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Three homes burn DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $3 MILLION IN LACOMBE BLAZE

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF LACOMBE — Fire destroyed three homes in Lacombe early Tuesday morning.

All three families — a total of six adults and seven children — in the Henner’s Pointe homes escaped without injury.

Damage is estimated at about $3 million.

The fire is suspected to have started in the front attached garage at 4511 Henner’s Pointe before 5 a.m. Flames spread to homes on either side, at 4513 and 4509 Henner’s Pointe. “ W h a t woke us up was the noise.

We thought someone was out on the street pushing the garbage bin over. As soon as we got out of bed, we could see the neighbour’s garage fully involved,” said Brian Newbury, whose home was one of those that burned near the intersection of Henner’s Gate.

His wife ran out to wake up the neighbours and he called 911.

Newbury is a firefighter and training officer with the Lacombe Fire Department, which has a team of about 30 volunteer firefighters. He and his family have lived on the street on the north side of Lacombe for about four and a half years.

“It’s a little bit different to be on the other side of the fence this time. It still catches you off guard. It’s still a little surreal,” said Newbury about watching his fellow firefighters respond to the fire that burned his home.

His house has significant fire damage and almost a metre of water in the basement.

The fire had not yet reached his home when his family woke up from the banging and popping sounds of the fire. But with homes built so close together these days, it doesn’t take

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ABOVE AND LEFT: Fire destroyed three homes in Lacombe early Tuesday morning. All three families — a total of six adults and seven children — in the Henner’s Pointe homes escaped without injury. Damage is estimated at about $3 million.

Photo by SUSAN ZIELINSKI/Advocate staff

FAR LEFT: The fire appeared to have started in the garage of one home before spreading to one home on each side.

long for heat and flames to reach other buildings, he said.

Lacombe fire chief Ed van Delden said fire had a hold on the middle home and flames were licking up the sides of the other two homes when firefighters arrived shortly after 5 a.m.

“Most of the fire was at the front of the home so we suspect that it was started somewhere in the attached garage or somewhere adjacent to it,” van Delden said.

The entire block was evacuated and the fire was under control after an

hour and a half.

“We think it’s a total loss of the three homes,” van Delden said. He said damage is estimated at about $3 million.

Wes Huether was one of several area residents who were watching the firefighters at work.

“This is when you appreciate the quality of the emergency services in this town,” said Huether, who heard what sounded like a propane tank explode at about 4:45 a.m.

“It’s a sad thing.”

Newbury said his family will land on its feet.

“Everybody is out and OK, so all the irreplaceable stuff has been saved.”

Firefighters from Blackfalds, Clive and Bentley also responded to fight the fire.

Canadian Red Cross Personal Disaster Assistance Team is helping the fire victims by providing emergency food, clothing and accommodations for 72 hours.

Lacombe Storage, at 4014 52nd Ave., is collecting donations of clothing and basic household items for the families and gift cards. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

Liver transplant a success

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A Red Deer couple’s liver transplant surgery was a success.

Ethel Lariviere donated a portion of her liver to her husband Randy as planned on July 7 at the University of Alberta Hospital.

Randy, 55, was on the transplant list for over four years after he was infected with hepatitis C during a kidney operation.

“We did have a few bumps on the road, but the surgery was definitely successful by all means because, of course, his body hasn’t rejected it.

We’re both doing well,” Ethel, 47, said this week.

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After the surgeries, Randy suffered a blood infection and Ethel faced high potassium levels.

He was on the operating table for 13 hours and she was in surgery for eight hours.

“I’m getting better day by day. And I just can’t wait for Randy to get better and stronger.”

But Ethel said she couldn’t lie — the first two weeks after the surgery hurt. She said an epidural did help her with the pain for a few days following surgery.

Randy was in severe pain and is still weak and requires a walker.

They still require medication for the pain.

“I’m really happy we did it. I have no regrets. This is one step closer to Ran-

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dy getting better. He needed to have a liver transplant. The next step is now will be the hepatitis C treatment.”

The couple is waiting to find out if a pharmaceutical company through the University of Alberta’s Hepatitis Support Program will help cover the treatment’s drug costs.

Ethel got out of hospital on July 13 and Randy was released on July 25.

They are living at the outpatient residence at the U of A hospital because Randy must remain in Edmonton for three months while the chance of rejection is high.

The couple will celebrate their ninth wedding anniversary on Thursday. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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Lacombe County couple win big

BY ADVOCATE STAFF A Lacombe County couple hit the $18.3-million Lotto 6-49 jackpot.

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BAND CAMP University of Calgary music instructor Gareth Jones works with a group of young musicians at the Alberta Band Camp taking place at Red Deer College this week. Over the next three weeks, about 300 students aged 13-18 will take part in the annual camp to hone their musical chops under the direction of professional musicians and teachers. Each night through the week, performances will be held on the main stage starting out tonight and each night at 8 p.m. with a performance by the University of Alberta Summer Band. On each Saturday afternoon, the students will take to the main stage at 2 p.m. at the Arts Centre. All performances are free of charge and open to the public.

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Family credits hungry cat with saving them from fire

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS NORTH SYDNEY, N.S. — Brian Young gave his cat Berkeley a hearty scratch on the back and a few extra cans of tuna after the hungry feline awakened him just before a fire raced through his home, leaving little time to get his family out.

Young, a former Nova Scotia politician who lives with his wife and two adult sons in North Sydney, said the cat woke him up Monday at about 5 a.m., mewing to be fed and let outside.

Young said he fed the eight-year-old tabby some of the tuna he keeps in the fridge for him, let him out and returned to bed where he drifted off to sleep before waking up to a whooshing sound of flames and the crackling of burning floorboards about an hour or so later.

He said he went downstairs to find flames and smoke rolling off the kitchen ceiling and rushed his wife and son out of the house while calling 911 as the fast-moving fire destroyed part of the home.

“I got to the bottom of the stairs and looked and there was a wall of flame and I screamed, ‘Oh my God,”’ Young said from the hotel where he and his family are staying.

“But we all got out safely and the cat is safe.”

Berkeley, a stray who appeared at their home as a scrawny kitten eight years ago, took off after the fire but has since returned and is being cared for by a neighbour until the family determines what will happen to their home.

Young, who served in the Progressive Conservative governments of former premiers John Buchanan

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and Donald Cameron, credits the cat with getting him up, preventing him from falling back into a deep sleep after that.

He said a couple of people at the local mall had heard the story and their first question was, “Did you find your cat?”

Young said the hefty brown cat, known for its six toes on each paw, was a little miffed by the ordeal.

“He showed up and he was really put out because his house had been burned and his regular haunts were gone,” he said with a laugh. “We got him staying with a neighbour and they’re feeding him tuna as well, so he’s happy with that.”

He said the fire engulfed the deck and went into the kitchen wall, forcing firefighters to poke holes in the roof to try to extinguish it. But he said the blaze left a big hole where the dining room and kitchen once were.

Young, 64, said it’s not clear whether they can salvage their home. He said they may have lost many of their possessions, including memorabilia from his daughter Carmen who died in 1992 after an unsuccessful double lung transplant.

“That’s life — you can’t predict it, you can’t control it, you just have to roll with the punches,” he said. the June 25 lottery draw.

The winning ticket was purchased at a 7-Eleven store in Claresholm. A week later, Bradley Kelly checked his tickets and learned a big windfall coming his way.

He couldn’t believe his luck after scanning the ticket.

“I self-checked it and a bunch of numbers came up. It didn’t seem right. So I went to the retailer and I said, ‘I think the machine is pooched,’ ” Bradley recalled.

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Transmission lines approved An Alberta Utilities Commission panel has approved AltaLink’s preferred route to rebuild transmission lines, new lines and substations in Red Deer and area.

In a report released late on Tuesday night, the commission said it is satisfied the estimated $322-million transmission line project is consistent with and meets the need as set out in the need identification document approval for the Red Deer region.

Preferred routes for the rebuild of transmission line in Red Deer were approved including the route through Cronquist Close area; through Riverlands, Railyards and through the Pines neighbourhoods.

Other preferred routes for transmission lines and substations around Sylvan Lake Didsbury, Innisfail and Ponoka areas were also approved.

In reaching its decision, the commission considered all records of the hearings, the evidence and submissions by all parties.

The Alberta Utilities Commission ordered public hearings in Red Deer to review AltaLink’s plans over the last couple of years.

Firefighters rescue pooch from sweltering heat of locked vehicle EDMONTON — A charge of animal cruelty has been laid after a distressed dog was found locked in a parked vehicle on a hot day in Edmonton.

The outside temperature was 28 C when the panting collie-cross was discovered Monday afternoon at a location on the city’s west side.

But there was no mistake — the ticket was worth $18,397,958.80.

“I was in absolute shock. When I saw all of those numbers, I just started pacing back and forth.”

The couple are still reeling from the win, but look forward to all the possibilities it creates.

“We have many dreams, and probably even more now that we don’t even know of,” Amanda said.

One thing is for certain, they will be taking a trip.

“We never did have a honeymoon, so we should get on that,” Bradley said.

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RCMP urged to investigate flights FORMER PREMIER REDFORD DENIES ANY PERSONAL WRONGDOING

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Former Alberta premier Alison Redford is denying any personal wrongdoing associated with findings by the auditor general that passenger lists on government aircraft were altered so she could fly alone.

Redford issued the denial via Twitter on Tuesday, noting she has not been able to read the auditor general’s draft report because it has not been provided to her. “But I have cooperated fully with the auditor general in the preparation of his report and will continue to do so,� she said. “I understand from the media that the draft report supposedly refers to certain flight booking practices in the Office of the Premier. I would be surprised if these allegations are true but in any event, I also understand that the draft report makes clear that these were not practices that I had any knowledge of. “It would not be true to suggest that I flew on the government plane alone.

Despite the allegations raised today, as far as I am concerned there was never any directive preventing others from flying on government aircraft when I was a passenger. In fact, on most occasions that I can recall, when I was on government flights, I travelled with other elected officials, public servants and staff.�

Alberta’s Wildrose Opposition says there should be an RCMP investigation into Redford’s use of government aircraft.

Wildrose finance critic Rob Anderson says the public has an expectation that politicians who may have broken the law should be investigated.

A CBC News report on Tuesday said a review by auditor general Merwan Saher found that Redford’s staff blocked others from flying on government planes by booking seats in advance and then removing passenger names before printing the flight manifest. “The implications of this practice were that other government employees or elected officials would not have been able to travel on those aircraft,�

Saher said in an internal government report obtained by the CBC. Anderson said it appears the governing Progressive Conservatives were using the planes as “personal air limousines.� “The PCs will undoubtedly try and pin this all on Ms. Redford and her departed staff as though they had abso-

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Alberta Premier Alison Redford meets with media following a meeting of the provincial PC Party executive in Calgary on Saturday, March 15, 2014. CBC News is reporting that Alberta’s auditor general found “false passengers� were booked on some government flights so that then-premier Redford could fly alone. lutely nothing to do with it,� Anderson said. “The fact is, there is simply no way that these actions could have been taken without other senior government staff and cabinet ministers knowing full well about it.�

Global Edmonton quoted unnamed sources as saying Alberta Justice Minister Jonathan Denis has asked that all relevant documents be forwarded to the RCMP so that they can conduct an independent investigation if one is warranted.

Denis could not be reached for comment but issued the following tweet: “To be clear, the GOA would cooperate fully with any RCMP investigation into the use of (government) aircraft, including providing any info requested.�

Saher isn’t scheduled to release the report until next month, but a spokeswoman for Premier Dave Hancock said he would like the timeline pushed up. Kathleen Range said Hancock is concerned about the information in the leaked report, but she added he couldn’t comment until he has actually seen it himself. “He’s concerned about the information and he does want to have that

info in his hands as soon as possible,�

Range said. “We’re encouraging the auditor general to release the review and the report and the recommendations as soon as possible.�

Redford resigned as premier on March 23 amid caucus complaints about her lavish spending. It was Redford who, before she resigned, asked the auditor general to review the government’s flight program.

CBC News quoted the auditor’s report as saying that “false passengers� were booked on some government flights so Redford could fly alone.

The network said the auditor’s report also said Redford and her former chief of staff denied any knowledge of the altered passenger lists.

The CBC said Redford told the auditor general she did not request the government planes, but the report notes that, in every case, the request came from the premier’s office.

The three candidates who are running to replace Redford as PC leader all expressed anger about the findings.

Two of them, Ric McIver and Thomas Lukaszuk, were ministers in Redford’s cabinet before they stepped

down to run for the leadership. They denied knowing anything about what was going on. “The former premier preferred to fly alone. That, in and of itself, is something I knew would be disclosed in the public expenses and flight manifests,�

McIver said.

Lukaszuk said if he became premier and if the findings are accurate, he will ask the PC caucus whether Redford should be ejected.

Candidate Jim Prentice, a former federal Conservative cabinet minister, noted in a release that he was not part of the previous government. “Albertans do not need excuses from those who were at the table when these decisions were made. They need new leadership and a government that will hold themselves to the highest ethical standard,� Prentice said.

Opposition parties were already calling last spring for the province to scrap its fleet of four turboprop planes.

Hancock has said the planes are sometimes the best and only way for government officials to get into remote communities.

Flight records show Redford took her daughter, Sarah, on 50 flights on government aircraft, including for two weekends in Jasper. The records simply list “meetings with government officials.�

Shortly before her resignation, Redford admitted to flying her daughter and her daughter’s friend around on a handful of flights and paid back the equivalent airfares. She also admitted taking a government plane to a family funeral in Vancouver and bringing a plane in to fly her back from a Palm Springs vacation.

She also paid back $45,000 spent on travel to and from South Africa for Nelson Mandela’s funeral in December. Redford and her aide flew to Ottawa, where the premier joined the prime minister’s entourage. Her aide, however, took a commercial flight to South Africa.

He and Redford returned to Alberta first class on another commercial flight so she could attend the swearing-in of her new cabinet.

CBC News said the auditor’s review found she could have returned on the prime minister’s plane in time for the swearing-in.

The network said Saher also concluded that Redford derived a personal benefit by taking her daughter on flights and added that she used a government plane for trips where there were commercial options.

Yukon man fined $31,500 for illegal guiding

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WHITEHORSE — A Yukon man who once made his living working for an outfitter has been ordered to pay a hefty fine for illegally guiding nonresidents on various hunting trips.

James Richards must pay a total of $31,500 and was prohibited from hunting and guiding for 20 years as part of his sentence in Yukon Territorial Court.

Richards, 51, pleaded guilty to four charges including illegal transportation of wildlife and accompanying or assisting non-residents on guided hunts in exchange for compensation.

The hunting trips occurred in the

Pelly Mountains in 2006, the Coast Mountains west of Whitehorse in 2009, in north-central Yukon in 2010 and in the Pilot Mountain area in 2011.

Court heard that using his own licence, Richards took unlicensed nonYukon residents hunting for sheep and also used special guide licences for caribou, moose and grizzly bear in exchange for money.

According to Environment Yukon, only registered outfitters may provide guided sheep hunting opportunities to non-residents. Guides with a special guide licence are not allowed to do so for compensation.

While Richards, a former Whitehorse resident, once worked for a Yukon outfitter, he wasn’t doing so

during these hunts.

Ryan Hennings, manager of enforcement and compliance with Environment Yukon, said Tuesday the fine is significant, but the goal is deterrence. “We take this very seriously,� he said.

James W. Colosimo, Jr., a 53-yearold Alberta resident, was also fined $15,000 and prohibited from hunting for 15 years.

While visiting the Yukon, Colosimo went on two sheep hunts with Richards during which Colosimo killed a Dall sheep and a Stone sheep.

Hennings said Colosimo didn’t have a hunting licence, and he used Richards’ licence and tag.

They then claimed Richards had

hunted the rams, and shipped them to Colosimo’s home in Alberta.

The two sets of sheep horns were seized by Alberta Fish and Wildlife and will be returned to the Yukon.

While Colosimo still lives in Alberta, he has been doing some mining work in the Yukon, said Crown prosecutor Lee Kirkpatrick.

If he lives in the territory during the next 15 years, he will not be allowed to obtain a Yukon hunting licence.

The investigation began in 2010 after Environment Yukon received a tip from the public.

Conservation officers in the Yukon and Alberta then obtained search warrants for Richards’ and Colosimo’s homes.

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Christianity under attack Two high-profile incidents last week, at opposite ends of the Arab world, draw attention to a growing reality.

In northern Iraq, recently conquered by the zealots of the newly proclaimed “Islamic State,” the Christians in Mosul were given three choices: convert to Islam, pay a special tax (about GWYNNE $750, on this DYER occasion), or be killed. They all fled and now Mosul is Christian-free for the first time in almost two millennia.

Meanwhile, in Sudan, Meriam Ibrahim finally got permission to leave her homeland after spending months chained up in a jail cell. The young woman had been condemned to hang by a Sudanese court for the crime of having “converted” to Christianity, but the government couldn’t legally kill her until after her baby was born.

Now, neither of these incidents gives an accurate picture of government policy in Arab countries that have traditionally had Christian minorities (which is to say, most of them).

Indeed, big Arab countries like Syria,

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Iraq and Egypt have all had Christian ministers in their governments, and their laws guaranteed religious freedom.

Sudan, whose legal system has been based on Islamic shariah law since a military coup 30 years ago, does not treat its citizens equally regardless of their religion. At first glance, however, the restrictions apply mostly to the Muslim majority, who, for example, are forbidden to leave their faith on pain of death. That was the law that almost killed Meriam Ibrahim.

Her father had been Muslim, but he had abandoned the family when she was very young and her Christian mother brought her up in the Catholic faith. Nevertheless, according to Sudanese law you are a Muslim if your father was, and professing any other faith makes you an apostate. She refused to abandon her Christian faith and so she was sentenced to hang.

But they do understand the concept of bad publicity even in Khartoum.

The suspicion hangs heavy that the prosecution grew out of a blackmail attempt gone wrong, for Meriam Ibrahim is a doctor and her husband, also a Christian, holds dual Sudanese and American citizenship. To your average impoverished Sudanese — like, perhaps, her absent father’s family — that would have spelled “money.”

So the accusation was made that she was really a Muslim who had abandoned her faith and married a Christian (both hanging offences), but it

may have been made privately at first.

Then, however, the professional zealots who make a living out of “defending Islam” got in on the act, demanding the apostate be killed, and the Sudanese government had to enforce its own laws.

The only saving grace was that Meriam Ibrahim was pregnant, and could not legally be killed until her child was born and had lived about two years. This gave time for the saner elements in the Sudanese government to work with her lawyers, and ultimately with U.S. and Italian government representatives, to find a way to let her go. (Meanwhile, for all but the last month of her six-month ordeal, she was chained to the floor in a jail cell.)

It all finally came right, and on Thursday Meriam Ibrahim, her 20-month-old son and her newborn daughter flew out of Khartoum, landed in Rome, and was whisked off to a meeting with the Pope.

“She is unhappy to leave Sudan. She loves Sudan very much. It’s the country she was born and grew up in,” her lawyer told the BBC. “Her life is in danger so she feels she has to leave. Just two days ago a group called Hamza made a statement that they would kill her and everyone who helps her.”

So a happy(ish) ending to the story — but there were probably several other Sudanese Christians on the same flight who were leaving their country forever with less fanfare. It’s no longer wise for Christians to live there if they

have any other options.

And that is rapidly becoming the case for Iraq, too.

There were still about 60,000 Christians in Mosul when the United States and its sidekicks invaded Iraq 11 years ago. By last year, it was down to 30,000.

Only two months after the arrival of the ISIS extremists, there are none. Most have fled to Kurdistan with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.

They are not going back and if they can, they will leave the Middle East entirely.

What has changed?

For many centuries, the Christian minority of Arabs lived in relative peace and prosperity under Muslim rule. In the early 20th century, they were in the forefront of the nationalist and literary renaissance in the Arab world. But in the past decade, about a quarter of the Arab world’s 12 million Christians have emigrated, and the flow is increasing every year.

Most of them are not facing execution, like Meriam Ibrahim or the former residents of Mosul. They just feel excluded from an Arab discourse that is increasingly radicalized and obsessed with religious differences — both Muslim-Christian ones and SunniShia ones — and they have lost hope.

They are Arabs who have lost their place in the Arab world and they have to find one elsewhere.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Tories putting a muzzle on charitable groups Re: Audits on prohibited political activities for charities As a senior and a social activist, I am aware of the longstanding Canada Revenue Agency regulations on prohibited political activities for Charities. A landmark policy statement from 2003 allows charities to spend up to 10 per cent of their resources on political activities, such as advocating changes in government policies. Partisan activity, endorsing a candidate or party, has always been forbidden and remains so.

On the local and provincial level, I know that this regulation has been a damper on a number of organizations (who are also registered charities) to speak out on provincial and federal policies on health care, pensions and seniors issues.

While fearing CRA audits, some have totally abandoned advocacy; and while remaining silent on government legislation affecting their members and citizens in general, have left discussion strictly to the political arena.

This has done and is doing great harm to civil society, as the issues of the day need to be discussed in public debate. Opinion generated and supported by groups and organizations on behalf of members cannot be brought to our elected representatives for fear of prohibited political activities for charities being called.

It has caused citizens to tune out of being aware, and it has created a feeling of impotence and laissezfaire. This also may be a contributing factor in the low voter turnout in our elections.

On the national scene, government ministers have been extremely critical of any organization with differing opinions on environment, foreign aid or social issues. The CRA got new money for audits.

EthicalOil.org, a staunch supporter of Canada’s energy industry and founded by current Stephen Harper aide Alysha Valhi, issued a series of formal complaints to the agency about the political activities of environmental groups. The CRA readily acknowledges that complaints are taken into account when deciding which groups to audit.

A wave of audits was announced by the federal government in the 2012 budget, and some groups have been under threat of losing their charitable status for more than two years.

The list of targets includes Amnesty International Canada, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Canada Without Poverty, Environmental Defence, the David Suzuki Foundation and the United Church of Canada’s Kairos charity, run with 10 other religious organizations to promote human rights.

An investigation by The Canadian Press has found numerous charities targeted with political-activity audits, from environment to international aid and human-rights groups. Many say they are being slowly drained of cash for legal and other costs and fear speaking out; many are still awaiting outcomes.

The Conservative government has stepped up its scrutiny of the political activities of charities, adding fresh money for more audits, and casting its net well beyond the environmental groups that have opposed its energy policies.

Canada Revenue Agency, ordered in 2012 to audit political activities as a special project, now has also targeted charities focused on foreign aid, human rights and even poverty.

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any claim that the government is using the tax agency as a weapon against its opponents, saying the initiative is simply about good stewardship over taxpayer dollars.

But new regulations may be coming, including: Canadian charities would have to turn over lists of their donors’ identities to the Canada Revenue Agency under a proposal being floated by the Conservative government. The move is touted as a way to prevent tax-receipt fraud, but some charities are wary of the administrative burden and the potential close surveillance of groups that criticize government policies.

All this raises great concerns that the charitable organizations, local provincial and national, supported by Canadians for the purpose of advocacy will be stifled and bogged down by government bureaucracy driven by partisan ideology. It places a chill on critical nonpartisan review of provincial and federal legislation tabled and implemented by majority government.

We simply cannot rely on the docile and silent backbench politicians to defend us in caucus. We need the vigour of civil society to reveal the issues and to advocate on our behalf.

Charities must be allowed to do the job we contribute towards them to do. The tax deductions we receive are part of our democratic right.

I call upon the Harper government to stop the partisan motivated audits of our respected charities.

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One can assume that this all-wise government has plans to improve the lives of the genuinely poor in Canada, in order to lift them to the level of the rest of the tax-paying populace. Obviously those who are not already poor (merely on the brink) will simply have to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, just like the rest of us. We certainly cannot be expected to put any more of our hard earned dollars into improving those lives.

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OTTAWA — Chinese hackers have infiltrated the computer systems at the National Research Council, forcing it to shut down its IT network for an extended period, the federal government revealed Tuesday.

The Treasury Board Secretariat said there is no evidence that other government computer systems or data have been compromised.

But the NRC’s computers have been isolated from the rest of the government’s systems as a precaution.

