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CHILDREN ORPHANED BY DRUNK DRIVER VISIT DISNEYLAND THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF AN EDMONTON COUPLE

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BY C CRY RYST STAL AL R RHY HYNO NO ADVOCATE STAFF A trip to Disneyland capped off the Howe children’s summer holidays, thanks to the generosity of an Edmonton couple.

George Mounsef and Sage Morin lost their two-year-old toddler in a patio collision caused by an alleged drunk driver in May 2013.

They wanted to pay back the kindness they received at the time by helping those dealing with a similar tragedy.

The family contacted MADD Canada and the organization connected them with the Howe family of Red Deer.

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were kil killled d on Feb. b 7, 2 201 010 0, whe hen n a drunk driver plowed into theirr car at a Red Deer intersection. The e couple were declared dead at the e scene. Their deaths orphaned five e young children.

Four of the children — Cory, Mol-ly, Mackenzie, Maggie and Ashley, now between the ages of nine and d 19 — are in the care of their auntt Karla Green, 38, a Red Deer College e nursing instructor. Ashley lives with h another relative.

Green began looking after the e children shortly after the death off their parents.

She said the family felt really y grateful that someone would think k of them and to reach out.

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F OM LEFT TO RIGHT: Cory FR y, Ashley y, Molly, y Mackenzie and Mag y, ggi g e Howe,, as well as aunt Karla Green,, pose with characters from ‘The Incredibles.’

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Plains Midstream failed to follow all the rules Plains Midstream Canada failed to meet 18 of 55 legislated requirements, according to an audit.

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Audit finds company failed to meet rules

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF An Alberta Energy Regulator-ordered audit of Plains Midstream Canada following a pair of highprofile spills found the company failed to fully meet 18 of 55 legislated requirements.

As well, the company only fully complied with 22 of 58 criteria based on benchmark practices or criteria developed through interpretation of regulations in the oil and gas industry, says the audit report released on Monday.

Despite that less-than-stellar record, Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) auditors express confidence that the company has cleaned up its act since and say that additional approval conditions imposed should be lifted.

Since a pair of high-profile spills, including a June 7, 2012, spill on the Red Deer River just downstream of Sundre, Plains Midstream has updated its practices to go beyond minimum requirements and is “moving towards building more rigour into its organization,” says the report.

Several experienced staff have been hired and management oversight improved.

The report goes on to say that as long as the company continues improving its oversight and management systems, the “AER is comfortable that the legislated criteria that were identified as partially met should not have material effect on PMC’s ability to maintain ongoing compliance.”

The AER says it intends to follow up to ensure that Plains improves its risk reduction activities.

In a statement released on Tuesday, Plains Midstream says the company’s “goal is to meet or exceed compliance by implementing leading practices, such as our industry-leading watercourse management program currently in use.

“Many of the findings have already been implemented while others have action plans and timelines developed for completion.”

A full audit of the company’s operations was ordered in July 2013 when an investigation into the 3,500-barrel Sundre spill found numerous failings, including a failure to conduct annual inspections of water crossings, failure to do an engineering assessment of the pipeline and a failure to demonstrate an emergency management process or keep response plans up to date.

The company was also responsible for an April 2011 spill in its Rainbow pipeline northeast of Peace River that spilled 28,000 barrels (4.5 million litres) of oil over 20 acres.

That mess led to numerous High-Risk Enforcement Actions against the company in February 2013.

Don Bester, a longtime surface rights activist, was not impressed by the audit’s findings.

“It doesn’t matter what these companies do, they are still going to be given the green light for everything they do anyway,” said Bester, who lives in Innisfail.

He has little faith that Plains Midstream’s problems are in the past, pointing out that the company oversees a large network of older gathering lines.

“It’s going to happen again, we know it.”

AER spokesman Darin Barter said they are “encouraged” by the company’s response.

“They have taken considerable steps to ensure that they are able to meet the regulations in Alberta.

“We are going to continue to focus on the company. I don’t want there to be a perception that it’s over and that’s it.”

Next year, the company’s operations will be reviewed again and they will be then subject to semiannual reports.

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Nominated by his daughter Pamela, Doug Stewart follows through with his Ice Bucket Challenge as Delray Dempsey drenches him in ice water Tuesday afternoon. Stewart who is a Multiple Sclerosis quadriplegic lives at the Extendicare Michener Hill. ‘I feel a great deal of compassion for the people dealing with ALS and I truly hope a cure is near,’ said Stewart through a written statement read by Dempsey, who works at the Extendicare facility in Red Deer. For his part, Stewart went on to nominate Extendicare head administrator Terry Vanbocquestal, Dwayne from maintenance and Chantal from the 2700 wing. The staff and residents of Extendicare also celebrated the fourth anniversary of the facility on Tuesday. Shortly after Stewart completed his challenge, Vanbocquestal was soaked with ice water by three of his staff members.

Cost estimate for Sylvan Lake Multiplex soars by $3M

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Architects will be sharpening their pencils to bring down the cost of Sylvan Lake’s proposed multiplex.

The most recent cost estimate for the 91,000-square-foot facility to be known as the NexSource Centre is $32 million, up $3 million over an earlier $29 million estimate. That is itself $3 million more than an initial target construction cost of $24 million.

Inflation fuelled by a hotter construction market is the main reason behind the cost increases, says a report that went to council on Monday.

Mayor Sean McIntyre said on Tuesday that council has asked its architects to take a hard look at designs to find ways to reduce the cost of the preliminary design.

“Also we’re going through a process called value engineering, which is a process used a lot in the private sector to try to make sure we’re getting the

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GIFT: ‘It was awesome’ The family left for Disneyland on Aug. 18 and spent four fun-filled days in California.

“It was awesome,” said Green. “We did every ride possible. We spent all day there. We saw a lot of shows. It was really great. We had a lot of fun.”

Green said the children are doing great and preparing to return to school.

The family went to Disneyland about four years ago with Dreams Take Flight but some of the chil-

best value for dollar on the materials used and the designs rendered for any project,” said McIntyre.

Among the options will be to trim 10,000 square feet from the facility. The centre is to include an arena, curling rink, seniors centre, children’s play area and other civic spaces.

Council approved a $29-million budget for the project in July and that number stands, said the mayor.

“At this point, we’re working on meeting our design with our budget,” he said. “Certainly, there was no appetite to increase the budget at (Monday’s) council meeting.”

The town will borrow $13 million to help pay for the facility. Boosting the budget, without finding other funding sources, would mean bumping up borrowing to $16 million.

Borrowing more could limit the town’s flexibility to fund other needs in the future, he said.

No timeline has been set for updated project designs, but McIntyre expects it will not take long. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

dren were too young to remember it well.

“This was really nice because it was a big focus for our family to spend time together,” said Green.

“It was really nice for us all to get together. It gave us a good trip as a family because everybody is getting bigger.”

Green met with the Edmonton family that made the trip possible on Saturday, after they returned.

“We let him know how grateful we were for the opportunity,” said Green. “It brought our whole family together to do something really fun and create great memories. We were just really grateful that they created that opportunity for us. We felt really thankful the whole time that we were there.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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First Nations shut out of planning review: lawyer

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EDMONTON — Six aboriginal groups near Alberta’s oilsands are wondering where they can voice their concerns about growing development after the government said they shouldn’t be heard at a precedent-setting review of the province’s environmental plans for the area.

Alberta has told a panel conducting a review of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan that the bands aren’t directly harmed by it. The government also says the panel can’t hear concerns about treaty rights.

“The majority of concerns raised by the applicant are not related to the content of (the plan) and are therefore outside the panel’s jurisdiction and so must not be considered,” say gov-

ernment arguments presented to the panel.

The bands say similar arguments have been used to shut them out of public hearings on individual energy projects held by both the provincial government and its industry regulator.

They wonder just where they’re supposed to turn.

“When the nation raises cumulative impacts on treaty rights in relation to individual projects, it is told that LARP is the appropriate place to have these concerns addressed,” said Melissa Daniels, lawyer for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

“Now Alberta is arguing that it is inappropriate to raise these concerns with the panel specifically designed to

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Currently, the city oversees dispatching fire, police and ambulance services, but starting next year AHS will take control of ambulance calls.

Nenshi has written to Health Minister Fred Horne, saying that transferring calls between dispatch centres in the city and AHS could cause problems.

Gary Williamson, a Calgary realtor who suffered a heart attack two years ago, says the current system works and he doesn’t want it to undergo major changes.

Officials with AHS are standing by their training program and say technology will make the difference to ensure ambulances are dispatched quickly.

Horne plans to meet with Nenshi in the next few weeks to discuss his concerns.

After a summer of battling the Spreading Creek wildfire, recreational users may have a chance to access the forest for the last long weekend of the summer.

The wildfire hazard is now low in the Rocky Mountain House Wildfire Management area, but Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development warns that wildfires can still start even if conditions have improved substantially.

A large area south of Hwy 11 from the Banff National Park border to Whiterabbit Creek was closed as a wildfire raged in the area. The wildfire was about 16,000 acres in size.

That fire has been extinguished and the area has reopened for public use.

There are no fire bans in the Rocky Mountain House area heading into the Labour Day weekend.

The wildfire management team asks people to make sure to extinguish fires properly by soaking the fire, stirring it and soaking it again.

As well, keep debris free of off-highway vehicle hotspots. Grass can build up on the exhaust, under the seat and in the engine compartment. People are reminded to knock the debris off and douse it with water.

Mayor concerned about new level of bureaucracy in ambulance calls CALGARY — Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is concerned that the pending takeover of ambulance dispatching by Alberta Health Services could slow response times.

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AUDIT: ‘What we want to see is longterm progress’

Surgeons had busy 10 days in July transplanting 32 various organs EDMONTON — A surgical transplant team in Edmonton has completed more transplants in a 10-day period than it normally does in one month.

In July, the Mazankowski and U of A transplant services team completed 32 transplants, which included lungs, hearts, livers, islets, kidneys and a pancreas.

It broke Alberta’s previous transplant record, which was 30 transplants in 10 days.

Physicians, nurses and surgeons had to work quickly to match organs to patients and schedule operating rooms and beds.

The organs involved in the recordsetting series of transplants came from 11 deceased donors, including eight Albertans.

Transplant recipient Rick Galloway says people don’t realize how important donating organs is until it happens to them.

“A thank you is all you can say,” added Galloway, “and ‘sorry for your

“What we want to see is long-term progress.”

Barter said the case shows that companies that aren’t meeting their obligations and end up facing high-risk enforcement actions will be watched closely.

It is expected that Plains Midstream’s experience will send a message to other industry players.

“In Alberta, as a company you are

the jet.

Hinderks says repairing the damage and replacing the stolen items could run into the five-figure range if they have to go to a manufacturer for parts.

The jet made a final brief trip out of Edmonton’s City Centre Airport last November just before the facility’s closure prior to its redevelopment.

Historic passenger jet target of theft VILLENEUVE — Some potentially valuable parts have taken wing from a former passenger jet that was among the last aircraft to fly out of Edmonton’s former downtown airport last year.

The old Pacific Western Airlines Boeing 737 is the property of the Alberta Aviation Museum and currently sits at the airport near Villeneuve, west of the city, where it’s to be a feature display.

The museum says last weekend, someone who may know about planes made off with several parts from the jet, including an emergency door that would be of value in operational aircraft.

Tom Hinderks, a museum spokesman, says the theft is heart-breaking for staff who have worked to preserve required to follow the regulations. If you can’t, you can’t operate. That is the message and we hope that the industry sees that and hears that loud and

Teenager struck, killed on highway BALZAC — A 16-year-old boy has been struck and killed while walking on a southern Alberta highway.

RCMP say the teen may have been dealing with mechanical problems with his vehicle when he was hit by a pickup truck overnight on Highway 2, near Balzac.

They say the pickup was heading north in the middle of three lanes when the boy was struck.

The Airdrie resident, whose name has not been released, was wearing dark-coloured clothing.

He died at the scene and his vehicle was found nearby.

Police say speed and alcohol were not factors in the accident and charges are not being considered.

Calgary pilot dies after small home-built plane crashes in eastern Alberta PROVOST — The pilot of a small, home-built aircraft has died after his plane crashed into some trees in eastern Alberta.

RCMP say the single-engine BEDEBD5B went down Monday afternoon just south of Provost.

The pilot was a 75-year-old man from Calgary.

His body was found trapped upside down in the wreckage.

Police did not release his name.

The Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause of the crash. clear.” pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

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Dr. Jim Kutsogiannis is medical director of the HOPE Program, which coordinates organ and tissue donations in Alberta.

“Many people that are involved in the care of these patients — the nurses, the OR staff, the physicians — go above and beyond in providing their time and effort to accommodate this,” he said.

Medical staff must care for transplant recipients, but donors also need care to ensure organs remain in good condition prior to transplant, Kutsogiannis said.

“Often, they’re very unstable,” said Kutsogiannis. “They require many caregivers to maintain their organs’ functioning for the purpose of donation.”

He said Albertans are becoming increasingly aware of organ donation and that patients’ families are approaching hospital staff more and more about the possibility of donating.

Since the province launched its organ and tissue donation registry in April, 23,000 Albertans have signed up.

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The Athabasca Chipewyan, Fort McKay, Onion Lake, Cold Lake Cree, Mikisew Cree, Chipewyan Prairie Dene and Fort McKay Métis all maintain that their input was either not sought or ignored. They say the plan lacks benchmarks to measure impacts on traditional uses, prioritizes energy development over everything and puts aboriginal land use on the same level as snowmobilers and campers.

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Announced in 2012, the LARP was the government’s third try at balancing environmental protection and economic development in a region increasingly key to the entire Canadian economy.

Aboriginal groups immediately denounced it and promised to use a review process provided in Alberta’s Land Stewardship Act to try to get it revamped.

But in documents submitted to the review panel, the government says the aboriginal complaints are beyond the panel’s powers. It adds that none of those groups, whose reserves are all in the area, is “directly and adversely” affected by the plan.

The three-member panel is now reviewing hundreds of pages of docu-

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Why no native inquiry?

In Stephen Harper’s world, one does not publicly ask why.

To seek root causes is a sign of weakness.

To launch an inquiry, to bring decision-makers and experts together, is seen as an invitation for opponents to strike or a forum to extort money from the federal government or a waste of time when talk turns his TIM black-and-white HARPER world grey.

So while Harper endures well-deserved criticism for his refusal to consider a national inquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women in this country, those slinging that criticism can hardly be surprised.

There is no nuance in the prime minister’s world. There are bad guys and good guys and there is no public questioning about how we got where we are.

A crime is a crime, it is to be solved and the perpetrator brought to justice.

To concede a “sociological phenomenon” is to invite all manner of inconvenience for his government.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is right to call Harper’s comments in the wake of the brutal murder of 15-yearold Tina Fontaine “outrageous.”

Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger is correct when he says, “it’s not just a crime, it’s a situation that speaks to who we are as citizens and how we treat each other.”

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair has long said this situation would not have been tolerated if these were women from Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says Harper is on the wrong side of history.

But summits and inquiries are something Liberals do, in Harper’s view.

It is an evolutionary process. Early in his tenure, he did call inquiries into Brian Mulroney’s business dealings and declining salmon stocks.

Harper has already endured an Idle No More movement, large street demonstrations and a very public fast by a native leader and did not blink.

When a divided aboriginal leader-

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ship rejected his First Nations education reforms, his government withdrew the bill.

He was not about to listen to a United Nations rapporteur who called for a national inquiry because this government accepts no advice on domestic matters from the UN and he has ignored a call for an inquiry from provincial premiers.

We know what he thinks of any public musings on root causes of any ill facing the country or the world.

When Trudeau raised “root causes” in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings, Harper pounced, effectively painting the Liberal leader, then in the early hours of his new job, as a naif, a quisling — a teacher.

In Harper’s world, you don’t look for root causes, you respond, you preach law-and-order and protection of Canadians, and there is no doubt there is a market for this cut-and-dried view of the world in significant slices of the country’s electorate.

It serves him well in international

affairs.

No one is suggesting we look for the root causes of the Islamic State, but Harper has never publicly asked the “why” about failed Middle East peace initiatives or Vladimir Putin’s aggression.

On the latter, Putin has always been evil in Harper’s eyes, a judgment made early and a judgment that has been borne out.

On the former, Harper has never shown any nuance, continuing to back Israel’s right to defend itself and blaming Hamas for using human shields should there be a disproportionate loss of civilian life in Gaza.

He is accused of bluster and bullhorn democracy, but the judgment is firm and any room for nuance is choked off.

This does not serve Harper as well on domestic issues.

In this case, the reticence to look at the bigger picture is doubly puzzling because Harper and his Conservatives did not create this problem with aboriginal violence. It could only win

support for being the government that tried to deal with it in a significant way.

But this is “one-off” government.

Harper does not call big, national, first ministers’ meetings, preferring one-on-one, private, sometimes unpublicized, meetings with provincial and territorial premiers.

He didn’t ask why or how when it came to the future of health care in this country.

He gave the provinces some cash and told them to work it out.

He didn’t ask why his pipeline project hit a wall in the U.S., he merely said he would not take ‘No’ for an answer.

The epidemic of missing and murdered women in Canada is a “sociological phenomenon” and the betting here is that Harper knows that. That makes his refusal to call an inquiry more disturbing because he is refusing to deal with a national shame for purely political reasons.

Tim Harper is a syndicated Toronto Star national affairs writer.

Italy pushes EU to help with asylum seekers The last time “Mare Nostrum” (Latin for “Our Sea”) was used as a political slogan in Italy, Mussolini’s fascists were claiming dominance over the entire Mediterranean. This time it’s different. It’s the name of the operation the Italian navy is running to save asylum seekers from drowning on the dangerous voyage in open boats from North Africa to Italy.

In a seaworthy vessel with a working engine and a reliable compass, it’s a 10-hour crossing and not very dangerous. In a leaky, massively overcrowded wreck that was scavenged somewhere along the North African coast by the GWYNNE people smugglers and sent off DYER to Italy after a few rudimentary repairs, it can be a death sentence. An estimated 20,000 people went down with their boats before reaching Italy in the past 10 years.

The most recent victims, on Saturday, barely made it one km off the Libyan coast before their boat sank, leaving 170 people in the water. The Italian navy does not operate in Libyan territorial waters, and the Libyan coast guard station near Qarabouli, east of Tripoli, has no ships of its own. The coast guards borrowed a couple of fishing boats, but only 16 people were still alive by the time they got there.

The boats usually founder in international waters, however, and then it’s the Italian navy’s job. Operation Mare Nostrum began in October 2013, and since then over 80,000 people have been pulled from these seagoing death traps (though most were not actually

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sinking at the time) and safely landed in Italy. Last weekend, the Italian navy rescued almost 4,000 more.

This policy honours Italy’s humanitarian traditions — but since all the people who are saved claim political asylum on coming ashore, setting in motion a legal process that can last for years, the Italian navy is actually increasing Italy’s problem as the first port of call for over half the undocumented immigrants entering the European Union.

Most of them have a good case for claiming asylum: a large majority of the people reaching Italy are refugees from war and tyranny in Syria, Eritrea, and Somalia, with smaller number from various West African countries. Nor do they really want to stay in Italy, which is going through a prolonged economic crisis and has very high unemployment. They would rather move on to more prosperous EU countries further north.

But international law says that refugees must claim asylum in the first safe haven they reach, and in the case of the EU that is almost bound to be Italy, because it is so near to Africa and because the postGaddafi chaos in Libya means that there is no control over boats leaving the Libyan coast.

Italy is now getting more than half of the EU’s entire refugee flow — probably well over 100,000 this year — and all of those people must stay in Italy. It’s expensive, it’s politically poisonous, and the country’s facilities for looking after these refugees are being overwhelmed. Yet Italy’s EU partners seem quite content to leave Italy to bear the burden all by itself.

With almost all of the Fertile Crescent now in a state of war, and new flows of refugees starting as a result of the fighting in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the numbers are going up fast.

Five Italian warships are dedicated full-time to Operation Mare Nostrum, and on many occasions in

the past few months they have picked up more than a thousand people in one day. This situation cannot last.

Italy has made no threats to stop the rescues and let the refugees drown. “We do not want a sea of death,” said Rear-Admiral Michele Saponaro, who runs the operation from the naval command centre.

But Rome is losing patience with its do-nothing EU “partners” and there is another way to address Italy’s problem.

The Schengen Treaty does not include Britain and Ireland, which opted out, and four new EU members have not yet complied with its terms — but 22 of the EU’s 28 members allow free movement across their borders for legal residents of all the Schengen countries. This includes Italy, of course. So, in theory, if Italy just gives the asylum seekers an ID card and a document saying they have permanent residence, then they’ll leave for greener pastures.

“We’ll just let them go,” said Interior Minister Angelino Alfano last May. “We want to clearly say to the EU that they either patrol the Mediterranean border with us or we will send all those who ask for asylum in Italy where they really want to go: that is, the rest of Europe, because they don’t want to stay in Italy.”

A previous Italian government briefly made the same threat back in 2011 and then the rift was papered over. But Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s new government seems to mean business. Italy not only wants its partners to contribute money and ships to Operation Mare Nostrum; it also wants them to share the job of looking after the refugees and not leave them all in Italy.

The EU is famously bad at making hard choices, but it’s finally going to have to face up to this one.

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

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Once again I feel it is necessary to warn people of the potential dangers when involved in certain activities.

On the front page of the Monday, Aug. 18, issue the portrayal of a Viking poised to hammer a mallet

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OTTAWA — Two military watchdogs are opening a joint investigation into how ill and injured soldiers are treated during their transition to civilian life.

Veterans ombudsman Guy Parent and Canadian Forces ombudsman Gary Walbourne will join forces to look at a system that has been the subject of thousands of complaints, both formal and informal.

Walbourne says over half of the 1,500 complaints his office received last year related to end-of-career issues, including transition.

The two men will focus their investigation on the duplication that exists between National Defence and Veterans Affairs.

“There is an arduous process that goes on for months,” Walbourne said.

“There’s doctor’s visits. There’s forms to be filled out. There’s the CF-98 (form), which talks about the injury and how it happened.

“All that is done and once that is done, they start a new process the next day when the person is released.

There’s an 18-page application to get into the (veterans) system.”

Many soldiers, wounded in Afghanistan and too ill to continue serving, have found upon release that the veterans bureaucracy requires them to validate their condition by visiting different doctors.

