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THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — It took mere minutes for foes of the Northern Gateway pipeline to vow that the pipeline will never be built, despite the go-ahead from the federal government on Tuesday. So with a major milestone on the path to the British Columbia coast behind it, the path ahead for the controversial project was no more certain with

final government approval than it had been during months of protests. “This project, and the federal process to approve it, violated our rights and our laws. We are uniting to defend our lands and waters of our respective territories,” said a statement from a coalition of B.C. aboriginal groups. “We will defend our territories whatever the costs may be.”

The statement was signed by 28 individual bands and the three main aboriginal organizations in the province: the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, the First Nations Summit and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs. They promised court action, and more. “Under no circumstances will this threat be allowed in our territory,” said Tso’dih Peter Erickson, a hereditary chief from the Nak’azdli band near Fort St. James.

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Guilty JUDGE CONVICTS DRUNK DRIVER OF ALL CHARGES IN FATAL CANADA DAY 2010 COLLISION BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF After almost four years, the family of a young teen killed in a crash in Red Deer on Canada Day 2010 has some semblance of closure. Rodney Ross Arens, 36, was convicted of all charges on Tuesday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. Arens, a building contractor, has lived in Rimbey, Red Deer and Sylvan Lake. Jeffrey Chanminaraj, 13, was killed and his brother Jamie, now 22, was injured in the July 1 crash involving a truck driven by Arens and car at the intersection of Kerry Wood and Taylor Drives. Justice Kirk Sisson found Arens guilty of impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing bodily harm and breaching release conditions. Arens sat with a blank stare on his face as Sisson read his decision. Arens was in the prisoner’s box to hear the verdict. Throughout the trial, he was allowed to sit beside defence counsel but on Tuesday, he sat in the prisoner’s box, flanked by Alberta sheriffs. Jeffrey’s older sister, Stephanie, 24, said she was relieved to see the trial come to a conclusion. “It’s been so long,” she said. “I’m glad to have closure, I’m glad it’s over for everyone. It’s been a long, drawn-out process, for everyone. “The memories are fresh, what I remember is fresh. Sometimes you don’t want to remember them.” Jamie said it was time to move on together as a family. “We miss our brother, our dad really misses him,” Jamie said. In the seconds after the crash that killed Jefferey, witnesses testified that Arens said of his truck: “Well I guess I’m not driving that away,” and that he said: “I need a cigarette.” Arens was arrested by Red Deer RCMP Const. Jean-Francois Tremblay at the scene. Before Tremblay read Arens his charter rights, Tremblay was informed that Jeffrey had died as a result of the crash. Arens was re-arrested for impaired driving causing death. Sisson thoroughly went through the testimony of numerous witnesses at the scene, acknowledging that there were differences in some people’s testimony with regard to the observations of Arens’ impairment. He said some civilian witnesses and RCMP members who were still new to the job had different observations, ranging from no signs of alcohol impairment to slurred speech and stumbling. However, the testimony of seasoned officers, including Cpl. Cindee Scarrott, and video evidence at the RCMP detachment following Arens’ arrest indicated he was impaired.

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Acting like a defensive parent, this Canada goose was having a bit of a hissing fit as it was photographed Tuesday. The not-so-little goslings are keeping busy eating, growing and beginning to loose their baby feathers at McKenzie Trail Recreation Area in Red Deer.

Rain threatens Southern Alberta MEDICINE HAT COULD SEE REPEAT OF 2013 FLOOD BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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CALGARY — There are concerns Medicine Hat could see flooding similar to what happened a year ago as heavy rains continue to soak areas to the west of the southern Alberta city. Alberta Environment’s Evan Friesenhan stresses that prediction is a worst-case scenario and will only happen if the Oldman and Bow rivers to the west peak at the same time where they meet the South Saskatchewan River. And he added that scenario is still three days away, so a lot can change. The city says it has opened its Emergency Operations Centre and has begun sandbagging using intelligence it gained last year. About 1,000 Medicine Hat homes were hit by high water in the flood of 2013 that ravaged southern Alberta and 10,000 people were forced to head for higher ground. Forecasters are calling for as much as 200 millimetres of rain in the southwest corner of the province by Thursday morning. To the west of Medicine Hat, officials in Lethbridge County declared a local state of emergency Tuesday citing extremely high water levels on the Oldman River. The county says Oldman River valley residents should prepared for an evacuation order sometime on Wednesday, depending on river levels. There’s potential to reach levels seen in 1995,

when heavy rains pushed rivers over their banks from Pincher Creek to Medicine Hat and more than 3,000 people had to flee their homes, the county says. Farmers are being advised to move their livestock and people are being told to stay away from riverbanks. The city of Lethbridge, which is also on the Oldman river, said on its website that it has not declared a state of emergency, but was monitoring the situation. Friesenhan said most of Lethbridge is on high ground and, while parkland may flood, homes should be OK. In total, 100,000 people had to flee their flooded homes in southern Alberta in June 2013. Communities hit the hardest — including Canmore, Calgary and High River — are further to the north of area currently experiencing high water and are expected to be fine. In 2013, more than 300 millimetres of rain fell in some places over a 2 ½-day period. “We’re looking at a peak flow of 5,300 cubic metres per second through Medicine Hat on the South Saskatchewan River, which is very similar to last year,” Friesenhan said. “Obviously that’s the worst-case scenario and assumes that the flow coming out of the Oldman and the flow coming out of the Bow will merge together at the same time.”

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Flood watch issued for Little Red Deer River A flood watch has been issued for the Little Red Deer River and a pair of popular campgrounds could be affected. The Alberta government’s streamflow advisory updated early Tuesday afternoon says that waters continue to rise in the Little Red Deer River and most of the other river basins in Southern Alberta. “Water levels along the Little Red Deer River are expected to exceed known flood thresholds at Westward Ho campground and Red Lodge Provincial Park,” says the online update. Red Lodge is about 15 km west of Bowden and Westward Ho is about six km east of Sundre. Up to 150 to 200 mm of rain is forecast for the southwest corner of the province by Thursday morning. Flood warnings have been issued for the entire Oldman River Basin. At Lethbridge, the river may rise six metres.

Day parole granted to P.E.I. man who killed cyclist from Alberta in 2012 CHARLOTTETOWN — A Prince Edward Island man who struck and killed a cyclist two years ago while driving drunk has been granted day parole. Clarence Arnold Moase of Kensington has been serving a six-year prison sentence for drunk driving causing the death of Elizabeth Sovis. The 63-year-old Alberta woman was cycling with her husband during a July 2012 trip to P.E.I. when she was hit by Moase, who was driving a van. Moase’s blood alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit at the time.

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PIPELINE: 209 conditions The federal government gave a conditional green light to Calgary-based Enbridge (TSX:ENB) for its controversial $7-billion project, which would link the Alberta oilsands to an export terminal on the northern B.C. coast. The decision — delivered at the 11th-hour ahead of a legislated deadline — is contingent on the company satisfying conditions set out by a federal review panel. Those include further consultations with aboriginal communities. “Today constitutes another step in the process,” National Resources Minister Greg Rickford said in a news release. “Moving forward, the proponent must demonstrate to the independent regulator, the NEB, how it will meet the 209 conditions.” The company echoed that view. “We know we have more work to do to re-engage with some of our First Nations communities along the proposed route and to continue our engagement with British Columbians and Canadians,” said Janet Holder, an executive vice-president with Northern Gateway Pipelines. “We are committed to doing that work.” Enbridge president Al Monaco said the company will pursue dialogue with detractors but is prepared for “the eventuality” of legal challenges. “Our advice is that this is not necessarily an endless process, as some are suggesting,” he said. “There is a definitive process for Federal Court matters so I think there is a definitive timeline. This won’t go on forever in terms of endless legal battles.” The decision already faces legal challenges. Several First Nations and environmental groups have filed applications with the Federal Court for judicial review of the federal panel report that recommended approval. And the Gitxaala and Coastal First Nations have said they are preparing broader lawsuits. The Sierra Club B.C. called the decision a “slap in the face” for British Columbians and environmentalist David Suzuki penned an open letter deriding the Conservative cabinet for “pushing an unwanted project on an unwilling public.” “We are deeply disappointed, but you need to look no further than the spate of legal challenges filed against this project to know that cabinet’s approval is by no means a guarantee that this project

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Hunting Hills High School Environment Club members Haley Kitt, Kaitlin Hepfner and Dani Runzer address the audience during the launch of a recycling partnership with the South Hill Bottle Depot on Tuesday. Through a Recycling Infrastructure Partnership grant provided to the South Hill Bottle Depot by the Alberta Bottle Depot Association, $15,000 was awarded to South Hill to purchase the recycling containers and place them in the school of over 1,400 students. Containers will be placed in classrooms and common areas, and proceeds from the collection will go to funding clubs and programs at the school. will ever be built,” said Barry Robinson, a staff lawyer for the group Ecojustice. The project was always going to be controversial. The 1,200-kilometre pipeline would link Alberta’s Athabasca oilsands to a marine terminal on the northern edge of British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest. To do so, it would cross the territories of more than 50 First Nations. Most of those are in B.C., where aboriginal bands never signed treaties with the Crown and where many land claims remain unresolved. The pipeline will deliver bitumen — the heavy, molasses-like oil product from the oilsands — to oil tankers that are seven times the length of an NHL hockey rink. Those oil tankers will then transport that product around the small islands that dot the narrow Douglas Channel and past the Haida Gwaii archipelago and a UNESCO world heritage site. The economics are compelling. Billions of dollars in revenues and GDP are at stake and groups including the B.C. Construction Association and the Chamber of Shipping both lauded the decision. The joint federal review panel recommended approval in December, with the 209 conditions, and the Conservative government has made it clear for some time that finding new markets for Canadian oil is an economic priority. The B.C. government, which officially opposed the project at federal review hearings, will now face increasing pressure. The province has set out five conditions for B.C.’s support and on Tuesday Environment Minister Mary Polak said with the final approval from Ottawa, one of those conditions has now been met. Polak said the project will need dozens of permits from the province, which won’t be issued to a project that has adverse environmental effects. “Obviously if they are not meeting the five conditions, then they won’t be able to show in a permit application that they don’t have adverse environmental affects and therefore those permits wouldn’t be granted.”

ARENS: Sentencing on Thursday Sisson pointed specifically to testimony from two officers about Arens’ time in the telephone room.

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Arens had a difficult time, fumbling through a phone book, dropping it and asking repeatedly for instructions on how to make an outside call. Eventually, an officer dialed for him. Further testimony from servers at the Vat pub and the Drummond Brewing Co. confirmed that Arens had been consuming alcohol that evening. He had a few beers, at least one of which was a light beer, and had a shot of Jagermeister. Sisson said these factors put together led him to his guilty decision on the impaired driving charges. Testimony from a friend of Arens indicated that in the days after the crash, he had tried to fabricate evidence. Arens had called and told the witness to say that they had looked at a motorbike and had a beer, and then went to a fast food restaurant, as a way to explain his impairment. At the scene of the crash, several witnesses testified to seeing the light at the intersection turn yellow for northbound and southbound traffic when they heard a truck accelerate. Sisson noted it was Canada Day and there was a high volume of traffic and pedestrians in the area heading to Bower Ponds for the fireworks. He said this meant that a reasonable and prudent driver would exercise more caution at the intersection. However, Arens accelerated, which Sisson cited as reasons for the impaired and dangerous driving convictions. A traffic reconstruction analyst said Arens was driving at about 79 km/h, well over the 60 km/h posted speed limit northbound on Taylor Drive. Stephanie Chanminaraj was southbound on Taylor Drive, turning left onto Kerry Wood Drive. Her speed was about 27 km/h when the collision occurred. Defence witnesses included two RCMP members who testified they arrived on scene and went to the car driven by Stephanie. According to their testimony, Stephanie said “It’s all my fault. I killed him,” immediately after the crash. Sisson ruled those statements are what can be expected from an older sister when she is in a crash that injures her younger brothers and that they do not reflect guilt or lead the judge to believe she was the cause of the collision. Sisson said under normal circumstances, Arens’ position as the northbound driver would have put him in the right. However, his acceleration well over the speed limit in an attempt to beat the yellow light puts Arens at fault. Sentencing for Arens will take place on Thursday in Red Deer Court of Queen’s Bench. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Four lives swept away in flood BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Raging flood waters killed four people in southern Alberta one year ago. Two were swept away as they tried to evacuate from High River, one of the hardest hit communities. One woman was caught off guard while camping south of the town, along the Highwood River. And when the flood put parts of Calgary under water, a senior drowned alone in her main floor condo.

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Amber Rancourt and her husband Scott are shown in a family handout photo. Raging flood waters killed four people in southern Alberta one year ago. Two were swept away as they tried to evacuate from High River, one of the hardest hit communities. Rancourt was caught off guard while camping south of the town, along the Highwood River.

Province’s highest court upholds union contempt ruling BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Alberta’s highest court has upheld a ruling that the province’s civil service union was in contempt for not obeying labour board directives during an illegal strike by prison guards. But the Court of Appeal also says a previous ruling went too far when it ordered the Alberta Union of Public Employees to stop supporting the guards and tell them to go back to work. “It would be difficult to conclude that the circumstances were so serious and dangerous as to justify limiting the right to freedom of expression,” says the Appeal Court ruling. In April 2013, several guards walked off the job over safety concerns at Edmonton’s new remand centre and were soon joined by guards at several other jails. The Labour Relations Board quickly ordered them back to work. It said the union should not only tell the guards about that order, but advise them to obey it as well. Those directives were filed in court and became court orders. A judge ruled that the union disobeyed those orders in comments to media and on its website. “The tenor of the leadership’s statements was ’utter defiance,”’ says the Appeal Court’s summary of the judge’s comments. The initial judge found the union guilty of civil contempt and imposed restrictions on what it could and couldn’t say. Union leaders were no longer allowed to express solidarity with striking guards or publish their version of

BRIEF Legion to include RCMP, peace officers as veterans EDMONTON — The Royal Canadian Legion is changing its definition of a veteran to include RCMP officers. The new definition also includes peace officers who served in special duty areas, such as Ontario Provincial Police officers who worked in Haiti or officers on United Nations missions

strike-related news. The union was ordered to publish a “clear and unambiguous” directive on its website that members should return to work. The Appeal Court found that went to far. It noted that while the strike was short-lived, the court order was permanent. It also ruled there was no evidence the speech restrictions would get the workers back on the job. “Lesser measures were called for than the measures ordered.” Union president Guy Smith said the contempt finding may be appealed to the Supreme Court. But he welcomed removal of the speech restrictions. “We’re very pleased that the court recognized the original court decision overstepped its bounds and basically gagged AUPE and its officers,” he said. “When you take away an organization’s rights to speak on behalf of its members, I think that should be concerning to all Albertans and Canadians.” Smith said the union has paid about $350,000 in fines as a result of the strike. Progress on the original issues that led to the walkout has been slow, but real, he added. “There’s been some improvement. There seems to be a bit more commitment.” Smith said he has no regrets about the union’s stance. “It’s important to recognize we’re trying to rebuild a very broken relationship with the government, and that (strike) was one of the reasons it was broken. For that relationship to be rebuilt, there has to be some resolution to this and we need to move on and deal with the real issues of health and safety in worksites.”

such as in Bosnia. Legion dominion president Gordon Moore says those support operations and the recent shooting of three Mounties in Moncton, N.B., show the risks officers face at home and abroad. “They served pretty well wherever our Canadian Armed Forces have served as a member of the police force,” Moore said Tuesday from the legion’s convention in Edmonton. “The delegates felt very strongly that they should be included because they have been wearing the blue beret (of the United Nations), or they’ve been with the forces going over to these locations, and they deserve to be recognized as a veteran as well.”

200: In millimetres, the amount of rain that fell in Canmore in the 2 1/2 days before the flood — 10 times that of a typical summer rainfall. (Source: Environment Canada) 345: In millimetres, the amount of rain that fell at the Burns Creek weather station west of High River in the 2 1/2 days before the flood. (Source: Environment Canada) 30 to 70: In cubic metres per second, the typical flow rate for the Highwood River in June. (Source: The Alberta Government) 1,500 to 1,800: In cubic metres per second, the flow rate of the Highwood River during the flood. (Source: The Alberta Government) 180: In cubic metres per second, the flow rate on the Elbow River downstream of the Glenmore Reservoir before the city of Calgary has to start sandbagging. (Source: The Alberta Government) 1,240: In cubic metres per second, the flow rate on the Elbow River entering Glenmore Reservoir during the flood. (Source: The Alberta Government) $6 billion: The Alberta government’s estimated cost for the flood. (Finance Minister Doug Horner) 30: The number of communities the government says were affected by flooding. (Source: The Alberta Government) 100,000: The estimated number of people affected by flooding. (Source: The Alberta Government) 985: Kilometres of road closed due to flood damage. (Source: The Alberta Government) $70 million: The amount of money the government loaded onto 56,000 prepaid debit cards for flood evacuees. (Source: The Alberta Government) 10,500: The number of people who have applied to repair damage covered by the Disaster Recovery Program. (Source: The Alberta Government) $71.5 million: The amount of money paid out under the program as of June 6. (Source: The Alberta Government) 254: The number of homes built in the flood zone and eligible for buyout by the province. (Source: The Alberta Government) 77: The number of homeowners who have accepted buyouts as of June 6. (Source: The Alberta Government) $81 million: The amount it has cost to buy those homeowners out. (Source: The Alberta Government) 650,000: The estimated number of work hours it took to get Calgary’s damaged Saddledome ready for a Sept. 11, 2013, Eagles concert. (Source: Robert Blanchard, director of building operations for the Saddledome)

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She was a spontaneous, fiery woman from Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario, who tossed a dart at a map on a wall and headed for Alberta. Amber Rancourt was tending bar at a hotel in the village of Longview when she met a mechanic named Scott, who often stopped in for coffee. He fell fast for the woman who shared his affection for animals. They were married five months later in front of stunned guests during a surprise ceremony. The groom wanted so much to honour his new bride, he took her last name. A month shy of their second wedding anniversary, they were camping on a friend’s ranch south of Longview, along the Highwood River, when the flood struck. Scott Rancourt says he woke up in the early hours of June 20, looked out the camper window and saw water rushing everywhere around them. They were both worried about the horse they had brought with them, so Scott waded through the current with the animal and got it to safety. But he never made it back to his wife.

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The middle class lives ALBERTA AND SASKATCHEWAN MAKE THE MOST OF OPPORTUNITY, BUT THE REST OF THE COUNTRY IS NOT SO FORTUNATE BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE There has been much handwringing over the claimed disappearance of the middle class. From a bestselling international tome to domestic tax-and-spend types who think higher taxes will create more middle-income earners, there is no shortage of those who over-focus on redistribution and underestimate the benefits of opportunity. As an example of the benefits of opportunity, Alberta created 71,200 new jobs over the past 12 months while Saskatchewan saw a gain of 11,800 jobs. Compare that to a gain of 39,400 in Ontario (a province with a much larger population) and 10,300 new jobs in British Columbia. (The other six provinces lost jobs in the past year.) As to why Alberta and Saskatchewan are doing so much better, the usual explanation is that Alberta (and Saskatchewan) lucked out because of their natural resources. Except that dumb luck doesn’t explain it all. Holland, Singapore and Hong Kong have little in the way of natural resources and yet prosper while Nigeria and Russia extract a lot

of oil but have very little in the way of a middle class. At the national level, it is boring but important policy such as a stable currency and domestic peace — as well as property rights, the rule of law, a lack of corruption, independent courts, smart but not over-burdensome regulation, an educated population, the size of government relative to the economy, and tax policy — that lead to the creation of prosperity and the formation of the middle class. I don’t have the space to discuss all such factors — any country or province can mess up a natural advantage. But let’s consider only one issue — tax rates — that can be easily compared across provinces and which has an effect upon wealth creation and thus opportunities and jobs. Alberta has long had the lowest overall provincial tax burden. For example, a two-parent, one-income family with two kids and employment income of $75,000 pays $3,446 less in total provincial taxes when compared with the same $75,000 couple in Ontario. The same family in Nova Scotia will pay $6,947 more in provincial taxes than if they lived in Alberta. Alberta’s politicians have also generally and comparatively been smart

on what might be called “opportunity policy.” Unlike Atlantic Canada, Quebec or Manitoba on taxes, or Ontario on power policy, or Quebec on excessive interference in almost every aspect of its economy, Alberta has historically not disadvantaged its entrepreneurs. That policy alone has led to wealth-creating opportunities and a cornucopia of new jobs, helping make Alberta the most middle class-friendly province in Canada. More proof of this comes from the Canada Revenue Agency. Compared with other provinces, Alberta has the smallest share of people (42.2 per cent) who report income of less than $30,000. Saskatchewan is next (47.4 per cent). The national average is 50.6 per cent; Ontario’s is 50.1 per cent and Quebec’s is 53 per cent, while half or more tax filers in all other provinces have incomes of less than $30,000. Now look at income between $30,000 and $100,000 and let’s assume that range as a proxy for the middle class. Fully 45.5 per cent of Albertans fall into that category. Again, only Saskatchewan (45.2 per cent) comes close to Alberta. Ontario has a smaller middle class (42.9 per cent) as does Quebec (42.7 per cent), with the national percentage at 42.9 per cent. Newfound-

land and Labrador has the smallest proportion here, with just 39.7 per cent of the population reporting an income between $30,000 and $100,000. More dramatically, in Alberta 12.2 per cent of the population report incomes of over $100,000. That is almost double the proportion of all Canadians (6.6 per cent), higher than in Ontario (seven per cent) and starkly higher than Quebec, where just 4.5 per cent of the population report taxable income above $100,000. Or put another way, Alberta has less of its population in the very poorest income class and proportionately more in the middle- and high-income cohorts. And Alberta (and to a lesser degree Saskatchewan) performed this feat with massive in-migration from other provinces and from around the world. Alberta is not perfect and has its policy failures. But good overall provincial policy produces natural wealth creation. That, in turn, encourages job creation and explains why Alberta in particular is flourishing and does so with a burgeoning middle class. Mark Milke is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia. com).

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Wynne victory leaves federal Tories smiling With the return to power for another four years of a Liberal government in Ontario, the last major provincial piece of the federal pre-election puzzle has fallen in place. But as to where exactly it belongs in the Canadian big picture, there is anything but a consensus. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Thomas Mulcair’s NDP could equally welcome Kathleen Wynne’s majority victory as a sign that the mood of Canada’s largest province runs to government activism. Wynne did campaign on a left-leaning platform that staked out a large role for govCHANTAL ernment in the social and ecoHÉBERT nomic affairs of the province. It could be argued that Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s interventionism-adverse mantra took a hit by proxy on Thursday. Many of the moderate Conservatives whose votes Harper needs to hang onto his Ontario seats next year were apparently more turned off by the hard turn to the right proposed by Tim Hudak’s Tories than by Wynne’s tilt to the left. The NDP’s efforts to edge closer to the centre did not pay off in additional seats but its support did increase in the popular vote. On that basis, it would be hasty for the New Demo-

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crats to jump to the conclusion that they would have done better had they campaigned further to the left of the Liberals. If the Ontario results suggest anything, it is that the real edge on the NDP that the Liberals could take into next year’s federal battle is their ability to turn disaffected red Tories into blue Liberals. Harper’s strategists, for their part, will take solace in the notion that incumbency trumped change on Thursday in spite of voter fatigue with a three-term government. The Liberal victory leaves the federal Conservatives on the winning side of a pattern that has usually seen Ontario put its eggs in different federal and provincial baskets. But if recent electoral history suggests anything, it is that patterns are there to be broken. Ask the Nova Scotia NDP or Quebec’s Parti Québécois. Both provinces consistently granted incumbents a second mandate — until they did not in their last elections. What is certain is that the political dynamics of Central Canada have changed dramatically over the first half of this year. Both Quebec and Ontario now have majority Liberal governments in place, with long enough mandates to weather the potential fallout of lingering past scandals, as well as outlive the current federal government. Philippe Couillard and Wynne each have some heavy fiscal lifting to do — and neither has much room to manoeuvre. Couillard has not yet been in power 100 days and he has already had to cancel or postpone most of the

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spending promises his party campaigned on. Reality in the shape of a bulging structural deficit and a mediocre economic environment could similarly catch up to Wynne sooner rather than later. One way or another, one can bet the family farm on the fact that the premiers of Ontario and Quebec will agree to set their hungry sights on the federal surplus that is expected to materialize between now and next year’s federal campaign. When all is said and done, the most striking difference between the newly elected governments of Quebec and Ontario involves the nature of their respective mandates rather than their agendas. Wynne, in contrast with Couillard, was elected with the support of fewer voters than the number that did not bother to cast a ballot. For the second time in a row, half of Ontario voters stayed home on Thursday. In Quebec in April, the turnout was 70 per cent. The result for Ontario’s re-elected government is a weaker mandate that, even with a majority, will make it harder for Wynne to secure a so-called social licence from the public for her more ambitious policies. In an ideal world, the disturbingly high level of voter disengagement in Canada’s largest province should give impetus to the cause of electoral reform. But it is a rare governing party that would rock the boat of a system that allows it to rule in the comfort of a majority with the support of less than one in five eligible voters. Chantal Hébert is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

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Quebec daycare didn’t have Rob Ford plans to carbon monoxide detector return to work KIDS WERE OVERCOME BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SAINT-EUSTACHE, Que. — A Quebec daycare where children were overcome by carbon monoxide did not have a detector to alert staff, authorities said Tuesday. At least five children were overcome by carbon monoxide at Les petits explorateurs daycare centre in St-Eustache, north of Montreal. Later in the day, local hospital officials said none of the children’s lives were in danger. Those who experienced the more serious symptoms were transferred to a children’s hospital in Montreal for further follow-up. “The first ones to arrive by ambulance showed symptoms of typical intoxication,” Dr. Alain Turcotte, the director of professional services, told a news conference Tuesday. “Five young children were transferred to St. Justine’s hospital so they could be followed more closely. . . they showed more severe symptoms of intoxication.” Carbon monoxide is a colourless, odourless, and tasteless gas that is toxic to humans in high concentrations. Turcotte also said that two of the children had actually lost consciousness and others were vomiting and complaining of nausea and headaches. The rest of the daycare’s 72 children and about 10 staff were taken to the St-Eustache hospital by school bus as a preventive measure and treated with oxygen. A regional health department spokeswoman said

there was no carbon monoxide detector installed at the centre. “In an ideal world, everyone would have had a carbon monoxide detector, like they have a smoke detector,” Dr. Marie-Claude Lacombe said. “But in this case there was not one.” The St-Eustache fire department said its preliminary investigation points to a propane-fuelled floor cleaning machine used at the daycare as the potential source. “At this stage, we can say that we suspect equipment used to clean floors,” said fire chief Charles de Rouville. “We took readings (and) there were high readings of carbon monoxide,” de Rouville said. The daycare was quickly aired out by firefighters. The incident caught the attention of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who expressed his concerns about the state of the children on his Twitter account. “Very worrisome news out of St-Eustache,” he wrote. “Hoping for the quick recovery of all those involved.” In Quebec City, Families Minister Francine Charbonneau promised the incident will be subject to an administrative investigation. The daycare is a private, subsidized facility. She said it was probably stressful for parents who were contacted and asked to come to the hospital. Charbonneau said that initially there were suspicions that the children were affected by a flu bug, but staff quickly realized something else was wrong.