And the council said it could be some time before a new, more secure

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system is up and running.

“NRC is continuing to work closely with its IT experts and security partners to create a new secure IT infrastructure,” the council said in a statement.

“This could take approximately one year however; every step is being taken to minimize disruption.”

In a separate statement, the government said one of Canada’s spy agencies, the Communications Security Establishment, detected and confirmed the cyber attack.

The intrusion came from “a highly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored actor,” said the Treasury Board.

“We have no evidence that data

compromises have occurred on the broader Government of Canada network,” the statement said.

Still, the NRC said it has notified the Privacy Commissioner and its clients and stakeholders about the breach.

The agency said it would not release further information, citing security and confidentiality reasons.

However, it planned to update Canadians on the situation by Thursday.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird raised concerns over the breach with Chinese government officials in Beijing Tuesday, according to a spokesman for the minister.

“The minister took the opportunity

to discuss the situation with his counterpart, and they had a full and frank exchange of views on the matter,” said Adam Hodge.

“The government takes this issue very seriously and we are addressing it at the highest levels in both Beijing and Ottawa.”

Baird is on a three-country tour of Asia to promote economic ties among Canada, China, Mongolia and Japan.

The National Research Council touts itself as “the Government of Canada’s premier organization for research and development,” which partners its scientists, engineers and business experts with private industry to bring new technologies to market.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, N.L. — A group of current and former military members who were on vacation in central Newfoundland put their rescue training to use as they pulled a bleeding woman from a burning truck.

Ryan Folkes and five other friends were driving between Grand FallsWindsor and Badger on their way to go swimming Sunday when they saw smoke fuming out of the overturned vehicle.

Folkes, 26, said as onlookers shouted for help, he and his friends administered first aid to the woman, removed her from the truck and brought her to safety just minutes before it burst into flames and exploded.

“We all took off like a shot of a gun towards the truck,” Folkes said Tuesday.

He said five of the six had served together in a tank unit and were trained in combat first aid and emergency extraction from vehicles.

Folkes said Danielle Elliott, the wife of one of the soldiers, directed traffic, as he, Ryan Elliott and Adrien Guindon yanked open a door to reach the woman and smashed windows to allow air in.

“The woman was badly hurt,” Folkes said. “There was massive bleeding out the leg and there was a lot of smoke coming out of the vehicle.”

Meanwhile, Lee Westenlaken and Nick Bronson sprayed fire extinguishers at the truck. But the heat continued to rise and Folkes said he asked Ryan Elliott — who has training as a firefighter — whether the woman should be moved.

“The first thing in my mind when I saw this car was ’This is going to burn,”’ said Elliott, 24, who recently left the military.

The soldiers took a highway yield sign and with the help of others loaded the woman onto the makeshift stretcher.

“Not three, four, maybe five minutes (later), the whole truck exploded,” Folkes said.

The Afghanistan veteran, who lives at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown, said the group then used their combat first aid to wrap and stem bleeding from the woman’s severed foot.

He said the woman was taken to Gander for surgery.

The friends’ vacation ends Wednesday.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SURREY, B.C. — It was just before 1 a.m. during an overnight cycling race when loud explosions disrupted the solace of a rider along Highway 1 in British Columbia.

At first, Craig Premack, 59, thought he was hearing firecrackers near Spences Bridge while he was taking part in a 600-kilometre, two-day cycling event called the Cache Creek 600.

“But then my right forearm just blew up,” Premack said at a police news conference Tuesday. “Seconds later I could feel the warmth of the blood rolling down my leg. I quickly realized that I had been shot and pedalled faster to escape.”

Premack said the bullet entered his right forearm, just below his elbow.

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“The community at large needs to be protected from this person,” he said. “The outcome would be tragic should this ever happen again.”

The impact of the bullet turned the bone, about two centimetres below his elbow, into small fragments, Premack said, turning his arm to show where the bullet entered and exited.

“Over time those pieces are supposed to find each other and turn back into a bone.”

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“After the longest 20 minutes of my life I could see the lights of what could only be my cycling friends. They were quick to react, with one of them riding back to Spences Bridge to summon help.”

RCMP Insp. Ed Boettcher told the news conference that police believe the potentially deadly incident near Lytton is random.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA, Gaza Strip — Israel unleashed its heaviest bombardment in a 3-week-old war against Hamas on Tuesday, striking symbols of the militant group’s control in Gaza and firing tank shells that Palestinian officials said shut down the strip’s only power plant.

The fighting came as diplomatic efforts to forge a truce remained stalled despite a death toll that Palestinian officials said rose above 1,200 on Tuesday. The shadowy leader of the Hamas military wing said his group will not cease fire until its demands are met.

On Tuesday evening, residents of the sprawling Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza reported intense tank shelling. Ten members of an extended family were killed and 50 other people wounded in the area, Palestinian health officials said. Two brothers driving in a car with markings of a U.N. aid agency were killed by shrapnel, an area resident said.

“It was like an earthquake,” Moussa al-Mabhouh, a volunteer for Gaza’s Civil Defence, said of the scene. “Roofs collapsed, walls cracked and wounded people everywhere.”

The heavy strikes — which came a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday warned of a “prolonged” campaign against Hamas — were a new blow to international efforts to reach a sustainable truce in the fighting.

Israel has vowed to stop the Hamas rocket and mortar fire that has reached increasingly deeper into its territory and to destroy a sophisticated network of tunnels that have been used by the militants to infiltrate the Jewish state.

For its part, Hamas has so far rejected cease-fire efforts unless its demands are met, including a lifting of a punishing blockade.

The rare remarks by the Hamas military wing’s leader, Mohammed Deif, were broadcast late Tuesday on Al-Aqsa TV, the satellite station of Hamas.

“There is not going to be a cease-fire as long as the demands of our people are not fulfilled,” he said.

Deif’s voice was recognizable in the audio statement.

He has survived repeated Israeli assassination attempts and has operated

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Smoke billows from Gaza’s power plant after it was hit by Israeli strikes in the Nusseirat Refugee Camp, central Gaza Strip, Tuesday. The plant’s shutdown was bound to lead to further serious disruptions of the flow of electricity and water to Gaza’s 1.7 million people. from hiding for years.

Al-Aqsa also broadcast a videotape it said showed an infiltration by Hamas fighters into Israel on Monday through a border tunnel.

At least 1,210 Palestinians have been killed, including 109 on Tuesday, and 7,000 wounded since the start of fighting July 8, said Palestinian health official Ashraf al-Kidra. He said 16 other people died of wounds sustained on previous days.

The dead included multiple members of at least five families who were pulled from the rubble Tuesday after airstrikes and tank shelling struck their homes, including the mayor of a refugee camp and his 70-year-old father, according to Palestinian health officials and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

Israel has reported 53 soldiers and three civilians killed.

Already, the intensity and the scope of the current Gaza operation is on par with an invasion five years ago, which ended with Israel unilaterally withdrawing after hitting Hamas hard.

On Tuesday, Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of attacks, levelling the home of the top Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, and damaging the offices of the movement’s Al-Aqsa satellite TV station, a central mosque in Gaza City and government offices.

Haniyeh’s house, in a narrow alley of the Shati refugee camp, was reduced to rubble but no one was hurt.

Residents placed a large framed portrait of Haniyeh atop the wreckage and draped it with green Hamas flags and Palestinian national banners.

Israel has targeted several homes of Hamas leaders but none has been killed — presumably because they have kept a low profile. Haniyeh said in a statement Tuesday that “destroying stones will not break our determination.”

The scene at the Gaza power plant after two tank shells hit one of three fuel tanks was daunting and thick black smoke rose into the sky for hours. The station’s shutdown further disrupted the supply of electricity and water to the 1.7 million people packed into the narrow Palestinian coastal territory.

“We need at least one year to repair the power plant, the turbines, the fuel tanks and the control room,” said Fathi Sheik Khalil of the Gaza Energy Authority. “Everything was burned.”

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CAIRO, Egypt — Heavy gunfire between warring militias prevented firefighters from battling a massive inferno in Libya’s capital Tuesday, despite calls for a cease-fire to end the worst violence in the capital since the country’s 2011 civil war.

The blaze engulfing oil depots started earlier in the crossfire of militias fighting over Tripoli’s international airport, a weekslong battle between rivals mirroring the violence that’s plagued Libya since the downfall of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. In the eastern city of Benghazi, Islamist-led militias said they also seized bases of a renegade general fighting against them Tuesday as a jet fighter crashed.

The violence has impeded the country’s democratic transition and its escalation is the biggest challenge facing Libya’s newly elected 200-member parliament, which will take office in August.

Earlier this month, a militia composed of fighters from the western city of Misrata backed by others stationed in the capital carried a surprise attack on the airport, held for the last three years by a militia from the mountain town of Zintan.

The fighting forced authorities to shut down the airport after it was devastated in shelling. The Health Ministry said that 97 people have been killed and more than 400 have been wounded in the fighting.

The violence prompted many diplomats and foreigners to flee the country, including the U.S. ambassador in Libya and United Nations staff. A Spanish military plane also evacuated 60 people from Libya, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium — Shocked into action by the downing of the Malaysian airliner and the resulting deaths of more than 200 Europeans, the European Union approved dramatically tougher economic sanctions Tuesday against Russia, to be followed swiftly by similar punitive measures from the U.S. The new sanctions adopted by the Europeans over the uprising in Ukraine include an arms embargo on Moscow and a ban on the unapproved sale to the Russians of technology that has dual military and civilian uses or is sensitive, such as advanced equipment used in deep-sea and Arctic oil drilling, EU officials said.

To restrict Russia’s access to Europe’s capital markets, EU citizens and banks will be barred from purchasing certain bonds or stocks issued by state-owned Russian banks, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to make public statements.

European Union President Herman Van Rompuy and the head of the EU’s executive, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, said the 28-nation bloc meant to send a “strong warn-

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Cousin of Afghan President Karzai assassinated KABUL, Afghanistan — A powerful cousin of outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai was assassinated by a suicide bomber hiding explosives in his cap on Tuesday, a provincial official said. It was the latest attack targeting Afghan power brokers and govern-

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In this Saturday, July 26, 2014, frame grab from video obtained from a freelance journalist traveling with the Misarata brigade, shows an airplane on the tarmac of the airport belching black smoke into the air during fighting between the Islamist Misarata brigade and a powerful rival militia, in Tripoli, Libya.

The Spanish ambassador will remain in Tripoli with a reduced staff.

A cease-fire deal over the airport fighting mediated by Tripoli’s City Council fell apart hours after they declared it late Monday, leaving council members pleading with the militias to withdraw from at least a 3-kilometre (1.86 mile) radius to allow firefighters to fight the blaze. The government ordered firefighters to withdraw amid new clashes.

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Tuesday, but it didn’t catch on fire, said Samir Kamal, a senior official with Libya’s state-run oil company.

Kamal said up to 80 million litres (21 million gallons) of oil and liquid natural gas are in the area, as well as gas cylinders used for cooking.

“We are afraid that if fire sweeps the whole area ... (there will be) huge explosions that can impact lives of residents living in a 5-kilometre (3.11mile) radius of the tanks,” he said.

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ing” to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the “illegal annexation” of Crimea and Russia’s destabilization of Ukraine cannot be tolerated.

“Furthermore, when the violence created spirals out of control and leads to the killing of almost 300 innocent civilians in their flight from the Netherlands to Malaysia, the situation requires urgent and determined response,” the two top EU officials said in a statement.

Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was blown out of the sky by a missile over eastern Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 people aboard, most of them Europeans. The Obama administration has blamed separatists armed and supported by Russia.

The new EU sanctions bring Europe in sync with the U.S., which has been pressing the bloc to take a harder line against Moscow.

Europe, which has a much larger trade relationship with Russia than the U.S. does, had hesitated to take actions as strong as Washington’s for fear among some leaders that sanctions could boomerang against their own economies.

Germany, for example, imports one-third of its gas from Russia, while France has a contract to deliver two warships.

But on Monday, in a rare videoconference call with President Barack Obama, the leaders of Britain, Germany, Italy and France expressed their willingness to slap new sanctions on Russia in co-ordination with the U.S. Up to now, the EU had only targeted specific individuals, businesses or rebel organizations accused of undermining Ukraine.

“Unlike the Americans, we always have to get 28 countries together,” German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview with ARD television. “And the interests are very different. All the same, I think that we — at the latest with the shooting-down of this plane — have a situation in which we cannot simply carry on in the same way.”

The U.S. hailed the Europeans’ harder line.

“We welcome these early indications that European countries are going to take additional steps today,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. He said further U.S. penalties would be announced as early as Tuesday.

The West has accused Russia of supplying weapons and fighters to Ukraine’s pro-Moscow separatists in the uprising that has killed more than 1,000 people since mid-April.

ment officials as insurgents and political factions struggle for power ahead of the withdrawal of foreign combat forces by the end of this year.

Hashmat Khalil Karzai was a staunch supporter of the president and had played an active role in the campaign to choose his cousin’s successor.

The attacker blew himself up while bowing to kiss Karzai’s hand following morning prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr in a reception room at the Karzai family home in the southern province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said.

It was similar to the September 2011 killing of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who at the time was the leader of a government-

appointed peace council seeking reconciliation with militants.

President Karzai condemned the attack. “Just like all other Afghans who are the daily targets of terrorist attacks, our family too is no exception

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — A leading doctor who risked his own life to treat dozens of Ebola patients died Tuesday from the disease, officials said, as a major regional airline announced it was suspending flights to the cities hardest hit by an outbreak that has killed more than 670 people.

Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, who was praised as a national hero for treating the disease in Sierra Leone, was confirmed dead by health ministry officials there. He had been hospitalized in quarantine.

Health workers have been especially vulnerable to contracting Ebola, which is spread through bodily fluids such as saliva, sweat, blood and urine. Two American health workers are currently hospitalized with Ebola in neighbouring Liberia.

The Ebola outbreak is the largest in history with deaths blamed on the disease not only in Sierra Leone and Liberia, but also Guinea and Nigeria.

The disease has no vaccine and no specific treatment, with a fatality rate of at least 60 per cent.

Binyah Kesselly, chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority board, said police are now present at the airport in Monrovia to enforce screening of passengers.

“So if you have a flight and you are not complying with the rules, we will not allow you to board,” he said.

In a statement released Tuesday, airline ASKY said it was temporarily halting flights not only to Monrovia but also to Freetown, Sierra Leone. Flights will continue to the capital of the third major country where people have died — Guinea — though passengers departing from there will be “screened for signs of the virus.”

Passengers at the airline’s hub in Lome, Togo also will be screened by medical teams, it said.

“ASKY is determined to keep its passengers and staff safe during this unsettling time,” the statement said.

The measures follow the death Friday of a 40-year-old American man of Liberian descent, who had taken several flights on ASKY, causing widespread fear at a time when the outbreak shows no signs of slowing in West Africa.

Patrick Sawyer, who worked for the West African nation’s Finance Ministry, took an ASKY Airlines flight from Liberia to Ghana, then on to Togo and eventually to Nigeria where he was immediately taken into quarantine until his death.

His sister had died of Ebola though he maintained he had not had close physical contact with her when she was sick. At the time, Liberian authorities said they had not been requiring health checks of departing passengers in Monrovia.

The World Health Organization says the risk of travellers contracting Ebola is considered low because it requires direct contact with bodily fluids or secretions such as urine, blood, sweat or saliva, experts say.

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No one immediately claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack, which comes at a sensitive time in Afghanistan.

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BUT RECENT DEVELOPMENTS SHOW REASONS FOR OPTIMISM

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A dwindling herd and an exodus of producers are among the pork industry trends that Statistics Canada highlights in an analytical paper it issued on Tuesday. But an official with Alberta Pork says recent developments in the sector provide reason for optimism.

In a report entitled “The changing face of the Canadian hog industry,” the agricultural division of the national statistical agency describes how the Canadian pig herd declined by 15.7 per cent between 2006 and 2011. For Alberta, the drop was 31.9 per cent.

The paper also noted how the number of Canadian farms producing pigs fell 35.9 per cent during the same fiveyear period. In Alberta, the slide was

even greater at 45.6 per cent.

Statistics Canada blamed these trends on a number of factors: low prices, high feed costs, harmful trade policies like the United State’s mandatory country-of-origin-labeling (COOL) legislation and disease — including H1N1 and its incorrect identification as “swine flu,” which undermined consumer confidence.

Darcy Fitzgerald, executive director with Alberta Pork, confirmed that it’s been trying times for hog producers.

“They had about seven years of no money, really,” he said.

“There were times when guys were selling pigs for minus $40, minus $50 — just hanging on.”

In recent months, however, improved prices and lower feed costs have allowed the industry to see some black ink again, said Fitzgerald.

“It’s giving producers some profit. A lot more than they’ve seen in the past.

“I think we’re not on the downhill anymore. It’s looking better.”

That said, the market pig count in Canada is still trending downward.

Fitzgerald estimates the current tally at about 26 million, a far cry from the approximately 30 million in 2006.

In Alberta, market pig numbers are in the 2.3-million to 2.4-million range, as compared with about four million eight years ago. The number of registered producers in Alberta are about 375, said Fitzgerald, but fewer than 300 of these probably rely on pigs for their livelihood. Pork is still important to Canada’s balance of trade.

“It’s still around that $3.1 billion, $3.2 billion mark in exports,” said Fitzgerald, who believes global demand for Canadian pork will only increase.

In addition to the prospects of more liberalized trade with European and Asian countries, international demand for protein is growing, he said.

“When you look at the world overall, there are only so many places that grow food for the rest of the world and that number is dwindling.”

Challenges still exist, acknowledged Fitzgerald. Some of the old ones — like COOL — remain, and there are new ones. These include the ongoing threat of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDv) and restrictions on the use of temporary foreign workers by farmers and pork processors like Olymel.

But, he said, the outlook for the industry is improved from 2011.

“I think there’s a little more optimism for sure from where they were before.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR The operators of a Rimbey funeral home have been sanctioned by their industry’s regulatory board for delays in delivering monuments to clients.

Laverne and Michelle Oberhammer, who run Oberhammer Funeral Chapel, have each had their funeral director’s licence suspended temporarily and received other penalties from the Alberta Funeral Services Regulatory Board.

The board conducted a hearing into the Oberhammers’ conduct on June 25, and said in a decision issued earlier this month that the couple failed to provide monuments in a timely manner.

Board chair Cam Davis told the Advocate that the definition of “timely” is flexible, depending on what point in the year a monument is ordered.

For example, one requested in the fall would likely not be erected until spring, so a reasonable delivery timeline would be longer, he said.

“These were monuments that were being ordered in the spring and not being installed by the fall, which would mean it was not within that timely manner,” said Davis of the Oberhammers’ situation. “And there wasn’t proper communication saying why.”

Davis stressed that the board’s investigation of the Oberhammers related only to their delivery of monuments.

“There’s nothing wrong with any of the funeral services they provided.”

Laverne Oberhammer emphasized this point.

“By no means does it reflect on the funeral service industry or our funeral services that we offer to our families.”

He acknowledged that Oberhammer Funeral Chapel had not delivered monuments ordered through it in a timely manner, but pointed out that it is no longer involved in this aspect of the industry.

“We no longer represent any monument companies at all, and won’t in the future.

“Our focus is on the funeral service for the families.”

Davis said the investigation of the Oberhammers was triggered by a complaint.

The couple was also accused of failing to comply with the Alberta Funeral Services code of conduct and responding to the board’s investigator. Davis said these charges arose during the investigation.

“They didn’t provide the information for the investigation in as timely a manner as they should.”

In addition to the suspension of his funeral director’s licence until March 31, 2015, Laverne Oberhammer is prohibited from becoming a business manager until the same date, and from entering into contracts for funeral services. He must also complete an ethics and jurisprudence course.

Michelle Oberhammer’s funeral director’s licence is suspended from Aug. 31 to Nov. 30, and her business manager licence from Aug. 31 until March 31, 2015. She is required to arrange for an alternate business manager to oversee operations at Oberhammer Funeral Chapel during this period. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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A Timcon Construction crew works on a building in McKenzie Industrial Park on Tuesday. Zoned business service industrial, the building will have bays ranging from 2,320 square feet to 9,136 square feet, and high enough to accommodate a second floor. They are available for lease or possibly for sale on a condominiumized basis, with Century 21 Advantage Commercial the leasing agent. A September completion date is anticipated.

New taxi bylaw driving change ONE CAB COMPANY PLANS TO CLOSE WHILE ANOTHER PLANS TO COMMENCE SERVICE INNISFAIL

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR A Red Deer cab company is among the first to pick up an Innisfail taxi licence.

Associated Cab is preparing to commence service in Innisfail, with plans to operate two cars, a van and a handivan in the town.

“We’re aiming for Sept. 1,” said Daryl Frenette, owner of Associated Cab. Two weeks ago, Innisfail town council adopted a taxi bylaw for the community. It allows one taxi for every 1,000 residents — or eight vehicles given Innisfail’s current population.

Helen Dietz, the town’s chief administrative officer, said previously taxi companies only required a business licence to operate.

“There were no restrictions or rules around taxi service,” she said.

“Now, this is just more specific to the taxis and the taxi service.”

Applicants under the new taxi bylaw must obtain a brokerage licence or apply as an owner-operator.

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Frenette acknowledged that it will “It’s a well-built bylaw,” said Fren- be tough to establish a new taxi comette, who thinks the rules will help pany in Innisfail. ensure that those offering taxi service “I think it’s going to be a struggle at in Innisfail are qualified and safe to first, like any new market is.” do so.

But he’s optimistic town residents “I see lots of positives coming from will become accustomed to his new it.” service and Ray Plato support it. As‘IT’S A WELL-BUILT BYLAW. I SEE takes the opsociated Cab LOTS OF POSITIVES COMING posite view. was already The owner of receiving a FROM IT .’

Innisfail Taxi lot of calls Ltd., which —DARYL FRENETTE from Innishas two veOWNER OF ASSOCIATED CAB fail, especialhicles and oply for handierates from 6 van transport, a.m. to 6 p.m., plus extended hours on he said.

Fridays and Saturdays, is upset with “We go there to pick up lots of the new bylaw. trips.”

“It’s ridiculous,” said Plato.

Associated Cab’s Innisfail taxis will He argues that the old system, which be distinct from its Red Deer vehicles, allowed for a flat-rate fee rather than even sporting a different colour — silmetered service, worked well. Plato ver. said Innisfail Taxi will cease operaHowever, they will be dispatched tions when its current business licence using the same computerized sysexpires in January. tem.

Dietz said the taxi bylaw was motiFrenette said Associated Cab’s exvated by a desire to ensure the indus- pansion plans are limited to Innisfail, try is properly regulated. where he believes a business opportu“Over the last year or so, I’ve had nity exists. a lot of people inquiring about a taxi “We’ve got no designs to go anyservice and running the service,” she where else.” said. hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Canadians grow pessimistic about economy EXCEPT IN THE BOOMING WEST

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadians are becoming increasingly pessimistic about the economy and the availability of jobs — except those in the booming West — a new survey suggests.

The Conference Board’s latest consumer confidence survey for July shows that optimism is waning or remains at very low levels in most regions of the country, except in the prairies and British Columbia.

Nationally, the Ottawa-based thinktank’s confidence index slid one point to 85.9 in July, the third consecutive monthly dip.

By contrast, however, the confidence index rose 4.5 points to 107.8 in the prairies — the highest level in the country. And it remains elevated in British Columbia at 105.9, even though July saw a decline of 9.9 points.

The Conference Board says negative sentiments about the prospects for job creation over the next six months is the key reason for the glum sentiments

among many Canadians.

“On a national basis, pessimism about the labour market continues to hamper a true recovery in confidence,” wrote Todd Crawford, an economist with the think-tank.

“Although the economy has more than recovered all the jobs it lost during the recession and the unemployment rate has trended down in the past few years, consumers appear not to have noticed, or they have no faith that the trend will continue.”

The sentiment is understandable given the recent record on job creation. Statistics Canada reported earlier this month that almost 10,000 jobs were lost in June and that over the past 12 months, a mere 72,000 net jobs were added, the poorest extended performance since the recovery began in July 2009.

