters will be on public roads, following extensive testing. The cars would not be for sale and instead would be provided to select operators for further tweaking and have limitations such as a 25 mph top speed. The announcement presents a challenge to automakers that have been more cautious about introducing fully automated driving and to government regulators who are scrambling to accommodate self-driving cars on public roads. Other companies are working on the technology but none as large as Google has said it intends to put such cars in the hands of the public so soon. To date, Google has driven hun-

dreds of thousands of miles on public roads and freeways in Lexus SUVs and Toyota Priuses outfitted with special sensors and cameras. But with a “safety driver” in the front seat, those vehicles were not truly self-driving. Instead of the standard controls, the prototypes would have buttons to begin and end the drive. Passengers would set a destination. The car would then make turns and react to other vehicles and pedestrians based on computer programs that predict what others might do, and data from sensors including radar and cameras that read in real time what other objects are actually doing. The route might be set by typing a destination into a map or using spoken commands, Chris Urmson, the leader of Google’s self-driving car team, told reporters Wednesday. The car will be powered by electricity and could go about 100 miles before charging. Its shape suggests a roundedout Volkswagen Beetle — something that might move people around a corporate campus or congested downtown — with headlights and sensors arrayed to resemble a friendly face. Major automakers have steadily introduced technology that helps cars stay in their lanes and avoid accidents.

BMO reports higher Q2 profit BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Bank of Montreal raised its dividend Wednesday as it reported an improved second-quarter profit of $1.1 billion, helped by its wealth management and Canadian banking businesses. BMO was the fifth of Canada’s big banks to beat expectations on adjusted earnings per share in a quarter that is proving to have more positive surprises than analysts expected. Profits were equal to $1.60 per share for the quarter, an increase from $962 million or $1.40 per share in the same quarter of 2013. Adjusted earnings per share were $1.63, which beat analysts’ expectations of $1.53. Meanwhile, BMO (TSX:BMO) increased its quarterly dividend by two cents to 78 cents. Traders reacted to the results by sending BMO stock’s to an all-time high of $77.46 in morning trading before

pulling back and ending the day down slightly. The bank’s stock closed at $76.62 on the Toronto Stock Exchange, down 18 cents on the day but still up about three per cent in the past week since the big banks starting reporting earnings. Like its Canadian peers, BMO’s Canadian banking operations continued to be strong, while wealth management — although a smaller part of the overall business — showed even more yearover-year growth. BMO’s wealth management operations delivered net income of $194 million, an increase of 38 per cent from the same quarter a year ago. Its capital markets division posted $305 million in profits, up 16 per cent due to higher investment and corporate banking revenue. The bank’s Canadian personal and commercial banking produced net income of $480 million, up 14 per cent or $59 million year over year, but was relatively steady with the previous quarter ended Jan. 31.

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Father hurt by daughter’s wedding wishes Dear Annie: I have a 24-year-old there for her. Tiffany did suggest that daughter by an ex-girlfriend. When I could wait at the front pew of the “Tiffany” was a child, her mother made church and actually give her away to it very difficult for me to see her. her fiance. At one point, her attorney sent me I am very hurt by this, and I think a letter saying I would not have to pay Tiffany is being unfair to me. Do you child support if I gave up all have any suggestions? parental rights. I refused. —Heartbroken When Tiffany was 9 years Dear Heartbroken: We old, my ex moved to another know your ex made it difstate without telling me. ficult for you to be a more I found her through her involved parent, and you former neighbors. Consedid what you could, but requently, I was only able to gardless, your relationship see Tiffany for a couple of is not as close as the one weeks in the summer. she has with Mom, and it Considering all of her serves no purpose to point mother’s obstructions, I think fingers now. Tiffany and I have a good reTiffany wants Mom to lationship. walk her down the aisle, MITCHELL I attended her high school and she has asked you to & SUGAR and college graduations, and have the honour of “giving she comes to visit me once a her away.” year. I call her every month This is actually a decent to see how she’s doing. compromise and not the Tiffany is getting married next year snub you seem to think. It is simply and just told me that although she one moment of one day of the rest of doesn’t want to hurt me, she wants her your lives. mother to walk her down the aisle. If you want to continue your good She said her Mom has always been relationship with Tiffany, please tell

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her you would be thrilled to wait at the front of the church and escort her to her fiance. Dear Annie: Before my wife and I were married eight years ago, sex was a frequent occurrence. She seemed to enjoy it. But on our honeymoon night, she said, “Let’s get this over with.” A couple of years later, when the frequency had significantly decreased, she told me that sex makes her feel “all yucky.” A few years after that, she said, “It always hurts.” When I suggested she talk to her physician, she sidestepped the issue and wouldn’t go. Now she tells me she “needs time to heal.” From what? Sex is nonexistent. She has headaches, is too tired or pretends to be asleep so often that although she is quite attractive, I no longer see her as an intimate partner. We tried counseling, but all she would talk about was the lamp I had installed at the wrong location. The psychologist indicated that we are not ready for meaningful sessions. Any suggestions?— Bewildered Husband Dear Husband: Your wife has never

enjoyed sex. Most women who experience painful intercourse would seek medical attention. We think her most honest assessment was when she said sex felt “yucky.” That would indicate a psychological hang-up that she has no intention of working on. Please go back to your counselor — on your own — and discuss these issues. Decide how important sex is in relation to the other qualities your wife brings to the marriage, because she may never be more interested than she is right now. Dear Annie: I disagree with your advice to transfer photos to your computer and discard the originals. Computer programs change, and the photos are not always accessible. If photographs are kept on good paper (acid-free) in a cool, dry place in acidfree boxes or albums, they will last a long time. Ask any museum for help. — Hoosier Historian 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.

HOROSCOPES Thursday, May 29 spring forth upon others in surprising ways. CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Get online and share your thoughts, you do Mel B, 38; Rupert Everett, 54; Annette Ben- have proper insight today that could help ing, 55 many. Give up the old for the THOUGHT OF THE DAY: new and be ready for some surThere will be a lot of ideas jumpprise reactions now! ing around today. This could TAURUS (April 20-May 20): lead you to be of two minds at You could be feeling slightly the moment. There will be a lot restless now. Thoughts and of ideas and information flashideas are popping into your ing up at you, so relax and allow head and it might be difficult to for it to sink in and properly think focus on just one. Try to nurture it through before any action is one thought at a time- it will taken. There will be lots of activbe helpful for you to see them ity with females friends now - go through as they are able to offer out and have a good time. You a boost in your finances. might become slightly restless, GEMINI (May 21-June 20): but there is great opportunity for There could be surprising inforLARISA MAIRA advancements if you think things mation shared online. Be preOZOLINS through properly. pared to see life in new ways HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today and adjust your understanding is your birthday, this year will of humanitarian causes. Some promise to be the new start you information will speak to your are looking for. There will be tons of stimulat- heart strings and emotionality, allow for it. ing, surprising interactions with females online You’re never too old to change your mind. and with those networking and group environCANCER (June 21-July 22): There will be ments. You will discover new ways of placing a lot of excitement at work. value onto yourself, the more emotionally Perhaps projects you’ve worked on are confident you will be. By the end of this year, now being seen online, or simply you are you will find that perfect balance. receiving very positive, better than expected ARIES (March 21-April 19): You will be results for your unique part in the project. sharing a lot of information today and it will There will be a lot of inner restlessness, keep

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calm and enjoy! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today will offer you a new way of looking at your goals and utilizing more of your knowledge to help move projects forward. Share your unique ideas, there could be some hesitation, but once understood fully, they will be celebrated. Trust the advice from female friends! VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Truth be told, you will be recognized on a public level now, perhaps for work or your public status change. Interesting developments are underway today that will surprise even you! Whatever it is, there will be an element of uniqueness and an opportunity for advancement. Enjoy! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Significant relationships in your life will offer you some surprising news. Perhaps it is a trip to somewhere new and exciting, or simply the discussion of some faraway place that will get you restless for a change of perspective. It will be positive, trust the flow of what is going on. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A new start with connecting with business partnerships online will emerge today. Perhaps there is a job opportunity that you want to apply for — well, today would be the day to put yourself out there. Females will be your strong allies today. Enjoy the surprises ahead!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There will be some information disclosed by others online today. This might surprise you in a very funny way. Trust that they are simply trying to bring a smile to your face and go with the flow of events. Lots of ideas are popping around now. Talk everything out! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your mom and you can get into a very interesting discussion about your health, work, or daily life. Perhaps she is telling you to get your work out there and market yourself. Read those articles she has suggested about natural health remedies. She is right, trust me! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There could be many ideas going through your head at the moment - it could be hard to pick one and go with it now. Write down anything that pops into your mind. If you feel so inclined, post it online. Share your brilliant ideas with others now! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you have a home business, today will prove to be quite profitable. There will be a lot of excitement in relation to purchases online, so today you can get a great deal. A good day to open conversations up about buying a home, or perhaps simply home items. Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Gold stars Quite possibly, this is one of the most valuable culture things we’ve ever done. We use craft foam from Michael’s to create six-inch bright yellow stars. Add ribbon and a marker and we have an instant reward medal. You’ll find rounds of applause, photos, see them on Facebook and, even better if you’re new and visiting our facility, you’ll see two walls as soon as you’ve walked in plastered with thumb-tacked photos of our gold star recipients. It’s not by accident that our public mission happens to be posted on the same wall either.

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Don’t skimp Take control on shut-eye of your own health

Skimping on shut-eye isn’t North Ask your doctor if any medications America’s only sleep crisis. you take, or health conditions you Many people turn in on time yet have, could be affecting your sleep. If miss out on deep, refreshing slumber, your partner tells you that you snore and that’s one reason why 61 per cent loudly and toss and turn at night, or of women and 45 per cent of men wake seem to stop breathing during sleep, up feeling tired at least some of the and you wake up extremely fatigued time. every morning or are excessively Unfortunately, that lack of deep sleepy during the day, ask for an evalusleep leads to health issues that you ation. worry about, that keep you up at night, ● Step 3: Prime your mind and body that ... well, you see the problem. to wind down. Skip caffeine within six Sleep issues boost your blood sugar hours of bedtime (longer if you’re seninto an unhealthy range, says a new sitive). study of around Create a re15,000 people laxing pre-sleep from China’s routine: Skip Xuzhou Center TV and take a for Disease Conshower or warm trol and Prevenbath, followed tion. by a few stretchAnd Swedes and some ish docs found light reading that poor sleep (or intimate fun increases your with your partrisk for heart atner). Reserve tacks and other your boudoir MIKE ROIZEN & MEHMET OZ cardiovascular for sleep and events by 30 per between-thecent to 40 per sheets playtime. cent. Don’t pay Poor sleep bills in bed, also is a top catch up on cause of pain in people over 50. news via your smartphone or work on And for those with heart failure your laptop. “It all sounds simple, but (more than five million North Ameri- it can be part of a plan to help even cans), poor Zs doubles the risk for end- chronic cases of insomnia,” Drerup ing up in the hospital. says. “And that can have big health No wonder an article in the highly benefits.” respected medical journal The Lancet ● Step 4: Get up when you can’t recently urged docs to write “better sleep. “Don’t stay in bed,” Dr. Drerup sleep” prescriptions! We think that’s a says. “Your brain will begin linking it great idea! with feelings of frustration and sleepSo here’s our four-step Rx for sweet lessness. dreams. A key component of CBT-I is stayIt’s based on Cognitive Behavior ing out of bed when you can’t sleep. Go Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I for short), into another room, turn on a low light shown in studies to help 86 per cent and read something that’s not too exof people with insomnia fall asleep citing for a while, then try going to bed faster, wake up less often during the again.” night, sleep longer and feel great in the Over time, this retrains your brain morning. It works better than sleepso that sliding between the covers cues ing pills, and the benefits last longer. falling asleep. “You can try this yourMany people who’ve tried it are still self, but it’s good to have some guidsleeping like babies two years later. ance and support from an online proWow! gram or behavioral sleep medicine Here’s how to get started: specialist.” ● Step 1: Rate your sleep. It’s easy to A University of Manitoba study tell if you’re getting enough sleep. Do found that 81 per cent of folks who you regularly total less than seven to went through a five-week sleep imeight hours? You probably need more. provement training program said they Assessing sleep quality takes more were sleeping better. sleuthing. And you can find a trained sleep “You may be aware that you’re wak- therapist to work with by going to the ing up a lot at night,” says Cleveland website of the Society of Behavioral Clinic sleep disorders specialist Mi- Sleep Medicine at www.behaviorchelle Drerup, PsyD. “Or, you may feel alsleep.org. Sweet dreams! really tired no matter how much sleep The YOU Docs, Mehmet Oz, host of The you get.” Those indicate poor sleep Dr. Oz Show and Mike Roizen of Clevequality. land Clinic, are authors of YOU: Los● Step 2: Rule out medical causes ing Weight. For more information, go to for sleep problems. www.RealAge.com.