Yellowknife man who set Giant Mine bomb, killing nine people, gets day parole nity garden and delivered its produce to food banks and he regularly attends church. “My father is a very good man who made a mistake ... I feel blessed that I still get to see him and speak to him,” Warren’s daughter told the hearing. “I think he deserves a chance in society.” Her father, now a thin, balding man who used a hearing aid during the proceedings, was asked to describe his crime in detail during the review. He recalled collecting gear for several days before sneaking down the shaft and walking kilometres with a half bag of explosive powder and sticks to set up the bomb. “I’ll admit it was hair— ROGER WARREN brained stupid,” he said, saying he never intended to kill anyone, although he recognized someone might get hurt. Warren, who started at the mine in 1978, was interviewed several times after the explosion, but was considered a peripheral figure before he confessed, he said. He told the board that guilt and the fear someone else would be punished prompted his first confession. “I was in shock for days. I still am. I think about it every day.” He then recanted out of shame and cowardice, he said. “I couldn’t bear to have my family think I could do such a stupid thing.” Warren was convicted of nine counts of seconddegree murder in 1995 and maintained his innocence until 2003. “I just found myself a despicable person and then I couldn’t do it anymore,” he said. “I take the full responsibility for it and I have for quite a while.” Board spokesman Patrick Storey said Warren will remain under the supervision of federal corrections officers for the rest of his life. “If he takes his freedom for granted, if he is no longer compliant with the rules, then he can be returned to prison,” Storey said. “Whether he lives or dies in the community is completely up to him.”

MISSION, B.C. — Pam Sawler was in Grade 9 when she learned her father had been murdered with eight other men in a Yellowknife mine bombing, and now she expects bad news at every turn. While Sawler awaits phantom phone calls from hospital or police, her mother Bonnie says her own emotional pain is multiplied a thousandfold with every milestone she can’t share with her husband. Roger Warren has been serving a life sentence for the mass murder inside the Giant Mine 21 years ago. On Tuesday, the federal parole board granted him conditional release into the community. Warren, 70, listened to the daughter and mother weep as they urged the board to keep him locked up until he dies. Then a board member asked him if he was prepared for day parole. “I’m sure I’d probably feel the same way. That’s the worst thing ... I always prayed people wouldn’t waste their life hating me,” said Warren, soon choking back his own sobs. “All I can say is, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry for all the pain I’ve caused.”’ Warren was 49 when he conspired to further shake up a volatile labour dispute at the mine, which had already seen two smaller bombings and a riot. Nine replacement workers died in September 1992 when their ore car tripped a wire Warren had rigged to set off dynamite hundreds of metres underground. Thirteen months later, he confessed to setting the bomb. He retracted that confession at trial, was convicted in 1995, and finally admitted his guilt again years later in prison. After a two-hour hearing on Tuesday, the two parole board members ruled that Warren did not pose an “undue risk” to the community and they agreed to his release from the Mission Minimum Institute, east of Vancouver. Board member Bent Andersen said Warren has taken responsibility for his actions, has shown remorse and has a track record of good behaviour. Week Long Events June 14-21 Warren will live in a halfway house during Workshop with Feature Artist - Jeremy his release, which will Mayne BFA, MFA , June 14. A professional artist and art come up for renewal in instructor for 30 years, Jeremy will give participants a clear and in depth six months. It’s not clear understanding of how to portray 3D images within the 2D format. where that will be, but he’s not expected to re• Artists About Town- Starting June 14 turn to Yellowknife. He Demos at various Red Deer venues. FREE Admission must abide by several conditions, including ab• Artwalk Amble Gallery Tour staining from alcohol, atThursday, June 19 Departs 7:00 pm tending counselling sesTickets available at MAG: Adults $20; 13 and under $15 sions and not contacting families of the men who Saturday, June 21 - 10:00 am - 4:00 pm died. Enjoy art demonstrations, interactive activities and Warren has already live music at this free community all-ages event. been on about 400 escortShannon Woolgar leads our children’s art activity tent. ed trips into the community and has completed a Also, Artwalk’s extensive Art Market. FREE Admission 120-day work term away from the prison. He has volunteered at a commu-

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Only time will tell whether Rob Ford’s stint in rehab has changed him, some of the Toronto mayor’s colleagues said Tuesday, just weeks before his scheduled return to city hall. Ford plans to come back to work on June 30, according to a letter he sent to the city clerk’s office. The letter says he will return to resume his duties as mayor “in the later portion of the afternoon” and asks that his office locks be changed back by 1 p.m. “I’m hoping that he really seriously applied himself at rehab and he will come back a very changed person,” Coun. Paula Fletcher said. She said city hall has been “pretty calm and scandal-free” in the mayor’s absence, a sentiment echoed by other councillors. “Ever since his departure from city hall, things have been very calm, there’s a lot of business being conducted, there’s a level of civility I believe has reentered city hall,” Coun. Kristyn Wong-Tam said. “It clearly demonstrates to me that when he’s here, he’s a distraction.” Coun. Janet Davis said it’s impossible to know what to expect from Ford. “I don’t want to predict how Rob Ford will behave, I don’t think anybody’s ever been able to do that,” she said. The embattled mayor has been in rehab since announcing on April 30 he was seeking help for an alcohol problem, just as new allegations of substance abuse surfaced in several published reports. Ford has been faced with allegations of drug use since May 2013, when the Toronto Star and the U.S. website Gawker reported seeing a video that appeared to show him smoking crack cocaine. Months later, Ford admitted to trying the drug while in one of his “drunken stupors” and to using drugs while in office. That led council to strip him of most of his mayoral duties. Though the mayor then publicly swore off alcohol, he was later forced to admit to drinking after another videotaped incident in which he used Jamaican swear words and slagged the city’s chief of police. The letter announcing Ford’s return is dated June 2, but the clerk did not receive the letter until Monday, City of Toronto spokesperson Jackie DeSouza said in an email.

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SIGNS EMERGE OF POSSIBLE SECTARIAN SLAUGHTER OF SUNNIS IN IRAQ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — Signs emerged Tuesday of a reprisal sectarian slaughter of Sunnis in Iraq, as police said pro-government Shiite militiamen killed nearly four dozen detainees after insurgents tried to storm the jail northeast of Baghdad. A local morgue official said many of the detainees had bullet wounds to the head and chest, though the Iraqi military insisted the Sunni inmates were killed by mortar shells in the attack on the facility outside the city of Baqouba. In Baghdad, meanwhile, the bullet-riddled bodies of four men in their late 20s or early 30s, presumably Sunnis, were found at different locations in the Shiite neighbourhood of Benouk, according to police and morgue officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk with the media. Also Tuesday, a car bomb in Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City district killed 12 people and wounded 30 in a crowded outdoor market, police and hospital officials said. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, but attacks targeting Shiite districts are routinely the work of Sunni militants. The Sadr City deaths take to at least 22 the number of people killed in violence in Baghdad on Tuesday. The discovery was a grim reminder of a dark chapter in Iraq’s history when nearly a decade ago the city woke up virtually every morning to find dozens of bodies dumped in the streets, trash heaps or in the Tigris river with torture marks or gunshot wounds. The allegation of Shiite killings of Sunnis near Baqouba and in Baghdad were the first hints of the beginnings of a return to sectarian warfare that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007. Sunni militants also have been accused of atrocities — an apparent attempt to provoke Shiite militias into revenge attacks that would strengthen the hand of an al-Qaida splinter group within Iraq’s Sunni community. A UN commission warned Tuesday that “a regional war in the Middle East draws ever closer” as Sunni insurgents advance across Iraq to control areas bridging the Iraq-Syria frontier. It said Iraq’s turmoil will have “violent repercussions” in Syria, most dangerously the rise of sectarian violence as “a direct consequence of the dominance of extremist groups.” During the United States’ eight-year presence in Iraq, American forces acted as a buffer between the two Islamic sects, though with limited success. The U.S. military withdrew at the end of 2011, but it is now being pulled back in — albeit so far in far fewer numbers. The fighting around the jail was the closest to

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Iraqis who have fled fighting between security forces and al-Qaida inspired militants in their hometown of Tal Afar sit in their tents at Germawa camp for displaced Iraqis, in a hot dusty plain in the largelyautonomous Kurdish area of Dahuk, 430 kilometers northwest of Baghdad Tuesday. It’s not clear how many people fled Tel Afar. The aid group, the International Rescue Committee estimated 3,000 families fled, most to Sinjar. Others trickled to the Germawa camp. Baghdad since the al-Qaida breakaway group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant began its lightning advance, seizing several key northern cities in the Sunni heartland last week. There were conflicting details about the clashes in the al-Kattoun district near Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province and one of the bloodiest battlefields of the U.S.-led war, and on how the detainees were killed. The city is 60 kilometres northeast of the Iraqi capital. Officers said the local police station, which has a small jail, came under attack Monday night by Sunni militants who arrived in two sedan cars to free the detainees. The militants fired rocket-propelled grenades on the building before opening fire with assault rifles. A SWAT team accompanied by Shiite militiamen rushed to scene and asked the local policemen to leave, according to the officers. When the policemen

Political leaders blamed for two coastal attacks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NAIROBI, Kenya — The killers in the Kenyan village singled out non-Muslims, shooting them pointblank or slitting their throats, just like the previous night in an adjacent hamlet. A Somali extremist group claimed responsibility but Kenya’s president on Tuesday blamed local political networks for the 60 deaths. President Uhuru Kenyatta, in a national address, said evidence indicates that the motive for the killing spree was to evict a community of people in order to grab the land along the coast near the Somali border. He said al-Shabab, a Somali group linked to al-Qaida, was not behind it. But analysts expressed doubt. Matt Bryden, the former head of the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia, said al-Shabab has never claimed credit for an attack it didn’t carry out. “It has all the hallmarks of an al-Shabab attack, said Bryden, now the head of Sahan Research. ”Secondly, there’s been no sign of a Kenyan group carrying out an attack on this scale or with these tactics.“ In a nearby village, residents stood on top of burned-out vehicles and erected barricades of burning tires to blockade the road in protest against the recent killings and what they claimed was the government’s failure to provide them with enough security. Some residents abandoned another village with their belongings on their heads while armed security forces marched in single file along narrow paths leading through the dense swamp and forest, searching for the killers. Al-Shabab said Monday that such attacks would continue “as you continue to invade our lands and oppress innocent Muslims.” Al-Shabab gunmen attacked an upscale mall in the Kenyan capital, Nai-

robi, last September, killing at least 67 people in reprisal for Kenya sending its troops to Somalia. The second night of deadly attacks against a Christian community on Kenya’s north coast seemed designed to try to inflame Christian-Muslim tensions in Kenya, religious and political leaders said. Bearded Muslim leaders conferring inside Nairobi’s largest mosque, a grand white facade nestled among the capital’s high rises, condemned what they called savage acts and ghastly killings and said there was no justification for them. They warned of a potential sectarian rift. “The continued violence risks tearing the country apart,” they said, continuing later: “We need to be cognizant of the fact that some of these attacks are aimed at planning seeds of discord and animosity among Kenyans and divide the country along ethnic and religious lines.” Kenyatta labeled the perpetrators of the attacks as reckless hate-mongers who create intolerance and fanaticism. Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said a new slate of government and security officials have been installed in Lamu in the wake of the attacks, in part because “there seems to be some inside job.” The newer attack happened in Majembeni village, which is next to Mpeketoni, where four dozen Christian men were slaughtered Sunday night and Monday morning. Al-Shabab said in a radio broadcast in Somalia that its fighters killed government workers and Christians. A county commissioner, Benson Maisori, said the attackers Tuesday night appear to have been the same group as in Mpeketoni. He confirmed 10 deaths in Majembeni.

later returned to the station, they found all those in the detention cells dead. The bodies were taken to the Baqouba morgue, where an official said most had gunshot wounds to the head and chest. One detainee, however, survived and was taken to the hospital. Police later arrived at the hospital and took the wounded man away, said a hospital official. The police officers, the hospital and morgue officials all spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing for their own safety. A different account was provided to The Associated Press by Iraq’s chief military spokesman, Lt. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi. He said 52 detainees who were held at the station in al-Kattoun died when the attackers from the Islamic State shelled it with mortars. Nine of the attackers were killed, al-Moussawi said.

BRIEF Seven people thought to have Ebola die in Liberia capital MONROVIA, Liberia — Seven people believed to have the Ebola virus have died in recent days in the first deaths reported in the Liberian capital since the outbreak began, a health official said Tuesday. Deputy Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah told The Associated Press that brings to 16 the number of people believed to have died from the virus in the West African country. Four of the deaths were confirmed by tests to be Ebola, he said. The deaths, recorded since June 8, are worrying because no new cases had been confirmed in Liberia in about two months. Nyenswah said the new wave of cases was believed to have begun on May 30. The virus, which causes severe bleeding and high fevers, has continued to ravage neighbouring Guinea in that time and has spread to Sierra Leone. “The first phase of the epidemic was contained,” said Nyenswah. “But because of proximity to Guinea and Sierra Leone, we did not declare outbreak over.” Other officials have previously downplayed the significance of the virus jumping borders, saying that it is to be expected since people travel and trade frequently across the borders of the three countries. One of the seven deaths was a woman who had recently travelled from an infected area in Sierra Leone and is believed to have passed the disease on to others in the house where she was staying. Fear of the disease, which has no known cure, appears to have helped its spread. There have been several reports of relatives taking sick loved ones out of isolation wards; that makes the work of stopping the disease’s spread harder. At one hospital on the outskirts of Monrovia, staff and patients fled after the death Saturday of a nurse. On Tuesday, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited the hospital and met with a few nurses who came back to the hospital to mourn their colleague.

Albania battles armed drug gangs in farming village BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAZARAT, Albania — Until ten years ago, Lazarat was a regular farming community. Now the village in southern Albania is Europe’s biggest illegal marijuana producer, raking in billions of euros every year from the plants openly cultivated in fields and house gardens. Set in a green plain overlooked by high hills, this sprawling southern village of 5,000 is believed to produce about 900 metric tons of cannabis a year, worth some 4.5 billion euros ($6.1 billion) — just under half of the small Balkan country’s GDP. The lucrative business has left its marks on society. Today flashy cars and expensive homes dot the village, where many residents were left unemployed after the political purges that followed changes of government in Albania in the late 1990s. Ironically, many had previously worked for the customs service,

handling nearby border crossings with Greece. The marijuana-farming has grown constantly since then, encouraged by strong demand in neighbouring Greece and Italy, while Albania has also become a major transit point for other drugs coming in to Europe from Asia and Latin America. Previously, authorities left the drug gangs pretty much to their own devices, as police visits tended to be met with gunfire. But change has come with the new Socialist government, which came into power last year with a clear aim to stamp out the marijuana economy and persist with efforts to seek Albanian membership in European Union. The country’s application for candidate member status in the 28-nation bloc has already been turned down three times, with organized crime and corruption always cited as a stumbling block. In their most ambitious effort so far, 500 police officers were deployed this week to impose law and order in Lazarat as part of a nationwide anti-drug

operation— only to be hailed with rocket-propelled grenades, mortar shells and heavy machine-gun fire once they reached the outskirts of the village. With local television broadcasting the events live, police and the Interior Ministry urged residents to stay indoors and warned others to stay away from the area, some 230 kilometres (140 miles) south of the capital, Tirana. Police chief Artan Didi told reporters in Tirana that police were targeting a “very well-structured and organized criminal group that is keeping the village in its claws.” On the second day of operations Tuesday, police numbers were reinforced to 800 and officers took control of about a quarter of the village, seizing “considerable quantities” of marijuana and ammunition, as well as drug-processing machinery. Amid nearcontinuous gunfire, they also destroyed 11,000 cannabis plants, and were planning to gingerly advance into gang-defended areas.

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FLOODING: ‘My everything’ Pushed back by rising water and debris, the man managed to climb on top of their horse trailer but couldn’t reach the camper. He was eventually rescued by helicopter but it was unable to reach the woman. She had been pinned underneath an uprooted tree near the campsite. He went back the next day, used a chainsaw to free her, then carried out her body. “Amber was my everything,” he says. “She was the only person I ever truly loved.” Rancourt is saving money to start a ranch for rescued animals that the couple had dreamed of opening someday. He’s also selling copies of the “Cowgirl Country Cookbook,” a collection of his wife’s recipes that she finished just before she died. She loved to cook, bake and decorate cakes, he says. His favourite treat? Her white-chocolate, macadamia-nut cookies, which she somehow turned into a cake on their wedding day. “We only had a short time together,” he says. “But it was a lifetime.”

Jacqueline Brocklebank, 33

Jacqui Brocklebank’s family describe her as a happy-go-lucky woman with an infectious smile, who was also stubborn and determined to live on her own in High River. Born with cerebral palsy, she worked various jobs at fast food restaurants and grocery stores, through a society that supports adults with developmental disabilities. She filled her home with plants, worked on intricate puzzles and was so sociable that she knew many people in town by name. She had a boyfriend in Calgary and two loyal cocker spaniels named Tazz and Bugs. When flooding hit the town, Brocklebank became worried when she couldn’t reach a friend by phone and took a cab to the woman’s home. Mac Brocklebank says his daughter took along her pets, who went everywhere with her. She found her friend and encouraged her to leave, but the pair found themselves struggling to walk through deep, raging water. They held onto each other, and the two dogs, for as long as they could. But Brocklebank went under. “It was like a small river coming at her,” says Brocklebank’s father. “She got washed off the sidewalk.” Her parents called her cellphone to make sure she got out of town, then grew worried when they couldn’t reach her. RCMP later told them they found her body. They never found her dogs. In her obituary, her family wrote that Brocklebank’s love of family and friends is why she headed into the flood, “as she would not leave her friend behind.” “She left this world helping others, which is what she loved doing. We are forever proud of our special girl.”

Dominic Pearce, 52

Dominic Pearce served in the army for several years before retiring as a sergeant. But with a young son in Nova Scotia, the man who hailed from a large family in Newfoundland’s Boyd’s Cove headed to northern Alberta’s oilsands like so many others from the East Coast before him.

When he had days off at a stretch, he sometimes went south to the High River home of his longtime friend Sean Morrow. Morrow says they’d drink beer while listening to music in the kitchen or head to a local bar where Pearce would buy a round for everyone in the joint. He could finish a crossword puzzle in a flash, says Morrow. And because of his time in the military, Pearce always looked clean cut. That’s why the day the town flooded, when Morrow’s girlfriend warned the men they needed to hurry and get out, Pearce took his time and shaved. When Pearce, Morrow and a friend named Fish left the house minutes later, the water was already up to their waists and too high for them to drive away in a truck. The three men waded into a nearby yard, found a small boat and grabbed two fence pickets for paddles. It was raining and freezing cold. The water was moving with force, says Morrow. At one point, the boat tipped over and Fish was able to get on top of a camper. Pearce and Morrow managed to scramble back into the boat, but they weren’t hopeful. “We both knew we were screwed,” Morrow says. They didn’t talk. Morrow says Pearce gave him a knowing look and a shrug as if to say, “It’s been fun but I think we’re going to die ... the party’s over.”’ The boat flipped again, says Morrow, and his friend was gone. Morrow managed to keep one hand on the boat and the other on something he believes was a garbage bin. A rescue crew in a motorboat picked him up, along with Fish. They searched briefly for Pearce, but Morrow told them it was no use. Pearce’s body was found the next day.

Lorraine Gerlitz, 83

Her Calgary condo was full of cat figurines. Each summer, there were pots full of pansies on her patio. Lorraine Gerlitz had no close family. She and her husband had worked with the homeless for several years at the Salvation Army before he died, and the couple had no children. She had a cat named Lucy. Gerlitz and her next-door neighbour Yvonne Scott became close friends. The pair went to church together on Sundays, exchanged meals of meatloaf and stew, and called each day to check in and make sure the other was fine. Gerlitz was growing frail, had had some recent bad falls and didn’t hear well, says Scott. But when police officers and firefighters knocked on the main floor units in the building, urging residents to flee, Scott thought Gerlitz would be fine. Scott’s two children were picking her up when she met Gerlitz in the hallway. “We gave each other a good hug and she kind of had tears in her eyes,” recalls the 79-year-old. “She said she’d be OK.” Gerlitz told her that if the flood came, she’d go up to a friend’s condo on the third floor. That friend, says Scott, assumed Gerlitz was with Scott. It wasn’t until a couple of days later, when Scott’s children took her home to assess the water damage, that they looked inside Gerlitz’s place and found her in her pyjamas, lying dead inside the doorway. Her cat was hiding on top of the kitchen cupboards. An autopsy determined Gerlitz had drowned, says Scott, but it remains a mystery as to why. Scott wonders if Gerlitz lost her footing on the slippery river water as it filled her condo, reaching about 1.5 metres high. Gerlitz left some money in her will to a cat charity, says Scott, and a family friend has adopted Lucy. Scott says she misses her dear friend. “I can’t believe that it’s been almost a year,” says Scott. “I’ll never forget her.”

Canada still isolates Iran, despite Iraq crisis BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government’s unyielding isolation of Iran persisted Tuesday, even as the United States and Britain explored how to enlist Tehran’s help in defusing the escalating crisis in Iraq. Britain announced it would re-open its embassy in Tehran while the U.S. said it was looking at other possible areas of co-operation in an effort to stop the violent offensive by militants across Iraq. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the “circumstances are right” for his country to re-open its embassy, which was closed in 2011 after it was attacked and ransacked. Canada followed suit in 2012, shuttering its embassy in the Iranian capital and expelling the country’s diplomats. A spokesman for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Canada’s relations with Tehran will remain severed until Iran can prove it is trustworthy. “We have a made-in-Canada foreign policy, and while we respect the decisions of our friends and allies, our position on Iran remains clear and one rooted in principle,” Baird’s spokesman Adam Hodge said in an email. “While we want to believe the regime is genuinely committed to positive change, we believe that actions speak louder than words. “Until Canada is given real reasons to trust the words of the regime, Canadian sanctions will remain in full force, and relations with Iran will remain suspended.” Hodge said Iran has sown mayhem in the region for decades by supporting terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah. “Iran continues to destabilize the region in countries like Syria and Iraq,” he said. “We believe co-operation with Iran deserves pause and reflection on their true intentions.” Baird cited the attack on the British embassy as one of the reasons behind the government’s decision to shut down its mission in the fall of 2012. The Harper government maintains that the safety of its diplomats is paramount. However, Hague told the British parliament that he believed his country’s diplomats would be able to carry out their duties unfettered. And he said he spoke to his Iranian counterpart on the weekend about doing more to improve relations. The embassy opening is part of a gradual rapprochement between Britain and Iran following the election of a new moderate Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, last August. British Prime Minister David Cameron telephoned Rouhani last fall, the first time the leaders of the two countries had spoken in more than a decade. The militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has taken control of several cities in Syria and Iraq. That has now given Iran a shared interest with the West: finding a way to bring stability to its Iraqi neighbour. The Obama administration is sending about 300 military personnel in and around Iraq to help secure its assets, and is also considering airstrikes.

