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Strikes central ENVIRONMENT CANADA SAYS RED DEER RECEIVES MOST CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES THAN ANYWHERE IN PROVINCE BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer is apparently Alberta’s lightning rod — lucky us. According to Environment Canada, Red Deer received the most cloud to ground lightning strikes per square kilometre per year between 1999 and 2008 out of 12 Alberta cities. Red Deer topped the list at .79 lightning strikes, followed by Airdrie at .77, Edmonton at .73 and Calgary at .68. During those 10 years, Red Deer had 464 cloud to ground strikes, Airdrie had 196, Edmonton saw 3,142 and Calgary had 4,292. “Edmonton and Calgary get a lot more lightning strikes, but when you look at cloud to ground flashes per kilometre, Red Deer ranks the highest in the province as far as cities are concerned,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Bill McMurtry. “Red Deer is right in the hub. That’s the epicentre of severe weather in Alberta. When we combine things like tornadoes, hail, heavy rain occurrences, the Red Deer region experiences more than any other region of the province. That is really the centre of summer severe weather.” Other cities in the lightning
study were St. Albert, Lloydminster, High Level, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Slave Lake, Lethbridge and Medicine Hat. Study results can be found at — http://www.ec.gc.ca/ foudre-lightning/default. asp?lang=En&n=4871AAE6-1 — and includes cities in every province and territory. “If we compare (Red Deer) to southern Ontario which gets the most, the number is relatively small. If you look at a place like Windsor, which gets more lightning than anywhere else, they get 2.83 flashes per square kilometre per year — over three times more than Red Deer.” McMurtry said the southern prairies come in second, followed by the foothills of the Canadian Rockies when it comes to lightning strikes. A lot of the lightning in the foothills has to do with the formation of thunderstorms and the affects can be felt along the foothills in areas like Nordegg, Rocky Mountain House and Sundre, he said. “The fact that most of our winds, for the big percentage of the year in the upper level, are from the west, when those storms develop in the Canadian Rockies they move eastward so areas immediately east of the foothills tend to see the highest amount.”
Southern Ontario can get lightning anytime of year, while most of it occurs on the prairies and foothills in the late spring and summer. He said Florida wins the title for the most lighting in North America, which has a lot to do with the availability of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. “(Alberta) is dry, but another key ingredient is instability in the air mass. The mountains play an incredible role by creating these parcels of dry air that get forced into the mid portions of the atmosphere and that helps to increase the instability of the air mass which is one of the reasons we see a lot of thunderstorm activity in the foothills or on the lee side of the Rocky Mountains.” In Canada, an average of 10 people die each year and about 150 are injured by lightning. “Of those 10 deaths, 60 to 80 per cent would occur from ground current or side flashes, not a direct lightning strike,” McMurtry said. Ground current happens when lightning strikes the ground and disperses laterally. Side flashes are when lightning strikes an object then arcs off that object.
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Retailers Making a difference abroad not happy TWO LACOMBE RESIDENTS PITCH IN ON TRIP TO UKRAINE with city’s e-cig rules BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF
BYLAW TREATS VAPING, SMOKING AS THE SAME THING BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A local electronic cigarette seller expects some of his customers will not be too happy that vaping is being painted with the same brush as smoking in Red Deer. Last week, the city released a reminder that using e-cigarettes in public spaces is banned under its Smoke Free Bylaw. The city is applying the Smoke Free Bylaw because there is no federal or provincial regulation in place. The city intends to advocate for more regulation. E-cigarettes are a tobacco-free alternative to smoking. Users inhale the vapours produced by the batterypowered devices that heat up fluidfilled cartridges. The practise is called “vaping.” Ryan Williams, manager of the Vapor Hub shop, said people who are switching over to vaping from regular smoking are doing it to be healthier and to save money.
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Central Albertans on a Medical Mercy Canada trip in May to Ukraine were welcomed with open arms. Dr. Leighton Nischuk and Warren Kreway, both of Lacombe, were among five Canadians who went to Ukraine for a month after Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula in March and while Ukrainians were preparing to elect a new president. “It was probably my best trip to the Ukraine. I think the people really appreciate that we came. They didn’t think we were going to come. It said there are people that care and so we got a lot of hugs, a lot of good food,” said Dr. Leighton Nischuk, a director with Medical Mercy Canada. Nischuk said he got the impression that Ukrainians were feeling alone and that the world was on Russia’s side. He said people on the western side of the country want Ukraine to be its own independent country. “A lot of people knew the Russian language and spoke the Russian language, but they don’t want anything to do with Russia.” And even though things looked bad, optimism prevailed, he said. It was Nischuk’s fifth trip to Ukraine since 2009 to visit villages in four the country’s western provinces to check on small restoration projects underway at facilities like health clinics, schools, and geriatric centres. Nischuk said they never felt that they were in danger, but did find out later that four Russians were arrested near one of the villages not long after the Canadians visited. “They had a whole bunch of rifles
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Dr. Leighton Nischuk and Warren Kreway visited a medical clinic that has a new front door after Medical Mercy stepped in to help. with them.” Before the May 25 election, he received an e-mail from the Canadian government to limit their travel on election day and stay away from polling stations. A week before the election, all major cities had road blocks made of concrete barriers, tires or sandbags guarded by police who were checking vehicles. He said as the election drew near, Ukrainians grew more worried. “The churches were full every evening, people getting together to pray.” On May 25, the humanitarian group did travel to a nearby village where they were invited by the local mayor to visit the polling station, so they went. “People were sitting there talking, visiting, smiling. It seemed really quite relaxed. Outside, children were playing soccer. There wasn’t any sort of fear at all. And when they heard we
were Canadians, they were happy to see us and they wanted a picture with us,” Nischuk said. Kreway, who made his first trip to Ukraine, said Ukrainians in rural areas were feeling isolated and kind of lost. “They have Russian television and the Russian television is not allowing them to see what is going on,” Kreway said. “It was very reassuring to them that we came all the way from Canada to help even in this mess that they’re in. It reassured the people that the world does care. We are paying attention. The world has eyes on them.” One of the reason’s why Kreway, 65, wanted to be part of Medical Mercy efforts in Ukraine was to connect to his heritage. Kreway met three distant cousins while in the country.
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Parade caps gay and lesbian festivities Toronto’s festival is a testament to Canada’s openness as this year’s festival and was designated a World Pride event. Story on PAGE A5
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Bark at the Bend raises big bucks for SPCA vet costs BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF For 15 years, dogs and their owners have taken to paths at Three Mile Bend en masse to participate in Red Deer and District SPCA’s Bark at the Bend. The tradition continued Saturday morning with the event raising $15,000 for the SPCA’s spay and neuter program and other veterinarian care. “We have the most donations online for the event that we’ve ever had. We’re up to like $7,600 online alone,” said SPCA executive director Tara Hellewell. She said although more people are understanding the importance of getting their dogs fixed, about 80 per cent of dogs that come into the SPCA still need to be spayed or neutered. The SPCA budgets $80,000 annually for veterinary care and the money raised helps cover the cost of care. New activities at Saturday’s walkathon, like the pancake breakfast held for the first time last year, have proven popular, she said. About 60 people came out to support the work of the SPCA. Both canines and their owners were mingling prior to the walk that started at 10 a.m. “Everyone who loves their dogs, loves to come and show them off,” Hellewell said. On average, the local SPCA shelter has about 150 animals that need homes.
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LIGHTNING: Stay safe by staying inside He said a common misconception is that people need to be directly under a storm to get hit, but two-thirds of deaths occur when the storm is approaching or leaving. “The safest place to be is in a building, particularly a building with plumbing and lightning. Electricity or lightning will always follow the path of least resistance, so if the building gets hit that you’re in, it will tend to follow the plumbing and wiring of a building as opposed to going through you.” To stay safe indoors, people should not have direct contact with plumbing or wiring. Another safe place to be is inside a vehicle with a metal roof. He said dramatic footage of a truck being struck by lightning outside Tokyo on May 31 can be found on the In-
Lightning safety tips Lightning safety tips from Environment Canada for people caught outdoors: • Avoid putting yourself above the surrounding landscape. Seek shelter in low-lying areas such as valleys, ditches and depressions, but be aware of flooding. • Stay away from water. Don’t go boating or swimming if a storm threatens, and get to land as quickly as possible if you are already on the water. Lightning can strike the water and travel a substantial distance from its point of contact. • Stay away from objects that conduct electricity, such as tractors, golf carts, golf clubs, metal fences, motorcycles, lawnmowers and bicycles. • Avoid being the highest point in an open area. Swinging a golf club, or holding an umbrella or fishing rod can make you the tallest object and a target for lightning. • You are safe inside a car during lightning, but be aware of downed power lines which may be touching your car. You are safe inside the car,
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Harlee, a Golden Retriever crossed with a Siberian husky, and Bandit, a jack russell, fight over the remains of a tennis ball at Three Mile Bend during Bark at the Bend on Saturday morning. “We had litters and litters of kittens this spring. It was very intense. The dogs have been increasing
ternet. “The two occupants of the vehicle were shaken, but not injured, yet the vehicle suffered extensive damage to the electrical system. They were safe inside because the charge went around the vehicle along the frame.” They just couldn’t get out of their vehicle due to how the metal fused and the melting, he added. McMurtry said things to stay away from include tall objects, like trees and towers, as they attract lightning. Water is highly conductive so people on the water don’t even have to be close to a lightning strike to be affected. Metal fences also allow electrical discharge to travel distances upwards of a kilometre before finding a place to ground. “We’ve had several deaths on the prairies over the last number of years from people working on fences.” McMurtry said during lightning season people need to take the appropriate caution. Outdoor activities make people vulnerable, especially when boating, camping, golfing, and attending outdoor events. The saying goes — when thunder roars, go indoors — but people should also watch the sky because lightning can occur without thunder, he said. “When lightning occurs, the air imbut you may receive a shock if you step outside. • In a forest, seek shelter in a lowlying area under a thick growth of small trees or bushes. • Keep alert for flash floods, sometimes caused by heavy rainfall, if seeking shelter in a ditch or low-lying area. Indoor Precautions: • Before the storm hits, disconnect electrical appliances including radios and television sets. Do not touch them during the storm. • Don’t go outside unless absolutely necessary. • Keep as many walls as possible between you and the outside. • Don’t handle electrical equipment or telephones. The electrical current from the lightning strike will travel through wires and cords and if you are directly connected with them, you could be struck. Use battery operated appliances only. Cordless telephones are safe however you could receive a very loud noise on the phone which may seem like a shock. This would be consistent with the house or somewhere nearby being struck by lightning.
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as well,” said Lisa Ruether, SPCA fund development co-ordinator. During the Lazy Days of Summer Kitty Adoption Event, the adoption fee for any cat over four months old is only $25 instead of the regular price of about $100. The fee includes spaying or neutering, vaccinations, microchip, and pet insurance. The event runs until the end of August. Sara Craig, of Red Deer, brought two of her dogs, Boo and Mouse, both miniature dachshunds who were deaf with poor eyesight. She adopted them from rescue organizations that help deaf dogs in the United States. “Everybody who ever gets a deaf dog will be stuck on them,” Craig said. While she doesn’t usually take her dogs to dog parks, she knew they would be safe at Bark at the Bend because most of the dogs would be on leashes. Chyanne Mason and Taylor Dey adopted their dog, Oliver, an Australian shepherd only three weeks ago from the SPCA. “He just tugged at our heart strings,” Mason said. She has always liked the breed and when they saw his picture online at the SPCA, they knew they had to go see him. “He was the calmest dog in the kennel,” said Dey while scratching Oliver’s ears who was a little intimidated by all the other dogs at the park. Mason said Oliver’s a people dog, but also gets along with their cat. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
mediately around the lightning strike gets super heated. Super heated air expands very rapidly and it’s that expansion of air that creates the sound waves that we hear when we hear thunder. “There could be situations where the sound waves refract or reflect around you so you don’t hear it. It all depends of the composition of the atmosphere.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
UKRAINE: Family connections draw man to Ukraine He said his grandfather was born in Ukraine and left so he could raise his family in safety. Leaving Ukraine meant cutting off all communication. “They were afraid once they got here, or wherever they were heading, they’d be caught and sent back. So they just kept silent their whole lives. My dad and my grandfather said nothing. That’s really sad. To live your whole life without being able to know if there were any relatives alive, or what happened.” He said Russia is continuing to the turmoil and repression that has held Ukraine back. One of Kreway’s jobs was to get out into the local villages, meet people, and let them know why Medical Mercy Canada was there. Medical Mercy has worked to distribute medical supplies and equipment, as well as help fund projects like updated plumbing in health clinics, new floors, doors and windows. “They are very, very poor. Most of health units they have in the villages barely have running water or indoor toilets. It was like stepping back 150 to 200 years at times,” Kreway said. Nischuk said the team visited about 80 project sites and he has seen conditions get better over the years with more efforts being made to restore facilities. “(Medical Mercy) was sort of like a spark. We’d see that quite often,” Nischuk said, adding many people support the efforts of Medical Mercy in Ukraine because they have relatives there. “There are some really generous supporters. Once they connect with family, it makes it much more real to them, the difficulties they have, and
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they really want to help.” Nischuk’s mother and father came from Ukraine and he has discovered about 150 relatives. He said it was particularly important to return this year with the challenges the country faced. In February, his father passed away and it was nice to return to the country where he father was born, Nischuk said. “It was like going back and bringing his spirit back.” For more information about Medical Mercy Canada visit www.medicalmercycanada.org. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
E-CIG: Debate persists over health benefits He said they are not making the switch because they want to be able to smoke everywhere. “There’s stuff in the media all the time put out by the government to encourage people to quit smoking,” he said. “Now these people have taken a step to stop smoking and they are being painted with the same brush as a smoker.” There is significant debate about the health and societal benefits of vaping. Williams, who started vaping about two years ago, said e-cigarettes are smokeless and odourless. He said the stuff that is harmful in second-hand smoke are ingredients such as formaldehyde, cyanide, benzine and carbon monoxide. He said most people who use e-cigarettes are happy to be able to use them in their vehicles and at their homes. Most people do not use ecigarettes in places like the mall or the bank because they feel people will be looking at them strangely. “They aren’t going to start vaping in the McDonald’s play place,” said Williams. Smoking and vaping are banned in such places as public buildings, workplaces, sidewalk cafes, patios, bars and restaurants. They are also banned within 10 metres of playgrounds, sports fields, water spray parks and skate parks. Health Canada has advised Canadians not to use e-cigarettes because their safety has not been proven. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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Training starts for wild horse contraception COULD REPLACE CURRENT PRACTICE BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Members of the Wild Horses of Alberta Society will be trained on horse contraception in July in the hope that the province will approve the method to control the wild horse population by this fall. The Feral Horse Advisory Committee, which is composed of trappers and ranchers, as well as horse, animal welfare, veterinarian and conservation organizations, has yet to approve the program. Wild Horses of Alberta Society (WHOAS) sits on the committee and WHOAS president Bob Henderson said he is optimistic a decision will be made next month. “Hopefully we can show them our way of doing things is a much more humane way and positive way, and a much more effective way of controlling population for the benefit of all the stakeholders and other users of the range, including the other wildlife,� Henderson said. Alberta currently captures wild horses to reduce numbers. They are either slaughtered or taken in by horse owners and ranchers for personal, work or recreational use. WHOAS members are attending a three-day training session in Montana in mid-July that would qualify them to use the contraception vaccine. They propose that 18 mature mares would be selected for injection through darts that will prevent them from getting pregnant for three years. “The prime time to be darting them would be September and October,� Henderson said. He said contraception is used in the U.S. to control its wild horses as well as in Germany. Zoos also use it to regulate breeding in ungulate populations. If necessary, contraception could be augmented with the capture of some younger horses to be adopted out, he said. “If you get rid of the old stallion and lead mare, then they’ll breed like crazy. By taking the youngsters, you leave the horse herd structure in place and that helps population control.� WHOAS also argues there shouldn’t be a general capture this year. “The winter was really, really hard on the horses.
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A white mare and her foal were recently rescued by the Wild Horses of Alberta Society after they were found on private land. The association will take care of them until they put on enough weight and are ready to be adopted. The association also fixes fences to keep wild horses off private land. When they counted the horses in March, they counted 880.� There’s few yearlings in the West Country wild horse population. Many mares aborted, with some mares lost due to complications when they tried to give birth, he said. “It’s a sad time, but it’s part of nature.� szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com
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A suspicious fire early Saturday morning at a downtown apartment building is under investigation. Red Deer RCMP said fire and smoke damage was limited to a small area on the upper floor of the twostorey building located at 5129 50th St. There were no injuries. Police and Red Deer Emergency Services responded shortly after 8 a.m. Firefighters were quickly able to contain the fire to the hallway and one unit. Tenants were able to return to their apartments late Saturday morning. About 24 people live in the building.
CALGARY — A nine-month-old Calgary boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and sound, and the alert has been cancelled. Calgary police say the child was located early Saturday morning (4:30 local time) in Riverbend, a residential neighbourhood in southeast Calgary, after they received a tip. Police say a man is in custody. Police say the child was taken from a northeast Calgary parking lot around 8 p.m. Friday after an altercation between a man and the boy’s mother.
A person died in a crash just east of the QEII late Sunday evening. At about 9 p.m. Red Deer Emergency Services responded to a single vehicle collision on 67th Street, west of Orr Drive. One fatality was reported by Red Deer Emergency Services. A section of 67th Street between Orr Drive and the QEII was closed for several hours as investigators surveyed the scene of the crash.
Flooding overwhelms Saskatchewan highways, sewer systems MELVILLE, Sask. — Highways closed and communities declared states of emergency on Sunday after a deluge of rain drenched southeast Saskatchewan and parts of Manitoba. Melville, about 140 kilometres northwest of Regina, declared a state of local emergency after rain overwhelmed the city’s storm and domestic sewer systems, as well as its lift stations. The Saskatchewan government said the Town of Carnduff, the Rural Municipality of Mount Pleasant and the Village of Maryfield have also declared local emergencies.
The vote to determine who will represent Wildrose in the Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre riding will take place on Friday and Saturday. Wildrose Party Leader Danielle Smith confirmed the vote dates in a stopover at Red Deer’s Michener Centre on Friday. Further details on polling locations and times weren’t available. The nomination battle has proven controversial with sitting MLA Joe Anglin complaining that he was blindsided by his own constituency association president, Jason Nixon. Anglin contends Nixon broke party rules by not stepping down ahead of announcing his nomination intentions, but the party ruled in Nixon’s favour. Smith addressed the controversy again on Friday, saying the party’s process had been followed. “We have an appeals process in our party,� she told reporters. “It went through two levels of appeal and they found that there was no reason to disqualify (Nixon). “So we are going to have a contested race Sorry for there and it will be up to our members to decide,� she said. “We strongly favour democratic nomination races. Many of our (MLAs)
OTTAWA — Four federal byelections on Monday will provide a test of just how far back from the wilderness the Liberals have come under the leadership of Justin Trudeau. While they’re not necessarily harbingers of what’s to come in next year’s general election, the two Toronto and two Alberta ridings up for grabs may go some ways toward answering some questions about the current political landscape. Which among the NDP and Liberal parties is best positioned to challenge the Harper government in 2015? How well or not have Conservative attacks on Trudeau worked so far? And as unlikely as it seems, are there signs of life for the Liberals in wild rose country, a Grit wasteland since Trudeau’s late father imposed the reviled national energy program more than three decades ago. The Conservatives should hang on to the two Alberta seats — particularly Macleod in the south, where retired Tory Ted Menzies won with 77.5 per cent of the vote in 2011. But further north, the Liberals have poured resources into Fort McMurray, the heart of Alberta’s oil sands industry where the party ran third with a meagre 10 per cent of the vote in 2011. Trudeau has been in the riding three times to campaign with Liberal candidate Kyle Harrietha, who maintains the Harper government takes Fort McMurray for granted and who promises to be “the squeaky wheel� that goads the government into treating the area “like real communities, not just work camps.� Last week, Trudeau was in Fort McMurray describing the Conservative government’s cap on temporary foreign workers as “one of the most anti-Alberta federal policies we’ve seen in decades� —one that’s more current than the decades-old grievance over his father’s NEP, he might have added. Most observers say it would take a miracle for the Liberals to actually win the riding but they’re hopeful they can pull off another Brandon-Souris, the Manitoba Tory fortress that nearly fell to the resurgent Grits in a byelection late last year. “I see these byelections as a step on the long road the Liberal party has to walk from 35 seats to forming government after the next election,� Trudeau said in Toronto on Sunday.
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A radical Canada Day WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE NATION WE ONCE KNEW? Oh, Canada, what will become of you? Although I’m proudly Canadian, my early memories are mixed. After Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, our government unfairly deprived my family of citizenship rights and exiled us to the DAVID B.C. Interior, SUZUKI even though we were born and raised here. But my love of nature flourished during that time in the spectacular Slocan Valley. As a young adult, I moved to the U.S. for educational opportunities not available in Canada. Disturbed by overt racism in the American South, I eventually returned to my increasingly tolerant homeland. I preferred Canada, which to me meant Tommy Douglas and Medicare, Quebec, the National Film Board and CBC. I’ve never regretted my choice. Canadians have strived to move beyond inequality and intolerance to cre-
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ate an inclusive and caring society, where education, public health, social programs and enlightened laws provide numerous opportunities. We’re not there yet, but we’ve come a long way in our relatively short history as a nation. We also understand our place in nature. Surrounded by the world’s longest and most diverse coastline, our mountains, forests, prairies, rivers, lakes, valleys and skies define us and instill wonder and pride. Canada is nature. And nature is life. We know this. Lately, the tide has been turning. Instead of protecting the increasingly precious and threatened natural systems that keep us alive and healthy, our leaders are rushing to scar the landscape with mines, roads and pipelines to sell our resources as quickly as possible to global markets. From oilsands expansion to fracking, federal and provincial governments are blindly proceeding with little thought about long-term consequences. In 2007, our prime minister called climate change “perhaps the greatest threat to the future of humanity.” Now he says, “No matter what they say, no country is going to take actions that are going to deliberately destroy jobs and growth in their country.” Yet, many actions our industries
and governments are taking will hurt the ability to create jobs and keep the economy prosperous. Clean energy and educated citizens are healthier investments than an increasingly risky fossil fuel industry — and we can’t hope for abundant jobs and a thriving economy on a planet suffering the ever-worsening consequences of global warming. Canada was once seen as a country where respect for each other and our land, air, water and biodiversity were valued. Now, some government leaders and their industry and media supporters threaten those who dare question the mad scramble for short-sighted, short-term profits at the expense of the environment, our health and the world’s climate systems, and label us “radicals.” If it’s radical to insist on maintaining and strengthening values that have long defined us as a nation, then we’ll wear the label proudly. We are radically Canadian! That means building on the progress we’ve made over the years to create a society based on compassion, equity and respect for the people and places we know and love. Canada has long been known as a country that gets it right, that treats its citizens well and cares for the land that gives us so much, and plays a con-
structive role on the world stage. But now we’re lagging in many areas, our hard-earned reputation suffering. We’re no longer a leader in protecting the conditions that make Canada one of the best places on Earth for citizens and visitors alike. Enshrining the right to a healthy environment in the Constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms would help get Canada back on track. More than 110 countries have constitutional environmental rights. But not Canada. It’s not just about protecting birds, bees and trees; it’s about social justice and ensuring all citizens have the right to the conditions necessary for healthy, fruitful lives. What kind of Canada do you want? Do you treasure our spectacular natural landscapes, clean water and air and abundant natural resources? Do you value our commitment to fairness, enlightened social programs, education and public health? Do you believe we should do all we can to protect the things that make this country great? Now is a good time to reflect on these questions, on where we are as a nation and where we want to be. Happy Canada Day! Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.