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FITNESS: Write the workouts on the mirror Mirrors and markers I swear I returned to my childhood when I learned they made dry erase markers that would write on glass. Our mirrors in our boot camp room now look like graffiti and it adds a whole new sense of character. Yes, we write the workouts on the mirror, and birthday greetings and inspirational comments, and ask questions and let people answer, “I love boot camp because?” The point is it’s become a point of engagement. In the workout room, you might see a trainer or a client scribble on the mirror in front of them, “ONE MORE REP!” or “Every time I read this my body is changing.”

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In regards to health, I am a huge ad- you need to respect your doctor’s opinvocate of patients being firm ions, always keep in mind with their feelings and goals, that you know yourself best and communicating these to and often times you need to their health care providers. trust your gut feeling if you This is to ensure that they know you are not well. are getting the absolute best Here are four easy steps care possible, giving them to be more responsible for peace of mind and satisfacyour health care: tion. ● Keep your own health A 54-year-old female in file at home. In this file, inmy practice had a strong clude a copy of all lab test family history of melanoma results and imaging results (a type of skin cancer), inthat have been completed. cluding 10 pre-cancerous ● Seek regular checkSHANE lesions of her own that had ups with your health care to be removed and multiple team. One to two times per JOHNSON family members who also year, schedule a checkup to had to get some lesions re- NATUROPATHIC touch base with your naturmoved. As a result of this, opathic doctor and medical MEDICINE she had discussed with her doctor. family doctor at her annu● Work with your medial physical exam that she would feel cal provider. Even if you are frustrated more comfortable if she could have with your health-care provider, being a dermatologist perform her annual confrontational with them will not get skin screen. By doing so, the patient you the care that you need. If you feel felt like a dermatologist would more like you cannot work together in a prolikely catch such pre-cancerous spots ductive manner, you need to take remore easily due to the sheer number sponsibility to change providers. of moles a dermatologist sees on a reg● Bring a list of questions or notes. ular basis. Compile a list of questions or notes Ultimately, this would also give the that you would like to discuss during patient comfort in knowing she did her your visit. This will help to use time due-diligence in ensuring she took all efficiently and effectively by getting precautionary measures to identify the straight to the point of what your conpotential onset of the disease. cerns are. However, her family doctor exAdditionally, it is easy for patients pressed that she was comfortable per- to forget about important things they forming the skin exam yearly in her need to discuss and avoid getting sideoffice and did not send her to a der- tracked during discussions. Think of matologist. Unfortunately, as many pa- it as going to the grocery store without tients do, my patient simply agreed and a list — you usually end up with only continued on wearily, hoping that her a few things you really need and lots family doctor would be able to identify that you did not! We only get one life any problems or potential issues. It is to live, so make it the best life! Do not this type of classic example I see time wait for others to get you the care that and time again where patients ignore you need. Seek out additional healththeir “gut feelings” about their health care options and build a health team and just assume that they are in good around you that has your best interests hands. I cannot stress enough how im- in place and who are willing to work portant it is to remind yourself that with you. Take responsibility and reno one has your best interests at heart member, you are the biggest proponent more than you do. Your health care in achieving a healthy life and overall should be driven by you, the patient. well-being. Thus, it is your responsibility to have Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and the healthiest life possible. This starts raised in Red Deer and is the owner of with the responsibility of maintaining Aspire Natural Medicine. He completed a healthy lifestyle, such as your choices his naturopathic medical training at the about food, exercise and your environ- Bastyr University, and is among only a ment. If and when you do have to seek handful of naturopathic doctors in Alout medical care, you again need to berta to complete an additional one-year spearhead the process and ensure that residency in family medicine. For more you get all you need from each mem- detailed information on naturopathic ber of your health-care team. Although medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca. how you do it might be. It’s pretty typical to reward people for signing up or at specific intervals, and unfortunately I find this has little value. We’ve opted to do it differently: we simply have an budget for swag and we buy random things in random quantities at random intervals. We try to have small items that we can give away any time we feel like, and then we try periodically to buy unique items that we find fun and creative ways to give away. We don’t always have enough for

everyone and we rarely do the same thing twice. We’ve found this has upped the level of appreciation and value with our clients. You’re continually learning new strategies to attract more clients; if you can add continually improving retention to that, you will live a long life of prosperous growth and profitability! Cabel McElderry is a local personal trainer and nutrition coach. For more information on fitness and nutrition, visit the Fitness F/X website at www.fitnessfx. com.

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Angelou defied odds ACTRESS, SINGER, DANCER, AUTHOR DIES AT AGE 86

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Maya Angelou, a modern Renaissance woman who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen, the printed page and the inaugural dais, died Wednesday, her son said. She was 86. Angelou’s son, Guy B. Johnson, said the writer died at her home in WinstonSalem, North Carolina, where she had been a professor of American studies at Wake Forest University since 1982. Tall and regal, with a deep, majestic voice, Angelou defied all probability and category, becoming one of the first black women to enjoy mainstream success as an author and thriving in virtually every artistic medium. The young single mother who worked at strip clubs to earn a living later wrote and recited the most popular presidential inaugural poem in history. The childhood victim of rape wrote a millionselling memoir, befriended Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and performed on stages around the world. An actress, singer and dancer in the 1950s and 1960s, she broke through as an author in 1970 with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which became standard (and occasionally censored) reading, and was the first of a multipart autobiography that continued through the decades. In 1993, she was a sensation reading her cautiously hopeful On the Pulse of the Morning at President Bill Clinton’s first inauguration. Her confident performance openly delighted Clinton and made the poem a bestseller, if not a critical favourite. For President George W. Bush, she read another poem, Amazing Peace, at the 2005 Christmas tree lighting ceremony at the White House. She was a mentor to Oprah Winfrey, whom she befriended when Winfrey was still a local television reporter, and often appeared on her friend’s talk show program. She mastered several languages and published not just poetry, but advice books, cookbooks and children’s stories. She wrote music, plays and screenplays, received an Emmy nomination for her acting in the 1977 miniseries Roots, and never lost her passion for dance, the art she considered closest to poetry. Her very name as an adult was a reinvention. Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis and raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and San Francisco,

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Poet Maya Angelou smiles at an event in Washington on Nov. 21, 2008. Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, has died, Wake Forest University said Wednesday. She was 86. moving back and forth between her parents and her grandmother. She was smart and fresh to the point of danger, packed off by her family to California after sassing a white store clerk in Arkansas. Other times, she didn’t speak at all: at age 7, she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend and didn’t speak for years. She learned by reading, and listening. At age 9, she was writing poetry. By 17, she was a single mother. In her early 20s, she danced at a strip joint, ran a brothel, was married (to Enistasious Tosh Angelos, her first of three husbands) and then divorced. By her mid20s, she was performing at the Purple Onion in San Francisco, where she shared billing with another future star, Phyllis Diller. Angelou was little known outside

the theatrical community until I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, a book occasionally attacked for its content. In a 1999 essay in Harper’s, author Francine Prose criticized Caged Bird as “manipulative” melodrama. Meanwhile, Angelou’s passages about her rape and teen pregnancy have made it a perennial on the American Library Association’s list of works that draw complaints from parents and educators. “’I thought that it was a mild book. There’s no profanity,” Angelou told The Associated Press. “It speaks about surviving, and it really doesn’t make ogres of many people. I was shocked to find there were people who really wanted it banned, and I still believe people who are against the book have never read the book.”

NEW YORK — You didn’t have to love books or share her background or even know a lot about Maya Angelou to feel that she somehow knew a lot about you. You might have sensed you were in a club that accepted everyone and that the reasons for joining were as vast and complicated as the life and talents of the author herself. Perhaps it was the story of Angelou, who died Wednesday at age 86: a poor, black woman from the segregated South who somehow ascends to the worldwide stage. Or the people she befriended: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, Oprah Winfrey and Toni Morrison, the Clintons and Barack Obama. You might have seen her read the inaugural poem for Bill Clinton, caught one of her interviews with Winfrey, remembered her from the television series Roots or were assigned I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in English class. Maybe her speaking voice was enough — deep, warm and understanding, like a family matriarch or the Supreme Court justice of your dreams; or her written voice, lyrical and personal, inviting you to share and relate to the most hurtful memories, such as the white girls who mocked Angelou’s grandmother as they approached the store where the author worked as a child. “Before the girls got to the porch I heard their laughter crackling and popping like pine logs in a cooking store,” she wrote in Caged Bird, published in 1969. “I suppose my lifelong paranoia was born in those cold, molasses-slow minutes. “At first they pretended seriousness. Then one of them wrapped her right arm in the crook of her left, pushed out her mouth and started to hum. I realized that she was aping my grandmother.” Angelou needed half a dozen books just to get through her first 40 years and even longtime followers could find themselves amazed at some new detail they discovered. Did you know that she and Quincy Jones co-wrote a song for B.B. King, that Muhammad Ali dined at her house in Ghana, that she performed at the same nightclub as Phyllis Diller? Have you seen that picture of her dancing with Amiri Baraka, or towering over Baraka and Morrison as the three arrived at James Baldwin’s funeral? Her body had been weak for years, but her spirit will live on. At a gala poetry reading last month at Lincoln Center, the actress Rosie Perez smirked and strutted as she reeled off the unstoppable lines of Angelou’s Still I Rise: Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.

Dolan admits he has a fixation with mother figures BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Quebec filmmaking whiz Xavier Dolan says his first three films — I Killed My Mother, Heartbeats and Laurence Anyways — are about the subject of impossible love. But he also admits those movies, as well as subsequent efforts Tom at the Farm and recent Cannes Film Festival

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hit Mommy, share another link — a certain type of character he has a fixation with. “I’m obsessed, I think, with the mother figure, obviously,” the 25-yearold director-actor-writer said in an interview. “It’s always there in my movies.” And so it was that, when Dolan saw Quebecois author Michel Marc Bouchard’s French-language play Tom a la ferme, he was struck by the wid-

owed mother grieving the loss of one of two sons on her rural property. When her late son’s secret lover arrives for the funeral, a dark dynamic develops. The mother figure was “literally the first thing that hit close to home when I watched the play and decided to adapt it into a movie,” said Dolan. “I was like, ‘Whoa, the mom — sick character.’ . . . When I saw her and her being exhausted and living on that farm and being so . . . desperate for

company, I was like, ’That’s inspiring.”’ In Dolan’s Tom at the Farm — opening Friday in Toronto and Vancouver, and in Victoria on June 20 — the mother, Agathe, is played with perfect nuance by Lise Roy, who also starred in the play. Pierre-Yves Cardinal brings a chilling intensity to Francis, her son whose dark side emerges when the late brother’s partner, Tom (Dolan), visits their Quebec farm from the city and finds it hard to leave.