Alberta First Nations sue Ottawa over drinking water BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Four Alberta First Nations have filed a lawsuit against the federal government in an effort to resolve long-standing drinking water problems. “We just want equality,” said Chief Jim Badger of the Sucker Creek First Nation, where water lines are tainted by poorly designed sewers. As well, cisterns are so inadequate that dead mice float in them, Badger said. “All we’re asking for is equality with what other, white people, have, that Indians are not allowed to have.” The court action — filed by the Tsu T’ina, Ermineskin, Sucker Creek and Blood First Nations — asks Federal Court to force Ottawa to upgrade their water systems, provide ongoing support to keep them operating safely and to refund money the bands say the government has saved over the years by not doing so. “Canada has avoided significant expenditures on account of its breaches of fiduciary duty and the obligations imposed by the honour of the Crown,” says a statement of claim filed Monday. “Canada should therefore be required to disgorge the benefits it has received as a result of its misconduct.”

The most recent estimate of the cost of bringing water treatment on reserves up to federal standards is about $1.2 billion, with another $470 million a year for maintenance. The lawsuit argues that Ottawa built substandard water treatment on the four reserves and then didn’t maintain them. “(The government) failed to build water system facilities to any enforceable building standard or operational standard,” says the claim. “(It also) failed to ensure water facilities were built in appropriate locations on-reserve, away from activities that had the potential to contaminate drinking water.” The results, the claim argues, have encouraged the breakup of First Nations communities, damaged the health of those who live there and slowed economic development. The failure to ensure one of the basic necessities of life is systematic discrimination, the lawsuit alleges. “(It) demeans the position of aboriginals relative to their non-aboriginal neighbours and reinforces the impoverished and disadvantaged position of aboriginal people within Canadian society.” Safe drinking water on reserves has been a public issue since before 2003, when a government report found

three-quarters of all water systems on reserves were at high or medium risk of failure. Two years later, the auditor general found higher standards needed to be backed up with sufficient resources. That conclusion was echoed the following year by a panel convened by then-aboriginal affairs minister Jim Prentice. A third study in 2011 found little had changed since 2003. Badger’s reserve isn’t the only one where water and sewer lines crosscontaminate. “A lot of our community members are suffering from stomach infections that are due to unsafe drinking water,” said Dorothy Firstrider of the Blood band. “A lot of our infants are constantly being treated for a lot of infections that are due to unhealthy drinking water.” Water on the Ermineskin reserve is often so bad members have to drive to the nearest town to buy bottled water, said Chief Craig Makinaw. The Harper government has said it’s spent about $3 billion since 2006 on aboriginal water systems. Lawyer Clayton Leonard, who represents the bands, said most of that was spent prior to the 2011 assessment.

“How many times do you get to reannounce the same amount of money? If you spent $2 billion, and then you find that 73 per cent of First Nations still face serious drinking water issues, it’s a pretty clear indication it’s not enough.” The government legislated tougher standards last fall that made bands responsible for operation of their water treatment facilities. Aboriginals say it’s not fair to give them the responsibility without the resources to back it up. The claim alleges that the transfer of responsibility for water didn’t come with the resources to do the job. “Canada knew ... that First Nations, including the plaintiff First Nations, did not have the resources or skills required to maintain and operate their already deficient water systems,” the statement says. “Further, Canada only partially funded the operations of on-reserve water treatment systems and maintenance costs regardless of a First Nation’s ability to generate the rest of the funding.” The lawsuit’s claims have not been proven in court. The federal government has not yet filed a statement of defence.

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Green light for Gateway ENBRIDGE PLOTS NEXT STEPS AFTER NORTHERN GATEWAY GETS FEDERAL NOD BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Enbridge Inc.’s controversial Northern Gateway proposal passed a key milestone on Tuesday, but the Calgary-based pipeline giant says it has a long-way to go before it decides to break ground. Ottawa gave the green light to the multibillion-dollar Alberta-to-West Coast project, subject to 209 conditions recommended by a regulatory panel late last year. But Enbridge still needs to cross a number of federal and provincial regulatory hurdles, fight a bevy of legal battles launched by opponents and win over communities along the proposed route. Enbridge CEO Al Monaco described the economic case as “straightforward” for a pipeline that would connect growing oilsands crude with eager buyers on the other side of the Pacific. But he acknowledged that’s not enough to proceed. “If we can’t prove out safety and environmental protection on these projects, the economic benefits won’t matter,” he said in a conference call with reporters. “In other words, the economic benefits alone are not enough to sustain public support.” Enbridge will be working to meet the panel’s conditions — more than 100 of which must be met before shovels can even hit the dirt — during the next 12 to 15 months. The earliest possible in-service date would be 2018. He said Enbridge won’t put off building the pipeline indefinitely, but

The art of sewing is alive and well in Red Deer. At least that’s the observation of Carrie White, owner of Sew Savvy Café. Since opening her sewing-themed coffee shop in April 2013, the accomplished seamstress has had a growing number of students come to her for lessons. But changes are pending, White confirmed on Tuesday. Most notably, she plans to relocate from her current No. 103, 4916 Ross St. premises to 5005 Ross St. There, she’ll share the building that was the longtime home of Red Deer Community Clothing Service — better known as the Red Deer Clothing Bank — with Red Deer Hot Yoga and an a related juice and smoothie bar business. White said the new space is better suited to her needs, although she plans to discontinue Sew Savvy Café’s food and beverage service. “There will no longer be a café portion, so the word ‘café’ will be used differently.” White explained that customers will be able to grab refreshments at the nearby juice and smoothie bar, and enjoy them in her space. “There will still be a social environment,” she said, adding that the sewing classes will become her focus, along with the growing demand for custom work, such as prototype garments for textile businesses. Sew Savvy Café will also continue to sell fabrics and rent sewing machines by the hour or day. White is optimistic that having three businesses in close proximity to each other will create synergies. “This should work out great,” she said, pointing out that her old premises are too big for her needs. She said she wants to remain in Red Deer’s downtown. “I fell in love with the community,” said White, who moved to Red Deer from Oklahoma about seven years ago. White expects to close out her existing shop the last week of July, and reopen at her new location by midAugust. She anticipates that Sew Savvy Café will then operate from Monday to Saturday as compared with its current Tuesday-to-Saturday schedule. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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it’s in no hurry to give it the final goahead either. “We’re not going to be driven by our calendars or watches here. We’re going to take this one step at a time,” said Monaco. On the call, Monaco touted the slate of pipelines it has in the hopper to connect Alberta crude to eastern and southern markets. The good news, some observers say,

pacity of all pipelines currently proposed will be needed, said Stringham. Jack Mintz, with the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy, said demand from new markets isn’t going to diminish. “There’s huge Asian coker demand for oil and I think that demand is not going to disappear,” he said.

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If the energy sector is too volatile for your entrepreneurial taste, you might want to sling hamburgers instead. Dave Yager illustrated this point during a presentation in Red Deer on Tuesday. One of three panelists taking part in an energy services breakfast organized by Alberta Oil magazine, the 43-year veteran of the oilpatch produced a graph that plotted hamburger sales against drilling rig activity. The line representing the burger business ran straight and level, while the record for the drilling industry spiked up and down erratically. Yager, who is currently the national leader of oilfield services with nation-

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ENERGY SERVICES BREAKFAST al accounting and consulting firm MNP LLP, emphasized the unpredictable nature of the oil and gas sector. He got no arguments from his fellow panelists: Shane Walper, president and CEO of Red Deer-based Predator Drilling Inc.; and Travis Robertson, president and CEO of Jewel Energy Services Inc., also headquartered in Red Deer. Walper recalled the rollercoaster ride he and his partners experienced after they founded Predator in 2008. “That was absolutely one of the worst times a guy could have started a business,” he said, reflecting how oil prices tumbled with the onset of the recession.

Walper contrasted that period with the preceding decade, which was characterized by steady growth and prosperity in the energy sector. “There was no down side. It was all just straight up.” Robertson listed some of the technological advancements that have shaken up the industry in recent years: longer and deeper horizontal wells, and increasingly complex fracking operations. There’s also been a massive shift to oil wells away from gas plays. “The market,” he added, “volatile like nothing else on earth.”

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GATEWAY: Growing market “In fact, the Asian market is actually the growing market for oil products and there is a very big demand for Canadian oil.” Laura Lau, a senior portfolio manager with the Brompton Group, agrees the window of opportunity should stay open for some time, given the rate at which oilsands production is expected to grow. “We still need as many pipelines as possible, so perhaps it would be past the end of this decade,” she said. However, Lau believes other pipeline proposals to the south and east, such as TransCanada’s Keystone XL and Energy East, have a much better chance of going ahead than Northern Gateway, given the First Nations and political challenges that are specific to British Columbia. Enbridge’s most recent estimates put the price tag of the project at $6.5 billion, but the company has said costs are sure to go up. The joint review panel’s report pegged the cost at $7.9 billion, including $500 million for marine infrastructure. “The ultimate question is whether the pipeline just becomes way too expensive to build,” said Dylan Jones, with the Canada West Foundation. “And if there’s something that kills it, it’s going to be a combination of the challenge of building support in British Columbia and the cost.” Jones praised the “humble” tone Enbridge’s leadership has been taking lately on Northern Gateway and that he’s optimistic the line will ultimately be built. “It has never been good for Canada to be so dependent on the United States,” said Jones. “Even if we secure a good access through the East Coast, there’s still going to continue to be a strategic imperative for Canada around accessing the Pacific in a cost-effective way.” The Joint Review Panel set December 31, 2016 as a deadline for Enbridge to start building the project, unless the National Energy Board says otherwise.

ENERGY: Oilsands boom Yager reflected on how the total value of oil and gas produced in Canada grew from $26.5 billion in 1998 to $145 billion in 2008 — a 550 per cent increase. Revenues then tumbled by some $40 billion in 2009, but are on track this year to hit a record $157 billion. Natural gas went from $8 billion in 1999 to $52 billion in 2005, and then back down to $12 billion in 2012. “Complete asset classes were rendered useless,” he said of natural gas production. Meanwhile, revenue from the oilsands has gone from $2 billion 15 years ago to a projected $60 billion this year. “The oilsands boom is just absolutely phenomenal,” said Yager. Even on an annual basis, the oil and gas sector fluctuates wildly, pointed out Walper. “If you look at the drilling side of the business, we go from 400 rigs kind of working in the off season to 800, 850 rigs working come December. That is an incredible draw on resources, manpower, finances, you name it. “No two cycles are probably identical,” added Walper, stressing that companies must be agile and learn quickly. When it comes to coping with the ups and downs, Robertson said diversification seems to help. He also suggested “putting a steering wheel on your business” by strategically choosing equipment, location, people and products. You can also prepare for adversity through such measures as developing inhouse skills and working as a team. Walper agreed that skilled personnel and teamwork are keys, as are having a commitment to learn, and processes and procedures to organize and streamline your operation. Yager stressed the importance of maintaining a healthy balance sheet, noting that debt is a killer during bad times. He added that there are a minefield of potential problems that oilfield service companies can’t do anything about: commodity prices, currency exchange rates, interest rates, investor enthusiasm, government policy, weather, worker demographics, technological change and global events. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

North Dakota oil production hits 1 million barrels a day BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WILLISTON, N.D. — North Dakota has joined the ranks of the few places in the world that produce more than a million barrels of oil per day, due in large part to the rich Bakken shale formation in the western part of the state. The April figures released Tuesday by the state’s Department of Mineral Resources showed the record tally. North Dakota had flirted with the millionbarrel-per-day mark for months, but the harsh winter slowed the pace. In March, production had hit 977,000 barrels per day. North Dakota’s oil fields now represent more than 12 per cent of all U.S. oil production, and more than 1 per cent of global production — a situation unfathomable just a decade ago, when technology hadn’t yet caught up to the challenge of extracting oil from the shale. Since then, the oil boom and the jobs it brings have transformed North Dakota, now home to the nation’s fastest-growing cities and its lowest unemployment rate. “Reaching the 1 million barrel a day mark is a tremendous and timely milestone for the petroleum industry and our state, but it is also a tremendous milestone for our nation,” U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, a Republican, said in a statement, citing the need for the United States to build its domestic energy resources. North Dakota joins Texas, Alaska, California and Louisiana as the only states ever to produce more than a million barrels per day. Of those, Texas is the only other state still producing above that level. “Until April, only Texas, one Canadian province and 19 countries were producing 1 million barrels per day, putting North Dakota among the top oil producers in the entire world,” said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, an oil lobbying group. The state’s production is still dwarfed by behemoths such as Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest producer with nearly 10 million barrels of oil per day.

Costly cattle problem Much more than a plot line from a western novel, this month’s brazen theft of cattle in Eastern Alberta is a stark reminder of the downside of the upswing in ranchers’ fortunes. Cattle rustling is one of the oldest crimes on the Prairies, yet those who raise livestock fear it’s been relegated to a novelty status, the kind of story reporters can bring out their best “cow puns” for, and the kind of case for rookie lawyers (if the perpetrators are ever caught). But as cattle prices continue to raise the ceiling to new heights across North America, that may have to change. DIANNE Thankfully, Alberta at least FINSTAD has an RCMP Livestock Investigation Unit, which has been busier than ever. The latest case it’s asking for the public’s help on involves the theft of 59 heifers from a farm near Czar, in the Provost region. At current market value, those feeder heifers are worth about $80,000. Ranch owner Allan Hobbs is prepared to put up a $25,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the missing cattle. Corp. Dave Heaslip has been chasing rustlers and their ilk for years. In this case, the RCMP livestock investigator is confident the animals didn’t just break through a fence. They were in an 80-acre field, right near the feedlot in the main farm yard, and were fed and checked regularly. They were branded and tagged — all the things that are supposed to help in cases like this. “We suspect the animals were taken by someone who knew the daily routine so evaded detection,” said Heaslip. The number was just right for a full load in a straight haul livestock trailer, which could have been filled relatively quickly. Allan Hobbs admits theirs is a busy yard. With the feedlot, and the fact the family buys and sells feed,

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The RCMP are on the lookout for 59 heifers stolen from a farm near Czar. vehicles are coming and going regularly. But one of those departing rigs must have contained their cattle. “There were supposed to be 192 head, and when we brought them in to sort and haul them off for summer pasture the first week of May, that’s when we noticed ‘holy smokes, we’re short,’” exclaimed Hobbs. It was a gut-wrenching discovery. “It felt like I had a target on my back,” admitted the rancher, whose faith in his fellow man has been shaken. “But it’s not a real first for the area. These thefts have been going on for quite some time. About three years ago, a potload and a half of cows and calves went missing from south of Czar, and they never did find a trace of them. It’s an ongoing issue.” Like so much of rural Alberta, this region is big country, with miles between ranches, and traffic usually sparse. But there is routine and rhythm to farm work, and Hobbs believes someone had been studying their operation. “Oh, I think so. I think they’re very organized, and I think they knew where those cattle were going before they picked them up.”

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Myths about RRSPs “Derek, I’ve heard it’s possible to get money out of your RRSP tax-free. Is that true?” I hear that question quite often — and it’s certainly not true — but what is true is that there seems to be a lot of myths and misconceptions about registered retirement savings plans (RRSPs) that should be addressed. To answer your question specifically, you can’t get money out of an RRSP taxfree, just like you can’t convince your employer to pay you tax-free. Those who claim that it is possible, use a leveraged asset strategy where the interest on the loan is used to offset the income from a client’s registered retirement income fund (RRIF) — a risky venture to say the least. Before considering this strategy, please ensure you have done your research and consider a DEREK second opinion. FUCHS Another common myth is that if you contribute to a spousal RRSP you can get twice the amount of annual deductions: one for the contribution in your account and another for the one you made in your spouse’s account. This is a common misconception. The simplest way of remembering who can take the deduction is to remember that an individual has only one deduction limit based on him/her having earned income (or carryforwards) from a previous year. In the case where spouse A wants to contribute to spouse B’s RRSP, the contribution must be made based on spouse A’s RRSP limit. For example, Jane has a limit (let’s say it’s $20,000) and can choose to contribute to her own RRSP or to John’s RRSP. Even if John also has a limit of $20,000, the most Jane can contribute is still $20,000, based on her own limits. Jane cannot use John’s contribution room, although Jane could fund John’s contribution, but John will get the tax deduction. There can be benefits to contributing to a spousal RRSP, but it’s best to discuss that with your adviser and accountant. Another common myth is that once investors contribute they have to claim the full amount as a deduction for that year. The truth is, many people lose sight of the fact that once the contribution is made the deduction does not have to be claimed and can be carried forward to a future tax year.

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This can be a good strategy when an individual wants to take advantage of tax-deferred growth now, but knows they will be in a higher tax bracket in the future and will therefore get a better deduction. Consult your accountant for specifics on this. Most investors assume that once they turn 71 they are no longer eligible to contribute to an RRSP. Nothing could be further from the truth. No piece of legislation exists that states there are any age restrictions on making an RRSP contribution. Whether young or old, individuals can make a contribution as long as they have earned income in a previous year or at least have a carryforward amount from a previous year. What this means, of course, is that someone who is over the age of 71 who has had to collapse their RRSP can still make a spousal contribution. This, of course, assumes that the spouse still has an RRSP ( is 71 or younger) and the contributor is able to contribute because he/she either had earned income the previous year or still has carryforwards that were never used. Some investors believe that they may only contribute cash to their RRSP. The truth is that you don’t have to use cash. You can in fact also use stocks and bonds and make what is known as a “contribution-in-kind.” The thing to remember is that the contribution of the asset is considered a disposition for tax purposes and as a result, tax would have to be paid on the capital gain. It is also vital to remember that if a capital loss should result from the transfer, this loss cannot be used for tax purposes. Lastly, many investors believe that they can sell an investment to create a capital loss and then buy back the security in their RRSP. This is actually true! Contrary to popular belief, this is a recognized and acceptable tax planning strategy. The idea here is that you would first sell the security that is held outside of your RRSP. Once the loss has been realized, you turn around and reacquire the security in your RRSP. This creates a capital loss and you maintain ownership of the position — a winwin. Regardless of what strategy you’re considering, all of these concepts should be discussed with a qualified accountant. RRSPs and RRIFs have lots of myths and misconceptions and it’s important that you understand how best to use these powerful tools. Happy Investing! Derek Fuchs is a wealth adviser with ScotiaMcLeod in Red Deer, and a certified financial planner, financial management adviser and a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. He can be contacted at derek.fuchs@ scotiamcleod.com.

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A second Central Alberta business has joined the Profit 500 club. WA Grain & Pulse Solutions is ranked 18th on Profit magazine’s 2014 list of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. The Innisfail company, which buys and sells cereals, pulses and oilseeds, was founded in 2007 by Chris and Tracey Chivilo. Between 2008 and 2013, WA Grain & Pulse Solutions’ revenues increased by 2,733 per cent . Last year, it had 34 employees and processing facilities in Bashaw, Bowden and Vanguard, Sask. Also on Profit’s 2014 list is Red Deer’s Rifco Inc., which provides consumer loans for new and used vehicles. It came in at 261 this year, and was ranked 85th in 2013. The Profit rankings are based on revenue growth over a five-year period. The full list can be found online at PROFITguide. com, and will be published in the July issue of Canadian Business.

The role: The Nurse Practitioner in the street clinic provides primary care to the Vulnerable Population in Red Deer’s Downtown core. You perform comprehensive assessment, diagnosis (including the ordering and interpretation of tests), intervention (including the prescribing of medications), management, referral and evaluation of clients. You will work under a physician mentorship model. You will develop relationships with community agencies to ensure clients are connected to the services of the clinic. Your qualifications: You must be registered to practice as a nurse practitioner in Alberta. Experience working with the vulnerable population is an asset. Application Deadline: June 23, 2014 Please submit your resume to: hr@rdpcn.com or by fax: 403.342.9502. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Thank you for applying with the Red Deer Primary Care Network. To learn more about the Red Deer PCN please visit our website www.reddeerpcn.com.

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Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 103.50 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.70 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.40 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 48.02 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market racked up a small gain Tuesday as commodities mostly fell despite continuing uncertainty in Iraq, while south of the border the U.S. Federal Reserve began a two-day policy meeting. The S&P/TSX composite index added 15.46 points to 15,055.89. The Canadian dollar dipped 0.19 of a cent to 92.05 cents US. Traders were cautious as they awaited the outcome of the Fed meeting and its latest economic outlook, due for release Wednesday. The meeting is taking place amid news from the U.S. Labor Department that American consumer prices rose 0.4 per cent in May, the biggest one-month jump since February 2013, pushed up by the rising cost of food and gasoline and the biggest hike in airline fares in 15 years. The U.S. central bank is expected to cut its monthly bond purchases by $10 billion to US$35 billion a month but traders will be looking for clues as to the Fed’s intentions on tapering going forward. The stimulus has helped keep long-term borrowing rates low and supported equity markets. Wall Street was higher, with the Dow Jones industrials up 27.48 points to 16,808.49, the Nasdaq 16.12 points higher at 4,337.23 and the S&P 500 index ahead 4.21 points at 1,941.99. Meanwhile, Ottawa’s long-awaited decision on Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline was due after markets closed Tuesday. The $7-billion, 1,200-kilometre pipeline would link crude from the Alberta oilsands to a terminal in Kitimat on the British Columbia coast for shipment overseas. The project has already received approval from a joint panel of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency but faces stiff opposition from many First Nations, who have threatened court chal-

Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 19.86 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.46 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.75 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74.99 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 24.95 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 18.54 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.33 First Quantum Minerals . 21.30 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 27.23 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . . 9.72 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.44 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.00 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.92 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.49 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 23.27 Energy Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.79 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 36.30 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 71.35 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.00 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 60.99 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 47.35 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 24.22 Canyon Services Group. 17.70 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 33.99 CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.09 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 26.66 lenges if the project gets the green light. Shares in Enbridge (TSX:ENB) gained 45 cents to $51.96. Commodity prices were mostly lower after enjoying a bump last week as a result of the deteriorating military situation in Iraq. About 300 U.S. soldiers are being moved into position to protect the U.S. Embassy and other American interests as President Barack Obama weighs options for dealing with the al-Qaida inspired militants who have captured a vast swath of the country’s north. Iraq’s crude oil exports have so far not been disrupted, but the conflict had raised concern about whether the country can rebuild its oil infrastructure and meet global demand. The July crude contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange declined 54 cents to US$106.36 a barrel. Investors did not flock to gold either, which is usually seen as safe haven amid geopolitical uncertainty. August bullion was down $3.30 to US$1,272 an ounce, while July copper was up a penny at US$3.06 a pound. MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,055.89, up 15.46 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,006.05, up 7.36 points TSX 60 — 859.71, up 0.90 of a point Dow — 16,808.49, up 27.48 points S&P 500 — 1,941.99, up 4.21 points Nasdaq — 4,337.23, up 16.12 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.05 cents US, down 0.19 of a cent Pound — C$1.8427, up 0.18 of a cent Euro — C$1.4713, up 0.01 of a cent

Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.67 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.42 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 67.61 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.28 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 36.50 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 56.09 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.52 Penn West Energy . . . . . 10.71 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.115 Precision Drilling Corp . 115.20 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 46.32 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.47 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 17.50 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 12.62 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 75.66 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 76.89 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.01 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.64 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 39.08 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.94 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 29.60 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.17 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 73.11 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 20.90 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.99 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.55 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.18 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 38.92 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.59 Euro — US$1.3542, down 0.28 of a cent Oil futures: US$106.36 per barrel, down 54 cents (July contract) Gold futures: US$1,272.00 per oz., down $3.30 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.214 oz., down 2.4 cents $714.18 kg., down 77 cents TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 1,006.05, up 7.36 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 135.46 million shares. ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $3.40 higher $470.80; Nov. ’14 $4.40 lower $457.50; Jan ’15 $4.40 lower $463.60; March ’15 $4.10 lower $466.90; May ’15 $4.00 lower $469.20; July ’15 $4.00 lower $470.80; Nov ’15 $4.00 lower $472.00; Jan. ’16 $4.00 lower $466.00; March ’16 $4.00 lower $469.50; May ’16 $4.00 lower $469.50; July ’16 $4.00 lower $469.50. Barley (Western): July ’14 $10.00 lower $125.00; Oct. ’14 $7.50 higher $132.50; Dec. ’14 $7.50 higher $134.50; March ’15 $7.50 higher $135.50; May ’15 $7.50 higher $135.50; July ’15 $7.50 higher $135.50; Oct. ’15 $7.50 higher $135.50; Dec. ’15 $7.50 higher $135.50; March ’16 $7.50 higher $135.50; May ’16 $7.50 higher $135.50; July ’16 $7.50 higher $135.50. Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 320,980 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 320,980.