Coincidentally, a consumer confidence survey in the United States, where job creation has been strong of late, found the index rising for the third consecutive month to 90.9, the highest reading since October 2007.

“Very encouraging news on U.S. consumer confidence ... Now if talk can be translated into action,” said senior economist Jennifer Lee of BMO Capital Markets.

The Bank of Canada and most economists believe a true recovery in the U.S. is a necessary pre-condition for lifting Canada out of the slow-growth lane of the last few years.

There were some encouraging signals in the Canadian report.

More than 20 per cent of respondents said they were financially better off than six months ago, up two percentage points from June.

Canadians were less hopeful, however, about the prospects for improvement in their finances going forward.

And fewer than in June said this was the right time to make a major purchase, such as a home or a car.

Crawford said this could reflect the fact households are carrying heavy debt loads, jobs opportunities are scarce and media reports that homes are overpriced.

But it was on the jobs front that the

weakness was most acute.

Only 15.9 per cent of Canadians said they expected there would be more jobs available in six months’ time, a drop of 1.2 points.

In Atlantic Canada, that number drops all the way to 5.9 per cent, the weakest response to the question since 1996.

Ontario residents were also concerned about jobs prospects, with only 12.6 per cent saying they expected better employment conditions, down from 15.3 per cent in June.

Sentiment in Quebec improved in July, the think-tank said, but from a low level.

Regionally, the July confidence index stood at 72.9 per cent in Atlantic Canada, 80.5 in Quebec, 74.9 in Ontario, 107.8 in the prairies and 105.9 in B.C. The results are based on telephone and cellphone interviews with 2,000 Canadians conducted in the first two weeks of July.

The survey is said to have a margin of error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.

WestJet readies to take on new low-cost rivals WestJet Airlines is preparing for the arrival of new low-cost competitors including Southwest Airlines by taking steps to expand its regional service and add wide-body planes to its fleet to access new international routes.

Chief executive Gregg Saretsky said the Calgary-based carrier’s formula since 1996 has been to stay lean and keep fares low.

“So to the extent that there are other lower cost operators that see opportunities, they’re going to be met with a pretty strong response from WestJet and our people are ready for any challenge,” he said Tuesday after reporting record second-quarter results that beat analyst forecasts.

The airline’s profits surged nearly 16 per cent to $51.8 million or 40 cents per diluted share for the three months ended June 30. That compared with a profit of $44.7 million or 34 cents per share a year ago.

Revenue increased 10.3 per cent to $930.3 million from $843.7 million in the second quarter of 2013.

Analysts on average had expected the airline to earn a profit of 28 cents per share, according to estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters.

WestJet’s shares hit an all-time high of $29.11 and were up 4.45 per cent, or $1.22 at $28.64 in afternoon trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Saretsky said the airline is continuing to study whether to offer lower base fares, but add baggage fees. A decision isn’t expected before year-end.

WestJet has been increasing the revenue from ancillary fees passengers pay to upgrade seats or obtain other benefits. Non-ticket revenues

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AltaLink Q2 profit rises to $49 million, revenue also higher CALGARY — Alberta electric utility AltaLink says it had $49 million of net income before taxes in the second quarter, up from $33.4 milion a year earlier.

The limited partnership, partly owned by Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin (TSX:SNC), said its revenue was $168.5 million, up from $117.5 million a year earlier.

SNC has agreed to sell its portion of AltaLink for $3.2 billion to Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which has committed to invest at least $27 million over five years on development opportunities in Canada and the United States.

The deal requires approval from the Alberta Utilities Commission.

AltaLink owns more than half of Alberta’s transmission grid — about 12,000 kilometres of transmission lines, as well as 280 substations, delivering electricity to about 85 per cent of the province’s population.

Rona on hunt for dealers with deal to distribute products to Ace Hardware stores MONTREAL — Home renovation company Rona is returning to the hunt for new independent dealers, after reaching a long-term licensing agreement to distribute products to 120 Ace Hardware stores in Canada.

Rona (TSX:RON) will replace TimBR Mart in distributing Ace branded products, non-Rona branded goods and lumber to independent dealers, including 102 in Quebec.

Luc Rodier, Rona’s executive vicepresident retail, agreement sends a clear message to Rona’s dealers that the company is once again looking for growth following a period of downsizing.

“When you go through a turnaround like we did in the company, attracting dealers in the last three years was not our main focus...We are now focused on growth and that’s why that move is

increased 17 per cent in the quarter to $10 per passenger. That still lags U.S. airlines, but Saretsky said he’s very optimistic of increasing those revenues.

The airline expects to bring in more than $80 million in ancillary revenue this year.

“We’ll be ready to meet whatever competitor wants to come to take us on and Southwest is a very good competitor, but our job is to make sure that WestJet is in a position to be a fierce competitor as well,” Saretsky said during a conference call.

Southwest’s CEO recently said it is eyeing Canada, along with Hawaii, Alaska, Central America and northern South America as possible destinations for its international expansion.

Canada Jetlines Ltd. of Vancouver and Jet Naked of Calgary are also musing about launching their own low-cost airline services.

Saretsky said Canadian airlines already face competition from low-cost carriers like Allegiant and Spirit Airways, that lure about five million Canadians a year to cross the border to fly from U.S. cities like Buffalo, N.Y., Burlington, Vt., and Bellingham, Wash.

A large fuel tax increase in Ontario will cost the airline up to $15 million a year when fully implemented in three years and only make the situation worse, the airline said.

WestJet announced Tuesday that it will add at least four used Boeing 767300ERW aircraft.

The first two planes will initially be used on routes between Alberta and Hawaii during the winter beginning in late 2015, replacing the smaller Boeing 757s flown on its behalf by Thomas Cook.

The bigger planes can fly further than WestJet’s current fleet of Boeing so strategic for us,” Rodier said.

Rona will have to compete with Tim-BR-Mart and Home Hardware to attract and retain the Ace dealers. But it will be armed with a big weapon since the stores will only be able to access about 2,500 Ace branded products through Rona.

Ace products won’t be available in Rona stores but the Boucherville, Que., based company will have access to Ace Hardware’s import program from China.

ICAO to set up task force in wake of downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MONTREAL — The CEO of the international organization that represents the world’s air carriers has targeted military and intelligence agencies, saying they have a moral duty to ensure that innocent people are not put in harm’s way.

“All these agencies of government, including intelligence or military defence agencies, have as their overriding responsibility the safety and lives of innocent people,” Tony Tyler of the International Air Transport Association said Tuesday.

He made the comment at a joint news conference where ICAO, the UN body that governs civil aviation, announced it is setting up a task force aimed at improving security measures in the wake of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.

The plane was shot down in mid-July by a surface-to-air missile while flying over a war-torn section of Ukraine.

“MH17 was a tragedy that should not have happened,” Tyler declared.

He said that “civil aircraft are instruments of peace (and) they should never be the target of weapons of war — and that’s enshrined in international law.”

Tyler also noted that there’s no international law or convention that imposes a duty on states to manage the design, manufacture and deployment of anti-aircraft weapons.

It is believed that an anti-aircraft weapon fired by pro-Russian rebels may have brought down flight MH17.

“MH17 has demonstrated that powerful and sophisticated anti-aircraft weaponry is in the hands of non-state entities,” Tyler said. “And under ICAO’s leadership, I am confident that we can find ways within the United Nations system to augment the international law framework to ensure that states fully understand and discharge their responsibilities in this regard.”

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A pilot taxis a Westjet Boeing 737-700 plane to a gate after arriving at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Monday February 3, 2014. WestJet Airlines is preparing for the arrival of new low-cost competitors including Southwest Airlines by taking steps to expand its regional service and add widebody planes to its fleet to access new international routes.

737s and allow it to compete with Air Canada (TSX:AC.B) on more routes.

The airline said it expects to expand its operation into overseas markets starting in the summer of 2016 but won’t say if it will move beyond Europe to include Asia or other markets.

WestJet began flying between St. John’s, N.L., and Dublin last month.

The airline wouldn’t immediately

provide financial details about the planes, but Saretsky said more can be added, if required.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Walter Spracklin said the second-quarter results were driven by strong demand in Canada and on U.S. routes.

The improved yield “bodes well for the overall pricing environment,” Spracklin said.

BlackBerry acquires Secusmart

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BlackBerry is bulking up its security assets with the acquisition of antieavesdropping firm Secusmart, which developed technology to protect the smartphones of German government officials, including Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The Waterloo, Ont.-based company revealed plans to add extra power to its mobile security foundation on Tuesday at an event held in New York.

Chief executive John Chen said buying Secusmart addresses growing concerns about threats to individual privacy and national security.

“We are always improving our security solutions to keep up with the growing complexity of enterprise mobility, with devices being used for more critical tasks and to store more critical information, and security attacks becoming more sophisticated,” Chen said Tuesday in a news release.

Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed and BlackBerry (TSX:BB) said the acquisition still faces some conditions, including regula-

tory approval.

The move positions BlackBerry against competitors like Apple and Samsung that have been making inroads into mobile security, an area that BlackBerry once almost exclusively dominated.

Secusmart provides high-level voice and data encryption for governments, businesses and telecommunications service providers.

Last year, a report from German news magazine Der Spiegel said that chancellor Merkel’s Nokia phone was tapped by the U.S. government, according to documents from the National Security Agency. Merkel had already begun using a BlackBerry Z10 phone before the revelation was published.

Secusmart developed special technology for BlackBerry 10 phones that were distributed to several German government agencies, ministries and leaders after receiving a stamp of approval from the country’s information security office. Corporate security has become a hot topic after businesses like Target Corp. faced massive data breaches that saw private information of its customers stolen.

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OF LOCAL INTEREST Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 100.39 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 50.11 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49.65 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 10.32 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.60 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 48.28 Cdn. National Railway . . 73.73 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 206.55 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 40.60 Capital Power Corp . . . . 27.11 Cervus Equipment Corp 22.67 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 53.45 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 55.03 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 31.37 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33.76 General Motors Co. . . . . 34.45 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 20.89 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.35 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 57.25 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 70.11 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 37.52 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 12.69 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.86 Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 102.73 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.58 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.60 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 53.64 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto stock market closed little changed Tuesday after the U.S. and European Union adopted tough new sanctions on Russia over that country’s continued support of Ukrainian rebels, who have been blamed for the downing of an airliner by a missile earlier this month.

The TSX had spent most of the session well into positive territory thanks in part to positive earnings news and data that showed a marked improvement in U.S. consumer confidence but the S&P/TSX composite index closed up 1.33 points to 15,446.55.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.5 of a cent to 92.09 cents US. New York markets were lower as traders considered new measures that specifically target sectors of the Russian economy, including energy, weapons and finance. Also, Russian stateowned banks will be banned from selling bonds or equities with a maturity of over 90 days in European capital markets.

New York’s Dow Jones industrials dropped 70.48 points to 16,912.11, the Nasdaq was down 2.21 points to 4,442.7 and the S&P 500 index shed 8.96 points to 1,969.95.

Indexes had earlier advanced after the U.S. Conference Board reported that its Consumer Confidence Index jumped to 90.9 in July — the highest level since October 2007.

WestJet (TSX:WJA) was a major gainer on the TSX, up $1.07 or 3.9 per cent to $28.49 as the airline beat forecasts for profit and revenue as it posted net earnings of $51.8 million, or 40 cents per share, up from C$44.7 million, or 34 cents a share, a year earlier.

George Weston Ltd. (TSX:WN) reported a quarterly net loss of $208 million, or $1.71 per share, compared with a net profit of $97 million, or 68 cents per share, in the same quarter of 2013 as it digests the acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart by subsidiary Loblaws.

Total sales were $10.59 billion compared with $7.52 billion and its shares advanced $1.13

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And Talisman Energy (TSX:TLM) posted a loss of $237 million, or 23 cents per share, compared with a profit $97 million, or nine cents, per share in the same quarter of 2013. Its shares added 21 cents to $11.93.

It is a very heavy week for Canadian corporate earnings news, with the accent on the resource sector. However, with the energy sector up 18 per cent so far in 2014, further gains could be elusive. “I think with oil trading around $100, with all the geopolitical risk out there keeping the oil price firm, that most of the good news is already in the energy name,� said Paul Taylor, chief investment officer, asset allocation, for BMO Global Asset Management Canada.

A major decliner in New York was Herbalife Ltd. The seller of supplements and weight loss products on Monday reported quarterly profit that decreased by 17 per cent. Its shares plunged 13.4 per cent to US$58.42.

The tech sector fell 0.8 per cent with BlackBerry (TSX:BB) down 43 cents or four per cent to $10.32 as the company said that it will acquire anti-eavesdropping security firm SecuSmart for an undisclosed amount. The German company provides high-level voice and data encryption.

The base metals sector was up 0.9 per cent while September copper eased two cents to US$3.22 a pound. The TSX energy sector slipped 0.17 per cent with the September crude contract in New York down 70 cents to US$100.97 a barrel.

The gold sector declined 0.26 per cent as August bullion faded $5 to US$1,298.30 an ounce.

MARKET HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Tuesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,446.55, up 1.33 points Dow — 16,912.11, down 70.48 points S&P 500 — 1,969.95, down 8.96 points

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . 103.55 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 71.22 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.04 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 33.35 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 56.54 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 7.13 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 9.94 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.100 Precision Drilling Corp . . 14.35 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 45.12 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . 11.93 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 16.64 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . 11.02 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 71.82 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 82.38 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 73.84 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.35 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 41.26 Carfinco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.73 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 31.71 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 51.58 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 71.11 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 22.09 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 48.92 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.15 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 79.88 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 41.65 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58.86 Nasdaq — 4,442.70, down 2.21 points Currencies at close: Cdn — 92.09 cents US, down 0.50 of a cent Pound — C$1.8398, up 0.57 of a cent Euro — C$1.4561, up 0.54 of a cent Euro — US$1.3409, down 0.23 of a cent Oil futures: US$100.97 per barrel, down 70 cents (September contract) Gold futures: US$1,298.30 per oz., down $5.00 (August contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $23.143 oz., up 1.62 cents $744.05 kg., up 52 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: Nov. ’14 $3.00 lower $444.10; Jan ’15 $2.80 lower $448.30; March ’15 $2.70 lower $449.00; May ’15 $2.90 lower $445.30; July ’15 $3.20 lower $440.90; Nov ’15 $3.30 lower $429.00; Jan. ’16 $3.30 lower $435.00; March ’16 $3.30 lower $438.80; May ’16 $3.30 lower $438.80; July ’16 $3.30 lower $438.80; Nov. ’16 $3.30 lower $438.80.

Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 unchanged $137.50; Dec. ’14 unchanged $139.50; March ’15 unchanged $140.50; May ’15 unchanged $140.50; July ’15 unchanged $140.50; Oct. ’15 unchanged $140.50; Dec. ’15 unchanged $140.50; March ’16 unchanged $140.50; May ’16 unchanged $140.50; July ’16 unchanged $140.50; Oct. ’16 unchanged $140.50.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 278,100 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 278,100.

Opponents and supporters call power-plant pollution rules too much or too little out that a severe storm that shuts down an auto manufacturer in the Southeast costs more than $1 million an hour. “Over the past four years, AmeriDENVER — Hundreds of people across the country lined up Tuesday can factories have been disrupted by to tell the Environmental Protection typhoons in Thailand, hurricanes in Agency that its new rules for power- the Gulf of Mexico, droughts in Texas, plant pollution either go too far or not tornadoes in Kentucky, falling water levels across the Great Lakes and floodfar enough.

The agency is holding hearings this ing in the Northeast,� he said.

Meanwhile, elected regulators, busiweek in Atlanta, Denver, Pittsburgh and Washington on President Barack ness interests and labour officials at Obama’s plan to cut carbon-dioxide the hearings said the proposed rules emissions by 30 per cent by 2030, with could raise electricity prices and cause 2005 levels as the starting point. The job losses without significantly curtailrules are intended to curb global warm- ing global carbon emissions at a time ing. Coal mines, electric utilities, la- when utilities are already switching bour unions, environmental groups, to natural gas as it has become cheaprenewable energy companies, govern- er. As a result, energy companies have ment agencies, religious and civil rights been sending more coal than ever overorganizations and others sent represen- seas to meet rising demand.

The EPA expects 1,600 people to tatives to the hearings.

John Kinkaid, a Moffat County, Colo- speak in the four cities and has already rado, commissioner, told the EPA in received more than 300,000 written Denver that the rules would devastate comments, which will be accepted until the economy in his area, home to a ma- Oct. 16. The Denver meetings are the only ones being held in the West, where jor power plant. “Energy is the lifeblood of our econ- the topic of air pollution traditionally omy,� he said. “Moffat County deserves sets off a loud debate over environmenbetter than to be turned into another tal values and economic vitality. Three of the top 10 coal-producing states are Detroit, Michigan.�

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Talisman frustrated at pace of asset sales

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Talisman Energy has not been able to sell assets as quickly as it would like, but its land in Alberta’s promising Duvernay shale has been attracting more interest recently, CEO Hal Kvisle said Tuesday.

As to what sorts of discussions Talisman may be having with Repsol SA about a possible deal, Kvisle was tightlipped on an analyst conference call.

He only reiterated a statement last week confirming the Spanish firm had approached Talisman regarding “various transactions,� but there were no assurances any would come to fruition.

Since Kvisle took charge of Talisman nearly two years ago, the company has been looking to slim down its global portfolio. On Tuesday, the company said it aimed to do $2 billion in deals over the next 12 to 18 months for “long dated, non-core, capital intensive assets,� the proceeds of which would be used to bolster its balance sheet.

The CEO said he’s been “a bit frustrated� with the pace of the company’s divestiture program. “We’ve been through two or three years of a relatively difficult marketplace. We’re determined not to give assets away for 60 cents on the dollar and I’m very pleased actually at the proceeds we’ve been able to generate as we’ve divested different assets,� he said. “I’d always like to proceed more quickly on divestments. There are periods in the market when buyers are much more enthusiastic than they have been. Lately, we’ve seen much more interest, for example, in our Duvernay joint venture discussions than was the case a year ago.�

Chief financial officer Paul Smith said Talisman has been “active in the marketplace with potential counterparties from across the globe� regarding a Duvernay partnership and that the company expects to see proposals during the third quarter.

But Talisman is holding off on seeking a deal for its potentially huge oil discovery in the semi-autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan “given the complex geopolitical landscape� in the region, Smith said.

BUSINESS

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Twitter posts stronger-thanexpected Q2 results SAN FRANCISCO — Stronger-thanexpected results pushed Twitter’s stock sharply higher on Tuesday after the short messaging service said its revenue more than doubled in the second quarter.

The San Francisco-based company’s stock jumped 29.6 per cent to $50.01 in extended trading after the results came out. Twitter posted a net loss of $144.6 million, or 24 cents per share, in the April-June period. That compares with a loss of $42.2 million, or 32 cents per share, a year earlier when Twitter was still a private company.

Adjusted earnings were 2 cents per share in the latest quarter, beating analysts’ expectations of a loss of 1 cent, according to FactSet. Revenue was $312.2 million, up from $139.3 million. Ana-

Kvisle said the company may need to make some “tough decisions� on whether to abandon higher-cost properties in the North Sea, where operational upsets have been a chronic problem.

Last year, the company announced a $1.5-billion deal to sell most of its natural gas holdings in northeastern British Columbia’s Montney formation to Malaysia’s Petronas, as well as the $595-million sale of its stake in a Colombian oil pipeline. A handful of smaller deals in Western Canada and southeast Asia were announced this year.

Talisman has for years been the subject of takeover speculation, but observers say Repsol is likely more interested in scooping up individual Talisman assets rather than buying the whole package.

Following the expropriation of its Argentinian holdings in 2012, Repsol has signalled it would look for growth in countries that are members of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, but good chunk of Talisman’s portfolio does not fall into that category. However, analysts have said the Duvernay land could be a good fit for Repsol.

Talisman is focused on two core regions: the Americas, which includes North American shale deposits and Colombian oilfields, and southeast Asia.

Earlier Tuesday, Talisman said it lost US$237 million during the second quarter, as an impairment charge and hedging loses weighed on its bottom line.

The net loss amounted to 23 cents per share, compared to a profit of $97 million, or nine cents per share, during the same period a year earlier.

Stripped of unusual items, Talisman posted a loss of a penny per share, missing the average analyst estimate of a four-cent profit, according to Thomson Reuters.

Cash flow was $567 million, up eight per cent year-over-year and in line with analyst expectations of 55 cents per share.

Revenue was $1.24 billion compared with $1.19 billion in the same quarter last year. Total production was 375,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day, up four per cent year-over-year. lysts polled by FactSet were expecting revenue of $283.3 million.

Average monthly users were 271 million as of the end of June, up 24 per cent from a year earlier and up 6 per cent from the end of March. Mobile advertising revenue was $224 million, or 81 per cent of the quarter’s total ad revenue. In the first quarter, mobile ad revenue amounted to about 80 per cent of total ad revenue.

Analysts: Samsung smartphone sales fall in Q2 NEW YORK — An analyst firm says Samsung Electronics Co., the world’s biggest maker of smartphones, saw its sales drop in the second quarter. It lost ground to upstart Chinese manufacturers after several years of headlong growth. Research firm IDC says Samsung’s smartphone sales fell 4 per cent compared to a year ago, even though the quarter saw the launch of the latest top-flight model, the Galaxy S5. The Korean company reported its quarterly results, but It doesn’t provide smartphone sales figures, but it was evident that the Samsung sales machine was stalling.

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B4 Canada continues medal haul

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS GLASGOW — Ryan Cochrane was supposed to have a down year.

The decorated Canadian swimmer was focused on graduating from university before ramping things up again for next summer’s Pan American Games ahead of what will be his final Olympics in 2016.

Instead, Cochrane is back where he always seems to be.

The 25-year-old put in a dominating performance in the final of the men’s 1,500-metre freestyle at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday for his second gold medal in Scotland.

“It’s funny how quickly you can get talked into things,” said Cochrane, who also won the 400-metre freestyle on Thursday. “I said that school was my focus this year, but with that said I like the balance of being able to work at my academics as well as in the pool.

“I think it put things really into perspective. I was able to enjoy both processes and not get overwhelmed.”

It was the competition that was overwhelmed on this night as the Victoria native raced to a time of 14 minutes 44.03 seconds on what was Canada’s best day at the Games.

With his legs and arms churning towards his country’s fourth gold medal in the pool, Cochrane ignored the fatigue and powered through with the knowledge it would be his final race on this stage.

“When it started to get hard at about 1,200 metres I kept telling myself, ’This is one of your last chances to have a kick at this race,”’ said Cochrane. “It can be really hard and it can be shocking when you can count down the races you have left, but with that be-

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Maria Onyshko of Canada balances during her beam routine as she takes part in the women’s team final and individual qualification gymnastic competition at the Commonwealth Games Glasgow 2014, in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday. ing said I think I used it to my benefit.”

Cochrane’s performance repeated his double-gold performance from the Commonwealth Games four years ago in New Delhi, and was one of a number of impressive performances on Tuesday as Canada rose from sixth to third in the overall standings with 39 medals (16 gold, five silver and 18 bronze).

The day started with a 1-2 finish in women’s cross-country mountain biking. Catharine Pendrel of Kamloops, B.C., led from the opening lap and didn’t look back, finishing 70

Unbeaten Stamps filling holes at running back ahead of clash with Lions

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — The Calgary Stampeders take pride in their culture of “plug-in-and-play”.

When injury forces a player from the lineup, the replacement is expected to excel and help the team win.

The Stampeders look to go 5-0 to start a season for the first time since 1995 when the B.C. Lions (2-3) come to town Friday.

And with Calgary’s star running back Jon Cornish and backup tailback Matt Walter out with concussion symptoms, it appears former CFL rookie of the year Martell Mallett will play in his first football game since 2009.

The 28-year-old from Pine Bluff, Ark., rushed for 1,240 yards for the Lions in 2009, including a 136-yard performance in a game against the Stampeders, to earn that rookie award.

Mallett then headed to the NFL where he got looks on practice rosters in Philadelphia, Cleveland and New York, but no games.

The six-foot, 208-pound running back returned to Canada in 2012 with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. A torn Achilles tendon suffered in training camp wiped out the season and the Tiger-Cats released him prior to training camp the following year.

