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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF A proposed $74.6-million Multi-Use Aquatic Centre boasting three pools at the Rotary Recreation Park made a splash with swimmers on Tuesday.

Many applauded the newly released recommendations from an ad hoc committee that was asked to determine the scope of a proposed facility.

Swimmers at the Recreation Centre were not too concerned that downsizing the 50-metre outdoor pool to 25 metres was one recommendation.

“On a hot summer day like (on Monday) it would definitely be something to consider,” said Cathy Sveinson, whose daughter swims with the Red Deer Marlins Swim Club. “There are a lot of days in the summer where it is cold and windy and rainy and this pool sits practically empty.”

On a typical hot day in the summer about 350 swimmers flock to the outdoor pool.

Sveinson said maintaining an outdoor pool is an expensive endeavour in this climate.

Jen Walton, another Marlin swim mom, added that Blackfalds recently opened a beautiful outdoor pool that would fit the bill. She said upgrading the pool infrastructure is long overdue.

Whenever she attends swim meets in a similar sized city, she has pool envy.

Sveinson added that Red Deer has two competitive swim clubs that could benefit from new pool infrastructure that would improve accessibility, bring more swim meets and increase tourism.

“I think a decision needs to be made,” said Sveinson. “If we’re going to be a forward thinking city and looking toward the future, this is a future I think would be good for Red Deer.”

Other recommendations included building a 54-metre (10-lane) pool with two bulkheads, a separate dive tank, multi-purpose rooms, retail and concession space and a moveable floor.

Deb Langvand, 55, a competitive masters swimmer, said the city should have built an indoor 50-metre pool years ago.

“I will be sad if we don’t get to keep the 50-metre outdoor but I totally understand,” said Langvand.

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A Brazilian soccer fan cries as she watches her team during a live telecast of the semifinals World Cup soccer match between Brazil and Germany, in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday. The Germans tore apart Brazil’s porous defence time and time again Tuesday, routing the hosts 7-1 in the World Cup semifinals, the largest margin of defeat at this stage in the history of the tournament. The loss matched Brazil’s most-lopsided defeat ever, and it’s the first time the team has lost in an official competitive match on home soil since 1975. See related story on page B4.

City speeding up plans to tackle erosion in Riverview Park

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF One city neighbourhood is slowly sinking into the Red Deer River.

In any given year, between 150 mm to 650 mm of slope along the riverbank in the Riverview Park residential area disappears into the river.

There is no imminent risk to Heritage Ranch and the 22 homes along the north side of Cronquist Drive. But on Monday the city moved up its plans by two years to protect the riverbank from continued regression.

Elaine Vincent, director of development services, told council that Riverview Park has the unique honour of having a very active slope because of the continuous regression of the toe of the slope based on the river’s course.

Riverview Park was annexed from

the County of Red Deer in 2009 and is currently regulated under county zoning. It has not yet been integrated into the city’s land use bylaw due to risk to homes in the area and the need for detailed study of the slope.

Administration is working on a bylaw amendment to bring the area within the city’s land use bylaws.

Following a 2012 geotechnical report, the city purchased and demolished two homes in 2013 that were revealed to be at immediate risk. The report also suggested using rip rap toe stabilization to mitigate the erosion.

The estimated $6.3 million toe stabilization project was on the 2017 books.

After hearing Monday’s report from administration, council decided that this project was essential to protecting the slope and moved it to the 2015 capital budget subject to a secured funding plan.

Councillors reasoned the work was a long time coming and it needs to be done sooner than later.

Mayor Tara Veer said the timing is right to apply for funding under new provincial flood mitigation programs.

Recently the city was turned down for one funding grant but will actively pursue others.

The first report, however, did not answer where the city should draw development lines. Property owners in the area were temporarily halted from developing or redeveloping on the land while the city pursued funding to stabilize the bank.

Vincent told council that residents raised concerns about the temporary suspension of development at two open houses in July.

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Bertha armyworm moths march on County of Stettler CANOLA PRODUCERS URGED TO CHECK CROPS FOR SIGNS OF INFESTATION

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF

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Bertha armyworm larva on canola.

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An above average concentration of the bertha armyworm moth in the County of Stettler has officials warning producers to check their canola crop before it hurts their bottom-line.

The number of bertha armyworm moths is increasing at a rapid rate at collection sites in canola fields throughout the County of Stettler, and Jay Byer, county assistant director of agricultural services, is concerned

about a damaging outbreak of the pest.

“Even last year when we had a somewhat patchy infestation, we did have some fields that saw 20 to 30 per cent damage,” said Byer. “People need to be aware and go out and start checking their fields on a regular basis to make sure the risk of bertha armyworm moth infestations are low.”

The average collection count at sites near Erskine Monday were at 250 moths per trap, an increase of 400 per cent since the county’s last count.

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Police pursue leads in missing persons case Calgary police say a man taken in for questioning in the missing persons case is not the only lead in their investigation.

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Drug recognition experts give RCMP a weapon in battle against impaired driving

WHALE OF A RESCUE

BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer RCMP are promising more CheckStops and a greater ability to nab drivers under the influence of drugs.

While public campaigns against drunk driving are widespread, and police have tools with which they can determine blood-alcohol content to back up their suspicions, officers speak of a rise in people getting behind the wheel impaired by drugs. And without the benefit of a device like the breathalyzer, proving impairment via drugs has been far more onerous.

But now with four certified drug recognition experts (DREs), the Red Deer force says it will be able to identify more drug impaired drivers and ensure they face more consequences. DREs are specially trained to identify and charge drivers by determining if they are under the influence of illicit or prescription drugs, or a combination of substances.

Red Deer has had certified DREs as part of its force before, but never four at one time. Cpl. Matt LaBelle with the traffic services division came to the city last year as an accredited DRE and he has since trained three other officers.

LaBelle said without having a drug recognition expert available, it can be difficult for an officer performing a CheckStop to charge someone with impaired driving. With DREs on staff, officers can call one in, and the trained officer will perform a variety of tests back at the station focusing on everything from blood pressure and muscle tone to pupil size.

DREs are called in when drivers perform poorly on field sobriety tests and alcohol has been ruled out as a factor. If through the various psycho-physical tests the DRE believes a driver is impaired by one or a combination of seven categories of drugs, the officer can demand a blood, urine or saliva sample.

“We’re looking at the total picture when we conduct our evaluation, we’re not just pinpointing one thing . . . . We know that certain drug categories cause certain things when it comes to the clinical indicators, so we’re able to steer our way into the right category in terms of calling it,” said LaBelle.

Since he himself was certified in 2011, LaBelle said he has done 40 such evaluations and the urine/ blood/saliva samples have always confirmed the presence of the particular drugs he has identified through testing.

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POOL: ‘Time for another pool for younger athletes’ “A 25-metre outdoor is better than nothing. A 50-metre indoor allows so many more options not only for lane swimming but different sports that we cannot offer right now.”

Recreational swimmer Shirley Simpson, 54, started swimming in 1997 after a car accident as part of her rehabilitation therapy. She’s at the pool about six days a week. Simpson agreed that it is time for another pool for younger athletes.

City council accepted the report for information on Monday. No decisions have not been made about building a new facility. Council will consider the recommendations as part of the overall community amenity project in the fall. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

EROSION: Toe stabilization “They were feeling a bit hostage while we tried to pursue funding,” she said. “They really wanted us to understand the impacts if that temporary develop-

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Flood modelling to go ahead for berm

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

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Sundre-area representatives met with three provincial ministers on Monday to iron out any regulatory wrinkles for an anti-flooding berm.

The project was given a big boost earlier this year when the province announced $3.1 million in funding to build a barrier to hold back flood waters during big spring runoffs.

However, a snag emerged when Tourism, Parks and Recreation staff raised concerns about the proposed location for the four-km berm. At issue is that a portion of the berm would fall in an area protected under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. Two ministers are needed to sign off on the project to allow it to go forward, municipal representatives were told.

Mountain View County Reeve Bruce Beattie said local officials met with Tourism, Parks and Recreation Minister Richard Starke, Municipal Affairs ment hold continued.”

Council agreed to a 50-year escarpment overlay and directed administration to pursue toe stabilization to mitigate the slope regression. This will provide an interim level of safety that will provide enough time for a funding strategy to be secured.

Once the funding is secured for the work, the city will remove the 50-year escarpment and permit development based on the new reality.

Councillors raised concerns about the effectiveness of toe stabilization. Vincent said there are examples of the work in Red Deer that have been successful for many years.

First reading of the amended bylaw is expected to come to council on Aug. 18. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

PEST: Traps contain more than average Though the average at their sites is 250 moths, they have some traps with more than 300, one of the few places in Alberta to record such high numbers of the pest.

“That’s our tipping point, that’s when we start getting concerned about the numbers,” said Byer. “It looks like the numbers are rapidly increasing.”

Byer said the bertha armyworm moth tends to go

Minister Greg Weadick and Environment and Sustainable Resource Development Minister Robin Campbell to see whether concerns could be addressed and necessary permits lined up for the project expected to cost around $3.3 million.

The ministers promised to speak with staff about the issues and get back to the county and the Town of Sundre within a couple of weeks.

Giving municipalities some cause for optimism was the province’s encouragement to go ahead with flood modelling work necessary to design and place a berm correctly.

“I think certainly in telling us to go ahead and do the modelling that was an indication they felt they would likely provide those permits,” said Beattie.

One suggestion raised at the meeting was to put a 90-degree bend in the berm to avoid protected areas.

Please see BERM on Page A3 in cycles in their area where they’ll have years with a high presence of predators who feed on the pest.

This will take care of the problem for a few years.

But then as the bertha armyworm moths die off then the predators die off as a result and the cycle continues and the numbers of the bertha armyworm moth starts increasing.

In terms of prevention, Byer recommends good crop rotation and not planting canola on top of canola.

“There is an over-wintering population,” said Byer. “The less back-to-back canola there is, the more likely we are of the moths having to at least travel and fly to the next field.

“Another method of trying to minimize risk is spreading out the seeding date of canola. If they start real early and then have some canola staged in over time the field that is ideally suited for bertha at the time they’re starting to fly might attract them, but the others might not.”

Producers should go out and check their fields over the next week or two and investigate several sites. Take a one-squared metre sample and beat all the plants around to drop all the bertha armyworm moths to the ground.

“They’ll have to determine, with their crop professionals, whether or not the number of berthas they see is more than the cost of spraying and whether it is economical to do some control on them or just bare the brunt of some damage to their crop,” said Byer. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

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Police say there are Albertans to pick new design of licence plate other leads in case BUT NO WILDROSE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Calgary police say a man taken in for questioning in the case of a missing five-year-old boy and his grandparents is not the only lead in their investigation.

But spokesman Kevin Brookwell isn’t willing to discuss what other angles police are pursuing. “There are other investigative leads we are following up on, so he is not the only person of interest that we are looking at,� Brookwell told reporters Tuesday.

Asked to clarify, Brookwell backed away from suggesting there were other persons of interest in the case. “He’s ... a person of interest that we have interviewed, but there are other investigative leads that we are following up on.�

Douglas Garland was taken into custody over the weekend for questioning in the disappearance of Nathan O’Brien and his grandparents, Alvin and Kathy Liknes, who have been missing since June 29.

Court records show Garland, 54, has a criminal past involving drugs and identity theft and Calgary police confirm his sister is in a relationship with a member of the Liknes family. Garland remains in custody on an unrelated charge.

An Amber Alert remains in effect and police are still searching the rural property and surrounding area where Garland lives north of Calgary.

Brookwell said sightings of the three missing people have been reported across the country and police still hope they will be found alive.

He said several items have been seized from the property and sent to the crime lab for testing, along with a green pickup truck matching one seen on closed-circuit video in the Liknes’s

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RCMP: DRE’s help confirm suspicions of front-line officers Local CheckStops from June 28 resulted in four arrests and suspensions for drugged driving and only three for drunk driving. Because urine samples are typically sent to Vancouver for analysis, charges are still pending for the two drivers arrested for drug impairment on that day. Two other drivers were handed 24-hour suspensions based on the results of field sobriety tests.

In 2008, the federal government passed a law that allows police to compel a blood or urine test where drug impaired driving is suspected, similar to how suspected drunk drivers must accept a breathalyzer test or face charges. The penalties for driving impaired via alcohol and drugs are the same.

But while drunk driving charges relate to blood alcohol concentrations such as 0.05 or 0.08, drug charges are not based on concentrations. Because of that, some critics have noted that there is still room for subjectivity in determining drug impairment, making

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neighbourhood the night they disappeared.

Nathan had been at his grandparents’ on a sleepover the night of June 29 after the couple held a sale at their Calgary home on the weekend. They were selling their things as they prepared for a move to Edmonton and then on to Mexico.

When his mother went to pick Nathan up the next morning, no one was home. Police have said there was evidence of a violent incident in the house. They have not disclosed a motive.

Yellow police tape remained in place at the home in Calgary’s Parkhill neighbourhood Tuesday afternoon.

A lone police officer sat in his car out front. Residents of the neighbourhood just south of downtown are planning a candlelight vigil for Thursday evening.

Officers have spent a lot of time trolling a large pond and grassy fields near the Garland property north of the city.

Court records say Garland served time in prison for making amphetamines at his parents’ farm.

A federal tax court ruling from 2005 shows Garland went to medical school for a year but left after having a mental breakdown.

The document says after Mounties raided his parents’ property in 1992, he was released on bail and fled to Vancouver, where it says he assumed the name of a dead person named Matthew Kemper Hartley.

A cemetery website lists a 14-yearold boy with the same name who was buried in southern Alberta in 1980.

Justice officials say Garland pleaded guilty to two counts of drug trafficking and was sentenced to 39 months.

He received an additional one month for possession of stolen property. the process susceptible to abuse.

In 2013 Postmedia News reported on an internal RCMP document obtained through an access-to-information request that spoke of the difficulty of getting expert witnesses to testify in support of police methods and the varying support from Crown prosecutors across Canada to pursue cases.

In 2012, advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving Canada called for the drug recognition expert program to be abandoned, to be replaced by random roadside drug screenings.

It called the DRE program cumbersome and expensive.

LaBelle said with police noticing more people driving while affected by illegal or prescription drugs, occasionally mixed with alcohol, officers with special training help to confirm the suspicions of front-line officers. He said drug recognition experts can determine impairments caused by specific drugs and blood or urine tests most of the time merely confirm the presence of the intoxicating substances. “It comes down to the nuts and bolts of these psycho-physical tests. We look at it and we can see how they process information, we can see how they process the directions on how to properly conduct the test and then we see them conduct the test and see if they can do that correctly or not,� he said.

LaBelle said the four Red Deer DREs will also be available to help other area detachments if called upon. mfish@reddeeradvocate.com

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Albertans are going to choose the province’s new licence plate.

The province has an online survey that gives residents three designs to choose from. The survey will run from July 8 to August 19 and the design that receives the most votes will be the new plate.

Doug Griffiths, minister of Service Alberta, says the current licence plate is more than 30 years old and lack features to make roads safer.

The new design, which will be available in spring 2015, will have a reflective coating that makes the plate easier to see under low light conditions and easier for infrared equipment to read.

The designs also do not include the slogan “Wildrose Country� that is cur-

Accused in pursuit case granted bail A former Saskatchewan man arrested in connection with a wild pursuit near Red Deer was granted bail on Tuesday, including a cash deposit of $5,000.

Zachary Finch, 21, is facing numerous charges amidst allegations that he took off at a high rate of speed after being pulled over by a police officer on patrol on Hwy 2 at the Aspelund Road overpass, near Blackfalds.

Police allege that a suspicious pickup truck had been stopped at about 1 a.m. on May 11 as it was heading off the overpass to go south on Hwy 2.

A news release issued by the Blackfalds RCMP alleges that the truck sped off with its driver making a variety of attempts to avoid capture, including crossing the median and heading north

BERM: Want to be ready for next spring “But we don’t think that would work. It would change the whole aspect of the berm,� he said. “We would have to reconsider the whole project if that is the case.�

Beattie said this year’s most risky flood period has passed without any

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in the southbound lanes at one point as well as smashing into two different police cruisers. A helicopter was called into assist in the pursuit, which ended when the truck became mired in a swamp at the end of a dirt road west of Lacombe.

Represented by defence counsel Kevin Sproule, Finch is facing numerous traffic tickets and criminal charges as a result of the pursuit as well as an impaired driving charge laid in Rocky Mountain House on April 19.

Now living near Rocky, his release conditions include a curfew and an order that he abstain from alcohol and recreational drugs.

Finch returns to court on July 17 to enter his plea. serious problems.

They want to be ready for next spring and hope to begin construction on the berm in the fall.

Tourism, Parks and Recreation spokesman Tim Chamberlin said the ministers are “committed to looking for a best solution to preserve lands and resolve the issue of future flooding. “The issues raised by the provincial government are part of due diligence for a project of this scope and they don’t foresee anything that is insurmountable.� pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Opposition Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith says clearly the move is political. “So (I’m) very supportive of them finally, after years and years, moving on what the police forces have been telling them for a long time, that we need the reflective coating, but then removing our slogan is quite clear that they’re doing that for blatantly political reasons.�

Griffiths said that’s not the case at all. “A lot of jurisdictions around North America are moving to a website at the bottom so that they can advertise their jurisdictions — California, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, it goes on and on.�

Annual vehicle registration will cost five dollars more to help cover the costs of production and implementation.

The province says even with the increase, Alberta’s registration fees will still be about 11 per cent lower than the national average.

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A4 PM vs. the courts may get ugly

For the federal Conservatives, the temptation to campaign against the courts in next year’s federal election must be overwhelming.

This is a government determined to bring its brand of law and order to this country, whether it is cracking down on bogus refugee claimants, giving police more surveillance powers, bringing in mandatory TIM sentencing, endHARPER ing early parole or always going the extra mile to bring down the hammer in the name of victims’ rights.

In most cases, that agenda has crashed on the rocks of judicial challenges.

But it is hard to imagine that many of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s initiatives, no matter how mean-spirited they may appear, do not appeal to at least a Conservative core, and perhaps more than just that zealously guarded core.

Such a campaign, of course, would hearken back to the Conservatives’ Reform ancestry, a time when then-opposition MPs would often rail against unelected judges, but it would now have to be a campaign against those

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who have largely been appointed by Harper.

Such a campaign would also do nothing to further Harper’s agenda.

Still, two Conservative clarion calls over the weekend seem to show the outlines of such a campaign.

When Federal Court Justice Anne Mactavish slapped down Conservative reforms to refugee health care on Friday in decidedly blunt language, Immigration Minister Chris Alexander responded in kind with his case for the reforms.

In Alexander’s view, the reforms, which the government has loosely couched as a matter of law and order for refugee applicants, have saved taxpayers $600 million so far (a claim that was not accepted by Mactavish) and are projected to save taxpayers $1 billion over the first five years of the 2012 initiative.

Refugee claims from countries that were the major sources of unfounded or bogus applications had come down 87 per cent last year, Alexander said.

Mactavish (a Liberal appointee) called the reforms “cruel and unusual,” saying they breached refugees’ Charter rights, and that Conservatives endangered the lives of innocent and vulnerable children “in a manner that shocks the conscience and outrages our standards of decency.”

So there is the choice Conservatives seem comfortable in offering - a meanspirited government that purports to save money on the backs of vulnerable refugees, or a clear-headed govern-

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ment that has put order back into a system rife with abuse and saves money for hard-working taxpayers.

Saturday night, in the friendly confines of Calgary during Stampede week, Harper launched an aggressive pitch for his government’s “safe streets” agenda.

“If, God forbid, Canadians are attacked, or robbed, if they lose someone they love to a murderer, or if they see their children driven to suicide by bullying and harassment ... the first thing they want their government to do is not make excuses for criminals, but to stick up for victims,” Harper said.

He fired away at Justin Trudeau, claiming the Liberal leader would “restore that key liberal principle of criminal justice, that the offender must be considered innocent even after being proved guilty.’’

But, pre-election embellishments aside, Harper could have been talking about Canadian courts, not the Liberal party.

The Conservative list of court defeats began shortly after its 2011 majority victory when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled against its move to close Vancouver’s Insite supervised injection drug clinic.

On matters of law and order, the top court has ruled Internet service providers cannot provide information without a warrant, that judges have the discretion to count time in custody before sentencing, and that the government’s mandatory gun sentencing law breached Charter rights, as did

retroactive rules that denied offenders accelerated parole As well, Alexander’s new citizenship law will face a court challenge, and the government is appealing another court ruling that overturned its bid to continue to limit voting rights for Canadian expatriates.

Beginning Monday, MPs will spend three days studying a prostitution bill made necessary by the Supreme Court rejection of existing laws.

This is all apart from the court rulings on Senate reform and the appointment of Marc Nadon to the Supreme Court, as well as the unseemly spat Harper began with Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.

A governing party stymied time and again by the courts may be tempted to run against the men and women in robes.

More court fights may energize its base.

It would, however, be better advised to pull in its claws and listen to the country’s real opposition, its high courts.

If it doesn’t, then an opposition party seeking power could do worse than to campaign on Charter rights in this country, rights the courts say time and again have been breached by this government.

Tim Harper is a national affairs writer.

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Charities punished by Ottawa’s new anti-spam law

BY DEREK JAMES FROM ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES CALGARY, AB/ Troy Media/ - Canada’s anti-spam law came into force on July 1st, 2014. Everyone calls it “CASL” since its real name is an unwieldy 52 words long.

Proponents have touted CASL as a giant leap for economic efficiency in ecommerce by making spam illegal. And CASL does list the promotion of “efficiency” as its purpose. But contrary to the good results this efficiency may bring, CASL could have a decimating effect on charities. Here’s how.

Of all the prohibitions in CASL, the one most significant for charities is the prohibition on sending a so-called “commercial electronic message” (CEM) without the prior consent of the recipient. This includes all messages sent by text, sound, voice, or image to an email address, telephone account, and even instant messaging account.

This is supposed to prevent spam.

Effectively, what it does is make all non-personal electronic messages illegal, unless you can find an exemption somewhere in the CASL or its regulations. This is the inverse of what sen-

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sible legislation does. Sensible laws target bad behaviour, not render all behaviours bad until proven good. Also, a single email sent to a single recipient can run afoul of the law because there is nothing in CASL saying that spam must have multiple recipients, multiple iterations, or the like.

The consequences of this prohibition will be particularly burdensome for charities. CASL contains no definition of “commercial”, instead defining a “commercial activity” as deeds performed with or without the expectation of profit - even though a dictionary will confirm that “commercial” is inherently tied to the expectation of profit. And as a result, we are left to ferret out for ourselves CASL’s idiosyncratic use of “commercial”.

This is an enormous source of confusion. Had CASL relied on the dictionary definition, charities could rest assured it does not apply to them since they are non-commercial by nature.

And that would be a perfectly reasonable conclusion since CASL contains no definition of “commercial”. In fact, many charitable organizations have continued operations as normal unaware that CASL has hung over them the sword of Damocles.

Simply put, CASL does apply to charities. During the government’s public consultations about CASL, some members of the charitable sector argued that compliance would be too onerous for small charities with limited resources.

It complicates fundraising. It restricts how volunteers are contacted. It makes volunteer board member training more complex.

The government responded by including a fundraising exemption specifically for charities. As a result, when the primary purpose of a CEM is fundraising, a registered charity may send it without the prior consent of recipients. Note that since charities have been granted a limited exemption, the intention must be for the rest of CASL to apply to charities.

As it stands, the only other times that CASL permits charities to send CEMs is when recipients have previously provided explicit consent or have implicitly consented by volunteering or donating within the last two years.

All other CEMs are illegal, unless another of CASL’s convoluted exemptions applies.

As someone who works in the charitable sector, I know that this will

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change the way that our work is done for the worse. Many of the electronic messages relied upon by charities will suddenly become illegal. Plus, with the possibility of a $10 million administrative monetary penalty for failure to comply, CASL will have a chilling effect on how charities contact the interested public by electronic means.

Effectively, CASL interferes with the institutional property of charities by making it illegal for them to contact people on their own email distribution lists. This is devastating since these lists are often the result of years of labour and form a large part of the value of an organization.

Why has the government done this?

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What is most frustrating about this is that all the government needed to do was include a short provision exempting charities. It was just that simple.

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Cash to help prostitutes leave sex industry called inadequate

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A diverse chorus of aboriginal women, police leaders and former prostitutes took turns Tuesday denouncing as insufficient the Harper government’s five-year, $20-million pledge to help sex workers leave the industry.

The steady barrage of criticism came on the second day of rare summer hearings by the House of Commons justice committee as it examines Bill C-36, the government’s proposed new prostitution bill.

The offer of funding fits the so-called “Nordic model” that several Scandinavian countries have adopted to fight prostitution, and which the Harper government’s proposed legislation appears designed to emulate.

In addition to making it illegal to be a client or a pimp, the Conservative government approach calls for social spending to help exploited women get out of the sex industry.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay has said the government hopes the funding, along with the new bill — which targets demand for sexual services by criminalizing pimps and johns — will foster an end to prostitution entirely.

But throughout the day Tuesday, a parade of witnesses dismissed the level of funding as falling well

far short of the mark.

“From our perspective, $20 million is peanuts,” said Michele Audette, president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada.

“We are very, very far behind for aboriginals, especially for aboriginal women. So it’s going to be very difficult to divide up this pie.”

for a national strategy in which Ottawa, the provinces, municipalities and social agencies would work towards abolishing prostitution.

Hanson described the $20-million pledge, which he said amounts to $125,000 a year in Calgary, as “woefully inadequate.”

After his testimony, Hanson said he hasn’t directly approached the Harper government — or the city’s best-known MP, the prime minister himself — about increasing their funding commitment.

But he said the underlying causes of prostitution — child abuse, drug addiction and domestic violence — need to be addressed, and the agencies that deal with these problems need more help.