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Temporary foreign workers should be admired, protected I would like to address a matter near and dear to my heart, it concerns the temporary foreign workers program. It saddens me to think that the government is looking at a group of people and thinking they are not needed here. They fill a very big gap in an industry that is desperate for employees. People think that they are taking jobs away from Canadians but if that were so, why was the need there to begin with? I can tell you why: Canadians do not want these jobs! They think they are above such menial jobs as working in the fast food industry. We have become such a spoiled society that many young people think all they need to do is show up for work without actually doing any work. That they are deserving of things they have not yet earned and make no attempt at earning them. I am not saying all people, of course, but a good majority of them. I am a 45-year-old woman who for the first time in her life is out in the workforce after raising seven children. My children may not be doctors or lawyers, they have not gone to college, they have not been privileged to silver spoons in their mouths. But they are hard-working, honest, caring individuals who know that what they get in life is what they have worked extremely hard for. I am proud of each and every one of them and what they add to society. I have only a Grade 8 education but I know when I go to work every day I am appreciated for the hard work I do. I work for McDonald’s and am proud to say I do. I work hard in an industry that people sneer at and look down on but we work hard, very hard, and in the nine months I have been there I have watched many young people get hired and come to work for a few weeks and then complain that they are being worked to hard and they should not have to put in the hours and time for the meager pay they receive at the end of every two weeks. I would even go as far to say that probably close to half of Canadians who have come in have already left to go look for greener pastures. Maybe I am wrong on the numbers but it has to be pretty darn close. Now let me talk about any of the foreign workers I have worked with: every one of them who was there when I started is still there. They work their tails off each and every shift. They are some of the hardest working people in my restaurant and I am proud to work beside them each and every day! It is always a pleasure to come in for my shifts and work side by side with my friends and coworkers. I am a full-time employee and can say I have never felt slighted in my hours or feel they are being given to the foreign workers. As a matter of fact, they are the ones who are handed any shift and do not complain about availability. To me, they come across as very grateful to be given the opportunities that they may not have had otherwise. They are such hard-working individuals, always doing the jobs they have been given to the best of their abilities. They provide quality service to customers and I never really hear them complain. I remember the first time I realized that most of them are here without their families and I went home and cried that night. I was heartbroken but so
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proud of them for doing the hardest thing they must have ever had to face and that is to leave their families and children behind just to provide for them in a manner that is much needed. I can’t imagine being that selfless to be able to have the courage to do such a thing. How can a decision like that be made lightly? Last night after speaking with one of my friends and coworker, he expressed his concern about having to leave when two years are up and all I could think was: I can’t imagine going to work in two years and not seeing his always -smiling face and watching him do his job in such a profound way, as do all of the foreign workers I am privileged to work with. So now they have the unfortunate stress of having to do a job and make friends and family here and yet worry that all will be ripped from them when their work visas expire. If we had no need for foreign workers, how did this all start anyway? It started because there is a need. Please don’t let some underachiever who thinks that promotions should be handed to them based on where they were born destroy other people’s lives. By that I don’t mean just the foreign workers, I mean me, us. Our industry will fall apart without all the hard work and dedication provided by all my friends and co-workers. I wish that every one of my friends who have had the same privilege of working with a foreign worker would take the time to write the government and let them know how it has made their lives richer and happier working side by side with a group of people
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Big parade caps annual gay and lesbian festivities BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Huge crowds lined the streets for Toronto’s pride parade Sunday as the always colourful gay and lesbian festival took on more of international flavour this year. Many watching the parade go by clutched umbrellas to ward off the hot sun and also block water gun squirts from the more than 12,000 marchers who organizers say registered for the event. They walked more than a dozen city blocks to the cheers of spectators. Among the first making their away along the parade route, happily waving flags from distant nations, were international marchers. This edition of the tourist-drawing shindig stretched over 10 days and was designated as a WorldPride event by an international LGBT group — the first North American festival to get the nod. Kenneth van Emden came from the South American country of Suriname to attend the festivities, which included a human rights conference attended by hundreds of delegates. He said the festival is a testament to Canada’s openness and that he will use some of the things he learned at WorldPride back home, where he runs a gay rights group. “We are born with rights. And whenever you are free to enjoy those rights it’s the best. And I think Toronto WorldPride gives you the best opportunity, at this moment, to enjoy it and just live freely,” he said. “It’s very important to bring people all over the world together, people who in their country don’t have the opportunity to speak out, to have a voice. And I think this platform gave people from around the world a voice in the fight (for) getting acceptance” and battling intolerance back home. This is the 34th year of the festival, and Pride Toronto co-chair Sean Hillier says it’s looking to be the biggest one yet, with record numbers of marchers and streets “overflowing” with spectators at the numerous events. Many
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Spectators cheer during the WorldPride Parade in Toronto, Sunday June 29, 2014. spectators showed up hours before Sunday’s parade to get a good spot. Hours before the festival-capping parade got started, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne — Canada’s first openly gay premier who is fresh off a victory in this month’s provincial election — told reporters the international attendees have been the highlight of the pride celebrations for her. “I think what’s really been wonderful is so many people from countries who do not have the freedoms that we have had the opportunity to experience this. I’ve had so many people come up to me and say ’it’s just amazing that you can be so out”’ with your sexuality. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and top New Democrat Thomas Mulcair were also in attendance Sunday. Though their parties are locked in a tough battle for a downtown Toronto
seat in one of four federal byelections set for Monday, they shook hands as the crowd cheered them on at a morning pride event. The multi-coloured pride flag was everywhere during the parade, and many in the crowd thrust out their smartphones to snap pics and take videos as each float slowly rolled by them. Brittany Langevin came with some friends from Cambridge, Ont., about an hour’s drive outside Toronto, to join the huddle of parade watchers. She said the event reflects the Canadian cultural staples of tolerance and getting along. “I think that it just shows that Canada, we’re so diverse. We’re not really a melting pot — we’re really a mosaic where all these cultures and different people come together, and really everybody can be different and we all accept each other.”
MONTREAL — A group of academics and activists is trying to drum up interest in an ambitious plan to provide every Canadian with a guaranteed minimum level of income — whether or not they have a job. Rob Rainer, a campaign director for the Basic Income Canada Network, envisions a country where everyone is assured a minimum of $20,000 annually to make ends meet. “For many of us, we think the goal is no one should be living in poverty,” Rainer said at a conference on the issue over the weekend at McGill University. “That’s essentially what we’re striving to achieve.” More than 100 speakers and participants were on hand for the conference, which focused on the merits of a guaranteed minimum income that would either replace or exist alongside existing social programs. The idea is hardly new — the Canadian and Manitoba government conducted an experiment with the issue in the 1970s — but it has enjoyed a resurgence lately. Switzerland is expected to hold a non-binding referendum this fall on whether to guarantee every citizen an annual income of Cdn $35,900. And in the United Sates, the idea has supporters on both sides of the political spectrum. Proponents on the left argue it represents an opportunity for greater redistribution of wealth, while those on the right see it as a chance to cut back on bureaucracy and return control to people’s lives.
Pariah states blacklisted from Canada Day invitations NORTH KOREA, FIJI, BELARUS, IRAN, SYRIA AND MADAGASCAR AMONG THOSE EXCLUDED BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government is snubbing officials from a select group of pariah states, ordering its diplomatic missions around the world not to invite them to receptions celebrating Canada Day on July 1. Foreign Affairs circulates a “persona non grata” list in June each year, warning its embassies, consulates and other missions to bar them from local events marking Canada’s birthday. The department has refused to release its latest list, but The Canadian Press obtained last year’s version — likely little changed for 2014, with the possible inclusion of Russia for the first time. North Korea, Fiji, Belarus, Iran, Syria, Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau are prominent, largely because of Canada’s disapproval of unelected or badly behaved governments. Taiwan is also on the list, though only because Canada does not recognize the island as a state rather than from any disapproval of the government. Sudan has special status: officials
can be invited, but only those not named in arrest warrants from the International Criminal Court. Last year’s list, created before Canada’s vocal diplomatic rift with Russian President Vladimir Putin over incursions in Ukraine, does not include Russia — but Russian officials are likely unwelcome at receptions this year. Canada’s relations with Myanmar have improved in recent years, and last year’s list allowed civilian officials from the Asian country formally known as Burma to attend Canada Day receptions. An accompanying memorandum from deputy minister Morris Rosenberg also notes the invitation restrictions apply for events being held in Canada as well. “The same considerations would apply to any official Canada Day event hosted in Ottawa and involving the local diplomatic corps,” he said. The memo and related materials were obtained under the Access to Information Act, with a few parts blacked out under an exemption protecting international relations. Asked to comment on the list the
department provided to The Canadian Press, a spokesman said “it is not our practice to provide lists of country representatives invited or not invited to functions held at our missions abroad.” “I’m afraid that’s all I have at this point,” Ian Trites said in an email. Trites did not respond as well to specific questions about Russia’s status on this year’s persona non grata list. Canada has applied sanctions against more than five dozen Russians and others linked to the Ukraine crisis, while Russia has imposed sanctions against more than a dozen Canadians in retaliation. One of Russia’s close allies, Belarus, appears on the 2013 list with the most
detailed explanation for its exclusion. “The most recent election, held in December 2010, was marred by a lack of transparency in the vote counting process, a violent crackdown on protesters, and the detention of most of the opposition presidential candidates,” says the document. “Given the current situation in Belarus — which continues to deteriorate — Canada sees no reason to modify its policy of limited engagement.” On Friday, Foreign Affairs publicly released another list, naming the countries favoured for foreign aid from Canada. The document added Myanmar and six others to the 20 countries first identified in the 2009 version, while dropping Pakistan and Bolivia.
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Cpl. Kevin Comeau, 30, of Tabusintac, N.B., listens to the defective heart of Djamshid Popal, 9, at the Canadian military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, June 26, 2004. With the benefit of hindsight, Popal - the fragile Afghan child whose life-saving heart procedure in 2004 made headlines across Canada wishes he had never left the strange country that saved his life.
Afghan boy wishes he was in Canada BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — With the benefit of hindsight, Djamshid Popal — the fragile Afghan child whose life-saving heart procedure in 2004 made headlines across Canada — wishes he had never left the strange country that saved his life. Ten years removed from being flown overseas on Canada Day, eventually landing in an Ottawa hospital, the now-19-year-old Popal suffers constant nosebleeds and struggles to obtain an education in his dusty village outside of Kabul. More concerning, his family routinely receives death threats from suspicious Taliban supporters and all because the nine-year-old benefited from Canadian compassion and medical expertise. Canadian Forces doctors came upon Popal’s desperate plight while conducting a medical clinic in Mohla Mahmad Khail, a bumpy three-and-a-half hour ride northeast of the Afghan capital. Popal, nine at the time, was frail and having difficulty breathing, recalled Maj. Americo Rodrigues, the army doctor from Toronto who initially treated him. “He was nine years old, but he looked like he was six,” said Rodrigues. “He was very frail, he was very short of breath, he looked very sick.” At first it was believed the boy had a condition known as patent ductus arteriosus, a birth defect where blood from the left side of the heart circulates back to the right side without taking its normal course through the body. But after being diagnosed at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, doctors said it appeared that three of the nine-year-old’s four heart valves had been damaged during a severe bout of rheumatic fever.
He was later transferred to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, where he underwent surgery to repair his heart. Once he started to recover, Popal became extremely homesick for his mother Sohaila and other family members. Despite efforts to keep him in Canada by supporters like Saddique Khan of Hamilton, Ont., who financed his original journey, Djamshid was determined to go home, and his father Shafiullah respected his wishes. The two flew back to Afghanistan in late November of 2004. Since they have lived reclusively in their small, remote mud brick home on land that to this day is dotted by landmines. Looking back, Popal said he believes life would have been better had he remained in Canada. “I was only nine years old, had a big surgery done, and I missed my mom so much and wanted to meet her,” Popal said in an exclusive interview with The Canadian Press. “But I really didn’t know that if I had chosen to stay in Canada, my mom could have also visited me.” The slightly built Popal now breathes more easily, but his movements are laboured, and is plagued by nosebleeds brought on by warfarin, the blood-thinning medication he takes to stay alive. Six years ago, he suffered a stroke and never fully recovered. Then, two months ago, Popal’s foot was broken when he was run over by a car. All of that may be the least of his problems. Taliban supporters in his village have made threats against Popal’s father, forcing him to find work breaking rocks to sell from the mountains around their village. “They think we are the spies of the Canadian government,” Popal said in an interview with a translator in Kabul.
TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is set to return from rehab on Monday to the intense public glare from which he has been relatively absent for two months since he was forced to seek help amid fresh allegations of drinking and drug use. Ford has already been spotted north of Toronto in a Barrie, Ont., clothing store, where he posed for some pictures that were posted on Instagram. A spokeswoman for the shop said Ford was there on Saturday afternoon, but gave no other details. Ford plans to resume his mayoral duties — curtailed by city council in November following his “drunken stupors” and crack-cocaine admissions — on Monday afternoon, according to a letter he sent to the city clerk’s office. But with less than four months left in the term, the bulk of the renewed Ford attention will likely be focused on his bid to win another four years in office. His city councillor brother-turned campaign manager Doug Ford has indicated that the mayor will also return to fighting for re-election in the Oct. 27 municipal vote. Doug Ford has also said the mayor will make a statement upon his return, but won’t field any questions. The embattled mayor’s rehab stint likely won’t have entirely pressed the reset button on the controversies he left in his wake. In addition to an ongoing police investigation and lingering questions about the circumstances of his admitted drug use, Ford will also return to a new ethics complaint. The group Democracy Watch filed a request Friday with the city’s integrity commissioner, asking her to investigate media reports that both Ford brothers allegedly lobbied on behalf of two companies with ties to their family’s label business. Ford left for rehab just hours after the Globe and Mail reported April 30 that a drug dealer had shown two of its reporters a new video of Ford allegedly smoking what was said to be crack. The Toronto Sun published audio around the same time of Ford at a bar making anti-gay remarks, using an ethnic slur, and saying he would like to “jam” a rival female mayoral candidate. Until then, Ford had vehemently denied over the previous year that he had a substance-abuse problem. He publicly swore off alcohol late last year, then was forced to admit he had been drinking in a videotaped incident in January in which he used Jamaican swear words, but called it a “minor setback.”
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Winterized patio polarizes INDIVIDUALS FAVOUR YEAR-ROUND ROSS STREET PATIO, BUSINESS SPLIT EVENLY BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deerians gave a proposed winterized Ross Street Patio a chilly response. The city’s online survey on a winter patio drew 362 responses from downtown businesses and individuals. The three-week survey closed on Friday. Of the 282 individuals who responded, only 57 per cent were in favour of keeping a version of the popular patio up in the winter. Of the 60 businesses that responded, there was a 50 per cent split down the middle. Supporters argued for the patio to host activities such as public fire pits with public sing-alongs and winter festivals.
Others talked about the loss of parking stalls and the cold Alberta winters. The next step is for the city to put all the information together into a proposal with options before presenting to city council, tentatively on Aug. 19. Council will decide to keep the patio up, take it down or keep up a smaller version and consider levels of funding for a winter patio. Jordan Furness, downtown co-ordinator, said the estimated cost for keeping up the patio is between $50,000 and $125,000. The low end on the scale covers putting the furniture in and ensuring maintenance while the higher end is for more programming. Furness said the Greater Downtown Action Plan Steering Committee is in support of a winter patio.
He said the committee would like to see it become a facility that community groups and residents would book as opposed to the city directing programming. “If there is support of 50 per cent, then I think it is fair to say to those people: then you need to help us use it instead of the city trying to lead the charge and doing all the programming,” said Furness. He said they are looking at options to introduce parking where they can to offset the loss of 15 stalls. The city is currently restoring one stall next to the handicapped one on the west end of the patio. In the coming weeks, there will be two angled parking stalls as opposed to one existing parallel handicapped parking spot. Furness said there were some concerns about loss of a loading space. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com
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Lord Rand fends off Justin and Ally Wolf during the 67th Highland Games Saturday at the Red Deer Titans Rugby Park. For the first time at the games, attendees could browse through a medieval village and test out their skills with bows, swords, and other period-specific weaponry.
Students could take to the skies, and earn credits at the same time BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Central Alberta students could learn to fly and call it schoolwork. Chinook’s Edge School Division plans to make available to students next school year a dual credit offering that will teach them aviation. A program is being developed with Sky Wings Aviation Academy and Red Deer College that will allow students to earn credits towards an aviation certificate offered by the college while also working toward their high school completion. The project has not been finalized, but the expectation is that it will be in place for the second semester of the 2014-15 school year. When it comes, it will be the fourth dual credit option for students within Chinook’s Edge. An automotive service technician program is being developed in conjunction with Cam Clark Ford and students will be able to tap into Olds College’s tourism and hospitality program as well. The final initiative is one open to Chinook’s Edge, Red Deer Public and Red Deer Catholic students. Through the School Within a College (SWAC) program, 12 secondary school students will attend classes at Red Deer College, earning credits towards both their high school completion and a college certification. The students will be entered into the auto service techni-
cian program. Upon completion, they will be able to enter into an apprenticeship program immediately after graduating high school. The other new dual credit program for Red Deer students in 2014-15 will be in power engineering. Red Deer Catholic pupils will be able to take online courses through NAIT or SAIT during the school year before participating in a summer onsite employment opportunity with an oil industry partner as they work towards accumulating 940 hours for apprenticeship training. Other dual credit opportunities in Central Alberta include a health-care aide program for Red Deer and Stettler students and a marketing management course for Hunting Hills High School students. The province is supporting the proliferation of such opportunities in Alberta as a way to boost high school completion rates and get more students into post-secondary studies. One of the huge benefits of the programs, said Red Deer Public Schools deputy superintendent Stu Henry, is that the post-secondary courses come at no cost to students while they are still in high school. The SWAC initiative is the first of its kind in Alberta. “Across the province right now, there are a number of dual credit projects and what you’re seeing right now is a lot of jurisdictions trying out different ones, and then the idea is we’ll share them into the pool later and all be able to take advantage of anything that’s been developed,” said Henry. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com
Summer camp and video games don’t seem like a good combination, but at Red Deer College this summer it is one popular way teens learn all about a favourite past time. The Video Game Design workshop allows teens to create and design their own video game in a week’s time. They work with a team of programmers and artists to develop the game and learn the ins and outs of writing and designing games. Included in the workshop is story and character development, production, strategy, level designs, scripting, animation, interfaces and mobile gaming. The game design workshop runs from July 6 to 12. As well, the teen film camp immerses students in an intensive hands-on approach to exploring film and video. Students will learn how to produce, direct, shoot, write, act and edit their own short movies during the first week. Then, during the second week, students will collaborate on a film where the set is pre-constructed and ready for action. The film camp runs from July 6 to 19. Registration for the film camps is still open. The deadline to apply for week one is July 4 and for week two is July 11. To register online, visit www. rdc.ab.ca/summercamps.
Rocky pondering urban chickens Rocky Mountain House residents can join the urban chicken debate at an upcoming public hearing. A bylaw that would allow homeowners to raise up to four chickens will go before council followed by possible second and third readings on July 8. The Livestock Bylaw is designed to license and regulate hens. A local chapter of CLUCK (Canadian Liberated Urban Chicken Klub) has been lobbying council to allow for backyard hens. CLUCK’s Facebook page urges members to come out in support of the bylaw. The hearing is expected to revolve around zoning, lot sizes and how to get neighbour permission. The City of Red Deer recently passed first reading of a chicken bylaw. The proposed bylaw would allow up to 65 annual chicken licences permitting a maximum of four chickens. Red Deer council voted 6-2 last week in support of the new bylaw after a 2 ½-year pilot that permitted raising chickens in the city. Second and third reading of the proposed Red Deer chicken bylaw will be considered by council on July 7.
Grounded birds likely aren’t hurt, just young EXPERTS SAY JUST LEAVE THEM BE BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCATE STAFF If you see a flightless crow or magpie perching on your planter, or hopping across your lawn or driveway — hands off. It probably doesn’t need your help, said Carol Kelly, executive director of the Medicine River Wildlife Centre. About a dozen concerned Central Albertans called Kelly one recent day to express concern for birds they believed to be injured because they couldn’t fly away when approached by humans. After a quick assessment of each situation, Kelly assured the callers the birds were perfectly normal juveniles who probably hopped out of their nests before they had perfected their flying skills. “This is the time of year for it,” she added. Young crows, magpies, chipping sparrows, bluejays, owls and robins are known to regularly leave their nests before they can fly so they can strengthen
their legs and wings in preparation for takeoff, said Kelly. “Some owls are even called ‘branchers’ because they are seen sitting around on branches.” The best thing residents can do for these young birds is to leave them be, as their parents are still looking out for them. Kelly said the only other thing homeowners can do is keep prowling house cats away. “The biggest problem we have in Red Deer and around Central Alberta is cats roaming,” added Kelly, who wishes every municipality would enact a cat bylaw to make it illegal for cats to prowl outdoors, killing millions of wild birds. Sometimes Central Albertans have brought in young animals or birds they think are injured to the centre and Kelly has asked for these to be returned to the same spot where they were found, so they can be reunited with their parents. Occasionally, one of the young birds actually is injured — as in a time someone brought in a chipping sparrow that had hit a window. Kelly said the bird recovered after a few hours.
She took it outside the nature centre, knowing a family of chipping sparrows had located in a nearby lilac bush. Sure enough, as soon as the adult sparrows heard the cheeping baby, they flew out to greet it and took over its parenting — even though it wasn’t theirs. “I don’t know if they can’t count or they don’t care. They just accepted her,” said Kelly, with a chuckle. She’s disheartened to hear some people say they have no use for crows or magpies because of the unmusical cawing sound they make. Kelly believes the intelligent, social birds are misunderstood. Magpies have been known to gather and have “funerals” when one of their number dies, she said. And crows stay with their parents for up to five years. They often migrate back to the same place and help them raise new generations of young. Anyone with questions about wildlife is asked to call Kelly (at 403-7283467 days or evenings), preferably before bringing an animal in to the centre.
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This fledgling crow, spotted calmly sitting on a planter in Red Deer recently, was completely oblivious to potential threat from humans.
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Federal environmental assessment changes lead to second lawsuit YUKON ABORIGINALS READY FOR LEGAL FIGHT BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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In this Wednesday, June 18, 2014 photo, employee Ben Lund demonstrates Harley’s new electric motorcycle at Harley’s research facility in Wauwatosa, Wis.
Electric motorcycle prototype highlights burgeoning industry BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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PRINCETOWN, N.Y. — When Maggie McNallyBradshaw and husband Curt hop on their electric motorcycles and twist the throttles, they get a rush like no other. Or maybe a WHOOSH! “There is that sense of being at the beginning of something new, and part of our future as far as ecology,” said McNally-Bradshaw, chairwoman of the American Motorcyclist Association. “People think it’s novel. Then they realize it’s powerful stuff. The technology is improving by leaps and bounds. It’s coming.” While startups like Zero, Brammo and Mission are producing state-of-the-art electric motorcycles on the West Coast, Harley-Davidson has decided to jump into the fray. The Milwaukee-based manufacturer announced its LiveWire this month and plans to offer demo rides to gauge interest nationwide before going into production. “We don’t see it at all replacing internal combustion,” Harley President Matt Levatich said. “I mean, maybe in 100 or 50 years, I don’t know. We’ll be open to what people want.” Still, while Harley’s announcement may not sit well with its core riders, who relish the distinctive rumble of the V-twin engine’s exhaust, it might provide the impetus needed for the electric market to take off. “We had our biggest single day of Internet traffic in the history of the company the day Harley made its announcement,” said Scot Harden, vice-president of global marketing for Zero Motorcycles, which began in a Santa Cruz, California, garage in 2006 and now is the top seller of full-size, high-powered elec-
tric bikes. “It just validates what we’ve been saying and how it’s going to play out in the years ahead.” A recent study by Navigant Research suggests the industry is at the start of a trend. The research company anticipates sales of electric motorcycles worldwide will grow to 1.2 million this year. No surprise that Yamaha, Honda and KTM also have electric bikes in the pipeline. “It seems that electric motorcycles are going to be a pretty important mainstay,” said Jerry Phibbs Jr., a longtime motorcycle dealer in Albany who sold all four of the Zero bikes on the showroom floor this year. “All of the industry standards say by 2018 it will consist of more than 50 per cent of the market. I don’t know if I believe that, but it’s certainly going to be a major part of it.” Zero expects to sell 2,400 electric motorcycles this year, a fraction of the more than 260,000 conventional motorcycles sold last year alone by Harley. But what has happened to the technology since former NASA engineer Neal Saiki began tinkering in that Santa Cruz garage is impressive. “When we started, we were hoping to get to the performance of the 125cc race bike,” said Craig Bramscher, chairman of Oregon-based Brammo Inc. “Now, we went around Daytona (International Speedway) at 175 mph. We see the path. There’s technology there where it starts to exceed the capabilities of the bike to hold the road. We can see that we can pass gasoline in terms of its capability.”