Signed as a free agent in January, Mallett came off Calgary’s practise roster this week for some first-team reps.

The Stampeders picked up running back Hugh Charles as insurance Monday following his release from the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Mallett has been with the Stampeders since training camp and is more familiar with Calgary’s offensive schemes.

“I look at it as a blessing,” Mallett said Tuesday. “It’s been a while since I played football. I’ve been here, learning the playbook, learning the system and it just came down to my time to go. That’s why I’m here, for depth.”

Cornish, the CFL’s most valuable player last season and rushing leader the past two, went on the six-game injured list last week still suffering the effects of getting knocked out in the season opener.

In his absence, regular re-

turner Jock Sanders led Calgary in rushing yards with 86 on 16 carries in last Thursday’s 26-22 win over Edmonton. Walters left that game in the first quarter.

Mallett has a degree in agriculture business from Arkansas-Pine Bluff. His postfootball ambition is to work for U.S. Fish and Wildlife as a special agent chasing down poachers.

“I grew up in a country town. I love hunting and I love fishing, but I hate it when people break the rules,” he said.

Mallett’s brother Michael was shot and killed in their home town in 2012 while Mallett was recovering from his Achilles surgery. Michael is one reason Mallett isn’t done with football and moving onto to his next career.

“If my brother was here, he would want me to continue to play football,” Mallett said.

“With that in consideration and my youth, I just feel like I can do it. I have a lot of miles left on me. I haven’t played a whole lot.”

The Stampeders went 14-4 in 2013 with a three-man rotation at starting quarterback and receivers constantly in and out of the lineup.

“That’s been in our biggest thing the last couple of years.

Guys plug in and play,” defensive back Keon Raymond said.

“We’ve probably been one of the most injury-prone teams over the last couple years I’ve been here, but we haven’t missed a beat.

One of Calgary’s three starting quarterbacks last season returns to McMahon Stadium on Friday in a Lions uniform.

Kevin Glenn went 10-3 for the Stampeders before he was taken in the expansion draft by the Ottawa Redblacks and subsequently traded to the Lions.

Charles has taken reps and worked with the return team in two practices since his arrival in Calgary. He’s been cut this season by both the Roughriders and the Edmonton Eskimos, for whom he’s played a combined 55 career games.

The Eskimos released him from training camp. The 28-year-old from Tulsa, Okla., compiled 86 yards on 13 carries in his one game July 12 for Saskatchewan, but a fumble that led to a Lions field goal likely cost him his job there.

seconds ahead of Emily Batty of Brooklin, Ont. In women’s wrestling, Erica Wiebe of Stittsville, Ont., won gold in the 75-kilogram division and Korey Jarvis of Elliot Lake, Ont., won gold in the men’s wrestling 125-kilo division. Jasmine Mian of Barrie, Ont., added bronze in the 48-kilo category.

At the track, Damian Warner of London, Ont., won gold in the decathlon, James Steacy of Lethbridge, won gold in the hammer throw and Kate Van Buskirk of Brampton, Ont., took bronze in the women’s 1,500 metres.

Meanwhile, weightlifter Marie-Eve Beauchemin-Nadeau of Montreal won gold in the 75-kilo category and Jim Paton of White Rock, B.C., won silver in the fullbore individual shooting event. In men’s artistic gymnastics, the team of Zachary Clay of Chilliwack, B.C., Calgary’s Nathan Gafuik, Anderson Loran of Saskatoon, Kevin Lytwyn of Stoney Creek, Ont., and Scott Morgan of North Vancouver, B.C., took the bronze.

Apart from Cochrane’s success in the pool, the women’s 4x100-metre medley relay team won a bronze, as did Cal-

gary’s Brooklyn Snodgrass in the women’s 50-metre backstroke, and Montreal’s Aurelie Rivard in the women’s parasport 200-metre individual medley S10.

Cochrane was never threatened in his final, finishing 4.73 seconds ahead of Australia’s Mack Horton and bettering Daniel Jervis of Wales by 11.30.

He won both the 400- and 1,500-metre freestyle events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, but said before heading off to Glasgow that a repeat would be difficult at Tollcross International Swimming Centre.

In the end, it wasn’t.

“The consistency is always wanting to be the best in the world,” said Cochrane, who has won bronze and silver in the 1,500 at the Olympics.

“I’ve been chasing that dream for a lot of years and I’ve been really proud of my results here to show that I can keep getting better even in my mid-20s.”

As Cochrane focused on his studies at the University of Victoria — he graduated this spring with a degree in psychology — he also decided to try new training techniques, including spending less time in the pool.

The results in Glasgow speak for themselves.

“We could have kept doing what we’ve done for the past six to eight years and it would have been good and we would have got the results we wanted, but maybe not quite the next step,” said Cochrane.

“My times are a little bit faster or similar to where I’ve been, but it was such better racing.

I’m going to take that as a huge benefit going into the next two years.”

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Stroman leads Blue Jays to fourth straight win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Blue Jays 4 Red Sox 2 BOSTON — Marcus Stroman was so good against the Boston Red Sox last week that he went with the same plan Tuesday night.

And the result was his second solid start in five days, leading the Toronto Blue Bays over the Red Sox 4-2.

“To be honest, no, just execute pitches,” he said when asked if he changed. “I didn’t change my approach at all.

I didn’t feel like I needed to change. We attacked them exactly like we wanted to attack them and had success.”

Colby Rasmus hit a solo homer and Anthony Gose had a tiebreaking two-run double for the Blue Jays, who won for the ninth time in 11 games and improved to 9-3 against the Red Sox this season.

“He’s on some kind of roll right now,” Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said of Stroman.

“The kid’s good. He believes in himself. He’s got all the confidence in the world and he’s got the stuff for it, too.”

Xander Bogaerts homered and Dustin Pedroia added an RBI double for Boston, which has dropped all five games in Fenway Park against Toronto.

The Red Sox lost for the seventh time in eight games.

“Obviously we’re not in the position that we want to be in,” Pedroia said. “We haven’t played very well and our record shows that.”

Stroman (7-2) held Boston to one run and six hits in seven innings, striking out eight and walking two. He took a no-hitter into the seventh last Thursday before giving up Shane Victorino’s leadoff single for his only hit allowed in seven innings. Casey Janssen got the final three outs for his 17th save despite giving up Bogaerts’ homer.

Rubby De La Rosa (3-4) gave up three runs on nine hits in six innings.

“I thought he gave us a solid effort,” Boston manager John Farrell said. “We had probably three opportunities when we had multiple men on base and the timely hit was elusive.”

Gose’s two-out, two-run double snapped a 1-all tie and pushed the Blue Jays ahead

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Munenori Kawasaki hits a sacrifice bunt during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, Tuesday. in the fourth. Juan Francisco and Rasmus singled before advancing on Munenori Kawasaki’s sacrifice bunt.

Rasmus’ homer into the centre field bleachers gave Toronto a 1-0 lead in the second, but Boston tied it on Pedroia’s RBI double.

ON DECK Red Sox: Left-hander Jon Lester (10-7, 2.52 ERA) was scheduled to pitch Wednesday, but Farrell said after the game the club decided to go with right-hander Brandon Workman. Lester’s name has been circulating in a number of trade rumours the past few days.

“In light of all the uncertainty surrounding Jon Lester, it’s probably in everyone’s best interest that he does not make that start,” Farrell said.

Blue Jays: Mark Buehrle (10-7, 3.19 ERA) goes in the series finale on Wednesday,

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trying to snap his six-game losing streak since his last win on June 1. He’s 1-1 against the Red Sox this season, beating them in Fenway on May 22 when he went seven innings, allowing two runs. He gave up seven runs — six earned — in the loss at home on April 25.

WORDS OF WISDOM Pitching coach Pete Walker visited Stroman before he faced David Ortiz with two runners on and two outs in the fifth. He got Ortiz to bounce to second.

“He just said be careful,” Stroman said. “You’ve got to make your pitches. Luckily I made a good pitch on 2-0 and got him to roll over. That was a big point in the game.”

HELP FROM THE BOTTOM Gose drove in two runs from the nine-hole with the timely hit.

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Riggers get unbeaten streak back WITH FORFEIT AND WIN ON TUESDAY, TEAM MOVES TO 19-0 ON THE SEASON

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Riggers 7, Tigers 4 The Red Deer Riggers are perfect again.

The Fort Saskatchewan Athletics were forced to forfeit their win over the Riggers last week, due to an ineligible player, and Red Deer beat the St. Albert Tigers 7-4 on Tuesday at Great Chief Park to move to 19-0 in the Sunburst Baseball League.

The record may come with an asterisk, but in a few years no one will remember the forfeit — they’ll just see a doughnut in the loss column.

“I’ve been with the team 21 years and I don’t think we’ve ever been undefeated in the league, so it’s a big thing,” said Riggers head coach Curtis Bailey. “We didn’t go out here to have a perfect season by any means, we just wanted to go out and play good baseball every night.”

There is potential for one more regular season game for the Riggers, however. If the last place Parkland White Sox beat the Confederation Park Cubs on Tuesday night — score was not available at press time — Red Deer will have to play the Sox in Spruce Grove on Thursday night. If Parkland loses, they will be eliminated and the final game will be called off.

After the Riggers last couple of weeks, they could use the break.

They are coming off a stretch of playing 13 games in 14 nights and all of the extra games appear to be catching up with them. Including their forfeit win over the A’s — originally a 7-5 loss — they also dropped three out of five games in an exhibition tournament in Kamloops on the weekend.

“We had a lot of baseball and we’ve got some guys away on vacation, so it will be good to get those guys back that

Red Deer Rigger designated hitter Kerry Boon makes a dive into third base after hitting a ball deep into right field during Sunburst Baseball League action against the visiting St. Albert Tigers at Great Chief Park on Tuesday night.

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are rested and ready to go for the playoffs,” said Bailey, noting starters Jason Chatwood, Mike Ronnie and Sean MaGuire were all away on Tuesday.

Against the Tigers, they got off to a slow start, falling behind 3-0 through two-and-a-half innings. But they managed to tie the game in the bottom of the third with a little help. Tigers shortstop Josh Kennedy committed throwing errors on back-to-back plays and the Riggers cashed in two of their three runs.

Wyle Cunningham replaced Drew Boyer on the mound for Red Deer in the top of the fifth, and after he let his first two batters get on base he shut down St. Albert for the next four innings.

He finished by allowing no runs on four hits and two walks with three

strike outs.

Joel Peterman closed out the game for Red Deer, allowing one earned run on one hit and two walks and a strike out.

Red Deer took the lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, opening with three straight hits, capped by a Shayne Court RBI single. Josh Edwards later cashed in Kerry Boon with a sacrifice fly to put Red Deer up 5-3.

They added two more in the bottom of the eighth inning to put the game away.

Boon ended the game with two singles, and a triple and one RBI, Kevin Curran had two singles and an RBI, Reign Letkeman had a double and a single, Court had a single, a sac fly and an RBI, and Josh Edwards had a sac fly, a double and two RBIs.

Darren Adams pitched 7 2/3 innings for St. Albert, giving up seven runs, five earned, on 11 hits with two strikeouts.

The Riggers now prepare for their best-of-three semifinal, which starts on Tuesday, likely against the Tigers at Great Chief Park.

But they are also keeping a wary eye on nationals — which they qualified for last year by winning the Sunburst and provincial senior AAA championship — at the end of August.

“We don’t want to burn anyone out right now, some guys have played in all of the games ... and that’s tough on the body,” said Bailey. “We don’t want to overdo it but at the same time we want to keep players from going through the motions and stay sharp.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Jamaica continues dominance on the track

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GLASGOW — Andrew Riley won the 110-meter hurdles gold Tuesday to complement his teammate Kemar Bailey-Cole’s 100-meter gold medal on the track at the Commonwealth Games, clinching both high-profile sprint races for Jamaica.

Next up will be the 4x100-meter relay, where Jamaica will be favoured when world record holder Usain Bolt makes his only appearance of the athletics program in Glasgow.

Due to a left foot injury, Bolt didn’t attempt to qualify for the individual sprints. The relay qualifying is on Friday, with the final on Saturday.

Jamaica’s women sped to a clean sweep of medals in the 400 metres, with Stephanie McPherson taking gold, Novlene Williams-Mills the silver and Christine Day the bronze.

In Tuesday’s finals on the last night of swimming, Canada’s Ryan Cochrane won the 1,500 metres, England’s Ben Proud took the 50-meter freestyle and Lauren Boyle of New Zealand won the women’s 400 free. Australia won 19 golds and England 10 of the 44 on offer.

Earlier Tuesday, a 16-year-old female Nigerian weightlifter was provisionally suspended after testing positive for banned substances, the

first doping case of the games. Chika Amalaha tested positive for the diuretic amiloride and masking agent hydrochlorothiazide — both banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency — after winning the 53-kilogram weight class last Friday, games officials said.

Amalaha asked for the backup “B” sample to be tested, which will happen in London on Wednesday. If that sample also comes back positive, she will be stripped of her medal.

“It sends a strong message to anybody in any sport that if you go down the path of doping, any substance to enhance performance, they will be caught,” Commonwealth Games Federation chief executive Mike Hooper said.

Elsewhere at the games on Tuesday:

ROYALS MEETS BOLT

The king of the track met with British royalty in the athletes’ village.

Prince William, his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, and his brother, Prince Harry, met Bolt, the world record-holder over 100 and 200 metres .

CANADIANS, KIWIS 1-2

Catharine Pendrel of Canada, the 2011 mountain bike cross-country world champion who finished ninth at

Razorbacks win gives them chance to end season with .500 record

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Razorbacks (9-7) will finish the Parkland Baseball League season with at least a .500 record thanks to an 11-9 win over the Innisfail Indians (11-7) on Monday.

The Razorbacks overcame a hots start by the Indians, who scored all nine of their runs in the second and third innings.

Diego Colorado picked up the win in relief for the Razorbacks after Starter Chris Grudeski left after two innings due to leg cramps and Clinton Armitage lasted only one more inning.

The Red Deer took over the lead in

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GAMES: Exciting Snodgrass snatched the bronze in the women’s 50-metre backstroke with a time of 27.97 second for her first Commonwealth Games medal.

“It was really exciting. I felt really good in warmup so I knew I was going to have a good 50,” said the 20-year-old Canadian. “I didn’t know where that was going to place me, but I’m more than happy with the result.

“I just wanted to come here and swim fast for my country and I wanted to learn as much as possible.”

In the women’s para-sport 200-metre individual medley S10, Rivard was third in 2:32.09.

“I feel pretty great. That was my goal, to stand on the podium,” said the 18-year-old, who has a disability in her left hand. “I’m happy with my time and with my race. It gives me confidence for the future.”

Canada capped the final day of swimming at the Games nicely when Tera van Beilen of Oakville, Ont., Sinead Russell of Burlington, Ont., Katerine Savard of Pont-Rouge, Que., and

the sixth inning when Ben Fallu laid down a drag bunt to load the bases and the Razorbacks cashed in two of them.

The Razorbacks managed eight hits in the contest, while four of their runs were scored off of Innisfail errors.

Clinton Armitage paced the offence with two doubles and four runs batted in.

The Razorbacks wrap up their regular season with games against Eckville Angels (0-15) and Irricana Canadians (6-7).

If they sweep both games, they will at least secure fourth spot in the league and potentially move up as high as second.

Sandrine Mainville of Boucherville, Que., finished third in the women’s 4x100-metre relay in 4:03.57.

Canada finished with 11 overall medals in the pool, including four gold, one silver and six bronze.

“Our goal was to get a medal and we did that,” said van Beilen. “It was just a great way to end off an amazing meet for Canada.”

JAYS: Gets a hit “That’s the difference (from last year),” Gibbons said. “We couldn’t get the run in with one out and he gets a hit there.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Blue Jays: Infielder Brett Lawrie, on the disabled list since late June with a broken right index finger, began hitting off a tee late last week. On Monday, the team acquired Danny Valencia from Kansas City for a pair of players to give them depth at third while Lawrie works his way back. Gibbons said Valencia will face “a lot of lefties.”

Red Sox: First baseman Mike Napoli had what Farrell called a “down day” due to swelling on the ring finger of his left hand.

COMMONWEALTH GAMES the 2012 London Olympics, won gold in the women’s cross-country race at the Cathkin Braes Country Park course in Glasgow. Her teammate Emily Batty took the silver. In the men’s race, New Zealanders were 1-2, with Anton Cooper beating Samuel Gaze by just three seconds for gold.

GYMNASTICS GOLD

England gymnasts won the men’s team title, scoring 266.804 points to finish ahead of Scotland (257.603). Canada took the bronze and defending champion Australia was fourth.

LENGTHY POINT

A day after his 41-shot point win over Singapore’s Ning Gao made him a star in one of the must-watch table tennis videos, Nigeria’s Segun Toriola has a bronze medal at the Commonwealth Games. Toriola was trailing 5-4 in the third game of the team semifinals Monday and had lost the first two games when he put on a strong defensive display to win that lengthy point and the next two games. He lost to Gao in five games and Nigeria was relegated to the bronze medal final

JUNIOR GOLF Sylvan Lake’s Jaxon Lynn fired an even-par-72 in the first round of the Canada Golf Junior Boys Championship on Tuesday in Niagara Falls, Ont, The round left him in 17th place, eight shots behind the course record

on Tuesday. Nigeria beat India 3-1 to take the team bronze medal despite Toriola having lost his singles match in straight games.

SUCCESS, FINALLY

After 16 years, 18 consecutive defeats and an overall goal difference of 12 scored and 107 conceded, Trinidad and Tobago had its first win in men’s field hockey, beating Malaysia 4-2 on Tuesday.

LOOKING AHEAD

The diving competition begins Wednesday in Edinburgh, about 45 miles (70 kilometres) east of Glasgow.

Scotland’s James Heatly, the grandson of five-time games diving medallist Peter Heatly, is among the 14 starters in the preliminary round of the 1-meter springboard, as is Matt Mitcham of Australia, the 10-meter platform gold medallist from the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Also, Valerie Adams of New Zealand, the four-time world and two-time Olympic shot put champion, will attempt to add another Commonwealth Games gold to her collection. set by Crossfield’s Patrick Murphy (eight-under-64) who holds a three-shot lead over A.J Armstrong of St. Albert (five-under-67).

Three other Red Deer golfers are in the hunt this weekend with Brett Pasula in at 5-over-77, Logan Hill at 7-over-79 and Matt Codd at 13-over-85.

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SCOREBOARD Baseball Philadelphia

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Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Baltimore Toronto New York Tampa Bay Boston

American League East Division W L Pct 59 46 .562 58 50 .537 55 51 .519 53 54 .495 48 59 .449

GB — 2 1/2 4 1/2 7 12

Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 57 46 .553 53 52 .505 52 54 .491 52 55 .486 48 57 .457

GB — 5 6 1/2 7 10

Oakland Los Angeles Seattle Houston Texas

West Division W L Pct 66 40 .623 63 42 .600 55 51 .519 43 64 .402 42 65 .393

GB — 2 1/2 11 23 1/2 24 1/2

Monday’s Games Tampa Bay 2, Milwaukee 1 Toronto 14, Boston 1 Texas 4, N.Y. Yankees 2 Houston 7, Oakland 3 Tuesday’s Games Baltimore 7, L.A. Angels 6, 12 innings Seattle 5, Cleveland 2 Chicago White Sox 11, Detroit 4 Tampa Bay 5, Milwaukee 1 Toronto 4, Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees 12, Texas 11 Minnesota 2, Kansas City 1 Oakland 7, Houston 4 Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee (Gallardo 5-5) at Tampa Bay (Price 117), 10:10 a.m.

Oakland (Hammel 0-3) at Houston (Keuchel 9-7), 12:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Richards 11-3) at Baltimore (Gausman 4-3), 5:05 p.m.

Seattle (F.Hernandez 11-2) at Cleveland (Kluber 10-6), 5:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Noesi 5-7) at Detroit (Scherzer 12-3), 5:08 p.m.

Toronto (Buehrle 10-7) at Boston (Workman 1-3), 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Kuroda 7-6) at Texas (Lewis 6-8), 6:05 p.m.

Minnesota (P.Hughes 10-7) at Kansas City (Duffy 5-10), 6:10 p.m.

Washington Atlanta Miami New York

WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2014

Local Sports

Red Deer Senior Men’s Score Monday North Star Sports 4, Printing Place 3

National League East Division W L Pct 57 47 .548 58 48 .547 53 53 .500 51 56 .477

B6

GB — — 5 7 1/2

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

47

60

.439

Central Division W L Pct 59 49 .546 56 48 .538 57 49 .538 53 53 .500 43 61 .413 West Division W L Pct 59 47 .557 57 50 .533 46 59 .438 46 61 .430 43 62 .410

11 1/2

(8), Machado (11).

Chicago 000 200 720 — 11 15 0 Detroit 020 000 020 — 4 12 3 Quintana, D.Webb (7), Thompson (8), Petricka (9) and Flowers; An.Sanchez, Soria (7),Krol (7), Nathan (9) and Holaday. W—Quintana 6-7. L—An.Sanchez 7-5. HRs—Chicago, J.Abreu (31), A.Dunn (16).

GB — 1 1 5 14 GB — 2 1/2 12 1/2 13 1/2 15 1/2

Toronto 010 200 001 — 4 12 0 Boston 001 000 001 — 2 7 1 Stroman, Aa.Sanchez (8), Cecil (8), Janssen (9) and D.Navarro; R.De La Rosa, Mujica (7), A.Miller (8), Tazawa (9) and Vazquez. W—Stroman 7-2. L—R. De La Rosa 3-4. Sv—Janssen (17). HRs—Toronto, Col.Rasmus (14). Boston, Bogaerts (8).

New York 100 007 220 — 12 12 1 Texas 003 010 412 — 11 15 1 McCarthy, Warren (7), Betances (7), Whitley (8), Dav.Robertson (9) and McCann; N.Martinez, Sh.Tolleson (6), Mendez (7), Cotts (8), Adcock (9) and Chirinos. W—McCarthy 3-0. L—N.Martinez 1-7.

Sv—Dav.Robertson (27). HRs—New York, Gardner (13), Teixeira (18). Texas, Arencibia 2 (6).

Monday’s Games Atlanta 2, San Diego 0 Arizona 2, Cincinnati 1, 15 innings Tampa Bay 2, Milwaukee 1 N.Y. Mets 7, Philadelphia 1 Miami 7, Washington 6 Chicago Cubs 4, Colorado 1 Pittsburgh 5, San Francisco 0

Oakland 000 010 006 — 7 11 0 Houston 100 020 100 — 4 6 0 Samardzija, Otero (7), Scribner (8), Doolittle (9) and D.Norris; Feldman, Fields (8), Qualls (9), Sipp (9), Veras (9) and J.Castro. W—Scribner 1-0. L—Qualls 1-2. Sv—Doolittle (16). HRs—Oakland, Reddick (6).

Houston, Ma.Gonzalez (5).

Tuesday’s Games Cincinnati 3, Arizona 0 Tampa Bay 5, Milwaukee 1 Philadelphia 6, N.Y. Mets 0 Miami 3, Washington 0 Colorado at Chicago Cubs, late Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, late St. Louis at San Diego, late Pittsburgh 3, San Francisco 1 Wednesday’s Games Milwaukee (Gallardo 5-5) at Tampa Bay (Price 117), 10:10 a.m.

Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 5-10) at N.Y. Mets (Za. Wheeler 5-8), 10:10 a.m.

Arizona (Miley 6-7) at Cincinnati (Simon 12-5), 10:35 a.m.

Washington (Roark 10-6) at Miami (Hand 2-2), 10:40 a.m.

Pittsburgh (Morton 5-10) at San Francisco (Lincecum 9-7), 1:45 p.m.

Colorado (B.Anderson 1-3) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 7-9), 6:05 p.m.

Atlanta (A.Wood 7-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Greinke 126), 8:10 p.m.

St. Louis (J.Kelly 2-1) at San Diego (Hahn 6-2), 8:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 000 410 000 — 5 11 0 Cleveland 000 020 000 — 2 8 0 Iwakuma, Furbush (8), Medina (8), Rodney (9) and Zunino; Bauer, Hagadone (5), Carrasco (7), Crockett (8),Axford (8) andY.Gomes. W—Iwakuma 9-5. L—Bauer4-6. Sv—Rodney (29). HRs—Seattle, Zunino (16).