Days Gone By theme, paying tribute to Lacombe’s agricultural past. Some donated paintings and photos can be bid upon from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The area’s heritage will again be celebrated during an Old Fashioned Social on Sunday with coffee, tea and pie available for $1 from 9:30 am-1:30 pm. This will be held in conjunction with the professional critiquing of the show’s artworks. Everybody is invited to this free weekend event. For more information, visit lacombeartguildblogspot.ca.

three different works: the book Spur of the Moment, now in its third printing (the original edition won an award of merit at Write! Canada in 2004); the short story An Unexpected Glory, which is part of the 12 Days of Christmas anthology published by Helping Hands Press: and for blog articles published on Novel Rocket, one of Writers’ Digest Top 100 Blogs for Writers. Winners will be announced on June 11 at a black-tie gala at World Vision headquarters in Mississauga, Ont.

Laycock, whose faith column The Spur ran for years in a Ponoka newspaper and is now syndicated and carried by three provincial papers, said, “I am honoured to be included in this list of some of the best Christian writers in Canada. It was especially thrilling to have all three pieces I entered make it to the short list.” All short-listed book category finalists are also in contention for the largest literary prize for Christian writers — the $5,000 Grace Irwin Prize.

Some of the best creative output from 50 Central Alberta artists can be viewed at a heritage-themed art show and sale in Lacombe this weekend. The Lacombe Art Guild is hosting the Central Zone Show for the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association on Saturday and Sunday at the Lacombe Memorial Centre. A Blackfalds Christian writer is Artists from all over the region short-listed in three categories in a nawill submit more than 100 paintings, tional writing competition. drawings and digital art pieces on any Marcia Lee Laycock is in the runsubject, and some will be available ning for best inspirational book, blog for purchase. Public viewing times are series and short story categories of the from 1-8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-2 2014 Word Awards sponsored by The p.m. on Sunday. Members of the public Word Guild. will also get to vote for their favourite Laycock is in award contention for artwork, which will receive a People’s Choice Award. The art in beginner to master categories will also be juried by professional artists. EUROPEAN QUALITY PRODUCTS Some of the works will win awards and/or ad#5 4324-54 Avenue, Red Deer vance to the Alberta (south of Carnival Cinemas) Wide Show, to be held in Sherwood Park. The best pieces from this provincial show will then N O W Monday-Friday 10-6 | Saturday 9-4 return to Lacombe to be OPEN shown at the Memorial • GLUTEN FREE • NO MSG Centre from Aug. 18 to Sept. 30. • NO ADDITIVES OR PRESERVATIVES The Central Zone Show will officially open with a 7 p.m. gala Specialty Meats, Sausages for BBQ, on Saturday, which will Cold Cuts, Cheese, Party Trays include wine, refreshments, music and a siand much more lent auction with the In

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RECEPTIONIST for Hygiene Department req’d. 1 pm. - 8 pm. Please drop off resumes to Associate Dental, Attn. Corinne or fax 403-347-2133 or email healthysmiles4life@ hotmail.com

REG. Dental Hygienist for F/T Maternity Leave starting June 1 May lead to P/T Perm. Must be flexible with hours. Apply to Healthy Smiles Fax resume attn. Corinne or Chrissy 403-347-2133 or email: healthysmiles4life@ hotmail.com

Oilfield

800

$2500 Bonus Every 100 days IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Oil & Gas Well Testing Night Foremen, Experienced/ Inexperienced Junior Day/Night Operators Must have H2S, First Aid, valid driver’s license. Pre-employment Drug screening Competitive Wages. Benefit Package Please submit resume with references to: apply@wespro.ca or by fax to (403) 783-8004 Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted

A RED DEER BASED Pressure Testing Company req’s. Operators for testing BOP’s throughout AB. Only those with Drilling rig exp. need apply. Fax resume & driver’s abstract to: 403-341-6213 or email mikeoapt@gmail.com Only those selected for interview will be contacted. Looking for a new pet? Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

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

TO ADVERTISE YOUR SALE HERE — CALL 309-3300

misc. household.

In Memoriam

Card Of Thanks THE CANADIAN BREW HOUSE RD Twilight Baseball Assoc. & RD Rays would like to thank you and welcome our newest sponsor.

Announcements

Daily

Classifieds 309-3300

Cornerstone Place Villas MULTI- FAMILY SALE 51 Carpenter St. May 29-31. Thurs. 3-7, Fri. 8-6, Sat. 8-1. 88’ Chrysler Sedan, LP’s, tools, lots of misc. household.

Deer Park 10 DALTON CLOSE May 30, Fri. 4:30 - 8:30 May 31, Sat. 9 - 1 Household wares, kids stuff, vintage fur coats etc.. ESTATE SALE 181 Dowler Street, by Holy Family School - Deer Park Hall (old skate shack). May 28-31. Wed. 2-7, Thurs & Fri. 12-7, Sat. 9-3. 2 households of furniture, appls., tools, artwork & decor You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

Glendale

Inglewood 184 INGLE CLOSE May 29, 5 -8, May 30, 1-8, May 31, 9-4. Lots of good quality items. Everything must go! Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

Morrisroe

Vanier Woods SHOWHOME Garage Sale 47 VOISIN CLOSE May 31, Sat.11am - 3pm Previous Platinum show home, We’re selling pictures, tables, bedding, and decor. All new and selling at 1/2 the cost.

Waskasoo

GARAGE SALE AT LTCHS. GINORMOUS (Lindsay Thurber GARAGE/YARD SALE Comprehensive High School) 30 MANNING ST. May 30, May 29th, 1-7pm. 5-9, May 31, 9-5, June 1, Funds go to Free the Children. 10-4. Furniture, ceramic art supplies, jewelry, pictures, LP’s and much more! West Lake

5853 70 ST. DRIVE HUGE SALE May 30 & 31 Fri. & Sat. 9 - 3 housewares, big selection lg. & xl men’s/ladies clothing, lawn mower, chain saw, tools, golfing stuff

Pines 25 PAMELY AVE Fri. May 30, 4 - 7:30 May 31, Sat. 9 - 2 Carbon bike, music, baby, jewelry, garden, Japan.

175 WILEY CR. May 29, Thurs 4-8pm, May 30, Fri 12-7pm. LRG outdoor playset, in/outdoor toys & furniture, Ikea bed frame, decor, craft & gardening supplies, books, clothes and more.

Highland Green

Downtown

29 HART CRES. May 30, 3-8, May 31, 10-2. Various household items, some furniture, doll collection, etc.

Inglewood 15 INGLIS Cres. May 29, 30 & 31, 10-7. Household items, metal stakes, yard tools, mugs, cups, electrical cords.

FRIDAY, MAY 30 10 am-8 pm

SATURDAY, MAY 31 9 am-6 pm

SUNDAY, JUNE 1

9 am-6 pm 50/50 RAFFLE & PRIZE DRAWS

RED DEER CURLING CENTRE 4725 43 Street

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D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, May 29, 2014 Professionals

810

Restaurant/ Hotel

820

Sales & Distributors

830

BOULEVARD Restaurant & Lounge

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Sylvan Lake. Bed Truck Drivers & swampers req’d. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume: tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax: 403-887-4892

Engineer / Designer

GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales reps selling skin & body care Gasoline Alley, products in Parkland Mall 37471 Hwy 2S, 4747 67th St. Red Deer, Red Deer County $12.10/hr + bonus & comm. is seeking F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d. • Cook ~ $14.00/hr. Email resumes: To prepare & cook all food gratiaereddeersr@ up to standard, clean kitchen gmail.com • & maintain hygiene, follow SOAP Stories is seeking 5 recipes, assist in F/T P/T Beauty Treatreceiving & storing ment O/P, selling soap & Kitchen Helper ~ $11.00/hr. bath products $14.55/hr. + • To clean kitchen following bonus & comm. Beauty safety & hygiene standards. cert. req’d. Location Clean utensils, cutlery, Parkland Mall - 4747 67th crockery & glassware items, St. Red Deer. email • floors, assist in prep. premierjobrdbto@ All positions are permanent gmail.com • Full-time/Part-time, SOAP Stories is seeking 5 shift work & weekends. Education: Above Secondary retail sales reps. Selling soap • & bath products. $12.10 hr Work Experience not essential, training provided. + bonus & commission. Fax resume to 780-702-5051 F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d. Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Red Deer. email resume to • HOLIDAY INN premierjobrd@gmail.com