“I don’t think the prime minister lays awake at night wondering what — RICK HANSON, CALGARY’S POLICE CHIEF Rick Hanson has to think about anything, chief of Calgary, or otherwise,” Audette linked the prostitution issue to the broad- he said in an interview. er problem of missing and murdered aboriginal “I can tell you that $20 million, when you actually women in Canada. Aboriginal groups and interna- spread it across five years, and you spread it across tional organizations have asked the Harper govern- the country, it’s a start, but that’s all it is — it’s a ment to conduct a federal inquiry into the problem, start.” but the government has so far refused.

The Supreme Court of Canada struck down the Audette said her group also has tried to lobby existing prostitution law last December and gave the MacKay for a national roundtable to discuss how government one year to bring in a replacement. to prevent prostitution, as part of a broader socioThe $20-million commitment is an additional goveconomic approach. ernment commitment to help women get out of the Rick Hanson, Calgary’s police chief, also called sex industry, but it is not part of the actual bill.

‘I CAN TELL YOU THAT $20 MILLION, WHEN YOU ACTUALLY SPREAD IT ACROSS FIVE YEARS, AND YOU SPREAD IT ACROSS THE COUNTRY, IT’S A START, BUT THAT’S ALL IT IS — IT’S A START.’

Canadian legislators in Israel flee militant rockets SHAKEN UP BY AIR RAID SIRENS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A group of Canadian MPs and senators had a first-hand experience of what Israelis have been enduring when they were shaken up by air raid sirens during their visit to Jerusalem on Tuesday, the trip’s organizer said.

The four MPs and three senators were dining in a restaurant when the sirens went off, indicating rocket attacks from Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip, said Shimon Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.

“When the sirens went off, they descended to the bomb shelter within the restaurant and waited there with the others who were there until the all-clear sign came,” Fogel told The Canadian Press in a telephone interview from Ottawa late Tuesday.

The Canadian group, which included members from all three parties, was able to understand some of the challenges confronting Israel, he said.

Fogel said because of the current situation, the group will not go to Ramallah to meet Palestinian officials as planned, but will receive them in Jerusalem before heading back home over the weekend.

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Jerusalem and Tel Aviv were among Israeli cities targeted by the militants Tuesday.

The attacks have sparked the largest Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, which has killed at least 25 people.

The rocket barrage against Israel has drawn condemnation from Canada, Britain, the United States and the United Nations.

“Canada condemns the brazen and indiscriminate attacks that Hamas continues to wage on Israel,” Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement.

“Canada believes that Israel has every right to defend itself from such belligerent acts of terrorism,” he said.

Baird called on the new Palestinian government

to exercise its authority in Gaza and bring an immediate end to the rocket attacks on Israel.

He also said Hamas must respect the ceasefire agreed in 2012.

The two sides have engaged in numerous rounds of fighting over the years, but until recently they had been observing a truce that ended the previous hostilities in 2012.

“The escalation of violence we have seen over the last several days will do nothing to advance the interests of peace,” Baird added.

Fogel said he was very pleased with Baird’s statement and that he was hopeful the Israeli action will help “mitigate the determination of Hamas to create the kind of instability that will push peace further away.”

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Alberta fails to move on greenhouse gas reduction AUDITOR AMAZED NO ACTION TAKEN IN SIX YEARS

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Six years after Alberta announced targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions it has yet to present an effective plan or report on making it happen, the auditor general said Tuesday.

“This is amazing,” Merwan Saher told reporters on a conference call.

“We’re in 2014 and there hasn’t yet been a public report on the success or otherwise of the 2008 (greenhouse gas) reduction strategy.”

He said responsibility lies with Environment Minister Robin Campbell and his predecessors.

“Ministerial oversight has been lacking because good oversight would have insisted on there being good results reporting,” said Saher.

Cutting greenhouse gas emissions has been a cornerstone pledge of the province as it battles critics both at home and abroad who accuse it and its energy industry of economic exploitation with little regard for the environment.

In 2008, the province set specific emission reduction targets for 2020 and 2050.

As part of the strategy, large polluters are required by law to reduce emissions intensity by 12 per cent and pay $15 per tonne for emissions that exceed that target.

But Saher said the strategy stalled out of the starting gate and stayed there for four years, with no monitoring publicly reported between 2008 and 2012.

In 2012, he said, when the government determined it would miss its 2020 targets, it drew up an implementation plan.

Saher said that while the plan set targets, it used flawed data and lacked the information needed to effectively monitor progress.

AUDITOR The plan was supposed to be reviewed last year, but that didn’t happen.

In 2013, said Saher, the province set up a governance model for reviewing and revising its climate change strategy that includes working groups organized by key greenhouse-gas emitting sectors.

The group’s work setting up timelines and targets is ongoing.

But Saher said so far it has been hampered by patchwork administrative oversight and instances of meetings not taking place or being held, but with no written account of decisions taken.

Campbell, in a statement, said the province can do better.

“We agree the process used to decide on and evaluate actions to address climate change can be improved,” said Campbell.

But Campbell said there has been success reporting on large greenhouse-gas emitters and in investing in clean technology projects.

“To date those investments have totalled over $234 million into over 90 clean energy projects. Our actions on climate change are providing real results,” he said.

Lack of monitoring is a theme throughout Saher’s report.

Saher said the government’s annual reports are too fuzzy.

They have long lists of what’s to be done, but little clarity on what has actually been carried out to meet specific goals.

He said there are also yawning gaps in monitoring of private-health clinics to make sure taxpayers are getting value for money.

Most vulnerable homes protected, flood crest bears down

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Several days of frantic sandbagging is paying off in southern Manitoba as a crest of flood water is expected to pour through the region.

“Thanks to an absolutely incredible mobilization, we have gone from the scenario we saw just a few days ago to the point that we have now almost completed preparations for the crest,” Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton said Tuesday.

“The next 48 hours are going to be critical.”

A torrent of flood water from Saskatchewan is making its way through Manitoba now. The crest passed through Brandon, Man., on Sunday without topping the city’s dikes or forcing evacuations.

Manitoba is expecting the Assiniboine River to rise to same levels as the 2011 flood — one of the worst in the province’s history.

The surge prompted Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger to declare a state of emergency Friday and ask for military assistance to prepare homeowners.

Since then, hundreds of military members, reservists, provincial staff and volunteers have been preparing for the high water by making sandbags and shoring up dikes.

Roland Rasmussen, reeve of Cartier, said most of the 60 vulnerable homes in his area were protected and ready for when the crest of flood water is expected on Wednesday.

Downstream in St. Francois Xavier, reeve Roger Poitras said all the homes in his municipality should be OK. “We feel pretty confident that everything is going to be fine,” he said.

“Now, it’s just to see how the river handles the flows and if the dikes are going to hold up well.

We’re confident and we’ve been told things should work out quite well.”

Across the region, about 350 homes are considered vulnerable to the rising water — 150 of those could flood if the province decides to deliberately breach a dike at the Hoop and Holler Bend to take pressure off the dikes downstream.

Maj. Mike Legace said Canadian Forces members have been working around the clock and making

roughly 100,000 sandbags a day, adding to the province’s arsenal of one million sandbags.

On top of building up temporary dikes around vulnerable homes, military helicopters are surveying the region and troops have also shored up some weak spots along the province’s dikes to prevent a breach.

“We’re into our fourth day of the mission. There are a few sore backs but we haven’t had any very serious injuries yet,” Legace said.

“We’re meeting the needs of what the province wants us to do, as best we can do it, and then we’ll just start holding our fingers crossed and hope for the best.”

The main focus for the government in the coming days is to see whether the dikes and diversion channels hold up against the surging water.

“We are clearly going to be as prepared as possible by noon tomorrow,” Ashton said. “We are going to work around the clock to maintain our flood defences.”

In Saskatchewan, emergency management commissioner Duane McKay said the forecast “is turning in our favour” as the province deals with the aftermath of heavy rain that fell more than week ago. But he also urged people not use some of the lakes in eastern Saskatchewan.

“We still are quite concerned for some of the safety of the people in particular areas that have seen some of the damages,” said McKay. The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health also warned people to avoid swimming or bathing in lakes and rivers affected by flooding. It said samples taken in several locations show high levels of E.coli bacteria in the water.

Seventy-four eastern Saskatchewan communities remain under states of emergency and about 230 people were still out of their homes because of flooding.

Nearly 50 people were also to be moved out of the James Smith First Nation near Melfort on Tuesday because of flooding. More rain over the last few days was cutting off access, said McKay.

B.C. wildfire leads to evacuation order

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS A growing wildfire southeast of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., and concerns about its “immediate danger to life and safety,” has forced the Peace River Regional District to issue an evacuation order affecting about 200 workers in two oil-and-gas camps.

The order was given early Tuesday afternoon and applies to the oil-and-gas field areas of Ojay, Grizzly South and Red Deer Creek.

Jillian Kelsh of B.C.’s Wildfire Management Branch said the fire is about 650 hectares in size, 61 kilometres southeast of Tumbler Ridge and 27 kilometres from the Alberta boundary, but it isn’t expected to reach any communities.

“Right now our top priorities are just making sure that the area is clear,” she said. “We do have a structure protection unit going up in hopes that it can provide some value to the camps in the area, and then our big concern is just making sure that it doesn’t cross over to the Alberta side.”

The fire was first reported Sunday and is being blamed on a lightening strike, said Kelsh, who added the area is mostly forested.

The regional district’s evacuation order was is-

sued because of what it called an “immediate danger to life safety,” and it directs people to leave the area with their personal belongings immediately and to close and latch gates.

Kelsh said 70 firefighters, five helicopters and four air tankers are battling the blaze.

“We do expect it to grow quite significantly in the next 24 hours just due to high winds and hot and dry temperatures,” she said.

A separate news release issued by the District of Tumbler Ridge said some of the workers are from a camp on Ojay Road. It said the wildfire is growing fast and could cover 4,000 hectares by the end of Wednesday.

The Wildfire Management Branch is also working with the local school district to set up a command post at a high school.

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EDMONTON — A mediator has recommended terms and conditions for a new contract for Alberta nurses.

Negotiators with Alberta Health Services, Covenant Health and United Nurses of Alberta agree with what mediator David Jones has recommended.

If accepted, the contract would be in place until March 31, 2017 and would be retroactive to April 1, 2013.

UNA’s negotiation team will bring the mediator’s recommendation to a meeting on July 15 in Calgary.

Details of the recommendations will be released after the parties have an opportunity to review it.

UNA represents about 30,000 registered nurses and registered psychiatric nurses.

The employer group is made up of Alberta Health Services, Covenant Health, Lamont Health Centre and Bethany Group (Camrose).

Alberta Health Services is the provincial health authority responsible for planning and delivering health supports and services in the province.

Wildrose promises to clean up tailings ponds, end carbon capture and storage CALGARY — Alberta’s opposition Wildrose party is promising to eliminate toxic tailings ponds and end carbon capture and storage should it win the next election.

Party leader Danielle Smith says greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants will be reduced through developing and creating incentives for alternative energy sources.

The party is also promising independent water quality testing down river from major industrial projects.

The promises were rolled out in the party’s fourth of nine policy announcements.

The next election is not until 2016, but the fact the governing Progressive Conservatives are electing a new leader in the fall has given rise to speculation of an early trip to the polls.

Biker dead after collision with minivan ALDERSYDE — RCMP say charges are being considered after a motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a minivan south of Calgary.

The accident happened Monday evening on Highway 2, just north of Aldersyde.

Police say the van — driven by a 48-year-old woman — crossed into the path of a motorbike driven by the 30-year-old man.

He was unable to avoid the crash and died at the scene.

The victim’s name has not been released.

Investigators say weather, speed and alcohol were not factors.

RCMP hope for tips in case of girl missing since 2004

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ESTEVAN, Sask. — RCMP hope a mother’s plea will jar someone’s memory about a missing Saskatchewan girl who police believe was murdered.

It has been almost a decade since 13-year-old Courtney Struble disappeared while walking home in Estevan.

Her mother, Joy Struble, says she can’t get over the loss of her daughter and hopes someone will come forward with tips to police that might solve the mystery.

RCMP are putting new posters up around Estevan asking people to join in the search for Courtney.

She was last seen in the late hours of July 9, 2004, before leaving a friend’s house to walk back to her father’s home.

RCMP are treating the case as a homicide and believe her body is still somewhere in the area and want people to check their rural properties for any evidence.

Joy Struble said she can only hope.

“It’s been said to me many times that time heals all wounds,” she said Tuesday. “That’s a lie. It doesn’t.”

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Vote results rejected U.S. WARNS EFFORTS TO SEIZE POWER WILL COST

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah defiantly told thousands of supporters Tuesday that he will declare victory in the country’s election, claiming massive fraud was responsible for preliminary results that put his rival in the lead. The United States warned both camps against trying to seize power, saying international financial and security support was at stake.

The turmoil came as violence escalated around the country. A suicide bomber struck Afghan and foreign forces near a clinic in the eastern province of Parwan, killing at least 16 people, including four Czech soldiers.

Abdullah said he received calls from President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and he was told that Kerry would be flying to the Afghan capital on Friday in a bid to help defuse the crisis. State Department officials accompanying Kerry in Beijing declined to comment on his travel plans.

Abdullah told his supporters that the results of the election were fraudulent, but asked them to give him a few more days to negotiate.

“We denounce and do not accept the results of the fraudulent vote. I assure you people of Afghanistan that I will sacrifice for you, but I will never accept a fraudulent government,” he told his supporters, many angry over the result. “We announce that only the government elected through clean votes will come to power.”

The Afghan Independent Election Commission on Monday released preliminary results from the June 14 runoff showing former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner could be declared because millions of ballots were being audited for fraud.

According to the preliminary results, Ahmadzai had about 4.5 million votes, or 56 per cent, while Abdullah

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Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah raise their hands and shout in support during his speech in a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday. Abdullah says he received calls from President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry after he refused to accept the preliminary result of the vote citing fraud. Abdullah told his supporters the results of the election were fraudulent but asked them to give him a few more days to negotiate. had 3.5 million votes, or 44 per cent.

Turnout was more than 50 per cent.

That was a sharp turnaround from the first round of voting on April 5 when Abdullah garnered the most votes with 46 per cent to Ahmadzai’s 31.6 per cent but failed to get the majority needed to avoid a runoff vote.

Abdullah has refused to accept any results from the second round until all fraudulent ballots are invalidated.

Ahmadzai, a U.S.-educated former finance minister and World Bank official, said he also had spoken to Kerry

on the telephone.

“We welcome him (Kerry) coming here, but the real responsibility is up to us and we are hopeful that we will fulfil all our responsibilities,” he said at a news conference at his home in Kabul. “We are prepared to engage in political discussion in order to make sure that we move to insure the legitimacy of the process, its fairness and the acceptance of its results.”

He also rejected the idea of parallel governments, which has been raised by some Abdullah supporters.

“Talk of parallel governments will remain in the level of talk, because the historic responsibility that his excellency Dr. Abdullah and I as people who have submitted ourselves to the will of the people of Afghanistan have is to ensure the stability of this country and the legitimacy of the regime to which we have devoted our lives.”

The election commission acknowledged that vote rigging had occurred and said ballots from about 7,000 more of the nearly 23,000 polling stations would be audited.

Israeli military steps up Gaza offensive

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israel launched its largest offensive in the Gaza Strip in nearly two years, carrying out a blistering aerial assault Tuesday on scores of targets and killing 19 people in what officials called an open-ended operation aimed at ending weeks of heavy rocket fire. As Gaza militants unleashed salvos on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Israel mobilized forces along the border for a possible ground invasion.

The offensive set off the heaviest fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group Hamas since an eight-day battle in November 2012. The militants fired about 160 rockets at Israel, including two intercepted over Tel Aviv, while Israel said it attacked more than 150 sites across Gaza.

Palestinian medics reported at least 19 dead, including six killed in an airstrike that flattened an apartment building in southern Gaza and set off widespread panic.

In a nationally televised statement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said continued rocket attacks on Israeli communities would not be tolerated.

“Therefore I have ordered the military to significantly broaden its operation against Hamas terrorists and against the other terrorist groups inside Gaza,” he said. “I call on you to display patience because this operation could take time.”

Israel and Hamas are bitter enemies that have engaged in numerous rounds of fighting over the years. But until recently, they had been observing a truce that ended hostilities in 2012.

Tensions have been rising since Palestinian militants kidnapped three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank on June 12. Accusing Hamas of being behind the abductions, Israel launched a crackdown on the group’s members in the West Bank and arrested hundreds of people. Hamas, which controls Gaza, responded by stepping up rocket fire.

The situation deteriorated last week after the bodies of the Israeli youths were found, and a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem was abducted and burned to death in what Palestinians believe was a revenge attack. Six Jewish Israelis have been arrested in the killing, and the rocket fire from Gaza has increased in recent days.

The fighting raged throughout the day. In its fiercest attack, an airstrike flattened the home of a Hamas militant in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, reducing the concrete structure into a smouldering pile of rubble.

Panicked residents fled, screaming “God is great.” Some had bloody faces, and crying mothers held small children as they ran away. Screaming Palestinians took away motionless bodies.

Palestinian medical officials said six people, including two children, were killed.

Late Tuesday, the normally bustling

streets of Gaza City were deserted.

Fearing an Israeli ground operation, many residents from areas near the border moved to stay with relatives living deeper inside Gaza.

In southern Israel, hundreds of thousands of citizens were ordered to stay close to home because of the rockets. Israeli streets were also quieter in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem after attempted rocket strikes set off air-raid sirens in Israel’s two largest cities. The Jerusalem municipality said it was opening special bomb shelters.

Militants twice fired rockets at Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial capital, sending people scurrying for cover. Both projectiles were intercepted by the “Iron Dome” rocket defence system.

The second interception was shown on live TV, as a winding plume of smoke followed the interceptor into the black skies, culminating with a flash.

Late Tuesday, Hamas said it fired a salvo of four rockets toward Jeru-

salem, and two distant booms could be heard from the city’s centre. One rocket landed in the Jerusalem area, officials said, and police said there were no injuries.

The army was also checking reports that rockets had flown north of Tel Aviv — which would mark the deepest strikes every carried out by Hamas.

In other violence, the Israeli military said it foiled an attempt by Gaza militants to infiltrate a military base in southern Israel by sea. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a military spokesman, said four attackers made it to shore and attacked the base with grenades and automatic rifles before they were killed.

An Israeli soldier was wounded.

As Israel built up forces along the border, the government authorized the army to activate up to 40,000 reservists.

The army said that about 1,000 soldiers were immediately activated, in addition to an earlier group of 1,500 reservists called into action.

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Somali government says presidential compound secured following militant attack MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali troops retook the presidential palace in the capital of Mogadishu after militants forced their way in and exchanged heavy gunfire with troops and guards Tuesday, the latest attack underscoring the threat posed by Islamic extremist group alShabab in east Africa.

Smoke billowed from inside the heavilyfortified presidential compound, and loud explosions and gunfire could be heard as troops tried to repel the intruders. After more than two hours of fighting, Somalia’s presidency said in a Twitter update that “the shameful attack” had been foiled by Somalia’s armed forces fighting alongside African Union peacekeepers.

Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the attack.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was not inside the palace at the time of the attack, but the prime minister and the speaker of parliament were, said Capt. Mohamed Hussein, a senior police official.

The presidency said both President Mohamud and Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed were safe.

The presidential compound, which also houses several government offices, has been the subject of many attacks by al-Qaida-linked militants over the years. It is considered one of the safest places in Mogadishu because of the tight security presence.

The presidency said that the compound has since been secured, but gave no details about any casualties or what happened to the militants.

Pot shop customers cheer first purchase in Washington State

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Cale Holdsworth strode to the counter at Top Shelf Cannabis, inspected and sniffed a glass jar filled with marijuana, and said: “I’ll take two grams.”

Holdsworth paid $26.50 and held up the brown bag containing his pot as people applauded the store’s first transaction as Washington on Tuesday became the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally in the U.S. without a doctor’s note.

“This is a great moment,” said the 29-year-old from Abilene, Kansas, as a swarm of reporters and television cameras recorded the moment.

People began buying marijuana at 8 a.m. at Top Shelf Cannabis, which started selling the drug as soon as it was allowed under state regulations. Before it opened, several dozen people lined up outside the shop in this liberal college town of about 80,000 north of Seattle.

Holdsworth was first in line, along with his girlfriend, Sarah Gorton, and her younger brother. They showed up at 4 a.m.

Gorton said the trio was in Bellingham for her grandfather’s 84th birthday. State law allows both Washington residents and people from out of state to purchase a limited amount of pot.

“It’s just a happy coincidence and an opportunity we’re not going to have for a long time,” said Gorton, a 24-year-old with dreadlocks and homemade jewelry. “I’m really thrilled to be a part of something that I never thought would happen.”

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Cale Holdsworth, of Abeline, Kan., holds up his purchase after being the first in line to buy legal recreational marijuana at Top Shelf Cannabis, Tuesday, in Bellingham, Wash.

Holdsworth had been in line since 4:00 a.m. pot shop, Cannabis City, which opened at noon.

Store owner James Lathrop, holding a large scissors to cut the ribbon for the official opening, said it was time to “free the weed.”

The first customer, 65-year-old retiree Deb Greene, hugged and thanked Alison

Holcomb, the author of Washington’s marijuana law, before she placed her order for 8 grams, total $160.01 with tax.

“It’s so remarkable,” Greene said. “We’re showing the way.”

The start of legal pot sales in Washington marks a major step that’s been 20 months in the making.

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Spokane police said a man went to his wife’s workplace in the Deaconess Medical Center complex and opened fire.

Police said no one else was injured in the shooting.

“This is an apparent domestic violence incident,” said Monique Cotton, spokeswoman for Spokane police.

Identities and other details were not immediately available.

KHQ-TV reported that the couple had two children, who were found safe.

Deaconess Medical Center is a multi-building complex located next to Interstate 90 in downtown Spokane, a city of 210,000 people in eastern Washington.

The shooting occurred on the seventh floor of the Rockwood Cancer Treatment Center, police said. Other people were in the office where the shooting occurred, police said.

The area was immediately evacuated, police said.

Police received a call about 9:38 a.m. that there had been a shooting at the medical complex, and responded in force, Cotton said.

“We took the precautions we take with an active shooter situation,” Cotton said.

The husband was still alive when reached by police, but died shortly after, police said.

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FLOAT SHACK READY TO BRING FLOTATION TO RED DEER

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR If Lance Foss, Matthew Dahrouge and Cole Stevens had reservations about the appeal of a float studio in Red Deer, these have drowned in the sea of “Likes” on their business’s Facebook page.

It has yet to open, but The Float Shack has attracted nearly 1,300 electronic thumbs-up, as well as steady stream of queries from float enthusiasts.

“Phone, email, Facebook — everything is coming in,” said Foss, adding that people have also been stopping in at their No. 205, 5589 47th St. studio in hopes of finding it operational.

“They wanted to book floats three months ago.”

The Float Shack is even featured in a documentary produced by a Mount Royal University broadcasting student. Entitled Inter_null, it’s available on YouTube and Vimeo.

The partners expect to open by mid-July, with two float pods already in place. Measuring four feet by eight feet (1.2 metres by 2.4 metres), each holds 11 inches (28 cm) of 93.5 F water in a chamber that seals out light and sound.

“When you go in there, you lose almost all sensory input,” said Foss.

“You can’t hear anything, you can’t see anything, you can’t feel anything — because the water is heated to skin receptor neutral and there are no effects of gravity; there are no pressure points anywhere on your back.

“After about five or 10 minutes in the water, you don’t know which part of your body is in the water and which part is out.”

The approximately 800 pounds (360 kg) of pharmaceutical grade Epsom salt that’s mixed into the water keeps users afloat. The salt also acts as a natural disinfectant, with hydrogen peroxide used as well.

The water is also cleaned before and after every float using a commercial pool filter and high-intensity UV light.

Each pod is in its own private room, with a shower and towels. Standard sessions will run 60 or 90 minutes, at a cost $59 or $79 respectively — or less with a membership or if multiple sessions are booked.

“I’ve floated 4 ½ hours,” said Foss of his longest stretch in a pod, noting that others have remained for much longer.

People of all ages enjoy floating, he said.

“People want to try it for relaxation, for stress relief — some just want to expand their mind and consciousness.” Many have heard about health benefits associated with floating, said Dahrouge. These include reduced blood pressure, improved circulation and pain management.

Foss, Dahrouge and Stevens, who are all 24 and

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Caitlan Fleming relaxes in one of the pods at The Float Shack, which is scheduled to open this month in Red Deer. trained as heavy equipment technicians, plan to install three more pods at The Float Shack. The 2,300-square-foot space will also have a seating area for customers to relax after floating, and retail sales of local arts and crafts.

There’s also an additional 800 square feet that they hope to lease to a complementary business, like a massage or acupuncture clinic.

Foss and Dahrouge were the original partners behind The Float Shack. They obtained the two pods in

January, at a cost of about $15,000 each, and set one up at Foss’s home.

There, they introduced some 100 friends and family members to floating, including Stevens.

“He (Foss) asked me to come try it, and after that I wanted to be part of this,” said Stevens, explaining how he became a partner.

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Parkland Fuel’s CFO resigns Parkland Fuel Corp. (TSX:PKI) announced on Tuesday that its chief financial officer has resigned.

Michael Lambert is leaving the Red Deer-based company effective Aug. 8. A release issued by Parkland said he is pursuing an opportunity in another industry. It added that the process to recruit a replacement for Lambert was underway.

Parkland markets fuel and petroleum products in Canada and the United States.