LAA 120 110 100 000 — 6 11 1 Baltimore 210 300 000 001 — 7 10 2 (12 innings) Weaver, Morin (6), Grilli (7), Jepsen (8), J.Smith (9), Cor.Rasmus (11) and Conger, Iannetta; Tillman, Brach (6), Matusz (7), Tom.Hunter (7), Z.Britton (9), O’Day (10), R.Webb (12) and Hundley. W—R. Webb 3-1. L—Cor.Rasmus 2-1. HRs—Los Angeles, J.Hamilton (6). Baltimore, A.Jones (20), Markakis

Minnesota 001 010 000 — 2 7 0 Kan. City 000 000 001 — 1 5 2 Gibson, Fien (8), Perkins (9) and K.Suzuki; Shields, Frasor (7), Crow (8), K.Herrera (9) and S.Perez.

W—Gibson 9-8. L—Shields 9-6. Sv—Perkins (26).

INTERLEAGUE Milwaukee 000 010 000 — 1 3 0 Tampa Bay 000 001 04x — 5 8 0 Garza, W.Smith (8), Estrada (8) and Lucroy; Cobb, Balfour (9) and Casali. W—Cobb 7-6. L—W.Smith 1-3. HRs—Tampa Bay, Zobrist (9).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona 000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Cincinnati 110 001 00x — 3 7 2 Cahill, Schultz (7) and M.Montero; Leake, Broxton (8), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco. W—Leake 8-9.

L—Cahill 1-8. Sv—A.Chapman (23).

Wash.

000 000 000 — 0 5 0 Miami 000 001 02x — 3 7 0 Strasburg, Blevins (8), Barrett (8) and W.Ramos, Lobaton; H.Alvarez, Morris (8), M.Dunn (8), Cishek (9) and Saltalamacchia. W—H.Alvarez 8-5. L— Strasburg 7-9. Sv—Cishek (27).

Phila.

001 100 400 — 6 7 0 New York 000 000 000 — 0 7 1 Hamels, Giles (9) and Ruiz; Gee, Edgin (7), Carlyle (8) and d’Arnaud. W—Hamels 6-5.L—Gee 4-4.

HRs—Philadelphia, Rollins (14), G.Sizemore (1), Utley (9).

Pittsburgh 120 000 000 — 3 7 0 San Francisco010 000 000 — 1 6 0 Liriano, Watson (8), Melancon (9) and R.Martin; T.Hudson, Machi (8), Affeldt (9) and Susac. W— Liriano 3-7. L—T.Hudson 8-8. Sv—Melancon (20).

HRs—Pittsburgh, J.Harrison (8), Snider (7). San Francisco, Morse (15).

Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medal standings At Glasgow, Scotland End of competition Tuesday Through 153 of 261 Medal Events Listed by Total Medals Won G S B Total Australia 34 31 36 101 England 33 33 27 93 Canada 16 5 18 39 Scotland 13 11 13 37 India 10 15 11 36 New Zealand 11 9 11 31 Wales 4 10 13 27

South Africa Nigeria Jamaica Malaysia Kenya Singapore Cyprus Cameroon Pakistan Papua New Guinea Northern Ireland Samoa Namibia

9 3 5 3 4 4 2 1 0 1 0 0 0

7 5 3 5 4 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 0

10 6 4 4 1 1 2 2 1 0 1 1 2

26 14 12 12 9 6 6 5 3 2 2 2 2

Bahamas Bangladesh Isle of Man Mozambique Sri Lanka Barbados Fiji Ghana Granada Mauritius Trindad & Tobago Uganda Zambia

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Agreed to terms with D Jake Gardiner.

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with F Michael Frolik on a one-year contract.

American Hockey League CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Signed F Chad LaRose.

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Signed D Joe Finley to a one-year contract.

PEORIA RIVERMEN — Re-signed G Kyle Rank and C Bubba Larsen to one-year contracts.

WORCESTER SHARKS — Named Ryan Mou-

genel assistant coach.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed Gs Josh Robinson and Travis Fullerton to one-year contracts.

GWINNETT GLADIATORS — Named D Daniel Spivak.

IDAHO STEELHEADS — Agreed to terms with F Jason Bast.

FOOTBALL National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Announced the retirement of OL Travelle Wharton.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Retained Roberta Kaplan and Ted Wells as counsel.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Released G Fouimalo Fonoti. Signed RB Alfonso Smith to a one-

year contract.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Placed WR Taylor Price on injured reserve. Released CB Chandler Fenner and G Bronson Irwin. Signed WR Randall Carroll, CB Terrell Thomas and OT Eric Winston.

LACROSSE National Lacrosse League BUFFALO BANDITS — Tagged F Mark Steenhuis as franchise player.

MOTORSPORTS NASCAR — Suspended Denny Hamlin’s crew chief Darian Grubb and car chief Wesley Sherrill for six races for a failed post-race inspection at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Fined Grubb $125,000 and docked Hamlin and team owner Joe Gibbs 75 points in the driver and owner standings.

TRAMPOLINE AND TUMBLING Keegan Soehn of the Red Deer Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics Club teamed with his brother, Kyle, to win gold in the national senior men’s synchronized trampoline event of the Canadian Championships at Newmarket, Ont. Keegan also won silver in both of the national senior men’s trampoline and doublemini trampoline (DMT) events, while Madeline Potter snared a silver medal in the national under-18 women’s DMT and Kalena Soehn won bronze in the national junior women’s DMT. Kalena Soehn and Alexandra Potter also won silver in the national women’s synchronized trampoline competition.

In addition, Kyle Soehn placed fifth in the national senior men’s trampoline, Madeline

Potter finished sixth in the trampoline event, Alexandra Potter was fourth in national espoir women’s DMT and sixth in trampoline, and Kalena Soehn was seventh in trampoline.

The international meet drew athletes from across Canada as well as Germany, Japan and Great Britain.

Keegan and Kyle Soehn have been selected to compete in the Pan American Games as part of the Canadian team next year in Toronto, and will also be part of the Canadian contingent competing in the World Championships at Daytona Beach, Fla., in November. Meanwhile, Kalena Soehn has qualified for the World Age Group Championships, also set for November at Daytona Beach.

Today ● Women’s fastball: Second game of best-of-three Red Deer League final, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1. ● Parkland baseball: Lacombe at Rocky Mountain House, 7 p.m.

Deer Golf and Country Club. ● Tennis: Provincial 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 championships at Red Deer Tennis Club, 9 a.m.-7:30 p.m. ● Slowpitch: Canadian senior men’s championship at Edgar Park, 9 a.m. start. ● Peewee AA baseball: Provincial championship at Great Chief Park.

Thursday ● Senior men’s baseball: Printing Place vs. Knighthawks, Canadian Brewhouse vs. North Star Sports, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1 and 2. ● Women’s fastball: Third game of best-of-three Red Deer League final, if necessary, 7 p.m., Great Chief Park 1.

Friday ● Peewee AA baseball: Provincial championship at Great Chief Park, 9 a.m. start. ● Slowpitch: Canadian senior men’s championship at Edgar Park. ● Tennis: Provincial 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 championships at Red Deer Tennis Club, 6 -8 p.m.

Saturday ● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur at Red

Sunday

● Peewee AA baseball: Provincial championship at Great Chief Park, 9 a.m. start, 3 p.m. final if no tie-breakers. ● Tennis: Provincial 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 championships at Red Deer Tennis Club, 9-11 a.m. ● Slowpitch: Canadian senior men’s championship at Edgar Park. ● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur at Red Deer Golf and Country Club.

Monday

● Golf: Central Alberta Amateur at Red Deer Golf and Country Club. ● Slowpitch: Canadian senior men’s championship at Edgar Park. ● Peewee AA baseball: Provincial championship at Great Chief Park, final at 10 a.m. if one tie-breaker; noon if two tie-breakers.

Football Hamilton Ottawa Montreal Toronto

GP 4 4 4 5

CFL East Division W L T 1 3 0 1 3 0 1 3 0 1 4 0

Calgary Edmonton Winnipeg B.C. Sask.

GP 4 5 5 5 4

West Division W L T 4 0 0 4 1 0 4 1 0 2 3 0 2 2 0

PF 74 80 70 110

PA 92 113 113 149

Pt 2 2 2 2

PF 99 130 141 102 96

PA 52 84 114 92 93

Pt 8 8 8 4 4

Week 6 Thursday’s games Winnipeg at Hamilton, 5 p.m.

Friday’s games Toronto at Montreal, 5 p.m.

B.C. at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Saturday, August 2 Saskatchewan at Ottawa, 5 p.m.

Week 7 Thursday, August 7 Saskatchewan at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Friday, August 8 Edmonton at Montreal, 5 p.m.

Hamilton at B.C., 8 p.m.

Saturday, August 9 Ottawa at Calgary, 5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, August 12 Winnipeg at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

CFL Leaders SCORING Touchdowns (Ru-running; Rc-receiving; Rt-kickoff/punt/missed/ blocked FG/punt return; D-defensive return) Name Team TD Ru Rc Rt D Bowman Edm 4 0 4 0 0 Allen Sask 3 1 2 0 0 Arceneaux BC 3 0 3 0 0 Ford Sask 3 3 0 0 0 Fuller Cgy 3 0 3 0 0 Gable Ham 3 2 1 0 0 Grigsby Wpg 3 3 0 0 0 Harris BC 3 1 2 0 0 Walker Ott 3 2 1 0 0 Barnes Tor 2 0 2 0 0 Feoli-Gudino Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 Kelly Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 LeFevour Ham 2 2 0 0 0 Marve Wpg 2 2 0 0 0 Owens Tor 2 0 1 1 0 Parker Cgy 2 0 2 0 0 T.Smith Sask 2 0 2 0 0 Steele Tor 2 2 0 0 0 C.Taylor BC 2 0 2 0 0 Washington Wpg 2 0 0 1 1 Adams Tor 1 0 1 0 0 Banks Ham 1 0 1 0 0 Bradwell Tor 1 0 1 0 0 Carter Ott 1 0 1 0 0 Chambers Edm 1 0 1 0 0 Coehoorn Edm 1 0 1 0 0 Collins Ott 1 0 1 0 0 Cornish Cgy 1 1 0 0 0

RUSHING Name Team Harris BC Grigsby Wpg Whitaker Mtl Walker Ott Allen Sask J.White Edm Reilly Edm Logan BC LeFevour Ham Walter Cgy Steele Tor Gable Ham Ford Sask Sanders Cgy

Att 56 67 49 45 41 44 28 38 28 29 23 23 17 24

Yds 311 287 268 251 241 232 221 192 154 139 129 119 113 106

Avg Long 5.6 58 4.3 25 5.5 32 5.6 65 5.9 19 5.3 31 7.9 30 5.1 18 5.5 34 4.8 16 5.6 19 5.2 47 6.6 38 4.4 20

TD 1 3 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 3 0

RECEIVING Name Team Bowman Edm Owens Tor Moore Wpg Harris BC Arceneaux BC Henry Ott C.Taylor BC Denmark Wpg Fuller Cgy K.Johnson Ott T.Smith Sask Chambers Edm Adams Tor Coombs Tor

No 28 28 22 18 17 18 22 16 16 17 13 17 12 18

Yds 359 339 320 268 261 253 245 243 237 214 212 195 185 176

Avg Long 12.8 41 12.1 49 14.5 51 14.9 55 15.4 35 14.1 39 11.1 27 15.2 50 14.8 36 12.6 43 16.3 59 11.5 39 15.4 45 9.8 46

TD 4 1 0 2 3 1 2 1 3 0 2 1 1 0

PASSING Name TeamComp Ray Tor 128 Willy Wpg 96 Reilly Edm 110 Glenn BC 88 Mitchell Cgy 66 Burris Ott 74 Durant Sask 56 Smith Mtl 58 LeFevour Ham 38

Att 183 151 173 142 113 129 102 119 52

Pct 69.9 63.6 63.6 62.0 58.4 57.4 54.9 48.7 73.1

Yds TD 1501 6 1301 6 1142 9 1113 5 905 7 881 4 777 5 695 3 507 1

IntRating 4 96.4 4 93.2 4 90.3 8 74.7 0 104.8 1 85.4 5 75.5 3 64.9 2 94.0

TEAM OFFENCE (totals include losses) Team Pass Toronto 1652 B.C. 1223 Edmonton 1145 Hamilton 944 Saskatchewan 813 Calgary 905 Winnipeg 1320 Ottawa 939 Montreal 712

Rush 428 574 572 411 540 442 360 367 456

Total Avg/Gm 2080 416.0 1797 359.4 1717 343.4 1355 338.8 1353 338.3 1347 336.8 1680 336.0 1306 326.5 1168 292.0

TEAM DEFENCE Team Pass Edmonton 963 B.C. 922 Calgary 912 Hamilton 905 Winnipeg 1267 Saskatchewan 1037 Toronto 1296 Montreal 1129 Ottawa 1222

Rush 440 536 311 402 522 459 596 400 484

Total Avg/Gm 1403 280.6 1458 291.6 1223 305.8 1307 326.8 1789 357.8 1496 374.0 1892 378.4 1529 382.3 1706 426.5

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF Kansas City 21 11 5 5 31 D.C. 19 10 5 4 29 Toronto 18 7 6 5 27 Columbus 21 6 7 8 25 New York 20 5 6 9 32 New England 20 7 11 2 25 Philadelphia 21 5 8 8 33 Chicago 19 3 5 11 27 Houston 20 5 11 4 22 Montreal 20 3 12 5 21 Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 19 12 5 2 35 Salt Lake 20 8 4 8 31 Los Angeles 18 8 4 6 29 Colorado 20 8 6 6 31 Dallas 21 8 7 6 34 Vancouver 20 6 4 10 31 Portland 21 6 6 9 35

Chivas San Jose GA 19 20 25 27 31 33 35 33 40 37

Pt 38 34 26 26 24 23 23 20 19 14

GA 27 26 16 24 31 29 35

Pt 38 32 30 30 30 28 27

20 18

6 5

9 8

5 5

21 22

33 20

23 20

Monday’s results Seattle 0 Los Angeles 3 Wednesday’s games Toronto at D.C., 5 p.m.

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

Vancouver at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

New York at Salt Lake, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games Philadelphia at Kansas City, 6 p.m Saturday, August 2 Portland at Los Angeles, 12:30 p.m.

Toronto at Montreal, 3 p.m.

New England at New York, 5 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Salt Lake at Colorado, 7 p.m.

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

Midget AA Braves edged out of provincial title

BY ADVOCATE STAFF The Red Deer Sports World Braves fell just short of capturing the provincial midget AA tier 3 baseball championship at Barrhead during the weekend, falling 9-8 to the Coronation Royals in the final.

Brett Stockwood worked six strong innings on the Braves mound and was also two-for-four at the plate.

Tyler Ratzlaff cracked a two-run double and also scored, and David Coley was three-for-four at the plate.

The Sports World squad posted a 2-0 record in round-robin play with 7-2 and 8-6 wins over Barrhead and Whitecourt, then advanced to the championship contest with a 12-10 semifinal victory over Bawlf.

Brody Kalinowski was three-for-four at the dish against Barrhead, while Clayton Kary was two-forthree. Kary, Coley and Kyle Kryczka each scored two runs, Gavin Holm drew two walks and Cole Simon pitched three scoreless innings.

In the win over Whitecourt, Coley was two-for-four and Kalinowski two-for-two at the plate, with each player driving in a run. Stockwood was two-for-four with two RBI and Lynx Ledene pitched four and twothirds effective innings and also reached base twice.

Simon, who was two-for-four batting, and Matt Michnik each drove in a run in the Braves’ semifinal win. Kary, Coley, Kryczka, Ledene and Simon each scored twice to pace the Braves offence.

Coley worked the first five and two-thirds innings on the Braves hill, surrendering no earned runs while striking out eight Bawlf batters. Nathan Bergeson scored a run and also pitched the seventh inning to record the save.

“We’re so proud of this awesome group of young men in spite of the heart-breaking loss in the final.

They are a very classy and respectful bunch and did

MINOR BASEBALL PROVINCIALS ROUNDUP the city of Red Deer very proud,” said Braves coach Kurt Simon. ● The Red Deer Gord’s First Line Sports Braves fell 12-2 to the Edmonton Northeast Zone Stars in the semifinals of the mosquito AA tier 3 provincials at St. Albert during the weekend.

Kyle Belich paced the Braves offensively, contributing a pair of hits and driving in a run. Starting pitcher Heath Hachkowski allowed seven runs over two innings, while Dakota Clubine gave up three runs and fellow reliever Darius Metcalfe surrendered one.

Gord’s First Line Sports opened the tournament with a 9-7 win over the host team, then lost 13-7 to the Leduc Giants.

Against St. Albert, Clubine led off the Braves’ four-run fifth inning outburst with a double, and was followed by singles from Metcalfe, Tysen Wandler and Adam Turgeon. The offensive explosion came after Tate Howell made a diving catch in right field to end a bases-loaded threat by the hosts in the fourth frame.

Clubine and Metcalfe each drove in two runs for the winners, who used five pitchers, including starter Matthew Murray and closer Hachkowski, who allowed one run and fanned three batters in the final inning. Murray worked three and one-third frames, giving up one run on one hit while recording seven strikeouts and issuing five walks.

The Braves coughed up seven runs in the second inning of their loss to Leduc. Belich was two-for-two at the plate with two runs scored and one RBI, Howell stroked a double and Clubine had a triple, and Howell and Greyson Borchers each had one RBI.

Borchers suffered the loss as the starter. Ben Mason came on in middle relief and fanned four batters while giving up six runs in two and two-thirds innings, and Wandler worked a scoreless one and two-thirds frames. ● The Red Deer Braves downed the host team 10-9 in the consolation final of the provincial peewee A tier 1 championship at High Prairie.

Red Deer was 0-2 in pool play, losing 20-8 to Spruce Grove and 14-8 to Olds.

Olds also defeated Spruce Grove 9-6 to advance to the semifinals, where the team lost 19-14 to Wainwright, which in turn fell 16-6 to Goodfish Lake in the final. ● Olds, as host, captured the provincial mosquito A tier 1 provincial title with a 5-3 win over Slave Lake.

The champs earlier beat Sedgewick 9-4, Devon 8-7 and Beaumont 18-5 in pool play, then got past Provost 8-5 in semifinal action. Stettler was 2-1 in pool play — defeating Slave Lake 7-5 and Barrhead 16-12, and dropping an 11-8 decision to Provost — and was edged 7-6 by Provost in a tie-breaker.

Olds qualified for the championship contest with an 8-5 semifinal victory over Provost. ● Coronation finished with a 1-2 record in the peewee AA tier 4 provincials at Fort Saskatchewan, beating the hosts 12-7 and losing 11-7 and 13-11 to Strathmore and eventual champion Slave Lake. ● Fairview blanked Edmonton 10-0 in the final of the bantam A tier 2 provincials at Sylvan Lake, where the hosts opened with a 23-2 slaughter of Sherwood Park but then fell 19-8 to Fairview and 134 to Edmonton.

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Raonic using Wimbledon loss as motivation

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS WASHINGTON — Milos Raonic has had nearly a month to digest his Wimbledon semifinal loss to Roger Federer. But even after all that time, the sting still lingers.

“I’m still pretty angry about it,” Raonic said of the straight-sets loss to the Swiss star.

It was the first Grand Slam semifinal for the hard-serving player from Thornhill, Ont., who reached a careerhigh sixth in the world rankings. Now ranked seventh, he says the disappointment of not advancing to the final at the All-England Club has left him with extra incentive heading into the hard-court season.

“Out of all the ranking climbs that I’ve made over the past three years that have been significant to me, it’s probably the one that I enjoyed the least because I felt that I could have done much better in that situation,” said Raonic, who returns to the court this week at the Citi Open.

Raonic arrived in Washington last Friday — five days ahead of his opening match — rested and rejuvenated but with the July 4 loss to Federer still fresh in his mind. The Canadian is seeded second, behind only fifthranked Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic.

“It’s been a lot of frustration, anger and disappointment, specifically to that semifinal, and it’s actually sort of transformed into a lot of energy to do better, to work harder and now it’s got me really excited,” said Raonic. “It makes me want to play that much more badly and get through these next tournaments.”

The Citi Open is the first of three straight hard-court events for Raonic, who returns home to Toronto next week for the Rogers Cup before playing in the Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati the week after.

That Raonic is heading into the

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Milos Raonic of Canada walks back to the base line after losing a point to Roger Federer at Wimbledon, in London, on July 4, 2014. Raonic has had nearly a month to digest his Wimbledon semifinal loss to Roger Federer. But even after all that time, the sting still lingers. hard-court season with extra motivation and a newfound confidence is a potentially scary thought for the rest of ATP Tour.

“I have more belief in what I can do and the kind of damage that I can make,” said Raonic, who has won 82 per cent of his first-serve points this year, second-most on tour, and is third with 567 aces in 34 matches.

“I can make guys feel uncomfortable whether they’re ranked No.1 in the world or No. 50. I don’t think any-

body enjoys playing me so I have a lot more understanding of that and how to use that to my advantage.”

Prior to his semifinal run on the grass courts at Wimbledon, Raonic also reached the quarter-finals on the clay courts of the French Open. Overall, the 23-year-old compiled a 16-7 record on grass and clay this spring, after going 8-8 over the same stretch a year ago.

Combine the recent success in Europe with Raonic’s past performances on hard courts and he says “this is the

most eager” he’s ever felt heading into his favourite time of year.

“It’s the best thing for my game,” he said of the hard courts and the typically hot and humid playing conditions that accompany the North American summer schedule. “After spending four months of tennis where I’m adjusting to playing the surface, this is a surface where I’m comfortable and where I don’t have to worry about ’OK in this situation, I have to hit this kind of shot.’ (On hard courts) I have that stuff ingrained in myself naturally.”

Raonic’s coach, former world No.3 Ivan Ljubicic, also sees the hard-court season as a tremendous opportunity for Raonic to close the gap with the game’s elite and to potentially breakthrough with his first career Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open.

“His level is much higher than at this time last year,” said Ljubicic, who challenged Raonic last August to “save” his 2013 season with a strong tournaments in Montreal, Cincinnati and New York.

“He’s shown recently that he’s better able to handle certain situations — the pressure situations — very well,” he said. “He’s got the type of personality and character where he feels more comfortable with a higher ranking, where he doesn’t feel the pressure. If anything, he has more hunger to do better.”

Raonic now has his sights set on defending his ranking points at the Rogers Cup — he reached the final in Montreal last year before falling to Rafael Nadal — and building towards a strong U.S. Open. He is also eyeing his first career top-5 world ranking.

“I think there’s a big opening,” Raonic said of joining Nadal and Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic among the top-5. “The biggest threshold and the biggest barrier or wall to pass is the one that Novak and Rafa have on the 1-2 spots. But I think that the rest of the parts, this year specifically, are up for grabs.”

Genie Army to invade Montreal for Bouchard’s homecoming at Rogers Cup

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — They’re armed with T-shirts, face paint and posters — and they’re headed to Montreal.

Founding members of the Genie Army, a group of Eugenie Bouchard supporters who cheered for the rising tennis star during the Australian Open in January, will be in the city for the Rogers Cup, beginning this weekend.

The fan club is made up of about a dozen people and six of them are making the long journey to Canada for the tournament.

“We thought it would be a great chance to support Genie in her hometown and have the home crowd cheer along with us,” said Stephen Ganavas, a 17-year-old student living in Melbourne.

Dressed in red and white and waving a banner with her name, the Genie Army emerged as Bouchard’s unofficial cheering section during an impressive run in January. She ended up losing to the eventual winner, Li Na, in the semifinal.

The Australian devotees, mostly men in their early 20s, readily admit they have no ties to Canada and no

connection with Bouchard. They acknowledge the tall blond’s looks may have played a part in their decision to support her.

Ganavas said he and his friends also wanted to back an “up-and-comer” in the tournament and Bouchard fit the bill to a T after showing her potential at Wimbledon in 2013.