In some instances, they have been denied benefits for injuries that cost them their careers and Walbourne says this is one of the inequities that will be covered in the investigation.

“Why are there two processes?”Walbourne asked. “Why can’t the exit process be the automatic entrance process?”

Because of overlap, injured veterans end up having two case managers during their transition — one from each department. The House of Commons veterans committee heard complaints about the quality of case workers during its recent study of the legislation that governs benefits for ex-soldiers.

“Transition is a time of great adjust-

ment in the lives of Canadian Armed Forces members and veterans,” said Parent said. “We need to ensure that their transition is as seamless as possible with clear information and transparent communication.”

Last year, veterans and advocates complained publicly about the number of soldiers who wanted to continue serving but were released from the military on medical grounds, many of them with post-traumatic stress.

Defence Minister Rob Nicholson insisted under questioning in the House of Commons that everything was being done to prepare members for life in the civilian world, including career counselling and access to job training.

But Parent told the Commons committee last year the many soldiers find it difficult to get access to education grants if they choose a career that’s unrelated to the skills they acquired in the military.

The committee, in a report released in June, said the government must work harder to support not only the soldiers, but their families through the process of re-entering civilian life.

A spokeswoman for Veterans Affairs Minister Julian Fantino said the Conservative government supports the investigation.

“Like the veterans ombudsman and National Defence ombudsman, our government believes in the importance of providing a continuum of service to veterans,” said Ashlee Smith in an email.

Earlier this year, Fantino asked his department to conduct an independent, third-party review of the Veterans Affairs Transformation Agenda, which is a five-year program intended to modernize overall service delivery and make it “hassle-free,” as one official described it during 2012 testimony to Parliament.

The department, last week, awarded a contract for that study.

Walbourne said transition is a complex topic and the multi-part investigation will tackle each issue one at time over the next 15 to 18 months. Findings will be released in a series of interim reports.

On average 5,000 to 6,000 full-time military members are released annually.

Hollywood star nominates Harper to do ice bucket challenge PM HAS ALREADY MADE DONATION TO ALS ASSOCIATION

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has nominated Prime Minister Stephen Harper to do the ice bucket challenge.

DiCaprio was in northern Alberta last week visiting the oilsands to do research for an environmental documentary.

The Oscar-nominated star of The Wolf of Wall Street posted a video on his Facebook page of him doing the ice bucket challenge with two First Nations chiefs.

Afterward, he called out Harper to do the same.

Harper’s press secretary says the prime minister had been already challenged by others last week to either dump a bucket of ice water over his head or make a donation, and he’s made a donation to the ALS Association.

The association raises money for Lou Gehrig’s disease research and assistance.

“The Prime Minister was challenged by others last week and posted the following message on Twitter: (at)pmharper: Thanks everyone for the IceBucketChallenge nominations. Laureen & I will be making a donation to support the (at) ALSassociation,” Carl Vallee said in an email to The Canadian Press.

“Obviously, the donation has been made since (to ALS Canada).”

DiCaprio has a long history of involvement with the environment.

He sits on the boards of several international conservation organizations and started an environmental charity foundation in 1998.

“Hello from Lake Athabasca, we’re here learning about the Canadian tar sands. We took a moment to join the IceBucketChallenge movement in support of the ALS Association. My

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS The federal government is rejecting renewed calls for a public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women in advance of a meeting Wednesday between premiers and native leaders, one of whom says the prime minister is isolated in his position.

The premiers and aboriginal leaders endorsed the idea of an inquiry when they met last year, but there is growing momentum behind such a proposal, said Ghislain Picard, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations.

“The difference between last year and this year is that there is more and more support,” Picard said in an interview ahead of the meeting in Charlottetown.

“What we have today is that the federal government is standing alone.”

Native leaders say the need for an inquiry has been highlighted by the death earlier this month of a 15-yearold aboriginal girl whose body was found wrapped in a bag that was dumped in the Red River in Winnipeg.

Tina Fontaine had been in the city for less than a month when she ran away from foster care. Police are treating the case as a homicide.

“In light of recent events ... it’s clear that this issue cannot be overshadowed by other pressing issues,” Picard said.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said last week that cases like Fontaine’s should not be viewed as a “sociological phenomenon” but rather a serious

crime to be investigated by police.

The federal government says it is taking steps to deal with the problem of violence against aboriginal women, such as setting up a national DNA missing person’s index and introducing tougher sentences for murder, sexual assault and kidnapping.

“We don’t need yet another study on top of the some 40 studies that have already been done,” a spokeswoman for Justice Minister Peter MacKay said in a statement.

“We need police to catch her killer and ensure the perpetrator or perpetrators are punished and face the full force of the law.”

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police also decided Tuesday against endorsing an inquiry, saying it was up to all levels of government to take immediate action to address the underlying issues that lead aboriginal women to be vulnerable to crime and violence.

Newly elected association president Clive Weighill, chief of the Saskatoon police, said the group’s board of directors met to discuss the issue and they fear an inquiry will only delay action.

But several premiers including Ontario’s Kathleen Wynne, Manitoba’s Greg Selinger and Brad Wall of Saskatchewan have spoken out in recent days calling on the federal government to change its mind.

Wynne said Harper’s comments were “outrageous,” suggesting the prime minister is ignoring the systemic problems behind the violence faced by aboriginal women.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS DAUPHIN, Man. — Police in western Manitoba have charged a couple with confining, starving and sexually abusing their children.

RCMP spokeswoman Tara Seel said Mounties received a tip about child abuse in the Parkland area in western Manitoba earlier this month. Investigators say they found three girls under the age of 10 in a home. They were in the care of one biological parent and the parent’s partner.

“Unfortunately, RCMP investigators discovered the children were often not fed, they were locked in their rooms for most of the day and the two older girls were forced to perform sexual acts,” Seel said.

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Métis threaten to boycott museum WINNIPEG — The Manitoba Métis Federation is accusing the Canadian Museum for Human Rights of censorship and is threatening to boycott the institution because it is excluding a decorated Métis musician from its grand opening.

President David Chartrand said the museum approached the federation and asked which Métis performers should be included in next month’s ceremonies, which are to be televised live.

He said the Winnipeg museum rejected the federation’s choice — 74-year-old musician Ray St. Germain — because they thought “a younger person might fit the flow of the event better.”

“We took a very strong offence to that. Who are you to tell us how to pro-

mote our culture?” Chartrand said Tuesday.

“This is the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Did they forget their mandate? They start to tell us how we’re going to advance our identity or description of who we are to the world?”

The federation has voted to boycott Canada’s newest museum, Chartrand said.

“We want to make sure we showcase the greatest talent we have,” he said.

“If that’s what they stand for — to dictate or control the information — then we want nothing to do with them.”

Even though it is not yet open, this isn’t the first time the museum has come under fire.

A Manitoba First Nation has criticized the museum for using Winnipeg’s water supply, which comes from the band’s traditional territory.

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Another lawsuit against Williams by sexual assault victim Laurie Massicotte remains active.

Massicotte, who has chosen to reveal her identity and speak publicly about her ordeal, filed a nearly $7-million lawsuit against Williams. In her claim she says the attack left her fearful, humiliated, depressed, suicidal, unable to function in society and she will require extensive therapy.

Quebec calls public inquiry into deadly fire QUEBEC — The Quebec government has called a public inquiry into the fire that killed 32 people at a seniors’ residence last January.

Public Security Minister Lise Theriault said Tuesday the coroner’s findings would guide the government as it moves to limit the risks of such a tragedy reoccurring.

Theriault said the government has assigned coroner Cyrille Delage to oversee the public inquiry.

“The aim of the inquiry is to answer two basic questions: firstly, how did this tragedy happen and, secondly, what do we need to do to prevent anything similar ever happening again,” Theriault told a news conference.

“The coroner’s inquiry will determine the cause of death of each of the 32 victims and the origin and likely causes of the fire.”

The coroner’s office has not decided when or where the hearings will be held and Theriault gave no timeline for Delage’s report to be submitted.

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TORONTO — Sex-killer Russell Williams has reached an out-of-court settlement with some of his victims.

The lawyer for one of Williams’ sexual assault victims and the family of one of Williams’ murder victims says financial settlements have been resolved “to the mutual satisfaction of all parties.”

Michael Pretsell says in a statement that the lawsuits on behalf of Williams’ first sexual assault victim, “Jane Doe,” and the family of murder victim Jessica Lloyd are now settled.

Pretsell’s clients had also sued Williams’ wife, Mary Elizabeth Harriman, alleging Williams secretly and fraudulently transferred assets to his wife in March 2010 after he was criminally charged, including their house in Ottawa.

She had vigorously denied those claims and Pretsell says the lawsuits against Harriman have now been dismissed.

Williams, once a rising star in the Canadian Forces at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario, was sentenced to life in prison in October 2010 after pleading guilty to the murders of Lloyd and Cpl. Marie-France Comeau.

Lawyers for Williams and the victims could not be reached for comment

All three children have been removed from the home and are in the custody of Child and Family Services, she said.

The couple, who are not being identified, are facing numerous charges that include sexual assault, making child pornography, assault with a weapon, forcible confinement and failure to provide the necessities of life.

They were scheduled to appear in Dauphin provincial court Tuesday.

The RCMP Internet Child Exploitation Unit is assisting with the investigation, Seel said. RCMP won’t say how old the children are or where exactly they are from to avoid revealing anything that might identify them.

“These children have suffered immensely,” Seel said. “The last thing we want to do is identify them and have them face more scrutiny.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — A new report says global warming has so altered the Arctic that the Canadian Rangers — largely aboriginal reservists who patrol the North — need new equipment to navigate a vast terrain they barely recognize anymore.

The frozen land of their forefathers now has much thinner sea ice, weather that is no longer predictable, unfamiliar southern birds and mammals that have migrated north and traditional game that is disappearing and tastes funny.

And their patrols for the military have become more dangerous, especially as they travel where once-solid ice is now unreliable for sea crossings.

The 54 Canadian Rangers interviewed for a June military report say they need satellite phones, GPS navigation tools and better search-and-rescue equipment, along with the basic kit they’ve been demanding for years, including rifles and sleeping bags.

The document, obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act, comes as Prime Minister Stephen Harper concludes his annual northern tour in Iqaluit by participating in the sovereignty exercise Operation Nanook 14.

The report drew on focus groups gathered in four communities, and recommends the government look for ways to provide the 5,000 Canadian Rangers such basic equipment as coldweather coats.

“The elders used to be able to predict the weather by looking at the clouds; they can’t do that anymore. You can’t predict the weather anymore,” was a typical comment on the impact of climate change, which has reduced

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Conservatives tout traditional family values in message to party members OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are telling core supporters that “traditional family values” are a party stance, a phrase that so far has not entered the prime minister’s public speeches or official Tory documents.

A survey was circulated Tuesday to Conservative donors and “grassroots supporters,” to “hear what issues matter to you the most.”

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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper shakes hands with Canadian Rangers on hand to welcome the prime minister Monday in Pond Inlet, Nunavut. snow cover, led to earlier springs and generated fiercer winter winds.

Snowmobiles are becoming less available as the snow disappears, making it harder to travel.

“We never used to have forest fires.

Now we have more and more each summer,” said one participant.

“There are new species now like small birds, ducks, salmon, foxes, grizzlies and an unknown species that is a cross between a polar bear and a grizzly,” said another.

“We never used to see any of these species before.”

Meanwhile, staples of the indigenous northern diet — caribou, seal and

polar bear — are migrating north to escape the warmer weather, leaving fewer animals to hunt.

“Polar bears used to be fat and tasty,” said one ranger. “They taste different now.”

And the Arctic is no longer a natural refrigerator for the hunt, said some.

“When we are on the land and living in tents, we dig holes to put the carcasses in to keep them frozen. Now even six feet down it is not frozen.”

The groups said the diminishing availability of game has forced more families to buy expensive, less-healthy food in grocery stores, and that the health of communities has been dam-

crime approach.”

It is unclear what is meant by traditional family values. Conservative party officials did not respond to a request for a definition.

The Tea Party in the United States currently lists the encouragement of traditional family values as one of its non-negotiable core beliefs, and the Republicans have associated it with their party’s anti-abortion stance.

Political scientist Tom Flanagan, a former Conservative campaign manager and chief of staff to Stephen Harper, says while the terminology might be new, the sentiment is not among Conservative activists and supporters.

He said he suspects that with abortion and gay marriage largely off the table, the party’s drug policy — specifically on marijuana — is likely one of the elements of what it considers traditional family values.

Flanagan notes that surveys sent to members are usually more about shaking loose donations and exciting the support base, rather than just collecting data.

“The party’s success has always been dependent on mobilizing high turnout among those who really do

support the party, and then winning over some other fragment of voter support,” said Flanagan.

Marcel Masse, former Mulroney cabinet minister, dead at 78 OTTAWA — Marcel Masse, a longtime Quebec politician who served in the cabinet of Brian Mulroney, has died at the age of 78.

Masse was elected to the Quebec national assembly in 1966 and 1970 as a member of the Union Nationale and served as a provincial cabinet minister.

He was elected to the Commons in the 1984 election that brought Mulroney’s Conservatives to power.

He resigned from cabinet in 1993 and did not run in the federal election that year.

Mulroney, who saw Masse recently, remembered him as a family man and gentleman who ran a number of senior departments, including Communications, Energy and Defence.

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aged, with more asthma, scabies and viruses.

The report said most participants want the federal government to establish a new Canadian Forces base in the Arctic. But the loudest complaints were about the bad — and non-existent — equipment issued by the military.

“We’re still using the same equipment as the first Rangers (in 1947): canvas tents, wood stoves,” said one ranger, who noted they have to use their own sleeping bags and warm clothing.

One person called for new technology that could help gauge the thickness of the unreliable sea ice.

And there was a renewed call for more modern rifles, a long-standing complaint as the Canadian Rangers run out of stock and parts for their .303-calibre Lee-Enfield No. 4 rifles, which were purchased at the unit’s founding in 1947 and are based on a 19th-century design.

The rifles, which handle the cold well, are for personal protection from predators rather than military engagements.

A spokesman for the military, MarcAntoine Rochon, said an order for replacements, .308-calibre bolt-action hunting rifles, will go out for tender this fall with the first guns to be issued next year through to 2021.

But he did not respond to questions about the other kit being demanded by the rangers as they cope with Arctic warming.

The Canadian Rangers, often called the “eyes and ears” of the Canadian Forces in remote areas, operate in some 200 remote communities, most of them above the 60th parallel. Their motto “Vigilans” means watchful.

They serve part-time, and many are from indigenous groups such as the Inuit and First Nations, as well as Métis. ways, soft-spoken in private although he was a great speaker at political meetings,” Mulroney told The Canadian Press. “He’d make his case and if he didn’t win, he would leave with his head up high and a smile on his face and move on to something else.”

In particular, Mulroney said Masse adored his time as communications minister and dealing with Canadian cultural initiatives.

“He was a big supporter of Canadian culture, Canadian broadcasting,” Mulroney said in a telephone interview from Toronto. “He worked very hard to secure a cultural exemption with me on the free-trade negotiations with the United States.”

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He worked well with his cabinet colleagues.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The players in Burger King’s deal to buy Tim Hortons are promising there will be no mixing of Whoppers and Timbits but industry analysts say there’s no guarantee the Canadian doughnut and coffee chain will come out of the multi-billion-dollar merger untouched.

The two companies announced on Tuesday that Miami-based Burger King and private equity firm 3G Capital would buy Tim Hortons in a $12.5-billion deal aimed at increasing the number of fast food companies internationally and in the U.S., a market Tim Hortons describes as a “must-win.”

When asked if the deal meant mingling the brands, such as Burger King selling Tim Hortons’ coffee, the answer was a quick and definitive “Absolutely not.”

“There’s no plan to mix the product or do any co-branding,” said Daniel Schwartz, CEO of Burger King. “The real driver here is the growth, and the ability to take such a strong and beloved brand internationally.”

The new combined company will be run by Burger King chief executive Daniel Schwartz, who will oversee with overall day-to-day management and operational accountability, while Alex Behring, executive chairman of Burger King and managing partner at 3G Capital, will become executive chairman and director. 3G Capital will own about 51 per cent of the new company.

Founded: Tim Hortons: 1964 in Hamilton, Ont. Burger King: 1954 in Miami, Fla. Number of franchises: Tim Hortons: 4,564 locations worldwide Burger King: About 14,000 locations Number of countries: Tim Hortons: Canada, U.S., and Gulf Co-operation Council.

Burger King: 98 countries and territories

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Number of Tim Hortons coffees served: Approximately two billion cups worldwide in 2013

A Burger King sign and a Tim Hortons sign are displayed on St. Laurent Boulevard in Ottawa on Monday. On Tuesday the two companies announced Miami-based Burger King and private equity firm 3G Capital would buy Tim Hortons in a $12.5-billion deal.

Number of Whoppers Burger King sells: Approximately 1.7 billion each year in the U.S. alone

Tim Hortons chief executive Marc Caira will take a non-executive role, as he will be appointed vice-chairman and become a director.

“It’s going to be Americanrun,” summed up Brynn Winegard, a marketing expert at Winegard and Company.

“In the short term, they are going to be very careful about not alienating any of their brand-loyal consumer but, in the longer term, will we start to see some more similarities?

I think so.”

Both companies emphasized Tuesday that the focus of the deal was growth, given

Shareholder options: Tim Hortons shareholders can receive $65.50 in cash and 0.8025 of a common share of the new company for each one of their shares or an all-cash payment of $88.50 or 3.0879 shares in the new company.

Burger King shareholders will have their shares converted into 0.99 of a share in the new company and 0.01 of a unit of an Ontario limited partnership that will be owned by the parent company. Brazilian private equity group 3G Capital Inc. will own about 51 per cent of the new company. It owns more than 70 per cent of Burger King.

that it will create the world’s third-largest quick service restaurant company, with about $23 billion in system sales and more than 18,000 restaurants in 100 countries.

“We clearly said that the international markets for us were untapped potential, and certainly this new relationship will allow us to move much quicker as a combined organization than we felt we could move ourselves,” said Caira.

“This transaction will not only allow us to preserve our rich Canadian heritage, but it will allow us to bring even more meaningful benefits to

Canada in the long run.”

Tim Hortons has paired off with a large U.S. chain before, when it was purchased

by Wendy’s International Inc. in 1995. It was spun-off from Wendy’s in 2006.

Jim Danahy, chief executive of consultancy CustomerLab, said while the deal will give Tim Hortons access to the infrastructure and expertise it was seeking, the new management structure that puts 3G and Burger King in charge raises questions about Tim Hortons’s future.

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N.W.T. eyes Rogers, Shaw launch alternatives to video-on-demand diesel in small service called Shomi communities

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Several months after the town of Inuvik, N.W.T., began trucking in liquefied natural gas to generate some of its power, the territorial government wants to do the same in smaller communities that continue to rely on dirtier and costlier diesel.

But David Ramsay, whose cabinet responsibilities in the Northwest Territories government include investment and industry, said the long-term ambition is to have the territory’s own vast undeveloped natural gas resources be consumed both by its citizens and by those in markets to the south.

“We’ve got to try and get communities off of diesel,” Ramsay said in an interview from Sudbury, Ont., where he brought up the topic with fellow provincial and territorial natural resources ministers.

The Northwest Territories Power Corporation says LNG costs about 10 to 15 per cent less than diesel and reduces greenhouse gas emissions by about 25 per cent.

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The corporation says as of last November, one of Inuvik’s two power plants has been running on LNG. A natural gas well supplied that plant for more than a decade before it ran dry in 2012. Diesel was used while the corporation looked for an alternative fuel source. The LNG is being trucked all the way from the Vancouver area, Ramsay said.

“We’ve been successful in Inuvik on retrofitting a power plant there to LNG and there’s other opportunities in that regard,” said Ramsay.

“So we’re going to continue to look for opportunities to get our communities off of diesel.”

The irony is that trillions of cubic feet of natural gas lie in fields near the coast of the Beaufort Sea, not far from Inuvik. A pipeline proposal to bring that gas to southern markets has been put on ice indefinitely, as gas from more easily accessible shale formations elsewhere in North America render Arctic supplies obsolete. But Ramsay said he hasn’t given up hope that oil and gas reserves in the Mackenzie Valley will find their way to market one day. was home to the manufacturing and storage of explosives like TNT, black powder, nitroglycerin and products used in fertilizers and fuels.

The island was owned by ICI Canada Inc., which recently changed its name to PPG Architectural Coatings Canada Inc., until 1988, except for about five years in the 1970s.

The island’s new owner, J.I. Properties Inc., purchased it in August 1994 but took the coatings’ company to court, arguing it had spent more than $5.2 million cleaning up soil contaminated by explosives, cyanide, metals and petroleum hydrocarbons.

Justice Nigel Kent says that under B.C. law the “polluter pays” principle imposes an absolute liability on any

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TORONTO — Two of Canada’s top telecommunications companies have teamed up to launch a subscription videoon-demand service they say can rival the current industry titan Netflix without cannibalizing their own cable and television-on-demand services.

Called “Shomi,” the new service kicks off in November and will initially be available to Rogers and Shaw Internet or TV customers, the companies announced Tuesday at a Toronto news conference.

The service will complement each telecom’s existing television programming by giving users access to past seasons of current shows as well as movies and exclusive content, with some original offerings on the horizon, Rogers Media president Keith Pelley said.

Shomi has past-season streaming rights to a host of popular TV shows including Modern Family, Sons of Anarchy, Sleepy Hollow, Shameless and 2 Broke Girls.

Users will be able to access 240 TV series and 1,200 movies on tablets, mobile, online and person who causes a site to be contaminated.

He says it’s fair and just to require the coatings’ company to reimburse the new owner for reasonably incurred remediation costs and set the bill at $4.75 million.

Cominar buys Ivanhoe Cambridge shopping centre and office portfolio for $1.53B MONTREAL — Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust has signed a deal to buy a portfolio of 15 properties including shopping centres, office buildings and an industrial park in Quebec and Ontario from

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through Xbox 360 as well as set top boxes, the companies said.

The new service comes amid research that shows households are increasingly abandoning traditional TV in favour of online services. In Canada, up to 665,000 households — or 5.7 per cent — are expected to rely only on Netflix or other online services by the end of the year, according to a study by the Torontobased Convergence Consulting Group.