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CATTLE: Sizable reward offer is the first time they’ve done this.” For the Hobbs farm, it’s a search and recovery operation. But for other ranchers, Corp. Heaslip advises vigilance in these heady economic times for the beef business. “We’re asking guys, if you’re going to put your cattle out on pasture, check to see who the neighbors are. Tell them what you drive, and who’d be checking the cattle. Out in the rural community, everybody knows what’s going on. Always brand your cattle. If you’re checking them once or twice a week, maybe you’d better check them three times a week, because time is of the essence.” There have been

some tips coming in on the Hobbs case, and as costly as it would be, Allan Hobbs is convinced his sizable reward offer for the cattle, the arrest, and conviction of the criminal would be a small price to pay for the greater good of his farm, and the cattle industry. “I would pay it in a heartbeat.” If you have any information about this crime, you can Allan Hobbs at 780-842-7106, your local RCMP detachment or Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477. Dianne Finstad is a veteran broadcaster and reporter who has covered agricultural news in Central Alberta for more than 30 years. From the Field appears monthly in the Advocate.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Alberta is expected to lead the provinces in Western Canada and the rest of the country in economic growth this year, according to a report by the Conference Board. The board predicted Tuesday in its spring provincial outlook that Alberta’s economy will grow by 3.5 per cent this year compared with 3.9 per cent last year, helped by an influx of migrants to the province and investment spending. However, it also cautioned that while exports and consumer spending are forecast to remain strong heading into 2015, a second consecutive year of slower investment will see growth to slow to 3.1 per cent for Alberta next year. “Economic prospects have brightened for several provinces, as the expected strengthening in the U.S. economy will help boost real GDP growth on this side of the border over the next two years,” said Marie Christine Bernard, the report’s author and an associate director at the board. “Atlantic and Central Canada are expected to gather more momentum in 2015, and even stronger growth is expected in Western Canada.” In its outlook, the Ottawa-based think tank noted B.C. is expected to grow by 2.3 per cent, up from two per cent in 2013, while Manitoba is expected to grow by 2.1 per cent, helped by

increased public infrastructure spending, but down slightly from the 2.2 per cent pace set last year. Meanwhile, growth in Saskatchewan is expected to slow to 0.8 per cent from 4.8 per cent last year. However, the province is expected to have the lowest unemployment rate in the country, the report said. Overall, the Canadian economy is expected to grow by 2.1 per cent this year compared with two per cent in 2013. Nova Scotia is expected to post the strongest growth outside Western Canada with a gain of 2.3 per cent compared with 0.8 per cent in 2013, helped by natural gas production from Deep Panuke and upgrades at Irving Shipbuilding. The reported noted that both Ontario and Quebec are wrestling with large fiscal deficits that will limit the ability of the provincial governments to add to economic output. Growth in Ontario is expected come in at 1.8 per cent as the U.S. recovery picks up speed, up from 1.2 per cent last year, while the Quebec economy is expected to grow by 1.7 per cent, up from 1.1 per cent. New Brunswick is forecast to grow by 1.1 per cent compared with no growth in 2013, while Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to cool to 1.3 per cent from 7.9 per cent last year. Prince Edward Island’s growth is expected to come in at 1.3 per cent, down from 1.4 per cent in 2013.

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Dairy cows are pictured at the Kooyman family dairy farm in Chilliwack, B.C. last week. The B.C. Milk Marketing Board says it will destroy milk from a farm where staff were captured on video allegedly beating cattle.

B.C. milk board to destroy milk from farm accused of abuse BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Milk produced on a British Columbia farm where workers were captured on video allegedly beating cattle will be destroyed, says the industry’s regulatory board. Tuesday’s announcement by the BC Milk Marketing Board came one day after dairy-food giant Saputo Inc. (TSX:SAP) said it would not accept milk from Chilliwack Cattle Sales. The SPCA in B.C. has recommended charges against eight fired employees of the Fraser Valley farm, after Mercy for Animals Canada publicized the undercover video filmed by the group. A notice published online by the milk board states processors do not want any product from the company until independent audits of its operations are complete. “The board will act in accordance with processor requests and, due to

a lack of market, the milk will be destroyed,” the board said in the notice. It did not say how much milk would be destroyed. No one from Chilliwack Cattle Sales was immediately available for comment Tuesday but farm owner Jeff Kooyman has described the video as “horrifying to watch.” He has previously said that he didn’t know why the young men seen on the video kicking, punching and beating the animals with pipes took such action. Charges have not yet been laid and the allegations have not been proven in court. Kooyman has said the dairy operation will put in security cameras that will be monitored and would work with the SPCA on better training for staff. The board initially suspended milk pickup from the farm but it resumed this week after the board announced it was satisfied that animal-welfare issues were being addressed.

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Hobbs and his sons run the mixed farming outfit that’s been going for 104 years. Their distinctive “Lazy H C running bar” brand would not be easy to alter, but Hobbs suspects those heifers may end up in a remote pasture as breeding animals that never come to town, to avoid detection. But he’s hoping his sizable reward offer might still lead to the recovery of the animals. “We want to catch who did this. Look, I’m out $80,000 now. If I get the heifers back, and if I pay the $25,000 reward out, I’m still $55,000 ahead of where I am now. The more we can get the word out there, the more people will be vigilant, and not only in this case, but in other cases as well.” Hobbs calls cattle rustling a real problem, with not very real consequences. “The thing is these guys who are doing it have nothing to lose, and if they get caught, there’s really no penalty. They’ll get a small fine, maybe a year’s probation, and then they’ll go back and do it again. “We need to fix the justice system so there’s some recrimination for these criminals. We need some tougher penalties, something with some teeth in it, that will make them think twice if they get caught. “The industry is going to have to address this theft issue. It’s been ongoing forever, and it’s getting worse, because things are worth so much. It’s really hard because it’s straight loss for the producer that loses them. “If somebody out there has any information on any of this, maybe we can break this ring up, and do some good. Because I don’t think this

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Cote chosen to coach Midget AAA Chiefs FORMER BENTLEY GENERALS COACH TAKING OVER REINS FROM DOUG QUINN teaching involved with the younger guys,” he said. “At the senior level, the teaching isn’t necessarily the most important part, it’s getting people to buy Clearly, Brandin Cote relishes a in as a team. “At the same time, hockey is hockey. challenge. Just as he did when he replaced Bri- You have to be able to expect the best an Sutter as head coach of the Bentley out of your players, you expect them Generals in 2012, Cote is following a to come to work every day. Over the tough act as the new bench boss of the last five to 10 years both the Bentley five-time defending Alberta Midget Generals and the Optimist Chiefs have Hockey League champion Red Deer enjoyed the kind of success that requires a lot of commitment from both Optimist Chiefs. the coaches and players.” The Red Deer Minor Helping develop future Hockey Association anjunior, university and even nounced Tuesday that pro players is another key Cote has been hired as the element of coaching at the Chiefs head coach. Cote midget AAA level, Cote inreplaces Doug Quinn, who sisted. was at the helm of the club “The teaching part is refor all five of the recent ally important, as is the deglory years. velopment of the players,” “After Doug came out he said. “Doug and his staff and said he wouldn’t be did that very well. They coaching the team next had a good group of playseason, a couple of people ers, but they obviously also approached me and asked had a plan in place and deif I was interested,” said veloped players. Cote. “After Dallas (RDBrandin Cote “The real measure of MHA manager Gaume) success with those teams contacted me, I thought it is not necessarily the prothrough and talked to my family. I had to figure out a few things to see if this vincial and (two) Telus Cup championships, which are great, but all the playwas a commitment I could make. “In the end, I decided I wanted to ers who moved on to the junior levget back into coaching this year, so I els and university and college. That’s where you see the real success.” put my name in and it worked out OK.” In just five years, Quinn established Cote played five seasons with the Spokane Chiefs of the Western Hockey himself as somewhat of a coaching legLeague and seven years of pro hockey end in Red Deer. The shoes that Cote before joining the senior AAA Bentley is stepping into are very large indeed, although he’s confident that he’s up to Generals for one and a half seasons. He caught the coaching bug as an the task. “I look at it as a very similar situaassistant to then Red Deer College Queens bench boss Trevor Keeper dur- tion to when I took over Bentley,” he ing the 2011-12 season and was then said. “The Advocate headline at the time approached by Generals general manager Jeff McInnis in regards to tak- was ‘Cote has big shoes to fill.’ That’s ing the Chinook Hockey League club’s what most people are saying now, and maybe it’s true, but I don’t really view head coaching reins. Cote coached the Generals to the it that way. I’m very confident in my 2013 Allan Cup championship in what abilities as a coach. I’m not going to be turned out to be his only season behind feeling any pressure, I’m just going to the team’s bench. Having just complet- go out and do what I love to do. “At the end of the day you set the ed his education degree at RDC and with a teaching job at Red Deer St. bar high and you expect that from Patrick’s Community School secured, your players and from yourself. I know he realized he didn’t have the time to we’re going to put the best possible plan in place and these kids are going put into another year of coaching. “I knew it would be too much to con- to be prepared and expected to come tinue with both this past season. I was to work every day. If we all do that facing too much of a learning curve as we’ll give ourselves a great chance to a first-year teacher,” he said. “I just be successful as a team and for them to needed a little break to regroup a bit develop as players and people.” Cote has already enlisted Justin Jarand kind of get familiar with my new molicz to help him behind the bench job and spend time with my family. “I took a year off and realized I defi- during the 2014-15 season and hopes to nitely missed it. Coaching is definitely add more assistant coaches. Jarmolicz something I envision myself doing for coached the minor midget AAA North a long time and something I’m passion- Star Sports Chiefs last winter. “I have more people in mind,” said ate about. After thinking about this opportunity and making sure I can put Cote. “I’ve talked to a few people that I’ve forth the commitment, I decided to apcoached with and interacted with . . . ply.” Cote knows he’s stepping into new I’m kind of in that process. Obviously territory, that coaching at the top se- you can’t do it all yourself. You need nior and midget levels requires differ- good people around you.” ● The RDMHA also announced ent mindsets. “At the end of the day, the biggest Tuesday that Tom Bast will return as difference between coaching men head coach of the major midget girls and coaching teenagers is that there’s Sutter Fund Chiefs. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com probably a little more patience and BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

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Mexico’s Jose Juan Vazquez, left, holds Brazil’s Dani Alves during the group A World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Tuesday.

No easy games for World Cup favorites MEXICO PLAYS BRAZIL TO DRAW, BELGIUM NEEDS LATE GOALS TO GET BY ALGERIA BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — The headline from the World Cup, Day 6: Big favourite Brazil is vulnerable. Those who thought the World Cup host or world champion Spain — thumped 5-1 last week by the Netherlands — would walk away with this should think again. Proving the old adage that there are no easy games in football’s showcase, Brazil failed to beat Mexico for the first time at the World Cup, held Tuesday to a 0-0 draw in their second game in Group A. Belgium — a long-shot pick for the title — also struggled to break down Algeria, but got help off its bench to win 2-1 in Belo Horizonte. In steamy Cuiaba, an evenly matched and entertaining back-andforth contest ended Russia 1, South Korea 1. Substitutes scored all but one of the five goals on Tuesday, proving the importance of having a Plan B. All 32 teams have now played at least once. The Netherlands and Germany, which scored four Monday against Portugal, are the standouts so far. With Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe

Bryant in the crowd of 60,342, Tuesday’s big surprise was Brazil’s failure to find the net in the northeastern city of Fortaleza. With Neymar rampant through the middle, Marcelo ever-willing to go forward and Oscar supplying passes and inventiveness, Brazil should be able to score almost at will. Time and again, Brazil’s yellow shirts swarmed over Mexico’s penalty box. But shots and passes went awry, Mexican goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa made outstanding saves and Brazil is clearly missing a top-notch centre-forward. Other attackers — Thomas Mueller for Germany, the Netherlands’ duo of Robin Van Persie and Arjen Robben, France’s Karim Benzema — all bought their scoring boots to Brazil, finding the net at least twice. Neymar also got two for Brazil in its opening 3-1 defeat of Croatia. But his teammate Fred is yet to get off the mark. Mistiming his run, the striker had a first-half effort disallowed for offside, didn’t weigh heavily on the game and was substituted in the second half. This was the second scoreless draw at this tournament, where goals have rained in.

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Bernard announces retirement from competitive curling BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canadian skip Cheryl Bernard feels she could still compete at an elite level for the next year or two. She’s just unsure whether she could still do it for a fouryear Olympic cycle. That was one of the reasons why she announced her retirement from competitive curling on Tuesday, ending a career highlighted by four appearances at the national championships and an Olympic silver medal at the Vancouver Games in 2010. “When you’ve been there, that’s really all you want is to get back,” she said from her hometown of Calgary. “It’s a funny thing, so I realize that.” Bernard, 47, said she started to seriously consider retirement after losing the Alberta provincial final to Val Sweeting last January. “I really had to sit down and think,” she said. “We came so close and that was a heartbreaker. Funny, I’ve lost a few of them. And that one was without a doubt the worst because it would have just been a really neat way to may-

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Canada skip Cheryl Bernard calls after a shot at the Olympic Centre on Feb. 25, 2010 in Vancouver. Bernard announced her retirement from competitive curling on Tuesday. be end the year and at least have a couple more years to look forward to.” Bernard skipped Team Alberta at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts in 1992, 1996, 2007 and 2009. The best result for the Grande Prairie native was a runner-up finish in 1996 at Thunder Bay, Ont.

One of her most memorable victories came over a decade later as she defeated Shannon Kleibrink in the final of the Olympic Trials in 2009 at Edmonton. At the Games, Bernard and her team of third Susan O’Connor, second Carolyn Darbyshire (now McRorie), lead

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Cori Bartel (now Morris) and alternate Kristie Moore took top spot in the round robin at 8-1. They defeated Switzerland in the semifinal before dropping a 7-6 decision to defending champion Anette Norberg of Sweden in the final. Bernard had the final throw in the extra end but couldn’t knock the two Swedish rocks out of the house and settled for second place. “I tried to really look at the positive that came out of that,” Bernard said. “I really wanted to go through my life looking at it like our team won a silver and we didn’t lose a gold.” Both competitions provided lasting memories. “(The Trials) are kind of the pinnacle for Canada because it’s all the Canadian teams and it’s all your peers,” she said. “They’re both so up there in my memory and in my mind. Being able to stand on the (Olympic) podium in your own country. I’ll never forget that, that was pretty neat.” Now that she’s retired, Bernard plans to spend more time with her family and continue her charity work and public speaking endeavours.

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She usually brings her silver medal along during her talks and the gold-medal game is a frequent discussion subject. “I relive it a lot,” she said. “I talk about that and I have realized that sometimes you’re lucky enough to win and sometimes you’re lucky enough not to win. Because I think the things you get from a loss can sometimes be more educational, they can be more lifechanging than the things when you win. “I think you look at a lot of different things after a loss and I think you can actually do a lot of good with that knowledge and see some really great life lessons. I really try to look at that as some great lessons I learned. I learned some amazing things about my teammates and about my family. You learn a lot when something doesn’t maybe go exactly like you hoped.” Bernard is excited to tackle some new challenges. She recently completed her first marathon and plans to work with World Vision and climb Mount Kilimanjaro to help children in Third World countries.

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Szabados stronger through adversity OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALLIST GOALTENDER SPOKE ABOUT HER ADVERSITY IN THE GAME OF HOCKEY DURING RED DEER SPECIAL OLYMPICS CELEBRITY BREAKFAST BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Shannon Szabados is no stranger to adversity. She has battled it as the girl goalie on boys hockey teams going back to her minor hockey days, but what she and the rest of her Canadian Olympic teammates went through in the past year en rout to gold was unlike anything she had experienced before. On Tuesday morning, she spoke in front of a sold out Harvest Centre for the annual Red Deer Special Olympics Celebrity Breakfast, with a message of being formed through adversity. “Adversity makes better teammates and players, but it also makes better people as well,” she said. The Edmonton product grew up watching Bill Ranford and her beloved Oilers at the end of their dynasty, it was her dream to follow in their footsteps in some capacity. Szabados, 27, started playing the game when she was five years old, at a time when girls hockey was not an option. Gender, however, did not become an issue until she earned a spot on a bantam AAA team. The league came to her with two demands, to cut her long hair — because it was distracting — and to sign a contract agreeing to use a separate change room. She refused both. When she entered the Alberta Junior Hockey League with the Sherwood Park Crusaders in 2002, the league had to vote on whether they would allow a girl to play or not. Even a team website had a poll question to the same effect, and 51 per cent of respondents said “no.” She was viewed as a side show. But she more than earned her place. She made three all-star teams, twice was named her team’s MVP and in her final season was named the league’s top goaltender. Playing for the women’s Olympic team her gender wasn’t the issue, instead it was the two long time stalwarts in net ahead of her. She went a full year without even dressing for a game for the national team. In 2009, prior to the Vancouver Olympics, she started the season as the No. 3 goalie on the roster, but by the time the gold medal game rolled around, she was starting. Not only did she start, but she stopped all 28 shots she faced in a 2-0

shutout of the hated Americans. She should have been a cinch to be the starter for the Sochi Olympics this winter, but the team suffered through their worst year in more than a decade. They were dead last in the Alberta Major Midget Hockey League, which they played in as a warm up, and they were routinely getting beat by the U.S. Moreover, their coach Dan Church quit five games before the Olympics, and they lost four of five games heading into the tournament. Szabados had been battling injuries in the run up to the games and lost her hold on the starting gig to Charlene Labonté. But she took it as a challenge and once again wrested the crease away from her teammate in time for the gold medal game. The Canadians appeared to be on the brink of losing the gold until a late flurry with two goals in the final 3:26 squared the affair. They had been outplayed, but they went into the intermission confident. Marie-Philip Poulin then scored the winner for Canada 8:10 into the extra frame. “It was a long year for us, it was by far the toughest year we’d ever been through,” said Szabados. “Those challenges and those adversities that we went through as a team is where it ultimately lead to us winning that gold medal game.” Her performance earned her a call by her hometown NHL team to fill in at a practice in an emergency situation and then a shot with the Columbus Cottonmouths of the Southern Professional Hockey League. This time, however, there was no need for a league meeting to allow her to play. Once again she proved herself and back stopped the Cottonmouths to the league final. “The response was overwhelming, especially from the league and the fans of the league and the guys on the other teams,” said Szabados. “I knew it wouldn’t be an issue on my team, I had played with a few of the guys and they accepted me right away. But it was cool to play another team and for them to come up and congratulate me and welcome me to the league.” There is one more major hurdle for Szabados, and women’s hockey players, to climb over: to prove they can play with the best men in the world and get a legitimate shot to make an NHL team.

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Two-time Olympic gold medalist goaltender Shannon Szabados was the keynote speaker Tuesday morning at the Special Olympics Red Deer Celebrity Breakfast at the Harvest Centre. “It might be a few years away, but I think women are slowly closing that gap between men’s and women’s hockey, and I think no position better than a goalie — the strength and the size isn’t that much of a difference,” she said. Getting Szabados to speak at the breakfast was a major coup for Red Deer Special Olympics chairman Jerry Tennant. “Every year it gets more and more difficult to find someone, but this year to have Shannon, in particular an Olympic year and the story of the Ca-

nadians hockey team that was so amazing at Sochi, ... it was terrific to have someone of that calibre be part of the breakfast,” he said. They hope to raise between $12,000 and $15,000 to help fund the organization for the year. The breakfast generally accounts for about a 20 per cent of their funding, and this was the first year they had sold out. There are more than 250 local athletes participating with the Red Deer Special Olympics in 11 different sports. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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CUP: Goalkeepers If goal scorers struggled Tuesday, it was also because goalkeepers had a good day. Before Tuesday, the first 14 matches saw an average of more than 3 goals per game — bettering the rate of all World Cups since Brazil’s first victory in 1958. But that dipped to 2.9 goals per game following Tuesday’s three matches. Ochoa’s seven saves in the tournament — six of them against Brazil — are the most by any goalie so far. He got an outstretched hand to Neymar’s superb first-half header. After another spectacular two-handed reflex save in the second half, batting away Thiago Silva’s header, Ochoa highfived a team-mate. Despite letting in two, Rais Mbolhi was impressive for Algeria, making six saves that put him just behind Ochoa. For Russia, Igor Akinfeev frustrated South Korea’s long-range attempts until the power of a 25-yard shot from substitute Lee Keunho seemed to surprise him and bounced out of his hands into the net.

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New York Yankees third baseman Kelly Johnson waits for the throw from left field as Toronto Blue Jays Munenori Kawasaki slides into third with a ninthinning triple off Yankees relief pitcher David Robertson, in Tornoto’s 3-1 loss at Yankee Stadium, Tuesday. “I made up my mind before the game that I was going to swing at the first pitch,” he said. “You don’t want to face Tanaka with two strikes.” Said Girardi: “He just threw a pitch right down the middle and up. Reyes knew what to do.” Aleksandr Kerzhakov equaled up the score for Russia just three minutes after coach Fabio Capello put him in. Belgium looked anything but frightening in a first half where Algeria was more watchable than its brief appearance in 2010. Algeria moved and kept the ball well, looked to hit Belgium on the counterattack and took the lead from a penalty. Credit Belgium coach Marc Wilmots for turning things around. His secondhalf substitutions pushed aside the bus — two banks of four players — that Algeria had parked in front of goal. Dries Mertens and Divock Origi came off the bench to inject muchneeded speed and ideas. Wilmots’ other substitution, Marouane Fellaini, played better Tuesday than for Manchester United this season, planting himself in Algeria’s box. He headed in Kevin De Bruyne’s fizzing cross and equalized in the 70th minute. Mertens curled in the winner 10 minutes later. Sofiane Feghouli’s score off a penalty snapped Algeria’s scoreless streak at World Cups stretching back through a record-tying five matches and 505 minutes, just 12 minutes short of the longest World Cup goal drought — 517 minutes for Bolivia.

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Yankees 3 Blue Jays 1 NEW YORK — Once Masahiro Tanaka overcame that early jolt from Jose Reyes, the Japanese rookie did just fine. Tanaka gave up a home run to Reyes on the first pitch of the game, then earned his major league-high 11th victory as the New York Yankees beat Toronto 3-1 Tuesday night for their 14th straight home win over the Blue Jays. That was the first time Tanaka could remember getting tagged so quickly and said it “threw me off my rhythm a little bit.” “Overall, I think my stuff wasn’t really there,” he said through a translator. Even so, Tanaka (11-1) struck out 10 in six innings and left with an ALbest 1.99 ERA. The right-hander has made 14 starts this season — he’s gone at least six innings in every outing and never permitted more than three earned runs. “What he’s done is remarkable,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “He wins.” Brett Gardner hit a two-run homer off the right-field foul pole and the Yankees sent the AL East leaders to their seventh loss in 10 games. Tanaka made his big league debut April 4 at Toronto and Melky Cabrera hit a leadoff home run on the third pitch. Reyes provided an even faster start with a drive into the lower deck in right, and slapped his hands as he rounded first.

tween Tanaka’s legs that knocked off the pitcher’s glove. But Tanaka scrambled to retrieve the ball behind the mound and threw out Cabrera, and never again allowed a runner past second. Tanaka gave up five hits and walked two in moving ahead of Toronto’s Mark Buehrle for the most wins in the majors. Buehrle starts Wednesday night at Yankee Stadium in the middle game of the three-game series. The Blue Jays were the second team to face Tanaka twice. He blanked the Chicago Cubs for eight innings in April before they handed him his only loss a month later. Dellin Betances worked two innings and David Robertson closed for his 17th save in 19 tries. New York pitchers combined for 15 strikeouts and became the latest staff to slow down the Blue Jays, limited to 24 runs in their last 11 games. Pitching about 50 miles from his Long Island hometown, Blue Jays rookie Marcus Stroman (3-2) threw 98 pitches in 3 2-3 innings on a sticky night. Gardner gave him a workout right away, grounding out in a 12-pitch atbat to lead off the first. Kelly Johnson doubled in the third for the Yankees’ first hit and Gardner pulled a go-ahead home run. Derek Jeter opened the fifth with his second hit of the game and scored his 1,900th run on a single by Mark Teixeira. Jeter is 10th on the career runs list, 19 behind longtime teammate Alex Rodriguez.