“Genie is great because she is so genuine and down-to-earth,” he said in an email exchange.

“For example, after she had just lost at the Australian Open to Li Na, she came out onto the grounds and just had a chat with us when she could have been relaxing and thinking about the match she had just lost.”

It’s been a landmark year for Bouchard.

After her success in Australia, the 20-year-old made it all the way to the semis in the French Open in June before playing in the Wimbledon final on July 5.

She enters the Rogers Cup at No. 7 in the world rankings.

In the process, Bouchard, who hails from the Montreal-area community of Westmount, has gained a whole new legion of fans.

Other Genie Army clubs have

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Eugenie Bouchard of Canada plays a return to Petra Kvitova during the women’s singles final at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, July 5, 2014. Bouchard will be the sixth seed at the upcoming Rogers Cup women’s tennis tournament while fellow Canadian Milos Raonic will be seeded seventh in the men’s event. sprouted up in Montreal, Quebec City and Trois-Rivieres. The hashtag GenieArmy was a trending topic on Twitter during Wimbledon.

And a special Genie Army ticket package to watch Bouchard at the Rogers Cup is already sold out.

Meanwhile, the original fan club from Australia has also gained a following of its own.

A Genie Army website is under construction and the group is planning to sell T-shirts inspired by those

they wore at the Australian Open. One reads, “Eat, Sleep, Genie, Repeat.”

And, after having their faces splashed across newspapers, websites and highlight reels during the Australian Open, members of the Genie Army will become a sort of cause celebre in Montreal.

The group will attend an official photo this Saturday and, according to a news release, fans will “have the chance to take their photo with the now famous group.”

For kayaker Connor Taras, coming out was the ultimate victory

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the whole time. He would be the life of the party; he would, in his words, “zing around the room like a pinball.”

They named a drink after him, an awful-sounding drink, red wine and Red Bull.

And the end of the night always loomed, because it’s at the end of the night that the boys and the girls find one another, if they’re interested, and he wanted it to look like he was interested. But it was terrifying, because it was a place he could get found out. So he’d drink a little too much, get a little sloppy, screw it up, rig the game. The girl would always drift away.

He’d live with the hangover.

“There was a fine line with that,” says Taras. “When you get to that point in those nights, you also make decisions that you’d regret the next day. So I’d always have to be very careful not to out myself with a stupid mistake.”

The whole time, he was trying to find himself as an athlete, too.

He won his junior world championship medal in the K-500, but the distance was eliminated. So Connor switched to the K-1000, then to the 200, shaped and reshaped his body, left his old coach and couldn’t stick with a new one. He fought for funding.

He tried for 2012, but was 0.6 seconds away in a two-man K-200m race. After everything, after all the hiding, he had nothing to show for it.

“I just started feeling sorry for myself,” Connor says. “And I started thinking about those feelings. I thought, why can’t I do this, and why is this me?”

He was depressed. His confidence was in shreds. He stopped training for two months. He thought about quitting, about how much effort would be needed to try again. He thought about his mistakes. He regretted all the energy wasted on hiding.

When he finally told his best friend,

Caitlyn Dunphy, they were at a party and he didn’t tell her he was gay — he fumbled around, and ended with “I like guys.” And she was so happy for him. He thought, “I’m going to feel like s--t in the morning.”

He didn’t. He felt liberated. He told family, friends. Nobody recoiled. His mom took a little time, because she’d always imagined a specific happiness for him, but happiness is what he’d found, and she got there. “Within four days,” he says now, “bam, I was out.”

He didn’t say he was gay, once. He can say it now. “The word is back to mean-

ing what it’s supposed to mean,” he says.

And his kayaking got better. The training for the 1000 was coming into place, and he was happy, really happy.

His personal best was a 3:51; this year it’s a 3:39.

“It just felt like I had so much pressure off my shoulders,” says Connor.

“It felt so great. I just didn’t care about what people thought of me anymore.

It was the first time I went to race and was actually there for myself.”

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You probably don’t know Connor Taras, and in that, you are not alone.

In a way, until two or three years ago, this would mean you had something in common with almost everyone in Connor Taras’s life. They might have guessed who he really was, of course.

But there was no way to be sure.

Connor Taras is a few things. He’s 25, a native of Waverley, N.S., and a kayaker. He won a world junior silver medal and made the national team at 16, challenged for the 2008 Olympics at 19, just missed the 2012 Olympics, and hopes to make Rio 2016. And he’s gay.

Took him a long time to say it, though.

“I really shut off my feelings, and you know, I think I always knew BRUCE it, but I always tried ARTHUR to hide it,” says Taras.

“Not accepting it is waking up every day and trying to hide from the people you’re living around.”

This is the first time he’s said it publicly, and in the age of Michael Sam and Jason Collins, this is less and less of a remarkable story anymore. Except every story is remarkable, to someone.

For years, Connor tried to convince himself that it was just a phase; he never spoke about it with anybody. He got into high-performance kayak, a world which, as he says, “you do one thing and everybody finds out. There are no secrets.” It was also, as star paddler Adam van Koeverden puts it, a pretty macho place.

But Connor kept the secret. He tried to dress the way he figured straight guys dressed. He tried to like the music he figured straight guys liked. He ignored homophobic language from friends. He would drink when the group drank, but he’d be calculating

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McIlroy ready to move forward HAD HIS BRITISH OPEN CELEBRATION BUT NOW READY TO GET BACK TO WORK

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AKRON, Ohio — The claret jug is not out of sight. Rory McIlroy is just trying to get it out of his mind.

McIlroy had plenty of fun with golf’s oldest trophy after his wire-to-wire win in the British Open. He celebrated with friends in England, took the jug out for a night on the town in Belfast with his buddies, and brought it with him when he returned home to Florida. And yes, it’s with him at Firestone this week at the Bridgestone Invitational.

“I’ve sort of been taking pictures of it beside the TV and on top of the toilet and wherever it’s been,” he said.

“It’s definitely nice to have it in my possession.”

And now it’s back to work.

McIlroy had two trigger words that helped him at Royal Liverpool — “process” and “spot.” They helped him focus on his long game and his putting.

He brought out a new word Tuesday at Firestone — forward.

“I think every time you have success, you need to reassess your goals because it’s only halfway, two-thirds through the season,” he said. “And a lot of the goals that I set myself for the start of the year I’ve achieved already.

So that’s when you have to reassess and say, ’OK, you’ve boxed that off. It’s great. Celebrate it for a couple of days.’

But then you’ve got to move on.”

“You’ve got to keep moving forward and keep thinking about what you want to achieve from now until the end of the year,” he said. “And then at the end of the year, you can really reflect on everything you’ve done and enjoy it.”

There are plenty of goals right in front of him.

Rory McIlroy holds the Claret Jug trophy after winning the British Open Golf championship at the Royal Liverpool golf club, Hoylake, England, July 20, 2014.

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NBPA elects Michele Roberts, making her first woman to lead a male sports union in North America

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Michele Roberts has watched basketball for as long as she can remember. It was an easy choice growing up in a home with one TV and two older brothers.

When she saw an interview last year with an NBA player and noticed how passionately he talked about trying to improve his embattled union, she wanted to be more than a fan. She wanted to be involved.

That got her started toward becoming the first woman to lead a North American pro sports union.

Roberts was elected early Tuesday morning as executive director of the National Basketball Players Association, and the Washington trial lawyer is eager to provide the leadership it needs after a few difficult years.

“They were looking for, not a man, not a woman, they were looking for a personality,” Roberts said in a phone interview. “I think I’m that personality and I intend to be what I have been in my entire practice, singularly devoted to this union. And that’s what they were looking for. Someone, whether it be a boy or a girl, who understood that this was their union, and they intended to run it, and they were looking for someone who appreciated that and was not going to deviate from that.”

Roberts received 32 of 36 votes at a meeting of players in Las Vegas, defeating tech industry CEO Dean Garfield and Dallas Mavericks CEO Terdema Ussery in the final vote.

It capped a long and arduous process to replace Billy Hunter, who was ousted in February 2013. Roberts was one of the finalists initially offered to the rank-and-file during All-Star weekend in February, but the process was re-opened under another search committee at the urging of some players and agents.

More than 100 players reconvened in Las Vegas this week, and after some tense moments leading up to the vote, Roberts emerged as the winner.

“Obviously I would’ve preferred that it happen sooner rather than later, but I completely understood when there were questions raised about the process,” Roberts said. “Frankly, I would not have wanted them to ignore those questions and not affirmatively address those concerns. I wanted the job in February, but I wanted the job where there would be no questions about the fairness or the process, so I completely endorsed the executive committee to address these questions, and they did and now best I can tell they’re very pleased.”

The players considered more than 300 candidates during their 17-month search before picking Roberts, who has been called the finest trial lawyer in Washington by Washingtonian Magazine. She said her new job will feature straight, honest talk and strategizing, things that have made her such a successful lawyer.

The search to replace Hunter, who led the NBPA from 1996 until a review of the union was critical of his business practices, leaves players with less than two years to prepare for the next potential collective bargaining talks.

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Hurricanes captain Eric Staal has surgery to repair core muscle injury THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — The Carolina Hurricanes say captain Eric Staal has had surgery to repair a core muscle injury and should be ready for training camp.

General manager Ron Francis said the surgery was performed Tuesday by a doctor in Philadelphia.

He says Staal suffered the injury — also known as a sports hernia — during off-season training.

Francis says the doctor who performed the surgery believes Staal will be ready for training camp in September and should “be at full health for the start of the regular season.”

The 29-year-old Staal led the team with 40 assists and 61 points last season and is entering his 11th season with the Hurricanes.

McIlroy has never won a World Golf Championship, and the Bridgestone Invitational offers a great chance.

Firestone is a big golf course, typically south, one that requires plenty of power, and McIlroy has that. It was at Firestone two years ago when McIlroy closed with a 68, which he cited as a key to winning the PGA Championship the following week at Kiawah Island.

And then there’s next week at Valhalla. As much as McIlroy is looking ahead to Augusta National next April and a chance to win the career Grand Slam, he wouldn’t mind getting his fourth major at the PGA Championship.

Also at stake is a chance for the 25-year-old from Northern Ireland to return to No. 1 in the world. He would have to win the Bridgestone Invitational, and Adam Scott would have to finish outside the top five.

McIlroy sounded as if he was all business.

He had a few media opportunities after winning The Open, and then headed to London for some fitness testing. After a corporate outing for one of his sponsors, he flew over to Florida and spent the rest of the time practicing for a big stretch ahead of him.

“Just decided I wanted to move on and move forward,” he said.

He has a history of moving forward.

Two years ago, McIlroy followed his PGA Championship win at Kiawah Island by winning back-to-back tournaments in the FedEx Cup playoffs to wrap up his first PGA Tour money title, and then he won in Dubai at the end of the year to capture the European Tour money title.

“I didn’t want to rest on that,” he said. “I’d already had a pretty good year, but I wanted to just keep going.”

University of New Brunswick loses bid to have hockey discrimination case tossed

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS FREDERICTON — A complaint of discrimination over a decision by the University of New Brunswick to eliminate varsity women’s hockey will proceed after a tribunal on Tuesday rejected the school’s attempt to have the case thrown out.

Sylvia Bryson has been fighting to have the women’s hockey team reinstated as a varsity squad since filing her complaint in 2009, a year after the team was stripped of its funding and downgraded to a competitive sports club. Bryson, who played for the team, alleges that the decision to relegate the women’s team constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex.

The university argued in March that Bryson didn’t have a personal stake because she is not a full-time student and working in Newfoundland, and therefore wouldn’t qualify to play, so her complaint is moot.

But in its decision, the province’s Labour and Employment Board sided with Matthew Letson, the lawyer for Bryson and the Human Rights Commission,

who argued that Bryson still has a year of eligibility to play and is affected by the fact there is no varsity team to try out for.

“Bryson, just as any other female athlete with academic standing, could and can still try out to play CIS hockey at UNB — if a women’s varsity hockey team had not been eliminated by UNB,” said the decision by board chairman Robert Breen.

Letson said he was pleased with the decision.

“There was never any guarantee that she would qualify for the team and so really it’s the right to try out which is being interfered with by the fact there is no team to try out for,” he said.

Bryson welcomed the decision and said she is looking forward to having the hearings resume. The hearings are expected to resume this fall, but no date has been set.

During her testimony before the board, Bryson said the women’s hockey team never received the level of resources enjoyed by the men’s hockey team, yet the university compared their outcomes such as win-loss records when the decision was made to cut funding from the women’s squad.

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PHEASANT PROGRAM FOR KIDS Youth between the ages of 12 and 20 can learn about gun safety, target shooting and pheasant hunting through the Alberta Youth Pheasant Program. Organized by Red Deer Fish and Game Association, the workshop runs every weekend from Sept. 6 until Dec. 15. The classes run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. All equipment is supplied. Bring your own lunch. There is no cost. Call Doug at 403-347-7968 or Kevin at 403-346-4641 to register.

ABORIGINAL RESOURCE FAIR, SHOWCASE The Aboriginal Resource Fair and Showcase will be held on Aug. 7 from 1 to 4 p.m. at The Hub on Ross. The goal of the event is to increase connections, awareness and access to existing programs. Information will be available on aboriginal programs, resources, training opportunities and employment services. The 2014 Red Deer Aboriginal Services Directory will be available. The Métis Nation of Alberta will also be in attendance.

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Everyone is welcome. The Hub on Ross is located at 4936 50th St. in Red Deer.

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BY RENÉE FRANCOEUR ADVOCATE STAFF Residential development on the south shores of Pine Lake is back on the discussion table.

A 200-home subdivision plan has recently been submitted to Red Deer County by Pelican Bay Properties Inc. for 90-plus acres stretching along one km of lake.

While this proposal is smaller than a similar one that sparked public outcry two years ago, some residents say it would still overwhelm the small body of water.

“It’s still huge, the size of the town of Delburne when you really think of it,” said Don Nielsen, who has called Pine Lake home for the past 14 years.

“This little lake has weed issues, blue-green algae issues.

I’m not a tree hugger but let’s try to protect it a little bit.”

With all the work and money the Pine Lake Restoration Society has been putting into

the area over the years, to see a development rise up would be counterproductive, said Nielsen.

“I’ve gone to a number of the society’s Alberta Environment seminars and every one of them has said that development is a contributing factor for this bluegreen algae,” he said.

The lake, located about 40 km southeast of Red Deer, is under a blue-green algae advisory — caused by a number of factors such as high phosphorous and nutrient levels from waste water and fertilizer — meaning swimming and other beach activities are off limits. It’s something that happens almost every summer at some point, said Nielsen.

Additionally, safety needs to be considered when it comes to development, he added, noting the lake “can’t really accommodate” any more boats.

“I think they’re trying to make us Sylvan Lake and as far as I’m concerned, this is all driven by money. ... I’m not anti-

development ... 10 to 12 homes, I don’t think anyone would object to that.”

Development and its impacts are a complicated issue to debate, said Nielsen, as while the county is responsible for the land around Pine Lake, the water is under federal jurisdiction.

Lorne Olmstead, who has lived on the lake since 1957, is undecided about the new plan.

“It’s certainly a better situation but it’s still going to affect the wildlife and waterfowl and what have you,” Olmstead said.

“I’m not sure if it’s a good thing or not. We have a blue-green on the lake right now and I don’t think this will help.”

Nielsen and Olmstead were two of the many opposed to the 380-lot residential plan in 2012.

Council later knocked that plan down.

This new plan, the South West Pine Lake Local Area Structure Plan, will include only single family units (largely in cul-de-sac forma-

Enjoy the heat, there’s more on the way

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF July was one hot and steamy month — and it’s not over yet.

Environment Canada Meteorologist Bill McMurtry said typically the daily mean temperature for July was 15.9C over the last 30 years in Red Deer.

So far this month, the average temperature 17.1C, 1.2 degrees warmer.

“Once you get one or more degrees above normal, that’s significant,” said McMurtry.

Most places in Alberta have experienced a warmer than average July.

And it doesn’t look like the heat is going to let up anytime soon.

Expect the sun to keep on shining over the next couple of days with little wind heading into the weekend.

“It’s going to feel full on like summer over the next few days,” said McMurtry.

“That’s all attributed to an upper ridge of high pressure that is situated over Western Canada, northwestern United States and that’s producing warm temperatures for that entire area.”

McMurtry said it won’t be record-breaking temperatures but nice warm temperatures with

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BRIEFS Boats remain unclaimed A few stray boats are still waiting to be claimed on the south shore of Sylvan Lake.

About 15 vessels were washed ashore last week after Friday’s wind storm.

Cpl. Kevin Halwa with the Sylvan Lake RCMP said he expects the remaining boats to be picked up this long weekend as people return to their summer cabins and cottages.

RCMP tied off the boats and contacted owners if the boats were registered.

No boats were washed back out onto the lake and no major damage was done, except a few

daytime highs approaching 30C. Today and Thursday will bring highs of 29C. Some instability will move into the area on the weekend, with the possibility of some daytime showers developing on Friday and Saturday.

The Friday-Saturday temperatures will hover around 23C, six degrees cooler than what is to come over the next two days.

“As we get to holiday Monday, we’re back to sunshine and nice warm temperatures,” said McMurtry.

Monday’s high is expected to reach 26C. The warmest day so far this month was on July 9, with the average temperature of 21.3C. Alberta Health Services reminds residents to practise sun and heat safety in the warmer months.

With rising temperatures, there is an increased risk of heat-related illness such as heat exhaustion or sunstroke.

To avoid sunburns and heatrelated illness, AHS recommends applying frequently a sunscreen of at least sun protection factor (SPF) 30, at least 20 minutes before going outside, and wearing a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses (with a UVA/ UVB CSA certified seal). If possible, wear light-coloured long pants and long-sleeved shirts that cover skin. of the boats took on a lot of water.

RCMP remind boat owners to properly secure their boats or have someone keep an eye on them if they are not around for an extended period.

“If you’re only out at your cabin every weekend or something like that, I know it’s a lot easier to leave your boats in the water but there are liabilities if something happens while you’re gone,” Halwa said.

Rollover injures man A 19-year-old man was transported by STARS air ambulance after a single vehicle rollover near Blackfalds on Tuesday morning.

Blackfalds RCMP Cpl. Barry Larocque said the man was southbound on Range Road 275 at about 11:30 a.m. and appears to have lost control in the gravel. His vehicle rolled multiple

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Myriam Kalonji, 9, front, and her sister Debrah, 11, stand under a cooling blast of water at the Blue Grass Sod Farms Spray Park in Red Deer on Tuesday. With temperatures expected to reach 30 degrees today the park should be a popular place to keep cool.

Drink lots of water and other non-alcoholic, non-caffeinated

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times. He was taken by ground ambulance to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre, where STARS was going to fly him to Edmonton.

“He was conscious when he left the scene in the ambulance,” Larocque said on Tuesday.

The collision occurred about 14 km northwest of Blackfalds and the driver was the only person in the vehicle.

Larocque said alcohol and drugs were not factors in the rollover.

Snider alleges that the woman, who cannot be named to protect her children’s identities, committed a variety of offences against them during a span of more than 10 years, starting in 1984.

The woman is charged with assault, aggravated assault, assault causing bodily harm, sexual assault and sexual touching for offences alleged to have occurred while the family was living in a rural area in Central Alberta.

Details of evidence heard during the preliminary hearing cannot be made public under a court-imposed ban.

Represented by defence counsel David Inglis, the accused has elected to be tried by judge alone in Court of Queen’s Bench, with the benefit of a preliminary hearing to examine the Crown’s case before proceeding to trial.

Charges were laid in 2013 by Sylvan Lake RCMP.

Hearing continues in abuse case The preliminary hearing continues today for a 62-yearold woman accused of beating and emotionally abusing her four children when they were still little and living with their parents.

Crown prosecutor Robin

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The company proposes building what it’s calling Pelican Bay Community on “previously disturbed land” in a “location that is not highly environmentally significant,” according to the 50-page plan delivered to those living beside the contested area as part of the county’s review process.

The developers could not be reached for comment.

Residents have until Aug. 14 to submit their comments to the county, after which the feedback will be compiled and presented to council.

Peggy Matthews, a senior development officer with the county, said she expects the plan to go before council for its first reading in early September, followed by a public hearing. rfrancoeur@reddeeradvocate. com

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Bump the germs off your hands STUDY SAYS FIST BUMPS SPREAD FEWER BACTERIA THAN HANDSHAKES OR HIGH-FIVES

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — When it comes to preventing the spread of germs, maybe the president is on to something with his fondness for fist bumps.

The familiar knocking of knuckles spreads only one-twentieth the amount of bacteria that a handshake does, researchers report.

That’s better than a high-five, which still passes along less than half the amount as a handshake.

So fist bumps — popularized by Barack Obama and others — seem to be the wisest greeting, especially during cold and flu season, said researcher David Whitworth of Aberystwyth University in Wales.

The importance of hand hygiene is nothing new in medicine.

But the researchers realized that while a lot of research focused on hands getting germy from touching

doorknobs and other surfaces, only a few studies had looked at handshakes.

“And there are alternatives to handshakes. You see them on telly all the time — the fist bump and high-five and all that,” Whitworth said.

He and a student, Sara Mela, shook hands, fist-bumped and high-fived each other dozens of times for the research.

One wore a glove covered in bacteria, while the other had a clean sterilized glove. After each greeting, they measured how much bacteria had been transferred.

Their results were published online Monday in the American Journal of Infection Control.

What makes the fist bump more sanitary?

Mostly, it’s the smaller amount of surface area in contact between the two hands, an analysis suggests.

The researchers did practice runs with paint to measure how much sur-

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Researchers David Whitworth, left, and Sara Mela, pose in the lab at Prifysgol Aberystwyth University in Aberystwyth, Wales. According to results published online Monday in the American Journal of Infection Control, the researchers found that the knocking of knuckles, fist bump, spreads only one-20th the amount of bacteria that a handshake does. face area each form of greeting involved.

“It’s a novel study,” though the results are not surprising, said Mary Lou Manning, president-elect of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. Her organization publishes the journal.

She said she hasn’t seen much fistbumping or high-fiving in hospitals.

Handshakes are more common— but they must be followed by good handwashing, she added.

Whitworth said he hopes the norm changes. “In a hospital, you really don’t want people to shake hands. It’s an unnecessary risk,” he said.

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CPR should be tweaked to urge chin lift: expert PROFESSOR SAYS STUDIES NEEDED TO SEE IF TILTING HEAD AND LIFTING CHIN INCREASE SURVIVAL RATES

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Relief squad members demonstrate CPR with dummies in Seoul, South Korea. An anesthesiologist is suggesting changes on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR. focuses on when performing CPR. Doing that well is not easy, he says.

Cardiac arrest often happens at home, where perhaps only one other person is present. Under those circumstances, calling 911 and then focusing on chest compressions is the best thing a person can do, Travers says.

“If there are more

people there, then yes, you can do more of these things. But if you’re by yourself, and most cardiac arrests are ... then we’re asking you to do is: OK, just push hard and push fast.”

“If you can do these other things, then great.

But don’t sacrifice that basic foundation piece of CPR,” he insists.

Ho agrees that chest

compressions are the most important part of CPR. But he says if resuscitation is being at-

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An anesthesiologist is suggesting recommendations on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR may need to be changed.

Dr. Anthony Ho says that when CPR guidelines were updated in 2010 a step that is probably needed was taken out.

The international experts who revised the guidelines in 2010 dropped the recommendation that people alternate chest compressions with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

They said the idea of breathing into someone’s mouth might discourage some people from attempting CPR and the breaths took time away from the more important chest compressions.

But Ho says the 2010 guidelines also dropped a recommendation to tilt back the head and lift the chin of the unconscious person and he thinks that was a mistake.

The Queen’s University professor says studies should be done to see if tilting the head and lifting the chin increase survival rates of people on whom CPR is performed.

“My argument is I think they threw the baby out with the bath water,” says Ho, who is also an anesthesiologist at Kingston General Hospital in Kingston, Ont. Writing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Ho says tilting the head and lifting the chin helps to open the airway, which is critical so that the chest compressions can expel and draw air into the lungs.

The key responsibility of anesthesiologists is to ensure that people who are unconscious still get the oxygen they need to survive.