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WHITEHORSE — The federal government could soon be facing a second lawsuit over its plans to change environmental assessments in the North. The Yukon Council of First Nations says a bill before Parliament would violate hard-won treaty guarantees and subject a previously independent board to political control. Court action is already being considered. “It’s one of the options we’d be looking at,” said James MacDonald, the council’s natural resources manager. The council would be the second northern aboriginal group to legally challenge the Conservative government’s overhaul of northern environmental legislation. In May, the Tli Cho First Nation filed a lawsuit against Ottawa over changes to the Northwest Territory’s system. The lawsuit alleges the federal government is reducing Tli Cho control over their lands won in treaty negotiations and undermines northern decision-making. “It sounds very familiar,” said MacDonald. Currently, environmental assessments developed as part of treaty negotiations are conducted by an independent board with representatives from the federal government, the territory and the Council of Yukon First Nations. If the federal bill is passed, that board would be replaced with one led by a federally appointed chairman. It would be subject to binding political direction, which could come from either the federal or territorial government. “Those are strictly bilateral conversations,” said MacDonald. “We would be totally left out of it. What those policy directions are are totally unclear to us. Why they’re necessary hasn’t been justified.” The legislation would also limit the amount of time groups would have to request more information from a proponent, although it wouldn’t limit the time companies would have to answer. It also proposes removing the requirement for a new assessment when companies change their project. That would become subject to the board’s discretion. First Nations and environmental groups say the proposed legislation’s final wording was drafted in secrecy after a meeting between the government and five industry groups. “We know the federal government has met with sectors of the mining industry. But other sectors of society, they haven’t had any opportunity for provision of their input,” MacDonald said. The federal government says the bill is intended to produce more predictable and timely reviews, reduce duplication, strengthen environmental protection and provide meaningful aboriginal consultation.
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Free trade agreements on the hush-hush LITTLE POMP OVER IMPENDING DEALS WITH ASIA-PACIFIC AND EUROPE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government’s vaunted free trade agenda is either a roaring success or hopelessly stalled — and given that government officials aren’t commenting, even experts in the field are having trouble deciding which. Next week, the government would have reason to trumpet its free trade achievements when hundreds of negotiators from 11 Asia-Pacific countries descend on Ottawa as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks, viewed as the next big deal after the European pact known as CETA. But Ottawa is barely acknowledging the event is even happening; so much so that the Council of Canadians issued a release Friday wondering why the government is “setting (a) new global standard” for secrecy. There may be good reason for the underwhelming embrace of TPP. With more than 20 negotiating rounds to date, it’s beginning to appear that the countries vying to create one
of the world’s biggest trading blocks are just going through the motions. “Everyone is indulging in a charade where negotiations are going forward. It’s the biggest game in town, but I’m not convinced TPP will see the light of day,” says Lawrence Herman, a Toronto-based trade lawyer formerly with Cassels Brock. The situation is not much more clear with Canada’s agreement-in principle reached with Europe last October. Officials say CETA is taking longer than anticipated to render into legal text, but observers believe the deal has run into substantive roadblocks. Also perplexing is why Canada has not ratified the foreign investment protection agreement with China, called FIPA, when the two sides signed the treaty almost two years ago. The one agreement that appears to have staying power is the free trade deal with South Korea, although that rates low in terms of significance next to the Canada-European Union pact, or even TPP. Trade agreements aren’t usually big vote-getters for governments, but the consequences for the Harper govern-
ment of failure on CETA — or having to announce further concessions to the hard-bargaining Europeans — could be a serious issue entering an election year. The federal government has made free trade deals a central plank of its economic agenda, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper all but declared “mission accomplished” for CETA at a ceremony in Brussels last October. “The Conservatives have made this such a high-level issue for them that, if they can’t close these deals, they will have problems and it’s not just closing deals, it’s closing good deals,” said NDP trade critic Don Davies. “But I think their rhetoric has never matched the reality.” Matthew Kronby, a former Canadian trade negotiator who is now a partner with the Bennett Jones law firm in Toronto, says there are still issues to be worked out before CETA can be completed. “It’s very close, but getting over that last hump is a challenge right now,” he said. One key issue, sources say, involves the controversial investor-state clause
that allows private firms to sue governments if they feel they have been unfairly thwarted in their operations. Several European countries, including Germany, are said to be balking at signing because they fear they will have to offer the same arrangement to U.S. companies, which are notoriously more litigious than those in Canada. As well, the Europeans are concerned U.S. firms would be able to piggy-back on CETA to sue in Europe through their Canadian subsidiaries. Further complicating matters, committee chairs from 16 European parliaments sent a letter last week to European trade commission Karel de Gucht asking him to consider CETA, and the Europe-U.S. trade deal if it comes to fruition, “mixed agreements” that require ratification from all 28 member national parliaments. Trade consultant and former negotiator Peter Clark says the difficulties show that Canada never really had an agreement with Europe and the haggling continues on several fronts.
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Canadians RRSP contributions this year were slightly higher than the previous year but still remain far below the maximum. A survey by BMO Financial Group has found that 65 per cent of Canadians made a contribution to their RRSP before the deadline, a slight increase over the 62 per cent who made a contribution the previous year. The average value of this year’s contributions, however, was down slightly to $3,518 from $3,544 the previous year. When asked about the amount of money they contributed, two-thirds of respondents wished they had been able to contribute more this year. Fifty-four per cent said they contributed
as much as they could, 49 per cent were confident the amount they contributed leaves them on track to realize their ideal retirement lifestyle, and 35 per cent said they could have contributed but didn’t. “It is encouraging that more than half of Canadians feel that they contributed as much as they could this year, however it’s unfortunate that so many wished they could have contributed more,” said Chris Buttigieg, senior manager of wealth planning strategy with BMO Financial Group. “Although it may seem like a big commitment, Canadians should know that contributing to an RRSP doesn’t necessarily take a lot of time or money. Establishing a financial
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plan, which includes a budget, is a great way to achieve financial goals and earmark funds for retirement savings.” The government set up registered retirement savings plans in 1957 as a vehicle for Canadians to save for their retirement, but more than five decades later they have not used it to their fullest and now are sitting on some $600 billion in unused contributions. Part of the reason is that many people have a lot of other priorities, such as a mortgage, children’s education, cars, entertainment and travel, and simply don’t have the income to be able contribute the maximum.
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Markets opt for caution ahead of U.S. economic data TWO REPORTS EXPECTED OUT THIS WEEK BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The Toronto stock market will likely start the week off little changed as traders look for reassurance that the American economy’s sharp firstquarter contraction was a blip due to severe weather and that growth should come in strongly in the AprilJune period. Traders are awaiting two key reports in the U.S. this week — the Institute for Supply Management’s June reading on the manufacturing sector, which is being released on Tuesday, and the government’s employment report for June, out Thursday. In addition, investors are anxious to see the run of second-quarter earnings from corporate America that will start coming down the pipe in early July. “I think that’s what investors are waiting for,” said Sid Mokhtari, market technician at CIBC World Markets. “If the results are not that good, we will get some sort of a negative response from the equity markets.” The Toronto market ended last week with a slight loss, down 14 points as investors opted for caution amid doubts about the pace of growth in the American economy. The Dow industrials shed 95 points or 0.56 per cent. Investors were rattled last week by a much greater than expected U.S. gross domestic product contraction of 2.9 per cent in the first quarter. Markets initially shrugged off the data on expectations the American economy would jump ahead in
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FREE TRADE: Possible cabinet rift If the Europeans are getting cold feet over CETA, Davies says he has been told it is Ottawa that is having second thoughts about the investment protection treaty with China. Reports of a cabinet rift over the agreement have surfaced, although a senior government official told The Canadian Press that concerns about labour mobility issues were alleviated somewhat last week by Ottawa’s overhaul of the temporary foreign workers’ program. A substantive problem, says Davies, concerns the non-conforming measures clause grandfathered into the FIPA that would allow China to frustrate Canadian firms seeking to invest in the world’s second-largest economy. Canada has the Investment Canada Act and a few other well-known restrictions, but barriers are far more numerous and, perhaps, more mysterious in China. “There could be thousands,” said Davies. “I asked for a list in committee and they (government officials) couldn’t provide them.” But perhaps the most problematic is the talks surrounding TPP, which seek to create a trading block among 12 countries on both sides of the Pacific representing 40 per cent of the world’s economic output and 26 per cent of global trade. U.S. President Barack Obama has set his sights on the Asia-Pacific summit in November for arriving at an agreement-in-principle, although Australia’s trade minister said recently the first half of 2015 is more realistic. Even that deadline may be too optimistic, say analysts, given that Obama has not secured fasttrack authority to negotiate a deal from the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, or even the Senate. The prospects that the mid-term elections in November will return a more friendly Congress appear slim, they note. Fast-track authority gives the White House the green light to negotiate an agreement and send it to Congress for an up or down vote but, without it, any deal struck with the U.S. can be picked apart later by special interests in Congress. “If I was negotiating I’d be quite skeptical about what can be delivered,” explained Kronby. “You make concessions and you make a deal and the U.S. comes back a year or two later and says it’s not good enough.”
the second quarter as the deterioration was largely blamed on severe winter weather. But concerns resurfaced Thursday as a new report showed a worse than expected reading on consumer spending and consumption. There was also concern about whether the American economy can take the strain of higher interest rates. Remarks from St. Louis Federal Reserve president James Bullard led to speculation that the U.S. central bank could hike as soon as the first quarter of 2015. “I think that people were getting a bit ahead of themselves in general,” said David Watt, chief economist at HSBC Bank of Canada, adding he has been cautious about the U.S. economy in a setting where the Fed is backing away from the stimulus that has been in place since the financial crisis of 2008. “I think now we’re seeing signs that, like a young child or someone who has been bedridden for a while, your first few steps are halting and uncertain and that’s sort of what we have been thinking about the U.S. economy.” However, the ISM report is expected to echo what has been seen lately in other manufacturing surveys, steadily rising expansion. “You certainly do get the sense that globally, the factory sector is not necessarily doing fantastic, (but) at least doing better than it has been,” said Watt. “In the U.S., they’re competitive, their currency is competitive, labour costs are more competitive than a number of other nations, and it’s a sector that has been held back for so long that they are starting to
we’re still expensive,” said Mission president Mark Seeger, whose goal is to produce a bike with a 600-mile range so charging time becomes a moot point. “Can we produce a vehicle that is better than anything that came before it and has the same price or cheaper? It’s going to happen.” Electric motorcycles are well-balanced and easy to ride because most have direct drive (gears and clutches are optional). There are no tailpipe emissions, no clunking pistons, no crankshaft, no oil leaks, no vibration and virtually no maintenance save new tires and brakes. The average range is well over 100 miles in city driving. (Four years ago, it was about 25 miles.) They plug into regular household outlets for charging that costs under $2. And Zero says its batteries will last over 300,000 miles. The global marketplace is a target as consumers outside the United States seek relief from high gasoline prices. Zero’s SR model gets the equivalent of 462 miles per gallon around town. “The total cost of ownership will be cheaper soon, very soon, and the upfront cost will be lower as well,” Bramscher said. “People will ride them, and then they’ll go, ’Oh, my gosh! This is so much fun!”’
YUKON: Industry supports changes “These improvements will result in further unlocking the economic potential of the North, while ensuring sound environmental stewardship and help the territories remain an attractive place in which to live, work and invest,” says a government release. Industry supports the changes, said Samson Hartland of the Yukon Chamber of Mines. He questions whether the bill would allow political direction of the assessment process. “I don’t see that specifically in the
see some signs of recovery.” Expectations for the employment data are modest. Economists looked for the U.S. economy to continue to crank out jobs at a pace of around 200,000 in June, with the jobless rate holding steady at 6.3 per cent. “You almost have to think we’re not going to get that typical cyclical recovery where jobs just take off dramatically,” said Watt. “I think we are going to get comfortable with the idea that maybe 200,000 is the new 300,000 in terms of jobs.” Canadian jobs data for June won’t be released until Friday, July 11, because of the Canada Day holiday on Tuesday, when the TSX will be closed. It is also a short trading week in the U.S., with markets closed Friday, July 4, for Independence Day. Meanwhile, the Canadian dollar had a stellar week, rising about ½ of a cent to a six-month high around 93.5 cents US. The currency has soared about 1 ½ U.S. cents in June on rising commodities and stronger than expected inflation data, which raised expectations that the Bank of Canada could raise interest rates sooner than thought. However, the resiliency of those gains will be put to the test Monday when Statistics Canada releases its reading on economic growth for April. Economists expect the agency to report gross domestic product grew 0.3 per cent in April, which would translate into annualized economic growth of about 2.4 per cent. A commentary from CIBC World Markets said wholesaling and retailing likely drove the gains in April after winter weather depressed growth in the January-March period.
amendment.” The bill reads: “The federal minister may, after consultation with the board, give written policy directions that are binding on the board with respect to the exercise or performance of any of its powers, duties or functions under this act.” The bill was introduced in the Senate instead of the House of Commons. It has gone through second reading in the upper house and is before a Senate committee for possible revision. MacDonald said the council plans to appear before the committee.
RRSP: Real estate a good investment Many Canadians consider real estate a good investment that they can use for their retirement. An RBC home ownership poll found that 86 per cent of Canadians aged 25 to 34 believe owning a home or condominium is a solid investment, up from 78 per cent last year. Whether it is better to buy a home and use your money to pay down the mortgage as opposed to putting it into your RRSP is a tricky one that will depend on your individual circumstances, debt levels and interest rates. Money contributed to an RRSP grows tax-deferred, so over the long term it provides an opportunity to accumulate wealth. And contributions can result in a tax refund that can be used for other purposes, such as pay-
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Worried about husband’s relationship with boy Dear Annie: I am 40 years old and But here is the real problem: Two have been married to “Rick” for 19 weeks ago, our oldest daughter said years. We have four beautithat she and her sisters beful daughters. lieve Dad loves Drew more For years, Rick wanted than he loves them. a son. I thought he had acShe said she’s been spycepted that it wasn’t going on her father, and he is ing to happen, so I didn’t always hugging Drew and protest when he formed a kissing him on the mouth, friendship with a 10-yearand that sometimes when old fatherless neighbor boy. I’m not home, they go into “Drew” is now 13, and he’s a our bedroom and lock the great kid — kind, respectful door. and helpful. I confronted Rick, and Rick and Drew are alhe admitted to the hugging ways doing things together and kissing, but said Drew MITCHELL — going to ballgames, riding is just very affectionate. & SUGAR bikes, playing basketball. He even confessed to At first, I thought it was taking Drew into the bedgreat, but now I have some room and locking the door, major concerns. but insists they were only About a year ago, Drew talking. started stopping by on his way to Frankly, I don’t know what to think. school to get his “morning hug” from Something is not right. Is it possible Rick. I used to think it was cute, but that my husband and this boy are havnow it’s just annoying. ing sex? — Worried Wife Then Rick insisted on including Dear Worried: It is more than posDrew in every family outing. When he sible. It is likely. wanted to invite him along on our vaEven if they aren’t sexually incation this summer, I put my foot down. volved, this is a worrisome situation Rick sulked for a week. and not healthy for anyone.
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You must insist that Rick and Drew separate physically, as well as emotionally. No more morning kisses, no more outings alone, no more trips to the bedroom. The two of them cannot be left alone, even for one second. This may be traumatizing for Drew, so Rick can explain, in your presence, that he needs to spend more time with his daughters. You also could contact Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (bbbs.org) so Drew can find a more appropriate father figure to fill the gap. If Rick refuses to cooperate, are you willing to turn him in to the authorities as a suspected pedophile and let them investigate? (You can do this anonymously.) Would Rick be willing to get counseling as a condition of remaining in the marriage? (We’d insist on that.) We know such a reality is hard to face, but please act on this immediately. You may be the only person who can protect that boy. Dear Annie: When I go out to eat for breakfast, the restaurants always have
artificial sweetener for your coffee and often nondairy creamer. What I do not find is a nondairy substitute for butter. Many of us would rather not eat butter. Please spread this message so stores and restaurants will see it and offer this item. — Nondairy in Wisconsin Dear Nondairy: Most places will provide margarine if you request it. If you want something else (soy butter, et al), you will have a harder time. If you patronize the same places often and ask each time, they may begin to offer these items. Try it. Dear Annie: When I was growing up, good table manners were a necessity. As my children became older, sometimes they would regress, and I found a foolproof method that worked for us. I bought a small standup mirror and put it in front of them at the table. One day my daughter came home from school and commented on a girl at her lunch table who ate with her mouth open. They still have beautiful manners. —Kentucky Great-Grandmother 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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The Red Deer Braves Copies Now Team won the RDMBA Pee Wee A&W City Championship earlier this month. Pictured hereare front row: Will Moir, Austin Mills, Tony Flanagan. Middle row: Sawyer Sampson, Daniel Nieth, Joel Schlemko. Back row: George Bourassa, Ed Lord, Chris Jaindl, Colby Lindseth, Macy Bourassa, Joey Lord, Josh Hankins, Jay Sampson, Coach. Missing: Kat Aulenback. agenda. Changes within your home and domestic Monday, June 30 life will emerge today. Finding that perfect balance CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Mike with others will work well today. Tyson, 47; Vincent D’onofrio, 54; Cheryl Cole, 30 TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There will be THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will be an excellent day for working conditions. There will be some restless excitement within your home environment today. Your daily life will an innate sense of childlike joy and require more balance but working laughter. at finding that equilibrium will prove You might crave to express yourself just as you like and this will create to be beneficial for you. As you some newness for you and others. express your truth, you might feel Although this might create some disslightly separated from others now. tance from you and others, your sinGEMINI (May 21-June 20): Excerity will come across excellently and press yourself just as you please others will appreciate that energy. with friends and the networks you HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is are part of. You will stand out for your birthday, this year will prove to your original ideas now, and this be exciting and just what you need to might separate you from others as get your aspirations and ambitions off they process this new awareness. Express your feelings openly and the ground. honestly with romantic interests. Slow and steady wins the race LARISA MAIRA CANCER (June 21-July 22): within your daily, work, and health regime now. Stand in your truth this You will crave excitement in your OZOLINS year, and find that balance when life, but be mindful of the balance that needs to be found between working on creative projects. This will having a good time and your profesbe a time when you will to get everysional life. The energy you put into thing set up for a prosperous future! ARIES (March 21-April 19): There will be an building a balanced home life, or a home of your innate need to express yourself just as you please own, will be easily manifested now. today. Fun, laughter, and excitement will be on the LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will crave adven-
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ture now and will feel good about expressing this to all. Newness and excitement is approaching but sort out the details at home and with family members. Solid steps can be made to mend bridges between the future you want and what is currently happening. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You will be thinking seriously about future investments today. The efforts you are putting into your finances are paying off. Give gratitude now. Be mindful that slow and steady thinking and plans will win the race. Use the excitement of the day to implement proven steps forward. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Others in your life are creating a need for you to look at your finances with a more discerning eye. You will want to act out as you wish, but there will be a need to hold back a little in order to work towards your ultimate goals. Take the appropriate actions today. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are shining a new light on your career and how your present yourself in the public now. Newness will enter your life, but only at the speed that is stable and progressive. There will be a lot of energy put behind the scenes to create more peace of mind and balance today. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There will
be much excitement to be had with foreigners now. Perhaps new romance is coming into your life, or simply your children are offering you more joy than usual. Lots of fun activities will be had with friends now. Go travel and have a wonderful time! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Lots of newness and excitement will enter your domestic scene now. Take all actions possible to create more of a balanced approach to your public image and career. You are slowly moving towards your aspirations and ambitions, and you will feel that on a deep level today! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Others will provide you that stable outlook on a professional level. You will feel that by their expressing their innate needs, you are more able to manifest that for them. Newness and excitement will be expressed today as you create the future you both envision. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You are craving stability for your future enterprises now. You are willing to put in the effort today and it will pay off. All the changes you make today will create a new perspective within your personal and domestic life. It will all work out, find that inner strength now. Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.
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The return of Johnny Canuck CANADIAN SUPERHERO IS BACK IN REPRINT OF 1940S COMIC BOOKS BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Pharrell Williams accepts the award for video of the year for Happy at the BET Awards at the Nokia Theatre on Sunday, June 29, 2014, in Los Angeles.
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TORONTO — A Canadian comic book hero used as a morale booster during the Second World War could soon return to print — if he gets a boost of his own. Johnny Canuck, a Second World War Canadian comic book hero who in one issue fought Adolf Hitler in handto-hand combat, has been silent for decades. But now Toronto archivist and publisher Rachel Richey has obtained the rights to reprint the collection of classic comics for the first time. Richey is launching a crowdfunding campaign in the hopes of resurrecting Johnny Canuck. The character appeared in 28 issues of Dime Comics written by Leo Bachle and published from 1941 to 1946. He’s a “hero” but not a “superhero” — he doesn’t have superpowers. Instead, Johnny Canuck fights using his strength, quick wit and patriotism. As a teenager, Leo Bachle lied about his age to enlist in the Canadian army, said Robert Pincombe, a Canadian comics historian. After his age was discovered, Bachle returned to high school in Toronto. The Johnny Canuck character is physically modeled after Bachle, and his teachers and friends were often written into the comics, said Pincombe. “Leo was a kid himself, so he knew what kids wanted to see,” Pincombe said. “He wanted to see action, wanted to see clear villains. So he brought all that to the page.” Johnny Canuck was a glorified personification of the Second World War effort, Richey said. “He’s a two-fisted, aviator-type character,” Pincombe said. “Comics in general rely on caricature in order to make the ’good versus evil’ more clear.” As part of the “war at home,” the Canadian government restricted American imports of non-essential goods, including comics and pulp novels. This gave Bachle’s homegrown hero a market in which to flourish, Pincombe said. The comics cost 10 cents and
were a popular source of children’s entertainment. The original Johnny Canuck was a symbolic character from 19th-century political cartoons, a Canadian version of Uncle Sam. His name has been used and adapted over time, including as the namesake of the Vancouver Canucks hockey team. In the comics and elsewhere, the Johnny Canuck character appears in various ways, said Richey. He might show up as a lumberjack in one story and a soldier in the next. Reintroducing him to the public imagination, she said, creates opportunities for artists to recast him further. “He’s a really adaptable character,” Richey said. “And yes, maybe (war) was the situation for him in the forties, and now he can be supplanted into something else that Canadians believe in, or something that is threatening the Canadian way.” Richey has reprinted other comics from the early 1940s. Her latest book, a collaboration with fellow comics publisher Hope Nicholson, is a collection of reprinted comics starring Nelvana of the Northern Lights, a part-Inuit demigoddess who rides into battle on the back of a polar bear. There’s plenty of blatant Canadiana there too, Richey said. “CBC Radio is featured in one panel,” she said. “You just look at (the comic) and you see wolves and trees and landscape.” These black-and-white comic books are entertainment, but they are also historical documents that contain elements of wartime propaganda, she said. In the Johnny Canuck series, modern audiences will find jarringly racist depictions of Japanese characters. If Johnny Canuck had continued his adventures into the mid-20th century, Richey said, he would have changed with Canadian society. “Maybe if he was around for those 70 years that he was kind of lost to the depths of the Canadian comics, then he could potentially have changed,” she said. “For now we have this image of Johnny Canuck as he was.”
SHOOTING, STABBING CAST SHADOW OVER AWARDS CEREMONY BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Pharrell’s “Happy” is keeping a smile on the musician’s face: The song won video of the year Sunday at the BET Awards, the top prize in a show marking the best in black entertainment. His win came in the second hour of the three-hour-plus ceremony that featured performances by the multitalented Pharrell as well as Lil Wayne and Usher. Last year, the network didn’t announce the top award in the jampacked show. Pharrell thanked his family, fans who elevated the song to No. 1 and BET for its support. “(BET) allows us as black people to be different and do what we do,” he told the crowd. “You guys keep the lights on for us.” The multitalented Pharrell, who also won best male R&B/pop artist, kicked off the show with a playful performance of “Come Get It Bae” featuring the reclusive Missy Elliott. Host Chris Rock also succeeded with backto-back jokes, helping take attention away from a fatal shooting and a separate stabbing at unsanctioned parties celebrating the ceremony. One person was killed and five injured in separate incidents ahead of the show at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live, Los Angeles police said. The events were “unauthorized and unaffiliated with the BET Awards,” BET said in a statement. The death and four of the injuries followed gunfire early Sunday at a restaurant, Officer Drake Madison said. Separately, a man was stabbed in the stomach Saturday night at a nightclub. Rock didn’t mention the violence. He won over the audience with jokes about Donald Sterling, the hit series “Scandal” and rapper Rick Ross. He called the BET Awards the “black World Cup.” The show featured a medley of hits from Usher and a performance
by Chris Brown, who recently was released from jail. Brown sang and danced his signature moves to his latest Top 10 hit, “Loyal.” John Legend sang his groove “You and I” and was joined by rising newcomer Jhene Aiko, who won over the crowd by singing “The Worst” as Legend played piano. As the show kicked off, a tearful August Alsina, nominated for four honours, won the night’s first award for best new artist. “I represent the struggle,” the New Orleans newcomer said onstage. “This award is not for me, it’s for the people.” Drake, Beyonce and Jay Z were top nominees with five each. Drake, who was originally set to perform, did not attend, BET said Sunday. He won best male hip-hop artist. A representative for Beyonce also said the singer wouldn’t attend, and her husband’s rep wouldn’t divulge if Jay Z would be there or not. Their attendance had nothing to do with the violence at the weekend parties. Beyonce and Jay Z launched a coheadlining stadium tour days ago. She is nominated for best female R&B/pop artist, with little competition aside from Rihanna. Other performers set to sing Sunday include Mary J. Blige and Robin Thicke, who is set to release his new album, “Paula” — an ode to his wife, Paula Patton, whom he is separated from — on Tuesday. Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea — whose anthemic “Fancy” has spent its fifth week on top of the Billboard charts — will compete for best female hip-hop artist, an award Minaj has won consecutively for four years. Lionel Richie will be honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the show, where presenters include Kerry Washington, Kevin Hart and Gabrielle Union. Lupita Nyong’o, who won an Oscar for “12 Years a Slave,” was named best actress.