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Building towards the showcase CANADA SET FOR TOUGH TEST AGAINST GERMANY IN WOMEN’S SOCCER FRIENDLY BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — Kadeisha Buchanan sometimes has to pinch herself. The 18-year-old defender with Canada’s women’s soccer team was always confident in her ability, but she never thought her rise would happen this fast. “I did not expect to come in at such a young age,” the Toronto native said this week. “Sometimes when I’m in my room I just relax (and think) ’I’m actually here.’ This is a huge opportunity that I’m willing to take and do my best.” After scoring her first goal with the national team in a 1-1 draw with the United States last month, Buchanan will get another chance to show off her talents when Canada hosts Germany in another friendly on Wednesday night. And as Canada continues its preparations ahead of hosting next year’s women’s World Cup, Buchanan has fit in seamlessly with the national team after impressing at lower levels. “I don’t think it’s difficult because my teammates just encourage me to bring what I bring to the team,” said Buchanan. “They’re very accepting to what I bring.” Canada head coach John Herdman said Buchanan — who will play at this summer’s under-20 women’s World Cup on home soil — has impressed him ever since he first saw her at an under-17 camp in 2011. “She was just streets ahead of anything I’d seen before,” said the Englishman. “We didn’t fancy taking her to the (2012) Olympics because she was 15. She probably could

have handled it, to be honest. She’s that good.” Herdman said Buchanan’s versatility is what has made her such an effective player in 13 appearances for her country, including 11 starts. “We’ve challenged all the senior players to start showing the DNA of a modern centre back, and a modern centre back can play like a midfielder,” he said. “They can disguise their passes, they have a range of different types of passes and they can defend. These younger players have been able to do that. Kadeisha’s never given her shirt back.” Canada comes into Wednesday’s game at B.C. Place Stadium ranked seventh in the world by FIFA, while the Germans sit No. 2 behind only the Americans. Herdman’s team lost 1-0 in Germany last year in game that saw Canada defend well, but fail to get much going offensively. With less than a year until the World Cup, he wants to see more positive play as the team continues to build towards the showcase tournament. “We have to shift forward pretty quickly on how we attack the game. I think that’s been a big emphasis over the last couple of days,” said Herdman. “Last time we played against Germany we defended well, we hung on for 90 minutes, kept it within one goal. But we definitely didn’t threaten them in a way that, if you’re going to win a World Cup, you have to. “I’m hoping that we’re a bit more lively. The game might be a bit more open and they might get a few more chances to score because we’re try-

ing to change a few things in the way we go about how we play. Judge us on the amount of shots, crosses we have in the game and that will give an idea of how we’ve progressed against Germany.” Canadian captain Christine Sinclair said Wednesday’s game is crucial as the team looks to see where it stacks up against the world’s best on the field that will host next year’s final. “This is a huge preparation game for us,” said the veteran striker. “Obviously a World Cup venue and we’re playing the second-ranked team in the world. I don’t think many people understand that. They just see the Americans. Germany is a quality side. “It’s a completely different test for us.” Herdman has tried to implement a more free-flowing system since Canada’s bronzemedal performance at the London Olympics two years ago, and despite that 1-1 draw with the U.S. in May, Sinclair said the players still have a ways to go. “I think consistency for us right now is very important. We’re coming off a decent result against the Americans,” she said. “It’s important for us to be able to put together another one against another top side because that’s what’s going to be expected in the World Cup.” While Canada has continued to produce good young talent in defence and midfield, the country still relies heavily on the 31-year-old Sinclair for goal scoring. Herdman said the national team is constantly trying to identify and develop talent in the attacking third, but it has

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Canada’s national women’s soccer team head coach John Herdman watches his players warm up before an international friendly soccer game in Vancouver, B.C., on Nov. 24, 2013. Herdman says Canada isn’t good enough to win the Women’s World Cup right now, but the team’s head coach adds it “absolutely” will be by the time the country hosts the tournament in 2015. not come easy. “You have to be ready to have a talent system where you have a profile, you know what that profile is and players then develop from the age of 13 on to fit that profile,” he said. “I think that’s not what we’ve done in the past. We haven’t had a very clear profile. “It’s going to take time, but with the talent we’ve got, another (Sinclair) is going to pop up soon.” Herdman said he expects Germany to present its usual well-organized defence on Wednesday, adding that his

side will have to be clever in attack if it’s going to defeat the European giants for the first time. “It’s got to be a high-tempo, possession game and we’ve got to have players with the technical capacity to work against that German block,” he said. “There isn’t a better defensive unit. They’re physical, they move collectively together on every blade of grass, they’re so hard to break down. It’s a huge challenge. “You’re going to see one of the best teams in the world here — a huge challenge ahead of us.”

Lucy Li brings pigtails and giggles to U.S. Women’s Open BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Amateur Lucy Li, 11, hits from the fairway on the 15th hole during a practice round at the U.S. Women’s Open golf tournament at Pinehurst No. 2, Tuesday, in Pinehurst, N.C. The sixth-grader from California is the youngest qualifier in the history of the U.S. Women’s Open.

PINEHURST, N.C. — With pigtails and plenty of giggles, Lucy Li just wants to have fun like any 11-year-old girl. Except that she’s playing the biggest event in women’s golf. Li, a sixth-grader from the Bay Area who doesn’t appear to be the least bit overwhelmed by the attention around her, became the youngest qualifier in U.S. Women’s Open history when she shot 68 at Half Moon Bay last month to win her sectional by seven shots. She celebrated by having dinner at her favourite restaurant and watching “The Amazing Spiderman 2.” Now it’s time for the amazing Lucy Li show. “She looks so darn cute,” said Michelle Wie, who didn’t make it to her first Women’s Open until she was 13. “I was like, ’I don’t think I looked that cute when I was 11.’ But she just looks so excited, so wideeyed. ... And I’m just really so excited for her to be out. It’s a memory that will last her a lifetime. What other 11-yearold can say that they played in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst? And she got to see the men play, too.” Life is moving at warp speed for little Lucy Li. She only became serious about golf four years ago when she set up shop in Miami to work with Jim McLean. Just two months ago, the precocious 11-year-old with a mouth full of braces won her age division in the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt Championship at Augusta National. And now she’s at Pinehurst No. 2, ready to take on the course where Martin Kaymer won the U.S. Open on Sunday. “It’s awesome, right?” she said. “I mean, Pinehurst and Augusta National in like two months. I mean, that’s just

amazing. It’s mind-blowing for me. It’s been awesome, because it’s been ... I mean, the food is great and it’s been a lot of fun. I’ve made a lot of friends.” There’s something about U.S. Women’s Open in the North Carolina sandhills that attracts all the kids. Morgan Pressel qualified when she was 12 and had just turned 13 when the Women’s Open was down the street at Pine Needles in 2001 (Li wasn’t even born then). Lexi Thompson qualified and played at 12 when it returned to Pine Needles in 2007. Too young? Both went on to win major championships. “Look, if you’re good enough, you’re old enough — or young enough, whichever way you look at it,” Laura Davies said. “If you can play the golf and you can qualify, then have a go. What’s the worst that can happen? She shoots a million this week and everyone says, ’Wasn’t it great she was here?’ So I don’t think anything bad can come out of it because she’s too young to worry about the pressure. “She’s just having fun. She’s got a week off school. It’s perfect.” Li looked as if she was having a blast on a broiling day of practice Tuesday. She went nine holes with a local caddie. Then, it was time for a press conference, which drew the largest crowd of the day. Her pigtails in braids, held by clips the shape of hearts, she twirled in her chair waiting for it to start. She giggled before just about every answer, including one about whether her father could beat her. She laughed. She laughed again. And then she moved closer to the microphone and said, “No.” But the kid made one thing clear. She’s not out to prove anything. She not out to make history.

Agent for Tiger Woods says back improving, extends practice swings BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PINEHURST, N.C. — Tiger Woods is making progress in his recovery from back surgery and starting to extend his swing, his agent said Tuesday. Woods already has missed two majors this year while he recovers from a microdiscectomy on his back on March 31. He last played on March 9 at Doral, when he closed with a 78 despite the pain in his lower back. Woods has said he has no idea when he will be healthy enough to return to competition. A report on Golf Channel’s morning show said he was taking full swings at the Medalist

Golf Club in South Florida. “Tiger is progressing like he expected,” Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports Management said in an email. “Feeling good each day. As each day passes and he feels that way, he lengthens the swing a bit.” Woods is the tournament host next week for the Quicken Loans National at Congressional. It is not expected that he will play. The deadline to enter is Friday. This is the first year of title sponsorship for the Detroit-based company. The next major is the British Open on July 17-20 at Royal Liverpool, where Woods won in 2006. The last time Woods missed two majors in one year be-

cause of injuries was in 2011, when he sat out the U.S. Open and British Open to let his leg fully recover. That year, he returned at Bridgestone Invitational in early August, a World Golf Championship that has no cut. In a promotional day for Quicken Loans last month, Woods said he was chipping and putting in a way that did not require rotation in his back. That was four weeks ago. He also did not know how much time it would take for him to be ready for a tournament once he could take full swings with no pain. “The more time you give me, I think the better I’ll be,” he said. “The great thing about what

I’ve done so far and all my other previous surgeries is that I worked on my short game. Once I start expanding from there and start competing and playing, if I start spraying it all over the lot and not hitting it that great, at least my short game is solid. That’s one of the positives to it.” Woods has slipped from No. 1 to No. 4 in the world ranking, and he is likely to fall a couple of more spots in coming weeks. He is at No. 207 in the FedEx Cup standings — having finished 72 holes only once this year — and the top 125 get into the playoffs that start Aug. 21. The news comes one day after Martin Kaymer won the U.S. Open with the secondlowest score in history at 271.

“The perfect week? I just want to go out there and have fun and play the best I can, and I really don’t care about the outcome,” Li said. “I want to have fun and learn. I want to learn a lot from these great players.” She is not the youngest player in Women’s Open history. Beverly Klass was 10 when she played in 1967, before there was qualifying. The youngest player to make the cut was Marlene Hagge, who was 13 in the 1947 Open at Starmount Forest in North Carolina. Among the favourites this week is Lydia Ko, the youngest LPGA Tour winner in history at 15 in the Canadian Women’s Open two years ago. Age is becoming irrelevant, though something about the number “11” grabs the attention. “I saw her on the range this morning for the first time and didn’t really watch her hit any balls — just how little she was, and the pigtails kind of caught me off guard,” Stacy Lewis said. “But I’m not a big fan of it. She qualified, so we can’t say anything about that. You qualify for an Open, it’s a great thing. I just like to see kids be successful at every level before they come out here. “When I found out she qualified, I said, ’Well, where does she go from here? What do you next?’ I don’t know. If it was my kid, I wouldn’t let her play in the U.S. Open qualifier at 11. But that’s just me.” Li played in the U.S. Women’s Amateur last year at 10. She was the youngest to qualify for match play at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links. The idea to try to qualify for the Women’s Open was “mine.” “Because I wanted to go out there and get the experience,” she said. “Because it’s 36 holes and I didn’t care if I qualified or not. I didn’t think about it. I just wanted to go for the experience.”

CALDER CUP BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Patrick Nemeth scored his first goal of the playoffs in overtime as the Texas Stars beat the St. John’s IceCaps 4-3 on Tuesday to win the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup. Nemeth deked inside and out going into the slot before firing home the winning shot top shelf 14:30 into extra time. Texas dominated the series, taking the minor hockey league’s title in five games. Mike Hedden had two goals and Brett Ritchie also scored for Texas in regulation time. Blair Riley, Jordan Hill and Josh Lunden supplied the offence for St. John’s.

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Toronto New York Baltimore Boston Tampa Bay

American League East Division W L Pct 41 31 .569 36 33 .522 36 34 .514 33 38 .465 28 44 .389

GB — 3 1/2 4 7 1/2 13

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 38 32 .543 36 31 .537 36 36 .500 34 37 .479 32 37 .464

GB — 1/2 3 4 1/2 5 1/2

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

West Division W L Pct 42 28 .600 38 32 .543 37 34 .521 35 35 .500 32 40 .444

GB — 4 5 1/2 7 11

Monday’s Games Cleveland 4, L.A. Angels 3 Kansas City 11, Detroit 8 Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4 Boston 1, Minnesota 0 Texas 14, Oakland 8 Seattle 5, San Diego 1

San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona

GB — 1/2 1/2 5 6

Toronto 100 000 000 — 1 6 0 New York 002 010 00x — 3 6 0 Stroman, Loup (4), Redmond (6), Santos (8) and D.Navarro; Tanaka, Betances (7), Dav.Robertson (9) and McCann. W—Tanaka 11-1. L—Stroman 3-2. Sv—Dav.Robertson (17). HRs—Toronto, Reyes (5). New York, Gardner (6).

Central Division W L Pct 43 29 .597 39 32 .549 34 35 .493 34 36 .486 29 40 .420

GB — 3 1/2 7 1/2 8 12 1/2

Kan. City 070 030 100 — 11 15 1 Detroit 020 010 010 — 4 10 1 Ventura, L.Coleman (8), Crow (9) and S.Perez, Hayes; Scherzer, Coke (5), E.Reed (6), B.Hardy (8), Alburquerque (9) and Avila, Holaday. W—Ventura 5-5. L—Scherzer 8-3. HRs—Kansas City, A.Gordon (8), Moustakas (7). Detroit, Kinsler (7).

West Division W L Pct 43 28 .606 38 34 .528 34 36 .486 29 42 .408 30 44 .405

GB — 5 1/2 8 1/2 14 14 1/2

Minnesota 000 001 000 — 1 4 0 Boston 101 000 00x — 2 8 0 P.Hughes and K.Suzuki; Lester, Badenhop (7), Breslow (7), Tazawa (8), Mujica (9) and D.Ross. W—Lester 8-7. L—P.Hughes 7-3. Sv—Mujica (2). Baltimore 005 000 200 — 7 8 1 Tampa Bay 002 020 010 — 5 11 0 M.Gonzalez, R.Webb (6), Matusz (7), O’Day (8), Z.Britton (9) and C.Joseph; Bedard, Yates (5), Boxberger (7), Balfour (8), C.Ramos (9) and J.Molina, Hanigan. W—M.Gonzalez 4-4. L—Bedard 3-5. Sv— Z.Britton (8). HRs—Baltimore, C.Davis (12), Pearce (5). Tampa Bay, S.Rodriguez (7), De.Jennings (6).

Monday’s Games Chicago Cubs 5, Miami 4, 13 innings Philadelphia 6, Atlanta 1, 13 innings St. Louis 6, N.Y. Mets 2 Milwaukee 9, Arizona 3 L.A. Dodgers 6, Colorado 1 Seattle 5, San Diego 1

INTERLEAGUE San Diego 010 000 000 — 1 4 1 Seattle 020 020 20x — 6 8 0 Stults, Stauffer (6), Thayer (8) and Rivera; Elias, Leone (8), Farquhar (9) and Zunino. W—Elias 6-5. L—Stults 2-9. HRs—San Diego, Rivera (5). Seattle, J.Montero (1), Cano (4).

Tuesday’s Games Seattle 6, San Diego 1 Cincinnati 6, Pittsburgh 5 Washington 6, Houston 5 Miami 6, Chicago Cubs 5 Philadelphia 5, Atlanta 2 Chicago White Sox 8, San Francisco 2 St. Louis 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Milwaukee 7, Arizona 5 Colorado at L.A. Dodgers, late

Tuesday’s Games Seattle 6, San Diego 1 Washington 6, Houston 5 L.A. Angels 9, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Yankees 3, Toronto 1 Kansas City 11, Detroit 4 Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 5 Boston 2, Minnesota 1 Chicago White Sox 8, San Francisco 2 Texas at Oakland, late Wednesday’s Games Kansas City (Guthrie 3-6) at Detroit (Smyly 3-5), 11:08 a.m. Baltimore (Gausman 2-1) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 2-4), 11:10 a.m. Minnesota (Gibson 6-5) at Boston (Lackey 8-4), 11:35 a.m. San Francisco (Hudson 7-2) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 5-1), 12:10 p.m. Texas (Tepesch 2-2) at Oakland (Gray 6-3), 1:35 p.m. Houston (Feldman 3-4) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-4), 5:05 p.m. L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 7-6) at Cleveland (Masterson 4-5), 5:05 p.m. Toronto (Buehrle 10-3) at N.Y. Yankees (Whitley 2-0), 5:05 p.m. Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-2) at San Diego (Cashner 2-6), 8:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games L.A. Angels at Cleveland, 10:05 a.m. Kansas City at Detroit, 11:08 a.m. Seattle at San Diego, 4:40 p.m. Toronto at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Houston at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. Boston at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R VMartinez Det 67 255 34 Cano Sea 67 260 35 Altuve Hou 69 288 34 Rios Tex 70 272 33 Brantley Cle 69 266 49 MiCabrera Det 67 257 39 Trout LAA 66 254 47

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Wednesday’s Games Philadelphia (R.Hernandez 2-5) at Atlanta (Harang 5-5), 10:10 a.m. Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 2-1) at Miami (Eovaldi 4-2), 10:40 a.m. N.Y. Mets (Colon 6-5) at St. Louis (Lynn 7-4), 11:45 a.m. San Francisco (Hudson 7-2) at Chicago White Sox (Sale 5-1), 12:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Simon 9-3) at Pittsburgh (Volquez 4-5), 5:05 p.m. Houston (Feldman 3-4) at Washington (G.Gonzalez 3-4), 5:05 p.m. Milwaukee (Garza 4-4) at Arizona (Miley 3-6), 7:40 p.m. Colorado (J.De La Rosa 6-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 6-2), 8:10 p.m. Seattle (F.Hernandez 8-2) at San Diego (Cashner 2-6), 8:10 p.m. Thursday’s Games Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 10:35 a.m. Milwaukee at Arizona, 1:40 p.m. Seattle at San Diego, 4:40 p.m. Atlanta at Washington, 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 6:15 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Tulowitzki Col 67 228 55 Lucroy Mil 67 259 34 Puig LAD 65 249 37 AMcCutchen Pit 69 259 38 CGomez Mil 64 256 45 McGehee Mia 69 267 26 Goldschmidt Ari 73 284 54

Houston 000 100 040 — 5 14 0 Wash. 202 002 00x — 6 9 1 Keuchel, D.Downs (6), Farnsworth (6), Williams (7), Sipp (8), Zeid (8) and J.Castro; Roark, Stammen (6), Storen (7), Clippard (8), Barrett (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton. W—Roark 6-4. L—Keuchel 8-4. Sv—R.Soriano (14). San Fran. 101 000 000 — 2 7 1 Chicago 002 330 00x — 8 10 1 M.Cain, Petit (6) and H.Sanchez; Joh.Danks, Guerra (7), Putnam (8), D.Webb (9) and Flowers. W—Joh. Danks 6-5. L—M.Cain 1-5. HRs—San Francisco, Pence (10). Chicago, G.Beckham (5), Viciedo (6). NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 100 200 201 — 6 13 0 Pittsburgh 011 000 300 — 5 13 2 Cueto, LeCure (7), M.Parra (7), Ondrusek (7), A.Chapman (9) and B.Pena; Cumpton, Ju.Wilson (7), J.Gomez (7), Melancon (8), Grilli (9) and R.Martin. W—Ondrusek 2-2. L—Grilli 0-2. Sv—A. Chapman (12). HRs—Cincinnati, Frazier (16). Phila. 200 200 001 — 5 10 0 Atlanta 000 010 100 — 2 6 2 K.Kendrick, Diekman (8), Papelbon (9) and Ruiz; E.Santana, Beato (7), S.Simmons (8), Avilan (9) and Laird. W—K.Kendrick 3-6. L—E.Santana 5-4. Sv— Papelbon (16). HRs—Philadelphia, Howard (13).

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Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 19; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 18; Frazier, Cincinnati, 16; Gattis, Atlanta, 15; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15; Rizzo, Chicago, 14. Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE LAA 100 041 102 — 9 15 0 Cleveland 010 100 001 — 3 7 1 Shoemaker, Frieri (9) and Conger; Tomlin, Crockett (6), Lowe (7), Outman (8) and Y.Gomes. W— Shoemaker 4-1. L—Tomlin 4-4. HRs—Los Angeles, Trout 2 (16), H.Kendrick (4), Calhoun (5). Cleveland, Chisenhall (8).

Chicago 030 000 101 — 5 9 2 Miami 100 200 30x — 6 9 0 Samardzija, Schlitter (7), Grimm (8) and Whiteside, Jo.Baker; DeSclafani, S.Dyson (7), M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9) and Realmuto, Mathis. W—S.Dyson 1-0. L—Schlitter 2-2. Sv—Cishek (16). HRs—Chicago, Lake (9). Miami, G.Jones (9). New York 000 100 001 — 2 7 2 St. Louis 010 022 00x — 5 10 0 Niese, Matsuzaka (7), Familia (8) and Recker; Wacha, S.Freeman (7), Motte (9), Neshek (9) and Y.Molina. W—Wacha 5-5. L—Niese 3-4. Sv— Neshek (2). HRs—New York, D.Wright (5), Duda (9). St. Louis, Y.Molina (6). Milwaukee 010 001 500 — 7 11 1 Arizona 300 010 001 — 5 7 1 Lohse, W.Smith (7), Kintzler (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy; Bolsinger, E.Marshall (7), Ziegler (7), Delgado (8) and M.Montero. W—Lohse 8-2. L—E. Marshall 2-2. Sv—Fr.Rodriguez (22). HRs—Milwaukee, Ar.Ramirez (8), Lucroy 2 (8). Arizona, Kieschnick (1).

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL —Suspended Colorado RHP Nick Masset three games and fined him and Atlanta RHP David Carpenter undisclosed amounts for throwing at batters during a game last week. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated RHP Miguel Gonzalez from the 15-day DL. Designated RHP Josh Stinson for assignment. BOSTON RED SOX — Designated OF Grady Sizemore for assignment. Recalled OF Garin Cecchini from Pawtucket (IL). Agreed to terms with OF Derek Miller, C Alex McKeon, SS Hector Lorenzana, 3B Jordan Betts, 1B Sam Travis and RHPs Michael Kopech, Chandler Shepherd, Kuehl McEachern and Brandon Show on minor league contracts. CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with OF Bradley Zimmer, 1B Bobby Bradley and RHPs Cameron Hill and Grant Hockin on minor league contracts. DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Derek Hill and Michael Gerber; RHPs Spencer Turnbull, Jack Fischer. Gabe Hemmer Jacob Butler Nate Fury Gage Smith Joseph Pankake Paul Voelker Josh Heddinger and Adam Ladwig; SSs Will Kengor and Garrett Mattlage; LHPs Kenton St. John, Trent Szkutnik and Tyler Ford; Cs Grayson Greiner and Michael Thomas; 1B Corey Baptist; 3B Will Maddox; and 2B Brett Pirtle and Ross Kivett on minor league contracts. NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned C John Ryan Murphy to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Reinstated C Francisco Cervelli from the 60-day DL. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Placed LHP Drew Pomeranz on the 15-day DL. Optioned SS Jake Elmore to Sacramento (PCL). Recalled RHP Evan Scribner from Sacramento. Agreed to terms with SS Trace Loehr on a minor league contract. TEXAS RANGERS — Recalled LHP Aaron Poreda from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned LHP Robbie Ross, Jr. to Round Rock. Agreed to terms with 1B Carlos Pena and RHP Austin Pettibone on

Today

● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House at Lacombe, 7 p.m.

Thursday

● Women’s fastball: TNT vs. Badgers, Badgers vs. Topco Oilsite, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Red Deer U16 vs. N. Jensen’s, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; Lacombe Physio at Stettler, 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: North Star Sports vs. Gary Moe Volkswagen, Printing Place vs. Lacombe Stone and Granite, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.

Friday

● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 7 p.m. ● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; Lacombe at Eckville, 7 p.m. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Red Deer at Lacoka, 7:30 p.m., Barnett Arenas. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Edmonton/ Spruce Grove at Blackfalds, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.

Saturday

● Junior golf: Maple Leaf Tour Mountain View Credit Union Classic at Olds Central Highlands. ● Junior golf: Canadian Junior Golf Association event at Coyote Creek,

Sundre. ● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 1 and 7 p.m. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Fort McMurray at Red Deer, doubleheader at 3 and 6 p.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Third division rugby: Calgary Canadian Irish at Red Deer, 3:30 p.m. ● Second division rugby: Calgary Candian Irish at Red Deer, 5 p.m., Titans Park. ● Jr. B tier 1 lacrosse: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 7:30 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Sunday ● Junior golf: Maple Leaf Tour Mountain View Credit Union Classic at Olds Central Highlands. ● Junior golf: Canadian Junior Golf Association event at Coyote Creek, Sundre. ● Peewee AAA baseball: Fort McMurray at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Rodeo: Sundre Pro Rodeo, 1 p.m. ● Jr. B tier 3 lacrosse: Medicine Hat at Olds, 1:30 p.m., Sports Complex Main. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Lethbridge at Blackfalds, 3:30, Multiplex. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary Wranglers at Innisfail, 4:30 p.m., Arena Blue. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: St. Albert at Red Deer, 6 p.m., Blackfalds Multiplex.

Soccer FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil GROUP A Brazil Mexico Cameroon Croatia

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GROUP D Costa Rica Italy England Uruguay GROUP E France Switzerland Ecuador Honduras GROUP F

Tuesday, June 17 Belgium 2 Algeria 1 Brazil 0 Mexico 0 Russia 1 South Korea 1 Wednesday, June 18 Netherlands at Australia, 10 a.m. Chile at Spain, 1 p.m. Croatia at Cameroon, 4 p.m. Thursday, June 19 Colombia vs. Ivory Coast, 10 a.m. Uruguay vs. England, 1 p.m. Japan vs. Greece, 4 p.m.