Accede announces growth program Blackfalds-based Accede Energy Services Ltd. has announced a $12.9-million capital growth program for 2014. The company said in a release on Tuesday that the program will include additions to its JET Rentals and Sales’ fleet of surface rental equipment and its Latmann Equipment’s generator inventory, as well as expansion of product lines to and from its Captive Oilfield Rentals. The money for the capital expansion will come from cash flow from operations and existing credit facilities, it added. An employee-owned energy services company, Accede also operates Accede Fire and Safety, Wizard Valve Services and TNT Energy Services. It has locations in Blackfalds, Calmar, Edson, and Estevan, Sask.

Value of residential permits doubles The value of residential building permits approved by the City of Red Deer last month was more than double the figure for June 2013. But the total value of permits issued for all construction categories was still well behind last year’s tally.

The city reported on Tuesday that $16.3 million worth of construction was approved in June, including $11.5 million in residential work. Industrial projects added another $4.1 million and commercial work $700,000.

That compares with the $30.7 million worth of permits issued for the same month in 2013. Residential permits accounted for only $5.9 million of that figure, with approvals in the public category making up the lion’s share at $18.1 million — due largely to the issuance of permits for the Francophone school at 4810 34 St. and the K-5 Catholic school at 60 Clearview Dr. Commercial permits last June made up $4.7 million of the total, and industrial permits accounted for $2 million. The city pointed out in a release that the number of building permits issued last month increased to 210 from 130 a year earlier. It added that the jump in residential values this June reflected continued growth in new residential subivisions, and an 18-unit townhouse development. Among the other big projects approved last month was a $2.9-million building by Jade Bay Construction in Queens Business Park. During the first six months of 2014, the city issued building permits for $78.5 million in work, down from $132.1 million to the same point last year. However, the value of residential development was higher this year, at $57.7 million as compared with $53.6 million in 2013.

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Workers erect prefabricated concrete walls from Eagle Builders of Blackfalds for a new office building on Laura Avenue in Gasoline Alley on Tuesday. The project is being developed by ALA Capital, and continues the rapid build-out along the Red Deer County road.

High-end homes still in hot demand

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s housing market may be cooling, but there’s no loss of appetite for high-end real estate, according to Sotheby’s International Realty Canada.

The realtor says in a new report that sales of homes worth more than $1 million boomed in the first half of 2014, with all four key metropolitan areas covered — Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montreal — recording double-digit gains.

Vancouver and Toronto continue to lead the way with sales of homes worth $1 million or more increasing 34 per cent compared with the first six months of 2013. That was followed by Calgary with a 17 per cent increase and Montreal with an 11 per cent gain, even though Quebec’s largest city posted an overall decline in sales in 2013.

Sotheby’s says that given Canada’s strong economic fundamentals, improved consumer confidence and

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super-low lending rates, all markets are expected to gain momentum in the second half of the year.

Sotheby’s adds it also expects international demand in top-tier real estate to remain robust despite the removal of Canada’s immigrant investor class program.

The realtor says sales of high-end homes were strong in all segments, from single family to attached homes and condominiums in the first six months of 2014. Despite worries about a condo bubble in Toronto and Vancouver, it says there has been no sign of let-up so far this year, with sales increases of 53 and 37 per cent respectively.

Demand was so strong in Toronto that 36 per cent of condos listed at between $1 million and $2 million sold above the asking price; 41 per cent of those listed between $2 million and $4 million sold above asking and all of those listed above $4 million got more than asking. In all, there were about 6,400 homes that sold above $1 million in the four cities in the first half of 2014, including about 275 that sold for more than $4 million.

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FLOAT: Still new Although float studios are still new to many people, this is quickly changing, said Foss.

“In the last three to four years there has been a huge surge in the flotation industry. There are manufacturers popping up; there are float centres popping up everywhere.”

Despite their own enthusiasm for floating, Foss, Dahrouge and Stevens have been too busy setting up The Float Shack to take advantage of its equipment.

Eventually, said Dahrouge, this will change.

“Our time will come.”

The Float Shack will operate from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., Tuesday to Sunday, and from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Mondays. Additional information about the studio can be found on its website at www.thefloatshack. com or on its Facebook page. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Ottawa spends $3.4 million to help beef industry bolster its brand CALGARY — The federal government is spending $3.4 million to support the creation of the Canadian Beef Centre of Excellence in Calgary.

Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz said the facility is expected to be running by the end of the year and will enable Canada Beef Inc. to bolster the Canadian beef brand and improve access to international markets.

Canada Beef is a national organization that represents the research, marketing and promotion of the Canadian cattle and beef industry worldwide.

Ritz said the centre will help provide training to companies interested in trade missions.

“A lot of people have an idea for marketing in that you just put up a website and they will come. That works well to a certain extent, but you have to gain the credibility in those markets,” Ritz said Tuesday.

“In China for example and Japan it’s all about face time. It’s about making the connection in those foreign lands.”

The centre also aims to help the industry test market new products and receive feedback from consumers.

The money is coming from the Western Diversification program.

Ritz said a similiar program called the Canadian International Grains Institute has been working well.

Canada is the eighth largest beef exporting country in the world.

“Our opportunity to tap into global markets cannot be underestimated in the value that could bring back to producers,” said Rob Meijer, president of Canada Beef Inc.

COSIA ‘very close’ to establishing GHG targets, Suncor boss says CALGARY — The CEO of Suncor Energy says a technology-sharing alliance of oilsands players is very close to setting greenhouse gas reduction goals for its members.

Steve Williams says the Canadian Oil Sands Innovation Alliance, or COSIA is within “days or weeks” away from firming up the standards.

He says as a first step, it’s likely COSIA members will strive to be at least as efficient as other oil sources.

Earlier, Suncor and GE announced up to $18 million in investment for projects that are meant to cut greenhouse gas emissions and water use in the oilsands.

The companies say $5 million is going toward an existing water treatment pilot project at Suncor’s MacKay River project in northern Alberta and six COSIA members have signed a memorandum of understanding to spend up to another $13 million to develop new technologies.

Williams says Suncor (TSX:SU) spends about $200 million per year on research and development and that a substantial amount of that can be shared through COSIA.

Sobeys to sell former Safeway dairy operation to Agropur co-op for $356 million STELLARTON, N.S. — Sobeys is selling its milk, yogurt and ice cream manufacturing operations in Western Canada for $356 million to Agropur, a Quebec-based dairy co-operative.

The sale includes a total of four plants: two in Edmonton and one each in Winnipeg and Burnaby, B.C. Together the manufacturing operations employ 281 people, process more than 160 million litres of milk per year and generate about $400 million of annual revenue.

Agropur will license the Lucerne trademark from Sobeys and supply Sobeys, Safeway and IGA stores in the West through long-term supply arrangements.

The co-op’s brands include Natrel, Quebon, Agropur, Sealtest and Island Farms and its 6,500 employees process more than 3.4 billion litres of milk per year at 32 plants across North America.

Sobeys is the national grocery division and main subsidiary of Empire Co. (TSX:EMP.A), which acquired the western dairy manufacturing operations as part of its purchase of Canada Safeway last year.

Loonie stays unchanged as it looks for direction with no economic releases TORONTO — The Canadian dollar closed unchanged on Tuesday, unable to find direction amid a dearth of market-moving Canadian economic data.

The loonie ended the day at 93.66 cents US. A number of factors, including rising inflation, a better American economic climate and rising oil prices, have helped push the currency to the 94-cent US mark in recent weeks and close to its highest point so far this year.

But the currency pulled back Monday after the Bank of Canada released its summer business survey.The survey, which was slightly more pessimistic that the bank’s previous reading in April, showed executives at 100 Canadian corporations remained confident about future economic activity but were still cautious when it came to investment and hiring.

“The loonie is a perplexing quagmire for (bank governor Stephen) Poloz who has tried to talk down the value of the loonie,” said Craig Jerusalim, a portfolio manager at CIBC. “It really needs to stay closer to the 90-cent US level for it to have a long, sustainable positive effect on trade and manufacturing in Canada.”

Poloz has been depending on a weakened Canadian dollar to help drive exports and aid in Canada’s economic recovery.

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Jean Coutu, left, Chairman of the Jean Coutu Group, chats with his son and chief executive Francois Coutu, before the start of the pharmaceutical company’s annual meeting in Longueuil, Que., on Tuesday.

Jean Coutu eagerly awaits deal expanding role of Quebec pharmacists

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LONGUEUIL, Que. — Drug store chain Jean Coutu is eager for the long-delayed implementation of a Quebec law that would expand the role of pharmacists in the health-care system and drive more traffic to its stores.

“We are ready,” CEO Francois Coutu said Tuesday following the company’s annual meeting. “The government has a unique partner in the distribution of pharmaceuticals that is more efficient, that we can provide seven days a week.”

The Quebec law passed in 2011 is designed to free up the time doctors spend on routine visits by allowing pharmacists to renew some prescriptions, administer some medicines that don’t require a diagnosis and to order lab tests.

Similar tasks are already performed by pharmacists in some other provinces, including Alberta, British Columbia and New Brunswick, where governments are looking to save money by reducing visits to hospitals and doctors.

However implementation in Quebec has been delayed as compensation for pharmacists appears to have been the main stumbling block in reaching a deal between the Association of Quebec Pharmacy Owners and the former Parti Quebecois government.

Coutu hopes the new Liberal government will finally reach agreement on a fee to offset the additional costs to pharmacists.

“The public especially needs us in the moments when it’s difficult to get medical and nursing services, that is the nights and weekends,” added founder Jean Coutu. “But there has to be compensation.

We’re not health missionaries.”

The company said each store would have to hire more pharmacists in order to answer customer questions and fulfil their other new responsibilities.

The company has devoted thousands of hours to training pharmacists, adapting technology for patient records and building consultation rooms in some stores.

The change won’t result a large increase in revenue for Jean Coutu, but should increase traffic as patients visit the stores more frequently and could lure customers from other chains.

“If we are better prepared than our competitors and we are able to provide that service better than our competitors we’ll have an additional hedge on our competition,” added chief financial officer Andre Belzile.

The change will reduce the pressure on the medical system, especially in small communities where there are few doctors and often no nearby hospital.

Jean Coutu has focused on expanding its presence outside urban centres.

Earlier Tuesday, Jean Coutu (TSX:PJC.A) said it earned $54.1 million, or 29 cents per share in the first quarter, compared with $108.6 million, or 51 cents per share a year earlier.

The decrease was attributable to a gain of $54.4 million last year related to its investment in U.S. pharmacy chain Rite Aid. Excluding this gain, Jean Coutu earned $54.1 million, or 29 cents per share for the first quarter of its 2015 financial year, compared with $54.2 million, or 26 cents per share a year ago.

Analysts had estimated adjusted earnings per share of 30 cents, according to data compiled by Thomson Reuters.

Revenues increased to $688.6 million from $681.6 million a year earlier.

Analyst Irene Nattel of RBC Capital Markets said the results were stable, with earnings per share increasing 13 per cent due to a 12 per cent reduction in the number of outstanding shares.

Generic drugs accounted for 67.8 per cent of prescriptions in the quarter, compared with 66 per cent of prescriptions in the prior-year quarter.

The introduction of new generic drugs cut pharmacy’s retail sales growth by 1.1 per cent and price reductions of generic drugs reduced the growth of those sales by 1.2 per cent.

Earnings by the company’s generic drug manufacturer, Pro Doc, increased 30.5 per cent to $22.7 million as revenues grew 20 per cent to $39.7 million.

The total number of prescriptions filled increased by 4.2 per cent, reinforcing the company’s focus on growing its business organically by adding 10 to 15 new stores annually.

Sales of non-prescription drugs, which represented 8.7 per cent of total retail sales, decreased by 0.1 per cent after increasing by 3.6 per cent in the same period of fiscal year 2014.

Same-store sales, referring to stores open for at least a year, increased 0.1 per cent in the quarter with pharmacy sales increasing by 0.3 per cent and front-end (non drug) sales decreasing 0.5 per cent due to a cold early summer and weak allergy season.

On the Toronto Stock Exchange, Jean Coutu’s shares closed down 10 cents to $22.10 in Tuesday trading.

LNG company, First Nations group to work together on plant THE CANADIAN PRESS VICTORIA — A Vancouver-based company and a Vancouver Island First Nation announced plans Tuesday to work together to build a liquefied natural gas plant on aboriginal-owned land on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Steelhead LNG Corp., and the Huu-ay-aht First Nations signed a development agreement to build the LNG plant on treaty land located near Bamfield at the southern end of Alberni Inlet about 90 kilometres west of Port Alberni.

Steelhead LNG said the project could represent an investment of about $30 billion, with the plant operating for 25 years.

The company said it applied to the National Energy Board for an export permit of up to 30 million tonnes of LNG a year.

Steelhead LNG chief executive officer Nigel Kuzemko said in a telephone interview that the project is in its early days and a final investment decision on whether to proceed with the plant is at least four years away.

But he said Steelhead and the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, who signed a land claims treaty with the federal and British Columbia governments in April 2011, are working together on the project from start to finish.

“We have a partnership with the First Nation that I don’t think any other project has at this stage,” he said.

“We’re in a very early phase and we’ve formed a partnership with the Huu-ay-aht First Nations, and together we’ll look at this opportunity to develop a site here.”

Kuzemko said the proposed site at Sarita Bay at Alberni Inlet offers about 300 hectares of flat, protected land, near deep water with open access to the Pacific Ocean and potential LNG markets in Japan, China and South Korea.

He said the Huu-ay-aht also offer Steelhead local environmental knowledge which will prove valuable as the project migrates its way through the regula-

tory approval process.

“They understand the environment and all the environmental issues in the area because as a First Nation, they’ve been on this site for generations,” said Kuzemko.

But he conceded one of the first major hurdles facing the proposal is working with pipeline companies to deliver natural gas from northeastern B.C. to the Port Alberni area, a distance of more than 1,300 kilometres, and involves crossing the Georgia Strait between B.C.’s mainland and Vancouver Island.

“One of our biggest challenges will be getting gas from northern B.C. to this site economically,” Kuzemko said. “It’s clearly one of the first questions we need to address.”

Huu-ay-aht councillor and economic development officer John Jack said his First Nation offers Steelhead LNG certainty of its land base through its treaty and sends signals far and wide his people are open to considering business opportunities.

Jack said the Steelhead proposal appealed to the Huu-ay-aht for its economic potential, but also because the company approached the First Nation about working together early in the process and not as an afterthought.

“We appreciate and really admire the way that Steelhead has approached us at the front of this project rather than trying to get all this on their own and then coming to us after the fact,” he said.

“This is very much the beginning of a process.”

Last fall, B.C. Premier Christy Clark told a Vancouver Island economic gathering that Port Alberni is ideally located for LNG developments because of its access to the Pacific Ocean and to Asia.

Her comments coincided with a protocol agreement between the Port Alberni Port Authority and the Huu-ay-aht First Nations.

The Huu-ay-aht First Nations is a 750-member, self-governing nation.

Steelhead LNG’s investors include KERN Partners, a Calgary-based energy sector private equity firm, which is funded by leading Canadian pension funds, North American university endowments, foundations, institutions and family offices.

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Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 95.91 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 50.93 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.92 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.68 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.81 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 46.85 Cdn. National Railway . . 69.73 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 194.63 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.09 Capital Power Corp . . . . 26.06 Cervus Equipment Corp 21.56 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 50.99 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 50.42 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 30.43 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32.50 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.58 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.34 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.15 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 56.07 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 65.35 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 38.47 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.75 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 51.26 Consumer Brick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102.41 Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . . 15.96 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.54 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 47.44 Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 20.33 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market ended Tuesday lower, with most sectors down amid speculation that Canada’s biggest exchange is due for a broad sell-off.

The S&P/TSX composite index fell 35.75 points to 15,137.18, dragged lower by energy, mining and financial stocks. By the end of the day, there was weakness across most of the sectors, although the gold sector glittered, gaining nearly one and a half per cent.

The TSX telecom sector remained a weight a day after Ottawa announced it will be setting aside the majority of spectrum in a new wireless auction for newer, smaller entrants in Canada’s cellphone industry. Telus Corp. (TSX:T) lost two per cent, or 81 cents, to $38.47; while shares in Rogers Communications (TSX:RCI.B) dipped 0.38 per cent, or 16 cents, to $42.20, and BCE Inc. (TSX:BCE) faded 0.60 per cent, or 29 cents, to $47.92.

The loonie was unchanged at 93.66 cents US. U.S. markets were also lower with the Dow Jones industrials losing 117.59 points to 16,906.62, the Nasdaq dropping 60.07 points to 4,391.46 and the S&P 500 down 13.94 points at 1,963.71. Last week the indexes rallied to new highs following a stronger than expected U.S. jobs report for June.

A report released Tuesday reinforced the apparent strength of the U.S. job market, showing that U.S. employers advertised more jobs in May than in any month in the past seven years.

The U.S. Labor Department says employers posted 4.64 million jobs, a 3.8 per cent increase from April’s total of 4.46 million. That’s the fourth straight strong gain and is the highest number since June 2007.

As companies begin to report their second-quarter earnings this week, traders will be eager to see if results justify the strong performance

Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.74 Tim Hortons . . . . . . . . . . 59.20 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76.65 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 27.40 Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 19.95 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.41 First Quantum Minerals . 26.31 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 29.73 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.87 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 4.52 Labrador . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30.95 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 39.80 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.69 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 25.95 Energy Arc Energy . . . . . . . . . . . 30.94 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 32.63 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 73.68 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.48 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 63.50 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 49.12 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . 23.58 Canyon Services Group. 18.07 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 34.05 CWC Well Services . . . . . 1.03 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 24.08 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 2.68 Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 102.83 of the equity markets so far this year.

U.S. aluminium giant, Alcoa (NYSE:AA) reported after markets closed that it had a profit of $138 million, or 12 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier loss of $119 million, or 11 cents a share. Ex-items, its earnings came in at 18 cents — beating analyst expectations of 12 cents per share. A lcoa is viewed as an economic bellwether because its aluminum products are widely used in various sectors like manufacturing, defence and the auto industry.

Alco shares closed up 11 cents at US$14.85 on Tuesday, then rose a further 23 cents to US$15.08 in early after-hours trading.

On the commodity markets, the August crude contract fell 13 cents to US$103.40 a barrel as concerns about possible supply disruptions continued to lessen. Oil hit a 10-month closing high in June amid concerns that insurgents in Iraq might push into important oil-producing regions and choke off supplies from that country.

That threat has since faded.

September copper was unchanged at US$3.26 a pound and August gold bullion lost 50 cents to US$1,316.50 an ounce.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at close Tuesday Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,137.18, down 35.75 points TSX Venture Exchange — 1,027.52, down 3.11 points TSX 60 — 868.07, down 0.86 of a point Dow — 16,906.62, down 117.59 points S&P 500 — 1,963.71, down 13.94 points Nasdaq — 4,391.46, down 60.07 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 93.66 cents US, unchanged Pound — C$1.8293, unchanged Euro — C$1.4534, up 0.05 of a

Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 69.66 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.37 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 34.10 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 57.37 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.31 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.97 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.100 Precision Drilling Corp . . 14.99 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 45.35 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 10.87 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 16.85 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.91 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 70.70 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 79.48 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 71.89 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97.65 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 40.21 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.34 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 30.48 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 50.96 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 72.30 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.64 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 45.93 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.26 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 77.83 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.70 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.99 cent Euro — US$1.3612, up 0.04 of a cent Oil futures: US$103.40 per barrel, down 13 cents (August contract) Gold futures: US$1,316.50 per oz., down $0.50 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.271 oz., up 8.8 cents $748.16 kg., up $2.83 TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE TORONTO — The TSX Venture Exchange closed on Tuesday at 1,027.52, down 3.11 points. The volume at 4:20 p.m. ET was 118.69 million shares.

ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: July ’14 $3.20 higher $481.70; Nov. ’14 $3.20 higher $462.60; Jan ’15 $3.30 higher $464.20; March ’15 $2.20 higher $462.70; May ’15 $1.10 higher $458.40; July ’15 $0.50 higher $455.70; Nov ’15 $1.80 lower $451.70; Jan. ’16 $1.80 lower $458.50; March ’16 $1.80 lower $462.30; May ’16 $1.80 lower $462.30; July ’16 $1.80 lower $462.30.

Barley (Western): July ’14 unchanged 125.00; Oct. ’14 unchanged $132.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $134.50; March ’15 unchanged $135.50; May ’15 unchanged $135.50; July ’15 unchanged $135.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $135.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $135.50; March ’16 unchanged $135.50; May ’16 unchanged $135.50; July ’16 unchanged $135.50.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 384,200 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 384,200.

Settlement reached with Nortel Networks’ former overseas operations

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A settlement has been reached with one of the international divisions of Nortel Networks over their piece of the former technology giant’s remaining assets.

Lawyers representing Nortel’s defunct operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa told a judge on Tuesday they’ve come to an agreement with the court-appointed monitor over their share of the US$7.3 billion made from the sale of certain parts of the company.

Details on the terms haven’t been provided to the court, but law firm Lax O’Sullivan Scott Lisus LLP says it will have a signed agreement by Wednesday morning.

The settlement only resolves a small part of the bigger trial to divide the assets between other parties, including bondholders and Canadian pensioners.

An unprecedented Canada-U.S., cross-border trial began in May aimed at allocating billions of dollars to various creditors, including bondholders and 20,000 Canadian Nortel pensioners who have seen their benefits dramatically reduced since the company filed for bankruptcy in 2009.

Those proceedings wrapped up last month with a decision reserved for later this year, though smaller portions of the Nortel case remain outstanding, including a battle unfolding in a Toronto courtroom this week over claims

that the company still owes U.K. pensioners money.

Opening arguments for that part of the case unfolded at a snail’s pace on Tuesday, causing some lawyers to raise concerns that certain witnesses may not be able to accommodate a revised schedule. The testimony is expected to run into next week.

Unlike the main trial, which was simulcast using closed-circuit feeds from Delaware, the U.K. pensioners portion is unfolding mostly in Toronto with some witnesses providing testimony through streaming video feeds.

The Nortel trial is considered one of the biggest bankruptcy cases in Canadian history. The cost of Nortel’s demise has climbed above US$1 billion over the past five years, with legal expenses eating away at money that could be divided among the various parties.

At its height from 1999 to 2000, Nortel was worth nearly $300 billion, employed more than 90,000 people globally and was regarded as one of Canada’s most valuable tech companies.

In 2009, Nortel filed for bankruptcy in North America and Europe. The company was felled by changing market conditions, economic upheaval and an accounting scandal that devastated its stock price.

Since its fall, Nortel has broken up and sold off various parts of its business, including patents and wireless technology, the proceeds of which are now at issue.

Moody’s: government to shift more risk to banks’ creditors

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Moody’s Investor Services has cut its outlook for the Canadian banking system to negative due to an expected reduction of government support for the sector, but says it still believes the individual banks and the overall system are among the strongest in the world.

The outlook change is based on the Canadian government’s plans to shift more burden to the banks’ creditors — and away from taxpayers — in the event of a major financial crisis like the one in 2008-09, Moody’s analyst David Beattie said Tuesday.

But he said there’s no reason for the Canadian public to be alarmed by the “negative” outlook that Moody’s put on the banking system, replacing a “stable” outlook that had been in place since August.

“The Canadian banking system remains one of the highest-rated banking systems in the world,” Beattie said.

The New York-based agency’s ratings are intended as a guide to investors and institutional money managers.

Ratings by Moody’s and other agencies are among the factors used by investors to determine bond prices and yields.

All of Canada’s big banks are in the double-A range on the Moody’s scale, which goes from triple-A at the top to default at the bottom.

“The probability of a double-A rated bank getting into trouble, and requiring assistance in any form, is in the low single digits. So it’s very remote,” Beattie said in an interview Tuesday.

“But we guard against complacency and, notwithstanding the fact that they are very highly rated banks, bad things can happen.”

Canada’s banking system has been touted by politicians and business leaders as one of the most stable in the world in the wake of the recent financial crisis.

The Harper government has also supported efforts to prevent the bank bailouts that happened in the U.S. and Europe during the crisis from occurring in Canada. Beattie said the Finance department is expected to bring in legislation that will clarify the rules for what would happen in the event of another major meltdown — and that will shift more of the risk to the banks’ investors through a “bail in” regime that contrasts with a government “bail out” that would use taxpayers money.

“Canada has yet to really clarify how the system is going to work in Canada but it’s clear to us that within the next 12 to 18 months, which is the extent of our outlook, we will have further details and they will not be positive for senior creditors,” Beattie said.

However, Beattie said the negative outlook issued Monday isn’t a comment on the stability of the banking system or the individual banks.

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Russia to set up gambling zone in Sochi

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — Russia will allow gambling in Sochi in a bid to make continued use of the facilities that were built in the Black Sea resort for the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Russia spent $51 billion on the Games, leaving many companies that invested in the city wondering how they were going to recoup their money.

Russia in 2009 closed down casinos across the country and restricted gambling to several designated zones, all far away from major cities or tourist attractions. The parliament voted last week to put Sochi on the list of the areas where gambling is allowed.

Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak, who oversaw the preparations for the games, told Russian news agencies on Tuesday the government will decide within the next 10 days on the

exact location of casinos.

He said that the gambling zone could be set up at the site previously used for the Games, but any location in Sochi should support local businesses.

“We should do everything to make these projects bring returns on the investment, so that they don’t go bankrupt,” Kozak said.

Russia built 14 venues for the games with a total capacity of 145,000 people.

Plans for how to use the venues are changing all the time. Some were converted into malls, others given away to athletic federations.

Dozens of private companies, anticipating the Kremlin’s gratitude for shouldering economically unviable projects, flocked to Sochi to build hotels and infrastructure. Observers noted, however, that Sochi as a resort was unlikely to attract enough tourists for the new hotels and other facilities to be fully used.