A busy manufacturing oilfield company is looking for a full time Mechanical Engineer/Designer. This position will involve the design and product development of Oilfield Equipment. Duties will include the design of equipment using 3D CAD, shop testing prototypes and support to manufacturing NOW HIRING for existing products. Well Testing Personnel This positions requires Experienced Supervisors individuals with a strong & Operators mechanical aptitude. Must have valid applicable SolidWorks experience is tickets. Email: lstouffer@ an asset. Individuals with testalta.com creativity, attention to detail and an interest in EXPRESS working with equipment StoreSmart RED DEER are preferred. 2803-50 Avenue, Self-Storage Starting wage is based on is now hiring for Red Deer knowledge and†experience. the following positions! is seeking OIL & GAS OPERATOR Only eligible candidates Bearspaw currently has a will be contacted. FRONT DESK CLERK position in our Stettler field Send Resumes to: resume Assistant Manager ~ $14.00/hr. operations for an intermediate (Full Time) @nexusengineering.ca • Answer phone calls, oil and gas operator. Applicants or fax 403.347.3393 take reservations. must have experience as a Customer Service • Check in/out guests. heavy duty mechanic or OPERATIONS • Balance cash out & Rep journeyman instrument MANAGER attend to guest needs (Part Time) mechanic and possess Red Deer, Alberta HOUSEKEEPING strong mechanical skills, Reporting to the General ROOM ATTENDANT For job descriptions and be quick learners, motivated Manager, the Operations how to apply, go to and hard working and live ~14.00/hr. Manager will be a selfwww.StoreSmart.ca/jobs. or be willing to relocate • Clean & vacuum rooms, motivated and highly No phone calls please. within a 20 minute commute public areas, pool etc. organized individual. to workplace location. This • Replenish amenities, This is a pivotal position position offers a challenging requiring an individual with linens & towels. work environment, attractive sound business sense and • Adhere to Holiday Inn Trades benefits with competitive safety standards. strong leadership skills, pay and significant room All positions are permanent coupled with an eye for F/T COMMERCIAL for promotion. Full-time/Part-time, shift detail and overall cost Please submit resumes GLAZIER work & weekends. control experience. It will appeal to a “take charge” Education: Above Secondary Journeyman & apprentices Attn: Human Resources We offer competitive Work Experience not individual able to bring the email:kwolokoff@ ability and past operations essential, training provided. wages. Full benefits after bearspawpet.com 90 days. Must have valid Fax resume to 780-702-5051 management experience Fax 403-252-9719 drivers licence. Email resume the position requires. Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 to: d.generationglass HOLIDAY INN Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 @platinum.ca MAIN JOB Red Deer South, or Fax: 403-886-5224 Gasoline Alley, CELEBRATIONS TASKS AND or Call 403-886-5221 37471 Hwy 2S, HAPPEN EVERY DAY RESPONSIBILITIES GOODMEN IN CLASSIFIEDS Red Deer County is seeking ROOFING LTD. Oversee the production Celebrate your life Requires process; ensure that all FRONT DESK CLERK with a Classified standard operations ~ $14.00/hr. ANNOUNCEMENT SLOPED ROOFERS procedures and policies • Answer phone calls, LABOURERS are adhered to and that take reservations. Buying or Selling & FLAT ROOFERS the highest of quality is • Check in/out guests. your home? maintained. • Balance cash out & Check out Homes for Sale Valid Driver’s Licence Supervise product attend to guest needs. in Classifieds preferred. Fax or email delivery, ensuring all HOUSEKEEPING info@goodmenroofing.ca products are delivered in ROOM ATTENDANT or (403)341-6722 a timely and efficient NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! manner. ~ $14.00/hr. Evaluate and maintain • Clean & Vacuum rooms, appropriate levels public areas, pool, etc. of inventory for both • Replenish amenities, SERVICE RIG ingredients and linens & towels. Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd store stock. • Adhere to Holiday Inn Hitch Installer / is seeking exp’d Analyze branch financial safety standards Trailer Mechanic needed FLOORHANDS & statements and prepare All positions are permanent to start ASAP in a busy DERRICK HANDS annual operational Full-time/Part-time, shift hitch/trailer repair shop. In Locally based, home every budgets. work & weekends. depth mechanical experinight! Qualified applicants Work closely with all Education: Above Secondary ence and previous industry must have all necessary functional levels of Work Experience not experience a definite valid tickets for the position Head Office. essential, training provided. asset. Great hours, Monbeing applied for. Manage and develop Fax resume to 780-702-5051 day to Friday, 8am to 5pm, Bearspaw offers a personnel. some OT required, but very competitive salary We offer competitive WEEKENDS OFF! This RAMADA INN & and benefits package wages and employee will be a full time / long along with a steady SUITES benefits. term position. Must be work schedule. req`s Permanent If you are interested in this physically fit for position, Please submit resumes: ROOM ATTENDANTS role, please apply by June a team player and able to Attn: Human Resources Attendants. Exp. not nec. 6th 2014. E-mail: work in a fast paced Email: will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hr@emf-nutrition.com environment. Please fax hr@bearspawpet.com hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 Mail: 715 Marion Street resume to (403)341-2373, Fax: (403) 258-3197 or $14/hr. Duties incl’d but Winnipeg, MB R2J 0K6 or e-mail it to: Mail to: Suite 5309, not limited to: vacuuming, Fax: customer-service@ 333-96 Ave. NE dusting, washing floors, (204)233-7245 hitchdepot.ca Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning TOO MUCH STUFF? bathrooms. Performance Restaurant/ Let Classifieds based bonus program. help you sell it. Hotel Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be SEEKS ALBERTA SPRINGS physically fit. Applicants CONCRETE FINISHERS may apply in person at GOLF RESORT For residential & commercial 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Req’s Full time Line, work in the Red Deer area. T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 Broiler Cook. Banquet -Excellent rate of pay or email: experience. Competitive -Benefit packages info@ramadareddeer.com wages and Gratuities. Send Resume to: Fax resume to apply@pmcl1964.ca TR3 Energy is at the THE RUSTY PELICAN 403-342-5995 or Fax Resume to forefront of reclamation is now accepting resumes John@albertaspringsgolf 403-342-1549 and remediation in the oil for experienced .com & gas industry F/T SERVERS LABOURERS HERITAGE LANES Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. NEEDED!! We are currently Apply within: 2079-50 Currently accepting BOWLING recruiting for: Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. resumes for upcoming work Red Deer’s most modern 5 Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Heavy Equipment in the Joffre Area. pin bowling center req’s calls WILL NOT be accepted. We offer high rates, permanent F/T front Operators & benefits and have an counter staff for all shifts Labourers abundance of work. (days, eves. and wknds). Central Alberta’s Largest Will provide training. Please send resume to: Car Lot in Classifieds Requirements: Please forward resumes to htglanes@ Valid Driver’s License james@local1111.com telus.net or apply in person H2S Alive or fax to 403-243-2587. Standard First Aid Start your career! NEEDED F/T Service Person WHIMIS and/or See Help Wanted for after sales service and CSTS or PST set up of manufactured GRILLER’S Steak House Pre-Access A&D Testing and modular home. Must in Rocky Mtn. House is Ground Disturbance Level 11 have exp. in roofing, siding, looking for Cook’s. Wage The Tap House Pub & Grill flooring, drywall, paint etc., $15-$20./hr. dependant Please e-mail or fax your Competitive wages and req’s full and part time on exp. Submit resume to: resume to: health plan avail. Apply to cooks. Apply with resume grillersbanquets@ hr@tr3energy.com James at M & K Homes, at 1927 Gaetz Avenue gmail.com or fax to Fax: (403) 294-9323 403-346-6116 between 2-5 pm. 403-845-7469 www.tr3energy.com

850

820

wegotservices CLASSIFICATIONS

850

Trades

860

DRIVER/SALES This position is for service and construction Canwest Propane, an on drilling and oilfield affiliate of Gibson Energy, equipment. is the industry leader in The journeyman is responsible for running providing propane supply, distribution, equipment small construction jobs and related services to and a service truck. customers across Must possess exemplary Western Canada. safety record and commitment to safe We are seeking to hire work practices permanent Driver/Sales Participate in on-call for the Red Deer area. and overtime as required. Various other duties as Qualifi cations Required: required. Excellent Benefit Pack- * Valid Class 3 license with air ticket age: Life Insurance, Long Term Disability, * Valid delivery and safety courses; Emergency Health and Dental First Aid, WHMIS and Benefits. Other benefits: referral TDG are required although training bonuses, course reimis available bursement, service * Propane-related truck, laptops, cell experience is an asset phone reimbursement. * Oilfield experience is an asset Qualifications

Canwest Propane Licensed Journeyman offers a competitive Electrician with Inter compensation package provincial seal. • Ability to work on and Interested candidates layout electrical jobs are invited to apply without blueprints via our website • Strong troubleshooting www.gibsons.com/careers skills or by Fax at 403-346-0595 • Must have valid operations license (abstract Fluid Experts Ltd. required) Is looking for experienced We take pride in our Dispatcher employees and we believe to start immed. that our people are the Experience in fluid hauling most important aspect of and oil field fluid products the company. We are would be an asset. constantly looking for Good Verbal, Writing, exceptional individuals to Texting and join our team. We offer Computer skills are a must. competitive wages with Company vehicle is opportunity for advancement. negotiable, benefits, Please email resume to above avg. salary and hellard@ great atmosphere. controltechnology.ca or fax Clean Class 1 drivers license 403-885-0392 c/w abstract. STAIR MANUFACTURER Completed Basic Training Courses. Req’s F/T workers to build Fax Resume w/all tickets stairs in Red Deer shop. and Driver’s Abstract to MUST HAVE basic car403-346-3112 pentry skills. Salary based or email to on skill level. Benefits roger@fl uidexperts.com avail. Apply in person at 100, 7491 Edgar Industrial Bend. email: earl707@telus.net. and/or fax 403-347-7913 •

860

Truckers/ Drivers

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Sylvan Lake. Bed Truck Drivers & swampers req’d. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume: tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax: 403-887-4892

Misc. Help CENTRAL AB based trucking company requires

880

Owner Operators & Company Drivers

CLEANERS F/T Comm/ Res, physically fit, $14/hr. Reply to: Ascent Cleaning Services RR4, Box 4, Site 3 Lacombe, AB T4L 2N4

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment. Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

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

in AB. Home the odd night. Weekends off. Late model tractor pref. 403-586-4558

CLASS 3 DRIVERS w/airbrake endorsement needed immed. for waste & recycling. Email resume with a min. of 2 references to: canpak@xplornet.ca FAMILY owned and operated since 1974, Trail Appliances is one of the leading independent Class 1 Operators appliance retailers in to haul clean fluids for the Western Canada. Oil & Gas Industry. Home Trail offers excellent every night, company training & a competitive benefits with exceptional compensation & benefit plan. pay structure. Must be able We are currently looking to to work on their own with expand our workforce at minimal supervision. our Red Deer location Compensation based on 2823 Bremner Ave. experience. Fax resume w/all tickets and current Service Coordinator drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: Customer Service roger@fluidexperts.com

FLUID Experts Ltd.

Fluid Experts of Red Deer is seeking experienced

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person. 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 F/T SERVICE DRIVER wanted for Little Jons Portable Toilet Services. Benefits. O/T in summer. Drivers abstract req’d. sales@littlejons.ca or fax resume to 403-342-6179 F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. Minimum Class 5 with air and clean abstract. Exp. preferred. In person to Key Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Rep. P/T & F/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.

INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp. with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals RW Smith, 346-9351

Eavestroughing

1130

EVESTROUGH / WINDOW CLEANING. 403-506-4822 VELOX EAVESTROUGH Cleaning & Repairs. Reasonable rates. 340-9368

Massage Therapy

1280

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL WALK-INS WELCOME 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

Roofing

1370

RE-ROOFING Specialist Quality work at an affordable price. 10 yrs. exp. 403-350-7602

VII MASSAGE #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Seniors’ Services Pampering at its Escorts BEST! Cleaning HELPING HANDS 403-986-6686 Home Supports for Seniors. Catering exclusively to the Come in and see GENTLE VINYL SIDING Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, needs of men with physical why we are the talk companionship. At home CLEANING. challenges. 587-877-7399 Pricing packages available. of the town. or facility. Call 403-346-7777 Free quotes. 403-506-4822 TAHNEE 392-0891 *BUSTY* www.viimassage.biz for information. INDEPENDENT w/own car

1070

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542

CONCRETE???

1372

1165

Handyman Services

1200

ATT’N: Are you looking for help on small jobs around the house or renovate your bathroom, painting or flooring, or cutting small trees? Call James 403-341-0617

Misc. Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL

Property clean up 340-8666

Window Cleaning

1420

WINDOW CLEANING outside/inside. Free quotes. 403-506-4822

1430

CENTRAL PEST Yard CONTROL LTD. Comm/res. We’ll do it all... Care Locally owned. BBB member. Call E.J. Construction 403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca Jim 403-358-8197 or JUNK/TREE REMOVAL, CRAFTMASTER Masonry Massage Yard/Care 403-358-1614 Brick and stone. 40 exp. Therapy Painters/ Wood fired Ovens. For all Decorators ROTOTILLING, your Masonry needs, power raking, aerating & Call Jim 250-212-5141 jim@craft-master.ca JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp. grass cutting. Reasonable rates. 403-341-4745 Free Est. 403-872-8888 DALE’S Home Reno’s International ladies Free estimates for all your SECOND 2 NONE Clean reno needs. 403-506-4301 Looking for a new pet? up, hedges, lawns, Check out Classifieds to Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. FENCES & DECKS eavestroughs, odd jobs. find the purrfect pet. Private back entry. 403-341-4445 403-352-4034 Free est. 403-302-7778

1280

FANTASY

1310

880

F/T MEAT CUTTER F/T PRODUCE CLERK Full benefits, staff incentives. Apply within.

TOP WAGES, BENEFITS. EXP’D. DRIVERS & SWAMPERS REQUIRED. MAPLE LEAF MOVING Call 403-347-8826 or fax resume to: 403-314-1457.

Employment Training

SAFETY

GAETZ SOUTH

P/T FRONT END STAFF Staff incentives. Apply within. Now hiring SUMMER HELP in your local city/town. Flexible Schedules with $17 guaranteed base pay, cust. sales/service, no experience necessary, we will train, conditions apply. Visit www.summeropenings. ca/rda or call 403-755-6711 to APPLY NOW! PEST CONTROL TECHS REQ’D. cpest@shaw.ca Call 403-373-6182

TRAINING CENTRE OILFIELD TICKETS

Industries #1 Choice!