Football minor league contracts. Assigned Pena to Round Rock. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated OF Colby Rasmus from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Anthony Gose and RHP Steve Delabar to Buffalo (IL). Recalled INF Munenori Kawasaki from Buffalo. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Optioned RHP Will Harris to Reno (PCL). Recalled RHP Mike Bolsinger from Reno. ATLANTA BRAVES — Placed RHP David Carpenter on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Pedro Beato from Gwinnett (IL). LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Trevor Oaks on a minor league contract. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Traded LHP Brad Mills to Oakland for cash considerations. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Sent 3B Cody Asche to Lehigh Valley (IL) for a rehab assignment. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with C Kevin Krause, INF Erik Forgione and OFs Connor Joe, Jordan Luplow and David Andriese. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Agreed to terms with 3B Danny Diekroeger on a minor league contract. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned OF Daniel Carbonell to Salem-Keizer (NWL). American Association GRAND PRAIRIE AIRHOGS — Signed RHP Ty’Relle Harris. LAREDO LEMURS — Released RHPs Joe Cruz and RHP Sean Tracey and INF Ryan Flynn. Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Signed RHP Kirk Clark. Frontier League FLORENCE FREEDOM — Released OF Justin Kalusa. FRONTIER GREYS — Signed INF Frank Florio. Released OF Matthew Scruggs. JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed OF Chris Epps. LAKE ERIE CRUSHERS — Sent OF Seth Granger to Joliet to complete an earlier trade. Signed INF Matt Dickason, 1B Michael Failoni and RHP Brant Masters. Released 1B Brian Haggett, RHP Michael Jahns and LHP Jose Rosario.

RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed RHP Troy Lambert. TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Released RHP Michael Devine. WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed 3B Garrett Carey. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Named Sam Mitchell assistant coach. FOOTBALL National Football League CLEVELAND BROWNS — Agreed to terms with QB Johnny Manziel. Released WR Earl Bennett. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DL Seali’i Epenesa. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Announced the retirement of CB Eric Wright. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Released OT Emmett Cleary and LB Steven Jenkins. TENNESSEE TITANS — Agreed to terms with WR Derek Hagan and RB Bishop Sankey. Released WR Lamont Bryant. Canadian Football League B.C. LIONS — Released DB Brandon McDonald. HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Placed LW Ville Leino on unconditional waivers. DALLAS STARS — Bought out the contract of D Aaron Rome. MONTREAL CANADIENS — Agreed to terms with F Dale Weise on a two-year contract extension. SAN JOSE SHARKS — Signed G Alex Stalock and F Mike Brown to two-year contracts. VANCOUVER CANUCKS — Placed LW David Booth on unconditional waivers. Southern Professional Hockey League PEORIA RIVERMEN — Signed F Alec Hagaman to a tryout form. SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Named Sal Della Monica director of communications.

Tour of Alberta to feature world’s top pro teams BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Tour of Alberta will roll through Red once again with some of the top teams in the world. Organizers announced the inclusion of top pro teams Cannondale Pro Cycling from Italy, led by Peter Sagan, Australia’s top team Orica GreenEDGE and the Netherland’s Team GiantShimano for the Sept. 2-7 tour. Two other top pro teams — Garmin-Sharp from the U.S. and Belkin-Pro Cycling — who had already committed to the race. The five teams will compete in the Tour de France. Organizers also announced the inclusion of 10 other teams from the Pro Continental and Continental circuits, including United Helathcare out of the U.S. and Garneau-Quebecor,

Silber Pro Cycling and the Canadian National Team all from Canada. “Like last year, we have put together a great world-class field which includes several topranked, top-tier teams along with the top teams on the North American continent,” said Tour of Alberta executive director Duan Vienneau in a press release. The province-wide race drew 120 cyclists in its inaugural running last year. Sagan won four of the six stages while Rohan Dennis from the Garmin-Sharp team won the overall title. Both will be back this year. The race starts in Calgary with a prologue on Sept. 2 and will come through Central Alberta for the second stage on Sept. 4, cycling up from Innisfail and a road race through Red Deer. Stage 1 is a circuit of Lethbridge while Stage 3 goes from Wetaskiwin to Edmonton the final two stages taking place in the Edmonton area.

ALBERTA MID-AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP ATHABASCA — Tim Boston of Wolf Creek fired an even-par 72 Tuesday and was in a fourway tie for first place following the opening round of the Alberta Men’s Mid-Amateur golf championship. Also checking in with even-par scores were Gordon Selman of Edmonton Belvedere, Dan Lambert of the Alberta Public Player Club and Don Breen of Edmonton Glendale. Sitting another stroke back were Frank Van Dornick of Camrose and David Alberti of Springbank Links.

Lorne Riffin of Lacombe carded a 3-over 75 and was tied for 12th heading into today’s second round of the 54-hole tournament, while Blair Neal of Wolf Creek was in a seven-way tie for 18th after posting a 76. Tom Skinner of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club shot a 78 and was tied for 28th. Other Central Alberta results: Ron Harder, Innisfail, 78 (tied for 34th); Les Swelin, Sundre, 81 (tied for 50th); Gerald Tardif, Wolf Creek, 84 (tied for 65th).

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LACROSSE Reid Swier erupted for eight goals as the Red Deer TBS Rampage outlasted the visiting Calgary Mountaineers 20-18 in a Rocky Mountain Lacrosee League junior B tier 1 game Sunday. Davis Reykdal fired three goals for the winners, who got two from each of Pearce Just and Spencer Lee and single markers from Dawson Reykdal, Cole deGraaf, Logan Elliott, Brandyn Blain and Colton Woytas. In other weekend contest, Spencer Lee netted four goals to lead the Rampage to an 11-4 victory over the Edmonton Warriors. Dawson and David Reykdal each scored twice and Just, deGraaf and Ryan Beaton also tallied. Darrian Bannack guarded the Rampage net during both games. The Red Deer squad has two home contests this weekend — Saturday at 7:30 p.m. versus the Sherwood Park Titans and Sunday at 6 p.m. against the St. Albert Crude — at the Blackfalds Multiplex. ● The Lacoka C-Key Trucking midget C team split a pair of weekend playoff games to keep their championship hopes alive. The C-Key squad, which finished third in league play with a 9-3 record, lost 6-5 to Red Deer M1 and doubled Stettler 10-5. Meanwhile, the Lacoka Strand Media bantam squad entered weekend playoffs as the No. 1 seed following an 11-1 regular season. The team posted a pair of convincing playoff wins — 173 over Stettler and 10-5 over Blackfalds. The Lacoka peewee teams — Strand Media and C-Key Trucking — finished 1-2 in regular-season play with respective 11-1 and 9-3 records. Strand was 2-0 during the weekend, beating Innisfail 7and Red Deer PW2 5-4, to advance to the next round, and CKey fell 9-4 to Olds before routing Didsbury 14-3 and downing Red Deer PW3 10-6. C-Key also advanced to the next round. In novice play, Lacoka McDonald’s 1 defeated Lacoka Energy 2 3-2 in a weekend playoff game, and then edged Red Deer 3 by a 2-1 count. Energy downed Blackfalds and Innisfail by 4-1 scores, then saw their season come to a close with a 1-0 loss to Olds.

MINOR BASEBALL Trevor Baron stroked a double and a triple and drove in three runs as the Red Deer North Star Braves downed Heisler 16-10 in weekend bantam AA baseball action. P.J. Clubine had two triples and one RBI, Connor Jacobson contributed an RBI triple, John Nicholson added a two-run double and Ethan Scrase cracked a run-scoring triple. Piercen Differenz drove in two runs with three hits, Craig Bradley knocked in two runs on two hits, and Reid Howell and Connor Fenton each had two hits and an RBI. The Braves used three pitchers — Howell, Justin Wasylowich and starter Kade Kahlert. North Star also smashed Strathmore 32-3 as Clubine knocked in six runs and Baron drove in five. Kahlert brought home four runners and Jacobson and Howell each had three RBI. Kahlert slugged a home run, while Howell and Baron each stroked a triple and Clubine contributed a double. The Braves’ pitchers were Baron, Bradley and Fenton. Mosquito AA The Red Deer Gord’s First Line Braves, with Heath Hachkowski stroking a triple and driving in four runs, routed host Wetaskiwin 20-7 during the weekend. Ben Mason, Hachkowski and Dakota Clubine each had two hits, with Clubine knocking in three runs. Matthew Murray had two RBI and Tate Howell, Greyson Borchers and Tysen Wandler each drove in a run.

B8 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Bears’ Cutler works out with familiar offence for change

OFF-SEASON WORKOUT

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Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett talks with players during warm ups at NFL football minicamp Tuesday, in Irving, Texas. All 32 NFL teams opened their three-day minicamps to get in a quick off-season session in before coming back for full training camp at the end of July.

Rodgers as competitive as ever going into 10th year with Green Bay Packers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GREEN BAY, Wis. — Aaron Rodgers dropped back and threw a higharcing pass, the ball just skipping off the edge of a net stationed in the corner of the end zone about 20 yards away. As the crowd swooned at Green Bay Packers minicamp Tuesday, the quarterback slapped his hands in disappointment as if he had just missed an open receiver for a touchdown at midseason. Going into his 10th year in the league, Rodgers is as competitive as ever in the off-season. “It’s the opportunity to build team chemistry with the guys. It’s the challenge of beating up on Dom (Capers) and his defence,” said Rodgers, jokingly referring to the team’s defensive co-ordinator. “And it’s proving yourself to young guys that haven’t seen you in action other than on TV over the years as I’ve become one of the older guys in the locker room,” Rodgers added. “But I have said that in the past — if I can’t be an almostto-a-completely full offseason participator, then I’m going to move on. I plan on being here for a long time.” Rodgers is a well-paid constant on an offence that undergoes some turnover each year given the front office’s “draftand-develop” philosophy. This off-season, the receiving corps is in a

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Browns agree to contract with Johnny Manziel

Lynch decides against holdout and shows up for start of Seahawks minicamp

BRIEFS CLEVELAND — The Browns have agreed to terms with quarterback Johnny Manziel on his rookie contract. Financial terms of the deal were not immediately available. The Browns moved up in May’s NFL draft to select the popular and polarizing Manziel in the first round with the No. 22 overall pick. The former Heisman Trophy winner will enter training camp next month as Cleveland’s No. 2 quarterback behind veteran Brian Hoyer, who is coming off knee surgery. Manziel went 20-6 in two seasons at Texas A&M, where he earned the nickname “Johnny Football” for his dynamic playmaking abilities and became the first freshman to win the Heisman. The Browns have signed four of their six 2014 draft picks.

Seattle QB Russell Wilson wins Good Guy Award SEATTLE — Super Bowl-winning quarterback Russell Wilson has won the Good Guy Award from the Professional Football Writers of America for his professional approach to helping the journalists do their job. In leading the Seattle Seahawks to their first NFL championship, Wilson was cited for being not only the face of the franchise, “but also the voice and conscience of it.” Wilson became only the fourth second-year quarterback and the thirdyoungest QB to win a Super Bowl. He

RENTON, Wash. — So much for concern that running back Marshawn Lynch would be absent from the Seattle Seahawks minicamp. Lynch was in attendance when the Super Bowl champions opened their mandatory three-day minicamp on Tuesday. Reports surfaced last week that Lynch might consider not attending the practices in hopes of getting a higher salary for the 2014 season. Lynch signed a four-year contract before the 2012 season. He is scheduled to make $5 million in base salary this season plus per game roster bonuses. Lynch could have faced fines of nearly $70,000 if he had decided to skip the minicamp. He did not take part in Tuesday’s practice but was on the field watching. Seattle coach Pete Carroll said Lynch has a sore ankle and likely will not participate during the threeday camp.

Raiders, Cowboys to hold joint training camp practices ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Oakland Raiders and Dallas Cowboys will participate in two joint training camp practices this summer. The Raiders announced Tuesday that they will practice with Dallas at the Cowboys training camp base in Oxnard, California, on Aug. 12 and 13. This is the first time since 2005 that the Raiders have travelled for a preseason practice. Oakland went to Houston that year.

bit younger with veteran James Jones gone and three rookies joining the team from the draft. Jermichael Finley, the starter at tight end the past few seasons, remains a free agent after getting sidelined in October with a neck injury. Green Bay added tight end Richard Rodgers from the draft. Rodgers, the Packers’ first-round pick in 2005, doesn’t think the added youth adds more work. “It’s the same, it’s just different guys,” Rodgers said. “You know you look for ways to get to know your new teammates, you try to work on your timing in the spring and you get yourself and your offence ready for training camp.” Coach Mike McCa-

rthy sees it a little differently. He said some changes have been made on offence to make it easier for newer players, though in the end the biggest change was actually for Rodgers. “But it was the best thing for the group, so he had a little more studying to do this year than in prior years. I think he’s handled that very well,” McCarthy said. He said it shows on the practice field in ball efficiency, for instance, which has been one of the points of emphasis this season. Rodgers did yoga in the off-season, which he has said helps with flexibility as he gets older. Rodgers, 30, had a left collarbone injury that knocked him out for much of the second half

last season. He stayed away from some heavy lifting, especially with his shoulders. Took rehab slow and feels good, he said earlier in the off-season. There’s a different voice in the quarterbacks room with position coach Alex Van Pelt sliding over to new responsibilities after overseeing running backs last year. Van Pelt replaced Ben McAdoo, now offensive co-ordinator of the New York Giants. “We’re talking, teaching the same system obviously. But sometimes the language can be different. the style of coaching can be a little bit different,” Van Pelt said. “The key for him is just to lock in and he’s done a great job of that.”

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — While quarterback Jay Cutler insists he hasn’t changed much since last year, he’s glad he can also say the same for the Chicago Bears offence. Cutler doubts he has actually gotten bigger or stronger with a physical regimen he began earlier than in past years, but when the Bears opened minicamp Tuesday there was no denying the effect of playing in the same offensive system under coach Marc Trestman in successive seasons. “We’re going into my ninth year,” Cutler said. “I think this is only the second or third time I’ve been in an offence multiple years. Still a little bit new to us, you know, we did some good thing last year. We’re still in the learning process but guys are much more familiar with what the concepts are and the formations and everything. So that’s going to be a help: less thinking and able to go fast.” The Bears improved from 29th ranked to No. 5 in passing and from 28th to No. 8 in total offence in their first year playing in Trestman’s attack. Cutler and former backup Josh McCown set a franchise record with a combined 96.9 passer rating. Now the assumption is they’re further along in the offence and it can get even more effective, although McCown is now with Tampa Bay and the Bears are auditioning for backups. “The beauty of continuity in football is learning the system and understanding where the problem lies on each play and each down and distance, and having the answer for that,” Bears offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer said. “The more you know about the play, the more you know about the offence, the more problem-solving you can do as opposed to just running the play.” With wide receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery, tight end Martellus Bennett and running back Matt Forte back behind a veteran line, Cutler sees nothing but big things ahead for the offence. “He’s been in so many different systems, but just to be able to go back to back in the same environment, the same coaching environment, the same players around him, the way we do things and the way we say things, I think can allow him to enjoy more flexibility at the line of scrimmage and understand what we’re trying to get to,” Trestman said about Cutler. “Each of these plays we have, there’s a lot of different answers against a lot of different types of (defensive) looks and coverages, and I think he’s at a place now, because he’s had so much experience on these plays, he can utilize the entire play to find the right answers.” Trestman was the one who has said he thought Cutler looked bigger and faster, but Tuesday backed off this comment a bit. Cutler himself called it an exaggeration. Cutler, who signed a seven-year, $126 million contact at the end of last season, said he began working out earlier this year because he wanted to get stronger on his left side after suffering a groin strain on his left side and a left ankle sprain. “I got back into it a little bit earlier this year because with the dual injuries I just wanted to get my whole left side back to even with my right side,” he said. “So I feel good. I didn’t do anything out of the ordinary to get ready for this year. “It takes some time. I wasn’t really feeling good until into March, really, right before we started.” Cutler missed five games last year, and played an entire Bears season only in 2009, his first year with the club. So his physical condition is a concern. “I was straight until I really got here for a while and it was a hit parade back there,” Cutler said, referring to the 148 sacks he absorbed his first four years as a Bear. “It takes its toll from time to time.” Cutler was sacked just 19 times last year, but still was injured. “I think with the offensive line we’ve got here, the guys are doing everything possible,” Cutler said. “Last year was last year. Kind of two freak injuries. I don’t really foresee that happening again.”

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FRONT AUTHORS TO READ, SIGN BOOKS Two Alberta authors will read from their collections of short stories and sign books at Sunworks on Friday at 7 p.m. Lee Kvern will read from 7 Ways to Sunday, a group of short stories that revolve around humanity in all its flawed glory. Rosemary Nixon will read from Are You Ready to Be Lucky, stories that look at the chaos and absurdity of friendship, marriage, divorce, betrayal and the complexities of luck and love. Admission is free. There will be appetizers and a cash wine bar. Sunworks is located at 5924 Ross St.

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Pilot project launched to help homeless youth REFLECTS THE CITY’S STRATEGY TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF The City of Red Deer is taking steps to address an under-served and vulnerable group of people in Red Deer with a new homeless pilot program. According to the 2012 point-in-time homeless count, there were 279 homeless people, of which about 30 were youth. The city has issued a request for proposals for a homeless youth pilot program to address the problem. The project should be aimed at youth aged 16 to 24 and follow the Housing First path. Janell Bunbury, Red Deer Social Planning Department program co-ordinator, said Housing First reflects the city’s strategy to address homelessness.

“It would provide immediate housing, The proposal, which has received some but also provide the supports youth need provincial government funding, has a budto be successful in that housing,” said Bun- get of $124,344. bury. The Those supcity has ports range an opfrom addiction to tions counselrenew ling to ment h e toring youth project on how to pay for a bills, rent, further dealing with — JANELL BUNBURY, RED DEER SOCIAL PLANNING period, landlords, loDEPARTMENT PROGRAM CO-ORDINATOR p r o cating housing, vided proper budgetthe proing and it should have some life skills de- gram meets the provincial outreach and velopment. support services initiative criteria for fund“Reconnecting with family, helping them ing. access training and educational opportunities as well,” said Bunbury. Please see YOUTH on Page C2

‘IT WOULD PROVIDE IMMEDIATE HOUSING, BUT ALSO PROVIDE THE SUPPORTS YOUTH NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THAT HOUSING.’

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A story on front-page of Tuesday’s Advocate was incomplete when crediting the couple who donated $1 million to Red Deer College. The story and photograph should have stated the donation came from Bill and Irma Welikoklad. The donation will be used for a variety of college projects, starting with $100,000 for the Welikoklad Family/ Home Building Centre Endowment, which was established in 2010 when the family donated $250,000 to the college. The rest of the money will go to programs and facility enhancements at the college.

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“You’re going to get information about the organization. You’re going to get information about programs, where they’re located, its referral services, times they’re available. “It’s very detailed information. It’s more than what you’ll find on 411 or in the phone book,” Mitchell said at Tuesday’s launch. “We’re putting all the data in one place. Not only that, we’re categorizing it correctly so it’s easier to find.” Data will be regularly updated.

Coronation-area landowners frustrated with flying garbage took their case to a development appeal board this week. The group appealed a County of Paintearth municipal planning commission decision to allow an expansion at the local landfill by BFI Canada, a subsidiary of Progressive Waste Solutions. Residents are angry that garbage — which is trucked in from as far as Calgary and Red Deer County — is blowing around and getting caught up in fences and collecting in ponds. Poor garbage handling has created a stench and attracted scavenger birds such as gulls, landowners claim. On a Facebook page under Coronation Community Against BFI Landfill Expansion, it says that the company’s “track record for controlling escaped litter, gulls, odour and other negative aspects of the operation has been terrible. “Previous complaints by impacted neighbours (to various entities including BFI) about this operation has not produced a satisfactory long-term solution,” says the site.

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CORRECTION The story in Tuesday’s Advocate headlined “Urban energy feedback sought” contained an incorrect date. Members of the public have until July 15 to complete an online questionnaire about energy development in and around urban areas. The questionnaire can be accessed at www.energy. alberta.ca.

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About 50 members of the public and friends of the Native Friendship Centre in Red Deer took a walk through the streets of downtown Red Deer on Monday. The group joined walkers around the province for the annual Walk For Friendship with the goal of raising awareness in the communities they serve to the importance of the friendship centres in each community. The walkers made their way through City Hall Park and then on to Rotary Park where they had a barbecue dinner.

Online 211 service launched UNITED WAY PLACES ALL THE DATA IN ONE PLACE BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

GIVE US A CALL The Advocate invites its readers to help cover news in Central Alberta. We would like to hear from you if you see something worthy of coverage. And we would appreciate hearing from you if you see something inaccurate in our pages. We strive for complete, accurate coverage of Central Alberta and are happy to correct any errors we may commit. Call 403-3144333.

Information on social services in Central Alberta is now only a click away at www.ab.211.ca. United Way of Central Alberta launched an online 211 service on Tuesday to connect Central Albertans with details on community and social services provided by non-profits and government. Robert Mitchell, United Way of Central Alberta CEO, said it’s not just a list of phone numbers and website addresses.

Students nab prestigious scholarships Two students from Central Alberta were awarded prestigious scholarships to complete two-year International Baccalaureate diploma programs. They were among eight students from across the province to receive the 2014 Grant MacEwan United World College Scholarships and will begin their Grade 11 studies this fall in a foreign country. Charlie Thompson, from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School, will attend

BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMAS Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in Montezuma, N.M. Olds High School student Cheyenne Cranston will attend Red Cross Nordic United World College in Fjaler, Norway. Valued at $80,000 each to cover tuition and accommodation, the United World Scholarships are the single largest scholar-

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ships the Alberta government offers. Recipients are selected based on academic performance, leadership, volunteerism and citizenship. The United World College international organization has a network of over 40,000 graduates including Canadian astronaut Julie Payette.

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BRIEFS Cables stop truck A semi truck that hit the median north of Olds on Hwy 2 early Tuesday morning was restrained from oncoming traffic by the cable barrier system. The southbound semi pulling a flatbed trailer hit the median about 7:20 a.m., pulling out more than 15 support pillars. But it did not breach the cables and no injuries were reported as a result of the collision. The initial collision caused delays for about an hour. Traffic delays were expected later in the day when the vehicle was to be removed from the median, a process expected to take several hours.

Brain injury talk A caregiver of a person with brain injury will share her story on Thursday at noon. Mufty Mathewson will speak of her experience taking care of an adult with an acquired brain injury. She will share how her family coped with the changes over the years, and her plans when her current supports are no longer available. Her talk is at Catholic Social Services office at 5104 48th Ave. For more details, call 403-342-2266.

Oldstice is growing The annual Olds Summer Oldstice Street Festival and Market is joining forces with a popular MVP Show and Shine for the first time ever. In past years, the events have been a week apart but this year, the events fell into calendar alignment, said Oldstice organizer Deb Aitken. “We’re excited about that because it will bring a nice crowd. It’ll be interesting and it will make it a bigger festival,” said Aitken. The annual festival kicks off on Saturday at 8 a.m. downtown with a pancake breakfast and the Show and Shine begins at 10 a.m., followed by the market at 11 a.m. New this year is a public square dance at 1 p.m. in front of the main stage, where there will be entertainment all day, led by country music headliner Dani-Lynn of Olds at noon. Aitken said organizers are using the festival to highlight local talent, businesses and artists. Among those taking a booth are the Alberta Storm Chasers. Sundre storm chaser Joe Vonesch said they will have a table set up to meet the public from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and sell photos and Storm Chaser souvenirs as a fundraiser for STARS. “We’re kind of promoting storm safety and awareness of what can happen.” Alberta Storm Chasers has its own Facebook page and about 2,600 members. Thirty to 40 storm chasers are expected to show up at Oldstice. For more information on Oldstice, see Uptowne Olds’s page on Facebook.

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A cyclist passes the snow dump just off 40th Avenue on the City of Red Deer land fill site Tuesday. The two main snow dump sites in Red Deer have reportedly lost about a third of their volume since the winter.

City considering using equipment to break up mountain of snow SNOW HAULED FROM STREETS SLOW TO MELT AT DUMPS Red Deer’s mountain of snow has only melted by one-third in the past two months. The Edgar Snow Storage site, once dubbed Mount Rederest, remains 24 metres high from its original 31 metres. The mountain of snow is still visible from both Hwy 2 and 67th Street. “The area was surveyed this past week and the volume has reduced from 258,000 to 168,000 cubic metres,” said Greg Sikora, city Public Works Depart-

ment manager. Sikora said staff may consider using equipment to spread the snow to increase the surface area and melt rate. “We would like to have the entire pile completely melted before fall as crews need time to haul away all the tonnes of debris left behind,” Sikora said. “This is all in preparation for next year’s snow season.” The Edgar Snow Storage Site is one

of two permanent snow storage locations in Red Deer. The other is on the south end of Red Deer south of the city waste management site on 40th Avenue. That snow pile remains as well. With the above-average snowfall in the 2013-2014 snow season, both sites reached capacity at 550,000 cubic metres and a temporary site was opened to accommodate private snow haulers.

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Students video history

Spray park repaired A City of Red Deer spray park is closed for repairs. The Blue Grass Sod Farms Central Spray & Play will be closed until further notice. The timeline for repairs is unknown. The city will provide more information as it becomes available. The spray and play park is located at the corner of 48th Street and 47A Avenue near the Golden Circle.

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With a break in the rain Monday, Grade 7 girls sprint down the track at Lindsay Thurber High School as they participate in the 60-metre hurdle event at the Central Middle School track and field day. About 70 per cent of the students from the school took part in the day’s activities.