While Netflix has operated unchallenged in Canada for years, Pelley said he’s not worried about arriving late on the scene, saying their research has shown consumers “can support two, three, even four SVODs (subscription video-ondemand).”

The companies hope to lure viewers by adding curation by experts — a human touch akin to what was once found in video stores — rather than relying solely on algorithms to suggest movies and shows.

“There’s another SVOD out there. (...) I think the user interface that we have is better, I think the content that we have is very compelling to Canadians and I think the cura-

tion that we did with our collections is stronger,” he told The Canadian Press in an interview.

Both Rogers and Shaw have been striving to engage audiences on other platforms while operating in a constantly evolving industry, said Barbara Williams, senior vicepresident of content for Shaw Media.

In the end, content is what drives most consumer decisions, she said.

Pelley said that fight for content will ensure there’s room for more than one videoon-demand service in the Canadian market.

“I think it’s impossible for one service to have all the content,” he said.

Shomi will have 30 per cent Canadian content, and both companies said they are open to working with other distribution partners.

“Quite a few titles” will come from the CBC, they said.

The suggested retail price is $8.99 per month, with packaging and bundling options to be announced.

Neither would discuss how much they invested in the venture or in licensing agreements.

Ivanhoe Cambridge for $1.53 billion.

The trust also said Tuesday it would make offers to acquire the interests in two of the properties that are coowned by third parties that could increase the total purchase price to $1.63 billion.

The shopping centres include Rockland in Montreal, Centropolis in Laval, and the Dixie Outlet Mall in Mississauga, Ont. The office buildings are located in Quebec City, Laval and Toronto, while the industrial park is in Quebec City.

The Quebec City-based real estate firm said its (TSX:CUF. UN) assets will increase 25 per cent to more than $8.1 billion once the deal with the real estate arm of the Caisse de de-

pot et placement du Quebec is complete. To pay for the deal, Cominar has signed a deal with a syndicate of underwriters to raise $250 million in an offering nearly 13.2 million trust units at a price of $19 per unit. Ivanhoe Cambridge has also agreed to buy an additional $250 million in new trust units at the same price in a deal that will make it Cominar’s largest unitholder.

Otera Capital, the commercial real estate financing subsidiary of the Caisse, will also provide a new $250-million 10-year mortgage.

The balance of the money for the deal will come from up to $950 million in loans underwritten by the National Bank of Canada (TSX:NA) and Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO).

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BMO beats Q3 estimates WITH SOLID RETAIL BANKING, LOAN RECOVERIES THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — A strong performance at Bank of Montreal’s Canadian operations, combined with improved recoveries from loans previously written off, helped the bank outperform analyst estimates in the third quarter.

The bank (TSX:BMO) earned a thirdquarter profit of $1.126 billion, hardly changed from $1.123 billion a year ago, under standard accounting.

But BMO’s more closely watched adjusted profit was up four per cent, rising to $1.162 billion from $1.122 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2013.

The adjusted earnings amounted to $1.73 per share — seven cents higher than a general estimate compiled by Thomson Reuters and up from $1.66 in the year-earlier period. Net income before adjustments was $1.67, up from $1.66 a year before.

Barclays analyst John Aiken said BMO’s personal and commercial retail banking operations in both Canada and the United States had “reasonably strong” performances in the three months ended July 31.

Aiken noted that BMO’s provisions for credit losses were also lower than expected as it recovered $182 million

from previously written off loans, accounting for more than five cents per share in earnings.

But he also said BMO’s domestic banking operations were strong, U.S. banking operations were improved and earnings from capital markets were robust.

The weakest segment of BMO’s third-quarter was in wealth management, which recorded expenses related to a recent U.K. acquisition as well as a $22-million after-tax charge due to unfavourable movements in long-term interest rates.

A year earlier, BMO had a $42-million after-tax benefit related to fluctuations in long-term interest rates.

“It appears that BMO may be gaining relative momentum in its retail operations with some of the upside available in its wealth management operations obscured by a temporarily weaker quarter in insurance,” Aiken wrote.

“Although the upside in capital markets is up for debate, it is quite conceivable that BMO’s earnings in the third quarter may have set it up for some sustained outperformance coming out of reporting season.”

BMO’s overall provision for credit losses, including the recoveries, was

$130 million — up from an unusually low $76 million a year earlier and down from the $162 million recorded in the second quarter of 2014.

The bank’s overall revenue was $4.2 billion, up five per cent from $4 billion a year earlier before adjustments and up 10 per cent from an adjusted $3.842 billion in the third quarter of 2013.

Return on equity was 14.4 per cent, compared with 15.5 per cent year-overyear.

BMO said its Canadian personal and commercial banking operations earned $526 million in the latest quarter, up eight per cent from a year ago, helped by higher revenue.

The bank said year-over-year loan growth was seven per cent, while deposits grew nine per cent.

Canadian P&C revenue was $1.66 billion, up from $1.564 billion year earlier and $1.560 billion in the previous quarter — with increase in both net interest and non interest totals.

Cameron Fowler, who heads the Canadian retail banking operation, told analysts there was “broad-based” growth in retail investment products, card products and commercial business.

Adding to its base of premium card customers has been a priority and the

results have been good.

“Those originations have been very, very strong — a multiples of past years,” Fowler said.

In the U.S., BMO said personal and commercial banking earned US$147 million, up two per cent from a year ago.

BMO’s wealth management business earned $190 million, down $27 million or more than 10 per cent from a year ago, while BMO capital markets earned $306 million, up 14 per cent from a year ago.

The wealth management business was hampered by costs associated with the acquisition of F&C Asset Management PLC, a $1.3-billion deal announced in January.

Gilles Ouellette, head of BMO’s wealth management group, said the plan for F&C is to introduce the U.K.based company’s products to North American and North American wealth management products to F&C’s base.

“We’re pretty happy with what is happening. After a quarter, it’s pretty early but certainly it seems to be hitting on every cylinder,” Ouellette said.

Bank of Montreal shares closed Tuesday at $82.16, up 35 cents, on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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MERGER: Sends the signal “It clearly sends the signal that they intend to apply their management principles of cost-cutting and meritocracy as they describe it - the youthful assumption that it can always be done better - which will now be applied to the much more profitable and successful acquired company, in a country they’ve never worked in before,” Danahy said about the prospective new owners.

“There may be some justification for concern over what might - and we simply haven’t heard - be turned into: ‘If it isn’t broke, break it.”’

Winegard said customers aren’t likely to notice many of the immediate changes at the stores since those may involve merging logistics and supply chain infrastructure, or developing joint corporate strategies.

They could also include similar advertising messaging, service interfaces or style and decor.

“You can’t take two entities that currently have duplication of efforts and double the amount of supply chain personnel and so on...that they’re not going to somehow try to economize, through economies of scale and by amalgamating and merging some of their current operations,” she said.

The deal comes just over a day after both sides confirmed they were in talks, a possibility which sent their stock surging and created a flurry of speculation about what the combination may mean for Tim Hortons.

Burger King Worldwide Inc. had a stock market value of roughly US$11.1 billion on Tuesday, slightly less than the value of its offer for Tim Hortons.

The corporate headquarters of the new global company will be in Canada but, despite much speculation about the possible tax benefits of such a deal, Behring said taxes weren’t a motivating force for the move. Burger King says it won’t see any meaningful change to its tax rate by setting up the new company in Canada.

“This is strategic transaction, this is creating a new global leader in the QSR sector, and it’s not being driven by tax rates,” he said. “Burger King’s effective tax rate is the in mid to high 20s, which is largely consistent with Canadian taxes.”

The companies were adamant there would not be changes to how franchises are managed or a loss of jobs, saying repeatedly the deal wasn’t about synergies but rather growth.

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Saskatoon berries grow on a Saskatoon berry bush.

Saskatoons or Juneberries?

NAME DEBATE BREWING BETWEEN CANADA AND U.S.

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS REGINA — A food fight of sorts could be growing between Canada and the United States over a tiny berry.

A U.S. researcher with the Cornell University Co-operative Extension is suggesting Canadians use a different name when selling Saskatoons south of the border.

Jim Ochterski says there is a surge in demand for the berry in the U.S., where it has been known for years as the Juneberry.

“We’re at a point now where there’s actual dollars at stake,” Ochterski said in a phone interview Tuesday from Canandaigua, N.Y. “We’re taking our heritage name for the berry, called Juneberry, and Cana-

dian growers have their heritage name for the berry, called Saskatoon, and now there seems to be some marketing tension between the two.”

Ochterski said Canadian growers might benefit if they use the name Juneberry on packaging because it’s what American consumers know.

“Because produce is marketed internationally, we wind up with two different names for the same fruit and it becomes a question of would the name Saskatoon be preferred in the marketplace or would the term Juneberry be preferred in the marketplace,” he said. “And based on what I’ve been experiencing here in the U.S., the term Juneberry has been resonating very strongly with consumers and buyers.”

Ochterski insists he’s not suggesting a complete name change — just adding

the name Juneberry for cross-border sales. He says it would “speed up sales tremendously.”

He wrote a letter to the Saskatoon Berry Council of Canada asking if it would be open to the idea. Ochterski wrote that he raises the issue with “a pang of compunction” because he knows how much work has gone into marketing the Saskatoon berry and its deep roots in Canadian prairie culture. The Saskatoon berry, which mostly grows on the Prairies, looks similar to a blueberry but is considered more nutritious. The website www.juneberries.org, which is supported by the Cornell group, says the berries have about as much vitamin C, thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B-6, folate, vitamin A and vitamin E as blueberries.

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The S&P/TSX composite index was up 20.47 points to a record-high close of 15,619.21 but off early highs with losses growing in the financial sector as traders also looked over mixed earnings results from Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO) and Scotiabank (TSX:BNS). The Canadian dollar rose 0.24 of a cent to 91.31 cents US. Burger King is buying the iconic Canadian coffee and doughnut chain in a deal that will see the parent of the U.S. firm, investment company 3G Capital, own 51 per cent of the new entity. Tim Hortons (TSX:THI) (NYSE:THI) shares were up 8.14 per cent to $88.71 on the TSX and by 8.47 per cent to US$81.05 in New York. Shares in Burger King (NYSE:BKW) ticked 4.3 per cent lower to US$31. Both issues surged almost 20 per cent on Monday when reports of the deal first surfaced. Some analysts have suggested that Canada’s lower tax rates stand to benefit Burger King over time. But Burger King said that’s the not main motivation for the deal.

“For the most part it’s a combination that they feel will work going forward — both companies will benefit,” said Allan Small, senior adviser at HollisWealth.

“Obviously Tim Hortons has been trying to gain some traction in the U.S. for quite some time.

But they’ve had their struggles and Burger King, obviously, is trying to get into a segment of the market that they haven’t been able to. That coffee business is pretty high margin, strong business to get into which is why McDonald’s has been doing that for quite some time now.”

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Investors digested data showing U.S. durable goods orders in July jumped 22.6 per cent, reflecting a huge increase in orders at aircraft giant Boeing.

Excluding transportation, orders actually declined 0.8 per cent.

Meanwhile, Scotiabank posted quarterly net income of $2.35 billion or $1.85 a share, up from $1.74 billion or $1.36 a share a year ago as the bank benefited from the sale of its majority interest in CI Financial. Adjusted earnings were $1.40, missing estimates by a penny. The bank also upped its dividend by two cents a share, but Scotiabank shares fell $1.74 to $72.45.

Bank of Montreal reported a third-quarter net income of $1.126 billion, or $1.67 per share, relatively unchanged from the same time last year. Adjusted earnings were $1.73 a share, beating estimates by seven cents and its shares gained 35 cents to $82.16.

The financials sector was the biggest TSX decliner, down 0.5 per cent. However, the sector is up 12 per cent year to date amid heightened expectations for the big banks. Advancers were led by the gold sector, ahead about 1.8 per cent as December bullion gained $6.30 to US$1,285.20 an ounce. September copper dipped three cents to US$3.19 a pound and the base metals sector was up 0.8 per cent. The energy sector was ahead 0.5 per cent, while October crude in New York was 51 cents higher to US$93.86 a barrel.

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

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,619.21, up 20.47 points Dow — 17,106.70, up 29.83

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The loonie rose 0.24 of a cent to 91.31 cents US. Burger King announced it is buying Tim Hortons in a cash and stock deal worth about US$11 billion that will

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Barley (Western): Oct. ’14 $1.00 unchanged 135.00; Dec. ’14 $1.00 unchanged $137.00; March ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; May ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; July ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; Oct. ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; Dec. ’15 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; March ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; May ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; July ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00; Oct. ’16 $1.00 unchanged $138.00.

Tuesday’s estimated volume of trade: 271,300 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 271,300.

create the world’s third-largest quick service restaurant company .

The deal will see the parent of the U.S. firm, 3G Capital, own 51 per cent of the new entity.

Depending on the structure of the deal, it could have an impact on the dollar.

The loonie has been pushed higher in the past by big corporate deals.

That’s because a foreign buyer acquiring a Canadian company will need Canadian currency to close the deal, boosting demand for the loonie on financial markets.

Meanwhile, Statistics Canada releases the June reading on gross domestic product growth on Friday.

Economists expect that Statistics Canada will report that GDP grew by 0.2 per cent in June, which would translate

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The Bank of Nova Scotia says it’s seeing some good growth from its international operations — particularly in Asia — as it continues to work on increasing its presence in Central and South America.

“To drive the greatest growth, we remain focused on building scale in our highest priority markets of Mexico, Peru, Colombia and Chile,” Scotiabank president and CEO Brian Porter told analysts during a conference call Tuesday.

Porter said the bank will continue to try to streamline operations and improve efficiencies as it deals with weaker performance in the Caribbean and parts of Central America due to a “challenging economic environment that still persists.”

Touted as Canada’s most international lender, Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) has a presence in more than 55 countries.

Porter’s comments came as the bank reported increased profits in the latest quarter, boosted by its wealth management and insurance businesses and the sale of its stake in money manager CI Financial Corp.

The bank also increased its quarterly dividend by two cents to 66 cents per share.

Scotiabank earned a profit of $2.35 billion, or $1.85 per diluted share, for the quarter ended July 31. That compared with a profit of $1.75 billion, or $1.36, in the same period a year earlier.

Scotiabank announced a deal in May to sell more than two-thirds of its interest in CI Financial (TSX:CIX).

The sale boosted the bank’s quarterly results with after-tax gain of $555 million, or 45 cents per share.

Excluding the deal and other onetime items, the bank’s adjusted net income was $1.79 billion, up eight per cent from $1.65 billion on adjusted earnings per diluted share of $1.40.

Analysts had expected adjusted earnings per share of $1.41.

Return on equity was 20.6 per cent, compared with 17.2 per cent at the same time last year.

Revenues were $6.48 billion compared with $5.51 billion.

However, Scotiabank said its international banking arm saw profits into annualized growth of 2.6 per cent.

In the U.S., durable goods orders in July jumped 22.6 per cent reflecting a huge jump in orders at aircraft giant Boeing. Excluding transportation, orders actually declined 0.8 per cent.

On the commodity markets, October crude in New York was 51 cents higher to US$93.86 a barrel.

September copper fell three cents to US$3.19 a pound, while December gold gained $6.30 to US$1,285.20 an ounce.

B.C. company behind mine spill agrees to First Nations review of other project VANCOUVER — A B.C. company behind a tailings spill earlier this

‘TO DRIVE THE GREATEST GROWTH WE REMAIN FOCUSED ON BUILDING SCALE IN OUR HIGHEST PRIORITY MARKETS OF MEXICO, PERU, COLOMBIA AND CHILE.’ — BRIAN PORTER SCOTIABANK PRESIDENT AND CEO

drop 16 per cent to $452 million, as it had solid earnings growth from Latin America and Asia, but had to deal with weakness from its operations in the Caribbean and Central America and lower loan balances.

Barclays analyst John Aiken said in a note the international division delivered disappointing results, but the outlook still remains positive for the bank.

“We do not believe that one weaker quarter really puts Scotia’s growth outlook into question,” he wrote.

Its global wealth management and insurance arm earned $846 million, helped by the CI Financial deal and continued favourable conditions from the markets. Without the CI transaction, net income in the division grew by six per cent.

Profits from its personal and commercial banking in Canada division rose three per cent to $565 million, boosted by a hike in loans, deposits and higher fees and commissions. It also saw higher increases in loan losses, but said that was mainly due to an increase business volume.

RBC Capital Markets analyst Darko Mihelic said he had expected Scotiabank’s “usually strong cost control culture” to help rein in some of its quarter-over-quarter expenses growth.

“Overall, we view BNS’s earnings results as disappointing as they fell short of our expectations in all segments other than wholesale banking and generally the ’other’ segment helped to offset some of the weakness in the ’core’ segments,” Mihelic wrote in a note.

Scotiabank’s shares closed down $1.74 or 2.35 per cent at $72.45 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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month has signed an agreement with a First Nation to review the tailings facility in a separate project.

Imperial Metals (TSX:III) expects to open its Red Chris gold and copper mine, located in northwestern B.C., later this year.

But the company has faced increased scrutiny after a tailings dam at its Mount Polley mine in central B.C. failed, releasing millions of cubic metres of waste water and silt into several lakes and rivers.

Imperial Metals says it has signed an agreement with the Tahltan Central Council that will see the company pay for an outside engineering firm, chosen by the band, to review the Red Chris tailings facility. The company says it has agreed to respond to any issues identified by the review.

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 2014

Sterzer steps away to play at university

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Aspen Sterzer will play hockey this season, but not with the Red Deer Rebels.

The 20-year-old forward, whom Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter acquired from the Kamloops Blazers last winter in return for forward Matt Bellerive and a third-round bantam draft pick, decided not to rejoin the club this season and instead pursue a postsecondary education.

Sterzer, who has yet to respond to calls from Sutter and — reportedly — several of his teammates, sent an e-mail to the Advocate this week detailing his feelings about stepping away from major junior hockey and attending the University of Calgary this fall as a member of the hockey Dinos.

“First of all, I would like to say that I really appreciate that I was able to come to Red Deer and finish off my WHL career under coach Sutter,” said Sterzer. “I feel that I learned a lot from him and only wish that I could have had more time to play for him. The simple truth is that before I signed my contract to play in the WHL I had several scholarship offers to the NCAA that my parents really wanted me to pursue. I, however, really wanted to play in the WHL, so my parents agreed to support me in playing in the Western League with one condition, which was that I had until I was 19 to catch the eye of a pro club, or I would have to go school.

“In all honesty, there would be nothing more that I would have liked to do than to have had a really successful 20-year-old year as a Rebel, hopefully contributing to an already

REBELS talented team to perhaps make a cup run. However, I felt that I just could not lobby my family to help support me beyond my agreement with them.”

Sterzer stressed that his passion for the game still remains.

“Personally, I have always loved the game,” he continued. “It is a long grind but aside from the sheer thrill of playing, if things go right, you can hopefully make a living doing what you love at the next level. For me, I am hopefully going on to the next step that may help me fulfill my dreams and obligations at the same time.

“That said, I am looking forward to playing this year at the University of Calgary for the Dinos. I am excited to join a group of excellent seasoned hockey players, coach (Mark) Howell and the staff while being able to pursue my education at the same time. I still hope to catch the eye of a team that post-university might want my skills and services, but for now I am just focusing on how I can add to the Dinos to do my part and to contribute as best I can.

“I have been blessed to have made many good friends in the WHL and hope that each of them will have a great year! As well, I hope the best for the Red Deer Rebels, my former teammates, the staff, the fans, and coach Sutter. Sincerely, Aspen Sterzer.”

When reached late Tuesday afternoon, Sutter wasn’t that forgiving regarding Sterzer’s absence and his decision to attend the U of C and play CIS hockey.

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Eugenie Bouchard returns a shot against Olga Govortsova, of Belarus, during the first round of the 2014 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Tuesday, in New York.

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Bouchard steamrolls her way into second round

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Boston Red Sox’s Mike Napoli hits a three run homer off Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Sergio Santos during eleventh inning American League baseball action in Toronto on Tuesday.

Napoli home run leads Red Sox over Blue Jays in extra innings

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Red Sox 11 Blue Jays 7 TORONTO — Mike Napoli hit a mammoth three-run homer into the upper deck and Allen Craig added a tworun shot as the Boston Red Sox scored seven in the 11th inning to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 11-7 on Tuesday night.

It was the fourth straight extra-innings game for the Jays — and sixth in their last seven home contests (3-3).

Their season record in extra innings dropped to 4-6. But this one turned into a rout rather than a slim win although the Jays answered with three runs in their half of the 11th.

Mookie Betts opened the Boston half of the 11th with a single off Casey Janssen (3-2). Betts was called out at second when Christian Vasquez bunted the ball to Janssen but the call was overturned after a 76-second review.

Janssen then mishandled Brock Holt’s sacrifice bunt to load the bases, setting the stage for Dustin Pedroia’s two-run single.

Sergio Santos, the Jays’ seventh pitcher on the night, took over for Janssen and, one out later, gave up the 17th fifth-deck homer in the history of the Rogers Centre. Napoli’s blast to left

field was his 16th homer of the season.

After Daniel Nava doubled, Craig hit his eighth homer of the season to right field.

Toronto threw in the towel, sending in infielder Steve Tolleson to pitch.

Throwing in the low 70s m.p.h., Tolleson somehow managed to staunch the wound by striking out Will Middlebrooks and inducing Betts to fly out at the warning track.

Pedroia, with his second two-run home run in as many nights after an 18-game drought, also homered for Boston in the first inning.

Showing his full arsenal, Tolleson singled in the bottom half of the 11th.

Dioner Navarro’s double and Danny Valencia’s single with two out cut the lead to 11-7.

The Jays outhit Boston 15-14 in a game that took four hours 33 minutes.

Junichi Tazawa (3-3), the seventh pitcher for the Red Sox, got the win.

Toronto’s record in August dropped to 6-16 while Boston notched its second straight win after snapping an eightgame slide Monday night to open the series.

The Jays came into the game having lost nine of their last 12 and 11 of their last 16.

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U.S. OPEN

NEW YORK — Eugenie Bouchard “Since then we taped it, the injury needs put her hardcourt struggles be- is something that healed pretty quickhind her if she wants to make another ly, so I was happy. The past five days, deep Grand Slam. six days or so have been great. I really A 59-minute dismantling of Olga Go- put in a lot of hours of practice here vortsova in the first round of the U.S. in New York City. I feel like it’s someOpen will certainly go a long way. thing I needed.”