“Low Cost” Quality Training

403.341.4544

24 Hours Toll Free 1.888.533.4544

R H2S Alive (ENFORM) R First Aid/CPR R Confined Space R WHMIS & TDG R Ground Disturbance R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. R D&C (LEL) #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. (across from Totem) (across from Rona North)

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

SHOP Labourer / Hitch Installer / Trailer Mechanic needed to start ASAP in a busy hitch/trailer repair shop. Experience a definite asset, but willing to train the right person. Must be mechanically inclined. Great hours, Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm, some OT required, but WEEKENDS OFF! This will be a full time / long term position with great room for wage and skill advancement. Must be physically fit for position, a team player and able to work in a fast paced environment. Please fax resume to (403)341-2373, or e-mail it to: customer-service @hitchdepot.ca

Advocate Opportunities ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m. 6 days/week in: GLENDALE

UPPER FAIRVIEW

SORTERS & FORKLIFT / SKID STEER OPERATOR with tickets. Safety background essential. Ability to work independently for Red Deer Recycling Facility. Email resume to canpak@xplornet.ca

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery 3 days per week. NO WEEKENDS!!

Summer Receptionist Openings. Local Red Deer company looking for appointment setters during our busy season. Ideal for students or someone searching for Part-Time. Competitive pay with incentives. Must be available Sundays. Located downtown. Call 403-755-8163 leave message for Mitch. SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company. Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position. Reliability essential. Own transportation required. Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca Start your career! See Help Wanted

KENTWOOD Kirby St. & Kennings Cres. MUSTANG ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK 69 Street & 63 Ave RIVERSIDE MEADOWS 56 & 57 St. & 58A Ave. Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

The Rental Store in Sylvan Lake needs

FULL-TIME SEASONAL

FRONT COUNTER HELP

Advocate Opportunities

INNISFAIL Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week. Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

MASSAGE

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Now Open

Phone 403-314-4316

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 3 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 Drive Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone 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

* Adults * Youths * Seniors * Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

INNISFAIL The papers arrive ready to deliver. NO COLLECTING!

To order your own home or office delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper Phone our Circulation Department at 403-314-4300

WE’RE BUSY!

werentit@telus.net Or by fax: 403-887-0441

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Phone 403-314-4316

880

Applicants must have some handy-man skills! Hours are Monday to Friday with weekends off. Send your resume by email to

900

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CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Abbott Close/Allan St., Alexander Drive, Anquetel/Atlee Close MORRISROE AREA McLean St. SUNNYBROOK AREA

403946E28-30

1010

GAETZ SOUTH

Advocate Opportunities

Call Classiﬁeds 403-309-3300 Accounting

Misc. Help

Job Description

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here classiﬁeds@reddeeradvocate.com

880

Misc. Help

JOURNEYMAN Electrician

Misc. Help

1000-1430

Truckers/ Drivers

278950A5

800

Oilfield

Springfield Ave. also Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close LANCASTER AREA Lamont Close also Lund Close also Lister St./Lockwood Ave. also Landry & Lawson Close VANIER AREA Voisin Close/Viscount Drive, Vanier Drive/Volk Place Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, May 29, 2014 D3

51st state?

WORLD

BRIEFS

Recent incidents prompt security changes at World Trade Center tower

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COULD BREAK AWAY AND FORM ITS OWN STATE BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Security efforts at the World Trade Center site will be reshuffled in the wake of two highly publicized breaches, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced Wednesday. The agency said Allied Barton, a firm that provides unarmed security at the region’s major airports, will perform the same function at the trade centre site. Security has been a focus of concern since a New Jersey teenager sneaked onto the top of 1 World Trade Center in March and climbed the 540-metre building’s spire. Last month it was revealed that three parachutists jumped from the top of the building last fall and recorded it. Allied Barton’s four-year, $221 million contract signed last year will be expanded by about $60 million, the Port Authority said in a statement. The firm had been hired to replace FJC Security Services after several incidents, including one in which a supervisor at Newark Liberty Airport was found to have been in the country illegally for years and using the identity of a murdered man.

DEL NORTE AND TEHAMA COUNTIES

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Residents of Califor“Essentially, we have no representation whatsonia’s largely agrarian and politically conservative ever,” he said. far northern counties, feeling out of sync with their The terrain of the seven counties that have voted counterparts in major urban areas, are contemplat- or will this month spans some of California’s most ing breaking away to become America’s 51st state. majestic coastal scenery to agriculture-dominated Voters in two counties will have a chance to voice valleys, Mount Shasta and Redwood National Park. that sentiment next week. Some of its residents are also are among the state’s Del Norte and Tehama counties, with a combined poorest, and the population is far different from Calipopulation of about 91,000, will hold a June 3 vote fornia as a whole. While on an advisory measure the state has no racial that asks each county’s ‘IT’S A LOT OF BROAD PROMISES majority and Hispanics board of supervisors to make up the largest ethABOUT THINGS BEING BETTER AND join a wider effort to nic group, residents in form a state named JefREPRESENTATION BEING BETTER.’ the far northern counferson. ties are overwhelmingly — KEVIN HENDRICK white. The efforts are mereSECESSION OPPONENT ly advisory, encouraging Because the exact local officials to further makeup of the proposed study the idea. state of Jefferson is still The steps involved in trying to become the coun- unknown, it is hard to assess the potential economic try’s 51st state are steep, first requiring approval impact. The state Department of Finance does not from the state Legislature, then from Congress. have a county-by-county comparison of what each The last state created through secession was West contributes in state revenue versus what it receives. Virginia, which broke away from Virginia during the But the loss of millions of dollars for everything Civil War and became the 35th state in 1863. Hawaii from infrastructure to schools is among the biggest became the 50th state in 1959. worries of residents who oppose the secession moveElected officials in four California counties have ment. already voted to join the movement. Supervisors in The Del Norte County Board of Education, which a fifth county will vote June 10, while local bodies in receives 90 per cent of its funding, or $32 million, other northern counties are awaiting the June 3 bal- from the state, voted to oppose the local initiative, lot results before deciding what to do. known as Measure A. If it passes, Kevin Hendrick The counties that could opt into California’s move- worries that local officials will spend years studying ment — as many as 16, according to supporters — how to create a new state rather than tackling conmake up more than a quarter of the state’s land mass crete problems such as fixing a crumbling highway but only a small portion of its population. that is in danger of falling into the ocean. Aaron Funk, a secession supporter in Del Norte “It’s a lot of broad promises about things being County, noted that 11 northern counties share just better and representation being better,” said Henone senator in California’s Legislature, compared drick, who is leading the opposition in Del Norte. to 20 for the greater Los Angeles area and 10 for the “But the more they talk, the less clear it becomes San Francisco Bay Area. about how that’s actually going to happen.”

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Antiques & Art

1520

EquipmentHeavy

1630

Firewood

1660

AFFORDABLE Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD, 1/2 ton load $35.00 Call 403-728-3485

Antique

Show & Sale

June 7 & 8

Garrison Curling Rink 2288 - 47 Ave. S.w. Carswell’s 403-343-1614

Auctions

1530

REMINDER Huge Antique Estate Auction

POLICE BIKES Sunday June 1 10 am * Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall Partial List only Tennant 7200 Parking Lot Sweeper – 500 Gal. Fuel Tank & Stand – 16 ft Flat Deck Trailer - 14 Ft Sunray Boat with 35 HP Johnson Outboard and Trailer – Antiques – Collectibles – Furniture – Misc and much more Complete list and Directions visit www.cherryhillauction.com Terms of Sale: Cash, Cheque, C/C, Everything must be paid for & removed on sale day (NO EXCEPTIONS), 15% buyer’s premium. Sale subject to Additions, Deletions, Errors and Omissions.

Cherry Hill Auction & Appraisals

1710

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, ofÀce, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721. Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Homestead Firewood

Carswell’s 7th AnnualCalgary

Household Appliances

LOGS

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar. Price depends on location. Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

Garden Supplies

Health & Beauty

1700

WHEEL CHAIR, Jet 3 electric, new batteries, serviced. Asking $2000. 403-348-1109 Looking for a place to live? Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

KENMORE upright Freezer $350. Used for 3 mo. Commercial quality. 403-748-2944

Household Furnishings

1720

COFFEE Table, country rustic square, opens both sides. $75. Call or text 403-348-1236 COFFEE table, octagon with 2 end tables, glass tops. $75.; ChesterÀeld, Áowered pastels, $100. good cond. Best offer on both. 403-346-4926

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1710

SMALL oxygen acetylene regulator set, $45; 2 electric steam irons, $5. ea.; 1 car vacuum cleaner, $5.; electric yard master gas trimmer, $25. 403-887-4981 Tired of Standing? Find something to sit on in Classifieds

KING SIZE BOX SPRING, Must sell. $35. Call 403-350-9660 LA-Z-Boy recliner chair, ideal for deck or patio, pd. $400. Asking $150. 403-596-1312 LARGE RECLINER, micro Àbre $200. 403-358-7678

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

Stereos TV's, VCRs

1730

PS1 + 7 games $50; Game Boy + 1 game, $60; Sony surround speakers, $80. 403-782-3847 PSP60 + 9 games, $100. 403-782-3847

Misc. for Sale

1760

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WEBER GAS BBQ Platinum Series. Perfect working cond. $125. 403-350-9029

WINE MAKING CARBOYS (Large) $15/ea. 403-350-9029

Pets & Supplies

1810

CHAIN LINK DOG PEN. 5’ wide, 15’ long, 6’ high. With gate. Asking $150. 403-877-2424

Cats

1830

WE are moving and have to part with our “Princess” We are looking for a good home for this short hair, tortoise shell that has been spayed. She is very affectionate and friendly within the conÀnes of a quiet home She comes with food dish, water bowl, cat tree and liter box. *LOVING HOME FOUND* Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Sporting Goods

1860

MEXICO CITY — A Mexican court has ordered the federal government to pay compensation to an indigenous woman who spent four years in prison after being wrongly convicted of helping kidnap six federal police officers. A federal court says in a Wednesday statement that the Attorney General’s Office must compensate Jacinta Francisco Marcial for the moral and financial damage done to her when federal prosecutors illegally arrested and charged her. It doesn’t specify the amount that should be paid. Francisco Marcial was one of three women arrested in 2006 during a raid at a traditional market in the central Mexican town of Santiago Mexquititlan. Six plainclothes federal investigators searching for pirated items accused the women of chasing them down, trapping them and demanding a ransom.

Roommates Wanted

3080 3090

3020

AVAIL June 1, fully furn bdrm for rent. Student or Working M only.†Call 403-396-2468.

HOUSE FOR RENT IN BIG VALLEY. Newly renovated, 5 bdrms. $900 per month not including utilities. No smoking. No pets. Sunny, on double lot yard. 25 minutes from Stettler. Available July 1st. Please call or text Gordon at 403-710-4085

BIG bdrm. own bathroom, house privileges all inclusive + WIFI $550. 403-302-2024

Houses/ Duplexes

3 bdrm. house, main Áoor, 5 appls., fenced yard, large deck, rent $1550 incl. all utils. $900 s.d. Avail. July 1. 403-304-5337 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Near Coronation Park & Trails

For Sale or Rent Lovely 1484 sq.ft. 2 storey 1/2 duplex In Woodlea 3 bdrms. up, 4 bath, Bsmt. newly developed. Dble. garage. Fenced back yard on creek. Hardwood Áoors. Avail. Now. Walk to work downtown. $339,900 Rent $1700 + utils. $1700 s.d. required No pets, No smoking Agent selected 403-396-5516 cell or Mon-Wed 314-4318

Condos/ Townhouses

FULLY Furn. BDRM. $450 rent/sd 403-342-4604

Offices

3110

2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, 4836 51 Street. Parking is avail. $2400/mo. 403-343-9300

Storage Space

3160

KING OF THE ROAD RV STORAGE, 24hr video security, pavement to site, on hwy. 2, 10 mi. North of Red Deer, pull-throughs avail. 403-782-7775

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Realtors & Services

4010

3030

4040

Acreages

4050

7.9 ACRES, 5 min. from Red Deer, beautifully treed, 2800 sq. ft. bungalow, 2 car att. garage, various other out bldgs. Reasonably priced. 403-347-7448, 391-8448

4090

Manufactured Homes

OLDER MOBILE HOME on own lot in Halkirk, addition, deck, interior reno’d, stove, washer, dryer. $15,000 obo. A must see! Possibility of down payment rent to own. 780-583-2380

5030

Cars

1994 Chrysler Intrepid 4 dr. Red, clean. 126,000 km 348-2999 1988 CADILLAC Brougham US model 67,000 miles, showroom cond, must be seen 403-846-7216

Trucks

5050

1982 CHEV 1/2 ton RESTORED open to offers, must sell 403-846-7216

Motorcycles

5080

1981 SX1100 Special, Yamaha $200. obo **SOLD**

Fifth Wheels

4130

5110

Cottages/Resort Property

SANDY COVE RESORT, Pine Lake Lake front lots for full ownership titles & season lot rentals. Cheapest in the area, $3000. Call 306-402-7776

Lots For Sale

4160

2007 FLEETWOOD

Regal, 355RL. Exc. cond., 1 owner, Loaded, lots of extras. $32,500.00 obo. Daryl (403)256-0025

Pinnacle Estates

(Blackfalds) You build or bring your own builder. Terms avail. 403-304-5555

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SEIBEL PROPERTY

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates ~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, absolutely no pets. N/S, no utils. incl. References required.