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The calm after the storm REBELS BLEAKLEY AND FLEURY RELAXING AFTER BEING CHOSEN IN FIRST ROUND AT NHL DRAFT
BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Conner Bleackley and Red Deer Rebels teammate Haydn Fleury were relaxing Saturday, less than 24 hours after experiencing one of — if not the most — exciting evenings of their young lives. “It’s been pretty crazy,” said Bleackley, who was selected by the Colorado Avalanche in the first round – 23rd overall — of the NHL entry draft Friday in Philadelphia, 16 picks after Fleury was nabbed by the Carolina Hurricanes. “It’s been unreal, a great experience . . . a great weekend for me and my family,” added Fleury. “It’s a bit of a relief that it’s over. I was nervous the whole day Friday. Just having it all over now and knowing where I’m going to be in the future is both exciting and relieving.” Both players went back to the draft Saturday at the Wells Fargo Center for rounds two through seven. “I hung out with the guys who have been drafted and the guys who were waiting, then myself and my family went out for a meal with Haydn and his family,” said Bleackley, the Rebels star centre and team captain. The High River product was hopeful of being selected by the Avalanche. When his wish was granted, he wasn’t surprised considering he had a productive interview with team representatives at the recent NHL draft combine. “I felt that they were the front-runners and it was kind of what I was hoping for,” said Bleackley. “It kind of seemed too good to be true, but when it happened I couldn’t have been happier. It was definitely a dream come true.
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Haydn Fleury stands with Carolina Hurricanes officials after being chosen seventh overall during the first round of the NHL hockey draft, Friday, June 27, 2014, in Philadelphia. “They’ve been my favourite team forever, so it was really cool to say the least.” Having Avalanche GM and Hockey Hall of Fame member Joe Sakic call his name and then welcome him at the draft podium was an extra thrill for Bleackley. “He was my favourite player growing up. It was a pretty surreal moment,” said the 18-year-old. “It was a pretty proud evening for Haydn and I and it made it that much more special that I could share it with him.” Bleackley had discussions with Colorado director of player development David Oliver following the draft and on Sunday flew to Denver to meet
with the Avalanche team staff and local media. “I’ll come home Tuesday and then fly back July 7th for their one-week development camp,” he said. “It’s shaping up as a busy summer.” Rick Pracey, the Avalanche director of amateur scouting, likes Bleackley’s smarts, puckpossession ability and leadership skills. “One thing that attracted us to Conner is his hockey sense and strength on the puck,” said Pracey. “We like his versatility, as we have seen him play all three forward positions. “Being a right-handed shot, he potentially addresses a need on the right side on our
organizational depth chart. We think he is a responsible two-way player, and his leadership qualities were a positive factor. It is very rare to see a 17-year-old captain of a major junior team.” Most NHL mock drafts had Fleury being picked just outside of the top 10, but the sixfoot-three defenceman wasn’t surprised when he was selected seventh overall. The Hurricanes, after all, were his team of choice and, obviously, vice versa. “I interviewed with Carolina and thought I had a really good chance of going there,” he said. The ‘Canes were clearly tickled with their choice.
Late wins by Dutch and Costa Rica set up quarterfinal match at World Cup BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Regulation time doesn’t seem to mean much at this stage, judging by the way Netherlands, Costa Rica and Brazil have advanced through the first of the World Cup knockout rounds. The Dutch needed a penalty deep in stoppage time to seal a 2-1 comeback win over Mexico and advance to a match against a Costa Rica lineup that beat Greece on penalties later Sunday to reach the World Cup quarterfinals for the first time. The Costa Ricans had to play for almost an hour with 10 men, and just had the legs to win 5-3 on penalties after the match finished level at 1-1 after extra time. That was the second penalty shootout of the weekend, following Brazil’s narrow win over Chile on Saturday. In oppressive heat at Fortaleza, a Dutch attack that scored five goals against 2010 champion Spain in its opening game was on the verge of a second-round exit until finding a way past Mexico goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa in the 88th minute. Once they did, the turnaround happened quickly. Wesley Sneijder’s bullet-like strike cancelled out Giovani Dos Santos’ 48th-minute opener for Mexico. Klaas Jan Huntelaar sealed the win with a calmly-taken penalty late in stoppage time after Mexico captain Rafael Marquez took down Robben in the area. The veteran Dutch forward had been dangerous in attack but all his efforts had been fruitless, as had his frequent tumbles and appeals for penalties and free kicks. “Unbelievable,” Robben said. “Five minutes from full time, we were out.” It was unbelievable for Mexico coach Miguel Herrera, too. The effusive coach was mystified that the penalty was awarded by referee Pedro Proenca, disputing the contact that resulted in Robben sprawling on the pitch. “Today it was the man with
“They said they were very excited, that they really like the way I play and that I’m going to get a really good opportunity in their organization,” said Fleury, in reference to his post-draft conversations with ‘Canes senior vice-president/ GM Ron Francis and assistant coach Rod Brind’Amour. “Our guys really liked him,” Francis told the Raleigh News & Observer. “He’s a very big, mobile defenceman. He’s got a lot of upside. We were very pleased he was sitting there at seven when we were picking.” Fleury, who will turn 18 on July 8, was named the top defenceman in the 2014 World Under-18 Championship in Finland, a tournament Francis attended. Francis said the rearguard’s play overseas wasn’t necessarily the major reason they selected him. “The upside, we think, is unlimited,” said Tony MacDonald, the Canes’ director of amateur scouting. “He’s just scratching the surface as a player. “It’s so difficult to get defencemen today who can play the NHL game and this guy can do that. That’s why we stepped up and took a defenceman. “Can he come in and run your power play in his first couple of years? No. But he could develop into a guy who can play on your power play. He’s a guy who will log a lot of minutes. The way he skates and with his size, he should be a guy who can maybe play 25 minutes a game. Those guys are hard to find.” Fleury will attend the ‘Canes prospects camp starting July 20. “So I have a couple of weeks to get back to Calgary and train before the camp,” he said.
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NHL’s salary cap could spark plenty of trades BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
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Netherlands’ Arjen Robben leaps over a challenge during the World Cup round of 16 soccer match between the Netherlands and Mexico at the Arena Castelao in Fortaleza, Brazil, Sunday. the whistle who eliminated us from the World Cup,” Herrera said. “We ended up losing because he whistled a penalty that did not exist. “I repeat this because (Robben) dived three times. The referee should have cautioned him. If that had happened, Robben would have been cautioned or even sent off.” In recent seasons Robben has been trying to shake off his reputation for diving. Against Mexico, he only compounded it. “I have to say, in the first half — and right away offer my excuses — I dived,” he told Dutch broadcaster NOS. “I mustn’t do that. It was another stupid action.” He wasn’t sorry about the injury-time incident that incensed Mexico and condemned it to its sixth consecutive second-round loss at World Cups. With temperatures hitting 32 Celsius (90 Fahrenheit) and in 68 per cent humidity, FIFA
instituted cooling breaks 30 minutes into each half in Fortaleza so players could rehydrate. Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal used the secondhalf break to make a tactical change, switching from a 5-3-2 system to a more traditional Dutch 4-4-3, bringing Huntelaar in to replace the tiring Robin van Persie. “Yes, we escaped,” Van Gaal said. “But we showed that we could create more chances with 4-3-3, and the players handled this shift very well.” The Costa Ricans, rank outsiders at the start of the tournament, were fluid in attack as they topped a group containing former champions Italy, Uruguay and England to advance to the knockout stage, but then had to struggle against Greece at Recife. Costa Rica took an early second-half lead through captain Bryan Ruiz but, after being reduced to 10 men when Oscar Duarte was sent off for
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his second booking in the 66th minute, conceded an injurytime equalizer to Sokratis Papastathopoulos that sent the match into extra time at 1-1. The Costa Ricans appeared on the verge of exhaustion as Greece relentlessly pressed forward. Greece, which sealed its place in the knockout stages for the first time with a late penalty winner against Ivory Coast, couldn’t find the winner in extra time despite a numerical advantage. Given a few moments to recover their breath, the Costa Ricans were perfect in the shoot out, with Michael Umana scoring the decisive penalty. “To the entire people in Costa Rica, those at home and out on the streets, this is for you,” Costa Rica coach Jorge Luis Pinto said. “This is a people that love football and they deserve it. ... We will continue fighting. We will go on. We see beautiful things.”
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PHILADELPHIA — Trade talk mostly fizzled at the NHL draft. “It just seemed to me there were a lot of phone calls, a lot of talking, people interested, but nothing really happened,” Ottawa Senators general manager Bryan Murray said. Aside from Ryan Kesler getting dealt before proceedings got underway and then James Neal a few hours later, the weekend passed without much major action. One small trade — the Calgary Flames getting Brandon Bollig from the Chicago Blackhawks for a third-round pick — looked like a preview of many more to come as cap-strapped teams try to get under the US$69 million ceiling set for next season. “It’s a puzzle to put together and try to make all the numbers work,” Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman said Saturday. “That’s clearly the biggest factor you’re faced with when you have salary cap being what it is. You’re going to have some tough decisions. We’re not the only team that’s in that position. There will be other teams that face the same things.” Without naming names, Bowman was describing the plight of the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers, along with his Blackhawks, who almost certainly have to make sacrifices just to be capcompliant. In the Bruins’ case, it might mean saying goodbye to Jarome Iginla, a 61-point player and a major piece of their Presidents’ Trophy-winning season.
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Roughriders roll past Tiger-Cats BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Roughriders 31 Tiger-Cats 10 REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders’ defence had Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Zach Collaros under siege for much of the night. The Riders sacked the first-year Hamilton starter 10 times and limited the Tiger-Cats to less than 200 yards total offence in a convincing 31-10 victory on Sunday at Mosaic Stadium. “Our defence played lights out,” said Riders quarterback Darian Durant, who tossed a pair of touchdown passes in the game. “Give them the lead and they can really tee off on the opposing team.” Ricky Foley led the Riders defence with six tackles and three sacks. John Chick and Derek Walker each had two sacks, and the defending Grey Cup champions looked dominant in front of 19,285 spectators that braved wet and windy weather. “It seemed like a lot of things we working for us,” Chick said. “You see the chemistry of the guys today. A bunch of us have a full season under our belts working together and the new guys are coming along. To see everyone working together was great.” The poor weather didn’t slow the Riders’ offence. Saskatchewan scored on three of its first four possessions and enjoyed a 24-1 lead at halftime. The Riders racked up 196 yards of offence in the first half compared to just 96 yards from Hamilton. First-year Riders running back Anthony Allen rushed for 158 yards and scored two touchdowns in his first CFL start. Durant connected with eight different receivers on the day and threw touchdown strikes to Allen and fellow newcomer Brett Swain. “We live out here,” Durant said
when asked how well the offence moved the ball despite the lousy weather. “It has been raining for a month and we’ve been practising in it day in and day out. We prepared ourselves for this and we did a great job of not letting (the weather) be a factor.” Tiger-Cats head coach Kent Austin didn’t use the weather as an excuse for his team’s poor debut, although it didn’t help in its bid for a come-frombehind victory on the road. “I saw not a very good football team today,” Austin said. “We have to make a great improvement in a lot of areas right now. I have to get our guys more discipline. Our penalty situation is ridiculous right now. “It was a monsoon out there, and the wind a I’m not making excuses for (Collaros). It was tough conditions to play in. Their pressure just compounded things.” Saskatchewan had Collaros on the run early. Walker’s first sack snuffed Hamilton’s opening offensive drive, and on their second possession, it was a sack by linebacker Sam Hurl that led to punter Justin Medlock conceding a safety. A Collaros fumble and a snap that sailed over Medlock’s head on a punt attempt just added to Hamilton’s woes in the first half. Luke Tasker scored Hamilton’s lone touchdown on a 10-yard pass from Collaros. “I’m not angry at the team,” said Austin, whose club was penalized 17 times for 148 yards. “It’s about getting better. This game means something only if we learn to get better from it. Other than that, it has no meaning. We have to limit our mistakes and learn how to get better.” Saskatchewan will visit the Toronto Argonauts (1-0) in Week 2. Hamilton, meanwhile will travel to Edmonton to take on the Eskimos (1-0).
Reilly’s trio of TDs leads Eskimos over Lions BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Eskimos 27 Lions 20 VANCOUVER — It took a while, and some trick plays, but Mike Reilly finally earned a win against his former CFL team Saturday. Reilly completed three touchdown passes as the Edmonton Eskimos came back to beat the B.C. Lions 27-20 in the first game of the CFL season for both teams. The last time the Eskimos won in Vancouver, on July 21, 2012, Reilly was still a Lions backup. The Lions suffered only their third loss at B.C. Place Stadium since it received a new retractable roof in 2011. “It’s a fresh start, it’s a new season, and this is a tough place to win in,” said Reilly after beginning his second season with the Eskimos following a January 2013 trade from B.C. “Records aside, or who’s playing in the black and orange, they’ve made this place loud, and they’ve done well since they’ve come back from Empire (Field, the Lions temporary home during renovations). “I know that first-hand. It’s something that we haven’t done in a long time, to win in Vancouver. That’s a good feeling.” Reilly completed 22 of 35 passes for 229 yards as the Eskimos overcame an early 14-0 deficit. It was only his fifth win as Edmonton’s starter. He helped new coach Chris Jones earn a win in his first CFL game as a head coach after making defensive co-ordinator stints with three other clubs. Calvin McCarty, Fred Stamps and Adarius Bowman caught Reilly’s touchdown passes. McCarty also enabled the Eskimos to complete a fake field goal in the third quarter, leading to the touchdown that put them ahead
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REBELS: Selected ● Carolina selected defenceman Josh Wesley from Plymouth of the OHL in the fourth round. He’s the son of Red Deer native and long-time ‘Canes rearguard Glen Wesley, currently the team’s director of defencemen development. ● Olds Grizzlys defenceman Nikolas Koberstein was picked by the Montreal Canadiens in the fifth round Saturday. He was one of two AJHL players selected, the other being Spruce Grove Saints blueliner Brandon Hickey, taken in the third round by the Calgary Flames. ● The Canadian Hockey League import draft will be held Wednesday. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com
NHL: Good player “If we can’t sign Jarome, we’re going to find a good player at that position,” Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli said Friday night. “We feel all our young guys and our current players are going to get better.” It’s unclear what else the Bruins might have to do with forwards Reilly Smith, Jordan Caron and Justin Florek and defenceman Torrey Krug and Matt Bartkowski needing new deals as restricted free agents. According to CapGeek, Boston has just over $1.6 million to spend. The Flyers, technically over the cap by a couple hundred thousand dol-
to stay. The Eskimos also pulled off a successful onside kick early in the fourth quarter that kept their offence on the field longer. Grant Shaw provided their other points in the form of three converts and a pair of field goals. “Everybody chipped in,” said Reilly. “Special teams got us a few extra possessions. Defence got the ball a lot, created a lot of turnovers, and offensively we were able to get some points. So (it was an) all-around team effort, but we know we’ve got to get better to reach our goal.” The Eskimos are looking to become a championship contender by reversing a 4-14 season in 2013 that was their worst in 50 years. The Lions are looking to make amends for a first-round playoff loss to Saskatchewan. Lions quarterback Kevin Glenn got off to a strong start in his regular-season debut, completing two touchdown passes in the first quarter. But Glenn, who is replacing injured starter Travis Lulay (shoulder), was undone by four interceptions. “I didn’t play a good game,” said Glenn. “We turned the ball over, I turned the ball over, and that’s something we can’t do and expect to win.” Glenn completed 10 of 13 passes in the first half, but finished a modest 18 for 28 passing for 251 yards. Andrew Harris and D-Tre Player scored touchdowns for B.C., while Paul McCallum added two field goals. “We just didn’t keep the momentum going,” said Glenn. “We turned the ball over in the second half.” The Lions’ first TD, a 55-yard passand-run play, came 1:58 into the game. Shortly after catching a pass near the Edmonton 40-yard line, Harris easily shook off rookie linebacker Dexter McCoil’s tackle attempt, eluded a couple of other Eskimos and ran the ball along the sidelines into the end zone. lars, have some room with defenceman Chris Pronger bound for long-term injured reserve. But they’re still reportedly shopping Vincent Lecavalier to rid themselves of at least part of his $4.5 million cap hit for the next four seasons. Chicago managed to part with Bollig’s $1.25-million cap hit but might have to clear more salary to fill out the roster. Enter the likes of the Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Buffalo Sabres, teams with salary-cap space to take on salary. Oilers GM Craig MacTavish knows players won’t be given away, but talent should be available. “We’re in a pretty enviable position to be able to take on some of those contracts,” MacTavish said Friday night. “Those are really the style of deals that we’ve looked to make over the last little while where we give up a few assets, take the contract and the cap space, so we’ll be trying to do some of that.” That was part of what went into the Flames trading for Bollig, who just signed a contract extension in March. When the cap was set at $69 million, it was at least $1 million, if not more, less than GMs were hoping for. “We’ve been looking at situations with the cap where people that may have difficulty or be in a situation where they had to move money,” Flames GM Brad Treliving said. Sabres GM Tim Murray implied that he’d be willing to accept expensive contracts, but only if he gets an asset like a draft pick in return. “I tried to make a big trade today, a unique trade,” Murray said Saturday. “I said, ’We got to do like the NBA.’ So I went to a team and said, ’You trade
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Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Zach Collaros is sacked by Saskatchewan Roughriders defensive end John Chick, left, and defensive end Ricky Foley during the second half of CFL football action in Regina, Sask., Sunday. The Riders defeated the Tiger-Cats 31-10.
Stampeders start season with dominant win over Alouettes in the fourth. Rene Paredes kicked a pair of field goals and punter Rob Maver contributed two punt singles in front of announced attendance of 26,135 at McMahon Stadium. Cornish had 67 yards on 14 carries before leaving the game. “I thought we played very physical on both sides of the football and special teams, we played fast,” Stampeder coach and general manager John Hufnagel said. “I think we took a first right step going in the direction we want to go. A lot of work to be done though.” Montreal, 8-10 last season, have large wrinkles to iron out on both sides of the football. Troy Smith’s season debut for the Alouettes marked the first time since 1999 a quarterback other than Anthony Calvillo was Montreal’s opening-day starter. The CFL’s all-time passing leader retired in January after 16 seasons with the Alouettes. Smith, a former Heisman Trophy winner with Ohio State, completed 17 of 40 passes for 127 yards. He was sacked four times and intercepted once. Sean Whyte’s punt single was Montreal’s only point until fullback Steven Lumbala dove for a one-yard major on the final play of the game. A gaffe by Montreal’s secondary left Price open for his touchdown as the Als had two defenders on Calgary receiver Jeff Fuller. “I don’t feel good at all,” Smith said. “There’s a whole different feel when you leave the field after a week’s work of preparation and nothing works. “You definitely have to look yourself in the mirror and you have to understand that things aren’t going to go the exact ideal way that you want them to all the time. “You’ve got to go back to the drawing board and accept the Calgary Stampeders played a great game today. “
BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Stampeders 29 Alouettes 8 CALGARY — The CFL’s marquee player gave the Calgary Stampeders a real scare in their 29-8 win over the Montreal Alouettes to open the season Saturday. Jon Cornish lay face down on the field in the fourth quarter after the Stampeders running back took a high, hard hit on the run from Alouettes linebacker Kyries Hebert. It looked grim for the CFL’s leading rusher and most outstanding player in 2013 when an ambulance was summoned onto the field. But an immediate trip to the hospital wasn’t required as the 29-year-old from New Westminster, B.C., got up and walked to the clubhouse accompanied by medical staff. “I was knocked out,” Cornish said following the game. “I’m going to have to go through concussion protocol 100 per cent. “You’d expect me to feel a little bit worse, but I’m pretty good. I can remember what happened before and immediately after.” What happened a few minutes before that play was Cornish running for an 18-yard touchdown off a direct snap to pad Calgary’s lead to 26-1. The Stampeders posted the CFL’s best record last season at 14-4 and were quick out of the gates to start 2014. An opening-day starter for the first time in his CFL career, quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell was efficient throwing for 313 yards, a pair of touchdowns and zero interceptions. The Texan completed 16 of 25 passes. He threw out of Calgary’s end zone to Maurice Price for a 102-touchdown pass in the opening quarter and tossed to Anthony Parker for another major
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Complete 2014 NHL Draft Selections for Canadian Teams PHILADELPHIA — Grouped selections for the seven Canadian teams at the 2014 National Hockey League entry draft (with round & overall pick in parentheses): CALGARY FLAMES (6) 1. (1-4) Sam Bennett, C, Kingston (OHL); 2. (2-34) Mason McDonald, G, Charlottetown (QMJHL); 3. (2-54) Hunter Smith, RW, Oshawa (OHL); 4. (364) Brandon Hickey, D, Spruce Grove (AJHL); 5. (6-175) Adam Ollas Mattsson, D, Djurgarden (Sweden); 6. (7-184) Austin Carroll, RW, Victoria (WHL). EDMONTON OILERS (6) 1. (1-3) Leon Draisaitl, C, Prince Albert (WHL); 2. (4-91) William Lagesson, D, Frolunda (Sweden); 3. (4-111) Zachary Nagelvoort, G, Michigan (NCAA); 4. (5-130) Liam Coughlin, C/LW, Vernon (BCHL); 5. (6-153) Tyler Vesel, C, Omaha (USHL); 6. (7-183) Keven Bouchard, G, Val-d’Or (QMJHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS (6) 1. (1-26) Nikita Scherbak, RW, Saskatoon (WHL); 2. (3-73) Brett Lernout, D, Swift Current (WHL); 3. (5125) Nikolas Koberstein, D, Olds (AJHL); 4. (5-147) Daniel Audette, C, Sherbrooke (QMJHL); 5. (6-177) Hayden Hawkey, G, Omaha (USHL); 6. (7-207) Jake Evans, C/RW, St. Michaels (OJHL). OTTAWA SENATORS (5) 1. (2-40) Andreas Englund, D, Djurgarden Jr. (Sweden); 2. (3-70) Miles Gendron, D, Rivers Academy (Mass.) (U.S. H.S.); 3. (4-100) Shane Eiserman, C/ LW, Dubuque (USHL); 4. (7-189) Kelly Summers, D, Carleton Place (CCHL); 5. (7-190) Francis Perron, LW, Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL). TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS (6) 1. (1-8) William Nylander, C/RW, Modo (Sweden); 2. (3-68) Rinat Valiev, D, Kootenay (WHL); 3. (4-103) John Piccinich, RW, Youngstown (USHL); 4. (5-128) Dakota Joshua, C, Sioux Falls (USHL); 5. (6-158) Nolan Vesey, LW, South Shore Prep. (USPHL); 6. (7-188) Pierre Engvall, LW, Frolunda (Sweden). VANCOUVER CANUCKS (7) 1. (1-6) Jake Virtanen, RW, Calgary (WHL); 2. (124) Jared McCann, C, Sault Ste. Marie (OHL); 3. (236) Thatcher Demko, G, Boston College (NCAA); 4. (3-66) Nikita Tryamkin, D, Yekaterinburg (Russia); 5. (5-126) Gustav Forsling, D, Linkoping (Sweden); 6. (6-156) Kyle Pettit, C, Erie (OHL); 7. (7-186) Mackenze Stewart, D, Prince Albert (WHL). WINNIPEG JETS (7) 1. (1-9) Nikolaj Ehlers, LW, Halifax (QMJHL); 2. (3-69) Jack Glover, D, U.S. Under-18 (USHL); 3. (4-99) Chase De Leo, C, Portland (WHL); 4. (4-101)
Nelson Nogier, D, Saskatoon (WHL); 5. (5-129) Clinston Franklin, LW, Sioux Falls (USHL); 6. (6164) Pavel Kraskovsky, C, Yaroslavl (Russia-Jr.); 7. (7-192) Matt Ustaski, C/LW, Langley (BCHL). NHL Draft Selections by Nationality PHILADELPHIA — A breakdown by nationality of the 210 players selected at the 2014 National Hockey League entry draft: 1. Canada, 77; 2. U.S., 67; 3. Sweden, 27; 4. Russia, 13; 5. Finland, 9; 6. Czech Rep., 8; 7 (tie). Britain, Latvia, Switzerland, 2; 10 (tie). Denmark, Germany, Slovakia, 1. All Trades from NHL Entry Draft PHILADELPHIA — Trades made Friday and Saturday during the National Hockey League entry draft: FRIDAY ● Anaheim traded C Nick Bonino, D Luca Sbisa, its first-round pick in 2014 (24th overall) & third-round pick in 2014 (85th overall) to Vancouver for C Ryan Kesler & Vancouver’s third-round pick in 2015. ● Vancouver traded D Jason Garrison, rights to LW Jeff Costello & its seventh-round pick in 2015 to Tampa Bay for Tampa Bay’s second-round pick in 2014 (50th overall). ● Vancouver traded Anaheim’s third-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 85th overall) to N.Y. Rangers for RW Derek Dorsett. ● Pittsburgh traded LW James Neal to Nashville for RW Patric Hornqvist & C Nick Spaling. ● San Jose traded its first-round pick in 2014 (20th overall) & N.Y. Rangers’ sixth-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 179th overall) to Chicago for Chicago’s first-round pick in 2014 (27th overall) & Florida’s third-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 62nd overall). ● Tampa Bay traded N.Y. Rangers’ first-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 28th overall) to N.Y. Islanders for N.Y. Islanders’ second-round pick in 2014 (35th overall) & Montreal’s second-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 57th overall). SATURDAY ● Buffalo traded Winnipeg’s second-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 39th overall) to Washington for Washington’s second-round pick in 2014 (44th overall) & third-round pick in 2014 (74th overall). ● Nashville traded Detroit’s second-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 46th overall) to San Jose for San Jose’s second-round pick in 2014 (51st overall) & fourth-round pick in 2015.