As such, people in the profession spend a lot of time studying the best way to maintain open airways.

The 2010 revision of the CPR guidance by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation — known as ILCOR — drew a lot of attention because of the decision to drop the recommendation for what is known as rescue breathing.

One of the hopes was that more people would attempt to do CPR on people who suffer cardiac arrest because of the change.

But that wasn’t why the change was made.

Studies had been done

that showed CPR without rescue breathing was actually more effective than CPR that alternated chest compressions with rescue breathing. The studies showed that with rescue breaths, about 12 per cent of people lived; without them, the number went up to 14 per cent.

“An increment of two per cent means many, many people (survive) worldwide, because cardiac arrest is quite common,” Ho says.

Dr. Andrew Travers, an emergency physician at the Halifax Infirmary, is co-chair of the basic life support task force for ILCOR, an umbrella organization for national organizations around the world that advocate for and train people to conduct CPR. In Canada, that group is the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Travers says the 2010 update that Ho is questioning was aimed at people who are untrained in CPR technique.

Rescue breathing is still recommended for trained emergency responders.

Travers says the decision was based on the fact that the chest compressions are the most important part of the effort, and should be what an untrained individual

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Dear Annie: I am 13 and an avid reader of your column. I have been working at a summer program, and I ride a school bus there and back.

Two young men ride the same bus. I have a crush on one of them (I’ll call him “Liam”), but I happen to know he likes another girl.

The other guy (I’ll call him MITCHELL “Noah”) seems & SUGAR to like me.

I had a crush on Noah last year, but I’m not sure I still have those same feelings.

Noah sometimes sits next to me on the bus and talks to me.

Here’s the problem: One day, it seems they both like me, and then another day, Liam seems interested in that other girl, and I am laughing and giggling with Noah.

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these mixed signals.

I told two of my girlfriends about this situation, and they concluded that both of these boys like me, but Liam likes the other girl better.

Is it wrong for me to like both of these boys?

If Noah says he likes me, what do I do? Please help — Omaha, Neb. Dear Omaha: Please don’t think you have to choose between these two boys right now.

They probably both enjoy your company, although Liam seems interested in playing the field a bit more.

That’s OK. Don’t be pressured to make any kind of decision. It’s perfectly fine to like both of them, at least until one of them expresses an interest and the feeling is mutual.

Dear Annie: For the past several years, I’ve resigned myself to the fact that my wife and I aren’t going to have sex, so pornography and self-gratification are the alternative.

I understand that she can be tired, ill or angry or just not feel like it. But that’s all the time.

She says I take it too personally when she turns me down. Yet when

she insists she likes sex and wants me to initiate, I get slapped and turned away as soon as I approach her.

How can I not take that personally?

I finally realized I am better off accepting that we aren’t going to have sex, and I no longer get frustrated.

I send flowers, take her out to dinner, make her coffee in the morning, make her lunch for work, clean up after dinner and make breakfast on weekends.

I’m in good shape. Her interest declined when our children were young.

She told me if I don’t like it, I can leave, but we both know that would be bad for the kids.

We talked about counseling, but she wouldn’t go, so I went by myself. The counselor wasn’t too helpful, saying suck it up or leave.

I guess I’m angry.

It’s no use talking to her about it anymore.

So why am I writing? I want someone to change my wife.

But I know she’s the only one who can do that, and she doesn’t have much interest. Men like me lead lives of quiet desperation. —In Pain Dear Pain: Please understand that

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your counselor was right. In situations where the other person is unwilling to make changes, your choice is to stay or to go.

But although you decided to stay, you didn’t truly deal with the emotional fallout and became increasingly resentful, lonely and bitter.

Additional counseling may help you let go of some of that and be more at peace. Our condolences.

Dear Annie: My question for “Just Saying” is: Why all the anger?

I have been a chef for 32 years and often have cooked food for those on a special diet.

The next time you go to a restaurant, simply phone ahead with your special request. I even have gone to the market to buy what my customer needs.

A simple call to the chef will make your evening out a success. —Chef P. 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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HOROSCOPES Wednesday, July 30 greater opportunity for you to interact with CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: friends and have a pleasant time. You will Lisa Kudrow, 50; Terry Crews, 45; Simon prefer the dialogue of wise counsel at the end Baker, 44 of the day and this will help you THOUGHT OF THE DAY: develop more depth of knowlToday you will think deeply about edge. They will help you release the interactions you currently thoughts that were bothering have. You will want to be with you. others and experience a pleasTAURUS (April 20-May 20): ant time, which will happen. Yet, Seek out those who are wiser you will want to be with those than you for more guidance towho add greater truth to your day. Conversations with others experiences. You will prefer the will prove to be pleasant but will company of serious individuals leave you with more questions and seek out wise counsel. This than answers. You might not will add more stability and enjoyeven want to express what you ment to the day now. are thinking now, but do so, it LARISA MAIRA HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today will help. is your birthday, your career will GEMINI (May 21-June 20): OZOLINS prove to be worked on from beYou will have a pleasant time hind the scenes. This year will with friends and family members prove to be a pinnacle year to today. Later on, seek out any get you moving forward. Seek wise counsel to help you discern out wise counsel, perhaps a parent will help your direction with your work, health, and your you achieve the stability you want to achieve daily life. They will have a more serious look professional and on the home front. Abun- to your situation and will help tremendously. dance is definitely making an appearance in CANCER (June 21-July 22): When out your personal life, shine bright! and about with friends, you will be the wise ARIES (March 21-April 19): There is counsel others seek out. Try to provide oth-

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ers with answers with great judgement. You’ll have the feeling of greater authority even when out having fun, so your outings might be more serious than not now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Today will have you looking at your finances and your personal worth with greater discernment. Seek out wise counsel, either at home, or with your family. Hang out with friends in private, as they there will be a need to create more emotional stability there without distractions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It will be your natural instinct to help others now. Try to make sure you are as compassion as you can be now, as there is a tendency for them to see more of a serious, perhaps a little too discerning, stance from you. So counteract that with more compassion for all involved.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You will want to be with people you love and who can offer you some great advice today.

Guess what? This is exactly what will be in store for you now. Do not take anyone’s advice, no matter how realistic it is, as your own if it does not make you shine brighter.

Seek the truth.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have currently taken on a more compassion stance when it comes to your understanding of the divine. Yes, you are the authority in many ways, your direction and ambitions will need some tweaking for you personally today. Take

PHOENIX — An Arizona strip club has endorsed a Democratic candidate for Congress.

And the candidate, the Rev. Jarrett Maupin, says he’s happy to have the support of The Great Alaskan Bush Company of Phoenix.

The Arizona Republic reports the strip club recently announced its endorsement on a sign that reads: “Jarrett Maupin for Congress ’The Rev.”’ Maupin, who calls himself a member of the Progressive Christian Coalition, says employees voted to back him because he supports affordable student loans and all-day kindergarten.

Maupin is running in a close race for the 7th District seat against three other Democrats to replace retiring longtime Rep. Ed Pastor. Pastor has been a member of the House of Representatives from Arizona since 1991.

But he can’t vote for himself because he was convicted in 2009 of lying to the FBI in a case involving thenPhoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. the time to define who you are now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your consciousness is expanding now. This is helped along with private conversations with those you respect on a professional level.

The conversations will revolve around your career and how your present yourself now, so discern for yourself what is needed or not.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today will mark a time when you will want to hang out with older friends. You will most likely be in deep thought about your ambitions now.

Others in your life will be supportive ,if you allow them to be. Open up a little more today, it will be a pleasant day!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Those at work will offer you some much needed help and wise counsel. Your focus will be on eliminating any fears or financial concerns and they will help you. Females in your life will most likely lead the way for you now. Use this sage wisdom within your work today!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Others in your life, either romantic or business partnerships, will bring you out of your deep thoughts today. This will be extremely helpful for you as if they didn’t you would be in constant deep thought and this could bring you down a little bit. Enjoy a pleasant day!

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Since the president of Marvel Studios first teased the possibility of making a movie based on the comic book about a team of intergalactic do-gooders, the proposition has been called risky — by critics, by fans and by Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige himself. That never mattered to writer-director James Gunn, the horror maven best known for 2006’s Slither.

“I could care less whether people think it’s risky,” Gunn said matter-of-factly earlier this month while reclining in a cushy black chair in a screening room on the Disney lot. It’s the same intimate theatre where Gunn recently finished work on digitizing and colourizing Guardians, which is set for release Friday.

While the ensemble cosmic romp bears similarities to the superhero mash-up The Avengers, which earned more than $1.5 billion worldwide, Guardians features more obscure characters from the Marvel mythos and — other than a prologue chronicling the moment Chris Pratt’s young Peter Quill is plucked from Earth — is set entirely in space.

There’s no mention of Captain America, no wink from Tony Stark, no baton passed by Thor.

“In a lot of ways, it’s not a superhero movie,” said Gunn. “It’s a space adventure. We’re not just doing the Marvel thing again. It’s different. We’re expanding the Marvel universe. We’re not replicating the Marvel universe in space. We’re going about it in a different way.” Gunn paused and reclined back further in his chair. “Yeah, it’s probably risky.”

Unlike 2012’s Avengers, which relied on five decades of superhero history and five films to build up its team, Gunn was tasked with not only adapting a comic series that’s only a few years old but also establishing comradery among a band of interstellar rebels that includes a lippy raccoon voiced by Bradley Cooper and a burly alien portrayed by wrestler Dave Bautista.

“It’s a challenge because nobody really knows who we are, and the cool thing about that is we’re starting from scratch,” said Bautista, who plays Drax the Destroyer. “We can make it whatever we want it to be. The possibilities are endless when you’re talking about outer space and all these different civilizations. It can go as far as your imagination can go.”

The movie’s only connections to Marvel’s greater cinematic universe are a more detailed look at the all-powerful Infinity Stones, as well as appearances

by Thanos, the ginormous alien baddie glimpsed at the end of Avengers. Gunn had to fight for the brief

inclusion of the latter, who was originally envisioned as the film’s main villain in a draft by co-writer Nicole Perlman.

“I wanted Thanos in the movie,” said Gunn. “I wanted to be attached to The Avengers. Admittedly, Thanos was a giant pain in the (expletive) because I had to talk with (Avengers writer-director) Joss Whedon and those guys. That was the one part where there were a lot of discussions. At a certain point, I think everyone just gave up, and we just did what we wanted.”

In spite of the risk involved with launching Guardians, there’s apparently also a good deal of faith.

Marvel announced at Comic-Con in San Diego last week that a follow-up, which will be written and directed by Gunn, has already been set for 2017, following planned sequels to Avengers and Captain America. Gunn knows which direction he’s headed in.

“I’m so glad to have the first one done because I can’t wait to do more and not to have to set up as much stuff as I had to set up,” said the director. “I have so many things in my head.

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NEW YORK — Lady Gaga is a bona fide pop star, but the singer says recording jazz music was easier than pop.

Gaga has spent two years recording an album of jazz standards with Tony Bennett called Cheek to Cheek, to be released Sept. 23.

“You know, it’s funny, but jazz comes a little more comfortable for me than pop music, than R&B music,” Gaga said in an interview Monday. “I’ve sung jazz since I was 13 years old, which is kind of like my little secret that Tony found out. So this is almost easier for me than anything else.”

Gaga made the comments with Bennett by her side ahead of the duo’s taped performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City for PBS, which will air in the fall. The album’s first single, a cover of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, was released Tuesday.

Other selections from the Great American Songbook that appear on Cheek to Cheek include It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing), Sophisticated Lady, Lush Life and the title track.

The 28-year-old and 87-year-old Bennett first collaborated on his Grammy-winning, platinum-selling 2011 album, Duets II. Bennett said fans will be impressed with Gaga’s vocal performance on the upcoming album.

“They’re going to say we had no idea she sings that well,” he said.

“And they’re gonna say they had no idea that Tony dressed so crazy,” Gaga added, as Bennett smiled.

“When you come out in your meat dress Tony, nobody is going to know what’s going on.”

Cheek to Cheek is Gaga’s first release since last year’s Artpop. Bennett released a collaborative album with Latin singers in 2012 called Viva Duets.

The duo performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival earlier this month and surprised high school students at Bennett’s Frank Sinatra School of Arts in Queens last month.

Gaga, who is currently on her Artrave: The Artpop Ball tour, says she is “actually happier than I’ve ever been.”

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GUNDERSON April 1986 - 2014 It is with great regret and sadness that we announce the sudden passing of our beautiful daughter, sister, aunty and friend, April Dianne Gunderson at the Innisfail Hospital, Innisfail, Alberta on Friday, July 25, 2014. April was taken from us far too early at the age of 27 years. She will be greatly missed by everyone who knew her.

April leaves behind her precious daughter, Brooke Rae-Anne Stout who has always been the most important part of April’s life.

She also leaves behind her boyfriend, Jarrad Sloan, mom, Darla Briem, dad, Garry Gunderson, sisters, Michelle (Marvin) Lindsey and Sheena (Gerard) Dykstra, stepdad, Rich Bahuaud, stepsister, Kelsey Bahuaud, stepbrother, Nic Bahuaud, avi, Herb Briem, grandmother, Rachel Gunderson and numerous aunties, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends and her day home children.

April was predeceased by her amma, Anna Briem and grandfather, Lloyd Gunderson.

You are already greatly missed. We love you. We will keep you in our hearts and will think of you always.

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 Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 12:30 p.m. A Celebration of April’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home on Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

Please dress casual as April would want it that way. If desired, Memorial Donations in April’s honor may be made directly to a Trust Fund set up for her daughter, Brooke Stout at the Servus Credit Union, Innisfail, Alberta. Donations may be made at any Servus Credit Union on Brooke’s behalf.

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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LIGHTBOWN Jeffery Edward January 11, 1979 - July 22, 2014 With broken hearts we announce the unexpected passing of Jeff Lightbown of Blackfalds, AB. Jeff attended school in Red Deer and worked as Safety Officer for Proform Concrete Services. Camping was a lifelong passion for Jeff and he shared many happy times around the campfire with family and friends. Jeff is survived by his loving wife Crissy LightbownClarke and her children Bailey, Peyton and Noah, his parents Al (Gillian) Lightbown and Debbie (Ken) Lawrence, sister Jen (Arlo) Moon all of Blackfalds, step siblings Trisha (Jay) Kasawski, Julie (Barrie) Latter, Kristy (Curtis) Ross, Jen Hardie, Janice (Brian) Tymkow, Richard Hardie and his very special nieces and nephews. He is also survived by his grandmother Kit Lightbown of Sylvan Lake and his in-laws Wanda (Kevin) Mair, Brad (Juanita) Clarke and Brandon Clarke as well as his many close aunts, uncles, cousins and numerous friends. Jeff was predeceased by his paternal grandparents Bill (Mona) Laidler, paternal grandfather Ed Lightbown, uncle Jeff Laidler, aunt Pat Nielsen and cousin Trevor Solberg.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 31, 2014 at Crossroads Church Red Deer at 2:00 pm. If desired, donations can be made for Crissy and her children in trust of Peyton Charles Shindler.

Arrangements in care of Ed at Sylvan Lake Funeral Home and condolences may be sent and viewed at www.sylvanlakefuneralhome.ca

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TOMALTY Carrol 1923 - 2014 Mrs. Carrol Ethel Tomalty (nee Graham) of Red Deer, Alberta, passed away at the Red Deer Hospice on Thursday, July 24, 2014 at the age of 90 years. Carrol was born on September 21, 1923 on the family farm in the Edwell District, East of Penhold, Alberta. She married Ralph Tomalty in 1947 and they lived on their farm in the Waskasoo District, where they raised a family of seven children and where Carrol continued to live until her death. Carol will be lovingly remembered by her children: Kathy (Lester) Gurnett of Airdrie, Alberta, Keith (Anne), Gerald (Connie), Neil (Vera), all of Red Deer, Donna (John) Armstrong of Big Stone, Alberta, Wayne (Shauna) of Edmonton, Alberta and John (Laurie), also of Red Deer; twenty-six grandchildren and thirtyseven great grandchildren.

She is also survived by her sister, Margaret Collier and sister-in-law, Verna Tomalty, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. Carrol was predeceased by her loving husband, Ralph in 2002; an infant daughter, Grace; parents, Herman and Florence; and two brothers, Lloyd and Bob. “Death is not extinguishing the light, but turning out the Lamp because the dawn has come.”

A Memorial Service will be held at the Balmoral Bible Chapel, Highway 11 East and Rutherford Drive, Red Deer, Alberta on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 3:00 p.m. with John Armstrong officiating.

A Private Family Interment will be held at the Alto Reste Cemetery, Red Deer, Alberta. If desired, Memorial Donations in Carrol’s honor may be made directly to the Christian Blind Mission at www.cbmcanada.org or to the Red Deer Hospice Society at www.reddeerhospice.com.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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LATHAM It is with great sadness that the family of Doreen Pearl Latham announce the passing of a wonderful daughter, mother, grandmother and friend. Doreen passed away peacefully on Wednesday July 23rd of 2014 at the age of 65, in Red Deer Regional Hospital after a very courageous life long battle with Multiple Sclerosis. Doreen was born on December 5, 1948 in Red Deer, Alberta. She grew up on a farm in the Haynes area of Alberta. She attended the Satinwood School from grade 1-7, moving to Edmonton she completed her schooling at the Ross Shepherd School. Doreen worked as a Ward Aide in the Edmonton General Hospital. She married Donald Latham in August of 1969. They had two children, Cynthia and Troy. In March 1974, Doreen made her choice to serve God and have Jesus in her heart and life. She lived in a way that this choice was very evident each day. Doreen and her children moved from Edmonton in 1985 where she resided until May 3 of this year. Around 1989, Doreen lost her ability to walk. It never diminished her spirit or her love and care for her children.

Although she faced many struggles physically, she continued to raise her children with a love for God. Doreen always loved having her children and grandchildren over to the house for their birthdays. She always found New Years with her family very special too. Doreen love to keep up on all her families’ happenings and was always concerned for their well being. Always having cares and concern for her family was truly a part of her wonderful spirit. She would make daily calls, just to make sure everyone was okay. Doreen’s spiritual life was so important to her. It was because of this she enjoyed fellowship with family and dear friends. It was these special moments that were precious to her in the last days of her life.

She knew that the material things in life would pass away.

We can all take comfort in the fact that Doreen is resting with her saviour and enjoying his great promise of salvation as is true in one of her favourite verses, Revelations 21:4. In her last days and hours, Doreen had a complete trust and resignation to the will of her Heavenly Father. Doreen was predeceased by her father Norman Bryan; grandparents William and Ida Bryan; and her grandparents Otis and Pearl Berryman, also father and mother in law Stan and Nora Latham. Doreen is survived by her loving mother Elsie Bryan, her daughter Cynthia (Shayne) Luchsinger, her son Troy Latham, and her grandchildren: Rebekah, Vinessa, Joel, and Emily. Her brother Dean (Jean) Bryan, their children: Leslie, Steven, Shane; and Lori (Gord) Schmidt along with their children: Allen (Terri) Schmidt; Vicky with her children: Brody and Kaiden. She also leaves to mourn five sisters in law, 5 brothers in law, many aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, cousins and friends. She was a loving daughter, mother and grandma and will be missed greatly by all her family and friends. Funeral services will be held at the Lacombe Memorial Centre on Friday August 01, 2014 at 1:00pm with Mr. Mike Moulson, Miss Jean Jefferson and Miss Sandra Epp officiating. Graveside service will follow at the Lacombe Fairview Cemetery with Mr. Arnold Blonke and Mr. Lorne Moore officiating. Donations can be made in memory of Doreen to the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada #105, 4807-50 Avenue Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4A5 and Central Alberta Cancer Centre, 3942-50A Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 4E7.

Condolences may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM serving Central Alberta with locations in Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of arrangements.

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BENEFITS INCLUDE: Signing Bonus paid upon completion of a 60 day/120 day retention period Company provided Group Canadian Benefits Voluntary dental Life insurance Short-term and longterm disability Retirement Savings Plan (RSP) and Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) Paid Vacation Safety Bonus All applicants are subject to a pre-employment physical and MVR check.

Interested Applicants may submit a resume, along with a current drivers abstract to: ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS CANADA INC. 4316 Gerdts Ave. Blindman Ind. Park Red Deer County, AB. T4S-2A8 Fax: (403) 346-5806 E-mail ken.mccutcheon@ ads-pipe.com

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

Start your career!

See Help Wanted

DRIVERS for furniture moving company, class 5 required (5 tons), local & long distance. Competitive wages. Apply in person.

6630 71 St. Bay 7 Red Deer. 403-347-8841

RED DEER BASED TRUCKING COMPANY Looking for Class 1 Tank Truck Drivers & Pressure Truck Operators.

Exc. benefits package & top industry wages.

Please fax resume to: 403-346-3766

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ACADEMIC Express ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

FALL START •

Community Support Worker Program

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GED Preparation Would you like to take the GED in your community?

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Red Deer Rocky Mtn. House Rimbey Caroline Castor Sylvan Lake Innisfail Stettler Ponoka Lacombe Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

CEA AIR (Custom Energized Air Ltd) a respected leader in the pneumatics industry is GROWING AGAIN and we are looking for:

Exp’d Industrial Inside Sales /Order Desk Personnel for our Red Deer Branch A mechanical aptitude and /or knowledge in pneumatics is an asset. Compensation is negotiable depending on experience includes health plan.

We look forward to hearing from you; please submit resumes to: del.trynchuk@cea-air.com COMPANY req’s live in retired maintenance person for our apartment operations. Journeyman plumbing exp. an asset.

Call Mike for details 403-342-4923 FITNESS Orientated Sales Rep. Needed - Fitness Mechanics. Send resume to info@fitnessmechanics.ca or call 1-855-348-4487.

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FRONTIER BUS LINES Ltd. EXPERIENCED MOTOR COACH DRIVERS

Full time and part time positions available.

Must be willing to work evenings and weekends, and must have previous experience driving either motor coach or semi. Clean Class 1 or Class 2 with air.

WATER WELL DRILLING COMPANY IN BENTLEY REQ’S EXPERIENCED

WATER WELL DRILLERS HELPER

Truckers/ Drivers

Fluid Experts Ltd.

Position closing date: August 8, 2014

With Residential exp. a must. Competitive wages & benefits. Fax resume to: 403-314-5599 SOUTHPOINTE COMMON and BOWER PLACE Mall Locations.

Positions for SUPERVISORS. Looking for motivated and hard working individuals. Having your own transportation is a plus. On the job training, but experience in fast food is an asset, and must be avail. to work all store location hours.

Starting wage $13.50/hour with restaurant exp.

Please specify which store you are applying for.

No open LMO’s to hire foreign nationals at this time.

Email resume to awbsp@xplornet.ca or phone 403-391-0555 and ask for Lynn.

Truckers/ Drivers

THE RUSTY PELICAN is now accepting resumes for F/T DISHWASHER Apply within: 2079-50 Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone calls WILL NOT be accepted.

HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC REQUIRED

with class 3, air. All safety tickets required.

Meal and Accommodation provided when out of town.

Fax resume with drivers abstract: 403-748-3015

Will consider either full or part time.

Previous motor coach repair experience preferred.

860

Part time position. Shop is located 6 miles from Red Deer. Applicants must have own transportation and be able to work flexible schedule.

Truckers/ Drivers

CANADA CARTAGE is looking for Class 1 Drivers for local P&D work in Red Deer. To apply, send resume and commercial abstract to: edmontoncareers@ canadacartage.com Fax: 780-454-3188

MOTOR COACH CLEANER Please email or fax resume to:

frontbus@platinum.ca 403-347-4999

wegotservices

lf you are a motivated, service-oriented team player with excellent attention to detail we invite you to apply for the following positions:

CLASSIFICATIONS 1000-1430

To Advertise Your Business or Service Here

Fracturing Crew Bus, Cement Bulk, Cement Operators EXPERIENCE & SKILLS: • Valid Class l license preferred; fewer than 6 demerit points • Pressure pumping experience is preferred • Physically fit- heavy lifting required • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

820

JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS

JOIN OUR TEAM! Based in Alberta/ TRICAN WELL SERVICE IS Canada’s largest pressure pumping company with operations in western Canada and around the world.