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This photo shows an aerial view of the Olympic Park during construction leading up to the winter games in Sochi, Russia. Russia will allow gambling in Sochi in a bid to make continued use of the facilities that were built in the Black Sea resort for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia spent $51 billion on the Games, leaving many companies that invested in the city wondering how they were going to recoup their money.

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Bad day for Brazil GERMANS HAND HOSTS WORST DEFEAT IN HISTORY DURING SEMIFINALS OF WORLD CUP

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Germany 7 Brazil 1 BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — With Neymar out injured, just about everyone in Brazil knew it would be tough against Germany.

Nobody ever expected this.

The Germans tore apart Brazil’s porous defence time and time again Tuesday, routing the hosts 7-1 in the World Cup semifinals, the largest margin of defeat at this stage in the history of the tournament.

“We wanted to make the people happy ... unfortunately we couldn’t,” said Brazil defender David Luiz, who had scored in each of the last two matches.

“We apologize to all Brazilians.”

The astounding scoreline is sure to overshadow Miroslav Klose’s recordsetting 16th career World Cup goal.

The strike pushed Klose past Brazil great Ronaldo, who was at the Mineirao Stadium on Tuesday as the Germans advanced to their eighth World Cup final.

Germany will face either Argentina or the Netherlands on Sunday at the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro with a chance to win for the fourth time.

Brazil was playing without Neymar, the team’s key player and the poster boy for the World Cup. He scored four goals in the group stage, but Brazil’s attack seemed to get weaker and weaker as the tournament progressed. The Barcelona striker was ruled out of the tournament with a broken vertebra after getting kneed in the back in the quarterfinal win over Colombia, weak-

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Germany’s Thomas Mueller celebrates after scoring his teams first goal during the World Cup semifinal soccer match between Brazil and Germany at the Mineirao Stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Tuesday. ening the sputtering attack even more.

With Neymar sidelined and captain Thiago Silva suspended, the collective hopes of a nation remained high even if expectations were lowered.

The atmosphere at the start of the match was spine-tingling, but the euphoria of the yellow-shirted thousands soon turned to tears as the Germans scored five goals in the first 30 minutes — four of them in a seven-minute span.

“It was very important to stay calm, cool and courageous in facing Brazilian passion,” Germany coach Joachim Loew said.

The loss matched Brazil’s mostlopsided defeat ever, and it’s the first time the team has lost in an official competitive match on home soil since 1975, when Peru won 3-1 at the very same stadium in the Copa America.

Its last loss at home came in a friendly with Paraguay in 2002.

Previously, Brazil’s biggest World Cup loss was 3-0 to France in the 1998 final. In the 1920 the South American championship, the predecessor of the Copa America, Brazil lost 6-0 to Uruguay.

“The responsibility for this catastrophic result is mine,” Brazil coach

Luiz Felipe Scolari said. “I was in charge.”

It was Germany’s biggest World Cup win since routing Saudi Arabia 8-0 in a group match in 2002.

On Tuesday, with Bernard playing as the third striker in the place of Neymar, Brazil attacked from the start. But they failed to get any solid chances, and it wasn’t long before the Germans opened up the defence and started the rout.

Toni Kroos and Andre Schuerrle scored two goals each, while Thomas Mueller and Sami Khedira added the others.

Oscar pulled a late goal back for Brazil.

“Brazil was shocked after the goals, they did not expect that. They did not know what to do,” Loew said. “Their defence was not organized. A little humbleness would not hurt now.”

Klose scored his record goal in the 23rd minute to make it 2-0. The German had his original shot saved, but he followed up as Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar spilled the ball, easily scoring from the rebound.

Kroos scored his first goal in the 25th minute, knocking in a cross from

Connecting on another level PRUSS TWINS PUSH EACH OTHER TO BE BETTER WHICH GETS THEM GOOD RESULTS ON JUNIOR GOLF TOUR

Defending champion hurts wrist in spill at Tour de France KITTEL GETS ANOTHER STAGE WIN ON DAY FOUR

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Perhaps the biggest separation in the lives of Michael and Allan Pruss was the 10 minutes between their births.

The 18-year-old Red Deer twins have been mostly joined at the proverbial hip in their athletic ventures, and Tuesday afternoon at the Innisfail Junior Open, as part of the McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour, they finished second and third, respectively, in the junior boys 1995-97 division.

Michael shot a 5-over-77 while Allan came in at 7-over-79 in the gross — Michael Harrison won the event with a 2-over-74. The net was even closer as Michael (five handicap) tied Harrison at evenpar-72 and Allan (six handicap) shot a 1-over-73.

Their closeness extends to the hockey rink, where they played on different teams for the first time this winter — most of their life playing on the same line.

“People compared us (to Vancouver Canucks stars Daniel and Henrik Sedin), but I’d say we’re a little tougher than the Sedins,” joked Allan, the older of the two River Bend members. “We have that twin connection that most people don’t have.”

On the course, at least, there isn’t a lot of brotherly love. They compete against each other as much as they compete against anyone else.

The friendly rivalry has made them both better golfers.

“We’ve had matches going on forever, so it keeps it fun and competitive at the same time,” said Michael. “We learn things from each other and giving each other tips and tell the other one what we did wrong — it helped me become the golfer I am today by watching him and getting feedback from

Philipp Lahm that bypassed Mueller in the middle. He made it 4-0 a minute later, beating Cesar after a defensive mistake from Fernandinho left the ball on the feet of Khedira.

Mueller scored the first goal, onetiming a corner from Kroos past Cesar in the 11th minute. Khedira made it 5-0 in the 29th, taking a pass from Mesut Ozil and again beating Cesar.

“Today 10 minutes went wrong in the game and Germany did really well,” Scolari said. “It’s a chaotic and terrible defeat ... but we have to learn from it.”

Schuerrle, who came on for Klose in the 58th minute, scored from a cross by Lahm in the 69th, and then knocked a shot off the underside of the crossbar and into the net in the 79th.

It’s the first time Brazil had allowed five goals in a World Cup match since the 1938 tournament in France, when the team beat Poland 6-5 in extra time.

In previous World Cup semifinal matches, the largest margin of defeat was five goals, occurring on three occasions.

“The German quality is very, very high,” Scolari said. “This is not normal.”

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Photo by ASHLI BARRETT/Advocate staff

Michael Pruss of Red Deer makes a swing during the McLennan Ross Junior Golf Tour event at the Innisfail Golf Club Tuesday afternoon. him.”

For Michael, this was his best finish of the season, also previously having a strong tournament in Lacombe last week.

But this was Allan’s first tournament of the season after breaking his wrist while playing centre for the Red Deer Midget AAA Optimist Chiefs.

Both plan to hit as many tournaments as they can over the course of the summer, including getting in a couple of rounds in the Dominican Republic as part of their

graduation trip with their Notre Dame class.

The goal for the twins is to make a junior hockey team this fall. Michael, who played right wing with the Midget AA Chiefs last year, will be trying out for La Ronge Ice Wolves of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, with a backup plan to play for the Beaver Valley Nighthawks in the Kootenay International Junior B Hockey League.

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LILLE, France — Back on the race’s home turf after three days in England, the Tour de France faces a first possible shakeout Wednesday over the bonerattling cobblestones in northern France.

Many riders dreaded the forecast for rain, meaning the stones will be slick.

Defending champion Chris Froome scuffed his left knee and elbow and injured his wrist Tuesday during Stage 4, a crash that couldn’t have come at a worse time for him.

“Took quite a tumble today but I’ll definitely be starting tomorrow with no serious damage,” Froome said on Twitter: “It’ll be a tough one for everyone on the cobbles!”

Astana team leader Vincenzo Nibali of Italy kept the yellow jersey in what he called a “crazy race” — a 163.5-kilometre (101-mile) ride along the Belgian border. Froome and two-time champ Alberto Contador are among 20 riders trailing Nibali by two seconds.

KITTEL MAKES IT THREE Marcel Kittel got his third stage victory in this Tour and the seventh of his Tour career on Tuesday.

Unlike his wins in Stages 1 and 3, when he made victory look easy, Kittel won by a half-wheel length at the end of the ride from Le Touquet-Paris Plage to Lille Metropole.

Kittel, of the Giant-Shimano team, didn’t celebrate this time, but panted. The gesture at the line came from runner-up Alexander Kristoff of Norway, who swatted the air in frustration after being beaten by the barrelling German. French rider Arnaud Demare was third.

After a difficult day of crosswinds, pockets of rain-smattered roads, and jumpy nerves in the peloton, Kittel said: “It’s never easy ... (I was) lucky just enough at the finish line.”

THE CHAMP CRASHES Minutes into the stage, Team Sky leader Froome went tumbling after one rider bumped another — like a succession of dominoes — who crossed the Briton’s front wheel.

He skinned his left knee, left elbow and hurt his left wrist, but got back on his bike. Clinging to the race doctor’s car, he got bandaged and rejoined the pack.

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Louis’ late game heroics help Riggers stay unbeaten

Van Persie in doubt for Netherlands going into World Cup semifinal

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO, Brazil — Dutch captain and all-time top scorer Robin van Persie is in doubt for the World Cup semifinal against Argentina after succumbing to a stomach problem.

Van Persie trained separately on Tuesday with defender Daryl Janmaat and coach Louis van Gaal said both were suffering “stomach and intestinal problems.”

Van Gaal said he would not rush into deciding whether Van Persie is fit to play at Sao Paulo’s Itaquerao Stadium against the Lionel Messi-led Argentina.

“I have to make a decision tomorrow. I’m not going to do that today. We have more than a day,” Van Gaal said.

“Van Persie is a very important player for us.”

Van Persie scored three times in the first two Dutch matches of the World Cup, including a spectacular diving header against defending champion Spain that was instantly hailed as one of the goals of the tournament.

But the Manchester United striker has struggled to hit the same rich vein of form since being suspended for the Netherlands’ last Group B match after picking up two yellow cards.

Against Argentina, the prolific striker is looking to break a remarkable drought for a player of his calibre — he has never scored in the knockout stage of a major tournament.

In potential good news for the Dutch, midfield enforcer Nigel de Jong trained Tuesday and could play against Argentina, depending on how he feels Wednesday.

There were fears De Jong’s World Cup was over when he limped off early in the first half of the second-round match against Mexico and tests confirmed the day after the come-frombehind 2-1 victory that he had torn a groin muscle.

The team said he was likely out for two to four weeks, but De Jong battled back.

Van Gaal said the AC Milan midfielder would be checked Wednesday for possible adverse reactions to his training session, “and if they are such that he can play then a miracle will have happened.”

Centre back Ron Vlaar also returned to full training after injuring his knee in the penalty shootout victory over Costa Rica in the quarterfinals.

Van Gaal said he has developed a plan to beat Argentina in a semifinal that is a rematch of the 1978 World Cup final the Dutch lost 3-1 in extra time.

Riggers 10 Cubs 7 Power pitcher Reign Letkeman is happy to be home and the Red Deer Riggers are more than happy to have him on board.

The Red Deer minor baseball product suited up for his initial game with the Riggers Tuesday at Great Chief Park and helped the club post a 10-7 Sunburst Baseball League win over the Edmonton Cubs.

Jason Louis was the Riggers’ man of the hour — cranking a three-run, walk-off homer in the ninth inning to keep the home squad unbeaten at 150 — but Letkeman also played a role in the victory. The six-foot-two, 165-pound hurler worked a one-two-three eighth inning and then ran into some tough luck and gave up two runs in the ninth.

Letkeman retired the first two batters he faced in the top of the final frame, then walked Greg Brady and allowed a single by Ryan Thrasher.

He then fanned Cory Scammell, but the ball eluded Riggers catcher Jaret Chatwood to load the bases.

Dan Chappel followed with a tworun single up the middle to tie the game, setting the stage for Louis’ heroics.

“Just a bad hop with the ball going the wrong way, but it all worked out,” said Letkeman of the unfortunate bounce that extended the contest.

The former Red Deer midget AAA pitcher joined the Red Deer senior team after speaking with Davin Gulbransen, one of his former coaches and a Riggers veteran.

“He asked me to come out. There was an opening and I was just glad to join the team,” said Letkeman. “It’s good to be in town playing with good, quality guys. I can learn a lot because the guys are older. They can teach me a lot on and off the field.”

Letkeman played three years with the Red Deer Carstar Braves, then joined the Sherwood Park Athletics last year for his final season of midget AAA baseball.

“I wasn’t sure if there was going to be a (midget AAA) team in Red Deer because a lot of players were going to (baseball) academies,” he explained of his decision to hook up with the Athletics.

When his midget season ended, Let-

keman enrolled at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake, Wash., on a baseball scholarship and threw strikes for the Vikings. He’ll be back at Big Bend in the fall and hopes to move on to a bigger school down the road.

For now, he’s tickled to be with the top senior team in the province and is anticipating pitching for the Riggers at the Canadian championship tournament in Newfoundland in August.

“That’s going to be exciting. It’s nice to be a part of this team,” he said.

The Riggers broke a 5-5 tie in the eighth inning on an RBI sacrifice by Jason Chatwood and a passed ball that allowed Mark Fay to scamper home from third.

Jaret Chatwood cracked a pair of doubles for the winners, drove in a run and scored twice, while Mike Ronnie delivered a run-scoring single in the first frame and came through with a clutch two-run triple in the seventh.

Ronnie also contributed an RBI sacrifice.

Cory Scammel paced the visitors with a double off Riggers starting pitcher Gulbransen in the second inning, and a solo home run off Joel Peterman in the fourth. Riley Moskaluk, Clay Davis and Nick Yakimchuk had RBI hits as the Cubs struck for three runs in the second frame.

Gulbransen was touched for four runs on seven hits through the first three innings. Peterman worked the next three innings — giving up one run on three hits while recording three strikeouts — and Wyle Cunningham pitched a scoreless seventh.

The Riggers touched Cubs starter Moskaluk for five runs on seven hits through seven and one-third innings.

Matt Courneya releived Moskaluk and pitched the rest of the way. ● The Riggers head to B.C. today and will take on Everett, Wash., in their first game of the Kamloops tournament Thursday. Red Deer will face the host team a day later. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

ALBERTA JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP

Vold top Central Albertan after first round at provincial junior championships CALGARY — Kolby Vold of Wolf Creek fired a 76 and was five strokes off the lead heading into today’s second round of the Alberta junior boys golf championship at Bearspaw on Tuesday.

Jack Wood of Banff and Scott Walker of Calgary each shot a 71 to share the first-round lead.

In the junior girls provincials, Devon Spriddle of Leth-

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Mike Ronnie of the Red Deer Riggers heads for first base during Sunburst league action against the Confederation Park Cubs Tuesday evening.

their games very well usually score very well. You can shoot some good numbers, we’ve had a lot of good scores over the years, but we’ve had some blow ups too.”

Also in the junior boy’s 1995-97 division was Rylan Barbyck (River Bend) at 87 and Bryce Kopec (Red Deer Golf and Country Club) at 89.

Red Deer’s Clare McMahon (Balmoral) won the junior girl’s division with an 87 followed by two Innisfail golfers Nikki Norlin at 94 and Brodie Pillman at 121.

Korbin Allen (Nearfield) won the junior boys 1998-99 division with an 82 while Rocky Mountain House’s Brandon Maxwell (Pine Hills) was second with an 84.

Meanwhile, Jace Oulette (Innisfail) shot an 86, Jordan Williamson (Balmoral) a 92, and Paul Dutoit (Stettler) a 114.

St. Paul’s Justin Pasitney won the 14 and under boy’s division with an 81 while Sylvan Lake’s Tanner Smith shot an 85.

Other Central Alberta fin-

ishers included Crater Graff (RDGCC) with an 88, Samuel Hamelin (Stettler) at 89, Tyler Watt (Innisfail) at 90, Johan Bouwer (Stettler) at 93, Sylvan Lake’s Jordan Cook (Lakewood) at 94, Cole Beirkheim (Balmoral) at 96, Chase Broderson (Lacombe) at 99, Denver Smith (Sylvan Lake), Taylor Dobbs (Innisfail) and Brendon Grabo (Lacombe) at 101, Jayden Callan (Balmoral) at 108. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

Allan, meanwhile, will be trying his luck first with the Olds Grizzlys in the Alberta Junior Hockey League before joining his brother in La Ronge if it doesn’t work out.

While physicality is not the name of either of their games, they will need to get bigger.

Both are five-foot-nine while Allan weighs in at 160 pounds and Michael 155.

“I’d like to play college golf and hockey, that’s the ideal goal, so I’m going to do whatThen a teammate dropped ever I can to achieve that,” back to get a splint at Sky’s said Michael. car, and pedaled it up to the Next up for the twins is the ailing Froome.

McLennan Ross stop at the Race doctor Florence PomCarstairs Golf Club today. merie told French TV his injuInnisfail proved to be a ries amounted to “essentially huge test for the duo as the a few scratches.” challenging course was in terNibali, said his team inrific condition with the sun formed him through his earbeating down. piece about Froome’s mishap, “It could have been a lot and went back to see whether better, I hit it probably an he was OK. eight out of 10, but I struggled Froome responded, “more a little on the greens, but at or less,” according to the the end of the day it’s one of Italian. The Sky leader went the better rounds, so I’ll take straight into the team bus and it,” said Allan. “The conditions were mint, the greens were rolling and the fairways were spotless.”

For Michael, there are a few shots he wishes he could have back.

“I knew coming in I would have a chance for the win, and if I played as good as I could have been right up there,” he said.

“But I’m happy with second and Michael Harrison ... he played some great golf today.”

The rest of the field of • Bluetooth Handsfree • Mobile Video • iPod Integration 48 also struggled to mas• GPS Navigation Systems • Remote Starters • Custom Installation ter the grind of the course.

It has long been one of the • CERTIFIED INSTALLERS most difficult courses on the tour.

“It’s not overly long from the tees we play, but this is one of the tighter courses on the tour,” said tour executive Dunc Mills.

“The kids that manage

TOUR: Cobbles

bridge and Ella Williams of Calgary each carded an opening-round best score of 74. Daria and Shaye Leidenius of Wolf Creek were well back after respective rounds of 93 and 95.

Other Central Alberta first-round results: Boys — Chandler McDowell, Red Deer, 77; Logan Hill, Red Deer, 79; Jared Nicolls, Wolf Creek, 79; Jaxon Lynn, Sylvan Lake, 81; Matt Codd, Red Deer, 81; Ryan Morrell, Red Deer, 87, Grant Numrich, Red Deer, 87; Jeremy Rietze, Lacombe, 84.

Girls — Courtney Dickson, Innisfail, 110.

didn’t speak to reporters after the stage.

Dave Brailsford, the Sky team boss, said Froome described feeling good at the end. Froome was undergoing X-rays after the stage, but the team didn’t immediately comment on the results.

LOSE ENERGY AGAIN? In the sixth stage of the Criterium du Dauphine race last month, Froome took a spill during a descent and banged up a hip, shoulder and elbow.

The next day, he lost the race’s yellow jersey to Contador — citing stiffness in his thighs and a loss of energy from the crash.

An aching wrist could mean pain ahead for Froome.

The cobbles on Wednesday’s 155.5-kilometres (97-miles) from Ypres, Belgium, to Arenberg Port du Hainaut, could make it difficult for him to keep his hands on the handlebars. It includes stretches of bumpy road familiar to riders of the famed Paris-Roubaix one-day classic.

“It’s going to be a crazy stage for everyone tomorrow,” said Philippe Mauduit, a sports director for Contador’s Tinkoff-Saxo Bank team.

“We’ll do whatever we can to

stay near the front to avoid getting involved in crashes or held up by any pileups but that’s what everybody wants and therefore the pace will be extremely high.”

Said Nibali: “Tomorrow, we just have to make it through the day. ... Let’s hope it’s not raining.”

Before the fourth stage, 2010 winner Andy Schleck of Luxembourg dropped out because of an injury in a crash a day earlier.

On Sunday, British sprinter Mark Cavendish quit the race after crashing in the final sprint in Stage 1 and damaging his right shoulder.

Kittel has already acknowledged that his job is easier without Cavendish in the race.

The Giant-Shimano rider is not a threat for the yellow jersey: Kittel is not a good climber and lost nearly 20 minutes to Nibali in an up-and-down Stage 2.

Europcar rider Thomas Voeckler and Luis Mate, a Spaniard with Cofidis, jumped from the pack early in the stage, setting the pace. First Mate fell back and the Frenchman was overtaken by the pack with about 17 kilometres (10 miles) left.

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Scores Monday Gary Moe Volkswagen 10 Printing Place 6 Lacombe 10 Nighthawks 2 Major League Baseball

Baltimore Toronto New York Tampa Bay Boston

American League East Division W L Pct 49 40 .551 48 44 .524 45 44 .506 42 51 .452 39 51 .433

GB — 2 1/2 4 9 10 1/2

Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 49 37 .570 46 43 .517 44 45 .494 44 47 .484 40 49 .449

GB — 4 1/2 6 1/2 7 1/2 10 1/2

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Texas Houston

West Division W L Pct 57 33 .629 52 37 .586 49 41 .544 38 52 .422 38 54 .413

GB — 4 1/2 8 19 20

Monday’s Games Baltimore 8, Washington 2, 11 innings N.Y. Yankees 5, Cleveland 3 Chicago White Sox 4, Boston 0 Kansas City 6, Tampa Bay 0 Houston 12, Texas 7 Oakland 5, San Francisco 0 L.A. Angels 5, Toronto 2 Seattle 2, Minnesota 0 Tuesday’s Games Cleveland 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Baltimore at Washington, ppd., rain Detroit 14, L.A. Dodgers 5 Chicago White Sox 8, Boston 3 Tampa Bay 4, Kansas City 3 Houston 8, Texas 3 San Francisco 1, Oakland 6 Toronto 4, L.A. Angels 0 Minnesota 2, Seattle 0 Wednesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 11-4) at Detroit (Scherzer 10-3), 11:08 a.m.

Toronto (Stroman 4-2) at L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 8-6), 1:35 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (McCarthy 0-0) at Cleveland (Tomlin 5-6), 5:05 p.m.

Washington (Fister 7-2) at Baltimore (B.Norris 7-5), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Sale 8-1) at Boston (R.De La Rosa 2-2), 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Ventura 6-7) at Tampa Bay (Cobb 4-6), 5:10 p.m.

Houston (Keuchel 8-5) at Texas (Darvish 8-4), 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota (Gibson 7-7) at Seattle (Elias 7-7), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Hammel 0-0) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-7), 8:15 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Oakland at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m.

Chicago White Sox at Boston, 2:05 p.m.

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

Washington at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels at Texas, 6:05 p.m.

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

Minnesota at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia

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National League East Division W L Pct 48 40 .545 49 41 .544 44 46 .489 41 49 .456 39 51 .433

Central Division W L Pct 52 39 .571 49 42 .538 48 42 .533 47 43 .522 38 51 .427

GB — 3 3 1/2 4 1/2 13

West Division W L Pct 51 41 .554 49 41 .543 40 50 .444 38 53 .418 38 54 .413

GB — 1 10 12 1/2 13

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Colorado Arizona

Monday’s Games Baltimore 8, Washington 2, 11 innings N.Y. Mets 4, Atlanta 3, 11 innings Cincinnati 9, Chicago Cubs 3 Philadelphia 3, Milwaukee 2 St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 6, Colorado 1 Arizona 9, Miami 1 Oakland 5, San Francisco 0 Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 4, Chicago Cubs 2, 1st game Baltimore at Washington, ppd., rain Detroit 14, L.A. Dodgers 5 N.Y. Mets 8, Atlanta 3 Cincinnati 6, Chicago Cubs 5, 2nd game Philadelphia 9, Milwaukee 7 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4 Colorado 2, San Diego 1 Miami 2, Arizona 1 San Francisco 1, Oakland 6

Thursday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Cincinnati, 10:35 a.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 12:10 p.m.

Oakland at San Francisco, 1:45 p.m.

Washington at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta at N.Y. Mets, 5:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at St. Louis, 5:15 p.m.

San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 210 000 000 — 3 4 0 Cleveland 100 012 10x — 5 10 3 Tanaka, Thornton (7), Kelley (8) and McCann; Bauer, Shaw (8), Allen (9) and Y.Gomes. W—Bauer 3-4.

L—Tanaka 12-4. Sv—Allen (10). HRs—Cleveland, Swisher (7), Brantley (14).

Chicago 020 102 003 — 8 12 0 Boston 000 030 000 — 3 10 2 Joh.Danks, Belisario (6), Surkamp (9) and Flowers; Workman, A.Miller (8), Badenhop (9), Breslow (9) and D.Ross. W—Joh.Danks 8-6. L—Workman 1-3.

HRs—Chicago, Gillaspie (2).

201 010

Minnesota 000 010 010 — 2 8 0 Seattle 000 000 000 — 0 8 0 P.Hughes, Fien (8), Perkins (9) and K.Suzuki; C.Young, Medina (8), Beimel (9) and Zunino. W—P. Hughes 9-5. L—C.Young 8-5. Sv—Perkins (21).

HRs—Minnesota, Fuld (2).

San Fran. 000 000 100 — 1 8 1 Oakland 004 000 02x — 6 11 0 Bumgarner, Machi (8) and Posey; Gray, Gregerson (8), Cook (9) and D.Norris. W—Gray 9-3. L—Bumgarner 9-7. HRs—San Francisco, Colvin (2).

Wednesday’s Games L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 11-4) at Detroit (Scherzer 10-3), 11:08 a.m.

San Diego (Stults 3-11) at Colorado (Jurrjens 0-1), 1:10 p.m.

Miami (Eovaldi 5-4) at Arizona (Collmenter 7-5), 1:40 p.m.

Washington (Fister 7-2) at Baltimore (B.Norris 7-5), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (E.Santana 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (Gee 3-1), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Beeler 0-1) at Cincinnati (Simon 11-3), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (R.Hernandez 3-8) at Milwaukee (Lohse 9-3), 6:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Cumpton 3-2) at St. Louis (Lynn 9-6), 6:15 p.m.