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COMPANY: Will join dialogue Paintearth County chief administrative officer Tarolyn Peach said about 40 people turned out for the subdivision and development appeal board hearing on Monday afternoon. Peach said she was acting as secretary for the board so could not speak for the county on the issue. Chaya Cooperberg, of Progressive Waste Solutions, says in an email the company wants to be respectful of the appeal process and does not want to comment until the board releases its decision. Once that happens, the company would like to outline the steps it is taking to address area concerns. “We are committed to being a good neighbour and look forward to being able to talk about our plans,” says Cooperberg, vice-president of investor relations and corporate communications. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

YOUTH: City works with strategy group Work done by the Red Deer youth homeless strategy group over the past year led the city to put forth this request.

Bunbury said the city worked with the strategy group to develop a framework for the pilot project. “The key component of what we want the project to look like is support for self-sufficiency and for a healthy transition to adulthood and case management,” said Bunbury. Two orientation sessions will be held on Thursday for people to understand the scope and direction of the project. One goes from 9 to 10 a.m. and the other from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. To register, call 403-342-8100. Proposals are due by 4 p.m. on July 10. For more information on the request for proposals, visit www.reddeer. ca/socialplanning. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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dential 211 phone service for Central Alberta in the next 12 months through a funding partnership with local municipalities on a per capita basis and businesses. The 211 phone service will cost $120,000 annually. The phone service would see an operator guiding individuals towards services they may require. In Canada, 211 is available both online and by phone in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, and most of B.C. Mitchell said 211 calls will also help to identify gaps and demands in services for municipalities. Kath Hoffman, executive director of Central Alberta’s Safe Harbour Society for Health and Housing, said 211 will provide a good snapshot of needs within the community as well as assist Safe Harbour staff and clients to find appropriate services. About a month ago, Red Deer city council advocated for the Alberta 211 service. Mayor Tara Veer said 211 will ultimately help citizens get the right supports at the right time. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Maintaining the online service will cost United Way of Central Alberta $35,000 annually. Red Deer joins Edmonton and area, Calgary and area, and the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo in providing 211 online. Mitchell said the value of the 211 service to Southern Alberta was clear during last summer’s flood in High River and Calgary. “It really is a momenCentral Alberta tous day. There are about 1,600 records in the data Annual General Meeting Notice base for Central Alberta. Community Futures Central Alberta would like to Now we have access to invite you to our Annual General Meeting on that 24/7.” Thursday, June 19th at 2:00 p.m. United Way of Central Alberta also hopes to The meeting will be held in the our office, launch a free and confi5013 - 49th Avenue, Red Deer

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Three Central Alberta students put together some of the top video casts as part of a Canada-wide project looking for a fresh take on historical milestones. Across the country, 150 students from Grades 4 to 11 submitted vodcasts, a mini movie or documentary, to interpret the history in their own back yards. Of those 150, six will have the chance to go to the Governor General’s Awards in November. Abby Peterson of Rocky Mountain House, Moria Thompson of Pine Lake and Gabe Streilbsky from Red Deer all have a chance to attend the awards ceremony in Ottawa. Using video cameras, the students interpreted history in their part of the country. Using primary source documents, role-playing, dramatic readings and digital technology, the students created online videos about their topics. Thompson shared a story of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police, Peterson researched Canada’s connection to the doomed Titanic disaster and Strelbisky explored the story of his great, great, great-grandfather who worked on the first-ever radio broadcast. “Students involved in the process don’t just research history, they live and breathe it for several weeks,” said Deborah Morrison, president and CEO of Canada’s History Society. “Finding that passion and connection is key to fostering a lifelong interest in our past and what better way for students to discover what’s interesting about our history than from each other.” Now Canadians can vote on their favourite submissions by viewing them at www.youngcitizens.ca until July 11. A panel of judges will review all the videos and select six final recipients based on the result of the vote and the quality of their videos. As well as each winning a trip for two to Ottawa for the Governor General’s History Awards in November, the winning student’s video will premiere at the Canada’s History Forum.

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Selfie video shows doctors stroke symptoms BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS

bleeding somewhere in the brain; typically, the first warning sign is a sudden-onset headache, she said. Risk factors for an ischemic stroke such as Yepes experienced include high blood pressure, diabetes and elevated cholesterol; longtime smokers are also at risk. But not only older people can have a stroke — they can occur in young adults and even babies. “Stroke can affect anyone at any age, and in fact studies are showing that younger people are presenting with stroke because things that we usually saw in older age, like high blood pressure and diabetes and high cholesterol, in our modern North American society they tend to occur at a younger age,” said Jaigobin. Anyone who experiences symptoms that might indicate a stroke should immediately call 911 and get to the hospital, she said, noting that ischemic strokes caused by a blocked artery can be treated with the clot-busting drug tPA, which needs to be administered within 4 ½ hours to be effective. There are also other medications that can help reverse deficits accruing from a stroke and speed recovery in many cases. Neurologists who specialize in stroke have a saying: “Time is brain,” meaning that the earlier the diagnosis is made and treatment started, the “more neurons we’re able to save,” she said. Yepes, who has been off work but

It may be the most unusual — and quick-thinking — use of a smartphone selfie yet. When Stacey Yepes lost all feeling on her left side while driving home after running some post-work errands, she grabbed her phone and videotaped herself to show doctors what had been happening to her. The video shows Yepes (pronounced JEP-ess) describing her symptoms: the left side of her face is drooping and her speech is slurred; she says she cannot move her left arm or leg. It was not the first time she had experienced such a frightening loss of function. A day earlier, Yepes had been in her Thornhill, Ont., condo watching TV after work when suddenly she lost Photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS feeling in her entire left side and she Stacey Yepes in her home in Thornhill, Ont. When Yepes lost all feeling on her couldn’t lift her limbs. “And just as that was happening, left side while driving home after running some post-work errands, she grabbed my phone rang, so I had answered the her phone and videotaped herself to show doctors what had been happening to phone, and my roommate was calling her. and ... had said, ‘Why are you talking funny?”’ recalled Yepes, 49. hopes to return in July, is participat- her lifestyle, eating a healthy diet “And as I’m speaking, I can hear my ing in a stroke rehabilitation program and exercising daily. slurred speech and the feeling inside and will continue to be monitored “Thankfully, because I reacted so of my face, all frozen.” by Toronto Western’s TIA and Minor quickly, I am what they call a highEven though the symptoms dissipatStroke unit, or TAMS. As well as tak- functioning post-stroke person,” said ed in about 10 minutes, Yepes decided ing cholesterol-lowering and blood- Yepes, who still has lingering effects to go to the emergency department of a thinning medications to prevent an- from the March mini strokes that may nearby hospital. other mini stroke, she has revamped resolve over time. “I was scared. I kept thinking as I could hear myself speaking of all the (public service) announcements on the TV,” she said. “And I thought, ‘Oh, my goodness, this is a stroke.”’ But at the hospital, following a round of tests, the doctor told the divorced legal secretary her symptoms were the result of stress, which she should learn to manage more effectively. As she was leaving the hospital three hours later, Yepes felt the numbness coming back. “And I stood there and I said, ‘OK, this isn’t stress.’ I knew it wasn’t, but I thought I had just been diagnosed. 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The physician referred her to the stroke unit at Toronto Western Hospital, where tests confirmed the diagnosis. “We’ve never had a patient do this before,” Dr. Cheryl Jaigobin said of Yepes’ video selfie. “And I guess for a patient who wanted someone to believe her symptoms were real, it was absolutely incredible,” said the stroke neurologist at the hospital’s Krembil Neuroscience Centre. “When we saw Stacey’s videotape, we were all touched by it and absolutely convinced that her deficits were clearly because of a mini stroke, or a TIA.” Jaigobin says Yepes’ mini strokes resulted from a buildup of plaque in her arteries, a condition called atherosclerosis. A blood clot formed on the plaque, then blocked a small artery leading to one side of her brain, resulting in paralysis on the opposite side of her body. Called an ischemic stroke, it is the most common type of stroke. 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Always better to tell truth Dear Annie: My husband calls me tion from your stepson when he discovthe “Throwaway Queen.” ers that you threw out these two items. I have gotten into hot water for We think you can tolerate his anger not asking before I trashed and disappointment. something. Please tell him. Now I think I’ve made a Apologize profusely. Say huge mistake. you had no idea he would My husband is now far want these things, or you into dementia. would have saved them. We are thinking of movSay that you are ashamed ing, so I started cleaning out for not telling him sooner. storage bins. I threw away Ask him to forgive your two items of my husband’s lapse in judgment. that had been in those bins We think once he gets for years. past his disappointment, Last week, his son came you both will be able to put over to help clear out some this behind you. MITCHELL things and specifically Dear Annie: Yesterday, & SUGAR asked for the items I tossed. I attended my son’s much They apparently were of anticipated college graduasentimental value to him. tion from a very celebrated I acted as if I hadn’t a institution. clue what he was talking about, but I Despite our hefty investment in edufeel so guilty and ashamed. cation, what were we treated to? This is a burden on my conscience, Graduates in cutoff shorts and flipand I don’t know what to do. flops and mortarboards with raunchy I don’t want to keep lying to him, but slogans written on them. I’m afraid of confessing. Many graduates reeked of alcohol What should I do? — Stepmom in and were still visibly under the influCalifornia ence. Dear California: Imagine the reacThe behaviour of the audience when

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they handed out degrees was startling: air horns, wolf whistles, bellowing, screaming and other inappropriate responses. What should have been a respectful, dignified celebration was tarnished by the too common behaviour of a rock concert. I am in my late 40s and am not a prude. But I feel such formal events, which ought to warrant a respectful and courteous audience, have instead disintegrated into chaos. So, please tell your readers: If you are going to a graduation this spring, please set a good example for your children and others. Don’t holler. Don’t stand on your seat and scream. Don’t bring air horns, cowbells or whistles. Stand and applaud respectfully. Offer your support before and after the ceremony. Please don’t diminish the success and accomplishment of the graduates with your ill-conceived and unappreciated conduct. Graduates: Dress and act your role as accomplished academics. Save the

beachwear for another day. Stand tall and accept the congratulations due. Everyone will be appreciative, especially your family.— A Graduate’s Mom Dear Mom: Good advice, and we hope at least some in the crowd will pay attention. People get excited. In some places, commencement exercises have become raucous free-foralls. The school should make an announcement to the graduates beforehand, and to the audience prior to the ceremony, explaining what type of behaviour is expected. Dear Annie: “Somewhere in the USA” was considering not returning to a restaurant where a group of senior men made audibly insulting comments about other customers. If she decides not to return, she should tell the manager or owner the reason. The owners need to know whether they are losing business because of the “old coots.” — Restaurant Manager Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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passes what you might believe at this stage. Luck is on your side now. Trust the relationships in your life, they are leading your correctly. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Greater financial support will arrive today. Perhaps your spouse has received a raise and this will in turn help you feel calmer and relaxed about your current circumstances. You will instinctively know what is good for you and what is not today, trust yourself! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Others in your life will offer you a great new perspective on world issues. Perhaps they provide you with a brilliant idea for a new book or new knowledge that you can incorporate into your life. You have the inner strength to take it and make it work now! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There is great support coming in for you. Your daily routine, work, and health regime will seem very amicable and peaceful today. You are very much in tune with family members — get in touch with them if you need that extra bit of morale. Solid day to get work completed!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There is a great possibility to meet a potential romantic interest today. If you are currently working on a creative project, it will be extremely well received. The more you express yourself today, the more empowered you will feel. Take your time and aim for the stars! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Great love and support will come from your family, or, if you own a business, perhaps recent changes are proving to be extremely profitable for you now. Trust your instincts today when dealing with your finances, they will prove to be right. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Your hobbies and talents will reap some major recognition. New friendships can be made that will reside on a deeper level. Trust your instincts today — they will not lead you down the wrong path. You have a vision of what you want and the inner strength to get you there! Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Kasem a refuge amidst change WASHINGTON — Already by the mid-1970s, Casey Kasem and his American Top 40 radio show felt like an anachronism, a hokey blast from a time when everything was supposedly hunky-dory, when all the kids danced to the same tunes and America was all about possibility. Kasem’s weekly countdown of the top hits arrived at the radio station where I worked not through the modern miracle of the premium-quality electronic network feed from New York, but in the regular mail, in boxes containing four 12-inch vinyl records containing all the music, Kasem’s cornpone storytelling, and the national ads. All we had to do was pop in the local ads. It was backward, old-fashioned, impossibly uncool. Every DJ in the land rolled his eyes at the persistent popularity of Casey’s countdown, his longdistance dedications, his tear-jerking tales of men in uniform sending their love and a song to their girl back home. And every station manager who could land the rights to AT40 held on for dear life, because although the jocks made fun, the listeners were totally addicted. This was the era of FM’s ascent — in 1980, FM listening topped AM radio for the first time — the beginning of radical new formats like progressive rock and singer-songwriter-focused stations, the start of the splintering of the American media and of popular culture, the birth of the niche. Radio was all about the new science of psychographics, the idea being that there’d be a different station for each demographic group, a division of tastes and cultural experience depending on your income, age, location and race. And then, once a week, on Sunday morning after church in every town across the nation, in the midst of all that fine-tuning of formats, Americans came together again, as radio stations played Casey Kasem and the “hits from coast to coast.” The accidental genius of Top 40 radio from its inception in the late 1950s had been to tap into America’s exploding youth market at a time when businesses had not yet figured out the transforming nature of the baby boom. By the ‘70s, when Kasem, who died Sunday at age 82, started his show, the mass appeal of Top 40 was being sliced

BRIEF Tech N9ne bringing Strangulation Tour to city Dynamic rapper Tech N9ne will perform in Red Deer during his Strangulation Tour in September. The rap artist from Kansas City, Mo., is slated to entertain on Wednesday, Sept. 17 at the Memorial Centre, along with Kriss Kaliko. Tech N9ne (aka Aaron Dontez Yates) is cofounder of the Strange Music record label and has released more than 10 albums over his career, including Absolute Power, Killer, Sickology and K.O.D. His speedy, chopper-style rap tunes were featured in various films, such as Alpha Dog and Born 2 Race, as well as TV shows and video games. Tech N9ne has also made various film and television appearances — including in the movies Vengeance, Night of the Living Dead and Origins 3D. Tickets for the 7 p.m. show are $46.95 and are available from Black Knight Ticket Centre.code:3

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and diced into demographically targeted formats. That left the field wide open for Kasem to bring us all together again, if only for three hours each Sunday. He was a cute, bubbly, energetic voice, benign, anodyne, like Dick Clark before him and Ryan Seacrest after him. He had none of Johnny Carson’s bite, hardly any of the sex appeal of the pop heartthrobs whose tunes he spun. He was steady and unthreatening, like Walter Cronkite or Ed Sullivan, the other men who earned the nation’s trust mainly for being there, dependable and uncontroversial. He was a Lebanese-American from Detroit who spent his time in the Army spinning records on Armed Forces Radio, a little guy blessed with a captivating voice that made him sound forever young yet authoritative and fun. He was for many years the voice of Shaggy on the Scooby-Doo cartoons, and for a few years in the late 1970s, he was the voice of NBC television. But it was during those Sunday visits, when America was driving home from church or getting the groggy of Saturday night out of their systems, that Kasem found his way into what was then still one big audience. On a single Sunday in 1977, Kasem played Glen Campbell’s Southern Nights, The Spinners’ Rubber Band Man, Rod Stewart’s Tonight’s the Night, Bill Conte’s Theme from Rocky, Electric Light Orchestra’s Telephone Line, and KC & The Sunshine Band’s I’m Your Boogie Man — an impossible mash-up of tastes and subcultures, yet there they were, selected not by psychographic research aimed at molding a demographically pure audience, but by the old-fashioned method — counting record sales and playing whatever people were buying. At a time when the questions that could place a stranger were shifting from “Who’s your favorite DJ?” or “What’s your favorite song?” to “What’s your station?” Kasem created a refuge for those who still wanted to know what the other kids were listening to. The era when a single Top 40 station, great radio stations like WPGC in Washington, WABC in New York, or WLS in Chicago could dominate a market, drawing 30 or 40 per cent of listeners, was over. Now, niche stations were happily profitable with five or six percent slices of the audience. Kasem counted down the 40 bestselling hits every week from 1970 to 2004 — for a few years in the early-’90s, the Potter film franchise, will make his Broadway debut alongside Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Stockard Channing, Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham and Emmy winner Megan Mullally. The revival will play the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre and opening night is Oct. 9. It’s Only a Play, which previously appeared off-Broadway in 1986, is a send-up of show business. It is set on the eve of a play’s opening night and its anxious playwright has to deal with Broadway show business types as they await the first reviews. Grint made his West End Debut in the 2013 revival of Jez Butterworth’s Mojo.

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Casey Kasem, host of the ‘American Top 40’ radio show. he lost control of American Top 40 and marketed his own show as Casey’s Top 40 — with more than 1,000 stations carrying his program during its best years. As far as listeners could divine, Kasem was format-agnostic. He seemed to like everything, from syrupy pop to hard rock to country to disco. What linked those varieties of pop music was the stories behind them, the minibiographies that Kasem had started inserting into his shows on KRLA in Pasadena in 1963, quick bits such as “In a moment, we’ll hear a song by a former truck driver who parlayed an accident into a million bucks.” Kasem’s show resisted the splintering of the culture until rap came along; starting in the early-’90s, the stations that aired AT40 would no longer tolerate Kasem’s openness to whatever tunes made Billboard’s sales charts. To accommodate his stations’ belief that their listeners would not accept hip-hop mixed in with Celine Dion and Trisha Yearwood, Kasem switched from Billboard’s list to one based on airplay at the nation’s top-rated radio

stations. That allowed an occasional Will Smith or Sir Mix-A-Lot number onto Kasem’s countdown, but it kept most hip-hop off the show. From Three Dog Night’s Momma Told Me Not to Come, the No. 1 hit on AT40’s first show, to Outkast’s Hey Ya! the final No. 1 on Kasem’s last American Top 40, the show was a weekly reminder of what Americans had in common — not just big ideas like liberty and democracy, but small things, single voices that remind us of who we are and what we care about. No romance was too saccharine to become the stuff of Kasem’s long-distance dedications; no adolescent’s attachment to a silly love song was ever to be poked fun at. “Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars,” Kasem instructed us at the end of every show. Hokey, cliched, all that, yes, but he produced a little catch in the throat every time, and that optimism, that sense of community, is what kept people coming back. It’s also what kept them, at some level, together.

tage on their property in New Canaan, police said. Brickell told officers she confronted her husband after he did something to “break her heart,” according to police, but she did not provide any details. She told police Simon shoved her and she slapped him. The report says Simon suffered a superficial cut to his ear and Brickell, who smelled of alcohol, had a bruise on her wrist. Simon is a 12-time Grammy winner and member of The Songwriters Hall

of Fame and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — as half of the duo of Simon and Garfunkel and as a solo artist. Brickell is perhaps best known for the song What I Am, recorded with her band the New Bohemians and released in 1988. She collaborated last year with comedian Steve Martin, who has an acclaimed career as a folk musician, for the roots album Love Has Come For You. The singers were married in 1992. They have three children.

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Christina Marie Ross PARMETER June 8 1947-June 18 2009 Dorothy Amy 1932 - 2014 It has been five years Mrs. Dorothy Amy Parmeter since Tina was taken of Sylvan Lake passed away peacefully at the Red Deer from her family and many friends who loved her and the smile Regional Hospital Centre on she had for everyone. Saturday, June 14, 2014 at A day does not go by the age of 81 years. Dorothy, that memories of Tina a devoted wife, mother, are not with us. grandmother and great Her special bond grandmother, was an she had with her family exceptionally kind and loving she was so proud woman who touched many of is missed by all. lives and made them better. Dorothy is predeceased by her loving husband of 62 years, George Russell Parmeter. She is survived by her loving children, Philip (Medgee), Laurie (John) Card Of Thanks Ramsey and George Jr. and her cherished grandchildren, WOLNEY Jack (Tashina) Ramsey, The family of the late Jessica (Elliott) Young, Dennis Wolney wish to Russell and four great grandexpress our sincere thanks children; as well as her and appreciation to those who dearest niece, Dianne Sekura have offered such kindness, and loving extended family support and messages of and friends. Dorothy was sympathy and comfort in our born in Calgary, AB to bereavement. We also send William and Elizabeth our gratitude to those who sent Penney and was the fifth of the beautiful flower arrangements, six children: Bill (Gladys), who brought food, and who Marjorie, Len (Joan), Eric generously donated. A special (Sophie) and Jack (Robina). thank you to The Rev. Sandra A Funeral Service will be Franklin Law for the support held at St. Leonard’s On The and care of our family during Hill Anglican Church, 4241 our loss, and to the ladies 44 Street, Red Deer, Alberta who provided lunch after the on Friday, June 20, 2014 at service. Your sympathy and 11:00 a.m. If friends so thoughtfulness will always desire, memorial tributes be gratefully remembered may be made directly to the and deeply appreciated. Heart and Stroke Foundation of Alberta at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca. Dorothy’s family would like to thank the staff at the Sylvan Lake Bethany and Unit 31 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital for their kindness and support. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.

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FUNK Mark Bernard May 1, 1925 Rosstern, Sask. June 16, 2014 Red Deer, AB. Mark Funk passed away peacefully at the Red Deer Regional Hospital with his family by his side on Monday, June 16, 2014 at the age of 89 years. Mark is survived by his beloved wife of 67 years, Margaret; son, Barry (Barb); daughter, Julee (Larry); treasured grandchildren, Ryan (Laura), Chris and CJ. Mark was predeceased by four sisters and four brothers, Mark being the last surviving sibling. A celebration of Mark’s life will be held on Friday June 20, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. McInnis & Holloway, 369 Railway Ave. Cochrane, AB. (viewing at 10:00 a.m.) If friends so desire, memorial tributes may be made directly to The Calgary Humane Society, 4455 - 110th Ave. S.E., Calgary, AB T2C 2T7, Telephone: (403)205-4455 www.calgaryhumane.ca. Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com

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MATURE FEMALE for cleaning, shopping, assist senior male. Paid daily. Resume, & ref’s req’d. 403-342-6545

For work in Rocky Mountain House area, as well as out of town locations. Priority will be given to those candidates with experience.

403-845-5370 hr@pidherneys.com

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NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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Valid First Aid and H2S tickets required. We offer competitive wages, benefits package, and opportunities for advancement.

or E-mail:

Advocate Opportunities * Adults * Youths * Seniors *

35 Street 37 Street 41 St. Cres 58 Ave. Welton Cres. Westpark Cres.

www.ferus.ca Ferus’ Operations division requires a Heavy Duty Mechanic or Apprentice to join our growing team to service Ferus’ expanding fleet of tractor & trailer units. Reporting to the Shop Foreman you will be responsible for a variety of duties in a service oriented environment. Working in the Oil and Gas Field you will be required to work effectively unsupervised, have good working knowledge of Heavy Duty Truck and Trailer repairs, combined with a great attitude. A CVIP inspection license or the ability to obtain one is required. Due to the nature and volume of work there will be a potential requirement for overtime and on call work. Ferus offers: • Top industry wages & bonus incentive plan • Shift rotation with accommodations provided or relocation allowance • Excellent benefits package • Flexible Spending Account • Group RSP Savings Plan Successful candidates must be willing to relocate to Grande Prairie. If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment, please email your resume to

humanresources@ferus.ca or fax 1-888-879-6125

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

CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends

Highway applicators are fully trained. We apply weed control products to roadside ditches around the province. You will be back to Red Deer each night. All products are approved by Health Canada and Alberta Environment. •

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Advocate Opportunities

DUTIES: Drive a 990 4x4 John Deere tractor and spray gun. QUALIFICATIONS: Strong work ethic (Successful candidates must supply a driver’s abstract) A self-motivated, responsible worker that demonstrates a positive attitude Mechanical experience is beneficial but not required to succeed Willing to work long hours during peak production times Email resume to: reddeer@greenoasis.ca Visit: www.greenoasis.ca 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

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

KENTWOOD

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stuff CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

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Bicycles

RIALTO, Shimano, Ultima 18 spd., front & back brakes, like new. $125. 403-346-2070

Children's Items

CHILDS WOODEN ROCKING CHAIR, $25. 403-346-7825

EquipmentMisc.

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery 3 days per week. NO WEEKENDS!! KENTWOOD Kirby St. & Kennings Cres. MUSTANG ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK 69 Street & 63 Ave Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

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

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DARK wood bureau w/mirror and 2 matching night tables $120 obo; retro magazine table from 1950’s $30 obo 403-506-9453 FUTON, black tubular frame w/mattress, 2 matching cushions 80”L x 45”w, like new valued over $400, now $200 403-314-2026 SOLID oak oval kitchen table 38 x 42 w/4 chairs plus leaf $150 obo 403-506-9453

WANTED

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Misc. for Sale

1760

1 YR. old 1200 watt generator 1 hr. use $200 obo 403-314-0804

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500. 587-679-1000 2004 S250 Gold Pkg. A/C, power bobtach, keyless start, 2 spd. 1891 hrs. Exc. cond. $30,000 obo. 403-350-6470

EquipmentHeavy

1630

TRAILERS for sale or rent Job site, office, well site or storage. Skidded or wheeled. Call 347-7721.