Trican is founded on the principles of service excellence, operational safety and technical expertise, and we are proud to have received numerous accolades as a top employer.

Restaurant/ Hotel

req’s Permanent ROOM ATTENDANTS Attendants. Exp. not nec. will train. Approx. 35 - 40 hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be TRUE POWER ELECTRIC physically fit. Applicants Requires may apply in person at 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 QUALIFIED or email: 1st yr. through to info@ramadareddeer.com

Duties include but not limited to the following: • Assembling and repairing control valves/frac heads • Calibration, testing and troubleshooting of valves as well as measurement and valve related instruments • Disassembly, cleanup and evaluation of parts • Signing and documenting date compliance sheets • Pressure testing processes with experience, will train • Forklift experience/loader experience, will train • Must be 18 years of age or older to apply • Must supply driver’s abstract Benefits: • Excellent hourly wage • Lucrative Safety Bonus and Christmas bonus • Excellent benefit plan • Retirement plan Fax or email your resume and driver’s abstract to: Fax: (403) 347-3406 Email: l.enzie@isolationequipment.com or drop by #239-37428 RR273 Clearview Industrial, Red Deer County Attn: Lori Enzie

Has Opening for all positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement, (No GDL licenses) and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and numbers.

Please fax resume to: 403-264-6725 Or email to: tannis@treelinewell.com No phone calls please. www.treelinewell.com

RAMADA INN & SUITES

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Red Deer Advocate Publication dates: SAT. AUGUST 2 TUES. AUGUST 5 Deadline is: Fri. August 1, 5 p.m.

Oilfield

800

Oilfield

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300

WHAT MAKES US ATTRACTIVE: • Values-driven organization • Full coverage benefits program • Global technical leader within our industry • Focus on safety, training and development • Career advancement opportunities • RRSP matching program • Health Spending Account

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

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

WORKING CONDITIONS: • 15 days on/ 6 days off, on call 24 hour basis • Must live near base of employment • Pre-employment medical testing required • Working in all weather conditions 427920H8

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542 BRIDGER Const. Ltd. Decks, reno’s, roofing, flooring. Free est. Call Geoff 403-302-8550 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301 FENCES & DECKS 403-352-4034

Eavestroughing

1130

GUTTERS, soffit, 403-391-2169

fascia

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Handyman Services

1200

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

Call James 403-341-0617 IN & OUT CONSTRUCTION All your construction needs, big or small, we do it al! 403-318-3116

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY MASSAGE

International ladies

Now Open

Massage Therapy

1280

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

Roofing

1370

PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

403-896-4869

VII MASSAGE Celebrate your life #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. with a Classified Pampering at its ANNOUNCEMENT BEST! RE-ROOFING Specialist 403-986-6686 Quality work at an Come in and see affordable price. 10 yrs. why we are the talk exp. 403-350-7602 of the town. www.viimassage.com Seniors’

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Services

1290

5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 340-8666 CENTRAL PEST CONTROL LTD. Comm/res.

Locally owned. BBB member.

403-373-6182 cpest@shaw.ca

Painters/ Decorators

1310

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Private back entry. 403-341-4445 Free Est. 403-872-8888

Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Est 1999. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. Call 403-346-7777 for information.

TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

Looking for a place to live?

Take a tour through the CLASSIFIEDS

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, July 30, 2014 D3

on the d e t is l e l ic h e v r u o y Get

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.

model 31E36MK. Loaded, many extras. $24,500 obo.

403-347-1050 or 304-4580

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

DO YOU HAVE A HEAVY TRUCK 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 SILVERADO 4x4, 8500 winch, snow tires, topper, $6500 obo. ***SOLD***

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

Regal, 355RL. Exc. cond., 1 owner, loaded, lots of extras $32,500.00 obo.

Daryl (403)256-0025

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.

1985 BUICK Riviera.

Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner.

Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo.

403-347-3950

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

2007 LINCOLN MKX, fully loaded, under 105,000 kms., $16,900. obo. ** SOLD **

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

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, obo **SOLD**

2002 FORD Dynamax (B Plus) 25’, 25,000 mi.

A1 cond., E450, V10, loaded, rear 3 pc bath, power bed slide-out. $31,500.

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

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 CAMARO 2SS Coupe 5500 km. Loaded. $41,900.

403-350-6434

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’.

Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo.

Call 403-442-3837

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

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

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

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

1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, runs good.

361,000 km. $4000 obo 403-343-2058

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

2006 KAWASAKI, ZZ-R250 black, 2468 kms., never dropped, lady driven. $3500. obo 403-340-1936

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

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500.

587-679-1000

2003 WINDSTAR LX, fully loaded, very good cond. $3500.

403-755-2867

2006 VW Jetta TDI

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. **SOLD**

2009 SMART FORTWO 11,970 KM’s. Silver, c/w a hitch plate & wired to be towed behind a Motorhome.

Very good shape. $10,500.

403-347-6817 or 357-0919

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

587-679-1000

2007 CHEV Aveo.

80,000 km. $4950 403-348-1382

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

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

2014 GMC, S/B, Loaded, z71, $34,300.

587-679-1000

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

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400.

403-391-9662

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

DO YOU HAVE VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

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

2004 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 Good shape. $5700.

403-598-4131

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!

137,000 kms, fully loaded, sunroof, diesel, auto, $11,900 403-346-1392 340-9068

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

2007 FLEETWOOD

PRISTINE 2007 Special Edition Mazda Miata MX5. 97,000 km, $15,000 firm 343-3208, 506-3047 cell

2009 RANGER XLT 4x4, 70,000 kms., exc. shape,

$12,900. trades cons.

403-598-0682

2010 Ford Explorer Limited, 4.6L, V8, 112,000 kms., fully loaded, leather, DVD, every option, $20,500.

403-318-5505

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

8th Annual Fall Finale Collector Car Auction Sept. 19-20 Westerner Park, R.D. Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event. Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGauctions.com

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

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CIRCULATION RUNNER (Part-time)

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DO YOU: Want extra income Know the city well Posses a clean, valid drivers license Have a friendly attitude Enjoy customer service Want part-time work (12-22 hours per week)

As part of our customer service team, you will be dispatched in response to service concerns to deliver newspapers and flyers to customers or carriers.

A delivery vehicle is provided.

Work 3 to 4 shifts a week.

Hours of shifts are: Morning shifts of Monday through Friday 5:00 AM to 9:00 AM. Saturday starting at 7 AM. Wednesday to Friday shifts starting at 1 PM.

Employment Training

BREDIN CENTRE FOR LEARNING! Come and visit our Walk In employment centre where you will find knowledgeable Career Counselors to assist you in your search for successful employment. www.bredin.ca 587-273-0225 reddeer@bredin.ca

ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in: GLENDALE

KENTWOOD Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more info

Please address resume to the attention of Doug and drop off to 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB or email: dsibbet@reddeeradvocate.com

DISPATCHER REQ’D. Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295

FLUID Experts Ltd. Is seeking to hire

Shop Supervisor for our Red Deer location.

This position is a fulltime and is a salary based position with company benefits upon hire. 11-3 days off schedule. Duties include maintaining shop, assist minor repairs of units and equipment, monitor inventories, loading of fluid trucks with various products for the Oil & Gas industry. Will also be trained to blend various products supplied to our clients. Ideal candidate would be from the trucking industry with fluid Hauling experience with class 1 license. Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com GROWING National company seeks mechanically inclined service person for Periodic basic equipment maintenance in the Red Deer area, for 5-10 service calls per month. Service times flexible. Perfect for a young retired person. Will train, must have own reliable vehicle and basic tools. Fax resume or letter of interest to 905-760-1233 or email to dispatch. canada@air-serv.com.

1650

Farmers' Market

SASKATOON BERRIES, east of 30th Ave on Hwy 11.

Open Mon. - Fri. 2-7, Sat. & Sun. 9-6. 4L U-pick $13.

We pick $25 403-318-2074

1660

Firewood

AFFORDABLE

Advocate Opportunities

* All shifts based on 4 hours and likely run longer * $13.19/Hour.

Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

900

CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in Eckville Bowden Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

Grimson Street & Goodall Ave. For more info or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

Homestead Firewood Spruce & Pine -Split. Firepits avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 CHOPPED POPLAR - free, you pick up. Very close to Red Deer. 403-392-8385.

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346 Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275

1680

Garden Supplies

Piano & Organs

1790

PIANO, beautiful sound.

Good student piano. $200.

780-583-3280 Looking for a new pet?

Check out Classifieds to find the purrfect pet.

Office Supplies

1800

COMPUTER DESK (Paid $400 - Asking $40.)

Has open shelves on left side in both upper & lower sections.

LATERAL FILE CABINET, Oak colour.

Commercial grade. $10.

403-347-4250

1830

Cats

3 KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY. 403-782-3031

Condos/ Townhouses

3 BDRM, 1.5 bath townhouse for over 40 yr old employed tenants. 6appls, private yard & parking, 1 small pet with additional Sec. Dep. of $500.

Quiet people, no drugs, no partiers, no police etc.

At #9, 15 Stanton Street, Sunnybrook. Rent & S.D. $1400/mo. 403-341-4627.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

wegot CLASSIFICATIONS

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

WANTED

1730

AGRICULTURAL

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Andrews Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atlee St. Allison Cres MORRISROE AREA Metcalf Ave SUNNYBROOK AREA Sunnyside Cres.

Savoy Cres./Sydney Close Sutton Close Sherwood Cres. & Stirling Close LANCASTER AREA Lancaster Dr. also Lister Cres. & Lockwood Ave. also Ladwig Close Lund Close VANIER AREA Vanier East Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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

5000-5300

Automotive Services

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate 3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. central alberta 403-341-9995 $1000/mo. 403-343-6609 gord.ing@remax.net

4020

5010

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

1760

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

THE NORDIC

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

Acreages/ Farms

3010

3 BDRM. FARM HOUSE, 2 bath, at Condor, AB. Avail. Sept. 1st. $1500/mo. incl. gas, power & satellite.

Neil @ 403-700-1100

Houses/ Duplexes

3020

2 BDRM. 1 bath bi-level. 6 appls, water softener & drinking water purifier. $1450/mo + $1300 d.d. **RENTED**

Advocate Opportunities ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 3 DAYS A WEEK in WOODLEA AREA 47A Ave, & part of 55, 56 & 57 St. $175./mo For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

3110 3140

RIVERSIDE Industrial 5280 sq. ft. office/show room, mezzanine, sump, overhead door.

403-588-4081 SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft. $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

RED DEER ADVOCATE 6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie Phone 403-314-4301

5070

2005 HONDA Odyssey EXL mini van, leather, trailer tow hitch, p. sliding doors, p. seats, roof rack, sunroof, great family vehicle, $5500 403-782-7098

Motorhomes

5100

2001 CHALLENGER 31’ no slides, exc. cond, $30,000 obo 403-347-4397

1978 TOYOTA Hi-Lux all orig., self contained, exc. cond, $5000 403-391-0631

Tires, Parts Acces.

8th Annual Fall Finale

Collector Car Auction Sept. 19 - 20, 2014 Westerner Park, Red Deer Western Canada’s Largest Collector Car Event Consign Today 1-888-296-0528 Ext. 102 EGauctions.com

Cars

5030

2012 FORD Fusion SE 10,000 kms, $17,900 exc. must sell 403-340-0558

5180

HITCH - fits Chevy. New. $100. 403-314-0804 PARTS FOR 1992 Corisca Good tire - mounted on rim, battery - only 2 yrs old.

2 air filters, oil filter, block heater - still in package.

EVERYTHING FOR $25 obo. 403-347-4250

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

Vehicle Recycling 2012 CAMARO 2SS Coupe 5500 km. Loaded. $41,900.

403-350-6434 2008 PONTIAC G6. New tires, brakes & battery. Ready to go. $7500. 403-346-6470

Land

4070

2006 VW Jetta TDI 137,000 kms, fully loaded,sunroof, diesel, auto, $11,900 403-346-1392 340-9068 2003 DODGE Neon loaded safetied 403-352-6995 1999 PONTIAC Sunfire 4 dr. auto, v. clean 403-318-3040 1992 CADI Eldorado Coupe.

Clean car, loaded w/options, tires like new, runs sweet.

SOLD

BY OWNER

SUV's

5040

457 Acres Prime Farmland 2,285,000. Surface Lease 2008 BLACK BMW X5 full Rev. $37,535. 12 miles load, 75,500 kms, $30,750 E. of Ponoka on Hwy. #53. NO GST 403-340-9577 Email: c_mcleod@telus.net Call: 780 910-9467

Trucks

5050

Manufactured Homes

4090

2011 Dodge Ram 3500, SLT. 28,000 kms, $39,500. **SOLD**

VERY clean reno’d mobile, all 4 appls. incl. Asking $31,900. 403-986-8656

1995 MAZDA B3000 TRUCK with topper, new battery.

403-343-2043 after 5 p.m.

Will pick up your unwanted vehicles in Red Deer and make a cash donation to a charity of your choice or pay you. Dispose of your vehicle the responsible way with the only environmental approved facility in Red Deer. A1-Willy’s Parts Place. 403-346-7278

PUBLIC NOTICES

Public Notices

6010

NOTICE - ESTATE OF DAVID RICHARD SMITH If anyone has knowledge of the next of kin of David Richard Smith who was born in Red Deer, Alberta and died at Winnipeg, Manitoba on April 14, 2012, please contact Cindy Burkhart, at the Office of the Public Trustee, 400S, 10365 97 St., Edmonton, AB T5J 3Z8, Phone number: 780-427-2744, Fax number: 780-422-9136.

Welcome Home!

Celebrating the birth of your child?

Share your happy news with family & friends with a special announcement in the Red Deer Advocate Classifieds “Announcement” section.

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS

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Death toll climbs higher GOVERNMENT TRIES TO RETAKE REBEL STRONGHOLDS UKRAINE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DONETSK, Ukraine — Shells smashed into a residential neighbourhood of Donetsk on Tuesday as Ukrainian forces intensified their campaign to encircle the rebel stronghold. The shelling killed at least two people, blew gaping holes in an apartment block and raised fears that the city is on the verge of severe bloodshed.

Fighting also raged elsewhere in Ukraine’s troubled east, bringing the death toll to at least 24 civilians and 10 soldiers over the past day. And it prevented international investigators once again from visiting the site of the Malaysia Airlines jet shot down earlier this month.

The increased danger to civilians has brought sharp criticism from the United Nations and human rights groups. But each side blames the other for shelling residential areas.

The rebels insist the attacks are evidence of what they describe as the government’s indiscriminate oppression of its own people. But Ukraine insists that it has banned the use of artillery in residential areas and in turn accuses separatists of targeting civilians in an effort to discredit the army.

Donetsk until recently had seen little fighting other than a rebel attempt in May to seize the city’s airport.

But Tuesday’s barrage, along with last week’s shelling of the city’s main railroad station, has brought the war painfully close to the city of nearly 1 million. Ukrainian forces have made advances against rebels in nearby towns.

Fighting between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russia separatists also has been heavy around Luhansk, the sec-

ond-largest city held by the rebels.

Five people died when artillery fire hit a home for the elderly there on Monday, local authorities said.

“This is done by terrorists,” said Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s national security council, referring to the shelling of civilians. “Under instructions from the president, in residential areas and communities where we have Ukrainian citizens, we do not fire artillery or perform airstrikes.”

But rebels accuse the government of indiscriminately using heavy artillery against residential neighbourhoods in areas under their control.

The Donetsk shelling sent about 50 frightened residents to huddle for safety in an underground parking lot, including Lubov Skorikh who was distraught at discovering that her husband Vladimir had been killed.

“I ran out. ... An old woman told me, ’Look, there is a man lying there.’ I didn’t even think that could be my husband. But then I saw the shoes; they were his shoes,” she said, breaking down in tears. “Do you understand?

His shoes! My God, I lived with him for 45 years; he was such a good person.”

On Tuesday, the national rail system said it would offer free transport to people leaving the areas engulfed in fighting. But Lysenko, the security council spokesman, said rebels had blocked the railroad out of Luhansk, barring residents from leaving the city.

“If we were earlier able to organize additional trains to and from Luhansk, to Kyiv, now they have completely blocked the railway line,” Lysenko said.

Lysenko also accused separatist fighters of using children as human shields and stopping cars from leaving Luhansk. It was not immediately possible to confirm those claims.

In Horlivka, a city besieged by gov-

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A man speaks on a mobile phone near to a damaged residential apartment house after the shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine Tuesday. Local residents said it was a shelling from direction of Ukrainian army’s positions. ernment troops, the mayor’s office reported Tuesday that 17 people, including three children, were killed as a result of shelling.

The mayor’s office said there has been major damage to many homes and government offices in the centre of the city. It also said the top floor of a school was destroyed as a result of a direct hit from a shell. A U.N. monitoring mission in Ukraine says there has been an alarming buildup of heavy weaponry in civilian areas of Donetsk and Luhansk — including artillery,

tanks, rockets and missiles that are being used to inflict increasing casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure.

The U.N. said in a report this week that use of such weaponry could amount to a violation of international humanitarian law.

“There is an increase in the use of heavy weaponry in areas that are basically surrounded by public buildings,” said Gianni Magazzeni, head of the U.N. office’s branch that oversees Ukraine. “All international law needs to be applied and fully respected.”

Ventura awarded $1.8-M in defamation suit

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6 die after being swept away by swollen river in northern Mexico HERMOSILLO, Mexico — Six people have died and four are missing in northern Mexico after their vehicles were swept away by a swollen river near the U.S. border.

A statement from officials in Sonora state says more than 200 rescue crews were searching Tuesday for those missing in and around the Cabullona River in the municipality of Agua Prieta, which is across the border from Douglas, Arizona.

It says a group of about 35 people in 4-wheel drive pickup trucks and ATVs were leaving the area Sunday when one of the vehicles got stuck in the river.

When people in other vehicles tried to help them, the river swept them away.

Jamaica drought, scorching heat bring millions in agriculture losses over last few months KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican official says a severe drought and bush fires on the Caribbean island have led to roughly $8 million in crop losses over the last few months.

Acting Agriculture Minister Derrick Keller says more than 16,000 of Jamaica’s small farmers have suffered losses amid the ongoing drought. Some 1,600 hectares (4,000 acres) of farmland have been withered from lack of rainfall and scorching temperatures.

But Kellier says that “while the situ-

ation is serious, it is not catastrophic.”

He told reporters Tuesday that the total area of arable lands under production in Jamaica is roughly 300,000 hectares (741,316 acres). He says the tropical island has adequate supplies of staples such as plantains, potatoes and yams.

Jamaica imports the majority of its food.

Body of young stowaway found in landing gear compartment of U.S. Air Force plane in Germany WASHINGTON — The body of a young stowaway was found inside a compartment near the wheel well of an Air Force cargo jet that had landed in Germany, U.S. military officials said Tuesday, triggering questions about the security of an aircraft that had made several stops in Africa.

Air Force personnel found the boy’s body Sunday night after spotting an orange cloth in a small opening by the landing gear while airmen during a detailed inspection of the C-130J aircraft when it landed at Ramstein Air Base.

When they tugged on the wet cloth, they discovered it was attached to a boy in the compartment, officials said.

The Pentagon’s press secretary, Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby, said the stowaway was a black male who may have been of African origin. The plane was on a routine mission in Africa and had made stops in Senegal, Mali, Chad, Tunisia and Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily before arriving at Ramstein.

A stowaway aboard a military plane is a significant security breach. No Africa Command senior leaders were on the flight.

“Security is going to be looked at here. Obviously it would be,” Kirby said. “We try to provide as much security as we can for our aircraft when they’re operating in remote locations, and this will all be part of the investigation.”

of current and former SEALs. “One-point-five million people have bought the book,” he said. “ Millions more heard Fox TV trash Jesse Ventura because of it. And the story went viral on the Internet and will be there forever.”

Defence attorney John Borger had told jurors in his own closing argument that the 11 witnesses presented by the defence “tell a compelling and consistent story” that backed Kyle’s version.

U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle, who is not related to the author, told jurors they weren’t charged with determining whether Ventura was punched, but rather whether he was defamed by the remarks Kyle attributed to him.

Chris Kyle, regarded as the deadliest military sniper in U.S. history, included a brief account in his book of a confrontation at a bar in Coronado, California, with a man he called “Scruff Face.”

In promotional interviews, Kyle identified the man as Ventura, a former SEAL who became a pro wrestler and movie actor before being elected

for one term as Minnesota governor in 1998. Ventura was in Coronado for a SEAL reunion and graduation ceremony.

Olsen said inconsistencies in testimony from defence witnesses about what happened the night of Oct. 12, 2006, were so serious that their stories couldn’t be trusted.

He also pointed out that people who were with Ventura that night testified that the alleged confrontation never happened.

And he said Ventura would never have said any of the remarks attributed to him because he remains proud of his and his parents’ military service.

“The statement is completely out of character for Jesse Ventura. He never said anything like that in his life, and he never will,” he said.

Ventura testified that his income as a television personality fell sharply as job offers dried up in the wake of American Sniper.

Borger said Ventura’s career as an entertainer was in decline well before that.

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Lee Adamson may have been nipped out at the line in the dash for cash,, but the blow was softened by y wrapping pp g up his second North American Pony Chuckwagon Championship — 20 years after the first — at the Westerner Days on Sunday.

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“It’s always special to win a big show like this,” said Addamson on n who w was drivi driving ng the AA-1 Rentals rig. “The b Re best est of the best are here in Red Red Deer and you always want to show ow welll in a show ho like this tthis.” .” ” Adamson mson held a le lead off 3.36 lea seconds ds after four heats heats, a an almost insurmounta insurmountab insurmountable le lead as long ass he ra ran a clean c ean final fina race ace but the he e compet com competitor itor it tor in him did not want ant to p play pla y sa safe safe.

“You You know ow w when you’ you’re y re e in a heat like e that, y you ou u want to S iti|| win the show, how, ow ||butHOME y you ou u throw balls alls out, S SPORT type thi thing. ng.. You want wan n to make sure y you’re right g ther there with th the boys ys and m make ake it a good od d show,” he said said..

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Cole Adamson, 18, was driving his grandfather’s — Ray Adamson — Pidherny’s wagon in Red Deer, the third event this year he’s had the chance to do o so.

After a couple of tough penalties knocked him out of contention the first couple of days, he was one of the fastest drivers over the last three heats.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. — A jury awarded former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura $1.8 million on Tuesday in his lawsuit against the estate of American Sniperauthor Chris Kyle.

On the sixth day of deliberations, the federal jury decided that the 2012 bestselling book defamed Ventura in its description of a bar fight in California in 2006. Kyle wrote that he decked a man whom he later identified as Ventura after the man allegedly said the Navy SEALs “deserve to lose a few.”

Ventura testified that Kyle fabricated the passage about punching him.

Kyle said in testimony videotaped before his death last year that his story was accurate.

Legal experts had said Ventura had to clear a high legal bar to win, since as a public figure he had to prove “actual malice.”

According to the jury instructions, Ventura had to prove with “clear and convincing evidence” that Kyle either knew or believed what he wrote was untrue, or that he harboured serious doubts about its truth.

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After finding in favour of Ventura, the jury was also tasked with awarding damages for any harm to his reputation, humiliation and embarrassment.

Jurors had to find that Ventura suffered an economic loss as a direct result of Kyle’s statements, or that Kyle used Ventura to profit unjustly.

Neither Ventura nor Chris Kyle’s widow, Taya Kyle, were in the courtroom for the verdict. Chris Kyle was slain at a Texas gun range last year, so his widow is executor of his estate with control over proceeds from book royalties and movie rights.

In his closing argument, Ventura attorney David Bradley Olsen said he believes Kyle’s estate has earned more than $6 million from the book, and suggested that $5 million to $15 million would be reasonable compensation for what he said was irreparable harm to Ventura’s reputation.

“The verdict will tell the world Chris Kyle’s story was a lie,” Olsen said.

Olsen said Kyle’s claims that Ventura said he hated America, thought the U.S. military was killing innocent civilians in Iraq and that the SEALs “deserve to lose a few” had made him a pariah in the community that mattered most to him — the brotherhood

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