Oakland (Hammel 0-0) at San Francisco (M.Cain 1-7), 8:15 p.m.

Houston Texas

Toronto 000 010 210 — 4 14 0 LAA 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Dickey, McGowan (8), Loup (9) and Thole; Skaggs, Morin (7), Bedrosian (9) and Iannetta. W—Dickey 7-8. L—Skaggs 4-5. HRs—Toronto, Reyes (7).

INTERLEAGUE LAD 500 000 000 — 5 7 0 Detroit 052 410 20x — 14 20 0 Ryu, J.Wright (3), C.Perez (4), Maholm (5), Baez (8) and A.Ellis; Verlander, Alburquerque (7), Krol (8), C.Smith (9) and Avila, Holaday. W—Verlander 8-7.

L—Ryu 9-5. HRs—Los Angeles, Uribe (5).

Kan. City 000 010 002 — 3 13 0 Tampa Bay 000 002 02x — 4 8 0 Vargas, Crow (6), Bueno (8) and S.Perez; Hellickson, Boxberger (5), Balfour (7), Jo.Peralta (8), McGee (8) and Hanigan. W—Boxberger 2-1. L—Vargas 8-4. Sv—McGee (6).

GB — — 5 8 10

Peacock, D.Downs (6), Zeid (7), Sipp (7), Fields (7), Qualls (9) and Corporan; Irwin, Feliz (5), Sh.Tolleson (7), Poreda (7), Mendez (8) and Gimenez. W— Peacock 3-5. L—Irwin 0-1. HRs—Houston, Springer (18), Carter 2 (17). Texas, L.Martin (5).

001 100

130 100

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8 12 3 9

0 0 3 3 0 0 2 2 2 2

5 9 0 0 8 3 0 0 0 0

6 4 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 0

2 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0

0 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE First Game Chicago 000 002 000 — 2 7 1 Cincinnati 300 001 00x — 4 11 0 T.Wood, Schlitter (6), Grimm (7), N.Ramirez (8) and Jo.Baker; Cueto, M.Parra (7), Ju.Diaz (8), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco. W—Cueto 9-6. L—T. Wood 7-7. Sv—A.Chapman (18). HRs—Chicago, Coghlan (3), Sweeney (1). Cincinnati, Bruce (10).

Atlanta 000 000 012 — 3 13 0 New York 131 001 11x — 8 18 1 Teheran, Hale (4), D.Carpenter (7) and Bethancourt; deGrom, Carlyle (8), Eveland (8), Familia (9) and d’Arnaud. W—deGrom 2-5. L—Teheran 8-6. HRs— New York, Granderson (14).

Second Game Chicago 023 000 000 — 5 11 1 Cincinnati 000 011 211 — 6 12 0 Wada, Schlitter (6), W.Wright (7), Villanueva (7), Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and Castillo; Holmberg, Contreras (3), Hoover (6), Ondrusek (8) and Barnhart, Mesoraco. W—Ondrusek 3-2. L—H.Rondon 1-3. HRs—Chicago, Coghlan (4), Rizzo (19), Olt (12).

Phila.

151 020 000 — 9 10 0 Milwaukee 500 002 000 — 7 13 0 K.Kendrick, De Fratus (6), Diekman (7), Giles (8), Papelbon (9) and K.Hill; W.Peralta, Gorzelanny (5), Kintzler (6), Duke (7), Wang (8), Fr.Rodriguez (9) and Lucroy. W—K.Kendrick 4-8. L—W.Peralta 9-6.

Sv—Papelbon (21). HRs—Philadelphia, D.Brown (6). Milwaukee, Gennett (7), Overbay (4), Mar.Reynolds (14).

Pittsburgh 000 220 000 — 4 9 0 St. Louis 020 020 001 — 5 11 0 Worley, J.Hughes (6), Watson (8), Frieri (9) and R.Martin; C.Martinez, Choate (7), Maness (7), Neshek (8), Rosenthal (9) and Y.Molina. W—Rosenthal 1-4. L—Frieri 1-1. HRs—Pittsburgh, P.Alvarez (14), A.McCutchen (14). St. Louis, Wong (3).

San Diego 000 001 000 — 1 8 0 Colorado 002 000 00x — 2 7 0 T.Ross, Thayer (7), A.Torres (8), Boyer (8) and Rivera; F.Morales, B.Brown (6), Brothers (7), Ottavino (8), Hawkins (9) and Rosario. W—F.Morales 5-4. L—T.Ross 7-9. Sv—Hawkins (16). HRs—San Diego, Rivera (6). Colorado, Blackmon (13).

Miami 000 000 002 — 2 5 3 Arizona 000 010 000 — 1 9 0 Hand, S.Dyson (7), Morris (8), M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9) and Saltalamacchia; Nuno, Ziegler (8), A.Reed (9) and Gosewisch. W—M.Dunn 7-4. L—A.Reed 1-5. Sv—Cishek (20). HRs—Miami, Ozuna (15).

Football Toronto Montreal Ottawa Hamilton

GP 2 2 1 2

CFL East Division W L T 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0

PF 69 32 28 34

PA 60 38 36 59

Pt 2 2 0 0

Winnipeg Edmonton Calgary Sask.

B.C.

GP 2 2 1 2 2

West Division W L T 2 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0

PF 81 55 29 46 29

PA 49 44 8 58 51

Pt 4 4 2 2 0

Week 3 Friday, July 11 Winnipeg at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Friday, July 11 Ottawa at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 12 Calgary at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

B.C. at Saskatchewan, 7:30 p.m.

Week 4 Thursday, July 17 Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, July 18 Toronto at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Hamilton at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Saturday, July 19 Montreal at B.C., 5 p.m.

Shaw, Edm Hajrullahu, Wpg Allen, Sask Grigsby, Wpg Waters, Tor Whyte, Mtl Barnes, Tor Gable, Ham Kelly, Wpg Owens, Tor

25 21 18 18 15 14 12 12 12 12

Statistics Through Week Two TORONTO — 2014 CFL statistics as provided by the league (through Week Two): RUSHING Att Yards Avg Long TD Allen Sask 36 224 6.2 19 1 Grigsby Wpg 35 184 5.3 25 3 Whitaker Mtl 24 135 5.6 32 1 Thomas Edm 21 73 3.5 14 0 Steele Tor 11 69 6.3 19 2 Cornish Cgy 14 67 4.8 18 1 Harris BC 18 63 3.5 11 0 Walker Ott 15 62 4.1 17 1 Reilly Edm 6 55 9.2 20 0 Smith Mtl 6 55 9.2 21 0

Canadian Football League Leaders TORONTO — Unofficial 2014 CFL scoring leaders following Week Two (x—scored two-point convert): TD C FG S Pt

Blue Jays end Angels’ 11-game home win streak, end own losing streak THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 4 Angels 0 ANAHEIM, Calif. — R.A. Dickey scattered four hits over seven innings for his first victory in over a month, Jose Reyes homered and drove in three runs and the Toronto Blue Jays ended a season-worst five-game skid Tuesday night with a 4-0 win over the Los Ange-

Ray Willy Reilly Durant Glenn Smith Mitchell Burris Collaros

Tor Wpg Edm Sask BC Mtl Cgy Ott Ham

Cmp 56 40 51 32 31 35 16 17 23

Att 75 60 75 51 53 70 25 30 41

Pct Yards TD Ints Rat 74.7 690 5 0 124.9 66.7 615 4 2 108.7 68 482 4 2 92.2 62.7 431 4 3 91.2 58.5 410 2 6 48.5 50 341 0 1 58.1 64 313 2 0 134.3 56.7 241 2 0 105.0 56.1 212 1 2 58.2

TEAM OFFENCE (Totals include losses) Toronto Calgary Winnipeg Saskatchewan Ottawa Edmonton Montreal B.C. Hamilton

Pass 690 313 634 467 241 485 341 438 400

Rush Avg./Gm. 203 446.5 116 429.0 199 416.5 280 373.5 86 327.0 135 310.0 263 302.0 135 286.5 143 271.5

Pass 154 389 492 524 500 419 307 566 658

Rush Avg./Gm. 60 214.0 216 302.5 155 323.5 128 326.0 197 348.5 286 352.5 67 374.0 203 384.5 248 453.0

TEAM DEFENCE (Totals include losses)

RECEIVING Owens Kelly Bowman Durie Moore Stamps Jackson Harris Price

PASSING

Tor Wpg Edm Tor Wpg Edm BC BC Cgy

No. Yards 19 237 8 163 12 144 10 130 7 120 7 114 7 110 6 102 1 102

Avg Long TD 12.5 49 1 20.4 47 2 12 35 1 13 34 0 17.1 51 0 16.3 42 1 15.7 38 0 17 55 1 102 102 1

Calgary Hamilton Edmonton Winnipeg Montreal B.C. Ottawa Saskatchewan Toronto

les Angels.

The Blue Jays also snapped a sevengame road losing streak and ended the Angels’ 11-game home winning streak, which fell one shy of the franchise record set in 1967.

Dickey (7-8) struck out five and walked one after losing his previous four starts. The 2012 NL Cy young Award winner got back in the win column for the first time since beating the Tigers on June 4.

The Blue Jays climbed within 2 1-2 games of the AL East-leading Baltimore Orioles, who were rained out at Washington.

Dickey allowed only two Angels

Today

Friday

● Parkland baseball: Red Deer at Eckville, Rocky Mountain House at Innisfail, 7 p.m.

● Parkland baseball: Rocky Mountain House at Red Deer, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1; Lacombe at Innisfail, 7 p.m.

Thursday ● Senior men’s baseball: The Hideout vs. Printing Place, Gary Moe Volkswagen vs. North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Women’s fastball: Topco Oilsite vs.

Alberta Kaizen, Lacombe Physio vs.

Alberta Kaizen, 7 and 8:45 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2; North Star Sports vs. Snell and Oslund, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 2; TNT at Stettler, 7 p.m.

Saturday ● Bantam AAA baseball: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, doubleheader starting at noon, Great Chief Park 2.

Sunday ● Bantam AAA baseball: Sherwood Park at Red Deer, 10 a.m., Great Chief Park 2. ● Major women’s soccer: Lethbridge FC at Red Deer, noon, Edgar Park.

Soccer FIFA WORLD CUP At Brazil Round of 16 Saturday, June 28 Brazil 1 Chile 1 (so Brazil 3 Chile 2) Colombia 2 Uruguay 0 Sunday, June 29 Netherlands 2 Mexico 1 Costa Rica 1 Greece 1 (so Costa Rica 5 Greece 3) Monday, June 30 France 2 Nigeria 0 Germany 2 Algeria 1 (OT) Tuesday, July 1 Argentina 1 Switzerland 0 (OT) Belgium 2 United States 1 (OT) Quarterfinal Friday, July 4 France 0 Germany 1 Brazil 2 Colombia 1 Saturday, July 5 Argentina 1 Belgium 0 Netherlands 0 Costa Rica 0 (so Netherlands 4 Costa Rica 3)

7 7 6 4 4 5 4 2 3

5 7 5 5 5 10 8 4 8

5 2 3 8 8 3 6 10 5

23 23 19 26 19 18 26 24 16

15 23 18 26 19 34 30 27 27

26 23 21 20 20 18 18 16 14

Western Conference GP W L T GF 17 11 4 2 33 17 7 3 7 27 17 7 5 5 24 19 7 7 5 30 16 6 3 7 26 14 5 3 6 19 18 4 5 9 30 17 5 7 5 17 15 4 7 4 15

GA 24 23 19 29 22 13 30 26 16

Pt 35 28 26 26 25 21 21 20 16

Saturday, July 12 Colorado at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Columbus at New York, 5 p.m.

Houston at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Chicago at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Kansas City at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Chivas at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Salt Lake at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Third Place Game Saturday, July 12 TBAA at Brazil, 2 p.m.

Sunday, July 13 Portland at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Final Sunday, July 13 TBAA at Germany, 1 p.m.

D.C.

Seattle Salt Lake Colorado Dallas Vancouver Los Angeles Portland Chivas San Jose

17 16 14 17 17 18 18 16 16

Friday’s games D.C. at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Semifinal Tuesday, July 8 Brazil 1 Germany 7 Wednesday, July 9 Argentina at Netherlands, 2 p.m.

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF 17 8 5 4 24

Kansas City New England Toronto New York Columbus Houston Philadelphia Chicago Montreal

GA 18

Pt 28

Wednesday, July 16 New York at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Toronto, 6 p.m.

New England at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Agreed to terms with C Ryan Plourde on a minor league contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Placed RHP Justin Masterson on the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Tyler Holt to Columbus (IL). Designated RHP Mark Lowe for assignment. Selected the contract of C Roberto Perez from Columbus. Recalled LHP Nick Hagadone from Columbus.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Placed OF Alex Presley on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sunday. Recalled OF Robbie Grossman from Oklahoma City (PCL).

Agreed to terms with OF Ronny Ramirez on a minor league contract.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with LHP Joe Saunders on a minor league contract and will assign him to Omaha (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Placed RHP Ricky Nolasco on the 15-day DL. Recalled C-OF Chris Herrmann from Rochester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned RHP Bruce Billings to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Designated C John Buck for assignment. Agreed to terms with RHP Brett Ash on a minor league contract. Recalled C Jesus Sucre from Tacoma (PCL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned LHP Jeff Beliveau to Durham (IL). Reinstated RHP Jeremy Hellickson from the 15-day DL and LHP Cesar Ramos from paternity leave.

TEXAS RANGERS — Placed RHP Nick Martinez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to July 2. Recalled RHP Phil Irwin from Round Rock (PCL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent OF Mark Trumbo to Reno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent RHP Pedro Beato to Gwinnett (IL) for a rehab assignment.

CHICAGO CUBS — Recalled LHP Tsuyoshi Wada from Iowa (PCL).

CINCINNATI REDS — Placed 1B Joey Votto on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Sunday. Reinstated C Brayan Pena from paternity leave. Recalled LHP David Holmberg from Louisville (IL). Sent 3B Jack Hannahan to Dayton (MWL) for a rehab assignment.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent OF Carlos Gonzalez to Colorado Springs (PCL) for a rehab assignment. Recalled UTL Kyle Parker from Colorado Springs. Optioned LHP Yohan Flande to the Colorado Springs.

to reach base through the first six innings. He gave up a one-out single to Erick Aybar in the second and a walk to Chris Iannetta two batters later before retiring Collin Cowgill on a flyball to end the threat.

It was the first of 12 consecutive outs for the knuckleballer before Mike Trout doubled to left field with two outs in the sixth and was thrown out at third by Melky Cabrera.

Tyler Skaggs (4-5) gave up three runs and 11 hits over 6 2-3 innings in his second start off the disabled list, after missing 23 games because of a right hamstring strain. The left-hander, pitching at Angel Stadium for the first

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Placed RHP Josh Beckett on the 15-day DL, retroactive to Monday. Recalled RHP Pedro Baez from Albuquerque (PCL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Sent LHP Francisco Liriano to Indianapolis (IL) for a rehab assignment.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Sent 2B Marco Scutaro to Fresno (PCL) for a rehab assignment.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES — Signed G Zach LaVine.

FOOTBALL Canadian Football League EDMONTON ESKIMOS — Signed RB Noel Devine.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Re-signed D Alex Grant to a one-year, two-way contract.

TORONTO ARGONAUTS — Signed OT Chris Van Zeyl to a contract extension.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Re-signed C Sean Collins to a one-year contract.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Agreed to terms with C Brett Olson and D Greg Zanon on one-year contracts.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Signed D Anthony Bitetto to a one-year, two-way contract.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Renewed their affiliation agreement with Stockton (ECHL) for the 2014-15 season.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Re-signed D Alex Grant to a one-year contract.

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Re-signed F James Sheppard to a one-year contract.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Signed D Matt Corrente to a one-year, two-way contract. Re-signed F Cody Kunyk to a one-year, two-way contract.

ECHL GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Signed Fs Marshall Everson and Randy Cameron.

READING ROYALS — Agreed to terms with D Bryant Molle on a one-year contract.

MOTORSPORTS NASCAR — Fined Stewart-Haas Racing crew chief Daniel Knost $10,000 because the track bar on Kurt Busch’s Chevrolet exceeded the maximum separation. Docked Kurt Busch 10 driver points and Gene Haas 10 owner points for the infraction.

SOCCER Major League Soccer SPORTING KANSAS CITY — Signed MF Michael Kafari.

time since May 20, is 0-4 with a 4.18 ERA in his last five starts overall.

Nolan Reimold, acquired Sunday off waivers from Baltimore, made his second start in right field as Jose Bautista remained at first base for the injured Edwin Encarnacion. Reimould doubled his first two times up.

Reyes opened the scoring in the fifth with an RBI single that snapped Toronto’s 0-for-25 drought with runners in scoring position.

Reyes increased the margin to 3-0, driving Skaggs’ 100th pitch into the left field bullpen with two outs in the seventh after a single by Munenori Kawasaki.

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Pospisil wants to build on Grand Slam title WIMBLEDON DOUBLES CHAMP ENJOYED SUCCESS WITH NEW PARTNER

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Canada’s Vasek Pospisil has usually just played a little doubles on the side throughout his tennis career.

That will change now that he’s a Wimbledon champion.

Pospisil teamed with American Jack Sock for the first time this month and the results were staggering.

They pulled off upset after upset at the All England Club and capped their stunning run by topping the best men’s doubles team of all-time in the final.

“We were kind of joking around about it a little bit when we decided to sign up — that we’d go for the title,” Pospisil said Tuesday on a conference call. “Joking — but actually believing in it a little bit. I think if we didn’t believe we could do it I don’t think we’d be standing here with the trophy ... we definitely knew it was possible but we wouldn’t put money on it.”

Pospisil, from Vancouver, and Sock are big hitters who used their strong service games and volley skills to their advantage at the Grand Slam event. They’re young, tall and powerful and had no pressure as an unseeded duo.

The final was a five-set thriller that lasted over three hours, as Pospisil and Sock beat top seeds and defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan of the United States 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

“We celebrated probably from the moment we got into the locker-room — the champagne was flowing,” Pospisil said. “We had a really great night with friends and family.”

Singles play will still be Pospisil’s primary focus but he plans to team with Sock for the rest of the season, including the U.S. Open and possibly the seasonending doubles championships.

Pospisil lost his first-round singles match at Wimbledon before giving doubles his full attention. It didn’t take long for him to develop some on-court chemistry with Sock.

“It was just one of those things, we didn’t even really practise or anything,” Pospisil said.

“The first time we hit was before our first-round match. I think we just got along really well and our personalities seemed to match really well. We had a lot of fun on the court. I think that was the main thing.

“From the very first round we were just laughing and enjoying ourselves and trying not to take it too seriously but at the same time wanting to win.”

With Sock’s booming forehand and Pospisil’s aggressive net play, they quickly found their groove.

They were pushed to five sets in the second round before knocking off eighth-seeded Rohan Bopanna of India and Aisam Qureshi of Pakistan. Second-seeded Alexander Peya of Austria and Brazil’s Bruno Soares fell in a four-set quarter-final.

In the semifinal, Pospisil and Sock surprised fifth seeds Leander Paes of India and Radek Stepanek of the Czech Republic in straight sets before they denied the Bryan twins their 16th Grand Slam doubles

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Vasek Pospisil of Canada, right, and Jack Sock of the U.S hold up their trophies after defeating Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan of the U.S in the men’s doubles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Saturday July 5, 2014. title and 99th overall.

Pospisil and Sock saved four match points in the final set before the American hit a winner down the line for the victory.

“Our games fit extremely well, they complemented each other really well the whole tournament,” Pospisil said. “Our personalities by the end of two weeks, we pretty much went from not knowing each other too well at all to being best friends.”

They were the first team since 2000 (Lleyton Hewitt and Max Mirnyi) to win a Grand Slam title in their first tournament together. It was the first time a Canadian had played in the Wimbledon men’s doubles final since 2009, when Toronto’s Daniel Nestor teamed with Nenad Zimonjic to win their second All England Club title.

Pospisil and Sock first broached the subject of teaming up about six weeks ago, but Pospisil didn’t know if he’d be able to play due to a nagging back injury.

Captains name teams for MLB Home Run Derby

James still mum on future plans but things heating up in NBA free agency

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAS VEGAS — LeBron James worked out and had a meeting agenda Tuesday.

In another summer of NBA Free Agent Frenziness, if James knows where he will be playing next season, he still isn’t saying.

Asked by The Associated Press how free agency was going when his afternoon meeting agenda was apparently complete, the four-time MVP said “no complaints.” He offered a quick greeting, and provided no hints of anything — including when his next “Decision” will be known — before leaving with a wave.

The entire exchange lasted about eight seconds. James, who has been relatively quiet while weighing his options, never broke stride.

He was upstairs in an exclusive part of a Las Vegas hotel Tuesday, holding court for a little more than three hours before emerging in the lobby, walking toward his assembled brain trust — including longtime manager Maverick Carter and Nike representatives, a sponsor of the LeBron James Skills Academy he’ll be hosting in Las Vegas starting Wednesday — and got whisked away.

James is expected to meet with Miami Heat President Pat Riley before making a final decision on his NBA future, and a person close to the situation said that meeting had not happened as of Tuesday afternoon. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no one has publicly announced the date of the meeting.

Some of James’ representatives have met with several teams, including the Cleveland Cavaliers.

After filming a TV commercial in

The Canadian was pain-free in the days leading up to Wimbledon and they gave it a go.

“The timing was pretty amazing,” Pospisil said. “It was a pretty fortunate pairing that we got together and that he decided to take that chance. I think I told him like 50-50 at the time but it was probably more like 60-70 per cent that I wouldn’t play.

“It just ended up working out very well.”

It was the first Centre Court appearance for both the 24-year-old Pospisil and Sock, who’s 21. Sock has had Grand Slam doubles success in the past, teaming with fellow American Melanie Oudin to win the mixed title at the 2011 U.S. Open.

Pospisil’s previous best Grand Slam doubles results were round of 16 appearances last year with Ottawa’s Jesse Levine at Wimbledon and with Nestor at the U.S. Open.

The Canadian currently holds the No. 33 position in both the singles and doubles world rankings. Sock is ranked 31st in doubles and 76th in singles.

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Coral Gables, Florida on Monday, James flew to Las Vegas, which was planned because of his academy. Later this week, he’s expected to travel to Brazil to the World Cup final.

He took time to Tuesday morning to work out with Dwyane Wade in Las Vegas before his meetings, another person close to the situation told the AP. Like James, Wade has also not announced his plans for next season and beyond, though it is still largely expected that the 2006 NBA Finals MVP and three-time champion will remain in Miami.

James’ future remains anyone’s guess.

And it appears the buildup to his second foray into free-agent craziness will last longer than the one that culminated in him going to Miami in 2010.

He made that announcement on July 8, 2010 — exactly four years ago Tuesday.

Unlike 2010, James has kept a much lower profile during his courtship.

While he was on a family vacation, his agent, Rich Paul, met in Cleveland with the Cavs as well as the Houston Rockets, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns, all of whom pitched plans as to why the 29-year-old superstar should sign with them.

James wanted to contain the madness that surrounded his first foray into free agency four years ago, but the growth of social media has turned the past week into an endless storm of rumours, speculation and baseless media reports.

While James may be nearing an announcement, that won’t come until he’s met with Riley. And the Heat have been making moves as well, announcing Monday that they intend to sign forwards Danny Granger and Josh McRoberts, two free agents to bolster their roster.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Jose Bautista and Troy Tulowitzki have announced three members of their respective teams for Monday night’s Home Run Derby at Target Field.

Joining Bautista on the American League team are Oakland’s Yoenis Cespedes, who was last year’s Derby winner, Baltimore’s Adam Jones and Brian Dozier of the host Twins.

Tulowitzki will have Miami’s Giancarlo Stanton, who entered Tuesday leading the National League in homers, the Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig and Cincinnati’s Todd Frazier on his side.

“Bunch of guys with a lot of power,” Tulowitzki said. “More than that, I think they’re good guys, got to know them throughout the years.”

The final competitor in each league will be announced on Thursday.

Justin Morneau, Tulowitzki’s teammate with the Rockies who began his career with the Twins, is a possibility for the last NL selection. Morneau is one of five candidates in the online vote for the final spot on the NL All-

Star team.

“If he wins that final vote, there’s possibly a chance,” Tulowitzki said.

“I think it would make a story line.

Played with the Twins all those years.

He’s definitely on the list if he makes the team. There are some other guys as well that have lobbied and would be good choices.”

Tulowitzki said he is not sure if Morneau would want to participate in the Derby if he is not selected for the All-Star team.

The Derby will have a new format this year. There will be a maximum of seven outs per round and bracketed play after the first round. The player who hits the most home runs in each league in the first round will receive a bye to the third round.

The next two players from each league with the most home runs will meet in a head-to-head matchup in the second round. The winners of these matchups will advance to the third round. The final round will feature those winners going head to head.

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Anderson hold no grudges against Riders VETERAN DEFENSIVE BACK READY TO PLY TRADE WITH ARGOS AFTER TRADE

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Dwight Anderson holds no grudges against the Saskatchewan Roughriders but won’t be taking it easy on his former teammates.

The veteran defensive back attended his first practice with the Toronto Argonauts on Tuesday, a day after being dealt by the Riders for a conditional 2015 draft pick. The Argos spoiled Anderson’s 33rd birthday Saturday with a lopsided 48-15 home win over Saskatchewan.

Anderson spent most of Tuesday’s practice — cut short by thunder and rain — watching and talking with head coach Scott Milanovich, defensive co-ordinator Tim Burke and defensive backs coach Eddie Brown. The expectation is the two-time Grey Cup champion (’08 with Calgary, last year with Saskatchewan) will play Saturday when Toronto hosts the Calgary Stampeders.