Condos/ Townhouses

FURN. ROOM, use of full NEW CONDO house, utils. & internet all 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. incl. $475. 403-506-1907 $192,000. 403-588-2550

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Rooms WANTED • 3250-3390 For Rent

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VERMONT CASTINGS GAS BBQ Works great. 403-343-7389

20 QUART roasting oven $20; 19.2 volt cordless variable spd. reversible drill, $45; Craftsman spiral cutting saw $50, Coleman Bicycles propane lantern $10; Household Dremel Scroll Saw $75. Appliances 403-347-2603 Police Bike Auction June 1 @ 10 am ANTIQUE double DEEP FREEZE, 10 cu. ft. For info view pedestal desk, $100. $75. 403-346-4926 www.cherryhillauction.com BAMBOO glass top patio FREEZER, 10 cu. ft. $175. table, 4 matching chairs & 403-342-2514 403-346-7856 shelf unit, $100 obo. 403-347-8349 Central Alberta’s Largest WHIRLPOOL energy saver washer & dryer pair. Exc. Car Lot in Classifieds CHAIN LINK DOG PEN. cond. $600 obo. 403-347-8349 5’ wide, 15’ long, 6’ high. With gate. Asking $150. 403-877-2424 Advocate Advocate Opportunities Opportunities CORNER Àtting recessed keyboard computer table $50 obo; used computer tower and keyboard $15 403-346-3086 * Adults * Youths * Seniors * FOR SALE - MUST SELL: Carriers are Needed to Deliver 4 Resin Chairs (white) Central Alberta Life with cover, $20. afternoons & evenings one day per week 12” Oscillating fan, various speeds, $5. Flour Corker, $10. SPRINGBROOK 3 Carbouy for wine making, $5/ea. Wine Fermenter, $5. Thermostat controlled The papers arrive ready to deliver. Fermenter cabinet, $10. NO COLLECTING! Letter size Àling cabinet, 2 dr., black metal, $10. Phone 403-314-4316 Foot stool, metal Ár., cloth top, $10. ************************** 403-358-7678 To order your own home or ofÀce delivery of the Red Deer Advocate Newspaper H.D. ROTOTILLER, Phone our Circulation Department at 8.5 HP, rear tine. $625 20 GAL Air Compressor on 403-314-4300 wheels. $250. 403-346-7856 HARMON #P61A Pellet Stove. Clean. Good cond, Asking $1200. 403-346-9253 PENHOLD KEROSENE lantern $15; Craftsman seat for riding SPRINGBROOK mower, $25.; 2 African violets $3. ea.; tent & Áy, light weight, 3 persons Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed $55.; 2 air mattresses $15. For Early Morning Delivery of the ea.; galvanized laundry tub, $15.; tent & Áy 6 lb. RED DEER ADVOCATE backpacker, $25. 403-342-7460 Six days per week. MASSAGE TABLE - folds Delivery by 6:30 a.m. for storage, $100 obo. STUDENTS DESK, Papers arrive at your home complete w/carousel, $50. 403-347-8349 and are ready to deliver. SPRAYER, 25 Gal. on wheels, $200. Phone 403-314-4316 403-346-7856 Phone 403-342-2514 or 403-347-8988

1760

SKILL saw, 7 1/4”, $20; Reversible drill 3/8” Skill $15; gas lawn mower, $30; bar & 2 bar stools, $50; 2 ton hydraulic jack, $12; 109 piece drill set, new in box, $20. 403-887-4981

1680

15’ LAUREL LEAF WILLOW 6-8’ NORTHWEST POPLAR & BROOK POPLAR Beautiful trees. You dig. Please phone 403-302-1919 COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE 6’-20’ , all equipment for digging, basketing, hauling & planting. Also have 74” truck mount tree spade. J/V TREE FARM. John 403-350-6439 or Gary 403-391-1406 EDGING Blocks, red scalloped concrete, reg. $2.49 $1. ea. approx. 75. Call or text 403-348-1236 LAWN Mower, Craftsman Self propelled. $125. 403-347-5955

Misc. for Sale

Court orders Mexican government to compensate indigenous woman for wrongful imprisonment

5000-5300

Cars

5030

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

2006 37’ DAY DREAMER by Cedar Creek. 3 slides. Luxury Coach. E/H disc brakes, hydraulic landing legs and rear levelers. Air ride hitch, reverse osmosis water system, painted. $39,500. See @ 5 Roland St. Red Deer 403-347-4896 1999 CITATION Supreme 28.5, 1 slide, exc. cond. $11,500 403-887-4168

Holiday Trailers

5120

2006 25’ JAYCO rear kitchen, slide, elec. jack, like new $13,500 obo 403-304-9347

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Tent Trailers

4020

5130

2012 FORD Focus titanium hatchback, private sale, no GST, lots of op- 2001 COLEMAN, Tacoma, 2 kings, sleeps 6-8, tions/warranty to 2018, CUSTOM BUILT $14,250 obo 403-227-5123 equalizer hitch, $4900. obo GOLF Clubs, set of right Call or text 403-348-1236 NEW HOMES 2007 SATURN ION 5 dr. handed and set of left Suites by Mason Martin Homes auto., cruise, loaded, no handed with carts. $30. Kyle, 403-588-2550 Tires, Parts leather, very clean, 1 each set. one extra cart 1 BDRM. $765; N/S, no pets, owner, all service records. Acces. FREE Weekly list of $10. 403-346-4926 no partiers 403-346-1458 properties for sale w/details, 181,000 kms. $5100. obo. 403-358-0479 prices, address, owner’s MICHELIN TIRES, 2 BDRM lower unit at phone #, etc. 342-7355 all season, Set of 4 , 5910-55 Ave., security Help-U-Sell of Red Deer 215/60R/16, $100. for set. cameras, laundry on site, www.homesreddeer.com 403-346-0674, private parking to over 40 Cell 392-5657 tenants w/good references, MUST SELL quiet lifestyles, excellent 1217 sq.ft. duplex. rental history. Rent/S.D. AGRICULTURAL 4 bdrm., $191,900. Auto is $1100. Ph: 403-341-4627 403-588-2550 CLASSIFICATIONS ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious Wreckers MUST SELL 2007 CHEV Aveo. 80,000 km. 2000-2290 suites 3 appls., heat/water RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap New Home. 1335 sq.ft. $4950. 403-348-1382 incld., Oriole Park. Vehicle & Metal Removal. bi-level, 24x23 att. garage. 403-342-4923 Mike 2003 DODGE SX20 loaded AMVIC APPROVED. 403-588-2550 safetied 403-352-6995 We travel. May pay cash AVAIL. IMMED. large 2 Horses for vehicle. 403-396-7519 Near Coronation bdrm. in clean quiet adult building, near downtown Park & Trails CLENRIDGE HOOF Vehicles Co-Op, no pets, For Sale or Rent Cars TRIMMING offers hoof Wanted 403-348-7445 Lovely 1484 sq.ft. 2 storey trimming for cattle in a To Buy 1/2 duplex In Woodlea standup hydraulic chute. GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. 3 bdrms. up, 4 bath, RED’S AUTO. Free scrap Contact now for price and apartments, avail. immed, Bsmt. newly developed. rent $875 403-596-6000 vehicle & metal removal. availability. Will travel. Dble. garage. Fenced We travel. May pay cash 403-598-0170 or back yard on creek. LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. for vehicle. AMVIC 587-377-2961 Hardwood Áoors. SUITES. 25+, adults only APPROVED. 403-396-7519 Avail. Now. n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 WANTED: all types of Walk to work downtown. horses. Processing locally LRG 2 bdrm. Incl. most Now $339,900 Misc. in Lacombe weekly. utils. $995. 403-314-0209 Rent $1700 + utils. 403-651-5912 Automotive $1700 s.d. required at No pets, No smoking $crap Vehicle Disposal www.garymoe.com Grain, Feed Agent selected $ervice 403-302-1848 403-396-5516 cell Hay 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed. or Mon-Wed 314-4318 FREE removal of scrap Adult bldg. N/S No pets vehicles. Will pay cash for LACOMBE COUNTRY 403-596-2444 www.laebon.com some. 403-304-7585 FEED STORE, Newly renovated bachelor, Laebon Homes 346-7273 Come see us at: 1 & 2 bedroom suites 4836 45A St. Lacombe, Ab CLASSIFIED available in central location. Condos/ ALL THE FEED YOUR leasing@rentmidwest.com ANIMALS NEED! AD DEADLINE Townhouses 1(888) 679-8031 403-782-3333 Dealer of Masterfeeds EXCLUSIVE LUXURY RIVERFRONT CONDOS TIMOTHY & Brome square Each Day For FOR SALE bales, great for horses, apLocally owned and 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, in Downtown Red Deer. prox. 60 lbs. put up dry The Next Day’s N/S. No pets. Call Renee at and covered, $5/bale family operated Paper 403-596-2444 403-314-1687 for Inquiries. Sylvan area. 403-887-2798 CAR SPORTS rack for 3 bikes, $30. 403-346-0674, 392-5657

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Sex abuse trial for former priest winds down IQALUIT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IQALUIT, Nunavut — The trial of a former Roman Catholic priest charged with 68 counts of sex abuse against Inuit children more than 30 years ago is wrapping up in Nunavut after weeks of lurid testimony and high emotion. Crown prosecutor Doug Curliss summed up his case against Eric Dejaeger on Tuesday, the day after defence lawyer Malcolm Kempt did his best to shroud it in doubt. “These people are victims, just not of Eric Dejaeger,” Kempt told Nunavut Justice Robert Kilpatrick. During the trial, witness after witness told court that Dejaeger used his position as an Oblate missionary to lure and trap them into sex, threatening them with hellfire or separation from their families if they told. He used the promise of food on some, court heard. On others, he used force. Court was told assaults took place in Dejaeger’s bedroom, the mission’s confessional and in his lap while other children played or coloured a few metres away. Several stories told of bestiality involving Dejaeger’s dog. One woman said she was duct-taped to Dejaeger’s bed as a little girl and raped. It was common to hear witnesses howling and weeping outside court after their testimony. Kempt pointed out many of the stories didn’t match. Some memories, such as those of Dejaeger in a long black robe, couldn’t have been true, he said. “That outfit doesn’t exist outside of a Hollywood film.” Kempt also argued that a flight that brought a number of complainants to Iqaluit from Igloolik to watch Dejaeger make his first court appearance gave them a chance to compare stories and hone their testimony. He said there’s a fine line between fellow victims “trying to help each other remember” and “collaboration and collusion.” He also noted that memories of Dejaeger’s time in Igloolik, from 1978 to 1982, are filtered for many of the witnesses through years of other violence and substance abuse. “Growing up in Igloolik in 1978 wasn’t a nice place to be,” said Kempt, who suggested that Dejaeger is being made a scapegoat for the difficult pasts of many witnesses.