Bouchard, the women’s seventh seed Later Tuesday, the third-seeded from Westmount, Que., steamrolled her men’s doubles team of Toronto Daniel way into the second round at Flushing Nestor and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic Meadows with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Gov- defeated the British duo of Colin Flemortsova on Tuesday. ing and Ross Hutchins 6-4, 6-3.

She produced 19 winners and broke There was also a big upset as on four of six chances against her 15-year-old American CiCi Bellis was 117th-ranked Belarusian opponent, in the process of stunning a Grand whom she also beat two years ago on Slam finalist to become the youngest hardcourt in Washington. player to win a U.S. Open match since “It’s definitely never easy in the 1996, her father did his best to conceal first round of a Grand Slam, so I’m his emotions courtside. happy to get a win under my belt,” said Like many a teen, CiCi has strict the Wimbledon finalist. “I want to get rules for Dad in public — even if his on a roll and keep the 1,208th-ranked daughter momentum going.” is pulling out a back‘IT’S DEFINITELY Bouchard, the only and-forth 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 NEVER EASY IN THE woman to reach the victory Tuesday over semifinals of all three FIRST ROUND OF A 12th-seeded Dominika previous Grand Slams in the first GRAND SLAM, SO Cibulkova this season, defended round at Flushing Meadall three break points I’M HAPPY TO GET ows. she faced while converttold I cannot sigh A WIN UNDER MY and“I’m ing four of six breakI cannot move or say point chances against BELT.’ anything (because) that Govortsova. distracts her, so I just — EUGENIE BOUCHARD have to sit there like a After failing to convert two break points in Sphinx and just smile the fourth game of the and pray,” the elder Belfirst set, Bouchard won four straight lis, Gordon, explained with a deadpan games to take the set 6-2. delivery. “She hears me when I sigh.

Two more breaks put Bouchard up So I can’t sigh.”

2-0 and 5-1 in the second set, then she Ah, yes, the joys of raising kids. And finished Govortsova off on her first make no mistake, Bellis is a kid. She is match point when the Belarusian hit home-schooled and about to start 10th the net. grade. Her first memory of the U.S. Bouchard has excelled at Grand Open is watching on TV while Maria Slam events this season, but has strug- Sharapova played. She likes to hang gled on the hardcourt this season win- out at the mall with friends back home ning just one match over three events in California. leading up to the U.S. Open.

Asked whether she’s a fan of pop “The past few weeks have been a bit star Justin Bieber, Bellis answered, “I of a struggle. I don’t feel like I’m put- used to like him when I was younger, a ting too many high expectations on my- couple years ago.” self,” Bouchard said. “I have the inner Her victory was the most surprisconfidence that I know if I’m playing as ing of the afternoon session on Day 2 well as I know I can that I can do well. of the year’s last Grand Slam tourna“I don’t want to set a specific goal to ment. Another American teen, Taylor reach a certain round, because every Townsend, was set to face two-time round is so tough here. I always know defending champion Serena Williams that I can do well.” at night, after Roger Federer beat Bouchard, playing the U.S. Open for Marinko Matosevic 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) with the second time after winning a round Michael Jordan sitting in Federer’s in her 2013 debut, will next play Roma- guest box in Arthur Ashe Stadium. nia’s Sorana Cirstea.

“Growing up, he was my big sporting She said that she has put in extra idol,” Federer said. “Having him here time training in New York after recov- is unbelievably special.” ering form a hamstring injury which Aside from the Williams sisters, limited her at her previous event in American tennis fans have not had New Haven last week. much reason to cheer for their own in “I hurt it during a practice a few the latter stages of major tournaments days before the event, and really cut in recent years. down on practise before the event,” she said. “I didn’t feel so good on the Please see OPEN on Page B5 match court.

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Fresh off Hall of Fame induction, Ames to try for Shaw Charity Classic title

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

STORIES FROM PAGE B4

REBELS: Major commitment “To play at this level takes a major commitment and he’s not a committed player,” said the Rebels boss. “There’s a lot of commitment required to play in the WHL, both on and off the ice, with games, practices, video sessions and all of the travel involved.

“It’s disappointing because we gave up assets to acquire him. He’s quitting on us and it’s a knock to his teammates.

It’s tough, but that’s his decision, his choice . . . to play CIS hockey.”

The Rebels are practising in two groups this week — at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. — in preparation for preseason games Saturday and Sunday at St. Albert against the Prince George Cougars and Swift Current Broncos. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

OPEN: Believing That’s why the occasional run by a young U.S. player — think Melanie Oudin, wearing “Believe” on her sneakers in 2009 — stirs interest at Flushing Meadows.

“Believing was the No. 1 thing that I had to do today,” said Bellis, whose nickname CiCi is derived from the initials of her first and middle names, Catherine Cartan. “That’s what my coach told me before the match also: Just go out there and believe that you can win.”

Bellis is still young enough that she plans on playing in the junior tournament in New York. She lost in the third round of that event a year ago; she lost in the first round of the Wimbledon girls’ tournament last month.

But on Tuesday, there she was in front of a supportive, overflowing crowd on Court 6 at Flushing Meadows, taking it to Cibulkova, the runner-up at the Australian Open in January.

“I went into the match thinking it was going to be such a great experience,” said Bellis, whose rapid-fire sentences tend to finish with a gurgle of laughter, “but I never thought I would come out on top winning.”

JAYS: Lost six of eight Toronto (66-66) has now lost six of eight series (1-6-1) dating back to July 31. The Jays were last at .500 on May 15 when they were 21-21.

Toronto had a chance to end it in the bottom of the ninth. Adam Lind doubled off the centre field fence with two out, giving way to pinch runner Tolleson. Boston intentionally walked Edwin Encarnacion. But pinch hitter Navarro struck out against Edward Mujica.

Reliever Aaron Sanchez, the loser in a 4-3 extra-innings Red Sox win Monday night, kept the Jays alive by striking out Napoli in the top of the ninth to strand Boston runners on first

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Calgary’s Stephen Ames tees off at the tenth hole during first round of play at the Canadian Open golf championship July 24, 2014 in Montreal. honour. Hopefully this will fire him up for the week and he’ll represent Calgary and all the fans that are here to support him.”

Having helped to bring the Shaw Charity Classic to Calgary for its inaugural event last year, Ames is now looking forward to hearing his name announced when he tees it up for the first time on Friday in the second instalment of the Champions Tour event.

“It’s going to be emotional,” said Ames, whose 15-year-old son Ryan will caddy for him. “I can feel it now coming on. It’s going to be fun for me. On top of that, I’ve got my youngest caddying for me as well.

That’s going to be even better in that respect that he’s going to get to enjoy that with me, so I’m looking forward to it very much.”

Seeing as how the tournament is being hosted in his own backyard, Ames might have a bit of an advantage over his competitors.

“That was the goal was to sleep in my own bed and drive to work, which is nice, rather than have to jump on a plane and fly 15 hours to get there and find a hotel,” he said.

If he hopes to contend for top spot, Ames will have to fend off the likes of defending champion Rocco Mediate and Charles Schwab Cup points leader Bernhard Langer.

“Rocco, Bernhard, everybody’s here, which is good,” said Ames, who has played in just one Champions Tour event, finishing tied for 15th at the Senior

and second after a single, forceout and infield single.

The Jays rallied from 3-0 and 4-3 deficits before a crowd of 27,321 at Rogers Centre.

Janssen, who has had his problems of late, pitched a 1-2-3 10th inning with two strikeouts. The Jays had a man on second with two outs in their half of the 10th but couldn’t cash in newly recalled Kevin Pillar.

Jose Bautista ended his 0-for-17 slump with a solo home run — his 25th homer of the season — to left centre off reliever Alex Wilson to open the Toronto half of the seventh and tie the score at 4-4. The homer was just the Jays’ 11th of the month.

Encarnacion, whose ninth-inning double just missed flying over the fence on Monday night, flied out to the left-field warning track later in the seventh inning after Bautista’s long ball.

For the second night in a row, Toronto fought back from a 3-0 deficit although this time they didn’t wait until the ninth inning.

And for the second night in a row, Boston’s Yoenis Cespedes singled in a run to make it 4-3 although he did it in the seventh inning instead of the 10th.

The Cuban outfielder, with his 87th RBI, chased Toronto reliever Dustin McGowan after just one out.

Knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, who had won all three previous starts against Boston this season, went up against Boston’s Rubby (pronounced Ruby) De La Rosa, who lost his two previous starts against the Jays this season.

The two starters were operating in vastly different neighbourhoods with De La Rosa’s fastball reaching 97 m.p.h. while Dickey throwing mostly in the 70s. That was good news for Red Sox DH Napoli, who was hit on the head with a 77 m.p.h. knuckleball that sent his helmet flying.

It was a rocky start for Dickey who saw Pedroia deposit his eighth delivery of the night into the second deck in left field for a two-run homer. Dickey struck out leadoff hitter Holt but catcher Josh Thole could not handle the ball and Holt made it to first base on the passed ball.

Pedroia’s seventh homer of the season marked the seventh straight game the opposition has scored first against the Jays.

There was more to come in the first.

Middlebrook’s two-out RBI double made it 3-0 and it could have been worse had Craig not been thrown out at home trying to score from first.

Dickey threw 28 pitches in the first.

Toronto left men on first and third in the first inning after opening with back-to-back Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera singles.

With men on second and third and no outs, Cabrera’s groundout put Toronto on the board in the third inning while earning the left-fielder his 70th RBI of the season. But two fly balls ended the threat.

Munenori Kawasaki narrowed the deficit to 3-2 with a two-out RBI single in the fourth inning as De La Rosa struggled with his control, issuing back-to-back walks with one out.

Still Toronto stranded men on first and third again in the inning.

Toronto tied it in the fifth with Cabrera scoring on Encarnacion’s fielder’s choice with two out, signalling the end of De La Rosa.

PGA Championship on May 25. “This tour, a lot of people think is not as competitive. But I’ll tell you what, it is competitive. Those guys are still very hungry and everybody still has pretty much the same game they’ve had.”

With eight of the top 10 money winners this season on the Champions Tour in attendance, it won’t be an easy task for Ames to finish atop the leaderboard.

“The field’s a little stronger this year and we had a great field last year,” Van Kesteren said. “Bernhard is going to be one that everyone is going to have to chase down. I saw him here (Monday) night on the green, doing his measurements. He’s already done his homework. He obviously wants to win again. I think Rocco will be there as well and I know he’s excited to defend his championship.”

Including Ames, a total of four Canadians will be among the 81-competitor field at the Shaw Charity Classic.

Joining Ames at the event will be Rod Spittle of Niagara Falls, Ont., Jim Rutledge of Victoria and Calgary’s Darryl James, who qualified to play in his first Champions Tour event after carding a 2-under 68 at Canyon Meadows on Tuesday.

“This is an absolute dream come true,” said James, an instructor with the National Golf Academy in Calgary who earned one of the final five spots by virtue of his performance at Tuesday’s qualifying round.

CFL says veteran slotback Weston Dressler has cleared NFL waivers Let the Weston Dressler sweepstakes begin.

The CFL announced Tuesday that Dressler had cleared NFL waivers and therefore was an unrestricted free agent. The former Saskatchewan Roughriders slotback was released Monday by the Kansas City Chiefs.

The Riders released Dressler, 29, in January — roughly two weeks before he was scheduled to become a free agent — so he could explore his options south of the border. Shortly after working out for the Chiefs, Dressler signed with the NFL club but donned No. 13 in honour of Saskatchewan’s rabid football fans, affectionately dubbed the 13th Man. The five-foot-eight, 179-pound native of Bismarck, N.D., spent his entire six-year CFL career with Saskatche-

NFL On the NFL’s first preseason cutdown day, a trade and several key players going on injured reserve overshadowed other moves.

In an unusual transaction for its timing, New England sent six-time Pro Bowl guard Logan Mankins to Tampa Bay on Tuesday for tight end Tim Wright and a draft choice.

The Patriots apparently are satisfied with a young group of blockers, and the Buccaneers were desperate to improve their offensive line.

“He has a history of a certain type of play in the league,” new Bucs coach Lovie Smith said, adding that the 10thyear pro will bring leadership on and off the field.

“We got better, kind of simple as that.”

wan, registering 442 catches for 6,531 yards and 43 TDs. He surpassed the 1,000-yard receiving plateau five times, including the last four years.

Dressler had five catches for a game-high 81 yards and a TD in Saskatchewan’s 45-23 Grey Cup victory over Hamilton last November at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium. A two-time allstar, Dressler was the CFL’s top rookie in 2008.

Dressler appeared in three exhibition games with Kansas City, recording a 19-yard kickoff return.

As an unrestricted free agent, Dressler is free to join the CFL team of his choice. And with the league’s salary cap having risen to $5 million this season, there are reportedly as many as five clubs interested in signing the veteran receiver.

Bringing in a tight end could mean the Patriots are particularly concerned when Rob Gronkowski can return to the lineup. The injury-prone Gronkowski, coming off right knee surgery, only recently began to take part in contact drills.

While Gronkowski works to come back, gone for the season are Rams quarterback Sam Bradford and Packers defensive tackle B.J. Raji.

Both went on injured reserve Tuesday, Bradford after tearing his left ACL for the second straight year, Raji with a torn biceps.

Also on injured reserve is Bills linebacker Kiko Alonso, who hurt his left knee before training camp began.

Other veterans placed on IR were Colts running back Vick Ballard, Seahawks linebacker Heath Farwell and Browns offensive lineman Michael Bowie.

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CALGARY — Growing up in Trinidad and Tobago, Stephen Ames never dreamed of one day being inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.

Now a Canadian citizen and one of the country’s most successful golfers, Ames was welcomed as the 74th inductee into Canada’s golf shrine during a private ceremony Tuesday at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club.

“As a proud Canadian, I am truly humbled by this great honour,” said Ames, who became a citizen in 2003 in his adopted hometown of Calgary. “It kind of adds to the fact of how much Canadians have embraced me — obviously becoming a Canadian citizen and now getting into the Hall of Fame. It’s an added bonus.”

Ames has 11 professional tournament wins to his credit, including four on the PGA Tour, the most memorable of which was a six-stroke victory at the 2006 Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass.

“It has been a long journey, a lot of hours, a lot of miles, a lot of back pains, a lot of learning and a lot of fun,” said the 50-year-old Champions Tour rookie, who’s one of the marquee names scheduled to compete at the Shaw Charity Classic from Friday to Sunday at Canyon Meadows. “It’s hitting home a little bit now for me. It’s the highlight of my career right now, an added trophy to the career that I’ve had, which is wonderful.”

Tournament director Sean Van Kesteren is excited to see how Ames will fare once the action gets under way on Friday.

“I think he’s motivated,” Van Kesteren said. “He’s still obviously a great player. To be inducted into the Hall of Fame, there’s not too many folks that get that

SCOREBOARD Baseball Baltimore New York Toronto Tampa Bay Boston

Kansas City Detroit Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 73 58 .557 71 59 .546 67 63 .515 59 72 .450 58 73 .443

Los Angeles Oakland Seattle Houston Texas

West Division W L Pct 78 53 .592 77 54 .588 72 59 .546 56 77 .421 51 80 .392

Brantley Cle JAbreu CWS MiCabrera Det Eaton CWS Gillaspie CWS

GB — 7 10 12 18 GB — 1 1/2 5 1/2 14 15 GB — 1/2 6 22 1/2 26

125 116 128 95 105

487 451 487 376 383

79 69 82 56 48

151 139 150 114 116

.310 .308 .308 .303 .303

Home Runs NCruz, Baltimore, 34; JAbreu, Chicago, 33; Carter, Houston, 32; Ortiz, Boston, 30; Trout, Los Angeles, 29; Encarnacion, Toronto, 27; Bautista, Toronto, 25; Donaldson, Oakland, 25; VMartinez, Detroit, 25.

Runs Batted In JAbreu, Chicago, 94; Ortiz, Boston, 93; Trout, Los Angeles, 91; MiCabrera, Detroit, 89; NCruz, Baltimore, 88; Cespedes, Boston, 87; Donaldson, Oakland, 87.

Pitching Scherzer, Detroit, 15-4; Porcello, Detroit, 15-8; Kazmir, Oakland, 14-6; Weaver, Los Angeles, 14-7; PHughes, Minnesota, 14-8; WChen, Baltimore, 134; Richards, Los Angeles, 13-4.

Monday’s Games Baltimore 9, Tampa Bay 1 Boston 4, Toronto 3, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 8, Kansas City 1 Oakland 8, Houston 2 Miami 7, L.A. Angels 1 Texas 2, Seattle 0

Washington Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia

National League East Division W L Pct 75 56 .573 68 64 .515 65 66 .500 62 70 .470 60 72 .455

Tuesday’s Games Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 2 Boston 11, Toronto 7, 11 innings Detroit 5, N.Y. Yankees 2 Cleveland 8, Chicago White Sox 6, 10 innings Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1 Houston 4, Oakland 2 Miami 2, L.A. Angels 8 Texas 0, Seattle 5

Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati Chicago

Central Division W L Pct 73 58 .557 71 60 .542 68 64 .515 63 69 .477 59 72 .450

GB — 2 5 1/2 10 1/2 14

West Division W L Pct 75 58 .561 69 62 .527 60 70 .462 55 77 .420 53 78 .405

GB — 4 1/2 13 18 1/2 20 1/2

Wednesday’s Games Texas (Lewis 8-11) at Seattle (E.Ramirez 1-5), 1:40 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Smyly 8-10) at Baltimore (Gausman 7-5), 5:05 p.m.

Boston (J.Kelly 0-1) at Toronto (Stroman 7-5), 5:07 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Greene 3-1) at Detroit (Price 12-9), 5:08 p.m.

Cleveland (Kluber 13-7) at Chicago White Sox (Noesi 7-9), 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota (P.Hughes 14-8) at Kansas City (Hendriks 1-0), 6:10 p.m.

Oakland (Pomeranz 5-4) at Houston (Peacock 3-8), 6:10 p.m.

Miami (H.Alvarez 10-5) at L.A. Angels (H.Santiago 3-7), 8:05 p.m.

Thursday’s Games N.Y. Yankees at Detroit, 11:08 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 5:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 6:10 p.m.

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

Texas at Houston, 6:10 p.m.

Oakland at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

H 180 147 156 143 167

Pct. .333 .327 .326 .325 .310

Los Angeles San Francisco San Diego Arizona Colorado

GB — 7 9 13 15

1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2

Monday’s Games St. Louis 3, Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 3, Washington 2 Miami 7, L.A. Angels 1 Milwaukee 10, San Diego 1 Colorado 3, San Francisco 2

7:40 p.m.

Miami (H.Alvarez 10-5) at L.A. Angels (H.Santiago 3-7), 8:05 p.m.

Colorado (F.Morales 5-7) at San Francisco (Hudson 9-9), 8:15 p.m.

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

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

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

NATIONAL LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Morneau Col 111 413 48 Revere Phi 121 476 59 ArRamirez Mil 104 384 45 AMcCutchen Pit 116 440 69 Puig LAD 120 453 70 MaAdams StL 116 436 45 Lucroy Mil 122 470 64 JHarrison Pit 116 401 61 DanMurphy NYM126 528 73 Goldschmidt Ari 109 406 75

H 131 148 118 135 138 132 142 121 159 122

Pct. .317 .311 .307 .307 .305 .303 .302 .302 .301 .300

Home Runs Stanton, Miami, 33; Rizzo, Chicago, 30; Duda, New York, 26; JUpton, Atlanta, 25; Byrd, Philadelphia, 23; Frazier, Cincinnati, 22; Desmond, Washington, 21; CGomez, Milwaukee, 21; Reynolds, Milwaukee, 21; Tulowitzki, Colorado, 21.

Runs Batted In Stanton, Miami, 97; AdGonzalez, Los Angeles, 89; JUpton, Atlanta, 87; Howard, Philadelphia, 80; Desmond, Washington, 79; Duda, New York, 76.

Pitching Kershaw, Los Angeles, 15-3; Cueto, Cincinnati, 15-8; WPeralta, Milwaukee, 15-8; Wainwright, St. Louis, 15-8; Bumgarner, San Francisco, 15-9; Lynn, St. Louis, 14-8; Ryu, Los Angeles, 13-6.

Tuesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay 100 010 000 — 2 8 1 Baltimore 000 201 10x — 4 9 0 Cobb, Yates (5), Balfour (6), Jo.Peralta (7) and Hanigan; W.Chen, Brach (5), Tom.Hunter (7), A.Miller (8), Z.Britton (9) and C.Joseph. W—Brach 5-0. L— Balfour 1-6. Sv—Z.Britton (28).

Boston 300 000 100 07 — 11 14 0 Toronto 001 110 100 03 — 7 15 2 (11 innings) R.De La Rosa, Layne (5), A.Wilson (6), Badenhop (7), Mujica (9), Tazawa (10), Hembree (11) and Vazquez; Dickey, McGowan (7), Cecil (7), Loup (8), Aa.Sanchez (9), Janssen (10), Santos (11), St.Tolleson (11) and Thole, D.Navarro. W—Tazawa 3-3. L—Janssen 3-2. HRs—Boston, Pedroia (7), Napoli (16), Craig (1). Toronto, Bautista (25).

Tuesday’s Games Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 2 Philadelphia 4, Washington 3 N.Y. Mets 3, Atlanta 2 Chicago Cubs 3, Cincinnati 0 L.A. Dodgers 9, Arizona 5 Miami 2, L.A. Angels 8 Milwaukee at San Diego, late San Francisco 3, Colorado 0 Wednesday’s Games St. Louis (Wainwright 15-8) at Pittsburgh (Locke 5-3), 10:35 a.m.

Washington (Fister 12-4) at Philadelphia (K.Kendrick 6-11), 5:05 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 12-9) at N.Y. Mets (Za.Wheeler 9-8), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Ja.Turner 4-7) at Cincinnati (Latos 4-3), 5:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Gallardo 8-7) at San Diego (Despaigne 3-5), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 15-3) at Arizona (Miley 7-9),

New York 000 010 010 — 2 9 0 Detroit 011 002 10x — 5 9 0 McCarthy, Rogers (7) and McCann; Porcello, Nathan (9) and Avila. W—Porcello 15-8. L—McCarthy 5-3. Sv—Nathan (28). HRs—New York, Ellsbury 2 (13).