1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine - Split 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472

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

1680

Garden Supplies JOHNSTONE CROSSING

1580

Household Furnishings

15’ LAUREL LEAF WILLOW 6-8’ NORTHWEST POPLAR & BROOK POPLAR Beautiful trees. You dig. Please phone 403-302-1919

Household Appliances

1710

APARTMENT size fridge 1 yr. old $90 403-314-0804 BEER fridge, McClary $175 obo 403-314-0804 STOVE, Inglis, Good working order. Clean. $75. 403-346-6999

Household Furnishings

1720

2 BAR STOOLS, $10/ea. SMALL DESK & CHAIR, $40. 403-346-0674 COMPUTER DESK W/ HUTCH. 59.5” w x 57” h x 24.25” d, slide out tray. 2 file drawers. Light oak. $110. 403-347-7858 SECTIONAL, 3 pce. $300. obo, 2 pc. china cabinet $200 obo 403-848-1499

5 SHEETS 5/8” O.S.B. board 1-24’W, 2-17 3/4”w and 2-16”w, ALL 8’ L, all for $15; 2 sheets 3/8” O.S.B. board 1-21’w and 1-10”w, both 8’L all $5, several misc. pieces of wood all for $5; 4 chrome tooth brush and glass holders wallmount all $10; wall shelf Dr. Brown arborite covered 5’L x 9 1/2”W $5, 4 sets of 2 L shaped fancy shelf brackets 7 1/4” x 10” $5/set 403-314-2026 60 4 oz. balls of wools, same color $50; set of new flares $25; 2 faux queen blankets, like new $25/ea., 2 queen floral quilts $20/ea. 403-348-6449 GLASS COFFEE POTS, $3/ea. PANTS HANGER, $15. 403-346-7825 PICTURES, golf balls & clubs, wood frame, dble. matte, 16x30, 2 in set. $25. 403-346-2070 TENTS with flys, lightweight 3 person $35 & $20; air mattresses $15/ea., oil lantern $15, Craftsman seat for riding mower $20 403-342-7460

Cats

1830

BEAUTIFUL 10 week old kittens. Variety of colours: Pink & white, orange, & grey tabby. Free to loving home. 403-782-3130

Dogs

1840

Offering to loving pet homes, Teacup Morkies, Extra Fluffy & Extremely Cute! nonshedding& vet checked. Call 587 876 0331or email wendyschedel @gmail.com

Sporting Goods

1860

GOLF EQUIPMENT & POOL CUES at garage sale prices. 403-343-7430 MUST SELL Deer head mounts on shields, professionally done, only 2 left $100/ea. 403-314-2026

Advocate Opportunities

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week. Delivery by 6:30 a.m. Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver. Phone 403-314-4316

* Adults * Youths * Seniors *

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

PENHOLD SPRINGBROOK

SPRINGBROOK

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE The papers arrive ready to deliver.

NO COLLECTING!

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

Six days per week. Delivery by 6:30 a.m. Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver. Phone 403-314-4316

ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Ashley Ave., Ashley Close Alexander Drive, Anquetel/Atlee Close

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in

MORRISROE AREA McDougall Cres. McCullough Cres.

WOODLEA AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA

47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo

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

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Please reference: Ad # RD – 0414 – HDMJ We thank you for your interest; however, only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

36 Street 38 St. Close 57A Ave. Warwick Drive Wiltshire Pl. Wiltshire Dr.

Phone 403-314-4316 **************************

Ferus Inc. specializes in the production, storage, supply and transport of liquid nitrogen and liquid carbon dioxide for the energy industry.

Full time seasonal positions available in our industrial and highway division.

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WESTPARK SUBDIVISION

Grande Prairie Base

SEASONAL EMPLOYMENT!!

Phone 403-314-4316

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 3 days per week

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC JOURNEYMAN OR APPRENTICE

Please email resume to: gmccarthy @reddeeradvocate.com or drop off to: 2950 Bremner Ave. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

880

Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week

* Top wages and benefits based on experience * Possible career advancement opportunities

Please reply by fax:

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd. Attn: Human Resources Box 113, Alix, Alberta TOC OBO Fax: (403) 747-2660

We are looking for 2 P/T MAILERS

Wage is $13.12/hour plus $2.10/hour shift premium.

CLASS 1 ,3 AND LOWBOY, FOREMAN, OPERATORS AND LABOURERS

Application Closing Date: June 30, 2014. Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:

PLANT LABORER

to work Tuesday - Saturday starting at 1 a.m.

Pidherney’s requires experienced drivers

Misc. Help

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880

DRIVEN TO EXCEL FROM START TO FINISH

Rahr Malting Canada Ltd., a leading manufacturer of Brewer’s Malt, is now accepting applications for a full time Operator 2 position. The position includes Plant Operations and Sanitation duties. Applicants must have a minimum Grade 12 diploma and must be available for shift work. Experience in manufacturing or factory environment is preferred.

PEST CONTROL TECHS REQ’D. cpest@shaw.ca Call 403-373-6182

Job Description As a critical member of our operational team, you will be required to perform tasks including climbing above three meters, Misc. loading and unloading of Help chemicals, some heavy lifting and general housekeeping and ACADEMIC Express laborer tasks. ADULT EDUCATION Qualifications Required: AND TRAINING We are looking for workers experienced in handling FALL START chemicals, equipment use and maintenance. CFR is offering an excellent • Community Support benefits package with the Worker Program company matching RRSP contributions while • GED Preparation providing all required training (certifications). Would you like to take the Workers are required to GED in your community? provide personal transportation with a valid “Alberta” • Red Deer driver’s license. Drug and • Rocky Mtn. House alcohol policy is effect with • Rimbey pre-employment testing. • Caroline Please forward your • Castor resume to Dave Oyka at • Sylvan Lake doyka@cfrchemicals.com • Innisfail Starting Wage:$17.50/hr • Stettler • Ponoka PT office help and or Class room Instructor Gov’t of Alberta Funding req`d. Please call Street may be available. Wise Driving School. 403-340-8840 403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca RENTAL STORE Requires a Front End Person. Duties include assisting customers, answering phones, data entry, deliveries. Must be organized, have computer knowledge, and be physically fit. GAETZ SOUTH Being mechanically inclined and having construction F/T MEAT CUTTER knowledge an asset. Full time. F/T Bakery Production Apply 5929-48 Ave. or email: Full benefits, staff sales@parklandrentals.com incentives. Apply within.

Pidherney’s Operator 2 Position

NORAL-TECH Ltd Manufacturer of 12 Volts electrical control panels for specialized trucks. We are currently seeking 2 full time assemblers with automotive related electrical experience. The successful candidates must be able to read and interpret electrical drawings. Email resume normand@noraltech-com

Please reply by fax 403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com

880

Misc. Help

880

Misc. Help

Gasoline Alley HarleyDavidson is currently seeking Lot Technicians. Provides assistance to all employees of the Service Department as needed. Please fax resume Attn: Christina @ 403-342-7244

NOW HIRING

req`s Permanent Absolute Fusion ROOM ATTENDANTS Requires Full Time Contracting is a welding, Attendants. Exp. not nec. fabrication, maintenance Carpenters will train. Approx. 35 - 40 and repair facility requiring & Helpers hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 a supervisor/instructor. Competitive Wages $14/hr. Duties incl’d but Knowledge and experience & Benefits. not limited to: vacuuming, in fabrication with Fax resumes & ref’s to: dusting, washing floors, engineered drawings or making beds, empty trash, designing from instruction. 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca disinfecting & cleaning Strong mechanical ability bathrooms. Performance for repair and maintenance. based bonus program. Must be able to organize Must be fluent with verbal and instruct up to 10 employees. l& written English, be Comprehensive Benefit plan. physically fit. Applicants Wages are negotiable with may apply in person at experience and attitude. 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer Please forward resumes SIDING INSTALLER T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 and references by fax to with or without trailer & or email: 403-309-7134 or by email tools. F.T. year round info@ramadareddeer.com to info@absolutefusion.ca work, must have truck and No Phone Calls Please! You can sell your guitar 2 yrs. exp. 90 cents - $1 for a song... per sq.ft. 403-358-8580 BRICAR CONTRACTING or put it in CLASSIFIEDS now hiring Dozer & and we’ll sell it for you! Excavator Operators and Truckers/ Laborers. Send resumes THE RUSTY PELICAN Drivers by Fax: 403-347-6296 is now accepting resumes for experienced COMMERCIAL Foundation CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d F/T SERVERS & for moving equipment. company in Red Deer DISWASHERS Resumes to be dropped off are currently seeking Must have Ref’s & Pro-Serve. at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. experienced foundation Apply within: 2079-50 Cres. Red Deer. form workers. Please fax Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. resume to 403-346-5867 Fax 403-347-1161 Phone DRIVERS for furniture or calls WILL NOT be accepted. moving company, class 5 email cavemancontracting required (5 tons), local & @hotmail.com long distance. Competitive Sales & wages. Apply in person. EXP. PAVERS WANTED Distributors 6630 71 St. Bay 7 Call 403-341-6900 Red Deer. 403-347-8841 or Fax: 877-787-1605 GRATIAE is seeking MEGA CRANES is now 5 Retails Sales reps EXPERIENCED hiring exp’d Class 1 drivers. selling skin & body care Boom/crane truck tickets products in Parkland Mall - EXCAVATOR OPERATOR for local commercial an asset. Please email 4747 67th St. Red Deer, construction company. résumé with drivers $12.10/hr + bonus & comm. Please fax resume with abstract to F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d. current drivers abstract to cathy@megacranes.com Email resumes: 403-342-6881 or fax 403-885-4292 gratiaereddeersr@ gmail.com F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS Required Immediately SOAP Stories is seeking 5 - Good hours, home every Parts Delivery F/T - P/T Beauty Treatnight, $4000-$6000/mo. Driver ment O/P, selling soap & Contractor must have truck Must possess clean bath products $14.55/hr. + or van. Tools, supplies & drivers abstract, know bonus & comm. Beauty ladders required. Training city well. The individual cert. req’d. Location provided, no experience must be able to work Parkland Mall - 4747 67th needed. Apply to: unsupervised in a fast St. Red Deer. email satjobs@shaw.ca paced environment. Some premierjobrdbto@ warehouse work and some gmail.com GOODMEN heavy lifting is required. ROOFING LTD. CELEBRATIONS The company Requires HAPPEN EVERY DAY offers full benefit package for this full time position. IN CLASSIFIEDS SLOPED ROOFERS Please email or drop off LABOURERS SOAP Stories is seeking 5 resume. & FLAT ROOFERS retail sales reps. Selling soap ARTIC TRUCK PARTS & bath products. $12.10 hr #3-6540 71 ST Valid Driver’s Licence + bonus & commission. Red Deer AB T4P 3Y7 preferred. Fax or email F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d. (P)403-348-0999 info@goodmenroofi ng.ca Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. (F)403-348-5198 or (403)341-6722 Red Deer. email resume to Email to: NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! premierjobrd@gmail.com ron.cain@ nfleetsolutions.com

Trades

Truckers/ Drivers

JOURNEYMAN WELDER Required ASAP. Please call 403-318-6262 or email resume to: dave@kodiakent.com

is now hiring for the following positions!

Trades

850

Trades

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

MORRISROE INGLEWOOD AND SOUTHBROOK AREAS Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE 6 Days a week! Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

GRANDVIEW AREA

Phone 403-314-4301 3900 - 4200 Blocks of 43A Ave. EASTVIEW Ellis St. Area $97./mo ALSO South Half of Embury Cres. South half of 46 St. and 35 Ave. Close $70./mo For More Information Call Jamie at 403-314-4306

INNISFAIL Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week. Delivery by 6:30 a.m. Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Phone 403-314-4316

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 18, 2014 D3

the n o d e t is l e l ic h e v r u Get yo

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

DO YOU HAVE AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A SPORTS CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. Runs good. Would like at least $9500 403-391-3456

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK CAMPER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1985 BUICK Riviera. Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner. Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo. 403-347-3950

2001 FORD F150 loaded Triton 5.4L, 7700 lb. tow pckg. 5th whl. hitch, Landau cover, lockable 196,860 kms. $8000. 403-358-5465

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, 403-505-9446

2001 SILVERADO LT 2wd, X cab, 5.3L, 166,600 kms, grey, tow pkg, $6800 obo 403-343-8206

2002 FORD Dynamax

2004 GMC 3/4 C/C SLT leather, Duramax diesel, 200,000 kms, not oilfield, black, $16,500. **SOLD**

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

DO YOU HAVE A DIRT BIKE TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Exc. cond. 403-347-5078

2004 TITANIUM

model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo. 403-347-1050 or 304-4580

ULTIMATE TRUCK CAMPER 2007 Okanagan 117 DBL - 2 Slides, Sleeps 6, Full bath & kitchen. Queen. Huge. Mint $24,250 obo 403-620-8106

2009 KEYSTONE Passport Ultralite 29 ft Reduced, 1 slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C. See Kijiji Ad ID 548133556 $19,000. 403-343-1043

2012 CHEV, 4x4, loaded, $23,300. **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE A JEEP TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

LX, 3254, 3 slides,thermo windows, fireplace, lots of extras. MINT

2007 SPORTSMAN

2009 RANGER XLT

2007 FLEETWOOD

$26,900. trades cons. 403-598-0682

2006 37’ DAY DREAMER by Cedar Creek. 3 slides. Luxury Coach. E/H disc brakes, hydraulic legs & rear levelers. Air ride hitch. $39,500. See @ 5 Roland St. Red Deer 403-347-4896

2007 STARCRAFT, 30’, slide, solar, air, walk-around bed, sleeps 6, rear kitchen. **SOLD*

(B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi. A1 cond., E450, V10, 4 kw Ohan gen. loaded. $32,500. 587-876-2308

2006 CHARGER Daytona RT, limited addition, #3 of only 250 made, loaded w/leather, low kms., top banana color. $16,995. 403-350-4588

2007 VW CITY GOLF. Blue, heated seats, winter tires, 205,000 km. $5500 403-782-5617

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’. Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo. Call 403-442-3837

DO YOU HAVE A SEADOO TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

DO YOU HAVE A BOAT TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500. 587-679-1000

2003 HONDA 450, 4x4 $3800. obo **SOLD**

2007 CHEV Aveo. 80,000 km. $4950 403-348-1382

DO YOU HAVE A TENT TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2003 WINDSTAR LX, fully loaded, very good cond. $3500. 403-755-2867

DO YOU HAVE A MOTORHOME TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

1989 LINCOLN Mark II, 2 door, low kms., exc. cond.

$4000.

403-343-0081

1999 PONTIAC Sunfire GT, well maintained.

$2000.

403-346-9169

6 Days in The Red Deer Advocate 1 Sunday Life 2 Central Alberta Life

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

FREE

2 FREE For Sale Signs and Tip Sheet

Photo Ad Wednesdays in FAST TRACK FOTOS

2007 Dutchman Express 26’ Class C 12,800 Miles

Slide, Generator, air, V10, $40,000 403 782 4207

AD ON INTERNET Ad appears every day your ad is published in the Advocate

If your vehicle doesn't sell the first week, 2nd week is HALF PRICE!

$12,900. trades cons.

2012 FORD FOCUS titanium hatchback, no GST, private sale $14,250 obo 403-227-5123

DO YOU HAVE A CAR TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2012 FUSION SE only 10,000 kms, exc. cond. no gst 17,500 403-350-6434

4x4, 70,000 kms., exc. shape, 403-598-0682

2010 Ford Explorer

2013 GMC 2500 HD 4x4, 36,000 kms., Duramax Diesel $42,300. 587-679-1000

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400. 403-391-9662

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2014 GMC, S/B, Loaded, z71, $34,300. 587-679-1000

DO YOU HAVE A TRUCK TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

2011 ALPINE 39’, 7500 w generator, king bed, 2011 GMC 3/4 ton Denali, hitch, matched to trailer, sell as unit $105,000 obo, trailer only $54,900 obo 403 358-4031

HONDA 250 CC, automatic, 110 KPH max. Very reliable. First $700 takes it. **SOLD**

2011 DAYBREAK THOR, 27’, 2 slides, generator, lots of extras selling due to

T@B 14’, 1200 lbs., loaded. Like New. $10,999. SOLD

DO YOU HAVE A HOLIDAY TRAILER TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

TITANIUM TOYHAULER 34E39 MP RV. Loaded, exc. shape. 2 slides, New fridge, 6 yr warranty, $35,500. 403-340-2535

2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner, 110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, $22,500 403-986-3834

2009 AEROLITE Dutchmen rear slide, dbl. bunks, queen bed, A/C, couch, table, awning. $16,900 obo. 403-347-5947

Limited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather, DVD, every option, $20,500. 403-318-5505

health, 4847 mi. $70,000. ***SOLD***

Sell your vehicle FAST with a Formula 1 Classified Vehicle Ad Call 309-3300 and one of our Formula 1 Specialists can put you on the Fast Track to sell your vehicle.

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, June 18, 2014

U.S. nabs Libyan militant involved in Benghazi attack BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — U.S. special forces seized a “key leader” of the deadly Benghazi, Libya, attack and he is on his way to face trial in the U.S. for the fiery assault that killed the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. It was the first breakthrough in the sudden overseas violence in 2012 that has become a festering political sore at home. President Barack Obama said the capture on Sunday of Ahmed Abu Khattala sends a clear message to the world that “when Americans are attacked, no matter how long it takes, we will find those responsible and we will bring them to justice.” “We will find you,” Obama declared. As recently as last August, though, Abu Khattala told The Associated Press that he was not in hiding nor had he been questioned by Libyan authorities about the attack at the diplomatic compound. He denied involvement and said that he had abandoned the militia. Administration officials said Tuesday that despite his media interviews, he “evaded capture” until the weekend when military special forces, including members of the Army’s elite Delta Force, nabbed him. Whatever the path to his capture, he was headed for the United States to face what Obama called “the full weight of the American justice system.” Obama called the Libyan an “alleged key leader” of the attack. U.S. officials said Abu Khattala was being held on the Navy amphibious transport dock ship USS New York, which was in the Mediterranean Sea. The officials spoke only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss Abu Khattala’s whereabouts. The Libyan was the commander of a militant group called the Abu Obaida bin Jarrah Brigade and is accused of

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AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Tractors

2030

JOHN DEERE 4320 Tractor. Approx. 6000 hrs. Front end loader, complete w/8’ snow blade attachment. Exc. cond. Sold farm. $13,500. ALSO John Deere 14’ Disc & Cultivator. 403-350-1007 or 403-782-3617

3060

Suites

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 5 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, inÁoor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies. Call 403-343-7955

SUNNYBROOK

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being a senior leader of the Benghazi branch of Ansar al-Shariah in Libya, which the U.S. has designated a terror group. In Congress, Republicans urged the administration to get as much intelligence out of Abu Khattala as possible before anyone reads him his rights to remain silent, supplies him with a lawyer and prepares him for trial in a U.S. courtroom. In fact, Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, top Republican on the Intelligence Committee, said interrogation of the Libyan already was underway and “we hope to find out some positive things.” Abu Khattala is charged with terrorrelated crimes in U.S. District Court in Washington and will be tried like a civilian, the administration said. The Obama administration policy is to treat terror suspects as criminals when possible and not send them to the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, like hundreds of terror suspects captured during the administration of President George W. Bush. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell said the U.S. should skip the legal niceties and focus on interrogation. “The most valuable thing we can get from this terrorist is information about who else was involved in this,” McConnell told reporters. “We’ll be watching closely to see how much information they glean from him and how they’re handling it.” Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican, added: “We should have some quality time with this guy — weeks and months. Don’t torture him; have some quality time with him.” Justice Department spokesman Marc Raimondi declined to comment on whether Abu Khatalla had been read his rights to remain silent or when that might happen. “As a general rule, the government will always seek to elicit all actionable intelligence and information we can from terrorist suspects in our custody,” Raimondi said in an email.

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Chinese students, supporters of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang, one holding a puppet depicting a dragon, wave their national flags as they gather at a counter-demonstration against a protest against the leader across the street from Downing Street in central London, where he was meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron at his official residence, Tuesday. The Chinese leader met with Cameron and other senior government officials, and the two sides are expected to announce a slew of trade and investment deals.

Suicide bomber blasts World Cup viewing centre in Nigeria BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DAMATURU, Nigeria — A suicide bomber detonated a tricycle taxi packed with explosives at an outdoor World Cup viewing centre in a northeast Nigerian city Tuesday night, and witnesses said several people were killed. Hospital workers said the death likely will rise with 15 people critically wounded and casualties still coming in to the main hospital at Damaturu, capital of Yobe state. Police Assistant Superintendent Nathan Cheghan confirmed the explosion but said rescue workers were being careful for fear of secondary explosions. Islamic extremists of the Boko Haram group frequently time secondary explosions to kill people who rush to the scene of a bomb blast.

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ACREAGE FOR SALE East of Didsbury, 10.25 acres, exceptionally reno’d main house, second house, shop, machine shed, barn, other out buildings, fenced, 2 waterers. Quiet, well-treed & landscaped. Asking $709,000. See ComFree.com #518693 for photos & details. 403-335-3359

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Cheghan said he had no casualty figures. There was no immediate claim for the blast witnesses were blaming on Boko Haram fighters who have targeted football viewing centres and sports bars in the past. Two explosions in recent weeks killed at least 40 people in two northern cities. Witnesses said the tricycle taxi was driven into the outdoor area soon after the Brazil-Mexico match started Tuesday night. All spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. One hospital worker said he saw at least seven bodies. Another said 15 casualties were in intensive care. Both asked that their names not be published because they are not authorized to speak to reporters.

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All photos: Models wear creations by Alexander McQueen during London Men’s spring summer fashion collections 2015, at the Royal College of Surgeons of England by Lincoln’s Inn Fields, central London this week. Photos by JOEL RYAN/ Invision/Associated Press

Home of the well-dressed gentleman NEW MEETS OLD AS MENSWEAR SHOWS KICK OFF IN LONDON BY SYLVIA HUI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — In the world of women’s fashion, London often plays second fiddle to other style capitals — it lacks the allure of Paris’s haute couture or the polish of Milan’s luxury labels. Yet when it comes to dressing the gentleman, no city can rival the British capital’s heritage. Steeped in a rich history of tailoring for kings, army generals and the world’s wealthiest men, London is now being marketed as the home of men’s fashion — the original birthplace of the tuxedo jacket, the bowler hat and the three-piece suit, among other classic items. As trendy designer labels like Alexander McQueen and Burberry kick off the new season’s menswear shows in London this week, the catwalks will be staged just blocks away from the elite tailoring houses that have been perfecting their craft for over a century. “Men in this city have always made a point of dressing well,” said Simon Cundey, who manages the historic tailors Henry Poole & Co. The company, which first opened shop on London’s famed Savile Row in 1846, has measured and dressed everyone from Napoleon III to J.P. Morgan, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle. Records of their orders and others dating back to the 1850s are bound in thick volumes and proudly displayed. “We’re very lucky in London — no other city in the world has a suiting street like this,” he added. Savile Row, a street lined with more than a dozen tailors, is a living museum of the English love affair with luxury menswear. It’s a long-standing tradition that’s closely tied to a history of royal dress, military uniforms and gentry sports like horseback riding and hunting. One example is the tailcoat, whose cutaway front was originally designed for ease of movement when worn as an equestrian coat. And the brogue shoe, which came from rural Scotland, became fashionable as urban wear after Edward VII — a fashion trendsetter in his time — sported them on his golfing trips. London shops had a big role in inventing and popularizing many trends. Lock & Co., founded in 1676 and said to be the oldest hat shop in the world, helped create the bowler hat — also called a Derby hat in the U.S. — in the 1840s. Henry Poole, who worked closely with Edward VII, helped the dandy royal develop the tuxedo jacket to wear during “informal” dinners. Some of Savile Row’s pedigree tailors, including Gieves & Hawkes, are showcasing their designs at London’s menswear shows this week alongside much younger labels such as Tom Ford, Paul Smith and J.W. Anderson.

The influence of their heritage may not be apparent on these runways, but experts say it feeds into modern designs in subtle ways. “When we talk about work placements, the first thing a lot of my students mention is Savile Row, because it’s so classic,” said Chris New, who teaches menswear at London’s prestigious Central Saint Martins college. A tradition of apprenticeships means many young designers learn the art of tailoring from the best in the business, he said. The best-known Savile Row apprentice story is probably that of McQueen, whose label is showing Monday. At 16, he trained for two years at Anderson & Sheppard, and many have attributed the late designer’s success to his ability to combine excellent tailoring with subversive designs. Burberry, which is showcased its designs Tuesday, is one of the savviest

in capitalizing on British tradition. Its signature trench coat, first worn by soldiers during World War I, is still a bestseller, and the brand continues to launch modern versions of it for both men and women every season. Like many other brands, Burberry says menswear is a fast-growing money maker for them. London’s menswear week has expanded impressively since it broke away from the main womenswear fashion showcases in 2012. This year it

started Sunday and ran until Tuesday, followed by other men’s fashion shows in Milan and Paris. Still, there’s no denying that designer or bespoke menswear is far from accessible to the average man. Asked what sartorial advice he could give to those without deep pockets, Cundey said: “Invest in quality, not quantity.” “There are three things you need in life. A good day-to-evening suit, a tailored blazer or coat, and a tuxedo,” he said.

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