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Eric Dejaeger is escorted by police outside an Iqaluit, Nunavut courtroom Jan. 20, 2011. The trial of a former Roman Catholic priest charged with 68 counts of sex abuse against Inuit children more than 30 years ago is wrapping up in Nunavut. Curliss argued that enough common themes emerged from the testimony that the stories from the victims hold together. “It’s a cluster that meets similar-fact standards,” he said. “(Dejaeger’s) broken every vow he’s ever taken.” Curliss said the accusations are similar to those Dejaeger pleaded guilty to in Baker Lake, Nunavut, where he was sent after leaving Igloolik. Dejaeger eventually served a five-year sentence on those charges. Curliss also argued that the flight that brought alleged victims from Igloolik to Iqaluit had nothing to do with so many additional charges being laid after

Dejaeger was initially arraigned. Dejaeger had fled to Belgium, Curliss reminded the judge. Victims may have felt there was no point making complaints — especially since so many of them had been disbelieved or even punished for making accusations against a priest. Dejaeger was originally to face trial on the Igloolik charges in 1995, but instead left Canada for his Belgian homeland. He was eventually returned when officials realized he was living in the country illegally. At the start of the current trial, Dejaeger pleaded guilt to eight counts of sexual assault. Kilpatrick is expected to reserve his decision.

New Via Rail CEO vows to improve service MONTREAL — Improved service for consumers and reduced dependence on taxpayer dollars is the mantra at Via Rail, judging by its annual public meeting webcast where its new president was frontand-centre to hammer home its intentions. Yves Desjardins-Siciliano took the Crown-owned passenger rail carrier’s top job on May 11 after Foreign Minister John Baird publicly demanded the head of his predecessor. Baird said he had lost confidence in Steve Del Bosco, who was president on an interim basis, because Via had fallen down when it came to communicating with the public, particularly on safety issues. During Wednesday’s webcast, Desjardins-Siciliano and other members of his team gave consumers a virtual hug as they stressed how the railway would reach out to meet travellers’ needs. And it was mentioned more than once that there would be no frittering away of taxpayer dollars — in fact, they promised to decrease their need for such funds. “In 2014, it is my hope that VIA Rail will continue to demonstrate how a Crown corporation can effectively and efficiently provide a valuable service to Canadians while minimizing its dependency on taxpayer dollars,” said Paul Smith, Via’s chairman. Desjardins-Siciliano echoed the frugality with tax dollars as he stressed Via’s commitment to consumers. “Via Rail is a corporation that prides itself on the exceptional passenger rail service it offers to Canadians,” Desjardins-Siciliano said. “Our customer service is ranked No. 1 in the transportation business.” Among the improvements he cited were the renovation of 18 LRC economy class cars and 13 business class cars to make them more comfortable and efficient as well as ongoing efforts to ease travel bookings. Desjardins-Siciliano, who has served as Via’s chief corporate and legal officer as well as its corporate secretary, also pointed to the carrier’s new business class, which is aimed at boosting the client’s productivity with such things as re-designed

meals and getting the meal trays out of passengers’ way quickly. “This new offering is based on what our passengers want and what they asked for — more productivity and more personal time.” Safety is another component of Via’s improvements going forward, he said. The number of incidents involving its trains has decreased steadily in the last five years, the president said. There were 1.3 incidents per million passenger miles in 2013, compared to 3.6 in 2009, DesjardinsSiciliano reported. “At Via Rail, safety and security is at the core of everything we do,” he said. “Above all else, it is our top priority. It is also a given for our customers. Customers should expect to board the train and to disembark in the same condition.” Safety had been key to Baird’s earlier complaints when he knocked Via for the way it communicated with the public over issues like technical problems with safety equipment at rail crossings. Baird, whose riding is in the national capital region, was incensed last month when Via wrongly accused Ottawa transit buses of causing a malfunction at a crossing near his home. Desjardins-Siciliano said that during the next 100 days he wants to meet with as many Via employees as possible — he says he has already met 300 — and wants to talk to customers across the country. He said that before the railway decides to increase or decrease the frequency of its trains, it will get the opinions of the communities they serve to gauge the market opportunity. “For Via Rail to be successful in your community it needs your support and therefore authorities will have to put their money where their mouth is and cooperate in a way that we can bring the service that so many of you demand yet very few of you use.” Robert St-Jean, Via’s chief financial officer, says operating expenses were up four per cent to $578 million in 2013, mainly due to increased costs related to the company’s pension plan. Total revenues were down 2.3 per cent, to $270.4 million and the total number of passengers who travelled on the network was also down slightly.

CANADA

Montreal police officer caught on camera with woman on lap in cruiser

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Rescuers reach Quebec hiker stuck on peak in Rocky Mountain National Park ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Rescuers Wednesday reached a 19-year-old Canadian hiker who was stuck on a ledge of the tallest mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado. Park officials said rescuers were moving down the mountain with the hiker and planned to airlift him out, weather and conditions permitting. Samuel Frappier of Quebec was stranded Tuesday on the east side of Longs Peak while descending from the top of the 4,345-metre precipice. Frappier spent the night on the mountain and was able to reach rescuers by cellphone. He said he wasn’t injured but didn’t have any technical climbing equipment that would help him move up or down. Some of the rescuers spent the night at the base of Longs Peak so they could begin climbing after daybreak. The mountain, visible from the Denver area, is a popular place to climb and can be scaled without any special equipment during the summer. However, recent climbers have said winter conditions remained.

MONTREAL — A Montreal police officer is being disciplined after being photographed with a woman on his lap while he sat in his patrol car. Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere, a Montreal police spokesman, says the sanctions could include a suspension from duty. Lafreniere says the force first heard about the incident on Tuesday night when it appeared on Twitter. He said the initial reaction was that the grainy photo was faked because there was no indication where it happened or when. No identifying number on the car was obvious. Police later got a tip that the person who took the picture had those details. Lafreniere says it then took about an hour on Wednesday to track down the officer, who was called in to meet with his commander. “For us, this is completely unacceptable,” Lafreniere said in an interview Wednesday evening. He said police are now investigating what led to the incident and where the officer’s partner was. Lafreniere also said the woman was not naked and there was no sexual act as has been reported. “We take this seriously,” Lafreniere said. “A lot of police officers are not happy now because it’s extremely bad for their job, their professionalism. This is not all the force. This is not the way officers are working in Montreal. This is one case.”

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A group of children gets splashed on opening day in the new McKay Ranch Pool at the Abbey Centre in Blackfalds. The multiplex celebrated its grand opening last weekend. The facility boasts an outdoor 25-metre pool, zero-entry pool, water slides and a splash park. An indoor fieldhouse, complete with workout rooms, a children’s play space and running track is also on the property.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● Red Deer and District SPCA Garage Sale will be held May 30 from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., May 31 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and June 1 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Pidherney Curling Centre. Drop off your clean, used goods from at the west door May 10 to 28 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A 50/50 draw will also be held at the end of the garage sale, with tickets available in advance at the SPCA during business hours, and at Real Canadian Superstore and Walmart on weekends in May. For more information visit www.reddeerspca.com or contact Lisa at development@redddeerspca.com, 403-342-7722 ext. 207. ● Tree House Youth Theatre will perform Sweeny Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, tonight, May 30 and 31, 7:30 p.m. at the Scott Block Theatre. Performances will also be offered on June 5, 6, and 7. Tickets, $20 are available through www. treehouseyouththeatre.ca or call at 403-9860631.

Saturday ● City Wide Bike Roadeo will take place at Kinsmen Community Arenas on May 31 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. in a noncompetitive environment. Ninety students from elementary schools who have participated in School Safety Cycle Program have been chosen to show their skills. Sponsored by City of Red Deer, Better Biking Red Deer, and Piper Creek Optimist Club. Phone 403-356-8893. Help Hunger Disappear program in support of Red Deer Food Bank will be held on May 31 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Save on Foods south location. Residents are invited to fill the donation bins with non-perishable foods. Co-sponsored by Campbell Company of Canada. ● Crammond Community Yard and Bake Sale goes May 31 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. located on Hwy. 22, seven km. south of Hwy. 54 in the Caroline area. Hot lunch, quilt raffle, and lots of treasures will be available. Phone 587-444-0172. ● Out of Africa Potjiekos Competition and Party will be held on May 31 from 5 to 9 p.m. at Red Deer Tennis Club. Enjoy South African art of cooking food in a cast iron pot. Cocktails at 5 p.m. Dinner at 6 p.m. The menu features delicious entrees with rice, salad, and dessert. Cash bar, silent auction. Cost is @5 per person. Contact the tennis club at 403-346-7567, or info@reddeertennis. com. ● Red Deer Action Group Donate a Ride Initiative donation campaign runs until May 31. Official sponsorships begin at $500. All donations will be accepted, and money raised goes to purchase transit tickets to benefit individuals in need and who are receiving services with local non-profit agencies. Phone 403-350-7260. ● Visions Country Gospel concert will be offered on May 31, 7 p.m. at Pine Lake Hub. Lunch served. Tickets are $15 at the door, or phone 403-773-2270. Proceeds to Rick Hansen Foundation. ● Penhold Museum Annual Plant Sale will be held at the Penhold Museum grounds on May 31 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Phone 403886-4365.

● MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The May 31 session is called Mega-sized Paintings. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405. Free with admission. ● Hunting Hills High School Football Teams fundraiser — Cam Clark Ford Test Drive a Food Event — will be held on May 31, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the west parking lot at the school. Test drive participants must be 18 years of age, and have a valid Driver’s Licence with them. Contact Jackie at 403-3426655 ext. 1411 for more information.

Sunday ● Cherry Hill Auction Police Bike Auction will be held June 1 at Ridgewood Hall west of Red Deer and Penhold. Viewing at 9 a.m. Auction at 10 a.m. sharp. Antiques and furniture and miscellaneous items will also be sold. For information and directions see www. cherryhillauction.com, or contact 403-3422514, or 403-347-8988. ● Red Deer Christmas Bureau Volunteer Appreciation Tea will be held on June 1, 1 to 3 p.m. at Toy Depot (#15, 7428 49 Ave.) Volunteers welcome to drop in for snacks and beverages. ● Rock The Change — An all ages concert in tribute to the youth, especially those gone too soon. Event will take place June 1 from 3 to 6 p.m. at Bower Ponds Outdoor Stage in Red Deer. Admission by donation. All donations are greatly appreciated. All proceeds benefiting Red Deer Suicide Information and Education Services. Featured performances by several local artists, merchandise for sale, guest speaker, food and drink available for purchase. Please note: No alcohol will be served or permitted on grounds. For more information or to make a donation visit www.rockthechange.wix.com/rockthechangerd. Volunteers, sponsors, bands are being recruited. Contact Stacie at rockthechange@ hotmail.com, or 403-342-4966.

Monday ● Ladies Auxiliary of Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion Branch #35 holds general meetings the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Next meeting will be on June 2. Meat draw every Friday at 5 p.m. ● Heartland Cowboy Church will be held the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the Stettler Agriplex. Cowboy church will be held June 3 and 17. Phone 403-7424273.

Tuesday ● Hunting Hills High School Music Students’ Annual Year-End Concert will be celebrated on June 3, 7 p.m. at Red Deer College Arts Centre Mainstage and features performances by concert bands, jazz bands, rock band, steel drums, drumline and massed band. Tickets cost $10 each and are available from the music room and the main office. Contact Greg Wheeler at 403-6655 ext. 1313.