Cleveland 310 002 000 2 — 8 14 0 Chicago 200 030 100 0 — 6 10 1 (10 innings) House, C.Lee (5), Rzepczynski (6), Atchison (6), Hagadone (8), Shaw (8) and R.Perez; Quintana, Lindstrom (6), Guerra (7), Putnam (8), Petricka (10), Cleto (10) and Flowers. W—Shaw 5-3. L— Petricka 0-4. HRs—Cleveland, Walters (6). Chicago, Al.Ramirez (13).

Football GP 9 7 8 8

CFL East Division W L T 3 6 0 1 6 0 1 7 0 1 7 0

PF 223 149 125 126

PA 249 185 217 231

Pt 6 2 2 2

GP Calgary 8 Edmonton 8 Saskatchewan 8 Winnipeg 9 B.C. 9

West Division W L T 7 1 0 7 1 0 6 2 0 6 3 0 5 4 0

PF 223 214 193 230 212

PA 121 142 151 217 182

Pt 14 14 12 12 10

Toronto Hamilton Montreal Ottawa

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American League East Division W L Pct 75 55 .577 68 62 .523 66 66 .500 64 68 .485 58 74 .439

AMERICAN LEAGUE LEADERS G AB R Altuve Hou 129 540 70 VMartinez Det 119 449 67 Cano Sea 125 479 67 Beltre Tex 116 440 65 MeCabrera Tor 131 538 79

B6

Week 10 Friday, August 29 Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 31 Winnipeg at Saskatchewan, 4 p.m.

Monday, September 1 Toronto at Hamilton, 1 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 4:30 p.m.

Statistics Through Week Nine SCORING Touchdowns (Ru-running; Rc-receiving; Rt-kickoff/punt/missed/ blocked FG/punt return; D-defensive return) Name Team TD Ru Rc Rt D NGrigsby Wpg 7 6 1 0 0 EArceneaux BC 5 0 5 0 0 ABowman Edm 5 0 5 0 0 WFord Sask 5 5 0 0 0 JFuller Cgy 5 0 5 0 0 AHarris BC 5 2 3 0 0 CGable Ham 4 2 2 0 0 DLeFevour Ham 4 4 0 0 0 CSteele Tor 4 3 1 0 0 CWalker Ott 4 3 1 0 0 AAllen Sask 3 1 2 0 0 JBarnes Tor 3 0 3 0 0 RMarve Wpg 3 3 0 0 0 MMcDaniel Cgy 3 0 3 0 0 COwens Tor 3 0 2 1 0 DTate Cgy 3 3 0 0 0 BBanks Ham 2 0 1 1 0 DCollins Ott 2 0 1 1 0 SCunninghamCgy 2 1 0 1 0 JFeoli-GudinoWpg 2 0 2 0 0 AGuyton Edm 2 0 2 0 0 AKelly Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 RKohlert Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 KLawrence Edm 2 1 1 0 0 DMcCoil Edm 2 0 0 0 2 BMitchell Cgy 2 2 0 0 0 AParker Cgy 2 0 2 0 0 SSlaton Tor 2 0 2 0 0 TSmith Sask 2 0 2 0 0 BSwain Sask 2 0 2 0 0 CTaylor BC 2 0 2 0 0 DWashington Wpg 2 0 0 1 1 CWatson Wpg 2 0 2 0 0 BWhitaker Mtl 2 1 1 0 0 PWhite Edm 2 2 0 0 0 RYell BC 2 0 0 0 2 DAdams Tor 1 0 1 0 0 JArthur Cgy 1 0 1 0 0 RBagg Sask 1 0 1 0 0 MBradwell Tor 1 0 1 0 0 TBrown BC 1 0 0 1 0 DCarter Mtl 1 0 0 1 0 MCarter Ott 1 0 1 0 0 SChambers Edm 1 0 1 0 0

HCharles Cgy DClark Sask NCoehoorn Edm JCornish Cgy

1 1 1 1

1 0 0 1

0 1 1 0

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

RUSHING Name NGrigsby BWhitaker CWalker AHarris SLogan WFord JWhite CSteele AAllen MReilly DLeFevour KLawrence JMessam JCornish

Team Wpg Mtl Ott BC BC Sask Edm Tor Sask Edm Ham Edm Sask Cgy

Att 107 100 90 85 71 62 51 57 58 40 50 28 32 30

Yds 489 431 421 421 377 365 334 332 324 320 314 226 194 141

Avg 4.6 4.3 4.7 5.0 5.3 5.9 6.5 5.8 5.6 8.0 6.3 8.1 6.1 4.7

TD 6 1 3 2 1 5 1 3 1 0 4 1 0 1

RECEIVING Name ABowman CDenmark EArceneaux CTaylor MMcDaniel COwens MHenry RBagg AHarris NMoore JFuller AKelly EJackson NGrigsby

Team Edm Wpg BC BC Cgy Tor Ott Sask BC Wpg Cgy Wpg BC Wpg

Att 49 36 29 41 33 35 33 27 27 26 28 20 24 34

Yds 619 591 481 461 437 431 414 414 388 379 366 305 298 292

Avg 12.6 16.4 16.6 11.2 13.2 12.3 12.5 15.3 14.4 14.6 13.1 15.3 12.4 8.6

TD 5 1 5 2 3 2 1 1 3 0 5 2 1 1

Pct 66.8 65.2 62.3 62.7 58.3 66.1 60.1 67.8 47.7

Yds 2442 2358 2151 1958 1747 1631 1511 1276 989

TD Int Rat 15 9 92.2 10 8 90.6 9 11 83.3 12 4 98.8 5 6 77.3 11 6 91.8 7 5 86.1 4 4 92.0 4 4 63.6

PASSING Name Team Comp Ray Tor 221 Willy Wpg 187 Glenn BC 161 Mitchell Cgy 148 Burris Ott 141 Reilly Edm 152 Durant Sask 116 LeFevourHam 101 Smith Mtl 83

Att 331 287 256 236 242 230 193 149 174

TEAM OFFENCE (totals include losses) Team Pass Toronto 2602 Calgary 1993 B.C. 2288 Edmonton 1812 Hamilton 1781 Saskatchewan 1663 Winnipeg 2377 Ottawa 1908 Montreal 1533

Rush 856 987 992 1096 668 1151 656 591 771

Total Avg/Gm 3458 384.2 2980 372.5 3280 364.4 2908 363.5 2449 349.9 2784 348.0 3033 337.0 2499 312.4 2304 288.0

TEAM DEFENCE (totals include losses) Team Pass Edmonton 1735 B.C. 1818 Calgary 1952 Toronto 2010 Saskatchewan 2001 Winnipeg 2148 Montreal 1942 Hamilton 1944

Rush 659 1060 633 1039 719 1020 900 710

Total Avg/Gm 2394 299.3 2878 319.8 2585 323.1 3049 338.8 2720 340.0 3168 352.0 2842 355.3 2654 379.1

Ottawa

2377

1028

3405

National Football League Preseaason AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct Miami 2 1 0 .667 New England 2 1 0 .667 N.Y. Jets 2 1 0 .667 Buffalo 1 3 0 .250 South W L T Pct Houston 2 1 0 .667 Tennessee 2 1 0 .667 Jacksonville 1 2 0 .333 Indianapolis 0 3 0 .000 North W L T Pct Baltimore 3 0 0 1.000 Cincinnati 1 2 0 .333 Pittsburgh 1 2 0 .333 Cleveland 0 3 0 .000 West W L T Pct Denver 2 1 0 .667 Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 Oakland 1 2 0 .333 San Diego 1 2 0 .333 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct N.Y. Giants 4 0 0 1.000 Washington 2 1 0 .667 Philadelphia 1 2 0 .333 Dallas 0 3 0 .000 South W L T Pct New Orleans 3 0 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 2 0 .333 Carolina 1 2 0 .333 Tampa Bay 1 2 0 .333 North W L T Pct Minnesota 3 0 0 1.000 Chicago 2 1 0 .667 Detroit 2 1 0 .667 Green Bay 2 1 0 .667 West W L T Pct Seattle 2 1 0 .667 Arizona 1 2 0 .333 San Francisco 1 2 0 .333 St. Louis 1 2 0 .333 Thursday, Aug. 28 Atlanta at Jacksonville, 4 p.m.

Kansas City at Green Bay, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Miami, 5 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Giants, 5:30 p.m.

Carolina at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

San Francisco at Houston, 6 p.m.

Baltimore at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Denver at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Tennessee, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Arizona at San Diego, 8 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 8 p.m.

NORTHWEST MOTORS RED DEER

FACTO RY A U T H O R I Z E D

425.6

PF 55 78 62 63

PA 50 65 62 81

PF 50 68 47 53

PA 56 64 43 63

PF 83 75 56 49

PA 50 79 67 70

PF 72 69 54 48

PA 34 97 67 69

PF 99 64 94 57

PA 79 52 97 89

PF 80 40 53 51

PA 65 66 66 50

PF 70 60 52 68

PA 46 81 51 48

PF 91 73 24 64

PA 41 49 64 61

Saturday

Sunday

● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Prince George Cougars, 11:30 a.m, St. Albert Servus Credit Union Place.

● WHL preseason: Red Deer Rebels vs.

Swift Current Broncos, 3 p.m., St. Albert Servus Credit Union Place.

Soccer MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 24 13 7 4 39 Kansas City 25 12 7 6 36 Toronto 23 9 8 6 35 Columbus 25 8 8 9 35 New York 24 7 7 10 39 New England 24 9 12 3 31 Philadelphia 25 7 9 9 40 Chicago 24 4 6 14 31 Houston 24 7 13 4 25 Montreal 24 4 15 5 25

GA 26 26 36 32 36 36 41 37 45 45

Pt 43 42 33 33 31 30 30 26 25 17

Western Conference GP W L T GF Seattle 24 14 7 3 43 Dallas 25 12 7 6 45 Salt Lake 25 11 5 9 39 Los Angeles 23 11 5 7 41 Vancouver 24 7 5 12 33 Portland 25 7 8 10 41 Colorado 25 8 11 6 37 San Jose 23 6 10 7 28 Chivas 24 6 12 6 21

GA 33 33 30 26 31 43 39 32 37

Pt 45 42 42 40 33 31 30 25 24

Sunday’s results Portland 2 Seattle 4 Philadelphia 4 San Jose 2 Wednesday’s games D.C. at Los Angeles, 8:30 p.m.

Friday, August 29 Houston at Kansas City, 6 p.m.

Saturday, August 30 Colorado at Seattle, 2 p.m.

New England at Toronto, 3 p.m.

Columbus at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Portland at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m.

Salt Lake at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, August 31 New York at D.C., 12:30 p.m.

Los Angeles at Chivas, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, September 3 Toronto at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Kansas City at New England, 5:30 p.m.

Seattle at Chivas, 8:30 p.m.

Tennis U.S. Open Results FLUSHING MEADOWS, New York (AP) — Results Tuesday from the U.S. Open at USTA National Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses): Men’s Singles First Round Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Marinko Matosevic, Australia, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4).

David Ferrer (4), Spain, def. Damir Dzumhur, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 6-1, 6-2, 2-6, 6-2.

Kei Nishikori (10), Japan, def. Wayne Odesnik, United States, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2.

Richard Gasquet (12), France, def. Denis Istomin, Uzbekistan, 7-5, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

John Isner (13), United States, def. Marcos Giron, United States, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (2).

Fabio Fognini (15), Italy, def. Andrey Golubev, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2.

Roberto Bautista Agut (17), Spain, def. Andreas Haider-Maurer, Austria, 5-7, 7-6 (1), 1-6, 7-5, 6-1.

Gael Monfils (20), France, def. Jared Donaldson, United States, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4.

Ivo Karlovic (25), Croatia, def. Jarkko Nieminen, Finland, 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

Gilles Simon (26), France, def. Radu Albot, Moldova, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2.

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (28), Spain, def. Lu YenHsun, Taiwan, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2.

Borna Coric, Croatia, def. Lukas Rosol (29), Czech Republic, 6-4, 6-1, 6-2.

Tim Smyczek, United States, def. Filip Krajinovic, Serbia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-6 (5).

Paolo Lorenzi, Italy, def. Yoshihito Nishioka, Japan, 6-1, 6-2, 2-1, retired.

Federico Delbonis, Argentina, def. Noah Rubin, United States, 6-4, 6-3, 6-0.

Bernard Tomic, Australia, def. Dustin Brown, Germany, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 7-6 (3).

Marcel Granollers, Spain, def. Jurgen Melzer, Austria, 7-6 (1), 6-3, 6-2.

Sam Querrey, United States, def. Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.

Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, def. Mikhail Kukushkin, Kazakhstan, 2-6, 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5.

Pablo Andujar, Spain, def. Jack Sock, United States, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, 0-0, retired.

Adrian Mannarino, France, def. Pere Riba, Spain, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-2.

Victor Estrella Burgos, Dominican Republic, def.

Igor Sijsling, Netherlands, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2.

Sam Groth, Australia, def. Albert Ramos-Vinolas, Spain, 6-3, 7-6 (5), 6-3.

Alejandro Gonzalez, Colombia, def. Dmitry Tursunov, Russia, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5.

Women’s Singles Serena Williams (1), United States, def. Taylor Townsend, United States, 6-3, 6-1.

Petra Kvitova (3), Czech Republic, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 6-1, 6-0.

Eugenie Bouchard (7), Canada, def. Olga Govortsova, Belarus, 6-2, 6-1.

Ana Ivanovic (8), Serbia, def. Alison Riske, United States, 6-3, 6-0.

Flavia Pennetta (11), Italy, def. Julia Goerges, Germany, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.

Catherine Bellis, United States, def. Dominika Cibulkova (12), Slovakia, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.

Carla Suarez Navarro (15), Spain, def. Ajla Tomljanovic, Croatia, 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.

Victoria Azarenka (16), Belarus, def. Misaki Doi, Japan, 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-1.

Ekaterina Makarova (17), Russia, def. Grace Min, United States, 6-4, 6-2.

Marina Erakovic, New Zealand, def. Svetlana Kuznetsova (20), Russia, 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3).

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (23), Russia, def. Teliana Pereira, Brazil, 6-2, 6-0.

Samantha Stosur (24), Australia, def. Lauren Davis, United States, 6-1, 6-4.

Madison Keys (27), United States, def. Jarmila Gajdosova, Australia, 6-0, 6-3.

Casey Dellacqua (29), Australia, def. Patricia MayrAchleitner, Austria, 7-5, 6-3.

Barbora Zahlavova Strycova (30), Czech Republic, def. Ashleigh Barty, Australia, 6-1, 6-3.

Mona Barthel, Germany, def. Zhang Shuai (32), China, 6-1, 6-2.

Qiang Wang, China, def. Paula Kania, Poland, 6-2, 6-0.

Elena Vesnina, Russia, def. Yung-Jan Chan, Taiwan, 6-0, 7-5.

Shelby Rogers, United States, def. Maryna Zanevska, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-3.

Zarina Diyas, Kazakhstan, def. Lesia Tsurenko, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-2.

Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, def. Katarzyna Piter, Poland, 6-4, 6-1.

Nicole Gibbs, United States, def. Caroline Garcia, France, 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.

Karolina Pliskova, Czech Republic, def. Yvonne Meusburger, Austria, 6-2, 6-2.

Kaia Kanepi, Estonia, def. Pauline Parmentier, France, 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-1.

Sorana Cirstea, Romania, def. Heather Watson, Britain, 6-1, 6-1.

Varvara Lepchenko, United States, def. Alison Van Uytvanck, Belgium, 7-5, 6-2.

Polona Hercog, Slovenia, def. Elina Svitolina, Ukraine, 6-2, 7-6 (4).

Monica Niculescu, Romania, def. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstan, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 7-5.

Christina McHale, United States, def. Chanelle Scheepers, South Africa, 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (5).

Petra Cetkovska, Czech Republic, def. Klara Koukalova, Czech Republic, 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.

Coco Vandeweghe, United States, def. Donna Vekic, Croatia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1.

Vania King, United States, def. Francesca Schiavone, Italy, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Transactions Tuesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Reinstated OF Adam Eaton from the 15-day DL. Optioned OF Jordan Danks to Charlotte (IL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Designated LHP Wade LeBlanc for assignment. Selected the contract of RHP Yoslan Herrera from Salt Lake (PCL).

SEATTLE MARINERS — Signed general manager Jack Zduriencik with a multiyear contract extension.

TEXAS RANGERS — Extended its player development agreement with Spokane (NWL) through the 2016 season.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled OF Kevin Pillar from Buffalo (IL). Designated OF Nolan Reimould for assignment.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Reinstated INF Starlin Castro from the bereavement list. Optioned INF Logan Watkins to Iowa (PCL).

Midwest League QUAD CITIES RIVER BANDITS — Announced they signed a two-year extension of their player development contract with the Houston Astros through the 2016 season.

American Association AMARILLO SOX — Released OF Cory Patton.

Atlantic League LONG ISLAND DUCKS — Activated C Brandon Bantz. Released C A.J. Puma.

Frontier League WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed OF Deaun Williams.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association ATLANTA HAWKS — Re-signed F Mike Scott.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Acquired F Jared Dudley and a conditional 2017 first-round draft pick from the Los Angeles Clippers for F Carlos Delfino, C Miro-

slav Raduljica and a 2015 second-round draft pick.

Signed F Damien Inglis to a multi-year contract.

OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Acquired a trade exception and a 2015 protected second round draft pick from Philadelphia for C Hasheem Thabeet and cash considerations.

FOOTBALL National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Signed QB Jordan Palmer. Released QB Thad Lewis. Placed LB Kiko Alonso on the reserve/non-football injury list. Claimed P Jordan Gay off waivers from Carolina.

CHICAGO BEARS — Waived G James Brown and CB Isaiah Frey.

CINCINNATI BENGALS — Waived LB J.K. Schaffer, CB Lavelle Westbrooks, TE Kevin Brock, WR Jasper Collins, LB James Davidson and QB Matt Scott.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed OL Michael Bowie and LB Darius Eubanks on injured reserve.

Placed OL Nick McDonald on the reserve/nonfootball injury list.

DETROIT LIONS — Claimed TE Michael Egnew off waivers from Miami and FB Emil Igwenagu off waivers from Philadelphia. Released TE Jacob Maxwell and G Bryce Quigley.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Placed WR Jared Abbrederis, T-G Don Barclay, RB Rajion Neal, DT B.J. Raji, LB Joe Thomas and G Andrew Tiller on injured reserve.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed RB Vick Ballard, RB Deji Karim and OL Ulrick John on injured reserve. Placed FB Stanley Havili on the PUP list.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Waived OT Ryan McKee, CB Kevin Rutland and CB Damond Smith.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Terminated the contract of QB Brady Quinn. Waived WR Armon Binns, TE Brett Brackett, CB Steven Clarke, DE Rakim Cox, DT Cory Grissom, C Tyler Larsen and WR Ryan Spadola. Placed RB Mike Gillislee, TE Arthur Lynch and DT A.J. Francis on injured reserve.

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2014 NFL SEASON PREVIEW — AFC

It’s Brady and the other three in AFC East NEW YORK — Tom Brady has seen plenty of other quarterbacks come and go in the AFC East.

While the faces across the sideline keep changing, Brady has been a constant since leading the New England Patriots to a Super Bowl title during the 2001 season. Now, at 37 years old, Brady is still everything the New York Jets, Miami Dolphins and Buffalo Bills have been searching for.

Namely, a franchise quarterback.

“I’ve been lucky to do something I really love to do,” Brady said.

“I’d love to keep doing it, so that’s a great motivation for me to come out.

Where else would I rather be? This is a lot better than any cubicle I could probably think of. It’s a pretty good office.”

Since Brady took over as the Patriots’ starter, the Jets have had nine quarterbacks start. Meanwhile, the Bills have had 11 and the Dolphins a whopping 16.

Given the constant turnover everywhere else, it’s no coincidence the Patriots have won 11 of the last 13 division titles. The exceptions: 2002, when New York won it, and 2008, when Brady missed 15 games with a knee injury and Miami won.

All three of the Patriots’ rivals think they might be on to something as far as setting up their futures under centre. Miami’s Ryan Tannehill enters his third season, while New York’s Geno Smith and Buffalo’s EJ Manuel are going into their second.

“I think that’s obviously your chief rival and your biggest enemy,” the Jets’ Rex Ryan said of the Patriots. “You probably respect them more than anybody, but you also at the same time know you don’t like them.

“They’ve earned what we’re looking at, and that’s to win that division.”

Here are a few things to know about the AFC East: BRADY’S BUNCH: The Patriots’ offence should get a big boost with the

return of tight end Rob Gronkowski.

The health of one of Brady’s favourite targets will be a big story line after he had surgery on his right knee in January. He’s aiming to play in all 16 games this season after he missed the first six last year following back and forearm surgeries. He played the next seven, but hurt his knee and missed the rest of the season.

The Patriots should be improved on defence after signing free agents Darrelle Revis — much to the chagrin of Jets fans — and Brandon Browner, who’ll sit out the first four games for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy.

Three key defensive players sidelined for most of last season also are back: linebacker Jerod Mayo and defensive tackles Vince Wilfork and Tommy Kelly.

SOARING JETS?: Ryan and offensive co-ordinator Marty Mornhinweg are giving Smith every opportunity to establish himself as the team’s quarterback for now and beyond, even with Michael Vick on the roster.

The Jets haven’t made the playoffs in three seasons, so there’s pressure on Ryan to build on last year’s 8-8 finish. While Smith has shown flashes, the Jets won’t hesitate to pull him if he struggles and plug in Vick. Regardless of who’s under centre, the offence should be improved with the additions of wide receiver Eric Decker and running back Chris Johnson.

The Jets’ front seven on defence should be among the league’s best, led by linemen Muhammad Wilkerson and Sheldon Richardson, the 2013 Defensive Rookie of the Year. The biggest question will be the secondary, where second-year cornerback Dee Milliner and veteran Dimitri Patterson are expected to be starters but have been banged-up.

NEW-LOOK DOLPHINS: Miami is trying to put the bullying scandal that rocked the franchise and the rest of the league far behind.

the only thing that hasn’t got lost in the shuffle is the nonstop losing.

Some things to watch in the AFC North this season: THE DOMINANT DIVISION: No other division has sent as many teams to the playoffs over the last six years. A dozen teams reached the post-season over that span, two more than any other division. The North’s streak of five straight years with multiple playoff teams ended last season.