● Vancouver traded Tampa Bay’s second-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 50th overall) to Los Angeles for RW Linden Vey. ● San Jose traded Florida’s third-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 62nd overall) to Nashville for Nashville’s third-round pick in 2014 (72nd overall) & fourth-round pick in 2014 (102nd overall). ● Columbus traded Edmonton’s third-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 63rd overall) to Detroit for Detroit’s third-round pick in 2014 (76th overall) & third-round pick in 2015. ● N.Y. Islanders traded its third-round pick in 2014 (65th overall) to Florida for Florida’s third-round pick in 2015. ● Arizona traded its third-round pick in 2014 (73rd overall) to Montreal for Montreal’s third-round pick in 2014 (87th overall) & fourth-round pick in 2014 (117th overall). ● Toronto traded D Carl Gunnarsson & Calgary’s fourth-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 94th overall) to St. Louis for D Roman Polak. ● Minnesota traded its third-round pick in 2014 (79th overall) to Tampa Bay for Tampa Bay’s thirdround pick in 2014 (80th overall) & Vancouver’s seventh-round pick in 2015 (previously acquired). ● N.Y. Rangers traded their third-round pick in the 2014 NHL Draft (89th overall) to Washington for Washington’s fourth-round pick in 2014 (104th overall) & Chicago’s fourth-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 118th overall). ● Chicago traded LW Brandon Bollig to Calgary for Pittsburgh’s third-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 83rd overall). ● N.Y. Rangers traded its fourth-round pick in 2014 (119th overall) to Tampa Bay for Tampa Bay’s fifth-round pick in 2014 (140th overall) & St. Louis’ fourth-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 142nd overall). ● Winnipeg traded G Edward Pasquale & its sixthround pick in 2014 (159th overall) to Washington for Washington’s sixth-round pick in 2014 (164th overall), Nashville’s seventh-round pick in 2014 (previously acquired, 192nd overall) & Washington’s seventh-round pick in 2015. ● Winnipeg traded its seventh-round pick in 2014 (189th overall) to Ottawa for Ottawa’s sixth-round pick in 2015. ● N.Y. Islanders traded its seventh-round pick in 2014 (185th overall) to Tampa Bay for Tampa Bay’s seventh-round pick in 2014 (200th overall) & seventh-round pick in 2015.
Today ● Rodeo:
Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; chuckwagons and pony chuckwagons at 6:30 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: The Hideout vs. Gary Moe Volkswagen, Nighthawks vs. North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.
Tuesday ● Rodeo:
Ponoka Stampede, 1 p.m.; chuckwagons and pony chuckwagons at 6:30 p.m.
Toronto Baltimore New York Boston Tampa Bay
American League East Division W L Pct 45 39 .536 42 39 .519 41 39 .513 38 44 .463 35 49 .417
Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota
Central Division W L Pct 44 34 .564 42 39 .519 39 42 .481 39 44 .470 37 43 .463
GB — 3 1/2 6 1/2 7 1/2 8
Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston
West Division W L Pct 51 30 .630 45 35 .563 44 38 .537 37 44 .457 36 47 .434
GB — 5 1/2 7 1/2 14 16
GB — 1 1/2 2 6 10
Saturday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 3 L.A. Angels 6, Kansas City 2 Texas 5, Minnesota 0 Tampa Bay 5, Baltimore 4 Detroit 4, Houston 3 Oakland 7, Miami 6, 14 innings Boston 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Cleveland 5, Seattle 0 Sunday’s Games Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto 0 Oakland 4, Miami 3 Tampa Bay 12, Baltimore 7 Houston 6, Detroit 4 Kansas City 5, L.A. Angels 4 Minnesota 3, Texas 2 Seattle 3, Cleveland 0 Boston 8, N.Y. Yankees 5 Monday’s Games Tampa Bay (Archer 4-5) at N.Y. Yankees (Phelps 3-4), 5:05 p.m. Texas (J.Saunders 0-4) at Baltimore (U.Jimenez 2-8), 5:05 p.m. Oakland (Kazmir 9-3) at Detroit (A.Sanchez 5-2), 5:08 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 4-1) at Boston (Peavy 1-6), 5:10 p.m. Kansas City (Duffy 4-7) at Minnesota (Pino 0-1), 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Richards 8-2) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 2-5), 6:10 p.m. Seattle (Walker 0-0) at Houston (McHugh 4-6), 6:10 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 7-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 7-4), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m. Texas at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers 9, St. Louis 1 Washington 7, Chicago Cubs 2, 2nd game Cincinnati 7, San Francisco 3, 11 innings Arizona 3, San Diego 1
Oakland at Detroit, 5:08 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Boston, 5:10 p.m. Kansas City at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m. L.A. Angels at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m. Seattle at Houston, 6:10 p.m. Cleveland at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m. AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Altuve Hou 80 334 41 Beltre Tex 67 256 41 VMartinez Det 78 297 43 Cano Sea 78 301 41 Brantley Cle 77 296 54 Trout LAA 76 287 54 MiCabrera Det 78 302 46 Kinsler Det 77 326 55 Bautista Tor 78 273 54 Rios Tex 80 306 34
H 116 85 96 96 94 90 94 100 83 93
Pct. .347 .332 .323 .319 .318 .314 .311 .307 .304 .304
Home Runs JAbreu, Chicago, 25; NCruz, Baltimore, 25; Encarnacion, Toronto, 25; VMartinez, Detroit, 20; Ortiz, Boston, 19; Donaldson, Oakland, 18; Moss, Oakland, 18; Trout, Los Angeles, 18. Runs Batted In NCruz, Baltimore, 66; Encarnacion, Toronto, 65; JAbreu, Chicago, 64; MiCabrera, Detroit, 64; Donaldson, Oakland, 61; Moss, Oakland, 59; Trout, Los Angeles, 59. Pitching Tanaka, New York, 11-3; FHernandez, Seattle, 10-2; Porcello, Detroit, 10-4; Buehrle, Toronto, 10-5; Kazmir, Oakland, 9-3; Scherzer, Detroit, 9-3; Lackey, Boston, 9-5.
Atlanta Washington Miami New York Philadelphia
National League East Division W L Pct 44 38 .537 43 38 .531 39 43 .476 37 45 .451 36 46 .439
GB — 1/2 5 7 8
Milwaukee Cincinnati St. Louis Pittsburgh Chicago
Central Division W L Pct 51 33 .607 43 38 .531 44 39 .530 42 40 .512 34 46 .425
GB — 6 1/2 6 1/2 8 15
San Francisco Los Angeles Colorado San Diego Arizona
West Division W L Pct 46 36 .561 47 37 .560 36 46 .439 35 47 .427 35 49 .417
GB — — 10 11 12
Sunday’s Games Oakland 4, Miami 3 Atlanta 3, Philadelphia 2 Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Mets 2 Colorado 10, Milwaukee 4 Cincinnati 4, San Francisco 0 San Diego 2, Arizona 1 L.A. Dodgers 6, St. Louis 0
golf: McLennan Ross Tour event at Lacombe. ● Midget AAA baseball: Okotoks at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1. ● Parkland baseball: Innisfail at Lacombe, Rocky Mountain House at Eckville, 7 p.m.
Tuesday’s Games Milwaukee at Toronto, 11:07 a.m. Arizona at Pittsburgh, 5:05 p.m. Colorado at Washington, 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Boston, 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 5:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati at San Diego, 8:10 p.m. Cleveland at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m. St. Louis at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Tulowitzki Col 79 272 63 Lucroy Mil 77 299 39 MaAdams StL 68 252 26 AMcCutchen Pit 80 303 44 Stanton Mia 82 310 57 Puig LAD 77 292 44 Gennett Mil 74 241 34 CGomez Mil 75 303 52 McGehee Mia 81 314 29 LaRoche Was 64 224 37
H 96 100 82 95 97 91 75 94 97 69
Pct. .353 .334 .325 .314 .313 .312 .311 .310 .309 .308
Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 21; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 18; Frazier, Cincinnati, 17; Rizzo, Chicago, 17; Gattis, Atlanta, 16; JUpton, Atlanta, 16; Byrd, Philadelphia, 15; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 15. Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 60; Morneau, Colorado, 58; Goldschmidt, Arizona, 53; Howard, Philadelphia, 51; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 50; Byrd, Philadelphia, 48; AMcCutchen, Pittsburgh, 48; McGehee, Miami, 48.
Saturday’s Games Washington 3, Chicago Cubs 0, 1st game Atlanta 10, Philadelphia 3, 1st game N.Y. Mets 5, Pittsburgh 3 Milwaukee 7, Colorado 4 Oakland 7, Miami 6, 14 innings Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 1, 2nd game
Pitching Simon, Cincinnati, 10-3; Wainwright, St. Louis, 10-4; Greinke, Los Angeles, 10-4; Kershaw, Los Angeles, 9-2; Lohse, Milwaukee, 9-2; Ryu, Los Angeles, 9-4; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 9-5.
Golf LPGA Tour-NW Arkansas Championship Sunday At Pinnacle Country Club Rogers, Ark. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,375; Par 71 (a-amateur) Final Stacy Lewis, $300,000 70-66-65 — Lydia Ko, $141,128 69-68-65 — Cristie Kerr, $141,128 69-66-67 — Angela Stanford, $141,128 68-67-67 — So Yeon Ryu, $83,633 67-67-69 — Chella Choi, $62,852 70-65-69 — Suzann Pettersen, $62,852 68-67-69 — Julieta Granada, $39,188 72-68-65 — Meena Lee, $39,188 70-70-65 — Jennifer Rosales, $39,188 67-71-67 — Karine Icher, $39,188 72-65-68 — Mina Harigae, $39,188 70-66-69 — Mi Hyang Lee, $39,188 71-65-69 — Michelle Wie , $39,188 66-66-73 — Hee Young Park, $27,168 69-70-67 — Inbee Park, $27,168 69-69-68 — Na Yeon Choi, $27,168 68-69-69 — Alejandra Llaneza, $27,168 66-70-70 — Jennifer Johnson, $22,910 69-72-66 — Mi Jung Hur, $22,910 72-68-67 — Pornanong Phatlum, $22,910 67-72-68 — Line Vedel, $22,910 68-68-71 — Jennifer Song, $18,323 72-70-66 — Hee-Won Han, $18,323 69-72-67 — Morgan Pressel, $18,323 71-70-67 — Dori Carter, $18,323 69-71-68 — Brooke Pancake, $18,323 71-69-68 — Caroline Hedwall, $18,323 67-72-69 — Mo Martin, $18,323 68-71-69 — Gerina Piller, $18,323 67-69-72 — Candie Kung, $13,837 70-72-67 — Haru Nomura, $13,837 69-73-67 —
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Dewi Claire Schreefe, $13,837 Victoria Elizabeth, $13,837 Alena Sharp, $13,837 Ji Young Oh, $13,837 Catriona Matthew, $9,995 Azahara Munoz, $9,995 Ashleigh Simon, $9,995 Shanshan Feng, $9,995 Moriya Jutanugarn, $9,995 Haeji Kang, $9,995 Brittany Lincicome, $9,995 Karin Sjodin, $9,995 Anna Nordqvist, $9,995 Lizette Salas, $9,995 Moira Dunn, $7,183 Caroline Masson, $7,183 Sun Young Yoo, $7,183 Jodi Ewart Shadoff, $7,183 Sue Kim, $7,183 Thidapa Suwannapura, $7,183 Katherine Kirk, $7,183
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Senior Players Championship Scores Sunday At Fox Chapel Golf Club Pittsburgh Purse: $2.7 million Yardage: 6,696; Par: 70 Final x-won on second playoff hole x-Bern.Langer, $405,000 65-64-66-70 Jeff Sluman, $237,600 69-67-64-65 Russ Cochran, $194,400 70-66-63-67 Kenny Perry, $160,650 70-63-65-69 Mark McNulty, $128,250 66-66-71-66 Mark Brooks, $83,700 66-67-71-66 Joe Durant, $83,700 64-68-67-71 Bill Glasson, $83,700 67-64-68-71 Jay Haas, $83,700 69-70-65-66 Mark O’Meara, $83,700 67-66-69-68
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Corey Pavin, $83,700 John Cook, $54,900 Bob Gilder, $54,900 John Riegger, $54,900 Michael Allen, $43,200 Marco Dawson, $43,200 David Frost, $43,200 Doug Garwood, $43,200 Colin Montgomerie, $43,200 Barry Lane, $34,290 Tom Lehman, $34,290 Bart Bryant, $27,765 Tom Byrum, $27,765 Dan Forsman, $27,765 Rocco Mediate, $27,765 Loren Roberts, $27,765 Kirk Triplett, $27,765 Tommy Armour III, $21,384 Jeff Brehaut, $21,384 Brad Bryant, $21,384 Larry Mize, $21,384 Steve Pate, $21,384 Billy Andrade, $18,225 Mike Goodes, $18,225 Wayne Levi, $15,863 Joey Sindelar, $15,863 Esteban Toledo, $15,863 Willie Wood, $15,863 Olin Browne, $13,230 Peter Fowler, $13,230 Steve Lowery, $13,230 Gene Sauers, $13,230 Peter Senior, $13,230 Bobby Clampett, $11,070 Joe Daley, $11,070 Wes Short, Jr. , $11,070 Brad Faxon, $9,450 John Inman, $9,450 Chien Soon Lu, $9,450
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Red Deer’s Schalk and teammate equals best result on FIVB World Tour BY THE CANADIAN PRESS STAVANGER, Norway — Calgary’s Ben Saxton and Chaim Schalk of Red Deer, equalled their best result this season on the FIVB World Tour circuit in beach volleyball on Sunday, finishing ninth in men’s competition. Saxton and Schalk went 3-0 in the round robin which included upset wins over two top10 ranked teams to place first in pool H. The second-year pair earned a first round bye in the opening knockout round and then fell to seventh-seeds Jonathan Erdmann and Kay Matsyk of Germany 21-16, 21-14 in the round of 16. Phil Dalhausser and Sean Rosenthal won their first gold of the World Tour when they defeated Ricardo Santos and Alvaro Filho in the Stavanger Grand Slam gold medal match
on Sunday. In a match that pitted 2004 Olympic champion Ricardo against 2008 Olympic champion Dalhausser, the pair of Americans ended victorious against the Brazilians with a 2-0 (2116, 21-16) win. In women’s competition, April Ross and Kerri Walsh of the United States, claimed their third gold medal this season as they defeated Liliana Fernandez and Elsa Baquerizo in the championship match. The Americans pair beat the Spaniards 2-0 (21-12, 21-15) to add Stavanger gold to their wins at the Fuzhou Open and Moscow Grand Slam from earlier in the year. Both Canadian entries went 1-2 in the round robin then lost their first elimination match. Victoria’s Jamie Broder and Toronto’s Kristina Valjas lost to a Chinese pair in 56 minutes while Sarah Pavan of Kitchener, Ont., and Toronto’s Heather Bansley were bounced by an Italian combo.
rodeo: Coronation Pro Rodeo, 6
p.m. ● Parkland
baseball: Irricana at Innisfail, 7 p.m. ● Pro rodeo: Benalto Stampede, 7 p.m. ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Lacoka at Red Deer, 8:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Senior C men’s lacrosse: Airdrie at Blackfalds, 8:30 p.m., Multiplex.
Saturday ● Pro
rodeo: Coronation Pro Rodeo, 1
p.m. ● Major
women’s soccer: Edmonton Victoria at Red Deer, 2 p.m., Edgar Park. ● Pro rodeo: Benalto Stampede, 7 p.m.
Sunday
Thursday ● Women’s
fastball: Topco Oilsite vs. TNT, TNT vs. North Star Sports, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; Snell and Oslund vs. Lacombe Physio, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; N. Jensen’s at Stettler, 7 p.m. ● Senior men’s baseball: Lacombe Stone
● Pro rodeo: Benalto Stampede, 1 ● Junior B tier 2 lacrosse: Calgary
p.m.
Wranglers at Red Deer, 1:30 p.m., Kinex. B tier 2 lacrosse: Innisfail at Lacoka, 3 p.m., Ponoka Culture and Rec Complex. ● Junior B tier 1 lacrosse: Edmonton at Red Deer, 4:30 p.m., Kinex. ● Junior
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Week 1 Saturday’s results Calgary 29 Montreal 8 Edmonton 27 B.C. 20 Sunday’s results Saskatchewan 31 Hamilton 10
Monday’s Games Colorado (Flande 0-0) at Washington (Zimmermann 5-4), 5:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 4-1) at Boston (Peavy 1-6), 5:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Z.Wheeler 3-8) at Atlanta (A.Wood 6-6), 5:10 p.m. Cincinnati (Latos 1-0) at San Diego (Hahn 3-1), 8:10 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 7-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 7-4), 8:10 p.m.
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and Granite vs. Printing Place, The Hideout vs. North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2.
Week 2 Thursday’s games Ottawa at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 4 B.C. at Montreal, 5 p.m. Hamilton at Edmonton, 8 p.m. Saturday, July 5 Saskatchewan at Toronto, 1 p.m. Saturday’s summaries Eskimos 27, Lions 20 First Quarter B.C. — TD Harris 55 pass from Glenn (McCallum convert) 1:49 Edm — TD McCarty 9 pass from Reilly (Shaw convert) 8:43 B.C. — TD Player 3 pass from Glenn (McCallum convert) 14:00 Second Quarter Edm — FG Shaw 14 2:47 Edm — FG Shaw 42 7:31 B.C. — FG McCallum 16 14:17 Third Quarter Edm — TD Stamps 17 pass from Reilly (Shaw convert) 15:00 Fourth Quarter Edm — TD Bowman 35 pass from Reilly (Shaw convert) 5:32 B.C. — FG McCallum 46 11:39 Edmonton 7 6 7 7 — 27 B.C. 14 3 0 3 — 20 Attendance — 24,524 at B.C. TEAM STATISTICS Edm B.C. First downs 20 15 Yards rushing 83 54 Yards passing 232 251 Total offence 315 305 Team losses 20 22 Net offence 295 283 Passes made-tried 23-36 18-28 Returns yards 159 163 Interceptions-yards by 4-23 1-10 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Sacks by 4 3 Punts-average 9-39.7 6-42.5 Penalties-Yards 13-93 7-40 Time of Possession 32:51 27:09 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Edm: Thomas 10-45, Reilly 4-33, White 3-5, McCarty 1-0. B.C.: Harris 11-37, Logan 4-11, Williams 1-6. Receiving Edm: Bowman 9-105, Chambers 4-43, Stamps 2-40, Coehoorn 3-20, McCarty 3-11, Guyton 1-9, Thomas 1-4. B.C.: Harris 6-102, Gore 3-43, Jackson 1-38, Williams 2-30, Taylor 3-24, Poblah 2-11, Player 1-3. Passing Edm: Reilly 22-35, 229 yards, 3 TDs, 1 int, Nichols 1-1-3-0-0. B.C.: Glenn 18-28-251-2-4. Stampeders 29, Alouettes 8 First Quarter Cgy — Single Maver 78 2:12 Cgy — FG Paredes 38 12:11 Cgy — TD Price 102 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 15:00 Second Quarter
Third Quarter Cgy — FG Paredes 26 4:32 Cgy — Single Maver 88 10:30 Mtl — Single Whyte 48 14:46 Fourth Quarter Cgy — TD Cornish 18 run (Paredes convert) 1:24 Cgy — TD Parker 16 pass from Mitchell (Paredes convert) 7:12 Mtl — TD Lumbala 1 run (Whyte convert) 15:00 Montreal 0 0 1 7 — 8 Calgary 11 0 4 14 — 29 Attendance — 26,135 at Calgary. TEAM STATISTICS Mtl Cgy First downs 19 18 Yards rushing 60 116 Yards passing 154 313 Total offence 214 429 Team losses 39 4 Net offence 175 425 Passes made-tried 18-41 16-25 Returns yards 41 109 Interceptions-yards by 1-1 0-0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Sacks by 1 4 Punts-average 11-52.1 9-46.8 Penalties-Yards 12-120 12-129 Time of Possession 29:24 30:36 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Mtl: Whitaker 12-59, Lumbala 1-1. Cgy: Cornish 14-67, Walter 7-32, Mitchell 1-10, Tate 2-4, Sanders 2-3. Receiving Mtl: Deslauriers 4-34, Carter 4-32, Green 3-30, Johnson 2-20, Stala 1-27, Stafford 2-14, Whitaker 2-minus-3. Cgy: Price 1-102, Fuller 3-56, Cornish 3-41, Charbonneau-Campeau 1-35, McDaniel 2-30, Sinopoli 4-17, Parker 1-16, Lewis 1-16. Passing Mtl: Smith 18-41, 154 yards, 0 TDs, 1 int. Cgy: Mitchell 16-25-313-2-0. Sunday’s summary Roughriders 31, Tiger-Cats 10 First Quarter Sask — FG Milo 35 3:48 Sask — TD Allen 2 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 8:42 Sask — Safety Medlock concedes 10:27 Second Quarter Sask — TD Allen 1 run (Milo convert) 1:10 Sask — Safety Medlock concedes 5:19 Ham — Single Medlock 57 8:03 Sask — FG Milo 21 13:56 Third Quarter Sask — TD Swain 10 pass from Durant (Milo convert) 6:24 Ham — Safety Bartel concedes 10:29 Fourth Quarter Ham — TD Tasker 4 pass from Collaros (Medlock convert) 7:40 Hamilton 0 1 2 7 — 10 Saskatchewan 12 12 7 0 — 31 Attendance — 19,285 at Saskatchewan. TEAM STATISTICS Ham Sask First downs 14 20 Yards rushing 42 164 Yards passing 159 136 Total offence 201 300 Passes made-tried 34-15 22-19 Returns yards 163 125 Interceptions-yards by 1-12 1-42 Fumbles-Lost 2-2 1-4 Sacks by 1 10 Punts-average 67-5 59-5 Penalties-Yards 148-11 97-17 Time of Possession 25:38 34:22 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS Rushing Hamilton: Collaros 3-18, Banks 1-9, Gable 3-8, Madu 1-4, LeFevour 2-3. Saskatchewan: Allen 27158, Durant 1-6. Receiving Hamilton: Giguere 6-46, Tasker 4-37, Grant 4-35, Madu 1-16, Koch 2-13, Banks 2-12. Saskatchewan: Getzlaf 2-42, Swain 3-29, T. Smith 2-18, Allen 3-18, Schilens 1-12, Bagg 2-9, R. Smith 1-4, Hughes 1-4. Passing Hamilton: Collaros 19-33-159-1-1. Saskatchewan: Durant 15-22-136-2-1.