Anderson won’t have to wait long to face the Riders.

Toronto visits Regina on July 26.

Anderson understood when he arrived in Saskatchewan as a free agent prior to the ’13 season he wouldn’t be there long. He was signed to help the Riders win a Grey Cup, a goal they achieved last November by beating Hamilton 45-23 at Mosaic Stadium.

While Anderson was somewhat surprised at the timing of the move, he wasn’t shocked

by Saskatchewan’s decision to get younger in its secondary.

“We understand what the journey was there, it was to come in and win a championship,” Anderson said. “We got the win like we said we were coming in to do, then they decided they were going to go younger.

“We understand that, that’s part of the business.”

Anderson hasn’t circled July 26 on his calendar but won’t be cutting the home team any slack, either.

“They told me not to come back and hurt them too bad,” Anderson said with a chuckle.

“But I’m pretty sure that’s part of the plan.”

CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE Anderson left Regina with a real appreciation for the province’s rabid football fans.

“Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are the major cities in Canada but Regina to me is a football town,” he said.

“Everything is about that team there.

“That’s pretty much what you like about it, just the fan base and how they support football.”

Toronto acquired the fivefoot-11 188-pound Anderson to bring experience and veteran savvy to a young defence. The Argos have just four defensive starters from last year and just one — defensive back Jalil Carter — from their ’12 Grey Cup-winning unit.

The trade also reunites the colourful Anderson, regarded as the CFL’s top trash talker, with Milanovich, Burke and Argos GM Jim Barker.

Milanovich and Burke were assistant coaches with Montreal when Anderson was there while Barker was in Calgary’s front office in 2008.

“He’s a veteran, a riverboat gambler,” Milanovich said.

“He’s very instinctive, I think he’s a very intelligent football player who understands pattern reading and how an offence is trying to attack him and that gives him the opportunity to jump routes and make big plays.

“Hopefully he will bring that to our team with some attitude, swagger and confidence.”

Anderson said he was at home relaxing when he got the call from Riders GM Brendan Taman.

“We went over it (trade to Toronto) and discussed it before anything went down,” Anderson said. “He asked me how I felt about it and I was like, ’I’m cool with it,’ because I knew Jim and Scott were here already.

“It wasn’t out of the blue ... we actually sat down and talked about it.”

Anderson made headlines for the wrong reasons in August 2013 when he and former

Riders teammate Taj Smith were accused of beating a man outside a Regina nightclub.

Smith was ordered to stand trial but a judge told Anderson there wasn’t enough evidence against him.

Milanovich feels Anderson is “misunderstood,” because of his past troubles but has said Anderson’s teammates enjoy having him on their side.

“He said it right on point,” Anderson said of Milanovich’s assessment. “The outsiders are going to say what they want to say.

“I could be saying, ’How you doin’,’ and (critics will say) D.A. is talking trash. At the end of the day I don’t worry about it. I just worry about the locker-room, what I have to take care of on the field and just go about my business.”

Although he watched most of Tuesday’s practice, Anderson said he’s familiar with Toronto’s defence given his association with Burke in Montreal.

“It’s all coming back,” he said. “I’ve been around this league long enough.

“It’s just different terminologies. Once I get the names and stuff down, I’ll be rolling faster.”

Anderson welcomes being a mentor for Toronto’s young defensive backs.

“It’s coming in and being a leader, showing the young guys the way, just doing what I do and showing them how it’s done in the league,” he said.

“That’s my little input, my little piece to the puzzle.”

And while he’s with a different team in a different city, Anderson won’t change how he plays the game.

“D.A. is always going to be D.A.,” he said.

“That’s what I do, oh yeah, that (talking) never stops. That fuels me, that gives me my energy.

“It’s just you can’t get too many penalties, that’s what you’re all talking about right?

You don’t have to worry about that.”

Anderson also won’t have

One person hurt, horse dies in chuckwagon training runs at Calgary Stampede

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — One person was hurt and a horse has died during separate chuckwagon training exercises at the Calgary Stampede.

The Stampede said driver Tim Haroldson was a passenger on a wagon driven by fellow driver Jerry Bremner.

The wagon rolled Tuesday while coming around one of the barrels during training, and Haroldson was thrown.

He was taken to hospital for evaluation and treatment.

Bremner was not injured.

In a separate incident, a 12-year-old horse belonging to the team of Reg Johnstone collapsed after completing a run.

No other horses were injured.

“We are hoping for the best for Tim,” Paul Rosenberg, vice-president programming at the Calgary Stampede, said in a news release.

The Stampede is reviewing the circumstances of the crash to determine what happened. Initial indications are that there was nothing out of the ordinary with the wagon, the horses or the

tack.

The Stampede said the horse that died, which was named Denny, had last raced about a week ago at the Ponoka Stampede.

Late Tuesday, the Stampede said on its website that an autopsy has determined the horse died of a ruptured aneurysm.

The death of the horse prompted the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies to call on the Calgary Stampede to immediately end the annual chuckwagon races.

The federation said since 1986 at least 60 animals have died or been injured at the event, half of which have been related to the chuckwagon races.

“Ironically, chuckwagon racing is not an event that is recognized by the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association,” the federation said in a release.

“The sole purpose of the chuckwagon races appears to be excitement, show and entertainment at the expense of the life of an animal.”

The federation said chuckwagon races reflect a shift in tradition from protecting the welfare of horses to profiting from their stress and suffering.

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Defensive back Dwight Anderson speaks with media following the morning Saskatchewan Roughriders’ training camp in Saskatoon, Sask., on June 1, 2014. The Toronto Argonauts have acquired international defensive back Dwight Anderson from the Saskatchewan Roughriders in exchange for a conditional pick in the 2015 CFL Draft. to worry about facing Argos quarterback Ricky Ray, who threw for 407 yards and three TDs Saturday and last year completed a CFL-record 77.2 per cent of his passes.

“He (Ray) is a grandfather in the league right now,” Anderson said. “I’ve played with a grandfather before in Anthony (former Montreal starter Anthony Calvillo) so I know how it is to play with a great quarterback.

“I don’t have to worry about those corner routes or anything like that anymore.”

Anderson said the Riders’ expectation this season is not

only returning to the Grey Cup but facing Toronto at B.C. Place.

“Coming into the season before I even came over here, we thought we were going to see them (Argos) in the Grey Cup because that’s where I figured Saskatchewan was going to be,” Anderson said. “We knew they had a good team.

“When you look at the East there’s not really too many teams that can compete with the Argos right now. Everybody is trying to find themselves so I’m looking forward to this challenge ... to doing some big things here.”

Unifor to finalize leadership plans for players’ union, formal meeting date TBD

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Canada’s largest private sector union will likely hold a formal meeting early next week as it attempts to begin the process of representing major junior hockey players from around the country.

A Unifor spokesperson said internal meetings will be held Wednesday as the union continues to put leadership plans in place for the project. However, there are no firm plans to meet with players at this time.

“Once we feel that we have everything in order, then we’ll call that meeting,” said Unifor spokesperson Sarah Blackstock. “We don’t want to rush into anything and I think the stakes are really high. The need for the union is great and so we’ve got to move carefully and make sure that we get it right.”

Reached a short time later, Unifor president Jerry Dias said plans should be finalized in the coming days at a venue yet to be determined.

“We’re just nailing down the details as to what it’s going to look like, but my guess is we’ll be ready to go next week,” he said.

Unifor was created a year ago through the merger of the Canadian Auto Workers and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers unions. There was a failed attempt to unionize junior hockey players in Nova Scotia over a year ago. A would-be union withdrew its certification application with the provincial government in November 2012. Dias has said Unifor was approached by the failed union in June for help.

The creation of a board of directors and a legal entity are first on Unifor’s to-do list. The union would aim to make improvements in several areas for players, including pay, restrictions on university scholarships and health insurance.

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OPEN AIR PAINTING WORKSHOP An open air painting workshop offers children the chance to paint like the Group of Seven artists would. The outdoor painting class offers children aged 10 to 14 a chance to learn about local wildlife and the famous Canadian artists.

The workshop takes place on Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. at historic Fort Normandeau, travel west from Red Deer on 32nd Street across Hwy 2.

Turn north on Rural Road 280 and follow it to the end at 28054B Township Road 382. It costs $15 per child and all materials are provided. Pre-registration is required by Thursday. To register call 403-346-2010.

Sun, sun, sun, here it comes!

After a gruelling, snowy winter and a cooler and more waterlogged than usual spring, summertime is here at last — with the first temperature of above 30 C forecast for the weekend.

According to Environment Canada, Saturday’s anticipated temperature of 29 C for Red Deer will be topped by an expected 31 C for Sunday. While that’s not likely to break the record of 33.8 C for July 13 — we’ll take it!

“There’s a ridge of high pressure that’s slowly building up,” said meteorologist Alyssa Charbonneau, so we’ll have sunny weather through the weekend after a brief “kink” this (Wed.) evening.

Charbonneau said a low pressure system that’s sweeping the Northwest Territories will push some cooler air into Alberta tonight.

This meeting of cold northern gusts and warm air from further south will mean a 60 per cent chance of rain, and the possibility of thundershowers.

“There’s definitely the possibility of some severe thunderstorms developing . . . but it’ll go by real quick,” she added.

Thursday’s expected high of 23 C and Friday’s 22 C will build to much warmer temperatures on the weekend. This is good news for seasonal businesses, which are looking at bringing in more staff to keep up with higher customer demand.

The boat rental business on Sylvan Lake is expecting to be hopping — which is fan-

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Breanna Rewega-Skomoroh, 8, cools off in the midst of the spray at the Centennial Plaza spray fountain and wading pool on Monday evening. Several families took solace from the sun there throughout the day. tastic for Chris Bowers, owner of SunSport Recreation, who feels it’s about time summer got here.

“June was just awful. I’ve been here, this is my 17th season, and last June (2013) was the worst, but this June was the second worst,” said Bowers.

People keeping an eye on weekend weather forecasts are already pre-booking some rental boats and jet skis. “When it gets real warm, we spend a lot of time turning people away,” he added, once all the

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EDIBLE PLANT WALK A walk through historic Fort Normandeau this Sunday includes a lesson about Central Alberta’s edible plants. On July 13 starting at 1 p.m. people have a chance to partake in the edible plant walk at the fort. Travel west from Red Deer on 32nd Street across Hwy 2.

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“I’d actually prefer to see some warm days during the week and the weekends milder, because people come out on the weekends anyways —but I’m not complaining!”

Down the road, Chabonneau thinks Monday and Tuesday’s temperatures will dip closer to July’s average high of 22 C. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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An 80,000-square-foot metal-clad hog barn lies in ruin after a fire at Bentley Hutterite Colony.

Bentley area Hutterite colony looks to rebuild after hog barn burns

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Bentley Hutterite Colony faced the sombre task of cleaning up on Tuesday after a devastating hog barn fire killed thousands of animals.

The loss of one of two huge barns and about 4,500 pigs will be a major financial blow to the colony, which is based on a farm just a few kilometres southeast of Bentley.

“That was our bread and water.

We’re going to have to rebuild again,” said Martha Hofer.

“It was kind of our biggest income.

It was a shocker.”

On Tuesday, they faced the grim job of removing the carcasses and hauling them away for disposal.

The hog operation and the large 80,000-square-foot metal-clad barn were insured and adjusters were expected to be on scene on Tuesday.

Despite the carnage, there was much to be thankful for, say colony members.

“As long as it wasn’t somebody’s life, that’s what we can be thankful for, that everybody is OK,” said Hofer.

“You can always rebuild but you can’t bring back a person’s life.”

News of the fire spread quickly and half a dozen other Hutterite colonies arrived on Monday to offer what aid they could.

“Those other colonies were very helpful,” she said.

The cause of the fire remains under investigation, said Bentley Fire Chief Todd Gustafson.

Investigators from the fire commissioner’s office and insurers sifted through the debris on Tuesday.

But they were awaiting an electrical specialist, who is expected to come out today, to narrow down a cause. pcowley@rddeeradvocate.com

A man who lives beside the site of a local business on trial for allegations of an illegal water diversion said he was worried about the potential for damage to his own property.

Gary Bilecki was among the Crown witnesses called on Tuesday to testify in the trial of Harry Veenstra and his business, Auto Body Services Red Deer Ltd. Veenstra and his business are on trial before Judge Gordon Yake in Red Deer provincial court, facing a variety of charges under Alberta provincial statutes. Special prosecutor Peter Roginski alleges that Veenstra knowingly allowed excess water to be pumped from his property in July of 2010, flooding a neighbouring field and causing a landslide that partially covered a crop at a lower level on the same parcel of land.

Veenstra’s business is located north of Red Deer, between the Blindman industrial park and the Red Deer River.

Bilecki testified that he had made a series of photographs of the site and eventually called Alberta Environment in Red Deer to report that he had seen water being pumped off the site and into the ditch on opposite side of the road.

He said he accompanied an Alberta Environment representative on a tour of the area, including walking northward where they could see a “trickle” of water heading downhill, toward the Red Deer River.

He said the bulk of the water, however, had gone into a hayfield across the road, immediately east of the site and that he noticed the landslide on the day of the tour, but not until after the Alberta Environment investigator had gone.

Under cross examination by defence counsel Sean Moring of Edmonton, Bilecki said he could not explain why he mentioned only the smaller trickle in his statement, without raising the issue of the larger flow being pumped across the road.

“I thought it was obvious,” he told Moring.

Bilecki said his home is immediately north of the Auto Body Services site, separated by a berm.

He said water had pooled in natural areas during heaving rainfall in past years, but the pooling he observed in the summer of 2010 was not natural. bkossowan@reddeeradvocate.com

about 8:30 a.m.

An autopsy was performed and toxicology tests are expected to aid the determination of the cause of death. But Black said it is not being treated as suspicious and “it appears to be a tragic accident.”

Black said next of kin have been notified and they have asked that name of victim not be released.

Police continue to interview witnesses and to analyze items found at the scene.

Anyone with information that may assist the police in identifying the suspects responsible for this crime is asked to call Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575.

People who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or report it online at www.tipsubmit.com.

Police investigate arson incident

Boy drowns during family visit

Red Deer RCMP are investigating an arson after suspects threw accelerant at a downtown apartment door and lit it on fire in Red Deer on June 28.

Police say around the incident occurred at an apartment building on 51 Street and 50 Avenue around 8:15 a.m. .

Three people in the apartment tried unsuccessfully to put out the fire before leaving by a rear window.

All tenants of the building were safely evacuated while firefighters put out the blaze.

The fire spread into the walls and ceiling before being extinguished. The extent of the building’s damage is not known at this time.

A four-year-old boy in Olds for a family reunion drowned in a pond in the Central Alberta town.

Olds RCMP and EMS were called to a rural residence south of Olds Sunday evening to a report of the boy. The boy was found by another family member face down in a pond on the property.

He was transported to Children’s Hospital in Calgary where he died.

The boy and his family were visiting from the United States for a family reunion in Olds.

Foul play is not suspected and the name of the child is not being released by police at this time.

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

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A Red Deer area woman died Sunday after she fell into a campfire while camping with her common-law partner over the weekend.

The 53-year-old died in a Calgary hospital Sunday morning.

Olds RCMP and emergency services were called to the private campground north of Torrington at 6 a.m. Sunday to a report of a woman sustaining severe burns after falling into a campfire.

The woman was airlifted by STARS air ambulance. Olds RCMP Cpl. Mike Black said the original plan was to take the woman to Red Deer, but it was decided that she instead needed to go to Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary.

She was pronounced dead in hospital at

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Deaths from opioid overdoses jump PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ADDICTIVE AND HIGHLY POTENT PAINKILLERS HAVE CONTINUED TO RISE

BY SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS

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Prescription pill bottle containing oxycodone and acetaminophen are shown. The rate of fatal overdoses from opioids such as oxycodone and morphine has soared over the last 20 years as prescriptions for the addictive and highly potent painkillers have continued to rise, an Ontario study has found. ring across the country.

However, there is no national database to track overdose deaths, said Benedikt Fischer, a professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., although the numbers are moving upwards in that province as well.

“It’s an extremely worrisome picture that the number of deaths are going up and have been going up for many years the way they are,” Fischer, who was not involved in the study, said of the Ontario findings. “And this is a huge death toll.

“We know that the number of opioid deaths is almost perfectly correlated to the amount of prescription opioids dispensed to the population.

So, in essence, the number of deaths are a function of the amount of opioids prescribed and dispensed into the population.”

In order to reduce the death toll from prescription opioids, a strategy needs to be found to reduce the

No practising on patients: Brand-new doctors in Chicago get boot camp first THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Firstday jitters come with any new job but when the work involves pushing needles into strangers’ bellies, stitching up gaping wounds or even delivering babies, that debut can be especially nerve-wracking — for everyone involved.

Brand-new doctors often launch right into patient care within weeks of graduating from medical school.

To make sure their skills are up to snuff, many medical schools and hospitals run crash courses in the basics for these new interns.

It’s called boot camp at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and its adjoining Feinberg medical school, a program involving two to three days of intense practice before letting the newbies loose on patients.

Young doctors are tested on a variety of skills, from the proper technique for handling newborns during childbirth — make sure the head comes out slowly — to delivering bad news — use empathy, eye contact and listen to the patient.

More than 90 per cent pass the first time. The rest are tested again until they do.

“Don’t do that on Mr. Smith,” instructor Dr. Jeffrey Barsuk told this year’s batch of residents, warning them not to withdraw too much fluid from the belly of a mannequin patient supposedly sick with liver disease.

Barsuk was showing the group how to insert a scary-looking 5-inch nee-

dle and remove abnormal fluid buildup. Taking too much can be dangerous for sick patients.

Dr. Diane Wayne, the medical school’s vice dean of education, created the program in 2011, aiming partly to combat the so-called “July effect.”

Many experts say it’s more myth than reality, and evidence is mixed, but a few studies have found lapses in patient care — even deaths — when new interns start making rounds in July.

“We have great residents who come from all over the country, but we have no reliable way of knowing that these interns possess these skills,” she said.

“We just don’t want to subject patients to newly minted residents” with uncertain expertise.

The program won a 2012 innovation award from the Association of American Medical Colleges. The association’s Dr. Robert Englander said the boot camp is part of a trend in doctortraining as hospitals increasingly focus on patient safety.

“We’re looking more and more at what we can do toward the end of medical school to optimize that preparation,” he said.

Bennet Butler, 26, just got his doctor degree from Northwestern and was among about 100 grads in this summer’s just-finished boot camp.

He gave it high marks on his first day.

“We’re learning a lot already,” said Butler, 26, after a refresher course on identifying surgical instruments.

“We’ve had a couple

of lectures, a couple of sessions where we were able to practice some of our skills like tying knots and suturing so, so far so good.”

Butler said he’s excited but anxious about starting his residency.

“This is something I’ve wanted to do my whole life,” Butler said.

“You’d have to be crazy not to be a bit nervous,” he added. “It’s a big upgrade in responsibility.”

One of the toughest — and most praised — sessions was a test in handling end-of-life discussions, using actors trained to portray dying patients.

amounts being dispensed, he said, noting that Canadians are the secondlargest per capita users of these drugs in the world after Americans.

Fischer said that while chopping the overdose death toll has to begin with doctors cutting back on prescriptions, it’s also critical to recognize that these medications play a key role in treating many patients with pain, including those with cancer.

“Let me be clear. We cannot afford to eliminate these medications. We need them,” he said.

“They’re important to a lot of people with chronic and severe pain who need these drugs.

“But current prescribing and dispensing goes far beyond those parameters. It exceeds those hazardously.”

The Ontario researchers have developed an interactive map of Ontario counties with the highest rates of opioid overdose deaths, including Thunder Bay and Sudbury, and large urban centres like Toronto.

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higher doses,” she said.

“And we have seen in past research that higher doses of opioids are associated with increased risk of overdose death.”

Codeine, hydromorphone, morphine, fentanyl and oxycodone are the “big players” among the opioids, she said.

Opioid prescription rates have continued to rise, driven by aggressive marketing by manufacturers of the products to physicians, who she believes have become more comfortable with recommending them for patients suffering with hard-to-treat pain.

But drug-seeking behaviour by those looking to abuse the medications is also likely driving up prescribing rates, she said, adding that opioids’ addictive nature can lead to someone visiting several doctors to obtain multiple prescriptions, a phenomenon known as double-doctoring.

Gomes suspects the escalation in opioid overdose deaths is likely occur-

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The rate of fatal overdoses from opioids such as oxycodone and morphine has soared over the last 20 years as prescriptions for the addictive and highly potent painkillers have continued to rise, an Ontario study has found.

The annual rate of opioid-related deaths jumped by 242 per cent between 1991 and 2010, said lead author Tara Gomes, a scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, or ICES, which conducted the study published Monday in the journal Addiction.

“In 2010, we found that there were approximately 550 deaths related to opioid overdose, which equates to one or two deaths every day,” said Gomes, noting that the annual fatal overdose rate two decades earlier was 127.

The highest proportion of deaths was clustered among young adults, say the researchers, who analyzed provincial coroner’s records from 1991 to 2010.

“One in every eight deaths in people aged 25 to 34 were related to opioid overdoses,” said Gomes. Twenty years ago, the rate for that age group was one in 25.

“Given the concentration of deaths in the younger ages, we found that opioid-related deaths had a considerable societal burden” she said. “In 2010, these deaths led to over 20,000 years of life lost,” In all, 5,935 Ontarians died from opioid overdoses in the 20-year period.

“These could be people who purchased the drugs on the street, these could be people who received legitimate prescriptions and mistakenly took too much of the drug or escalated their dose without checking with their primary-care provider,” Gomes speculated.

“These could also be people who have heard about recreational use of these drugs and knew to go into their parents’ or grandparents’ medicine cabinet and find the drug and try it.

And never having taken the drug before, they can overdose after just one or two pills of a high-strength formulation.”

Over the last two decades, several new products have come on the market, among them oxycodone. Doctors began prescribing the drugs more often to treat those with intractable pain, and often in increasingly potent doses.

“And I think the combination of these factors is likely driving a lot of this increased risk of opioid overdose that we’re seeing, because there’s a lot more of the products available, and as well these drugs are being used at

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Models wear creation by Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons for Dior’s Fall-Winter 2014-15 Haute Couture fashion collection, in Paris, France, Monday.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Fashion gets political LOVERS CHARLIZE THERON AND SEAN PENN ELECTRIFY DIOR’S COUTURE SHOW

THERON AND PENN Theron and Penn triggered a frenzy as they arrived together the Paris’ Rodin Museum show hand in hand.

Thirty-eight-year-old Theron — a brand ambassador for Dior — wore a gold shimmering fringed cocktail dress similar to the one she appears in for Dior’s now-iconic “J’Adore” perfume advert.

She and 53-year-old Penn, who wore a black Dior suit with open shirt, chatted with LVMH boss Bernard Arnault.

That held up the show, but that didn’t seem to help another Oscar-winning guest who was running late.

Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence ended up having to catch a repeat of the show later in the day because her flight was delayed.

“FORWARD AND BACK” ENCYCLOPEDIA “Encyclopedic” sums up Raf Simons’ latest adventure for Dior — his most masterful yet.

Set in a circular ballroom catwalk, the Belgian designer ambitiously channeled some four centuries of style — with a fashion-forward twist he called “forward and back.”

Simons’ journey started with 18th-century dresses fit for an avant-

RED CARPET FOR POLITICS Former French First Lady Trierweiler broke with tradition — instead of wearing Dior to the Dior show, she wore Paul and Joe. But there was a good reason: red-carpet activism. The 49-year-old journalist sported a white T-shirt that read

BringBackOurGirls, a reference to the missing Nigerian schoolgirls who have still not been returned after their April kidnapping. It’s the latest example of the growing phenomenon of using celebrity events for a good cause, seen prominently at May’s Cannes Film Festival.

“There are 220 missing. It’s been two and a half months since these young girls were taken,” she said.

In May, First Lady Michelle Obama made the girls an overnight cause celebre when she tweeted an image of herself holding a poster that read BringBackOurGirls, demanding help for the girls captured by extremist group Boko Haram.

“Two and a half months ago the world spoke about these young girls, including Michelle Obama. But now no one is,” she said.

“I’m using the media here to publicize this.

Until they’re freed I won’t stop campaigning,” she added.

ders harking from the ’40s were pieced on a leopard-print doublebreasted coat with tubular sleeves. Glycerin-glazed black ostrich feathers elsewhere made a cool bolero resemble monkey fur.

But the abundant use of embroidery and decorations, like a try-hard clown’s hat, made it feel like the talented Zanini

was not always at complete ease and made the eccentricity look a tad controlled.

Still, the leopard-print catwalk was great fun.

VALLI’S STRIPES AND FLOWERS It was a floral and optical ode to the fifties for Italian designer Valli.

CONTROLLED ECCENTRICITY The golden age of Elsa Schiaparelli — the ’30s and ’40s — were revisited in the second outing for the age-old house, which re-launched last year to mixed reviews.

This season, designer Marco Zanini tried hard to emulate the eccentricity of the house founder, whose business folded following World War II, by mixing up contrasting styles or deceptive material.

He found some success. In a striking look, exaggerated fur shoul-

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PARIS — They’re a couple rarely seen in public, together only since February.

So when Academy Award-winning powercouple Charlize Theron and Sean Penn walked in to Dior’s Monday show, holding hands and sat prominently on the front row, it’s not only the couture gowns that dazzled guests.

France’s former First Lady Valerie Trierweiler, meanwhile, took politics to the catwalk, using couture week as a platform to raise awareness for the missing Nigerian schoolgirls in the latest example of red-carpet activism.

Here are highlights of Day Two of the Paris haute couture fall-winter 2014 collections, including show reports from Christian Dior, Giambattista Valli and Schiaparelli.

garde Marie Antoinette.