Northerners have reached the Super Bowl three times over that span, claiming two titles. Last year was the first time since the 2009 season that the North didn’t get at least one playoff victory.

ANDY’S TIME: No quarterback in the division will be under more scrutiny than Andy Dalton, who has been as good as it gets during the regular season, and at his very worst in the playoffs. The Bengals gave him a sixyear contract extension even though he’s 0-3 in the post-season.

He fell apart during the second half of a 27-10 playoff loss to San Diego last season. The Bengals haven’t won a playoff game since 1990, tied for the sixth-longest streak of futility in league history.

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New look, new coach has Titans targeting Colts AFC SOUTH NASHVILLE — Chasing the Indianapolis Colts never has been easy in the AFC South.

First, the Titans, Jaguars and Texans all tried, and failed, to slow down Peyton Manning. Now, Andrew Luck has taken his turn atop the division.

“You know when you have a great player like Andrew at quarterback that everyone’s going to set the bar high for achievement,” Colts owner Jim Irsay said.

“So we won the division, we won a playoff game, and now it’s just a question of trying to get deeper. But the first goal, of course, is to try to win the division and that’s going to be tough.

It’s a tough division, all three teams have improved. But I really think the mindset and the atmosphere and the desire to win a championship is there.”

The Colts have won eight of the last 11 division titles. The Titans feel they are oh so close after losing twice to Indianapolis last season by a combined 10 points while using a backup quarterback. New Titans coach Ken Whisenhunt also has shaken up the Tennessee franchise from top to bottom.

Whisenhunt wants to host a playoff game, so the Titans are targeting the defending AFC South champs.

“That’s what’s important for us right now,” Whisenhunt said.

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AFC North trying to regain reputation as league’s best division CINCINNATI, Ohio — They do things a little differently in the AFC North.

They’re patient with their coaches and quarterbacks — well, with the exception of Cleveland, which is in a league of its own when it comes to change.

They develop a style and stick with it, win or lose.

And it’s worked.

The AFC North is coming off what amounts to a down year for the NFL’s most successful division over the past six years. Only one team reached the playoffs, Cincinnati, which lost in the opening round for the third year in a row.

The Bengals’ response? Give the coach and the quarterback contract extensions.

“You see some of the teams in the North, just the way they go about the game is a little different from some teams across the league,” Bengals offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth said.

Defending champion Cincinnati has undergone the fewest off-season changes, aiming for a franchise-record fourth straight trip to the playoffs. The Steelers and Ravens have adjusted their rosters, but stayed with their overriding philosophies.

And then there’s Cleveland, where

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady warms up before an NFL football preseason game against the Washington Redskins in Landover, Md., Aug. 7, 2014.

the AFC South: DOMINATING COLTS: Luck now has his first division title since replacing Manning, and the Colts have had a whole off-season to work Trent Richardson into the offence.

Luck goes into his third season after that incredible rally from 28 points down to beat Kansas City in the playoffs. He has Hakeem Nicks as a new target.

But Reggie Wayne has to prove he can return from a torn right ACL at age 35. Injuries already are starting to accumulate, with four players lost for the season, including starting left guard Donald Thomas.

Coach Chuck Pagano, who patched together the offensive line last season, has a rookie at right guard, a centre and left guard going into their second seasons.

The Colts will be without last year’s sacks leader Robert Mathis on Sept. 28 when the Titans visit — the end of his four-game suspension.

TITANIC CHANGES: Tennessee beat out Detroit to hire the man who took Arizona to the Super Bowl.

Whisenhunt has made changes throughout the building and hired Ray Horton as his defensive co-ordinator to improve a team that went 7-9 last season, losing twice in overtime, with two other losses by a combined five points.

One of Whisenhunt’s biggest challenge is Jake Locker.

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Denver Broncos again the team to beat in the AFC West As good as any division a year ago, the AFC West is about to get tested.

Bigtime.

The AFC West sported three playoff teams last season, with late-charging San Diego and resurgent Kansas City joining Super Bowl-bound Denver in the post-season.

The path to the playoffs in 2014 has a few more potholes: The AFC West has to play the NFC West, where the Super Bowl champion Seahawks, Cardinals, Rams and 49ers boast some of the nastiest defences the NFL has to offer.

Denver is trying to become the first team in four decades to win a Super Bowl the year after losing it, and GM John Elway suggested that facing this fearsome foursome will benefit the Broncos.

“You’ve got to be able to play physical with physical teams,” Elway said.

“And that’s always a goal is to be able to have a team that physically can stay with everybody in this league. It’s a tough division that’s a very physical division, so that’ll be a great test for us.”

And for the rest of the AFC West.

Here are some things to know about the only division in the NFL that returns three playoff teams in 2014: NO REST: Atop Elway’s wish list following that 43-8 blistering by the Seahawks in the Super Bowl was an edgier defence.

Yes, like the one that had just throttled the highest-scoring team in NFL history. So, he committed more than

$100 million to add free agents DeMarcus Ware, Aqib Talib and T.J. Ward, then drafted Bradley Roby in the first round.

Denver’s record-breaking offence wasn’t spared, either. After throwing for more yards and touchdowns than anyone in NFL history, Peyton Manning had to say goodbye to wide receiver Eric Decker and running back Knowshon Moreno. Decker was replaced by Emmanuel Sanders and rookie Cody Latimer. Montee Ball moves up as the lead back, running behind a retooled line that sports 1,000 pounds of muscle in the middle with Orlando Franklin sliding over from right tackle to left guard.

MARKET CORRECTION? After a fruitful rebuilding project under new GM John Dorsey and coach Andy Reid last year, the salary cap-tapped Chiefs endured the price of that success.

They watched three starting offensive linemen leave on the same day in free agency: Pro Bowl left tackle Branden Albert and guards Geoff Schwartz and Jon Asamoah. Also, Pro Bowl punt returner Dexter McCluster signed with Tennessee, and Pro Bowl cornerback Brandon Flowers was released in a cost-saving move.

So, they’re counting on their rookie class to make immediate contributions to help them build off an 11-5 season that ended with a playoff collapse at Indianapolis.

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Further misery for Man U with loss to third tier MK Dons

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON — Manchester United’s miserable start under Louis van Gaal took another turn for the worse Tuesday with a humiliating 4-0 loss at thirdtier club MK Dons in the League Cup. Hired to halt the decline under David Moyes in the post-Alex Ferguson era, Van Gaal had already endured a loss and a draw in his first two Premier League matches before one of three possible routes to silverware ended in Milton Keynes.

A second-string United was playing in the League Cup second round for the first time since 1995 because Moyes

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EAST: Dolphins Joe Philbin is back as coach, but GM Jeff Ireland was fired and replaced by Dennis Hickey. One of the Dolphins’ top concerns was to keep Tannehill more upright — and give him the opportunity to get the ball to Mike Wallace more often — after Miami allowed an NFL-high 58 sacks. Left tackle Brandon Albert was signed to improve protection. RB Knowshon Moreno, if healthy, should also help new co-ordinator Bill Lazor’s offence.

Free agent cornerback Cortland Finnegan, paired with holdover Brent Grimes, should bolster a secondary that was middle of the pack last season.

BUMBLING BILLS: Buffalo hasn’t won the division since 1995, and the Bills’ 14-season playoff drought is the NFL’s longest active streak.

That’s a trend second-year coach Doug Marrone is eager to end, especially during a season in which there’s uncertainty with team ownership after the death of owner Ralph Wilson. The Bills brought in several new pieces — Sammy Watkins, Mike Williams, Anthony Dixon and Bryce Brown — to help Manuel try to prove himself. His development last season was slowed by three separate knee injuries that limited him to 10 games.

The defence, under new co-ordinator Jim Schwartz, is a strength, despite linebacker Kiko Alonso being out for the season with a torn knee ligament, and losing safety Jairus Byrd to free agency.

Predicted order of finish: Patriots; Jets; Dolphins; Bills.

NORTH: Bengals

failed to qualify for Europe during his only season in charge. He was replaced by the coach who led the Netherlands to third place at the World Cup. Although Van Gaal made 10 changes from the team that drew at Sunderland, several international players including Danny Welbeck, Javier Hernandez and Shinji Kagawa were deployed.

Van Gaal kept his cool in public after the game and did not tear into his team’s performance, despite poor defending that gifted goals to the Dons and the fact that United needed around 70 minutes to manage a shot on target.

“We didn’t have the luck to score but at least we have created a lot of

chances,” Van Gaal said. “You don’t have to forget we have nine injuries and we had a very young team, I have seen them trying to their utmost best.

You can’t expect more of the players.”

Van Gaal urged fans to trust him to turn around the fortunes of a team that won the Premier League by 11 points in 2013 before Ferguson retired after more than 26 years in charge. “(Supporters) have to believe in our philosophy,” Van Gaal said. “We are building up a team and you can’t make in one month not in one year of course.

It’s very disappointing but I hope they shall maintain their confidence in the club and in our philosophy.”

The humbling result took the gloss

off United’s pre-match announcement that it had broken the British transfer record by signing Angel Di Maria from Real Madrid for 59.7 million pounds ($99 million). With a summer spending spree that has now hit $215 million, Van Gaal will be expected to quickly restore United to the elite of English football and ensure that Tuesday’s result becomes a long-forgotten blip.

“You have to analyze the problem and then you have to take your matches,” Van Gaal said. “We know exactly what we are doing.”

Will Grigg and Benik Afobe were gifted the openings to each score twice on a memorable night for the Dons, which was originally Wimbledon FC.

5-11 and 4-12 in the last six seasons.

Cleveland was revved up by Johnny Manziel’s arrival, stoking hopes the team finally had a franchise quarterback. He failed to win the starting job in camp — that went to Brian Hoyer — but gained national attention for raising his middle finger toward the Washington bench during a preseason game.

Johnny Football already knows what it’s like to be frustrated in constantly changing Cleveland.

Predicted order of finish: Cincinnati; Pittsburgh; Baltimore; Cleveland.

SOUTH: Titans

training camp by injured hamstrings.

The Texans used the top draft pick overall not on a quarterback but on defence with Jadeveon Clowney.

REBUILDING JAGUARS: The biggest off-season additions were the drafting of Blake Bortles third overall, and the world’s largest video boards in the stadium renovation also featuring pools and cabanas. Coach Gus Bradley and general manager Dave Caldwell keep insisting Bortles will learn behind Chad Henne so the rookie learns the playbook and can make a smooth transition from the spread offence at UCF to a pro system. Bortles may force their hand.

The Jaguars still need healthy receivers and must settle down an offensive line where three young players could start. Luke Joeckel, the second overall pick last year, now is at left tackle, with rookie Brandon Linder likely at right guard. Third-year pro Mike Brewster is battling journeyman Jacques McClendon at centre.

BIG FINISH: The Colts visit Tennessee on Dec. 28 in the regular-season finale, while Jacksonville is at Houston to wrap up the season. Will Indy be trying to stave off the Titans in that matchup?

Predicted order of finish: Colts; Titans; Jaguars; Texans.

WEST: Chiefs

The quarterback has missed 14 games as a starter in two seasons, and the Titans didn’t pick up his option for 2015. They bolstered the offensive line by signing right tackle Michael Oher and drafting tackle Taylor Lewan; the Titans have given Locker as many options as they’ve had in years. Dexter McCluster and rookie running back Bishop Sankey replaced Chris Johnson and join receivers Kendall Wright, Nate Washington and Justin Hunter.

HELLO HOUSTON: The Texans’ Super Bowl dreams disappeared in a stunning 2-14 collapse that tied for the worst record in franchise history.

That’s why Bill O’Brien is the other new coach in this division, and he starts off working with a quarterback Tennessee cut in March. Ryan Fitzpatrick completed 62 per cent of his passes in Tennessee, but had only two more touchdowns (14) than interceptions (12). Fitzpatrick also had trouble holding onto the ball, losing two of nine fumbles. How much help Fitzpatrick gets remains to be seen. Back surgery ended Arian Foster’s season after eight games, and both he and receiver Andre Johnson were sidelined most of

Still in search of their first playoff victory since 1993, the Chiefs also have to address the futures of quarterback Alex Smith and linebacker Justin Houston, two Pro Bowlers entering the final year of their contracts.

QUIET CHARGERS: Mike McCoy was just the right fit to help turn Philip Rivers’ career around. Emboldened by a stunning win in Denver in December, the Chargers won their final four games and got some big help from slumping Miami and Baltimore — and the officials — to end a three-season playoff drought. They beat the Bengals on the road in the wild-card round before losing the rematch at Denver.

After defensive breakdowns cost them the chance for another upset over the Broncos, the Chargers used three of their first four draft picks on defensive players.

They’re also getting Dwight Freeney back. Now 34 and entering his 13th NFL season, Freeney comes off a thigh injury that sidelined him after just four games last season, his first in San Diego.

The Broncos’ off-season moves, however, might have widened the gap too much for the Chargers.

RECLAMATION RAIDERS: GM Reggie McKenzie enters Year 3 of trying to get old mistakes off the Raiders’ books. He’s hoping the route back to respectability goes through the reclamation projects he’s added. Discarded or unwanted by their former teams, players with a history of success in the NFL have gathered in Oakland this year in hopes of resurrecting their careers and ending the Raiders’ 11-year playoff drought.

“As a whole, we’re fighting for the same thing, which is respect,” said running back Maurice Jones-Drew, no longer wanted in Jacksonville.

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FRONT SIBERIAN TRAPPERS DOCUMENTARY A documentary about the life of Siberian trappers will be featured at Red Deer Public Library downtown branch on Sept.

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A discussion facilitated by staff will follow the film. The movie and discussion runs from 2 to 4:30 p.m. in the Waskasoo Meeting Room. For more information, call Donna or Priscilla at 403-346-2100.

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C1 Protecting motorcyclists

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 2014

SAFETY STRESSED ON LONG WEEKEND

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Shoulder checks, proper safety attire and lights are all important tools that motorcyclists can use to stay safe this long weekend.

Kirk Dobrowolski, a STARS Air Ambulance paramedic, has been dispatched to many motorcycle collisions where the situation is grim.

“Because the riders are unrestrained, a lot of those injuries are significant because patients are ejected,” said Dobrowolski.

“Often they are the result of a lack of personal protective equipment.

“They do tend to be significant, especially when speed is a factor, a lack of defensive driving and the lack of protective equipment.”

Proper protective equipment includes helmets, jackets, padding, footwear and gloves.

Heading into the Labour Day long weekend, STARS encourages riders to exercise caution on the roads, because they don’t want to have to fly out to a tragic collision.

In 2013, STARS responded to 46 serious motorcycle and dirt bike-related incidents.

According to a news release, five incidents took place during the 2013 Labour Day weekend alone.

As of this July, STARS had responded to 34 motorcycle and dirt bike incidents.

Among the more common injuries suffered in motorcycle collisions are fractures, head and spinal cord trauma, burns and lacerations.

“Motorcycles don’t have the same protections cars and trucks do,” said Dobrowolski. “Having an awareness on the road,

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Motorcycle safety instructor Nigel Malyon leads, from the left, Trish Clark, Mike Murphy and Lyle German around the streets of Springbrook on Tuesday afternoon. shoulder checking and driving defensively sure contributes to a safer weekend on the highways.”

STARS Air Ambulance flight and medical teams regularly access stress debriefings and often those occur after motorcycle collisions.

Scotty Watters, owner of Alberta Motorcycle Training in Springbrook, stressed the importance of shoulder checks.

“Basically be aware of everyone else on the road,” said Watters. “That’s usually done by shoulder checking. That’s one of the most important things you can do on a motorcycle.

“You be aware because they (other drivers) aren’t.”

He said even though motorcycles come equipped with mirrors, they only give about a 10 per cent view behind a rider.

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“Safety is of the utmost importance — you have no protection, no rollbar, no roof over your head, so safety apparel is important,” said Watters. “Wear visible clothing, reflective colours and lots of lights at the front — that’s a personal thing.”

Watters said drivers often don’t recognize one light coming at them, so he puts a lightbar on his bike, giving him three lights at the front. “You kind of look like a train, it’s eye-catching.”

Alberta Motorcycle Training offers programs to teach proper safe operation of motorcycles, starting from scratch up to a road test level.

But one of the best tips Watters offered was to stay off Hwy 2 on a motorcycle.

“Go the back roads and enjoy the ride, not the speed — enjoy the ride.” mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

Mike Tailleur holds onto his granddaughter Novah McCauley as he gives his daughter Chayse a push on a floating toy at the Blackfalds swimming pool on a sunny afternoon this week. The outdoor pool, in its first year of operation at the new Abbey Centre, will be open the remainder of this week, with its last day of operation Monday, Sept. 1.

More housing options sought JULIETTA’S PLACE RUNNING NEAR CAPACITY, PROVIDING SECOND-STAGE HOUSING FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN CRISIS

BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF For almost four years, Julietta’s Place has provided abused women and their children with a safe place to live as they rebuild their lives.

The 10-suite Red Deer facility opened in November 2010, run by Central Alberta Women’s Outreach.

It is the only housing of its kind in Central Alberta and provides affordable, temporary transitional housing for clients of the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter and others escaping family violence.

Fifty-eight women and 90 children have used Julietta’s Place since 2010 ,with 50 per cent of the families Caucasian, 36 per cent aboriginal and 14 per cent immigrant.

Families can live there for up to 18 months. The average stay has been nine months.

Barb Barber, executive director at Women’s Outreach, said with a 95 per cent oc-

cupancy rate, suites are usually only empty for cleaning between renters.

“We are consistently and constantly doing intakes for the program. If we have families that need to get into the program and we don’t have the space for them, we either try to find an alternative space for them or have them stay in a different facility in another community and bring them back,” Barber said on Tuesday.

“I know we need more housing options for women and children. What that would look like at this point, there’s a group of us are starting to explore it.”

She said Julietta’s Place works closely with other second stage housing programs in Edmonton, Calgary and Medicine Hat. “There’s been times when we’ve taken people from outside Central Alberta because of safety concerns and there’s been times when we moved people out of Central Alberta to other communities. Safety is our primary focus.”

Each suite has a panic button for residents to contact police.

“We haven’t had any security breaches,”

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Barber said.

“We’re very confident in the security that we have in place that families can remain safe. We have had situations where we’re pretty sure that the perpetrator knows where the family is.”

Rent includes utilities at Julietta’s Place and range from $575 for a one-bedroom suite to $775 for a three-bedroom suite, and pay the facility’s mortgage. United Way of Central Alberta, Alberta Human Services and donations fund staffing and maintenance.

A residential co-ordinator and case manager work at the facility to provide one-onone support.

Barber said she is looking for stable funding for the facility.

Julietta’s Place was named in memory of Julietta Sorensen, a pioneer of Red Deer’s public transit system, along with her husband Gordon.

For more information about Julietta’s Place, call the outreach at 403-347-2480 or toll free at 1-866-347-2480. szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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BRIEFS Cattle-shooting youth gets probation, must pay $5,500 The shooting of nine cattle in Central Alberta has netted a youth 16 months probation and an order to pay $5,500 in restitution.

Five of the cattle — four cows and one calf — died from the shots, while four others, including two calves, were injured. All of the cattle were Texas longhorns.

They were found shot in the Stauffer area northeast of Caroline on Aug. 6, 2013. Police said they were all randomly shot with a stolen rifle while they were grazing.

The youth, who was 14 at the time of the incident, cannot be identified due to the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. He was sentenced on Monday in Rocky Mountain House provincial court.

He had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of killing cattle and one count each of careless use of a firearm, breaking and entering and stealing a firearm, and failing to comply with a sentence.

Bridge stabbing incident results in arrest of man One man has been arrested in relation to one of the stabbings on the CPR walking bridge in Red Deer earlier this summer.

Red Deer RCMP were called to the bridge at about 1:55 a.m. on July 5 to a report of a male who had been stabbed.

Two males had been walking on the bridge when they were approached by a group of three other males. A fight between the two groups ensued and the victim was stabbed in the abdomen.

The victim was taken to a nearby residence and police were called. He was then transported to Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre with non-lifethreatening injuries.

Marlo Tyrell Thomas, 21, of Red Deer has been charged with aggravated assault and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.

He was scheduled to appear in Red Deer provincial court Tuesday.

A week later, on July 11, a similar incident took place on the bridge when a man walking on the bridge was approached by a group of three men. The group demanded the other man’s wallet and a scuffle ensued. The victim was stabbed and taken to Red Deer hospital, where he was treated for minor injuries.

Regional bus service links city, Blackfalds, Lacombe BOLT Transit is on the road, linking three Central Alberta communities.

The regional public transit system began operation on Monday between Red Deer, Blackfalds and Lacombe.

It was officially launched on Tuesday at a ceremony that included Al-

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Steve Gardner boards the new BOLT Transit bus in Lacombe with driver Raymond Yuen at the wheel. The new regional bus service, called BOLT, departs from the Sorenson Station in Red Deer three times a day bound for Blackfalds and Lacombe.

A monthly adult regional transit pass will cost $90 for Lacombe and $70 for Blackfalds. Cash fare for the regional service will cost riders $5. berta International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas, Red Deer Mayor Tara Veer, Blackfalds Mayor Melodie Stol and Lacombe Mayor Steve Christie at a the Lacombe Memorial Centre.

“I’m thrilled to see BOLT Transit become reality for the residents of Lacombe, Blackfalds and Red Deer,” said Alberta Transportation Minister Wayne Drysdale. “This intermunicipal service is exactly the kind of public transit project the government of Alberta had in mind when we launched GreenTRIP and I congratulate all the partners on a successful collaboration.”

“This partnership is a significant achievement and a great example of regional collaboration, and it will provide an important quality of life benefit to a large number people by connecting our communities,” said Christie.

“This service recognizes our close connections to Blackfalds and Lacombe, and our continued growth as a region,” said Veer.

BOLT Transit will make six round trips a day during the week and three round trips on Saturdays.

The new low-floor buses are energyefficient and fully accessible, and can carry up to 38 passengers. They have dual bike racks and free Wi-Fi. The service is being cost-shared by Lacombe and Blackfalds, while Red Deer will operate the service — including maintenance and staffing — and recover costs from Lacombe and Blackfalds.