Soccer Argentina Nigeria Bosnia-Herz. Iran
FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil GROUP A Brazil Mexico Croatia Cameroon
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T 0 0 0 0
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T 1 0 0 1
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GROUP H GP Belgium 3 Algeria 3 Russia 3 South Korea 3
Round of 16 Saturday, June 28 Brazil 1 Chile 1 Colombia 2 Uruguay 0 Sunday, June 29 Netherlands 2 Mexico 1 Costa Rica 1 Greece 1 Monday, June 30 Nigeria at France, 10 a.m. Algeria at Germany, 2 p.m.
GROUP E France Switzerland Ecuador Honduras GROUP F
Tuesday, July 1 Switzerland at Argentina, 10 a.m. United States at Belgium, 2 p.m. Quarterfinal Friday, July 4 TBAA at TBAH, 10 a.m. Colombia at Brazil, 2 p.m.
Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League BUFFALO SABRES — Bought out the contract of D Christian Ehrhoff, making him an unrestricted free agent. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Traded F Teddy Purcell to Edmonton for F Sam Gagne. Acquired a 2015 sixth-round pick from Arizona for Fs Sam Gagner and B.J. Crombeen. FOOTBALL Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Signed WR Romby Bryant and DB Troy Stoudermire. BASEBALL
American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Recalled LHP T.J. House from Columbus (IL). Optioned LHP Nick Hagadone to Columbus. OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Recalled 1B Nate Freiman from Sacramento (PCL). Placed OF Josh Reddick on the 15-day DL. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed INF Chris Owings on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF Nick Ahmed from Reno (PCL). Transferred INF Eric Chavez to the 60-day DL. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed INF Justin Turner on the 15-day DL. Recalled INF Carlos Triunfel from Albuquerque (PCL).
B4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Monday, June 30, 2014
Jays scoring woes continue GET SHUT OUT BY WHITE SOX FOR THIRD LOSS IN A ROW BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Even the pinch-hit return of Jose Bautista could not help the Toronto Blue Jays. The all-star right-fielder appeared in his first game in a week, pinch hitting in the sixth inning but grounding in to a force out on Sunday as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Blue Jays 4-0, Toronto’s third loss in a row. “Hopefully, Bautista’s back in here the next couple of games to give us kind of a jolt in the lineup,” said Blue Jays left-hander Mark Buehrle who took the loss despite holding the White Sox to two runs in eight innings. Chicago got seven strong innings from left-hander Jose Quintana (5-7) and a home run and a double from right-fielder Moises Sierra, who started the season with Toronto. Bautista, who did not play in at all the in the previous six games because of a mild left hamstring strain, hopes that he will be able to return full-time by Tuesday when the Blue Jays next play. “Everybody knows I can’t go out on the field and not be 100 per cent,” Bautista said before the game after testing the leg by running. “Hopefully by Tuesday I feel better and I can be in the outfield. If not I can DH the whole game and play the day after.” The return of the right-fielder cannot come soon enough. The Blue Jays finished with a 12-15 record in June after winning the first five games of the month. They lead the American League East despite losing nine of their past 13 games. The Blue Jays won only the opener of the four-game series against the White Sox (39-44) who are fourth in the American League Central. Besides Bautista’s potent righthanded bat, Toronto (45-39) is also without Brett Lawrie who is on the
disabled list with a broken right index finger. “They’re a big part of it, no question about that,” said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons . “Really it’s been a couple of weeks we’ve been cold, regardless. We had some games in there we put some runs up. Overall, since our big streak (21-9 in May), we’ve cooled off quite a bit there. We need to get going. Today was just kind of flat, one of those dead days. “Buehrle pitched good enough to win, he really did. He did what he always does. We got zero going and it’s frustrating.” Toronto’s hitters are frustrated with the scoring drought as well. “It is hard because you never know who’s going to be in the lineup,” said Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes who had a double and a single on Sunday. “There’s a lot of different people every single day, coming up from the minor leagues and stuff. People need to step it up. If we want to continue to be in first place we need to play better baseball.” Quintana held the Blue Jays to three hits and two walks while striking out seven. He’s won back-to-back starts. Buehrle (10-5), who has not won since June 1, lost for the fourth time in his past five starts. He allowed six hits, two walks and two runs while striking out five against in his second career start against his former team. White Sox designated hitter Jose Abreu extended his hit streak to 14 games with an RBI single in the third inning. He drove in second baseman Gordon Beckham who hit a two-out double. Sierra hit his second homer of the season with one out in the fourth to put the White Sox into a 2-0 lead. Chicago claimed Sierra off waivers from the Blue Jays on May 3. Buehrle knows Sierra will chase pitches out of the strike zone from watching him Toronto but lamented
Coming up Rose-y JUSTIN ROSE BEATS SHAWN STEFANI IN PLAYOFF AT CONGRESSIONAL
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Justin Rose, of England, reacts after winning the Quicken Loans National PGA golf tournament in a playoff round against Shawn Stefani, Sunday, in Bethesda, Md. his second chance. He went 14 straight holes without making a bogey. Along with the 15-foot bogey putt he made on the 18th, he saved par on the 17th with an 8-foot putt. Patrick Reed could have used some of that gritty play. Reed, who started the final round with a twoshot lead, didn’t even
his change-up down the middle of the plate. “I pretty much teed one up for him and that’s what he’s supposed to do with it,” Buehrle said. The Blue Jays did not have as many as two runners on base in an inning until the sixth when Reyes doubled with one out and designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion walked with two out. That brought out Bautista, who had not played since June 22, to bat for catcher Dioner Navarro. Reyes took third on a wild pitch as Bautista worked the count to 3-2 on Quintana. But he hit a ground ball to shortstop
finish in the top 10. He still had a two-shot lead at the turn, only to start the back nine with consecutive double bogeys on his way to a 41. He closed with a 77 and tied for 11th. Seven players had a share of the lead at one point in the final round, and once Reed began his meltdown, Rose took over.
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and Encarnacion was forced out at second to end the inning. “I tried to keep the ball down with him,” Quintana said. “Behind in the count 2-0, I wanted to keep the ball away. After I’m behind in the count, I just tried to get the round ball.” The White Sox added two runs in the ninth against right-hander Sergio Santos on a single by catcher Tyler Flowers. It scored first baseman Paul Konerko who walked with one out and took third on Sierra’s double. Left-hander Eric Surkamp pitched the eighth and right-hander Jake Petricka took over for the ninth.
Oilers trade Gagner to Lightning, who then flip him to Coyotes BY THE CANADIAN PRESS
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sam Gagner was traded twice within 90 minutes Sunday night, first from the Edmonton Oilers to Tampa Bay and then from the Lightning to the Arizona Coyotes. The Oilers got winger Teddy Purcell from the Lightning in exchange for centre Gagner. The Lightning then flipped him to the Coyotes along with tough guy B.J. Crombeen for a sixthround pick. Gagner has two years left on his contract at a cap hit of US$4.8 million. The 24-year-old had long been the subject of trade rumours with Edmonton mulling changes amid a long playoff drought. Purcell, a 28-year-old right-winger, has two years left at a cap hit of $4.5 million. He had 12 goals and 30 assists in 81 games this past season. The trade represents another change for the Oilers as general manager Craig MacTavish seeks to get a young core built around Ryan NugentHopkins, Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle to the playoffs for the first time. Drafting big German centre Leon Draisaitl third overall Friday night might have been enough to convince MacTavish it was time to move Gagner, whose no-trade clause was set to kick in July 1. “I think (Draisaitl) helps us fill a
need, gives us an opportunity to have a strong centreman with some size that can play ahead of or behind the Nuge, whatever way it works, and we’ll give him that opportunity,” director of amateur scouting Stu MacGregor said Saturday in Philadelphia. Gagner, the sixth overall pick in 2007, had 10 goals and 27 assists in 67 games in 2013-14. In his NHL career, all with Edmonton, the London, Ont., native has 295 points in 481 games. Purcell, a native of St. John’s, N.L., has 228 points in 401 career games and 18 in 22 playoff games. By trading Purcell and Crombeen ($1.15 million), the Lightning cleared more than $5.5 million in salary-cap space two days before the start of the free-agent period. Tampa Bay is believed to be targeting a right-handedshooting defenceman. In Gagner, the Coyotes get a centre to replace Mike Ribeiro, who was bought out for what general manager Don Maloney termed as “behavioural issues.” “We are very pleased to acquire a talented, young centre like Sam Gagner,” Maloney said in a statement. “He has the intelligence, character and skill set we were looking for and we believe he has further growth in his game. “We look forward to welcoming Sam to Arizona.”
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BETHESDA, Md. — Justin Rose got his mistake out of the way one hole early and won the Quicken Loans National in a playoff Sunday over Shawn Stefani. Tied for the lead as he played the 18th hole at Congressional, Rose tried to hit through two trees left of the fairway and overturned the shot. It ran down a bank and into the water, and he had to hole a 15-foot bogey putt just to stay in the game. That proved to be the biggest shot he hit all day. Behind him, Stefani made bogey on the 17th and narrowly missed a birdie putt on the 18th to set up the first playoff in the eight-year history of this event. And then it was Stefani who essentially repeated Rose’s mistake on the first extra hole at No. 18. After taking a drop because the grandstands blocked his view of the green, he wanted to play his low punch to the right side of the green. His shot also had too much turn and bounded into the water. Rose hit the middle of the green from the fairway and two-putted for par. Stefani made double bogey. It was Rose’s first win since the U.S. Open last summer at Merion, and it felt like he won another U.S. Open as tough as Congressional played. With putting surfaces that had a brown tinge to them even before the leaders teed off, and thick rough all week, it was a far stronger test than when the Open was held in soggy conditions in 2011. “Congressional got its reputation back after the U.S. Open,” Rose said. “I really enjoy this type of golf and this type of test. I think it tested all of us. I’m delighted.” Rose and Stefani each closed with a 1-under 70 — only six players broke par in the final round — and finished at 4-under 280. It was only the second time this year that the winning score was higher than the 36-hole lead (6 under). That also happened at Torrey Pines, which also hosted a U.S. Open. Despite his blunder on the 18th, Rose earned
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Toronto Blue Jays’ Darin Mastroianni, right, is tagged out by Chicago White Sox’s Gordon Beckham after making a base running error and getting caught in a rundown during the first inning of MLB baseball action in Toronto on Sunday.
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Razorbacks committed and ready RECRUITMENT OF VERSATILE AND COMMITTED PLAYERS ALLOWS FOR PARKLAND BASEBALL LEAGUE TEAM TO FOCUS ON WINS BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF
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Red Deer Razorbacks’ Diego Colorado gets the bat on the ball during Parkland Baseball League action at Great Chief Park on Friday.
When Colin Stefanik and Darcy Warawa took over the Red Deer Razorbacks reins this spring, goal No. 1 was to recruit more versatile and committed players. The team had just finished languishing through two Parkland Baseball League seasons, struggling to get nine or 10 players out to games, and it showed in the standings. They started the 2014 campaign with 19 on the roster and have picked up a few extra bodies since. Numbers this year are finally not an issue for the club and the results have improved, sitting at 4-3 this season despite inconsistency at the plate. “We didn’t have the commitment from players, we were putting together a different lineup almost every game ... and that for us in the last few years has been a bit of a struggle,” said Warawa, also noting they have lost four starters from their previous championship teams to family and work commitments in that time as well. “One thing with taking over the team, I was going to get some guys who knew what they were doing on a baseball diamond, and second off create a committed group that when they come to practice we get work done and make it worth guys’ time to come to practice.” The strength of the senior AA club this year is the depth of their pitching staff. They are led by a pair of pitchers from Olds, Clinton Armitage and Chris Grudeski and have recently bolstered the group with the addition of Ontario southpaw Travis Bachynski, a product of the Prairie Baseball Academy in Lethbridge. “We’ve probably got seven or eight guys this year that can probably go and throw, and that helps us,” said Warawa. “In the past we’ve dealt with four arms, sometimes five.” This is Armitage’s first year with
the club after spending part of 2012-13 season with the University of Calgary Dinos in the Canadian College Baseball Conference. The19-year-old right-hander also plays third base and is solid at the plate. He is fitting in well in his rookie season. “It’s great playing for a guy like Darcy, he knows a lot about the game,” he said. “I took a year off of ball so its nice to get back out.” The biggest concern right now for the club is getting their bats going. They have shown flashes of offence but little consistency. They have been able to get guys on base, but an inability to cash them in or execute set plays properly has killed them. In an 18-game season, getting the offence on track is one of the more difficult things to do. “We have guys that played at the college level and we have guys who played midget AAA level, you just don’t have enough reps,” said Warawa. “No one has been doing this all winter, you come out here a month-anda-half ago and you start swinging at a practice and, it’s baseball, it takes a little time to find a groove and find a rhythm.” Still the Razorbacks are confident about their chances this season. The seven-team PBL changed its playoff format from a full-league tournament to a standard top four format — No. 1 plays 4, No. 2 plays 3 in best-ofthree series, followed by a best-of-five league final. Standing in their way will be the defending league champion Acme Pirates — who they play on Saturday in Acme at 7 p.m. “Expectations are pretty high for this team,” said Armitage. “We’ve got a lot of good returning players and good new guys who’ve filled some holes. Everybody is hoping for good things come playoffs and I think we’ve got a chance.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com
Midget AAA Vold gets one step closer to defending title at hometown rodeo Braves fall in Kamloops PONOKA STAMPEDE Canada Day tournament semifinals
PONOKA — It was a long journey for Jake Vold to get back to his hometown rodeo. But the rider is excited about a chance to defend ing to Reno a long time, and have the bareback title he won at the Po- come close to winning it. But I’ve noka Stampede just one year ago. never actually won it. To show up Sunday afternoon he made and come out on top, it was a great strides to do that, by spurring to day of rodeo,” he grinned. 85.25 points on the Bar C 5 horse Big The Reno payday bumps Cassidy John, despite rainy, chilly condi- all the way up to fifth in the world tions. steer wrestling race. “I’ve never seen that horse beIt also helps ease the pain of not fore, and I asked the Bar C 5 crew, being at the Ponoka Stampede fiand they said he’s Virgil’s half- nals Tuesday. While his run of 4.1 brother. Everybody knows Virgil. seconds is still in second place for And they said he hadn’t been rid- round two, the epic wreck he expeden yet. rienced in the first round means he “I thought if I could do my part, won’t advance, plus he’s still pretty he’d have a good day in the mud, sore from the rearranging of the and he did. So it worked out.” ribs and sternum he sufThe mark, which fered. Lee Graves remains would be high enough the leader on two runs at to win most rodeos, is the Ponoka Stampede with sitting sixth best at Pohis 11.9 second total. noka, behind the top Of the top 12 bull rides mark of 88 from Kaycee at Ponoka so far, six of Field. But with just tothem were turned in Sunday’s performance to day afternoon. Kyle Loudgo, Vold can looking en of Australia moved in forward to being part just behind the leading of the July 1 finals, 88.75 mark of Brennon where the top 12 marks Eldred. Louden rode the qualify. exotic Big Stone bull Pop “That’s Ponoka, and DIANNE Evil to 87.25, then 2011 that’s what makes a guy world champion Shane FINSTAD come a-ridin’, that’s for Proctor of North Carolina sure, when you’ve got was 87 points on 2 Dark 2 to be 85 to try to sneak C. in there. So you just And BC’s Ty Pozzobon throw caution to the wind, and let it wasn’t far behind with an 86.50 on happen.” Morning Breath. Pozzobon had just Vold rolled into Ponoka at about picked up $9,284 for finishing sec9 a.m. Sunday, after making an ond at Reno. 83-point ride in the Finals at Reno, The only lead to change hands Nev., the night before, where he Sunday in Ponoka was perhaps the pulled $4,515 out of that rich rodeo. most surprising. That bumps him up to fifth in the The rain made for a muddy track, world standings, and he’s also lead- but that didn’t keep Lisa Lockhart ing the Canadian bareback race. of South Dakota down. She and her “I haven’t slept in about 27 hours. horse Chism blazed around the barThree flights, and a rental car, and rels in 17.472 seconds to take over we’re here,” he smirked. first spot. But there was no rest in sight yet. Lockhart, a four-time Canadian “We’ll pack up and go to the Air- champion, was as surprised as anydrie Rodeo tonight, and then drive one about the speedy time. to Williams Lake for tomorrow af“I just didn’t really think it would ternoon. Turns out we’re rodeoing be that fast of a track,” she admitright now, I guess,” he chuckled. ted. “Or they don’t like the mud Vold wasn’t the only one at Pono- splashing, so I just didn’t think we ka Sunday afternoon who cashed in would fare as well as we did. at Reno. Curtis Cassidy collected a “There was no doubt in my mind whopping $11,297 as he won the first that the footing was just fine. It’s round and the average in the steer just more the splashy, nasty, cold, wrestling at Reno. ‘don’t want to do this’. Running into But there he was, standing in the the rain at the first barrel, as my hat rain and the wind, watching his fel- was flipping up, I felt like I was golow steer wrestlers at Ponoka the ing to fly away,” she laughed. next day. “I’m just delighted to have one “I had to get up at 3:30 this morn- under my belt here. I haven’t been ing to go to the airport,” said the to many rodeos up here, so I’m kind Donalda cowboy. “I wasn’t too hap- of playing catch up. I don’t have py about that, but I guess that’s what hardly any money won, so this is a you do this time of the year. pretty important rodeo to me.” “It was really exciting (to win), Taos Muncy is still the cowboy on and then I got the bonus of the all- top in the saddle bronc riding with around on top of that. I’ve been go- his 86. Canadian champion Rylan
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Geiger had the best ride of the day, and his 84 mark put him in fourth, to guarantee a spot for Tuesday’s finals. Another Canadian champion, Timber Moore of Texas, slid into third spot in the tie-down roping race with 16.8 seconds on two runs. The leader there is Idaho’s Matt Shiozawa, with a 15.9. In team roping, Travis Gallais of Red Deer and Kevin Schreiner of Medicine Hat put together two decent runs in 13.9 seconds, to slide in right behind the 13.7 from leaders Rhen Richard of Jeremy Buhler. There’s a 79 on top in novice bareback now — from Linden Woods of Swift Current — while Lane Cust of Ardmore has an 80.5 for first in novice saddle bronc. Jake Plotts of Drayton Valley leads steer riding with a 75.50. All day rains made for thick and heavy racetrack conditions for the second leg of the WPCA Pro Tour at the Ponoka Stampede. Night 4 was the last chance for the drivers to try and get into the top eight for “Semi Final Monday.” When the night was complete, it was Jason Glass who topped the overall aggregate standings with a fourday total time of 5:05.94, and will be joined by Evan Salmond, Chad Harden, Kurt Bensmiller, Kirk Sutherland, Colt Cosgrave, Troy Dorchester and Jerry Bremner are who made the cut and will compete in Monday’s semi-final round. Eight-time Ponoka Stampede Champion Kelly Sutherland ended up in the crying hole, 9th place overall, and just missed the semi-final round by a mere 3 one-hundreds of a second. The top 4 times from Monday’s semi-final round will qualify into the $50,000.00 Tommy Dorchester Sudden Death Championship final heat where the winner will drive off in a new GMC Sierra Pickup Truck and take home the 2014 Ponoka Stampede Championship. As far as day results are concerned, it was Evan Salmond who cashed the top cheque after posting the fastest time of a muddy night with a 1:19.00. Mike Vigen placed second on the night; Jason Glass was third, with Chad Fike and Rick Fraser rounding out the top five on the night. There’s another performance of the Ponoka Stampede Rodeo today at 1:00 pm, followed by chuckwagon racing at 6:30. The rodeo finals go July 1st at 1 p.m., with the $10,000 Dash for Cash for the pony chucks, and the $50,000 Tommy Dorchester Dash for Cash for the WPCA chuckwagons — plus the Stampede Showdown — going Tuesday at 6:30 pm.
KAMLOOPS — The Red Deer Carstar Braves squandered a two-run lead and fell 7-4 to Spruce Grove in a Kamloops Canada Day midget AAA baseball tournament semifinal Sunday. Dylan Boreman cracked a two-run home run to provide the Braves with an early cushion, Brad Pope drove in a run to make it a 3-2 game for Red Deer and Ty Wagar stroked his second single of the game and then scored to give the Braves a 4-3 lead. But that was it for the Braves, who gave up four consecutive runs en route to being eliminated from the annual tournament. Red Deer earned a semifinal berth with an 18-7 thumping of the Edmonton Cardinals, a game in which Wagar started on the Braves’ mound and was relieved by Tristen Hill in the seventh inning. Levi Moon highlighted a nine-run, fifth inning outburst with a grand slam homer. Moon later drove in two more runs, while Mike Ozga knocked in a pair of runs and Boreman, Parker Booth and Bennett Kary each had an RBI. The Braves opened the tournament with an 8-2 victory over the host River Dogs and an 8-0 rout of the Okanagan A’s, then dropped a 12-4 decision to White Rock, B.C. Jesse Kowalchuk drove in two runs against Kamloops, with Moon stroking an RBI single. Boreman was the starting pitcher and Jesse Muirhead closed out the game. Muirhead went the distance on the Braves’ hill in the shutout win over the A’s. Blake Thompson was the losing pitcher versus White Rock.
JUNIOR B LACROSSE Nate Bellanger netted five goals and Brady Thudim scored four times and added three assists in a dominating physical performanace as the Red Deer Renegades cruised past the host Innisfail Yetti 19-6 in junior B tier 2 lacrosse action Friday. Logan Sinclair, Ryan Svederus and Declan Johnston each tallied twice for the winners, with Sinclair adding four assists and Svederus chipping in with three. Also scoring for the Renegades were Colton Levie, Kane Weik, Brandon Magill and Calum Anderson. Kaden Christensen tallied twice and added an assist for the Yetti, who got single goals from Jeff Sebastian, Dallas Steinbach, Aiden Hanger and Thieu Van Ar. Innisfail bounced back Saturday to defeat the host Calgary Wranglers 12-10. Christensen erupted for six goals and also set up one, Sebastian fired four goals and added four helpers, and Steinbach scored twice and had four assists.
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Canadians continue to make history BOUCHARD AND RAONIC SET CANADIAN RECORDS BY REACHING FOURTH ROUND AT WIMBLEDON BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONDON — Eugenie Bouchard and Milos Raonic set records as they became the fourth and fifth Canadians respectively to reach the fourth round of Wimbledon after straight-set wins on Saturday. Both had to wait out a rain interruption lasting nearly five hours before taking comprehensive third-round victories to join Carling BassettSeguso (1983, 1986), Patricia Hy-Boulais (1996-97) and Daniel Nestor (1999) as Canadians who made it into the second week of a major. Bouchard, semifinalist in Melbourne and Paris already this season, posted a 6-3, 6-4 defeat of German Andrea Petkovic. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., joined Bouchard in Wimbledon’s second week by beating Poland’s Lukasz Kubot in the third round 7-6 (2), 7-6(4), 6-2. He fired over 30 aces and 50 winners, breaking twice
with just six unforced errors on the way to victory. “I was able to be dominant on my serve, I only lost nine points on it,� said Raonic. “This definitely makes my life a lot easier and puts pressure on him. “But at the same time, I didn’t really have my opportunities. I played a few good points in tiebreaks and he was able to of hold on.� Raonic has won three straight Wimbledon grass matches for the first time, after doing the same at Halle, Germany in 2011 and 2012. “I’m starting from very low comfort level on grass but now I’m feeling pretty comfortable,� said Raonic. “I’ve made pretty significant progress on this surface this year.� The 13th-seeded Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., started her match in the early afternoon but found herself in the locker-room for nearly five hours after 15 minutes of play as rain wrecked the schedule. But the weather cleared
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Eugenie Bouchard plays a return to Andrea Petkovic of Germany during their women’s singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday. up in the early evening with Bouchard and Petkovic returning to the court with the Canadian leading 2-1. Bouchard picked up where she left off, putting the pressure on a player who had defeated her in three previous meetings including the Rogers Cup in Toronto three years ago. She took victory on her third match point when Petkovic hit the net with a return. Bouchard produced 30 winners and 14 unforced er-
rors, breaking five time in the match lasting less than 90 minutes. She next plays France’s Alzie Cornet, who beat top seed and five-time champion Serena Williams for the second time this season, winning 1-6, 6-3, 6-4 in a stunning upset. Cornet won their previous meeting on clay at Strasbourg last year. “I played well, even though it was straight sets it was a battle,� said Bouchard. “It was tough with the lone rain delay,
but it was the same for both girls “I’m happy I was able to close it out with any serve, being aggressive and taking the ball early. During the rain delay I tried to conserve energy — I wanted to give it all on the court. Bouchard said she didn’t actually mind the wait. “Rain is part of the Wimbledon expedience,� she said with a laugh. “We’ve been lucky so far, you have to have some rain at Wimbledon.�
Sources say Raptors send Salmons to Hawks WOULD GET BACK LUCAS NOGUEIRA AND LOU WILLIAMS The Atlanta Hawks are putting themselves in position to be very active when the free-agent market opens Tuesday. Just over 24 hours before the free-agent frenzy was set to begin, the Hawks agreed to a trade with the Toronto Raptors that will help them open up more than $15 million in salary cap room, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press on Sunday night. The person requested anonymity because the deal has not been officially announced. The Hawks will get veteran forward John Salmons, who has a $1 million buyout of his $7 million salary that will create even more financial flexibility in Atlanta. The Raptors will get Brazilian centre Lucas
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Nogueira, the 16th overall pick last year who spent last season in Spain, and veteran guard Lou Williams, a scoring specialist who is under contract for almost $5.5 million next season. Shedding Williams’ salary helps Hawks GM Danny Ferry enter free agency with plenty of money to spend. There are some big names available on the market, including LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony. But it remains to be seen if Ferry wants to try to make a big splash by attempting to lure one of the marquee names, or if that is realistic. The Hawks have made the playoffs for seven straight years but have been eliminated in the first round in each of the last three. Now Ferry and coach Mike Budenholzer, who brought San Antonio’s ballmoving system with him from the Spurs last season, have the room to make significant upgrades to the
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roster after drafting Michigan State forward Adreian Payne with the 15th pick on Thursday. Raptors GM Masai Ujiri used Salmons’ attractive contract to bring in Williams, a natural scorer off the bench who will add some punch to the team’s second unit. He will be two seasons removed from a torn ACL, which could help him resume his form as one of the league’s best sixth men. But the real intrigue surrounds Nogueira, a defensive-minded 7-footer who had some knee issues last season. He has one year left on his Spanish contract. The move comes three days after Ujiri made one of the most surprising picks in the draft, selecting Brazilian forward Bruno Caboclo with the 20th overall pick. The Raptors like the long-term potential of the two Brazilians on a team that won the Atlantic Division last season.