Voluminous exaggerated French ball gowns in pale jacquard silk were made contemporary with trapeze structuring.

The couture novel continued in eight distinct chapters, with guests gasping in delight each time they were transported on to a different era.

There were the longline coats of Edwardian England — one in dark grey cashmere that gently curved down the body stood out in its deceptive simplicity. Elsewhere, a beaded off-white flapper-style gown shook vibrantly as the model walked.

Then came the famed Bar Jacket of the 1949 “New Look” — represented in this exhaustive 62-piece show by exaggerated collars in black, and one great flappy coat in cobalt blue wool.

But the real stars of the show were the heels.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2014

Gluten-free fad hurts celiacs

ANNIE ANNIE

to partake?

When we are at a dinner, we often hear such ignorant comments as, “Are you trying to improve your athletic performance?” or “Go ahead, a little won’t hurt you. Don’t be so fussy.”

Can you help educate the public about the difference between celiac disease, which necessitates a glutenfree diet for medical reasons, and those who are simply making a personal choice? — Cheryl in Pennsylvania Dear Cheryl: No one should treat eating restrictions as a “fad,” because you never know who truly has a serious problem.

In people with celiac disease, eating anything with gluten triggers an immune response.

It can damage the small intestine and make it difficult to absorb nutrients from food.

Left untreated, celiac disease can lead to anemia, osteoporosis and lymphoma.

In children, celiac disease can slow growth and weaken bones.

There is often a genetic component.

On the other hand, some folks are simply gluten sensitive.

Eating gluten may make them uncomfortable or tired, and when they cut gluten out of their diet, they feel more energetic.

“Cheating,” however, will not cause the severe symptoms of celiac disease for those people..

Dear Annie: I read your response to “Not a Christian,” who objected to a breakfast gathering that started with the blessing “in Jesus’ name.”

You said it was inappropriate.

I suspect the majority of the people in that room find comfort in this blessing, and the rest probably don’t care.

Why offend many to make a very few happy?

People like this are intolerant and selfish.

If this person finds this blessing so offensive, he should move to another community.

Or keep his mouth closed for the duration of the blessing. — Karen from Wyoming Dear Wyoming: We know many find these blessings comforting, but others do not.

Why offend anyone? This is not a religious gathering.

It does not require a public prayer from any denomination, and it’s certainly not for the majority religion to impose its beliefs on the rest, no matter how few.

Those who wish to give a blessing of any kind can do so at their own table instead of insisting on offering a

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places, but don’t make plans.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You will be feeling very optimistic about those business and romantic partnerships that you have now.

It is a good day to go out on that romantic date and allow for greater wistfulness to enter your relationships with you and your spouse now. Make no big decisions today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today you are extremely connected to your loved ones.

The bond you have with them will be uncanny, use this for the positive to heal and sort out any differences in the past.

Allow for daydreams to fuel your creative projects and aspirations now, but do not make any decisions.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you work within the creative field, work will be full of inspiration.

If you don’t work in the artistic / creative field, then make sure you are focused; try to stay away from the daydreaming if you can.

Trust your intuition and any daydreams you have, they will become reality.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Financial gains can occur from your creative projects today.

Also, start to place more value on your daydreams, use them for inspiration for your next project and work.

Also, it is a good day to trust your instincts when gambling. Surprising romantic gestures will also reach you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Today is a wonderful day to reach out to family members and those within your home environment.

There will be greater synergy to the day that will leave you feeling even more grounded in this world and have you feeling very much at home now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Trust your instincts today.

They will be spot on and you will most likely have daydreams that will foretell the future.

Watch out for déja vu, and allow for the energy to lead you towards greater awareness of how we are all connected.

Nothing happens without a reason.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Financial gains will be easily won at this stage, from your career and your personal profit.

Make sure to follow through with any leads that you can dream up now, they will create more prosperity for you.

Not the best day to make full blown decisions so simply act later.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Today is a wonderful day to inspire others.

You might not know reality from illusion today, so please keep that in mind.

Your instincts and artistic abilities will be highlighted and wonderfully expressed.

Just know that today is not the day to make any decisions.

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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If you are an artist, then today will be excellent.

Take every opportunity to focus on the blessings and abundance in your life.

LARISA MAIRA Allow for your OZOLINS imagination to ignite future changes in your life, dream big and envision the future you want.

Today will not be the ideal day to get a lot of work done, so be prepared for dreamy type energy.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today is your birthday, this year will promise much in regards to understanding what it is you want deep down inside you.

It will be a year when you will have to dig deep in order to push yourself forward.

A year of forward thinking and planning, most of the action will happen next year, and this is for many out there.

So be prepared to figure where and what you want to do this year!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Dreams and Visions will be amplified today.

It will not be a good day to make any decisions, so really don’t even bother.

You have strong psychic awareness too, this will be highlighted by daydreams coming true and random thoughts turning the actual truth of the day.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today you will be especially connected to those with whom you have a close bond.

You will be able to pick up on their feelings and will have almost a telepathic bond with them.

Friends and close business or romantic relationships will value this ability in you now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You will have an uncanny ability to scope out a good deal today.

Trust your intuition and gut instinct, but really it won’t be hard to miss it today.

Allow for those close relationships in your life to develop into a stronger bond.

Open up to them about your mother and roots.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Work will go along well if you trust your instincts, allow for greater abundance to enter your life now.

A new direction in work will have you learning more which will be beneficial for you.

You will be dreaming of travelling to far off

prayer on behalf of others who would rather you didn’t.

Here’s a truly tolerant solution: Dear Annie: Many years ago, when I was a member of an international service organization, we began each of our meetings with a prayer.

I, too, felt the same as “Not a Christian.”

So when I became president, I went to a bookstore and purchased a book that included prayers and readings from all denominations.

Including atheism and non-traditional religions.

At each meeting, I chose a different prayer or inspirational message to read.

The members felt that this was very informative and learned a little bit each week about different religions.

Perhaps this would be a solution to others. — Betsy in N.J. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. 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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Dear Annie: The current “fad” of gluten-free products is both beneficial and harmful to those of us who must follow a gluten-free diet because of celiac disease.

On one hand, it’s easier to find gluten-free foods.

But on the other hand, those of us with celiac disease MITCHELL are looked up& SUGAR on as if we are simply food faddists.

Here are some of the problems we face: Restaurants are more aware of the need to serve gluten-free meals, but are often sloppy in their attempts to avoid cross-contamination, not being aware of the extreme importance of “not even a crumb.”

When a hostess declares a dish to be gluten-free, does she understand the restrictions of wheat, rye and barley?

Will she be kind to us if we question her recipes?

Will she be offended if we decline

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Rowling gives Potter fans glimpse of grown-up boy wizard

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Chaz Ebert, widow of the late film critic Roger Ebert, poses at the premiere of the documentary film Life Itself on Thursday, June 26, 2014, in Los Angeles.

Ebert film leaves widow with mixed emotions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When shooting began for Life Itself — a documentary based on film critic Roger Ebert’s 2011 memoir — no one imagined it would document his death.

Shortly after embarking on the project, Ebert learned his cancer had returned. He died just months later in April 2013.

His widow, Chaz Ebert, said screening a film that her husband was not able to see left her with mixed emotions.

“In the beginning it was painful to watch because it was still so (early) in the grieving process but now, I have to tell you, it’s joyous,” Chaz Ebert said in a recent phone interview from Chicago. “I loved spending two hours with Roger.”

Chaz said the pair granted Hoop Dreams filmmaker Steve James “full access,” including shooting in hospitals and rehabilitation centres when permitted.

“We felt that to honour Roger’s legacy, the best thing to do was to continue with the making of the film, not stop it,” she said.

The result is an intimate look at the final months of Ebert’s life, as well as a portrait of his rise as one of the most important film critics of his time. Life Itself weaves interviews with Chaz, former colleagues and filmmakers, with footage from his combative bouts with Gene Siskel in At the Movies and home videos showing his seldom-seen role as a family man.

Life Itself opens in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa on July 11, with Chaz Ebert set to attend the Toronto premiere.

In addition to chronicling Ebert’s early career as a reporter, the film also delves into the critic’s personal life, including his support for Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which he described in a 2009 blog post as “the best thing that ever happened to me.”

“I came to love the program and the friends I was making through meetings, some of whom are close friends to this day,” he wrote on RogerEbert.com.

Life Itself reveals for the first time that one of those relationships became the most important in his life — AA is what brought Ebert and his future wife together. Chaz Ebert said she had been hesitant to share that detail but ultimately did so because she wanted Life Itself to be the “definitive” film about her husband’s life.

“I wanted to have a level of candour that matched everything else in the film,” she said.

The film suggests the pair met in AA, but in an interview with Variety, Chaz Ebert clarified that her future husband “laid eyes” on her in the program but waited to approach her at a restaurant after a meeting.

The relationship that grew from that encounter took centre stage in Roger Ebert’s life — and is a fo-

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His curiosity over life, his love for me, his love for movies, his love for just life itself really — I think that kept him going.

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“He was a man who wasn’t afraid to love deeply, to accept love and to give it,” said Chaz Ebert.

The couple’s devotion to one another is reflected in the film, which depicts Chaz Ebert caring for her husband in his final days and includes interviews with friends describing the impact she had on his life.

Ebert was initially diagnosed with cancer in 2002.

A string of surgeries left him without his jaw, taking away his ability to speak, eat and drink. Still, the prolific critic kept working, reviewing films and blogging on his website.

“His curiosity over life, his love for me, his love for movies, his love for just life itself, really — I think that kept him going,” said Chaz Ebert.

The film also reveals how Ebert helped some of his famous friends. Director Martin Scorsese credits the Pulitzer Prize-winning reviewer with helping him emerge from a difficult period in the early ’80s as his third marriage dissolved and his career stalled. Scorsese, who also produced the film, said Ebert’s invitation to receive a tribute at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was a turning point.

Ebert also helped bring TIFF to prominence. As an early supporter and festival fixture, he was keen to see it grow.

“He actually said it became the most important festival after the Cannes festival,” said Chaz Ebert.

As publisher of Ebert Digital, Chaz Ebert looks forward to returning to TIFF this year with a team of reviewers, continuing to keep Roger Ebert’s legacy alive. The Toronto fest runs from Sept. 4-14.

“Living your passion — that’s what Roger did,” she said. “He used to say that even if he wasn’t paid to be film critic, that’s what he would have been.”

LONDON — Harry Potter is back — mysterious, married, and going grey.

J.K. Rowling has given fans a glimpse of the grown-up boy wizard in a new story posted Tuesday on her Pottermore website.

It’s the first update since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was published in 2007, but Rowling spokesman Mark Hutchinson said there are “no plans” for a new Potter novel.

The 1,500-word story describes Harry, about to turn 34, attending the final of the Quidditch World Cup with his family and old friends Ron and Hermione.

Harry now has “threads of silver” in his hair and a mysterious cut on his cheekbone, related to his “top secret” work as an evil-battling Auror.

The story is written in the style of a gossip column for the Daily Prophet by reporter Rita Skeeter, a minor character in the novels.

The style allows Rowling to poke fun at the tabloid press, a real-life bugbear that she has accused of invading her privacy and that of her family.

Skeeter observes that Harry and friends are “no longer the fresh-faced teenagers they were in their heyday” and speculates about the state of Harry’s marriage to Ginny Weasley.

She says Ron Weasley’s red hair “appears to be thinning slightly,” and notes witheringly that Harry still wears “the distinctive round glasses that some might say are better suited to a style-deficient 12-year-old.”

The story discloses that Ron now runs the family joke shop, while Hermione is a — literally — highflying civil servant, Deputy Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement.

There are also updates on other characters, including Neville Longbottom and Luna Lovegood, as well as glimpses of a new generation of teenage wizards.

Rowling has long said that Deathly Hallows, would be the last Potter novel, but has produced other Potter-related material, including spin-off story collection, The Tales of Beedle the Bard.

Rowling has also published a novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, and two detective thrillers under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

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BRIEF Ribera, Michaud claim $5,000 SOCAN songwriting prizes TORONTO — Montreal-based singer/songwriter Alejandra Ribera has won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize.

Ribera won for her airy tune I Want, which was included on her second album La Boca.

The multilingual songwriter receives $5,000, a Gibson acoustic guitar and a prize pack from Roland.

She beat out a field of nominees that included Louise Burns’ Emeralds Shatter, Wake Owl’s Gold, July Talk’s Having You Around and Reservoir by Pup. The French SOCAN Songwriting Prize, meanwhile, was awarded to Patrice Michaud for his song Mecaniques generales.

SOCAN, which stands for the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada, selected the winners via an online vote.

“I Want is a song about hope, joy and gratitude, and I feel all of those very deeply in receiving this honour from SOCAN,” Ribera said in a statement.

Film to premiere in Nigeria, months after censors demanded cuts

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LAGOS, Nigeria — The Nigerian civil war movie Half of a Yellow Sun will finally premiere in its home country in August, the film’s producer announced Tuesday. The move came after Nigerian censors had earlier refused to approve it, saying the movie could undermine national security.

The censors had demanded cuts and it was unclear Tuesday what changes were made to satisfy the National Film and Video Censors Board.

The movie is an adaptation of a novel by awardwinning writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie that has been read by millions since it was published in 2006.

But many more millions of illiterate Nigerians will

be able to appreciate it now through the movie.

The movie is partly set in the 1960s during Nigeria’s civil war, which remains a subject so sensitive that it is not taught in Nigerian schools. Many commentators on social media suggested the censors were afraid that the film could inflame tribal rivalries.

The movie also comes as Nigeria is confronting an Islamic uprising that threatens to tear the country apart as tensions increase between Muslims and Christians, who make up almost equal parts of Nigeria’s 170 million people.

The censors’ board confirmed it has cleared the movie for viewing by people over 18.

It stars Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor, the lead actor in 12 Years a Slave, and Thandie Newton and

was supposed to premiere in Nigeria on April 25.

The day before, the censors said it had not been cleared.

Half of a Yellow Sun has been shown to audiences in the U.S., Britain, Australia and New Zealand.

A statement from producers Shareman Media and FilmOne Distribution announced the Aug. 1 premiere and thanked Nigerians for their patience.

About 1 million people died in the war for an independent Biafra for the Igbo people of the southeast. Many Igbos starved to death because food imports were blocked. At the time, leaders of the Igbo, who are almost exclusively Christians, accused the federal government of failing to protect them when Muslims from the Hausa tribe in the north slaughtered about 30,000 of them.

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SCHMALE Peacefully, Eleanor Pearl Schmale of Sylvan Lake , AB went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday July 7, 2014 at the age of 85 years. She is dearly loved and missed by her children; John, Brenda (Rod) Peake, Doug, Dean (Doris) and Brad (Esteban), 21 Grandchildren and 28 Great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by her husband John in 2007. Special Thanks to Tanis Sloboda and Peggy Molyneux for the extra care and love they gave mom over the past years. For anyone wishing to pay their respects a viewing will be held at Gospel Chapel, Sylvan Lake, AB on Thursday July 10, 2014 at 9:00 A.M. A celebration of Eleanor’s life will be held at the Gospel Chapel in Sylvan Lake on July 10, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. with Reverend Robert Jones officiating. Private Family interment to follow at Mountain View Memorial Gardens. As an expression of sympathy memorial donations may be made in Eleanor’s name to the PAOC Living Memorial Attention: Deborah Sirjoosingh 2450 Milltower Court, Mississauga, Ont. L5N 5Z6 SYLVAN LAKE AND ROCKY FUNERAL HOMES AND CREMATORIUM, your Golden Rule Funeral Homes, entrusted with the arrangements. 403-887-2151

RUDDICK Katherine 1972 - 2014 It is with great sorrow, that the family of Katherine ‘Kathy’ Ruth Ruddick, announces her passing at home, surrounded by love, with her family by her side on Sunday, July 6, 2014 at the age of 42 years.

Kathy was a wonderful and loving daughter, sister, auntie and friend. She lived in Timmins, Ontario until 1981, when the family moved to Red Deer. She spent her teen years in Red Deer, then finished High School in Mississauga, Ontario and later moved back to Alberta to attend the Lethbridge College in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Kathy then made her home in Red Deer where she worked for Titan Electric/Flint Energy and then spent the past ten years employed in the Financial Services Division at Red Deer College. Kathy will be remembered for her infectious smile and laid back, easy going attitude.

She loved to have a good time, enjoying trips and travels with her many friends. The memories of family trips to Canmore and Pigeon Lake, ski trips and rocking out at concerts will always be in our hearts. Kathy will be lovingly remembered by her mother and father, Kathrine and Harry Ruddick of Red Deer, her sisters, Karen (Tim Langevin) of Red Deer, Tracey (Lyle Schumacher) of Sherwood Park, Alberta and Kimberly (Kevin Lalonde) of Oakville, Ontario. She will also be greatly missed by her nieces and nephews, Ryan and Justin Langevin, Christian, Alison and Bryce Schumacher and Lexia Lalonde; as well as her many close friends and her feline friend of sixteen years, Miss Minn.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, July 11, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. Interment will take place at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta at a later date. The family would like to acknowledge and thank the doctors, nurses and home care nurses for their care and compassion; as well as thank Kathy’s wonderful friends and co-workers for their support during her illness.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Maryann Hansen, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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SABAN Mate Mate (Mike) Saban passed away on Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at the age of 80 years.

He was born on November 12, 1933 in Licki Novi, Croatia, to Dragica and Anton Saban. He came to Canada at the age of 25 on the ship Arosa San in 1958.

In 1965, he married Diane and together they had four children. They moved to Alberta in 1975 and started M&M Painting, a commercial painting company, which he ran until his retirement. Mate will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Diane, his children; Robert Saban, Suzie Saban, Juanita (Joe) Allison, and Barbara Pickett, nine grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, and his special companion, Koko. A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. Special thanks to Dr. Holmes and all the staff at home care, in particular Danelle.

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STENE Linda Elaine Linda Elaine Stene passed away unexpectedly at her home in Red Deer, AB on July 3, 2014 at the age of 70 years. Linda was born on April 25, 1944 in Turtleford, Sask. She spent most of her life as a homemaker and mother. Later in life, she started her own janitorial company and finally retired in 2006. Linda was a very kind, generous and loving mother and friend who gave unconditionally in everything she did. Predeceased by her beloved husband Warner, Linda leaves behind to mourn her loss, her children Bryan and his wife Alyne of Halifax, NS, and Kim and her husband Jayson and their four children of Red Deer; Neil MacFarlane (Linda’s “#2 son”) of California. Linda is also survived by her brother Merle Gordon and her sister Edna Cooper, as well as numerous brothers and sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, and friends. Linda was predeceased by her mother Hazel, her father George, her step-father Archibald (Nig), and her brother Lyle.

We would also like to express our thanks to the Red Deer emergency services, RCMP and the staff of Eventide for their professional and tender care. A Memorial Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Friday, July 11, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

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THOMAS Doreen 1951 - 2014 Doreen ‘Jackie’ Thomas, beloved wife of David Thomas of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away peacefully at home on Sunday, July 6, 2014 at the age of 62 years. Jackie was born on December 17, 1951 at Belfast, Ireland to George and Ann Brotherston. She married her husband, David Thomas and the couple spent forty-two loving and happily married years together. Jackie was a very kind and generous spirit.

She would do anything she could to help a friend or family member in need, even helping strangers. Jackie and David shared many wonderful and cherished memories together that will forever be imprinted on the hearts of her adoring husband and her loving children. Jackie leaves to mourn her loss, her husband and best friend, David; her three sons, Adam Thomas, James (Sarah) Thomas of British Columbia and Michael (Shelley) Thomas of Edmonton; her beloved grandchildren, Jayme-Lynn Thomas, Angela Thomas (Brian Ward), Andrea Thomas, Belle Thomas, Monique Thomas and Michael Thomas Jr. and her two sweet great grandchildren, Bentley Peter Thomas and Lilly-Anna Jean Ward. She is also survived by her sisters, Agnes Graham, Eva Galway and Betty Fawcette. Jackie was predeceased by her parents and two sisters, Ellen Short and Ann Brotherston.

Relatives and friends are invited to come and pay their respects at Parkland Funeral Home and Crematorium, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, July 11, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. A Celebration of Jackie’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home on Saturday, July 12, 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at: www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gary W. Anderson, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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FERRER Luis 1935 - 2014 Mr. Luis Antonio Ferrer of Red Deer, passed away at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre on Wednesday, July 2, 2014 at the age of 78 years. Luis owned and operated his Carpentry Business which he aptly named ‘Woodpecker’ in the Red Deer Area for many years. He will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Olga of Red Deer County, Alberta and his beloved dogs, Chico and Zoe. He will also be sadly missed by his four brothers and one sister, all of Spain and his brotherin-law, George. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 5508 - 48A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. with The Revered Father Jozef Wroblewski celebrant. The family would like to express their sincere gratitude to all the Doctors and Nurses on Unit 31 at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre for all of their kindness and compassion toward Luis. If desired, Memorial Donations in Luis’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer and District S.P.C.A. at www.reddeerspca.com.

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Please email resume to Joey Huckabone joey@pikewheatonchev.ca

Everything you need to know to keep your business humming . . . every day in the Business Section of the Red Deer Advocate.

EXP. PAVERS WANTED Call 403-341-6900 or Fax: 877-787-1605 F/T SATELLITE INSTALLERS - Good hours, home every night, $4000-$6000/mo.

Contractor must have truck or van. Tools, supplies & ladders required. Training provided, no experience needed. Apply to: satjobs@shaw.ca

Call For Home Delivery

314-4300 Trades

820

RAMADA INN & SUITES

CENTRAL ALBERTA TILE ONE

TR3 Energy is at the forefront of reclamation and remediation in the oil & gas industry

Restaurant/ Hotel

850

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies. We are an industry leading Electrical & Instrumentation Contractor that prides itself in having committed and dedicated employees.

We are currently hiring for the position of:

JOURNEYMAN INSTRUMENTATION (Full-Time; Red Deer Area)

This is position is full-time, and will consist of long-term work in a plant setting in the Red Deer Area.

860

Truckers/ Drivers

860

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

426070G9

Please forward your resume to the address below. We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those candidates interviewed will be contacted.

FLUID Experts Ltd.

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Shop Supervisor

Is seeking to hire

for our Red Deer location.

This position is a fulltime and is a salary based CLASS 3 DRIVERS Professional position with company w/airbrake endorsement • Community Support benefits upon hire. 11-3 Truck Driver needed immed. for waste & Worker Program days off schedule. Duties Position Available recycling. Email resume include maintaining shop, www.ads-pipe.com with a min. of 2 references • GED Preparation assist minor repairs of to: canpak@xplornet.ca units and equipment, Advanced Drainage Would you like to take the DRIVERS for furniture monitor inventories, Systems, Inc., the world’s GED in your community? moving company, class 5 loading of fluid trucks with largest and most innovarequired (5 tons), local & various products for the Oil tive manufacturer of HDPE • Red Deer long distance. Competitive & Gas industry. Will also drainage products are • Rocky Mtn. House wages. Apply in person. be trained to blend various expanding and are • Rimbey 6630 71 St. Bay 7 products supplied to our currently accepting Red Deer. 403-347-8841 clients. Ideal candidate applications for a certified • Caroline • Castor would be from the trucking Class 1 Driver, with a Fluid Experts Ltd. industry with fluid Hauling minimum of two (2) years • Sylvan Lake Of Red Deer is seeking experience with class 1 B-train trailer experience. • Innisfail experienced • Stettler license. Fax resume w/all • Ponoka Class 1 Operators tickets and current drivers ADS Drivers are required to join our team of drivers abstract to: to safely operate company Gov’t of Alberta Funding hauling clean fluids for the 403-346-3112 or email to: equipment and provide a may be available.

Oil & Gas Industry. roger@fluidexperts.com high level of customer Home most evenings, service, delivering our 403-340-1930 scheduled days off, products within Alberta. company benefits with www.academicexpress.ca ADS Drivers are required exceptional pay structure to be drug free and mainDISPATCHER REQ’D. that includes guarantied tain legal transportation Knowledge of Red Deer salary + hourly when paperwork and driving and area is essential. hauling. Must be able to practices. This position Verbal and written work on their own with requires a valid Class 1 communication skills are minimal supervision.

License, with previous off req’d. Send resume by fax Fax resume w/all tickets road forklift experience a to 403-346-0295 and current drivers LABOURERS & definite asset. We offer Start your career! abstract to: quarterly cash safety FLAG PERSONS 403-346-3112 or email to: See Help Wanted bonuses as well as a Busy road construction roger@fluidexperts.com comprehensive company looking for medical plan.

Labourers AND flag perCelebrate your life sons. Work is throughout with a Classified BENEFITS INCLUDE: Alberta. Must have a Class ANNOUNCEMENT • Signing Bonus paid 5 license. Fax resume to upon completion of 403-309-0489 a 60 day/120 day LAST YEAR FOR THE retention period • Company provided Dormitory Assistant PENHOLD CADET CAMP - Golden Hills Hiring, dishwashers and Group Canadian Benefits • Voluntary dental International Program servers. Age 14 and up.

Great for first time jobs, • Life insurance Flexible hours to suit • Short-term and long- GOLDEN HILLS SCHOOL students planned vacations. term disability DIVISION NO. 75 Apply 8 am - 6 pm • Retirement Savings is accepting applications at the Penhold Camp at Plan (RSP) and Deferred for the position of 3453 24st Springbrook.