Two buses were purchased with funding of $900,000, including $600,000 from Red Deer, obtained through the Green Transit Incentives Program (GreenTRIP). The remaining $300,000 was contributed by Lacombe and Blackfalds.

Preliminary hearing sought in case of high-speed chase The man alleged to have crashed a pickup truck into two police vehicles while trying to avoid a traffic stop has asked that his charges be heard in the Court of Queen’s Bench with a preliminary hearing first.

Zachary Finch, 22, formerly from Saskatoon, was arrested on May 11 by Blackfalds RCMP. Police allege that a pursuit began after a suspicious pickup truck sped away from a traffic stop on Hwy 2 at the Aspelund Road overpass, southwest of Blackfalds, at about 1 a.m. on May 11.

They say that the truck’s driver made several risky attempts to avoid capture, including driving across the median and smashing into police vehicles.

A helicopter was called in to assist and a suspect was arrested after the fleeing pickup truck became mired in a swamp at the end of a dirt road, west of Lacombe. Finch is charged with numerous offences in connection with the allegations, including two counts of assault with a weapon, flight from police, dangerous driving, two counts of breaching an undertaking and three

counts of mischief.

Represented by defence counsel Kevin Sproule of Red Deer, Finch asked in Red Deer provincial court on Tuesday for trial by judge alone in the Court of Queen’s Bench, with a preliminary hearing. Preliminary hearings may be requested to test the strength of the Crown’s case.

The suspect may be ordered to stand trial and some or all of the charges may be amended or withdrawn as a result of the hearing.

Some lanes to open in construction zone Red Deer drivers can expect to see more lanes open on 49th Avenue northbound at 55th Street starting today.

The lane barricades on 49th Avenue at 55th Street will be removed and three lanes will reopen to motorists northbound.

Drivers are reminded that the area is still a construction zone and the speed limit is 30 km/h.

The $9.4-million 55th Street Improvement Project includes upgrading utilities to facilitate growth in northeast Red Deer, as well as in Riverlands and Railyards, and construction of new sidewalks and a multi-use pathway. It began on July 2.

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E-cigarettes need tighter control: heart group BUT MAY SERVE AS A ‘LAST RESORT’ TO HELP SMOKERS QUIT

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The American Heart Association’s first policy statement on electronic cigarettes backs them as a last resort to help smokers quit.

The American Cancer Society has no formal policy but quietly took a similar stance in May. Both groups express great concern about these popular nicotine-vapour products and urge more regulation, especially to keep them away from youth.

They also stress that proven smoking cessation methods should always be tried first.

But if those fail, “it is reasonable to have a conversation” about e-cigarettes, said the Heart Association’s president, Dr. Elliott Antman.

The Cancer Society said e-cigarettes “may be a reasonable option” for people who could not quit after trying counselling and approved methods, such as nicotine patches.

Neither group recommends e-cigarettes for smoking cessation, and makers of the devices do not market them that way.

E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that vaporize nicotine.

They’ve been sold in the U.S. since 2007 and now have millions of users worldwide and nearly $2 billion in annual sales.

They contain less toxic substances than traditional cigarettes do, but little is known about their health effects.

Whether they help or hurt anti-smoking efforts is hotly debated.

Some say they encourage smoking by letting people maintain their habit in places where cigarettes are banned.

Others say they are a less risky way to satisfy a nicotine craving for people who want to quit, similar to how methadone is used to curb heroin abuse.

This concept, called harm reduction, “is probably the most important and the most contentious issue that the tobacco community is dealing with right now,” said Tom Glynn, who recently retired as the Cancer Society’s top scientist on the e-cigarette issue.

No solid evidence shows that e-cigarettes aid smoking cessation unlike the nicotine patches, gums and medications approved now.

“We need hard-nosed regulation for e-cigarettes and we need more research,” Glynn said, but mostly, “we need to have people stop smoking combustible cigarettes.”

The Heart Association stressed the toll — 20 million deaths in the U.S. alone from tobacco use over the last 50 years.

“We are fiercely committed to preventing the tobacco industry from addicting another generation of smokers,” says a statement from the association’s chief executive, Nancy Brown.

Besides nicotine — “a highly addictive chemical no matter what form it comes in” — some e-cigarettes form other products such as formaldehyde, a carcinogen, Antman said.

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Robert Rodman, owner of Percy’s Liquor, takes a pull from a vape-pen containing a nicotine-free, coffeeflavoured liquid, a sample he keeps in his shop, which sells e-cigarettes and vaporizers in Juneau, Alaska.

“There are many things we see as dark clouds on the horizon” about e-cigarettes’ effects on blood vessels and secondhand exposure, especially to pregnant women, he said.

The Heart Association policy was published Monday in its journal Circulation. The Cancer Society statement was in a patient page accompanying an article on e-cigarettes in the group’s journal for doctors.

In April, the federal Food and Drug Administration proposed treating e-cigarettes as tobacco products with rules such as a ban on sales to those under 18 and warning labels.

Earlier this month, attorneys general from more

than two dozen states sent a letter asking the agency to also ban flavours — more than 7,000 are available.

The American Medical Association also has urged a ban on kid-appealing flavours and other moves to keep e-cigarettes out of young hands.

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has pushed for regulation and does not embrace the view that ecigarettes may have a role in smoking cessation.

“Quitting smoking is hard,” and people often try several times before they succeed, says a statement from a spokesman for the group, Vince Willmore.

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Stem-cell transplant eases Pediatricians push for later start symptoms of rare ‘stiff times for teens person syndrome:’ study

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TORONTO — Canadian doctors have begun using stem cell transplants to treat “stiff person syndrome,” a rare neurological condition in which a patient’s leg and other muscles suddenly contract painfully, often leaving them immobilized like a tin soldier.

The disorder, which affects an estimated one in a million people, occurs when the immune system turns against a person’s own tissues, in this case attacking cells in the brain and spinal cord.

Stem cell transplants have been used to treat patients with other auto-immune diseases, among them multiple sclerosis, scleroderma and Crohn’s disease, but this may be the first time the procedure has been employed to alleviate the symptoms of stiff person syndrome, or SPS, the researchers reported Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology.

SPS is characterized by episodes of stiffness in the muscles and painful muscle spasms, which can be brought on by stress, loud noises or emotional distress. Some people with the disorder are so disabled they are unable to walk or move and may isolate themselves at home to avoid triggering an attack.

“Sometimes this happens when they’re startled,” said Dr. Harry Atkins of the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at the Ottawa Hospital, who headed a team that transplanted stem cells into two women with the disease.

“So you can imagine walking across the street and someone honks the horn and you can’t move, or you start falling and because your muscles can’t move, you just fall and you hurt yourself,” Atkins said Monday from Ottawa.

“It really does provide a barrier with just going on with your life.”

Tina Ceroni of Toronto is one of the two SPS patients who had the stem-cell transplant — and she said it has given back her life.

The personal fitness trainer, now 36, started getting severe symptoms in her late 20s. Initially she was diagnosed with hyponatremia, or low blood sodium, thought to be related to her heavy training schedule for a half-ironman competition.

But when she tried to water-ski at a friend’s cottage and had to be helped from the water because she was unable to move, Ceroni “knew that there was something definitely not right.”

“My legs stiffened up like they were two complete boards. I had no ability to relax the muscles. They started to constrict to a point where I thought a bone might break or a tendon might rupture, and I was in pain for about eight hours.”

She eventually was diagnosed with stiff person disease, which not only affected her legs but also the muscles in her arms and torso, leaving her unable to breathe properly when the muscles that control respiration would contract and go into spasm.

The year before her stem-cell transplant, she was rushed to the hospital 47 times because of life-threatening respiratory distress.

Ceroni had been living with her twin sister in Toronto but had to move back with her parents in

nearby Burlington, Ont., because she couldn’t be left alone.

“I started to withdraw from social events and social gatherings or being in a situation that was slightly unpredictable or if there was a potential for a loud noise, even walking down the street,” she said. “If a car drove by and honked its horn and I was startled ... within minutes I could be on the ground.

“I wasn’t able to live a normal life at all. The disease was dictating my life entirely. It became very, very isolating.”

Ceroni had her stem-cell transplant in May 2011, and she said her symptoms have disappeared.

“My body doesn’t react to noise. I can go to concerts now. I have no sensitivity to the triggers anymore.”

The other patient, who was not identified, had her transplant in 2009, and she too has seen her symptoms abate, allowing her to return to work and resume activities such as skiing and cycling, the researchers reported.

“I think for the period we’ve commented on for both patients, they’ve done very, very well,” said Atkins. “And it’s nice to see them back enjoying life.”

Conventional treatment involves a number of medications, including anti-anxiety drugs, muscle relaxants, anti-convulsants and pain relievers. Intravenous immunoglobulin can also reduce muscle stiffness and lower sensitivity to noise and other triggers. While such treatments can ease symptoms, they don’t cure the disorder, and not all patients get relief from the drugs.

Still, Atkins stressed that not every patient with SPS would be considered for a stem-cell, or bonemarrow, transplant, which requires that the person’s immune system be destroyed with high-dose chemotherapy before their previously removed and purified stem cells are reintroduced to create a new, disease-free immune system.

“It should only be considered where nothing more conventional is working ... the symptoms have to be severe and the impact on their life very, very profound because there are risks associated with this,” he said, adding that one in 20 patients who receives a bone marrow transplant to treat leukemia, lymphoma or an auto-immune disorder will die of a complication.

“And we don’t think stiff person syndrome patients ... would have a lower risk,” he said.

There are also other complications from the chemo, including infertility and premature disorders such as heart disease and diabetes.

“I think for the right patient it might offer some benefit in helping them improve, but it’s too early to say that this is the answer to stiff person syndrome.

It’s a pretty dramatic treatment and we need to keep thinking about better ways to do what we’re doing — getting rid of the immune system perhaps with less toxicity and being able to grow back a new one more quickly.

“So I think there are a lot of unanswered questions yet.”

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CHICAGO — Pediatricians have a new prescription for schools: later start times for teens.

Delaying the start of the school day until at least 8:30 a.m. would help curb their lack of sleep, which has been linked with poor health, bad grades, car crashes and other problems, the American Academy of Pediatrics says in a new policy.

The influential group says teens are especially at risk; for them, “chronic sleep loss has increasingly become the norm.”

Studies have found that most U.S. students in middle school and high school don’t get the recommended amount of sleep — 8 ½ to 9 ½ hours on school nights; and that most high school seniors get an average of less than seven hours.

More than 40 per cent of the nation’s public high schools start classes before 8 a.m., according to government data cited in the policy. And even when the buzzer rings at 8 a.m., school bus pickup times typically mean kids have to get up before dawn if they want that ride.

“The issue is really cost,” said Kristen Amundson, executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education.

School buses often make multiple runs each morning for older and younger students. Adding bus drivers and rerouting buses is one of the biggest financial obstacles to later start times, Amundson said.

The roughly 80 school districts that have adopted later times tend to be smaller, she said.

After-school sports are another often-cited obstacle because a later dismissal delays practices and games. The shift may also cut into time for homework and after-school jobs, Amundson said.

The policy, aimed at middle schools and high schools, was published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Evidence on potential dangers for teens who get too little sleep is “extremely compelling” and includes depression, suicidal thoughts, obesity, poor performance in school and on standardized tests and car accidents from drowsy driving, said Dr. Judith Owens, the policy’s lead author and director of sleep medicine at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. The policy cites studies showing that delaying start times can lead to more nighttime sleep and improve students’ motivation in class and mood.

Whether there are broader, long-term benefits requires more research, the policy says.

Many administrators support the idea but haven’t resolved the challenges, said Amundson. She said the pediatricians’ new policy likely will have some influence. Parents seeking a change “will come now armed with this report,” Amundson said.

Online: American Academy of Pediatrics: http://www.aap. org

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THANON NANG KLARN, Thailand — Depending solely on the rains to either yield a good rice crop or leave their fields dry and barren, farmers in this village in northeastern Thailand, the country’s poorest region, led a precarious and back-breaking existence.

Then they discovered bugs.

At Boontham Puthachat’s home, six concrete pens seethe with crickets munching on chicken feed, pumpkins and other vegetables — treats to fatten them up before they are harvested and sold to hungry humans increasingly eager for a different type of dining experience. “We haven’t become rich, but now we have enough to better take care of our families,� Boontham says proudly. “We are self-sufficient.�

Boontham’s family is one of 30 in this village raising mounds of the profitable crisp and crunchy critters in their backyards, satisfying a big domestic appetite for edible insects, and a slowly emerging international one in countries where most diners would rather starve than sample fried grasshoppers or omelets studded with red ant eggs. Replicated across the country, these enterprises have spawned a multimillion-dollar industry with more than 20,000 registered farms, most of them small-scale household operations, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. Averaging an annual output of 7,500 tons in recent years, Thailand leads the world in producing insects for the dining table.

While it may still seem exotic, if not outright repulsive, to many in the Western world, the FAO points out that insects have long been an integral part of human diets in nearly 100 countries, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, with more than 1,600 species consumed.

In China, the use of insects for food and medicine goes back more than

5,000 years. In recent times, cockroach farming has flourished, with some entrepreneurs getting rich by selling dried cockroaches to companies producing cosmetics and traditional medicines.

Besides generating extra income, insects have proven nutritious and farming them is easy on the environment, according to a 2013 FAO report. “Eating a few insects is like taking a multivitamin,� says Patrick B. Durst, a senior FAO official who co-authored a study on Thailand’s edible insect industry. A 6-ounce serving of crickets, for example, has 60 per cent less saturated fat and twice as much vitamin B-12 as the same amount of ground beef. Farmers don’t use antibiotics or growth hormones and — unlike crabs and lobsters — edible insects don’t feed on dead animals.

Six-legged livestock, as the agency calls them, are also kinder to the environment than their lesser-legged counterparts. It takes 2,900 gallons of water, 25 pounds of feed and extensive acreage to produce one pound of beef and just one gallon of water, two pounds of feed and a small cubicle to produce a pound of crickets.

And when one suppresses any psychological and cultural biases, many insects taste just fine. This reporter found crickets nicely crisp and nutty (a cross between shrimp and almond), and fried bamboo worms not unlike unsalted potato chips. Palm weevils, to some palates, are likened to bacon soup with a chewy, sweet finish, while insect larvae are rich and buttery. “Mushroomy� is another frequentlyused description for some species.

Although a decade ago, insect eating was largely a gimmick - such as a bug embedded in a lollipop - experts say a recent increase in interest in the West is being driven by health and environmental concerns.

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A bar in Paris serves insect tapas and a London start-up, Eat Ento, features honey caterpillar and vegetable wraps. “When I was growing up in the United States, most people would turn up their noses at sushi. Now, it’s very chic.

People’s eating habits do change, so who knows? In 10 to 15 years, eating insects may take off and be regarded as good and cool,� says Durst, whose favourites include fried wasp and some crickets with his beer. Creating such a buzz, he says, may involve a celebrity

chef putting some palm weevil larvae or giant water bugs on a menu “with someone like Tom Hanks eating them.

And then people will say, ’If it’s good enough for him, it’s good enough for me.�’ Durst is cautious about predictions that edible insects will stave off hunger in parts of the world, but believes that as a supplement, it could become an important component of food security. In countries from Laos to Ghana, projects are underway to combat malnutrition with insect farming.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Everything about the New Pornographers’ new album, Brill Bruisers, from the playfully DayGlo cover to the sparkly, maximalist power-pop cupcakes contained therein, seems designed to seize your attention.

It’s the Canadian supergroup’s sixth album, another winner in a remarkably rock-steady run. But in an industry built on riding the shiny and new, consistency can be confused for monotony — and after 14 years of precision pop craftsmanship, it’s natural that mastermind Carl Newman would want to stand out.

“Our narrative — maybe it’s just an old narrative and people are sick of it — but when you look at our band, we’re not your average band,” Newman mused during a recent chat. “It’s like, Kathryn (Calder)’s my niece. Look at everybody involved with it — the fact that Neko (Case) is in the band, or like, Destroyer’s in the band. ... Are we that boring of a band? It seems like we have a lot more going on than most bands do.

“I remember there was a Wilco record years ago where Jeff Tweedy had gone into rehab,” he added. “He had some sort of breakdown and he went into rehab. So all of the press around this record is about like: ‘He had a breakdown, he went into rehab.’

I was thinking, ‘What a great story. Why didn’t I have a breakdown and go into rehab? That was genius, Tweedy, genius!’

“Not to make light of his psychological problems. But I’ve got plenty of psychological problems and I keep them to myself, FYI.” If it’s not entirely obvious, the wry, talkative Newman is kidding. But it would be fair to conclude that Brill Bruisers was infused with perhaps a new level of conscientious ambition.

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New Pornographers band members A.C. Newman, left, and Kathryn Calder pose in Toronto on Thursday, August 7.

Everything about the New Pornographers’ new album, ‘Brill Bruisers,’ from the playfully Dayglo cover to the sparkly, maximalist power-pop cupcakes contained therein, seems designed to seize your attention. band and its steady goodness.

Though the group’s last two records — 2007’s Challengers and 2010’s Together — allowed a hike to their highestyet peaks on the U.S. charts (the latter opened at No. 18), they were also relatively docile efforts, viewed to some extent pejoratively as “mature.” That trend continued with Newman’s mellow 2012 solo record, Shut Down the Streets. Reviews for the three albums weren’t negative, but they were restrained.

That last album was borne from a heady time in Newman’s life, marked by the death of his mother and the birth of his son (Calder’s mother also died from ALS during this period). So the ROYGBIV pleasure explosion that is Brill Bruisers didn’t happen by ac-

cident — Newman acknowledges that he emerged from that time looking to make an “upbeat” record and was resolute in sticking to that goal.

“I think I said a while back that I didn’t want any ballads on the record, and I think it was for that reason,” said Newman, seated next to Calder at their Toronto label office. “Not that every song had to be really upbeat and rocking, but I wanted the record to have a certain sound and any song ... that didn’t have that sound got cut. I just wanted it to have a very specific feel.”

Newman, meanwhile, doesn’t necessarily look back on his band’s charmed run and see the same model of consistency that outsiders might — particularly since he’s acutely aware of the band’s tenuous chemistry, and the con-

stant threat that any of the members’ blossoming solo careers would eventually fracture the band.

Case, in particular, has seen her profile swell and swell — her last two solo records both opened in the Top 8 on Canada’s albums chart — to the point that her departure has seemed somewhat inevitable for a while.

“It does seem inevitable, doesn’t it?” Newman said, laughing. “I feel that way too. But it hasn’t happened yet. I’m living on borrowed time.

“You know, it’s always been the same. It really hasn’t changed in like a dozen years. It’s just always been that way. And regardless of where Neko is in her career, it doesn’t really affect the bottom line — which is that it’s always been hard.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss says that of his classic 1970s films, he believes Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be watched a hundred years from now.

“I thought it was the first film that had a noble ambition. It was the first film that said there was nothing for us to fear from looking up into the stars,” he said in a recent interview. “I wanted to be a part of that.”

Dreyfuss, 66, will be in Toronto this weekend for Fan Expo, a massive gathering of science-fiction and superhero buffs akin to Comic-Con. Many who flock to meet him will do so for Jaws and Close Encounters, two Steven Spielberg-helmed hits that helped usher in a new age of the blockbuster.

But Dreyfuss famously turned down Jaws when it was offered to him — twice. In fact, the only reason he took a chance on the shark thriller was because he thought The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which he had recently filmed in Montreal and Ontario, would be a flop. Jaws was my being stupid.

You know, I had no real reason to turn it down other than I was lazy. I don’t enjoy horror films. I don’t go to see them. I just thought it would be a bitch to make,” he recalled. “Then I saw Duddy Kravitz and I said, ’I better get this job, because if anyone sees Duddy Kravitz, I’ll never work again.”

Dreyfuss said it took him 20 years

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Asked if the movie was as difficult to make as he had predicted, Dreyfuss exclaimed, “Yes!” But following the notoriously troubled shoot, the young actor found himself in a distributor’s screening in New York watching “Jaws” for the first time.

“I went totally nuts. I thought, ’Wow.’ I completely forgot that I was in the movie. I screamed where everyone else screamed,” he recalled. “I knew I was watching a brilliant movie.”

The 1975 film went on to gross $7 million in its opening weekend — then an astronomical sum — and is typically credited with being the first summer blockbuster. Dreyfuss called the film “iconic” and said he isn’t surprised fans still want to talk about Jaws at events like Fan Expo, which runs Aug. 28 to 31 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Dreyfuss has been married three times and has three children. His son Ben Dreyfuss, an editor at Mother Jones, recently published a conversation with his sister Emily about Jaws. Emily revealed she always thought “You’re gonna need a bigger boat” was her dad’s line (it’s Roy Scheider’s) and the siblings jokingly concluded the film “makes no sense.” scribers, which still represent the majority of households. The company has two premium models that work only with a cable or satellite subscription.

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Rapper Young Jeezy among six arrested on suspicion of illegal firearms possession during probe MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Authorities in California say platinum-selling rapper Young Jeezy has been arrested on suspicion of possessing illegal firearms during an investigation into a fatal shooting at a rap concert in Silicon Valley.

Mountain View police spokesman Sgt. Saul Jaeger said Monday that the Atlanta rapper, whose real name is Jay Wayne Jenkins, was taken into custody Sunday by detectives along with five other people while executing a search warrant at the Verizon Amphitheatre in Irvine. They were taken to the Orange County jail.

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Artists and volunteers work on the “Man” at the annual Burning Man event on the Black Rock Desert of Gerlach, Nev., on Sunday.

Heavy rains, muddy playa force temporarily closure of Burning Man

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BLACK ROCK DESERT, Nev. — Thousands of Burning Man enthusiasts were on the outside looking in Monday after a rare batch of heavy rain forced organizers to temporarily close entry to the counterculture event in the desert 90 miles north of Reno.

Standing water made a muddy mess Monday morning of the Black Rock Desert playa, where numerous vehicles were stuck and northbound traffic on State Highway 447 was being turned back toward Reno.

Organizers said the event would remain closed through Monday and possibly into Tuesday with a chance of isolated rain showers in the forecast overnight.

Last year, a record 68,000 people attended the event that runs through the Labor Day weekend.

Several hundred people who entered the gates during Sunday’s opening were being told to remain in place at their camps. Many who didn’t make it to event before the gates closed were descending on Pyramid Lake to set up camp about 30 miles northwest of Reno.