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Keselowski dominates in 2nd Sprint Cup win NASCAR BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPARTA, Ky. — Brad Keselowski won’t soon forget an eventful Saturday night in which the same right hand that held the winner’s trophy was soon bloodied and bandaged after he broke a champagne bottle celebrating. “We were playing around with some champagne and I told my good friend I should have stuck with beer,” Keselowski joked after receiving four stitches in the infield care centre. “We had too much fun with champagne and one of the bottles broke and I cut my hand open. It’s no big deal.” He’ll certainly remember the masterful performance that set those wild series of events in motion. Keselowski showed early and often that his No. 2 Ford was the best car at Kentucky Speedway, dominating the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race to become the track’s first repeat winner. The Penske Racing driver and 2012 race winner and Cup champion followed his recordbreaking pole effort to lead 199 of 267 laps en route to his second victory of the season and 12th of his career. Keselowski won from the pole for the first time, pulling away after rallying from sixth on a restart to chase down and pass leader Kyle Busch on Lap 248. “I knew it was going to be a dogfight to get back to Kyle and then race him,” Keselowski said. “We got there with a really fast car and I hit the
perfect run on him with traffic. Next thing I knew, we were there. It feels really good to get that second win.” Busch was second, followed by Ryan Newman, Matt Kenseth and Dale Earnhardt Jr., who rallied from a 29thplace start. A night after dominating the Nationwide Series race before finishing second to Kevin Harvick, partly because of a pitroad speeding penalty, Keselowski saved his heavy foot for the bumpy, rough track. The 2012 Cup champion went on to win by 1.014 seconds and post his ninth top-10 this season in moving one spot to fourth in the standings. Teammate Joey Logano started second and led 37 laps before a dropped cylinder left him ninth. Busch led 31 in a race that featured 12 lead changes — all but one featuring Penske drivers. “I felt like we were better than (Newman), but nowhere near as good as (Keselowski) or (Logano),” Busch said. “Those guys were really stout.” Keselowski, also the winner in Las Vegas, became the first driver this season with multiple victories on 1.5-mile tracks that make up much of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The circuit won’t see another such track until late August at Atlanta, and Keselowski made a case for being a favourite with arguably the most impressive run of his career. It followed his track-record qualifying speed of 188.791 mph and 138 laps led in the Nationwide race, which also
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Joey Logano (22) gets a nose in front of Brad Keselowski (2) on the final restart of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race Saturday, June 28, 2014, at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta, Ky. In the background is Kyle Busch. Keselowski won the race. featured a furious late run before settling for second to Harvick, who was seventh in the 400-mile race. This time he had enough laps to pass Busch. But the tone was set from the start, as Keselowski and Logano justified their frontrow qualifying sweep with a vengeance. Keselowski wasted no time with that agenda, taking charge at the green flag and leading the first 78 laps before Logano took over for five laps. The two traded leads from there with nobody else to challenge them until Aric Almirola’s wreck brought the sixth caution on Lap 213.
That sent the leaders down pit road and scramble off produced the race’s first non-Penske leader in Busch, whose No. 18 took over on Lap 217 and led the restart with Newman second. The Penske duo needed just seven laps to draw a bead on both drivers and Keselowski was soon second and making a furious effort trying to chase down Busch, who had a 2-second lead at one point. Once Keselowski caught him in the backstretch, he again showed his Ford’s superiority. “Our car was awesome,” said Keselowski, who has led a series-high 346 laps in four starts at Kentucky.
Earnhardt, Jimmie Johnson and Tony Stewart meanwhile overcame bad starting spots to finish in the top 11. Johnson was 10th after starting 25th and Stewart recovered from a 42nd-place start because of a transmission change for 11th. He had qualified 13th. “I would have liked to have been a little better than what we were there at the end,” Stewart said, “but I think we definitely had to fight our way up through the day. .. All in all I thought we had a pretty honest day there; can’t complain about that.” Points leader Jeff Gordon finished sixth and leads Johnson and Earnhardt by 24.
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NBA free agents weigh building a team or a bank account with negotiations about to tip off BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Phil Jackson sought to clear something up: Suggesting Carmelo Anthony take less than a maximum salary wasn’t his idea. It was Anthony, Jackson noted, who first brought up leaving money on the table to help build a winning team. Now it’s about time to see if the AllStar forward will — and if it would be in New York. Free agency opens Tuesday, and it’s no longer just a means for players to make their situations better. That might be Anthony’s goal, but for players such as LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki, improving their teams might be the biggest benefit. The maximum contract was long one of the true validations of players. But even the very best realize now that if a teammate also makes the max, a team risks having half the salary cap tied up in two players. “I think it puts limitations on a team,” said Jackson, the Knicks president. “What happens is then you end up having two or three players that have big contracts and everybody else is either your veteran minimums or young players that are coming in, or you just don’t have that middle ground of a player that’s a veteran, comfortable, leadership-quality people. I think that Miami explored it and I think they got the most out of it. I’m wondering
what direction it’s going to go now.” James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh accepted a little less than max salaries in 2010, allowing Miami to sign all three and afford help around them. Doing so again now could allow the Heat to replenish their roster, which would have been nearly impossible if they had decided to keep playing under their existing contracts. Nowitzki seems committed to staying in Dallas and giving the Mavericks a discount to afford complementary pieces. The best example of seeking depth over dollars may be Tim Duncan on the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs. He could be paid less than half what Anthony will make next season. “This whole thing of him opting in for $10 million and we’re talking about other players having to settle for mid20s, it’s sort of laughable that Duncan is not getting what he should be getting, for all that he means to that franchise,” said ESPN analyst and former NBA general manager Tom Penn. “But he’s given back. The others have followed his lead.” Some players only get one chance to cash the big check, so it may be hard for Toronto’s Kyle Lowry, Indiana’s Lance Stephenson or Brooklyn’s Shaun Livingston to think of team over self coming off their best NBA seasons. Anthony may be fine leaving money behind. But offered something too low, and perhaps he’d leave the Knicks instead.
With the NBA’s salary cap expected to be somewhere around $63.2 million for next season, the Heat will have tons of spending power — though much of that, they hope, will go right back to keeping James, Wade and Bosh together. The luxury tax threshold should be around $77 million next season, and perhaps up to $81 million for the following year. Reserve guard Norris Cole has a guaranteed contract for just over $2 million for next season, and little-used centre Justin Hamilton has a partially guaranteed deal that could wind up being worth $816,000. Everyone else from the team that lost to San Antonio in five games in this season’s finals either will be a free agent, or in Shane Battier’s case, has retired. Among other key Heat free agents: Ray Allen has indicated he would think about returning, point guard Mario Chalmers is expected to listen to other teams but said late in the season that he enjoys Miami, and forward Chris Andersen said he’s prepared to play the waiting game. Andersen said last week that he expects to hear what James, Wade and Bosh will do before Miami makes any decisions regarding the filling out of the roster. “You know how it goes, man,” Andersen said. “Big money goes first.”
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MIAMI — LeBron James went first. Dwyane Wade followed a few days later. And now Chris Bosh has made it a clean sweep. The Big 3, for now anyway, are free. And Pat Riley will soon have the chance to make the Miami Heat even better. Bosh told the Heat on Sunday that he, like James and Wade, will be exercising the early termination option in his contract and forgoing the final two years on his Miami deal — making him a free agent. The move was not unexpected, and gives the Heat a gigantic amount of financial flexibility to shop with when the freeagent window officially opens at midnight Tuesday. Bosh’s decision was the last domino that the Heat needed to fall in order to free up the biggest amount of money possible heading into free agency. “Chris is one of the most versatile and dynamic big men in this league, and he has been an instrumental key to our championship success over the last four seasons,” Riley, the Heat president, said in a statement released by the team. “We look forward to meeting with Chris and his agent in the coming days to discuss keeping him in Miami for many years to come.” Riley expressed similar
sentiments when James opted out Tuesday and Wade exercised his option Saturday. “I like it here,” Bosh, who averaged 16.2 points this past season, told The Associated Press this month. “It’s Miami. Enough said. People are dying to get here.” Like James, Bosh could have made $20,590,000 this coming season, and $22,112,500 in the 2015-16 season. Wade was due to make slightly less in each of those years, but between those three and Udonis Haslem — who did not exercise a player option to make $4.6 million next season — that’s about $66 million in salary that Miami could have been locked in to paying if these decisions went another way. Instead, the thinking seems to be that in order for the Heat to get better, players knew they needed to give Riley room to work. “Being able to have flexibility as a professional, anyone, that’s what we all would like,” James said earlier this off-season, shortly after the finals. All three will be free to sign elsewhere, but there’s no indication yet that they’ll even look at other clubs — and if they agree to new deals with the Heat, the team would almost certainly have more than enough financial freedom to upgrade a team that has been to the NBA Finals in each of the last four seasons, winning two championships.
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EAST 40TH PUB SPECIALS Meatball Monday Rib Night Tuesday & Saturday’s Wing Night Wednesday Shrimp Night Thursday
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WANTED: Contents of navy canvas Michael Kors bag stolen from parked vehicle. On evening of June 21/22 our car was parked in the west parking lot of Days Inn (Red Deer). Someone stole dance bag which contained about 6 pairs of dance shoes including ballet pointe shoes and several medals from dance competitions. Please contact us at 403-246-8364
PENTAGON FARM CENTRE in Lacombe is looking for a full time permanent ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ADMINISTRATOR. Must have 5 years experience in Accounts Payable. Please e mail your resume along with a cover letter to: hr@pentagonfarm.com
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F/T E-Commerce /graphic design position person wanted to join our growing dynamic team in Red Deer. Benefits and competitive wages. Send resume with portfolio and salary expectation to careers@buyairsoft.ca You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!
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PALM READINGS PARTY includes coffee grounds readings + native spiritual cards. Sale on this week only! 403-309-4640
McLUHAN Dr. William John Dr. William John McLuhan passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at the age of 86 years. John will be lovingly remembered by his son Bruce; his daughters, Jean (Ron Zegil), Jo-Anne (Kevin Baldwin) and Sandy (Guy); his grandchildren, Graham (Raelyn), Neal and Amy; sister-in-law Anne Watts; brother-in-law Jim Hunter; and his nieces and nephews. John was predeceased by his wife of 60 years, Betsy, in 2012, his parents and siblings. The only son of Llewellyn and Blanche, John was born in Edmonton and grew up in the family home overlooking the North Saskatchewan River. John had an idyllic childhood with his sisters Margie and Betty playing along the river valley and at “The Point” with their springer spaniel, cousins and friends. His father, a WWI vet, passed onto John the family passions for hunting game birds and auto mechanics, which John shared with his son Bruce for almost 50 years. His mother schooled him in the fine art of gardening, which John taught to his daughter Jo-Anne. John attended the University of Alberta and earned a BSc (Honours BioChem) and was working as a lab technician when he was encouraged to pursue medicine by a mentor. During this time, he met Betsy Hunter through his sister and they married in 1952 following Betsy’s nursing graduation. John then entered medical school at the University of Alberta and graduated with his M.D. in 1957. Hard work was John’s mantra (“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”) and he worked odd jobs throughout his youth and during his 12 years of postsecondary study as a lab technician, lab instructor and Army Officer reservist. John and Betsy moved to Red Deer in 1959, where John joined the Associate Clinic as a partner and worked as a family physician and anesthetist until his retirement in 1993. He loved his family practice and the operating room, delivered many babies and enjoyed the time he spent as the team physician for the Red Deer Rustlers. The family would like to thank Dr. McIntyre and his associates at the Associate Medical Group for their care and support through the years as well as the nursing staff on Unit 22 for their compassionate care. Friends and family are invited to celebrate John’s life at a Memorial Service and reception at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, 202, 5913-50 Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4C4 or to the Red Deer Regional Health Foundation, 3942-50A Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4N 4E7 or the charity of one’s choice. Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com. Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer. Phone (403) 347-2222
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We are looking to welcome a Dental Receptionist to join our growing team. F/T Position. Our office dynamic is positive & professional, our excellence in patient care & outstanding customer service are paramount. We offer continuing education, desirable hours, Found and an excellent wage & benefit package. FOUND at our home for the Previous dental office exp. last 3 or 4 days, a small preferred, but we are cat or kitten, in the On willing to train the right Erickson Drive, Red Deer. candidate who has Please call to identify: initiative and excels in 403-347-0912 communication, organization, and business skills. TENTS, (several) found at Please send current Lindsay Thurber/Legion resume with cover letter Track, late Tuesday c/o Leah, to Dr. Caroline evening. Call to identify Krivuzoff-Sanderson, & claim **OWNER FOUND** Red Deer by email: dr.caroline@shawbiz.ca
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F/T live-in child caregiver for an infant & 4 yr old, in Red Deer. $10.19/hr., 40hrs/wk, less room and board. email Rommel at lemmor_0606@yahoo.com LIVE-IN Female Caregiver for lady with MS. Must be 50 or over & reliable. Call 403-340-1498 LOOKING for an experienced nanny that could help with my 2 children and 1 on the way at our acreage east of Red Deer. Monday to Friday 8 -1pm. Driver’s license and vehicle salary is negotiable P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle. 403-505-7846
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BUSY CHRYSLER DEALERSHIP REQUIRES EXPERIENCED
Warranty Administrator Reply to Box 1091, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9
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RED DEER EYECARE CENTRE is currently looking to fill the following position. Having a good work ethic and a being a quick learner is a must: OPTICAL LAB ASSISTANT Our full service optical lab has an opening for half-3/4 time position. Knowledge of optics and computers is a definite asset but are willing to train the right individual. Must be able to work a flexible schedule including days, Wednesday evenings, and Saturdays 9-2 pm. (No Saturdays during the summer months.) Closing date: July 4, 2014. Fax your resume and cover letter to: 403-343-9440 Or email to: reddeereyecare@hotmail.com
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Absolute Fusion Contracting is a welding, fabrication, maintenance and repair facility requiring a supervisor/instructor. Knowledge and experience PROVIDENCE in fabrication with Trucking Inc engineered drawings or designing from instruction. Is now hiring experienced Strong mechanical ability Picker Operator for repair and maintenance. Swamper Must be able to organize All candidates must be and instruct up to 10 employees. able to pass a pre-employ- Comprehensive Benefit plan. ment drug screen. We Wages are negotiable with offer exceptional wages experience and attitude. and benefits for exceptional Please forward resumes people. Fax resume and and references by fax to abstract to 403-314-2340 403-309-7134 or by email or email to safety@ to info@absolutefusion.ca providencetrucking.ca No Phone Calls Please!
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REQUIRES EXPERIENCED EVENING COOK. Please apply in person to 3811 40th Ave.
HERITAGE LANES BOWLING Red Deer’s most modern 5 pin bowling center req’s permanent F/T front counter staff for all shifts (days, eves. and wknds). Please send resume to: htglanes@ telus.net or apply in person
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WELLHEAD ISOLATION SERVICE TECHNICIANS AND TRAINEES
req`s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program. Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 or email: info@ramadareddeer.com
ISOLATION Equipment Services Inc., an expanding Oil Service & Supply Company is seeking quality
Service Technicians and Trainees. Previous experience with service rigs, fracturing, or similar industry experience with oilfield tickets is an asset. Class 1 or 3 driver’s License applicants will get primacy. (Drivers with Class 5 & 5Q will be considered if Applicant has relevant oilfield experience) A current driver’s abstract required. Off-road driving experience is an asset.
BENEFITS * Excellent monthly guarantee * Excellent job bonus * Northern Allowance Program * Excellent Benefit Plan and Travel Expenses * Retirement Plan * Lucrative Quarterly Safety Bonus Program * Christmas Bonus
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Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop off at 239 Clearview Drive, Red Deer County ATTN: Lori Enzie
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Maintenance Foreman Responsible for: * Day to day maintenance of oilfield fleet * Monthly maintenance records * Parts inventory * Shop safety Skills and experience needed: * HD Mechanic with fleet experience * Hydraulic and winch expertise * Strong organizational skills We offer exceptional wages and benefits for exceptional people. Fax resume to 403-314-2340 or email to safety@ providencetrucking.ca Tar-ific Construction is currently seeking a truck driver with Class 1 or 3 licence. Excellent benefit package, home every night. Fax 403-340-1246 or email tarific@ telusplanet.net.
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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. Application Closing Date: June 30, 2014. Applicants should include a resume and apply in writing to:
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GAS PRO COMPRESSION, located in Three Hills, AB, is a manufacturing & fabrication shop, which produces & services single well gas compressor packages ranging from 10 to 80HP. Currently we are looking to fill the following positions: MILLWRIGHT, ELECTRICIAN MECHANIC Successful candidate must EXP. PAVERS WANTED possess strong work ethics. Call 403-341-6900 Experience with natural gas or Fax: 877-787-1605 compression is an asset but EXPERIENCED not essential. Preference TRIUMPH Well Service is will be given to those with now accepting applications EXCAVATOR OPERATOR for local commercial trade certification and/or for all positions. construction company. experience. Please fax Experience req’d. Tickets Please fax resume with resumes to 403-443-5288, and drivers license current drivers abstract to apply in person at required. Top wages and 403-342-6881 227, 17th Ave N., benefits with contracted Three Hills, AB, or email to work. email hr@ NOW HIRING in Red Deer Peter.Pattison@gaspro.ca. triumphwellservice.com Req’d immed. LOCAL SERVICE CO. Certified asbestos Looking for a place in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. to live? workers and demo VACUUM TRUCK Take a tour through the laborers. OPERATOR CLASSIFIEDS Wage negotiable. Must have Class 3 licence 780-818-8524 w/air & all oilfield tickets. ZUBAR Production Fax resume w/drivers Ponoka’s Fabrication shop Services abstract to 403-886-4475 is looking for is currently taking resumes CWB Structural for experienced Production Testing hand welders. Personnel No rigs please Email resume to: Please submit resume to rdzubaroffice@telus.net hrombough@ or fax to (403)346-9420. geminicorp.ca or contact NOW HIRING Must have all valid tickets. at 780.997.5215 Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors Restaurant/ & Operators Must have valid applicable Hotel tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com
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OPERATOR required for Ponoka, Sylvan Lake & Rocky Mountain House area. Must have min. 3 yrs exp. operating gas wells/plunger systems & field compression/dehydration. Contract operators need not apply. E-mail resume’s to: ken.webster@altagas.ca or fax 403-347-0855
MUST HAVE valid H2S and AB/BC First Aid Tickets
IMMED. F/T Administrative Assistant, Req’d for busy Lacombe based Business. This position supports the accounting dept. with general accounting duties, as well as general administrative duties. Familiarity with ACCPAC, Word & Excel an asset. Fax resume to 403-342-7447
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GRATIAE is seeking 5 Retails Sales reps selling skin & body care products in Parkland Mall 4747 67th St. Red Deer, OIL & GAS OPERATOR $12.10/hr + bonus & comm. Bearspaw currently has a F/T - P/T No Exp. Req’d. position in our Stettler field Email resumes: operations for an intermediate gratiaereddeersr@ oil and gas operator. Applicants gmail.com must have experience as a heavy duty mechanic or SOAP Stories is seeking 5 F/T - P/T Beauty Treatjourneyman instrument Barden Oilfield Hauling mechanic and possess ment O/P, selling soap & Ltd. is now hiring Bed Truck and Winch Tractor strong mechanical skills, bath products $14.55/hr. + bonus & comm. Beauty Operators. Experience a be quick learners, motivated cert. req’d. Location must. Fax resumes and 5 and hard working and live yr. CDA to 403 341 3968 or be willing to relocate Parkland Mall - 4747 67th St. Red Deer. email or email: bardentrucking@ within a 20 minute commute premierjobrdbto@ telus.net. No phone calls please. to workplace location. This gmail.com position offers a challenging Classifieds work environment, attractive Your place to SELL benefits with competitive SOAP Stories is seeking 5 Your place to BUY pay and significant room retail sales reps. Selling soap & bath products. $12.10 hr for promotion. + bonus & commission. Please submit resumes F/T & P/T. No exp. req’d. Parkland Mall 4747 67 St. Attn: Human Resources Red Deer. email resume to email:kwolokoff@ **POSITION FILLED** bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 WANTED: CASHIER. Drop off Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 resume to 5211 50 Ave. F/T PLANT FIELD Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3
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MCARTHUR Larry 1938 - 2014 Mr. Larry Richard McArthur passed away with his family by his side, at the Red Deer Hospice on Wednesday, June 25, 2014 at the age of 75 years. Larry was born on December 3, 1938 at Debolt, Alberta. He was a man filled with passion, an enduring zest for life and all the beauty and joy it had to offer. Larry loved the outdoors; he spent his time fishing, golfing and was daring enough to try out new adventures such as Kite Water Skiing. Larry also had a Special ‘Tomato House’ that he tended and was extremely proud of. He was a member of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club for over forty-five years and was a generous and strong supporter of his community. Larry was a true entrepreneur and enjoyed being the owner of the East 40th Pub in Red Deer for twenty-five years. He spent time at his second home in Palm Springs and was known for playing a very “flavorous” Blues Guitar. His warm sense of humor was apparent in his joke telling and carefree spirit. Larry loved his family, his grandchildren and his great grandchildren dearly. They were the pride and joy of his heart. Larry will be deeply missed but lovingly remembered and cherished in the hearts of his family and many lifelong friends. Larry leaves to mourn his wife, Sherry; his children, Bob McArthur, Tari Klein (Vern), Tracy Teron (Daryl) and Darren McArthur (Jan); his eight grandchildren, Courtney (Ryan), Chase, Blair (Cassandra), Taylor (Mickey), Brady, Jesse, Teona and Ty and his two great grandsons, Brayden and Cruz. He will also be sadly missed by the mother of his children, Marilyn McArthur, his step-mother, Mary Ferris, mother-in-law, Peggy Coates; as well as his brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews and a host of dear friends. Larry was predeceased by his mother, Eleanor MacArthur, his father, Webb Ferris, a granddaughter, Teagan Klein and a daughter-in-law, Bonny McArthur. A Service to honor and remember Larry will be held at CrossRoads Church, Corner of 32 Street and Highway 2, Red Deer County, Alberta on Thursday, July 3, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, Memorial Donations in Larry’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice at: www.reddeerhospice.com. Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com. Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer. 403.340.4040.