Wednesday ● Bowden Thrift Shop is for the season on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tours can be arranged by calling 403-224-2122 or 403-224-3104. Please leave a message if necessary. See www.bowdenpioneermuseum.com or 2201@ shawbiz.ca. ● Golden Circle Ho-Downers are a fun band of seniors who entertain other seniors in nursing homes, lodges and by special request. Practices are held on Wednesdays starting at 2 p.m. Everyone welcome. For more information call Bea at 403-346-5802. ● Travel Memories at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch will be held June 4 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room. Listen to a presentation on South Africa, share your own travel adventures, and enjoy a coffee or tea. Contact Donna Stewart or Priscilla at 403-346-2100. ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Shades band is on June 4 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m. Phone 403-342-0035. ● The Pink Voices Project will be presented on June 4, 7 p.m. at Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School Drama Studio. Seven young women have been writing personal stories for one year together and have

turned their writing into a performance piece with teacher/facilitator Trina Penner. A reception will follow in honour of the young women and their work. Admission by donation to Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter at the door. Rush seating. Contact 403-3471171 ext. 1711, or tina.penner@rdpsd.ab.ca.

Thursday ● Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre dance, Thursday, June 5, 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the seniors’ centre. Dance to the music of Silver and Gold Band. Admission is $7. Phone 403-347-6165, 403-986-7170, or 403-246-3896. ● First Thursdays in the Snell are free chamber music concerts from 12:15 to 1:00 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the Snell Auditorium on the first Thursday of each month. Café Noir will sponsor the series and provide free coffee and tea. Bring lunch, or purchase at the café. Phone 403-342-9122. Free will donation at the door. ● Red Deer Area Hikers meet on June 5 at the Golden Circle west side parking lot at 8:45 a.m. to depart at 9 a.m. for a six km hike at Half-Moon Bay. Hike will be cancelled if weather unsuitable. Bring lunch. Phone Mavis at 403-343-0091, or Sharon at 403-340-2497.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Yoga Alliance of Red Deer (YARD) Summer Unlimited Session registration is now open. Classes run June 2 to Aug. 22. Visit www.reddeeryoga.ca, phone 403-3505830 or email info@reddeeryoga.ca. ● Tree House Youth Theatre Summer Stock 2014 is accepting registrations for their July theatre experiences of movement, voice, character and costume. Ages 9 to 11 meet July 21 to 25 and ages 12-17 meet from July 28 to 31 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Cost is $270; financial assistance may be available. Contact treehousetheatre@ gmail.com or call 403-986-0631. ● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance (RDRWA) will hold its Annual General Meeting and Forum on June 20, at the Quality Inn North Hill from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. A cost of $20 includes refreshments and lunch. For information or to register go online to www.rdrwa.ca, email info@rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-340-7379. ● Benalto Booster Club 2014 Benalto Centennial/School Reunion will be celebrated June 6 to 8 at Benalto Agriculture Grounds. Friday events will focus on Benalto School Reunion, beginning at 10 a.m. with registration at the Ag. Grounds, followed by lunch, afternoon school tours, 4 p.m. grandstand school program, 5:30 p.m. supper, 8 p.m. program by Pat Meyers and Impact Dancers. Saturday events include 8 a.m. breakfast, Official Benalto Centennial Ceremony at 10:30 a.m. with special guests and music, continuing with lunch, photo booths, clowns, horse drawn wagon rides, show and shine, cake cutting, catered dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. for $20, followed by entertainment and dirt floor dance at the Ag. Centre for $5, and sunset fireworks. Sunday events include 8 to 10 a.m. breakfast, entertainment and commemorative church service, 12:30 p.m. lunch, dog agility show at 1:30 p.m. For school reunion, contact Eleanor at 403-746-6097, or Georgina at 403-746-2356, or for Saturday

catered dinner contact Gloria at 403-7465494. Contact Karen at 403-746-3775. ● Elnora Camp Out and Dance Jam welcomes everyone to play, sing and dance on the weekend of June 13 to 15. Pot luck suppers on Friday and Saturday. Beef and buns supplied Saturday. Contact Lloyd at 403-887-5677, or Gary at 403-746-0057. ● Whisker Rescue Petsmart Charities Red Deer County Rural Cat Roundup offers free spay and neuter for Red Deer County Divisions #2, #3, and #6. Contact awhiskercat@ yahoo.ca or 403-597-1882. ● Weekend Warriors For Kids will makeover Camp Alexo located west of Rocky Mountain House on June 5 to 8. Volunteers and donations are sought. Bring tools and skills to share. Loan equipment, donate materials, contact others, donate money. Free camping, food, and evening entertainment for volunteers. To get involved see www.bbbsreddeer.ca, and click the events link, or contact Red Deer Youth and Volunteer Centre, at 403-342-6500, or johnj@yvc.ca. ● Rural Beatification Tour, sponsored by Red Deer County, is seeking property nominations or application from Division 1, area east of Red Deer, surrounding Delburne, Elnora and Pine Lake. The four categories are: working farm, small acreage, agricultural business/tourism, or small farm/large acreage. Nomination and application deadline is June 13. Contact Sylvia at 403-350-2150. ● Boomtown Music Festival is slated for Sept. 5 and 6 at Ol’ Macdonald’s Resort. Music starts at 1 p.m. both days. Entertainment includes Ridley Bent, Tim Hus, and many more artists. Beer gardens and food vendors on site. Event supports the Kids Help Line. Weekend passes start at $70, day passes start at $35 and discounted camping is available. Visit www.boomtownmusic.ca/ or call 403-742-6603.

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Courage of kidnapped girls lauded BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Efforts to improve the health of newborns and their mothers in poor countries must also include protecting them from violence, such as the terror caused by Boko Haram in Nigeria, says the head of the UN Children’s Fund. UNICEF chief Anthony Lake offered that assessment Wednesday before the opening of Stephen Harper’s international conference on maternal, newborn and child health. Lake lauded the prime minister’s leadership in helping children and mothers in developing countries as he heaped praise on the courage of the teenage girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. He said he would raise his concerns about child protection in a private meeting later Wednesday with Harper’s international development minister, Christian Paradis. “Paradis is passionate about the protection issue,” Lake said. As for Harper, Lake said: “He has led the way on this and Canada has delivered and is delivering, again 80 per cent of its commitment at Muskoka.” Harper opened the summit by joining Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete for a scripted questionand-answer session moderated by veteran Canadian aid worker Rosemary McCarney, head of Plan Canada. “These are things that are really the right thing to do,” Harper said. Kikwete said the issue needed a champion and “Prime Minister Harper is that champion.” Both leaders were appointed co-chairs of the UN commission on accountability for women’s and children’s health in the fall of 2010, months following the G8, where Harper unveiled the Muskoka Initiative. He committed $2.8 billion over five years, and a coalition of Canadian agencies is calling on him to up the ante to $3.25 billion. It has since become the government’s signature development priority. At a side event Wednesday at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the government announced a $98-million contribution to the UN World Food Program to improve nutrition, a key area that Canada’s programming on kids and moms is targeting. But Lake said the fact that so many children and young mothers are exposed to violent conflict also needs to be addressed. “We are understanding more and more (that) yes, this is about their health, this is about their nutrition — and Canada, by the way, has led on nutrition a but it’s also about protection and violence.” He said progress on the issue can only be made by “protecting the kids from violence and mothers from violence, and nutrition and health, all in one package.” The Boko Haram kidnapping was on the minds of many at the three-day gathering, which will hear

CONTINUED FROM PAGE D5 ● Alberta Health Services is offering several information workshops during the month of June as part of the Alberta Healthy Living Program. Workshops include problematic eating, diabetes basics, heart wise information, respiratory education and weight wise management programs. For

MATERNAL, NEWBORN AND CHILD HEALTH SUMMIT

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper, left, speaks as Jakaya M. Kikwete, right, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, right, listens as they attend the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Summit in Toronto on Wednesday. from philanthropist Melinda Gates, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the Aga Khan and Queen Rania of Jordan. Lake said the Nigerian kidnapping draws attention to one of the underlying causes of the health threats faced by young mothers and girls in impoverished, war-torn countries: the importance of overcoming the threat to girls’ education posed by militant groups. “The words almost fail me about how strongly I feel about this,” said Lake, who has been a senior adviser to U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. “These are not victims. These are people who are acting with greater courage than I think you or I could probably summon under horrendous circumstances. And we shouldn’t be condescending to them by saying we are saving them.

“We are supporting them.” Lake suggested western donors, weary of funding one crisis after another, should adjust their view of people in developing countries who persevere in the face of dire circumstances, including natural disasters. Lake and other high-profile guests are to address the conference in the coming days, where Harper is expected to announce more funds. “We are making progress and we have to make a whole lot more progress,” said Lake. Since 1990, the deaths of mothers in childbirth and among under age five children have been cut in half, but each year, 2.9 million newborn babies die, while 2.6 million are stillborn, mostly in African countries.

the full schedule, visit www.albertahealthservices.ca/ev/ne-evcdm-calendar-2014-spring. ● Leadership Centre Community Projects Presentations take place on June 12, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Red Deer County Council Chambers. The three presentations are: Year Round Public Market Study, Make the Learning Stick and Movement Towards Transportation Equality. For more information and to register before June 5, call 403-3400324 or email office@theleadershipcentre.ca

● Red Deer River Watershed Alliance (RDRWA) is teaming up with the Red Deer Municipal Users Group to host an event called Connecting Through Water, on June 13 at the Quality Inn North Hill. Featured guest speaker is Robert Sandford and topics include aquatic invasive species, climate change impact and water conservation strategies. Register on line at www.rdrwa.ca or call Kelly at 403-3407379 or email info@rdrwa

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Offers include a Manufacturer Rebate of $500/$1,000/$750/$1,000 and freight and air tax of $1,700/$1,700/$1,750/$1,750 but exclude optional features, administration and registration fees (administration fees may vary by dealer), fuel fill charge and all applicable taxes. Taxes payable on full amount of purchase price after Manufacturer Rebate deducted. ▲Offer only valid from May 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014 (the “Offer Period”) to resident Canadians with an eligible Costco membership on or before April 30, 2014. Receive $500 towards the purchase or lease of a new 2014/2015 Ford Fiesta (excluding S), Focus (excluding S and BEV), C-MAX, and $1,000 towards all other Ford models (excluding Raptor, GT500, Mustang Boss 302, and Medium Truck) (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Limit one (1) offer per each Eligible Vehicle purchase or lease, up to a maximum of two (2) separate Eligible Vehicle sales per Costco Membership Number. 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Retail offers not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfit Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP). ®: Registered trademark of Price Costco International, Inc. used under license. ±Based on year-end 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 total sales figures for light vehicles in Canada from DesRosiers Automotive Consultants Inc. (and Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association data exchanged by OEMs). ◆Based on 2007 - 2013 R. L. Polk vehicle registrations data for Canada in the Large Premium Utility, Large Traditional Utility, Large Utility, Medium Premium Utility, Medium Utility, Small Premium Utility, and Small Utility segments. ††Some mobile phones and some digital media players may not be fully compatible with SYNC® – check www.syncmyride.com for a listing of mobile phones, media players, and features supported. Driving while distracted can result in loss of vehicle control, accident and injury. Certain MyFord Touch™ functions require compatible mobile devices. Some functions are not available while driving. Ford recommends that drivers use caution when using mobile phones, even with voice commands. Only use mobile phones and other devices, even with voice commands, not essential to driving when it is safe to do so and in compliance with applicable laws. SYNC is optional on most new Ford vehicles. †††Remember that even advanced technology cannot overcome the laws of physics. It’s always possible to lose control of a vehicle due to inappropriate driver input for the conditions. ©2014 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence. ©2014 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

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