Profit Sharing Plan Dormitory Assistant Daniel.cormier@ (DPSP) in Drumheller, AB. PIDHERNEY’S compass-Canada.com • Paid Vacation requires experienced • Safety Bonus The Dormitory Assistant NORAL-TECH Ltd DRIVERS will report to the Dormitory Manufacturer of 12 Volts CLASS 1 ,3 & LOWBOY, All applicants are subject Supervisor and assist electrical control panels for FOREMAN, to a pre-employment with the following: specialized trucks. We are OPERATORS AND physical and MVR check. currently seeking 2 full LABOURERS • Supervising dormitory time assemblers with Interested Applicants may students and enforcing automotive related For work in Rocky submit a resume, along dormitory rules, regulations electrical experience. The Mountain House area, with a current drivers and schedules successful candidates as well as out of town abstract to: • Developing a rapport locations. with students to meet must be able to read and interpret electrical drawPriority will be given to ADVANCED DRAINAGE their social and cultural ings. Email resume those candidates with SYSTEMS CANADA INC. needs experience.

4316 Gerdts Ave. • Maintaining a positive normand@noraltech-com Blindman Ind. Park dorm atmosphere for NOW hiring Summer Help • Top wages and benefits Red Deer County, AB. students for HS Students and nonbased on experience T4S-2A8 • Guiding evening and students aged 17+ in your • Possible career advanceweekend activities local city/town throughout ment opportunities Fax: (403) 346-5806 central Alberta. Flexible E-mail This position commences Schedules with $17 Valid First Aid and H2S ken.mccutcheon@ September 1, 2014, guaranteed base pay, cust. tickets required. ads-pipe.com and can include sales/service, no experience We offer competitive accommodation and meals in necessary, we will train, wages, benefits package, Position closing date: addition to a monthly salary. conditions apply. Visit and opportunities for July. 18th. 2014 www.summeropenings.ca/rda advancement.

The dormitory assistant or call 403-755-6711 Something for Everyone will provide supervision to APPLY NOW! Please reply by fax Everyday in Classifieds primarily on evenings and 403-845-5370 or E-mail: weekends based on a PROMOTIONS MANAGER TOO MUCH STUFF? hr@pidherneys.com schedule. The successful NEEDED. Must be personable Let Classifieds applicant should have & outgoing. Flexible hours.

RED DEER BASED help you sell it. good interpersonal skills Drop off resume to 5211 50 Ave. TRUCKING COMPANY and enjoy working with Looking for Class 1 PT office help and or youth. Experience working Tank Truck Drivers & Business Class room Instructor with children is an asset.

Pressure Truck Operators. req`d. Please call Street Criminal and Child Welfare Opportunities Exc. benefits package & Wise Driving School. checks will be required. top industry wages.

403-340-8848 CAR & TRUCK WASH in Please fax resume to: Please submit resume to the Lacombe ($2.4 Mil).

403-346-3766 SIGN MAKER: FULL TIME undersigned on or before Truck Wash in Stony Plain PERMANENT position STETTLER TRANSIT MIX ($3.9 Mil), Bonnyville ($5.1 12:00 p.m. on August 1, 2014. creating signage.

Drivers wanted for Mil). Gas Station in Onyx / Graphtec. Work Human Resources mixer/pumping concrete.

Sherwood Park ($2.9 Mil). independently in our sign Department 403-742-2134 or Sheryl, Discover RE, division. Top pay for Golden Hills School email:stettlertransitmix 403-701-2029, industry for experienced Division No. 75 @gmail.com thecarwashgirl.com. person only. Apply in 435A Highway No. 1 person. Minuteman Press Strathmore, AB TP 1J4 4646 Riverside Drive Phone: 403-934-5121 Advocate 403-348-0302 Fax: 403-934-5124 Opportunities or 403-934-5125 e-mail: SOURCE ADULT VIDEO humanresources@ghsd75.ca requires mature P/T help CARRIERS NEEDED LUBE TECH wanted for Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift. busy dealership, possible 11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS chance for advancement. 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3 days per week, no weekends 3301-Gaetz Avenue Fax resume to 341-5066 ROUTES IN:

870

ANDERS AREA Ashley Ave., Ashley Close Alexander Drive, Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atlee St. Allison Cres MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave. Sunnside Cres.

Sutton Close Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close

Advocate Opportunities

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION

Vanson Close

Six days per week.

Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

Papers arrive at your home and are ready to deliver.

Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

SMART HOME BUILDING SYSTEMS TOP GUNS WANTED METAL ROOFING AND SIDING CREWS WANTED Top dollars paid - lots of work, signing bonus†to the right people.

Start ASAP. Call Steve†(587) 897-8008 www. smarthomebuildingsystems.com

860

Professional Drivers Class 1 or Class 3 Our Equipment: • Pressure Trucks • Water/Chemical Trucks • Acid/Synthetic Tank Truck/Pups • Tractor Trailer Unit • Shower Units Some of your duties could be: • Loading & delivering acid or environmentally friendly acid to leases • Loading & delivering methanol or fresh water for pipeline pressure testing We offer: • On-site Mechanic to maintain equipment • Competitive wages based on hourly pay • Subsistence pay & hotel rooms for drivers • Extensive health & dental plan

Please send your resume and drivers abstract to pat@haulinacid.com or fax 403-314-9724 or Dean 403-391-8004

880

ACADEMIC Express

Wage negotiable.

780-818-8524

Carpenters & Helpers

STUDON offers a competitive salary, and an opportunity to apply your skills in a challenging and rewarding environment.

Misc.

Help

FALL START

Requires Full Time

Starting Rate: $43.06/hour

880

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Help

LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr. also Lister Cres. & Lockwood Ave. also Landry & Lawson Close Law Close/Lewis Close VANIER AREA

Req’d immed.

Certified asbestos workers and demo laborers.

This position is Monday – Thursday, 10 hour days

Truckers/ Drivers

IMMEDIATE OPENING ARMOR INC is looking for licensed Diesel & Suspension Mechanic and Parts Person for light duty automotive performance shop. Diesel & transmission exp. preferred.

Top wages offered. Phone 403-346-9188 or email donavan@armorinc.ca NOW HIRING in Red Deer

The ideal candidate will have the following: • Journeyman Instrumentation Mechanic • CSTS (Version 0.9) • Dedication to safety; reflected in practice and experience • Excellent communication & organizational skills • Strong focus on customer satisfaction • Team player

STUDON Electric & Controls Inc. ATTN: Jon Skene Fax # 403-342-6505 Email: jskene@studon.com

Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE!

Truckers/ Drivers

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

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

Phone 403-314-4316

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE

Phone 403-314-4316 ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in WOODLEA AREA

Find the right fit.

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

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

GRANDVIEW AREA 3900 - 4200 Blocks of 43A Ave. EASTVIEW Ellis St. Area $97./mo ALSO South Half of Embury Cres.

South half of 46 St. and 35 Ave. Close $70./mo For More Information Call Jamie at 403-314-4306

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, July 9, 2014 D3

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

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

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

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

1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. Runs good.

Would like at least $9500 403-391-3456

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

model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

1985 BUICK Riviera.

Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner.

Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo.

403-347-3950

2001 SILVERADO 4x4, 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, $6500 obo.

403-304-1013

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

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, obo **SOLD**

2001 VOLVO S60.

Loaded, very good cond.

182,000 km. $6500 obo 403-343-2058

2006 37’ DAY DREAMER

by Cedar Creek. 3 slides.

Luxury Coach. E/H disc brakes, hydraulic legs & rear levelers.

Air ride hitch. $39,500.

See @ 5 Roland St. Red Deer 403-347-4896

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

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’.

Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo.

Call 403-442-3837

(B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi.

A1 cond., E450, V10, loaded, rear 3 pc bath, power bed slide-out. $32,500.

587-876-2308

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

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

1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, runs good.

361,000 km. $4000 obo 403-343-2058

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

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

2007 SUZUKI Boulevard 1400 cc, 11,383 km. Well maint.

Black & lots of chrome, white wall tires & saddle bags, bike cover & bike jack incl. $5000.

Daryl @ 403-747-3155 lv. msg.

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500.

587-679-1000

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

2006 KAWASAKI, ZZ-R250 black, 2468 kms., never dropped, lady driven. $3500. obo 403-340-1936

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

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

2003 WINDSTAR LX, fully loaded, very good cond. $3500.

403-755-2867

2007 CHEV Aveo.

80,000 km. $4950 403-348-1382

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400.

403-391-9662

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

HONDA 250 CC, automatic, 110 KPH max.

Very reliable.

First $700 takes it. **SOLD**

DO YOU HAVE

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

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

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

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

403-340-2535

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

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

6 DAYS IN THE RED DEER ADVOCATE 1 FRIDAY FORWARD 2 CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE

2 FREE SALE SIGNS AND TIP SHEET

IF YOUR VEHICLE DOESN’T SELL THE FIRST WEEK, THE 2ND WEEK IS HALF PRICE!

2004 TITANIUM

FREE PHOTO AD WEDNESDAYS IN FAST TRACK FOTOS

AD ON THE INTERNET

AD APPEARS EVERY DAY YOUR AD IS PUBLISHED IN THE ADVOCATE

2007 Dutchman Express 26’ Class C 12,800 Miles

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

2008 KUSTOM KOACH 24.5’ exc. cond, 1 owner, 110 Watt solar panel, 1 slide, $19,900 403-986-3834

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

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

403-347-5947

2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Exc. cond.

403-347-5078

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

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

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

2007 SPORTSMAN

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

2007 FLEETWOOD Regal, 355RL. Exc. cond., 1 owner, loaded, lots of extras $32,500.00 obo.

Daryl (403)256-0025

$26,900. trades cons.

403-598-0682

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

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms., exc. shape, 403-598-0682

2012 FUSION SE only 10,000 kms, exc. cond. no gst $16,900 403-350-6434

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

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

587-679-1000

2010 Ford Explorer

2014 GMC, S/B, Loaded, z71, $34,300.

587-679-1000

$12,900. trades cons.

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

403-318-5505

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

SELL YOUR VEHICLE FAST WITH A FAST TRACK CLASSIFIED VEHICLE AD

403 309-3300

CALL AND ONE OF OUR SALES SPECIALISTS CAN PUT YOU ON THE FAST TRACK TO SELL YOUR VEHICLE.

635421

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

2002 FORD Dynamax

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

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, July 9, 2014 Advocate Opportunities

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Misc.

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SWAMPERS F/T needed immediately for a fast growing waste & recycling company.

Heavy lifting involved (driver’s helper) position.

Reliability essential. Own transportation required.

Please email resumes to canpak@xplornet.ca

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

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

CARRIERS REQUIRED

LOGS

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

Advocate Opportunities

Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

GLENDALE

wegot

KENTWOOD

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

1630

EquipmentHeavy

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

Advocate Opportunities

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Household Furnishings

1720

STEREO & TV STAND, with glass door. $200.

403-343-8453

WANTED Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

WHITE French Prov. Double Dresser with mirror, $50, Desk to match, $35.

Mattress & box spring 3/4 size, $40.

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner Book case, $30.

BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Arborite kitchen table, $25.

Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 Arborite end table, $10.

403-347-4250

Office Supplies

1800

LARGE COMPUTER DESK, $85.

20 DRAWER FILE CABINET, $35.

403-347-4250 STUDENT DESK, 5’, grey & black, $15.

403-357-4880

1830

Cats

Suites

3060

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

3090

Motorhomes

wegot

wheels CLASSIFICATIONS 5000-5300

Automotive Services

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap Rooms 6 BEAUTIFUL Kittens, vehicle & metal removal. ready to go! Free to Good For Rent We travel. May pay cash Home. 403-343-2522 for vehicle. AMVIC 1 BDRM. bsmt, prefer CRUELLY trapped and employed or student. Avail. APPROVED. 403-396-7519 Garden dumped in the country, Supplies immed. 403-342-7789 Stereos orange and white neutered Male 403-782-3130 TV's, VCRs Cars :AWM Mower, Murray 5.5 FREE: HP Briggs & Stratton, Offices BEAUTIFUL KITTENS 3 in 1, good working order, DS LITE WITH 19 GAMES 2008 PONTIAC G6. New tires, variety of colours $160 obo. $50. SOLD brakes & battery. Ready to desperately need loving 403-782-3847 2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, go. $7500. 403-346-6470 BATTERY-POWERED home. 403-782-3130 4836 51 Street.

GAME CUBE WITH “EARTHWISE” BRAND Parking is avail. $1800/mo. 2003 DODGE Neon loaded 4 GAMES $80 obo.

WEED EATER. 403-343-9300 safetied 403-352-6995 Sporting 403-782-3847 Nearly-new. Comes with battery & charger. $50.

Celebrate your life 2002 TOYOTA Camry. Like new.

Goods JVC 6 DISC STEREO Call (403) 342-7908 Beige colour. Only 1 owner. with a Classified $60 obo.

Low mileage: 80,900 km.

ANNOUNCEMENT LADIES RIGHT HAND ATHENA SPEAKER CHAIN Link Fencing, (2) $8,000. 403-342-1683 GOLF CLUBS AND BAG $30 obo.

9’ 8’ gates, 6’ panel, 4’ gate $95. 403-342-7107 403-782-3847 $199. obo 403-357-4880 Warehouse LAWNMOWER rear Space Travel bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. Misc. for old $200. 403-314-0804 Packages Sale SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 WILLOW BASKETS, ideal sq. ft., over-head door, TRAVEL ALBERTA for flowers. (2) Large, BLACK FLAG BUG paved parking, $1000.

Alberta offers $40. ea. (5) Small FOGGER, $50.

Phil 403-340-8603 (W), SOMETHING $15.ea. 403-346-7825 TAKAGI Model TK3 403-350-0479 (C) 2001 VOLVO S60. Loaded, for everyone.

Tankless hot water heater, very good cond. 182,000 km.

Make your travel fully operational. $100. $6500 obo. 403-343-2058 Household plans now.

403-357-9664 Appliances Something for Everyone COMPRESSOR w/hose, Everyday in Classifieds electric, medium size, FRIDGE, Kenmore, top Trucks good cond. $75. freezer, 16 cu., 18. mos 403-358-7678 old. White. $299.

403-986-2114 FLOOR Leveling Compound, (Plani Patch) CLASSIFICATIONS FRIDGE, McClary 1 bag. $15. 403-986-2114 $100 obo. 403-314-0804 4000-4190 LARGE METAL G.E. STOVE TOP, black, DISPLAY RACK. AGRICULTURAL 30 x 21, Like New! $175.

Realtors Measures 73” tall 403-342-1752 CLASSIFICATIONS & Services x 24” wide x 27” deep.

Was originally used to hold 2001 SILVERADO 4x4, 2000-2290 Household many large pieces of 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, poster board. $30. $6500 obo. 403-304-1013 Furnishings Call (403) 342-7908 Horses 2 APARTMENT SIZE MATCHING SET of Dusty END TABLES, $20.

Rose Recliner Chair & FAN (Hot/Cold), $25.

WANTED: all types of Rocker Chair. $40/ea.

APARTMENT SIZE DESK, 2 FAUX MINK BLANKET, horses. Processing locally $15. All good cond. in Lacombe weekly. floral, queen. $25/ea.

403-348-1905 403-651-5912 MIXED SET OF VISION GLASS POTS & LIDS, 3 PC. Mahogany wall unit brown colour, exc. cond. $125; 403-358-5568 1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel $35. 403-348-6449 tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, HERE TO HELP CHAIRS, Swivel Recliners runs good. 361,000 km. & HERE TO SERVE NESTS for LAYING HENS. with foot rests (2). $4000 obo. 403-343-2058 Set of 4. $25. for all.

Call GORD ING at $100. ea. obo.

403-782-7439 RE/MAX real estate 587-273-3256 1988 CHEV Sierra, 1/2 ton central alberta 403-341-9995 very clean. 403-318-3040 PATIO DOOR, glass, 6” DESK, 29.5 x 60”. Good CLASSIFICATIONS gord.ing@remax.net dble., $80.

Cond. $35. Can view at SCREEN DOOR, $15.

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 Kijjii Red Deer 403-986-2114 ID# 601488522 WANTED • 3250-3390 Houses Motorcycles 403-342-5842 SHEEP’S WOOL For Sale - locally produced, has KENMORE dryer 220 V been washed and carded. Condos/ $150 403-358-5568 Three bags (approx. 5-6 lb. Townhouses KENMORE H.D. Washer per bag). Asking $20 bag. $150. 403-358-5568 Will sell separately.

2 BDRM. 1 1/2 bath condo Call (403) 342-7908. townhouse unit in Sylvan, LARGE COMPUTER DESK, $85. avail. now 403-341-9974 2 DRAWER LATERAL WINE making equipment FILE CABINET, $35.

AVAIL. Aug. 1, 4 bdrm. $55; Coleman dbl. high 403-347-4250 queen size air bed w/elec. townhouse, 6 appl., hard2007 SUZUKI Boulevard SHELVING Unit, 6 drawer, pump $35, 2 golf carts w/2 wood, 2 parking stalls, 2000 SQ.FT. HOME 1400 cc, 11,383 km. Well close to shopping & in a remarkable community maint. Black & lots of chrome, bags $10/pair.; Ladies lingerie, 5’ high, French schools. $1200 + util. + d.d in Sundre. Custom built kitchen clothing size 12-14, Provincial. $100. obo white wall tires & saddle $2 - $10; 403-343-2618 RENTED 403-357-4880 w/fireplace, library, office/den. bags, bike cover & bike jack incl. $5000. Call Daryl @ Backs onto park & creek.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 403-747-3155 lv. msg. $378,000. Bareland condo.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Photo by Advocate News Services

Dan Ksepka, paleontologist and science curator at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn., examines the fossilized skull of what may be the biggest flying bird ever found. Its telltale beak allowed Ksepka to identify the find as a previously unknown species of an extinct group of giant seabirds known for bony, toothlike spikes that lined their upper and lower jaws.

Newly declared species may be the largest flying bird WASHINGTON - When South Carolina construction workers came across the giant, winged fossil at the Charleston airport in 1983, they had to use a backhoe to pull the bird, which lived about 25 million years ago, up from the earth.

But if the bird was actually a brand-new species, researchers faced a big question: Could such a large bird, with a wingspan of 20 to 24 feet, actually get off the ground? After all, the larger the bird, the less likely its wings are able to lift it unaided.

The answer came from Dan Ksepka, paleontologist and science curator at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn.

He modeled a probable method of flight for the long-extinct bird, named as a new species this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If Ksepka’s simulations are correct, Pelagornis sandersi would be the largest airborne bird ever discovered.

Pelagornis sandersi relied on the ocean to keep it aloft. Similar in many ways to a modernday albatross — although with at least twice the wingspan and very different in appearance, Ksepka said — the bird probably needed a lot of help to fly. It had to run downhill into a head wind, catching the

air like a hang glider. Once airborne, it relied on air currents rising from the ocean to keep it gliding.

Like the albatross, Pelagornis sandersi spent much of its time over water.

“It was a bit warmer 25 million years ago,” Ksepka said, “and the sea level was higher.

So even though the Charleston airport, where the fossil was found, is on dry land today, it used to be an ocean.”

An incredibly efficient glider, Pelagornis sandersi could probably soar for miles and miles over the sea, swooping down to catch its prey in the waves. To snap up its meals, the bird used pseudo-teeth — a characteristic that Ksepka found just as fascinating as the bird’s massive wingspan.

These teeth, Ksepka said, are not anything like our own.

“They don’t have enamel, they don’t grow in sockets, and they aren’t lost and replaced throughout the creature’s life span,” he said. “Instead, the bone just extends from the jaw.”

There were bigger flying creatures than Pelagornis sandersi. Some of the largest pterodactyls had wingspans of up to 35 feet. But they were flying reptiles, not the dinosaurs that birds descended from. The previous record holder for largest flying bird, Argentavis magnificens, lived only 6 million years ago and

hailed from Argentina. It was probably heavier than the new bird — something researchers know because of the size of their hind legs, which had to support their weight.

The only way to directly compare the two species is the upper wing bone. It is hard to use that as a direct scale between the two, Ksepka said, but “when the difference is 940 millimeters in sandersi and 570 in magnificens, you can’t reasonably create a skeleton where the sandersi doesn’t have a bigger wingspan.” All of this is based on computer simulation, he said.

By comparing bone sizes and proportions to modern birds, researchers can estimate size and mass. And complex computer modeling uses these and other factors to determine whether flight could be possible, and how. “It’s not like a modern bird, where you can put it into a wind tunnel, or sit on a beach with binoculars and watch it,” Ksepka said.

He added that while it is not possible to know everything about the ancient creature from one skeleton, he is quite certain about one thing: “This is pushing the boundary of what we know about avian size, and I’m very confident that the wingspan is the largest we’ve seen in a bird capable of flight.”

Concerns raised about GSK flu vaccine plant

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Health Canada has advised pharmaceutical giant GSK it wants to see an action plan for fixing problems at the country’s only flu vaccine production facility.

GSK was given 30 days in which to lay out a proposal and timeline for resolving the problems at the facility, Health Canada said in an emailed response to questions from The Canadian Press.

The deadline was contained in a Health Canada inspection report that GSK — formerly GlaxoSmithKline — received on July 3, the company said via email.

“We have 30 days to review and respond to the findings noted in their report and we are committed to doing so

by August 4, 2014,” said the email from Michelle Smolenaars Hunter, communications manager for GSK Canada.

Specifics of the problems Health Canada identified at the Ste. Foy, Que., plant were not revealed, though the department said some relate to infractions raised by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in a warning letter about the plant that it issued last month.

Health Canada said it is currently writing a summary report of its findings and will release it when it is completed.

“We will not hesitate to take firm and immediate action should a serious risk to public health and safety be found,” the department stated, though it noted the situation does not pose an immediate threat to the health of Canadians.

Programs to administer vaccine in advance of next winter’s flu season won’t begin across the country until late October or November.

Health Canada said as the plant’s problems don’t pose an immediate risk to Canadians, the plant was given a

“compliant” rating at the end of the inspection, which concluded June 20.

Smolenaars Hunter said that means that as of the time of the inspection GSK showed the plant’s activities were in compliance with the Food and Drugs Act and its regulations. She acknowledged, though, that a compliant rating does not mean corrective actions were not demanded.

“GSK remains fully committed to working with the FDA and Health Canada to ensure we adhere to the requirements of all Good Manufacturing Practices,” she said, referring to the accepted standards for quality control that pharmaceutical companies must abide by.

In its letter, the FDA gave GSK 15 working days in which to fix bacterial contamination problems identified during a regularly scheduled inspection of the facility in early April. It linked the problem to the plant’s water purification system.

The FDA letter said that since 2011, the company has repeatedly discarded batches of vaccine because of bacterial counts that registered above specified limits.

It noted that 21 per cent of the plant’s production in 2014 could not be released to the market because of the problem.

The FDA stated if the problems could not be fixed in the specified time frame, the company needed to explain the delay to the U.S. regulatory body and lay out a detailed plan for resolving the ongoing problems.

Otherwise, the facility’s licence to produce vaccine for the U.S. market could be suspended or revoked without further warning, the agency said.

For the most part the FDA has declined to elaborate on the situation, saying its investigation is ongoing. But recently it acknowledged receiving three written responses from GSK related to the inspection, all dated before the warning letter was issued.

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TORONTO — You might want to use an elbow to push the elevator button the next time you are in a hospital.

A new study suggests that elevator buttons in hospitals have more bacteria on them than surfaces in public bathrooms in hospitals.

Analysis of the swabs taken in the study found most of the bugs were benign. But that might not always be the case, said senior author Dr. Donald Redelmeier.

And where people — hopefully — wash their hands after going to the bathroom, they might not think to take the same precaution after doing something as simple as pushing a button to call an elevator and another to select a floor.

“The motivation here is they” — elevator buttons — “are ubiquitous inside hospitals, they’re active really every moment of the day and they’re touched by multiple people and it’s almost always with ungloved hands,” said Redelmeier, who is director of clinical epidemiology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

“It’s a theoretic risk. But the main point here is that it’s also an avoidable risk through hand hygiene.”

While elevator buttons are certainly among the surfaces hospital cleaners target, they are touched so often, by so many people, that it’s a bit of a losing battle.

“They can’t be cleaned again and again and again, every second of the day,” Redelmeier said. “Once they’re clean, they don’t stay clean very long.”

With the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria and outbreaks of C. difficile diarrhea, concern about infection control in hospitals has grown in recent years. As a result, numerous studies have been conducted to identify where bacteria hide in hospitals and how they are transmitted to patients.

Studies have found bacterial contamination on neckties worn by male doctors, lab coats, stethoscopes, cur-

tains separating beds in multiple-bed rooms, computer keyboards as well as smart phones and digital tablets health-care workers use to enter and check patient data.

But equipment is generally in the hands of health-care workers.

And hospital staff are regularly bombarded with messages about the need to observe good infection control practices such as washing hands between patients.

Hospital visitors and even patients themselves may have less of an idea that they could play a role in moving bacteria around hospitals, Redelmeier acknowledged.

For the study, swabs were taken from 120 different elevator buttons and 96 toilet surfaces in three different hospitals in Toronto.

Swabbing was done on weekdays and weekends, and a variety of elevator buttons were tested.

As well, the public washrooms closest to the elevators were also tested, with swabs taken of the door handles on the inside and outside of the main door, the latch used to close cubicle doors and the toilet flush handle or button.

Sixty-one per cent of the elevator buttons tested were colonized with bacteria, compared to 43 per cent of the toilet surfaces tested.

Redelmeier said people should consider using an elbow, a pen or some other item to push elevator buttons in hospitals, or make sure they use hand sanitizer after exiting an elevator.

He and his co-authors suggested hospitals should put sanitizer dispensers in elevators.

When washing hands or using cleansing gel, people should remember to pay particular attention to fingertips — especially the forefinger of the dominant hand, he said.

“Often when people use a hand cleanser, they’re very good at washing their palms, but not their fingertips. And yet most of the transmission does not occur in the middle of the hand, it occurs at the periphery of the hand.”

The study was published in the journal Open Medicine.

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