ELMER KUN Sept. 27, 1926 - July 1, 2010
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SWAMPERS F/T RENTAL STORE needed immediately for a Requires a Front End fast growing waste & Person. Duties include Requires Full Time recycling company. assisting customers, Carpenters Heavy lifting involved answering phones, data & Helpers FALL START (driver’s helper) position. entry, deliveries. Must be Competitive Wages Reliability essential. Own organized, have computer & Benefits. transportation required. knowledge and be • Community Support Fax resumes & ref’s to: Please email resumes to physically fit. Mechanically Worker Program 403-343-1248 or email to: canpak@xplornet.ca inclined and construction admin@shunda.ca knowledge an asset. • GED Preparation TENT SET UP Full-time days. Apply 5929-48 Ave, or e-mail Would you like to take the CREW Truckers/ sales@ GED in your community? Setting up tents, deliveries, Drivers parklandrentals.com maintaining tents, • Red Deer warehouse work. This is CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d • Rocky Mtn. House an outdoor position, rain or for moving equipment. • Rimbey shine. Must be physically Resumes to be dropped off • Caroline fit. 40-50 hour week, at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. • Castor full-time days, weekends, Cres. Red Deer. • Sylvan Lake seasonal - great for • Innisfail students. Valid drivers CLASS 3 DRIVERS • Stettler license required. Apply w/airbrake endorsement • Ponoka 5929-48 Ave, or e-mail needed immed. for waste & sales@ recycling. Email resume Gov’t of Alberta Funding parklandrentals.com with a min. of 2 references may be available. to: canpak@xplornet.ca Residential Waste Advocate Collection Drivers 403-340-1930 DRIVERS for furniture Opportunities moving company, class 5 Needed www.academicexpress.ca required (5 tons), local & BFI Canada is the largest ADVANCED Pedicurist long distance. Competitive non-hazardous solid waste ADULT CARRIERS wanted immediately for wages. Apply in person. company in Canada. As a NEEDED permanent full-time shift 6630 71 St. Bay 7 major competitor in the work, including weekend, For morning delivery Red Deer. 403-347-8841 waste services industry day and evenings. $15/hr BFI Canada is proud to of the 40hrs/week. Must have serve the needs of comADVOCATE Pedicure Certificate from a mercial , industrial and Delivery by 6:30 a.m. school with focus on Mediresidential customers. Pedi Service delivery. Ap6 days/week in: Come join our team we ply by fax to The Foot Loft offer a competitive salary 403.302.3700 or by email and benefits, where you at thefootloft@gmail.com work locally and will be GLENDALE home every night with Looking for a new pet? weekends off to spend Check out Classifieds to time with friends and family. find the purrfect pet. As a BFI team member Call Joanne with a qualified class 3 COMPANY req’s live in 403-314-4308 PIDHERNEY’S driver’s license you will be retired couple to caretake requires experienced for more info involved in a fast paced and maintain our apartDRIVERS environment and daily ment operations. CELEBRATIONS CLASS 1 ,3 & LOWBOY, collection of waste in a Journeyman plumbing exp. FOREMAN, HAPPEN EVERY DAY safe productive manner. an asset. Call Mike for OPERATORS AND IN CLASSIFIEDS You will also perform daily details 403-342-4923 LABOURERS inspections on assigned DISPATCHER REQ’D. company vehicles and be For work in Rocky Knowledge of Red Deer capable of organizing your Mountain House area, and area is essential. assigned route in an as well as out of town Verbal and written efficient manner. As a locations. communication skills are Residential driver you Priority will be given to req’d. Send resume by fax should enjoy being those candidates with to 403-346-0295 outdoors and keeping in experience. shape as work is F/T or P/T Seamstress performed outside in all CLASSIFICATIONS • Top wages and benefits needed for busy alteration weather conditions and shop ASAP. Must have based on experience 1500-1990 involves physical labor. • Possible career advance- sewing exp. Please drop If you are interested please off resume to Gloria’s ment opportunities send email your resume to Alterations in Bower Mall. cs-reddeer@wsii.ca or by Building Valid First Aid and H2S fax (403)340-0894. HELP wanted for roadside Supplies tickets required. sales. Cash paid daily. We offer competitive Must have valid drivers li- SOURCE ADULT VIDEO DOOR, solid core cedar wages, benefits package, cense. 403-588-3263 Dave requires mature P/T help and opportunities for Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift. clad 2’ with frame, possible advancement. 11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: for sauna/cabin. Carpenter appraised, $100. 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 403-227-2976 Please reply by fax 3301-Gaetz Avenue 403-845-5370 or E-mail: hr@pidherneys.com
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STETTLER TRANSIT MIX Drivers wanted for mixer/pumping concrete. 403-742-2134 or email:stettlertransitmix @gmail.com
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SKIRT/JACKET, buckskin, Ladies, Extra small. From South Africa. Mint!. $200. 403-227-2976
LABOURERS & FLAG PERSONS Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489
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Planning for a Successful Career Seminar Job Search and Resume Writing Course First Aid / WHMIS
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$75 JOHN DEERE 4320 Tractor. Approx. 6000 hrs. Front end loader, complete w/8’ snow WII w/9 games $140 blade attachment. Exc. cond. 403-782-3847 Sold farm. $13,500. X BOX w/30 games ALSO John Deere 14’ Disc & Cultivator. 403-350-1007 $160 403-782-3847 or 403-782-3617
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Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the
LADIES RH golf clubs 9 pc. and bag $100 403-342-7107
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2 BDRM. lrg. main level suite adult bldg, free laundry, very clean, quiet, Avail July 1/Aug. 1.$1050/mo., S.D. $650. 403-304-5337
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TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone. Make your travel plans now.
GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111
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WANTED TO BUY, used ladies cruiser bicycle, 2 BDRM. newly reno’d $995; 2 bdrm. bi-level style no frills, for recreation $1095 403-314-0209 purposes only. 403-346-9215 ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park. Travel Mike 403-350-1610 Packages 403-342-4923
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ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in
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Carriers are Needed to Deliver Central Alberta Life afternoons & evenings one day per week
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10 CU. FT. Danby chest freezer $125; Leg Magic exerciser $25 403-346-2070
Stereos TV's, VCRs
Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the
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GARDEN HOSE reel and 50’+ of hose. $25. 403-304-5434
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Carriers are Needed to Deliver Red Deer Express * Flyers * Sunday Life afternoons & evenings 3 days per week
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Mikhail Aleshin, of Russia, drives through Turn 3 during the second IndyCar Grand Prix of Houston auto race Sunday, in Houston. Aleshin finished second.
Pagenaud remains in title race by winning second race of Houston doubleheader BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — Simon Pagenaud, the Frenchman who thought he had a winning car in the first race of the Grand Prix of Houston doubleheader, finally picked up a victory in Sunday’s second race. Trucks The victory, the second of the season for Pagenaud, allowed him to significantly cut into Will Power’s lead in the championship standings. Pagenaud came to Houston down 91 points to Power, but cut it to 59 following his victory. Although he spent all last week 2001 SILVERADO 4x4, 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, training in California to prepare for $6500 obo. 403-304-1013 the heat and humidity in Houston, he felt the effects of temperatures that soared into the 90s after he climbed from his car. “I’m sorry, guys, I might be a little faint,” he said in Victory Lane. “It was really hot. Really hot. There’s exhaus1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel tion from heat. I mean, there is no air tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, under the visor.” runs good. 361,000 km. $4000. 403-343-2058 It was redemption for Pagenaud, 1988 CHEV Sierra, 1/2 ton who started from the pole Saturday very clean. 403-318-3040 but had his race ruined when he first spun, then was collected in Scott Dixon’s crash. He finished 16th in the first Motorhomes race. “I was so disappointed Saturday because we had such a fast car this weekend,” he said.“ The rest of the podium was packed with newcomers as IndyCar celebrated Locally owned and family operated
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PITTSBURGH — Bernhard Langer made a short birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff with Jeff Sluman to win the Senior Players Championship on Sunday. Langer appeared to be in trouble when his second shot on the par-5 Tires, Parts 18th ended up in the rough short of Acces. the green. He hit a brilliant pitch to 5 REBEL alum. tool box feet and made the putt after Sluman’s $100 403-358-5568 birdie attempt rolled just wide. The victory was the 56-year-old Auto Langer’s third of the year and his third Wreckers major title on the Champions Tour. The two-time Masters champion shot RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap an even-par 70 to finish at 15-under 265 Vehicle & Metal Removal. AMVIC APPROVED. at Fox Chapel. We travel. May pay cash Sluman had a bogey-free 65 to for vehicle. 403-396-7519 match Langer, but narrowly missed a birdie putt on the first playoff hole Misc. that would have won it. Automotive Russ Cochran, who trailed by seven FREE removal of scrap shots early in the final round, had a 67 vehicles. Will pay cash for to finish third at 14 under. some. 403-304-7585 Defending champion Kenny Perry tied Langer for the lead heading into the back nine, but faded badly over the closing holes. Perry’s 69 left him 2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner, 110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, fantastic fan $19,900. 403-986-3834
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four rookies on this topsy-turvy weekend. On Saturday, rookie Carlos Huertas got his first victory and led a Colombian sweep of the rain-soaked podium with Juan Pablo Montoya and rookie Carlos Munoz. Sunday, under an oppressive sun, Pagenaud led his rookie teammate Mikhail Aleshin to his first podium and a 1-2 finish for team owner Sam Schmidt. Aleshin, the first Russian driver in IndyCar history, battled a tire problem to make it to the finish. Jack Hawksworth, another rookie, drove from last to third for his first career podium. It capped a breakthrough weekend for the British driver, who finished a career-best sixth Saturday. “It’s been rough this year, we’ve been fast sometimes and just not quite made it happen,” said Hawksworth. “We’ve not quite put it together and today we did.” Power had been headed to a thirdplace finish but failed to finish when a part broke on his car two laps from the finish. Pagenaud, Aleshin and Power had peeled away from the pack, leaving Hawksworth behind for a spirited battle to hold on for fourth-place. Then Power went off course and fell to 11th. Still, he entered the weekend with a 39 point lead in the standings
and that was unchanged. Hoping to close ground on Power this weekend was Team Penske teammate Helio Castroneves, who was ninth Saturday but started from the pole on Sunday looking for a win. Instead, he was chasing Pagenaud from second for the lead early in the race when he drove into Sebastien Bourdais. Castroneves had been setting up his pass of Pagenaud and apparently didn’t see Bourdais when he suddenly tried to cut into the same lane as Bourdais. Castroneves wound up 21st. “I was attacking and trying to pass Pagenaud, and I had no idea (Bourdais) was there,” Castroneves said. “When I am attacking, I can’t have my eyes on the back. It’s absolutely ridiculous why the guy had to put the car over there. It’s the rules of traffic, when a guy hits a guy in the back, it’s his fault. I am upset, yes, because we had a great car and it’s just a shame to have drivers like that who do not use common sense.” The contact broke Bourdais’ front wing while he was running third, caused him to fall through the field, but he rallied to finish fifth, behind Charlie Kimball, despite the damage. It marked consecutive top-five finishes for the first time this season for Bourdais. Huertas, winner Saturday, and Munoz, who finished third, both failed to finish on Sunday.
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two shots out of the playoff. Langer nearly missed out on the playoff himself. He fought a balky putter much of the day only to hole a 35-foot birdie putt on the 17th that lifted him into a tie with Sluman. The normally reserved German pumped his fist in disbelief after the ball dropped into the cup. He parred 18 to match Sluman at 15 under and escaped one more time when Sluman’s birdie attempt on the first playoff hole burned the right edge. Sluman, the 1988 PGA champion, covered his hands in disbelief after the putt stayed out. Langer didn’t let the reprieve go to waste, birdieing the 18th on his third try to earn his first major title on the 50-and-over circuit since the 2010 Senior British Open. It didn’t come easy for a player who started the day with a comfortable three-shot advantage over Perry. The steady play that kept Langer atop the leaderboard for the better part of 54 holes abandoned him early in the round, opening the door for the rest of the field. Langer missed a short par putt at the par-4 fourth, and he turned the 295-yard par-4 seventh into an adventure when his pitch sailed
over the green and his 5-foot comebacker for par popped off the back edge of the cup. Perry, who promised to go into “attack mode” to chase down his good friend, had little trouble tracking Langer down. He pulled even with a birdie at the seventh and did it again at the ninth, when he bounced back from a bogey at the eighth by holing out from a greenside bunker for birdie. A back-nine duel, however, never materialized. Both players started spraying shots — including an ugly double bogey for Langer at the par4 12th — while Sluman quietly went about his business in the group ahead. Sluman slowly reeled in the frontrunners, taking the lead with a birdie on the par-4 14th and adding another at the par-4 16th while Perry and Langer faltered behind him. The streaky Perry, trying to join Arnold Palmer as the only player to win consecutive Senior Players titles, cooled as the pressure mounted. He shot 3-over 38 on the back, failing to make a single birdie down the stretch as the crisp iron game that vaulted him into contention vanished.
Lewis finally gets first LGPA win in home state BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ROGERS, Ark. — Stacy Lewis made a 7-foot birdie putt on the final hole Sunday in the NW Arkansas Championship to finally win an official event in her adopted state. The top-ranked Lewis, the Texan who played at the nearby University of Arkansas, earned an unofficial win in the rain-shortened 2007 tournament as an amateur. On Sunday, she closed with a 6-under 65 for a one-stroke victory. Lewis birdied three of her final holes for her third LPGA Tour victory of the year and 11th overall. She finished at 12-under 201 at Pinnacle Country Club. Lydia Ko, Cristie Kerr and Angela Stanford tied for second. Ko finished with a 65, and Kerr and Stanford shot 67. Second-round leader Michelle Wie
shot a 73 to tie for eighth at 8 under. Kerr had a chance to match Lewis at 12 under with a 30-foot birdie putt on the 18th. However, her putt came up short. Then, after So Yeon Ryu failed to make an eagle on the final hole, Lewis’ win was secured. Ryu ended up fifth at 10 under after a 69. Lewis won the Shoprite Classic this month as well as the North Texas Shootout in May. The two-time major winner has long said, though, how much pressure she felt to win in Arkansas — where she was a four-time All-American in college and is greeted throughout rounds by calls of “Woo Pig Sooie.” She was tied for the lead entering the final round last year before finishing in a tie for fourth, but her final birdie spree finally secured her sought-after win Sunday. Wie began the final round with a two-shot lead after back-to-back 5-un-
der 66s, but she missed short birdie putts on the first two holes and struggled to a 1-over front nine — capped by a three-putt bogey on the ninth. The whirlwind media tour following last week’s win at the U.S. Women’s Open appeared to finally catch up after that with Wie, who followed with bogeys on Nos. 10 and 11 to effectively end her contention. She finished with 35 putts after needing 28 the first round and 29 in the second. With Wie coming back to the field, several players climbed up the leaderboard and into contention on the back nine — with Lewis, Ko, Kerr and Stanford part of a four-way tie atop the leaderboard at one point. Lewis began the tournament 2 over after her first four holes Friday, but she closed by shooting 14 under over her final 68 holes. She took advantage of the opening with Wie’s stumble and vaulted into the solo lead at 11 under with a birdie on the par-4 16th.
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ISIS declares Islamic state AL-QAIDA BREAKAWAY DECLARES ESTABLISHMENT STRADDLING SYRIA AND IRAQ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — The al-Qaida breakaway group that has seized much of northeastern Syria and huge tracts of neighbouring Iraq formally declared the establishment of a new Islamic state on Sunday and demanded allegiance from Muslims worldwide. With brutal efficiency, the Sunni extremist group has carved out a large chunk of territory that has effectively erased the border between Iraq and Syria and laid the foundations of its proto-state. But the declaration, made on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, could trigger a wave of infighting among the Sunni militant factions that formed a loose alliance in the blitz across Iraq and impact the broader international jihadist movement, especially the future of a-Qaida. The spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant declared the group’s chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the leader of the new caliphate, or Islamic state, and called on Muslims everywhere, not just those in areas under the organization’s control, to swear loyalty to al-Baghdadi and support him. “The legality of all emirates, groups, states and organizations becomes null by the expansion of the caliph’s authority and the arrival of its troops to their areas,” said the spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, in an audio statement posted online. “Listen to your caliph and obey him. Support your state, which grows every day.” Al-Adnani loosely defined the Islamic state’s territory as running from northern Syria to the Iraqi province of Diyala — a vast stretch of land straddling the border that is already largely under the Islamic State’s control. He also said that with the establishment of the caliphate, the group was changing its name to just the Islamic State, dropping the mention of Iraq and the Levant. Muslim extremists have long dreamed of recreating the Islamic state, or caliphate, that ruled over the Middle East, much of North Africa and beyond in various forms over the course of Islam’s 1,400-year history. It was unclear what immediate impact the declaration would have on the ground in Syria and Iraq, though experts predicted it could herald infighting among the Sunni militants who have joined forces with the Islamic State in its fight against Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his Shiite-led government. “Now the insurgents in Iraq have no excuse for working with ISIS if they
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In this Saturday, June 28, 2014 photo, Iraqi security forces hold up a flag of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant they captured during an operation to regain control of Dallah Abbas north of Baqouba, the capital of Iraq’s Diyala province, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State, which already controls vast swaths in northern and eastern Syria amid the chaos of that nation’s civil war, aims to erase the borders of the modern Middle East and impose its strict brand of Shariah law. were hoping to share power with ISIS,” said Aymenn al-Tamimi, an analyst who specializes in Islamic militants in Iraq and Syria, using one of several acronyms for the Islamic State. “The prospect of infighting in Iraq is increased for sure.” The greatest impact, however, could be on the broader international jihadist movement, in particular on the future of al-Qaida. Founded by Osama bin Laden, the group that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. has long carried the mantle of the international jihadi cause. But the Islamic State has managed to do in Syria and Iraq what alQaida never has — carve out a large swath of territory in the heart of the Arab world and control it. “This announcement poses a huge threat to al-Qaida and its long-time position of leadership of the international jihadist cause,” said Charles Lister,
a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center, in emailed comments. “Taken globally, the younger generation of the jihadist community is becoming more and more supportive of (the Islamic State), largely out of fealty to its slick and proven capacity for attaining rapid results through brutality.” Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi militant who has a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head, took the reins of the Islamic State in 2010 when it was still an al-Qaida affiliate based in Iraq. Since then, he has transformed what had been an umbrella organization focused mainly on Iraq into a transnational military force. Al-Baghdadi has long been at odds with al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri, and the two had a very public falling out after al-Baghdadi ignored alZawahri’s demands that the Islamic State leave Syria. Fed up with al-Baghdadi and unable to control him, al-
Zawahri formally disavowed the Islamic State in February. But al-Baghdadi’s stature has only grown since then, as the Islamic State’s fighters have strengthened their grip on much of Syria, and now overrun large swathes of Iraq. In Washington, the Obama administration called on the international community to unite in the face of the threat posed by the Sunni extremists. “ISIL’s strategy to develop a caliphate across the region has been clear for some time now. That is why this is a critical moment for the international community to stand together against ISIL and the advances it has made,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. The Islamic State’s declaration comes as the Iraqi government tries to wrest back some of the territory it has lost to the jihadi group and its Sunni militant allies in recent weeks.
Violence continues in Nigeria as leader condemns latest attacks
Ukraine’s president talks with Putin, Merkel, Hollande ahead of deadline on peace plan
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAUCHI, Nigeria — Suspected Islamic extremists sprayed gunfire at worshippers and torched four churches Sunday in a village just miles from the town where more than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped, witnesses said. At least 30 bodies have been recovered but more are turning up in the bushes, where people tried to escape from Kwada village, said a member of a vigilante group that has had some successes in repelling attacks. “They killed dozens of people and burned houses after attacking worshippers,” survivor Mallam Yahi told The Associated Press by telephone from Chibok town, to which he escaped. Some of the church buildings destroyed included the Protestant Church of Christ in Nigeria, the Pentecostal Deeper Life Bible Church and Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa, which is Hausa for Church of the Brethren in Nigeria, Yahi said. The last was started by American missionaries from Illinois in the 1920s. Yahi said the attackers went on to neighbouring Kautikari, where they gunned down villagers and burned down homes. The vigilante said they had not yet reached Kautikari so did not know what the death toll was there. Police spokesman Gideon Jubrin said he could not confirm the attack because bad communications have kept officials from reaching the nearest security post at Chibok, though As-
sociated Press reporters were able to make cellphone calls to the town. Chibok is the town in northeast Borno state from which more than 200 girls were abducted in April. Officials say 219 girls remain captive. Kwada is 10 kilometres (six miles) and Kautikari seven kilometres (four miles) away. Angry Chibok residents said soldiers were slow to respond to news of the attack, and the vigilantes said that once they reached Kwada, the soldiers refused to confront the extremists directly, only shooting at them from a distance outside the village. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the military. Boko Haram extremists attacked a military camp in the neighbouring local government area of Damboa last week and killed at least 51 soldiers. Survivors said they came in armoured personnel carriers mounted with anti-aircraft guns and were armed with rocket launchers and submachine guns much heavier than the soldiers’ AK47 assault rifles. The insurgents abducted many soldiers who remain missing, they said. Boko Haram extremists are demanding the release of detained fighters in return for the kidnapped girls. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has been criticized for the slow reaction to the abductions and failure to swiftly rescue the girls. The United States has drones flying to help locate them and other nations have sent experts to help, but negotiations appear stalled.
Nigeria’s military has said it knows where they are but fears any military campaign could get them killed. Jonathan on Sunday condemned other recent attacks — Friday’s bombing of a hotel that local reports identified as a brothel in Bauchi state, also in the northeast, and sectarian killings of sedentary farmers who are mainly Christian by alleged Fulani Muslim herders in northern Kaduna state. “The president commiserates with all the families who lost loved ones in the heinous attacks and extends his heartfelt sympathies to all those who suffered injuries or lost their properties during the wanton assaults on Bauchi and Kaduna States,” said a statement. He promised the attackers would be brought to book. Jonathan made no mention of the near-daily attacks Boko Haram extremists have been mounting in the area around Chibok, an enclave of mainly Christian people in the majority Muslim north of the country. Bauchi and Kaduna states are governed by Jonathan’s ruling People’s Democratic Party while Borno is held by an opposition governor. A year-long military state of emergency in three northeastern states, all held by political opponents of Jonathan, has failed to curb the 5-year-old Islamic uprising that has killed thousands of people. The militants have increased the tempo and deadliness of attacks this year, with more than 2,000 people estimated killed compared to 3,600 in all four previous years.
Nine people shot in French Quarter violence BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS — Nine people were shot and injured — including two critically — after being caught in the crossfire when a gun battle erupted between two men on touristy Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ celebrated French Quarter, police said. Two people were in critical condition after the early Sunday shooting, said New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas. Six others were hospitalized in stable condition. The remaining vic-
tim’s condition was not available. The victims were shot two blocks from historic Jackson Square and just around the corner from the popular Pat O’Brien’s piano bar. Preservation Hall, a music venue dedicated to preserving New Orleans jazz, is also nearby. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Sunday pledged a swift law-enforcement response. “Our No. 1 priority is to keep New Orleans safe,” Landrieu said in a statement issued through City Hall spokesman Tyler Gamble. “These kinds of in-
cidents will not go unanswered ... I am confident that between video evidence and eyewitness accounts, we will bring the perpetrators to justice.” New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas said at a news conference Sunday in the French Quarter that the victims were shot “by two cowardly young men trying to hurt each other.” “We are going to bring them to justice,” Serpas said. “What happened was two young men got angry at each other and shot at each other.” Not all the victims were from New Orleans, Serpas said.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KIEV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko tried to keep his peace plan to settle the conflict with pro-Russian separatists on track in a four-way phone call Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of France and Germany. The two-hour conversation came ahead of a Monday deadline that European Union leaders set for Russia and the separatists to take steps to ease the violence, warning that otherwise they were ready “at any time” to impose further punitive measures. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande encouraged the Ukrainian and Russian presidents to work on meeting the EU conditions, Hollande’s office said in a statement. The EU’s demands included the return of three border checkpoints to Ukrainian control, verification of the cease-fire by monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and talks to put Poroshenko’s peace plan in place. The call was the latest in a series of discussions the four leaders have held in recent weeks in an effort to stop the fighting that has killed more than 400 people since April. A cease-fire in place since June 20 has been shaky, with each side accusing the other of numerous violations. A statement issued by Poroshenko’s office said he underlined Ukraine’s willingness to maintain the cease-fire at least until Monday evening, but expressed concern about the situation, noting what he said were multiple violations of the truce by separatist fighters. He called on Putin to strengthen border controls from the Russian side to stop what Ukraine says is the flow of weapons, fighters and mercenaries. The sides agreed that more talks among representatives of Ukraine, Russia and the separatists would convene “very soon,” Poroshenko’s office said. A Kremlin statement said the four leaders discussed having OSCE monitors stationed at the border crossing points. They also discussed issues resulting from Ukraine’s signing of a broad trade deal with the EU on Friday despite Russia’s objections.