“We’re going to make the best of the situation,” Charlie Lucas, of Portland, Oregon, told the Reno Gazette-Journal (http://tinyurl.com/lkajkks ).

The Nevada Highway Patrol issued a statement late Monday that urged participants to stay overnight at motels and hotels in Reno, Sparks and Fernley, and noted that Wal-Mart stores were offering the use of their parking lots for RVs overnight.

“We are requesting that participants do not try and travel out to the Burning Man area until notified that the roads will be open,” NHP Trooper Dan Lopez said, adding that “we are not sure” when that will be and will be determined by the weather through Tuesday morning.

By midday Monday, hundreds of people had gathered outside a tribal smoke shop just off U.S. Interstate 80 in Wadsworth east of Reno where they were buying camping permits at the lake that sits on the Pyramid LakePaiute Reservation.

Clerks at the smoke shop said they had no idea how many permits had been sold, only that they were “overwhelmed” and did not have time to talk.

“We’re going to make good of a bad situation,” Shaft Uddin of London told the Gazette-Journal. “I hear Pyramid Lake is beautiful, and apparently there is going to be a big party.”

By Monday afternoon, yellow Volkswagen buses, countless recreation vehicles and at least one school bus painted to look like a cheetah with whiskers on the hood began packing campsites along the lake.

Close to a dozen of those first arrivals took off their clothes and entered the lake, the newspaper reported.

Nudity is allowed at Burning Man as part of the celebration of art and selfexpression.

But within an hour, a park ranger at Pyramid Lake had asked the campers to put their clothes back on.

“How can you not know that it is not OK to be naked in public?” the ranger asked.

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Dear Annie: We are perplexed as to the actions of our grown children.

We were not perfect parents, but consider ourselves to have been pretty good.

Our kids grew up in a nice home where friends were welcome, and they were involved in church and extracurricular activities.

Now that they have their own homes, my wife and I continue to help by babysitting and lending a hand when needed.

But as we find ourselves MITCHELL aging and occasionally need& SUGAR ing help from them, no help is forthcoming.

Why? What makes adult children tune out the needs of aging parents?

We feel hurt by their lack of caring. — Confused Mom and Dad Dear Mom and Dad: Have you asked your children for specific help?

Sometimes parents expect the children to know what they need, but the kids can be oblivious, assuming their parents are as competent and capable as they always have been.

Also, some parents expect grown children with family obligations of their own to do chores that would consume every weekend, when the parents are perfectly able to hire someone to do these jobs.

Kids resent this.

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Otherwise, please be direct.

Say, “We are finding it difficult to change the light bulbs in our house because we are unsteady on the stepladder.

“Could you come by one day this week and take care of that for us?

“We’d truly appreciate it.”

Most kids will step up when asked.

Dear Annie: My 77-year-old grandmother is an incredibly caring and loving woman, and she expresses this through cooking.

Granny cooks large meals every day, and if you’re around, there’s no chance to escape without eating at least one plateful.

Dropping hints or saying you just ate, are on a diet or aren’t hungry doesn’t work.

She says, “Eat it while it’s hot!” or “It’s not that filling,” and suddenly two more scoops of potato salad have appeared on your dish.

I feel trapped.

I don’t want to hurt her feelings, because I know she does it out of love and because when she was growing up there wasn’t always food in the house.

But it’s no good gorging until I feel sick.

It feels like she’s trying to feed me to death.

Help! — Stuffed in Pennsylvania Dear Stuffed: You are right that Granny shows love through food, and it also gives her pleasure to see you gorge.

But no matter how much food Granny puts on your plate, you are not obligated to finish it.

Practise saying “no” sweetly but more convincingly.

Spend some time taking one bite and pushing food around on your plate, and then sit back and say, “I’m

stuffed! I can’t eat one more thing.”

She’ll insist.

You’ll repeat.

She’ll cajole.

You’ll repeat.

She’ll act hurt.

You’ll repeat.

Ask whether you could take the food home (where you can do with it whatever you like).

Tell her you love her. Ask her to talk to you about her day.

But under no circumstances do you have to eat everything she puts in front of you.

Dear Annie: This is for “Mother in Iowa,” whose daughter falsely accused her of physical abuse.

What a child interprets as physical abuse may be different from what Mom recognizes.

My mother thought it was OK to pull down my panties and spank me with a paddle in front of my father.

I am sure neither she nor my father considered that physical or sexual abuse, but I do.

She also bit my finger so hard one time that the teeth marks lasted for days.

While I bear the scars, I do not think of her as an abuser, because I am sure she felt her behaviour was sanctioned by the Bible and by society.

“Mother in Iowa” may think what she did was normal, while her daughter may view it differently.

— Mostly Over It in Vermont 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.

HOROSCOPES Wednesday, Aug. 27 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Aaron Paul, 34; Tom Ford, 52; Yolanda Adams, 52 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today will mark a time when our wants and desires are not in harmony.

Yesterday was about realizing where our limits are, today is about understanding what’s out of line with our true path.

Today’s transit will test even the best of relationships.

It will trigger a need to make sure all the important people around us are on the same boat and heading towards the same bright sky.

LARISA MAIRA HAPPY BIRTHDAY: If today OZOLINS is your birthday, there will be a SUN SIGNS strong desire for you to communicate your deepest needs to others this year.

The direction of your relationships, either business or romantic, will be intensified with a strong desire towards accomplishment.

Be careful with any romantic liaisons as they will most likely stay that way.

On a whole, this is a great year to build resources in private.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There will be a strong need for you to be with another today.

Your desire for romance is not currently being matched by your wants to form intimate relationships.

Perhaps you still have intimacy issues.

Look back where that fear was created and let that negative energy go today!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today’s transit will test the relationships you have.

These can be either business or significant relationships.

If conflict is there already, this typical arousing transit will turn into an argument.

Allow for this to come about as it will clear the air, for the better, for all involved.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Today will test the relationships you have with co-workers and teachers.

The reason for this transit is to make sure you know enough to carry out the tasks required of you at the moment.

You are fully capable, but there could be more you’d like to know.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This transit will simultaneously correspond to your finances and worth and they relate to your creative expression and your romantic life.

There is a powerful connection there.

As soon as you find your true voice and expression, everything will elevate to another level for you!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your personal desires for yourself are not fully being met for you with those within your household or with those you consider family.

Today will be the test, point blank.

You’ll see what is out of balance and you’ll be able to correct and fix it.

If all is well, expect an arousing day!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Today there will be a strong need to vocalize your needs to others in your life.

Do so in private, because any step forward will have a strong pull back if others or you aren’t ready to bring those matters into the public eye.

Speak of small steps forward towards prosperity now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): So today is a funny day, some of the wishes you have are purposely not going to be fulfilled just to test you out.

Go with the flow, there could be an argument but try to keep it to a minimum.

If your wish is for you to get frisky with your spouse,

then that wish will come to be.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Okay, so there have been some changes with regards to your wishes.

This will be highlighted today as you will have to forgo some of your desires to fully tap into this new plan you have going forward.

On the plus side, there is great opportunity to flirt with someone today!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are getting a little bit tired of all the work you will need to do in order to get your true path moving forward.

Just relax and take the time to organize your plans forward. Allow for greater awareness to emerge from any conflicts that could come up today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Today will test not only your relationships with friends, but also with your spouse or business partner.

Discussions today could really turn out beautifully, that’s if you are both on the same page.

If not, allow for both of you to state your case and then promptly make up!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today’s energy will instigate a fight or a resolution, or both.

There will be a need to resolve any issues with your mother, and this might create disharmony with your spouse.

Try to see their point of view as it will help you release tension that has been building for some time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A mentor of yours or your spouse will introduce a new element to the work today.

Are you prepared to work harder towards the future you want?

Well, today there will be a test with your relationship with God, and also your significant other, do the leg work for them!

Larisa Maira Ozolins is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily.

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HUBL Eleanor Ventla Oct. 4 1922 - Aug. 21 2014 Eleanor passed away peacefully in the Red Deer Hospital on Thursday evening at the age of 91 years. Our Loving mother will be missed by her children Allan (Denise), Sheila (John Leggo), Stanley (Brenda), Marvin (Linda); her Grand Children Brandi, Ryan, Sylvia, Christopher, Alaina, Paul, Martina, and Zachary.

She is also survived by twelve Great Grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews, loving friends and family. She was predeceased by her husband Robert, one grandson Adam, all eight of her siblings, her father and mother, John and Pieta Taskila. Eleanor enjoyed her flowers and her huge garden.

Also picking berries with her sisters, going on excursions to Finland and other places, and playing crib. Most of all she loved visiting with her family and friends. Funeral services will be held at the Evergreen Hall on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 at 1:00 p.m.

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WHITTLE Marlies (1928-2014) It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Marlies Whittle of Red Deer, AB, beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, on August 21, 2014. Marlies was born in Gottingen, Germany, in 1928. She was a war bride, marrying British soldier, Richard Whittle. They began their married life in England, raising their young family, before moving to Canada and settling in Southern Ontario. Before moving to Red Deer, Marlies spent many happy retirement years in Elliot Lake, ON, where she enjoyed the friendly community and beautiful landscape.

Marlies loved spending time with family, and especially reunion gatherings with family in Canada and Germany.

Marlies is survived by her children Janet (Michael) O’Brien of Red Deer, AB, Ilona Priede (Ewen MacDonell) of Oshawa, ON, Gary (Deborah) Whittle of Canmore, AB, and Richard (Mary) Whittle, of North York, ON, grandchildren Fiona (Jeff) McCarthy, Sean (Amy) O’Brien, Michael (Kimberley) O’Brien, Marliese Whittle, and Benjamin Whittle; great-grandchildren Desmond, Quinn, Aria, and Vivian; and former husband, Richard Whittle Sr. She will be fondly remembered by her family (Leonhardt and Schmidt) in Germany.

Thanks for the kind care received from the Red Deer Regional Hospital and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. A memorial service for Marlies will take place in the Fall in Ontario. In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Alberta Heart and Stroke Foundation is greatly appreciated.

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JOHNSTONE James “Jim” Earle Feb. 23, 1935 - Aug.23, 2014 Jim was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to Jim and Dorothy Johnstone and was raised on a farm at Neilburg, Sask. He started his powerline career with Sask. Power, then joined Calgary Power (TransAlta) in 1958 until his retirement in 1992.

Jim married Mary Wilson on July 3, 1959, and settled in Lacombe where they raised their two children. Jim and Mary loved to camp and fish with family and friends during the summer. In the winter they would travel to Yuma, Arizona with the snowbirds.

Jim was also an avid Saskatchwan Roughriders fan and never missed a game.

Jim is lovingly remembered by his wife Mary, two children, Laurie Lund and Brad (Kim) Johnstone of Lacombe; four grandchildren: Deni (Leo Chow) Lund, Nick Lund, Sean Johnstone and Kayleigh Johnstone; two great grandchildren: Kira and Hunter Lund; brothers Rodney (Maureen) Johnstone of Crystal Lake, Sask. and Richard (Ann) Johnstone of Regina Sask. Sisters Jean Wagner of Kindserley, Sask. and Mary (Ed) Lauer of Drayton Valley, AB. As per Jim’s wishes there will be no funeral.

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LINKLATER James Robert (Bob) Sept. 23, 1935 - Aug. 23, 2014 It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Bob Linklater at the Palliative Care Unit of Red Deer Regional Hospital. Bob is lovingly remembered by his wife of 39 years, Ruby. He was born in Haynes, Alberta to Jim and Williamina Linklater. Bob was predeceased by his brothers; David (Lorraine), Chubb, and Jim and his sisters; Marjorie (Stewart Dobinson) and Kathleen (Bill Hunt). Bob is survived by his brother Ben (Marg) and his sisters Irene Crawford and Betty (Edward McRobbie) his sisters-in-law Jenny Linklater and Nancy (Len Schmode). Also left to cherish his memory are many nieces, nephews and friends. Bob chose to donate his body to the University of Alberta, Edmonton for research. A memorial service to celebrate his life will be announced at a later date.

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Obituaries MILMAN, Ruth Barbara (nee Gilberg) Jan. 11, 1922 - Harbonas, Sweden Aug. 20, 2014 - Calgary, Alberta It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ruth Milman, beloved wife of Arnold Milman of Calgary, on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at the age of 92 years. Ruth was born January 11, 1922 in Harbonas, Sweden to Johan and Maria Katerina (Karin) Gilberg. The Gilberg family immigrated to Canada in 1924 and farmed in the Irricana area. In January 1944, Ruth joined the Canadian Women’s Army Corp, trained in Vermillion and Edmonton and was stationed in Ottawa and Calgary, where she became a Sergeant while in service.

After the war ended, she worked for Calgary Power until 1956, the year she married her loving husband J. Arnold Milman. Ruth and Arnold were proud parents to Gordon and Karin.

Ruth was a great athlete; she played baseball (short stop), basketball, golf, yoga, badminton, bowling, tai chi, hiking, cross-country skiing, and mountain climbing. She was an active member of the Irricana Church of the Brethern, Gaetz United Church in Red Deer, St. David’s United Church in Calgary, and KIK Seniors in Irricana. She also volunteered with the Women’s Auxiliary at the Foothills Medical Centre for many years. Ruth loved her family and friends and enjoyed the laughter and fellowship and the good times they had together. She especially enjoyed many happy moments at Pine Lake where everyone was always welcome. Ruth was kind, loving, patient, and thoughtful, always willing to pitch-in and help out anywhere she could. She is cherished by all who knew her and will be greatly missed. Ruth is survived by her loving husband of fifty-eight years, Arnold Milman; daughter Karin Milman; daughter-in-law BJ (Rob) Fritz; grandchildren, Christopher (Vanessa) Ropchan, Jennifer (Jonathon) Exner, Daniel and Kimberly Milman; and great-grandchildren, Maia Rophchan, Samantha and Denna Exner. Ruth is also survived by her brother Rolf Gilberg; sisters-in-law, Gladys and Dorothy Milman; and numerous nieces and nephews. Ruth was predeceased by her beloved son Dr. Gordon Milman; parents John and Karin Gilberg; sisters, Anne Dunn and Elsie Sullivan; brother Rooney Gilberg; brothers-in-law, Tom Dunn, Dave Sullivan, Dean, Bob and Lionel Milman; sisters-in-law, Vera and Maxine Gilberg and Florence Milman. A Celebration of Ruth’s Life will be held at McINNIS & HOLLOWAY (Chapel of the Bells, 2720 Centre Street North, Calgary, AB.) on Thursday, August 28, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Graveside Service to follow at Queen’s Park Cemetery. Condolences may be forwarded through www.mcinnisandholloway.com. In lieu of flowers, Ruth requested that memorial tributes may be made directly to the Alberta Cancer Foundation, Provincial Office, Sun Life Place, 710, 10123 - 99th Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3H1 Telephone: 1-866-412-4222, www.albertacancer. ca/memorial.

In living memory of Ruth Milman, a tree will be planted at Fish Creek Provincial Park by McINNIS & HOLLOWAY FUNERAL HOMES Chapel of the Bells, 2720 CENTRE STREET NORTH, Calgary, AB, Telephone: 1-800-661-1599.

You may wish to email your family and friends to let them know that the above obituary may be viewed online at: www.mcinnisandholloway.com

MARTIN Harvey Paul June 1, 1941- Aug. 24, 2014 Harvey Paul Martin passed away Sunday, August 24, 2014 at the age of 73.

Harvey is survived by his two sons; Phil (Theressa) and Darcy (Heather) and his two granddaughters; Faith and Kyra, his brothers Perry (Vivian) of Drayton Valley, Bill (Paulette) of Red Deer, and his sisters Shirley Scott of Red Deer and Faye (Larry) Zdyb of Okotoks. He was predeceased by his wife Janet and brother Marvin.

Graveside services will be held at the Bentley Cemetery, Bentley, AB. on Thursday, August 28th, 2014 at 11:00 A.M. You are invited to join the family to share the remembrances at Lacombe Legion following the service. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, #202, 5913-50 Ave., Red Deer, AB. T4N 4C4 or the charity of the donor’s choice. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements.

403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

KOENEN (Skeels) Margaret It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Margaret Ann (Skeels) Koenen on August 2, 2014 in Grande Prairie, Alberta at the age of 56. The youngest of five, Margaret was born in Bentley, Alberta on September 10, 1957. In 1989, Margaret and her husband Brett moved to Grande Prairie where she worked for the next 20 years at the north side Safeway location. Margaret will be greatly missed by her husband Brett; daughters Kim (Damon Verreault) and Jacilyn (James) Sands; mother Rose Skeels; sister Linda (Bruce) Glenn and brother Gordon (Alexis) Skeels. She is predeceased by her father Ray; brothers Glen and Gene. A graveside service for Margaret will be held on Saturday, August 30, 2014 at the Bentley Cemetery at 2 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the Grande Prairie Hospice Palliative Care Society (GPHPCS, Box 21215, Grande Prairie, AB T8V 6W7).

In Memoriam

WHAT’S HAPPENING

CLASSIFICATIONS 50-70

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Class Registrations

ASHLEY & FRIENDS PLAYSCHOOL Accepting Fall Registrations 3-5 yr. olds. Limited Space avail. 403-343-7420

ZEN KARATE & KICK BOXING Cheney Karate Studios, Red Deer’s most trusted name in Martial Arts is now accepting registration for all adult & children’s programs starting Sept..

Enrollment is limited.

(403) 347-9020 www.cheneykarate.com

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Coming Events

All Visits are Free.

No Obligation.

Compliments of Local Businesses.

Are you new to the neighbourhood?

Expecting a Baby?

Planning a Wedding?

Call or visit us online!

1-844-299-2466 welcomewagon.ca

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Personals

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650 COCAINE ANONYMOUS 403-396-8298

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jobs CLASSIFICATIONS 700-920

DANIELLA PELISSIER May 21, 1982 - Aug. 27, 2004 May the winds of love blow softly and whisper so you’ll hear. We will always love and miss you and wish that you were here.

Mom, Dad, Aislin, Matt, Hedwig, Rick & Parker, Uncle Mike, Carl & Carla

Caregivers/ Aides

710

P/T F. caregiver wanted for F quad. Must be reliable and have own vehicle.

403-505-7846

Clerical

720

EYEWEAR LIQUIDATORS requires RECEPTIONIST Must have computer experience and be available from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm Apply in person with resume to: 4924 59 St. Red Deer, AB. No Phone Calls Please Laser Derm & Wellness Centre is looking for a full time receptionist/aesthetician. We offer generous wages , commissions and signing bonus. Drop your resume off to Bay 500, #80 Donlevy Avenue, R.D.

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309-3300 Email: classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

740

BOWER DENTAL REQ’S F/T ORTHODONTICS TRAINED ASSISTANT. Position to start immed.

Must be a member of the College of Alberta Dental Association. Great benefits and perks. Email resume to: marina@bowerdental.com or drop off resume.

FULL TIME POSITION FOR LEVEL 2 RDA required for a busy family dental office in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta.

Ortho module would be an asset. Please fax your resumes to 403-845-7605 or e-mail: markochatenay @gmail.com

Farm Work

755

EAST OF LACOMBE GRAIN FARM, Looking for exp.d farm help for coming harvest season. Class 1 or 3 drivers license req’d. Fax resume to 403-784-3806 or call 403-350-8215

Janitorial

770

ARAMARK at (Dow Prentiss Plant) about 20-25 minutes out of Red Deer needs hardworking, reliable, honest person w/drivers license, to work during shut down, days and nights, $14/hr. Fax resume w/ref’s and specify days or nights to 403-885-7006 Attn: Val Black

D2 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014

We would like to thank all applicants, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

LEGAL ASSISTANT, ROWANOAK LAW OFFICE LLP in Sylvan Lake requires a smart, professional, organized legal assistant who loves to be busy and takes initiative. Working in the area of Family Law, your responsibilities will include, managing emails, diaries and time posting for 1 busy lawyer, dealing with phone calls, clients, file management, preparation of correspondence, billing and court documents. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work with complete autonomy and work well under deadlines. Experience in Word and Outlook a must with a typing speed of at least 65 wpm.

Knowledge of Childview, LRCY matters and ESILaw is an asset. 3 or more years experience in Family preferred. Must have own transportation. Please e-mail your resume to mtivadar@rowanoaklaw. com or fax to Michele Tivadar @ 403-887-7380.

Salary to commensurate with experience. All replies held in confidence. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Medical

790

EXPERIENCED MEDICAL OFFICE ASSISTANT FOR FULL TIME POSITION IN PROFESSIONAL PHYSICIAN MEDICAL CLINIC IN RED DEER DUTIES INCLUDE: Patient reception and scheduling appointments.

Organizing, filing and electronic medical records Organizing clinic operations and supplies.

Assisting during patient visits.

Alberta health billing and reconciliation REQUIREMENTS: Must have minimum 3 years experience as medical office assistant in healthcare setting.

Completion of medical secretary course or equivalent. Must have strong computer skills.

Must have strong organizational, time management, and multitasking skills.

Electronic Medical Records (EMR) experience required. Good knowledge of computer use and medical terminology.

Billing experience Please email cover letter and resume to reddeermed@gmail.com Only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Oilfield

800

1ST RATE ENERGY SERVICES INC., a local well production company, is currently seeking experienced

DAY & NIGHT SUPERVISORS

Oilfield

800

EXP’D CLASS 1 DRIVER REQ’D. Class 1 is a must and picker exp. would be an asset. Oilfield exp. preferred. Will require H2S and First Aid Certificate.

This position is F/T days only in the Stettler area.

Salary to commensurate with experience. Please send resumes to: lornemurfitt@telus.net.

GROWING local oilfield water management company requires crews - no experience necessary, long hours, remote locations. Competitive wages and health benefits. Must have PPE & first aid, H2S. Contact 403-346-0009 or email welltesting365@ gmail.com LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets.

Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475 LOCAL Testing company seeking experienced Well Testers.

Positions available immediately.

Day/Night Supervisors & Assistants.

MUST HAVE valid H2S and First Aid. Competitive wages and health benefits.

Email resumes and tickets to: welltesting365@ gmail.com

NOW ACCEPTING RESUMES FOR

as well as

TESTING ASSISTANTS Must have current H2S and First-Aid tickets.

We offer competitive wages and benefits Please fax or email your resume to: Fax # 403 887-4750 JJudson@1strateenergy.ca

Experienced Swampers and Class 1 Drivers with tickets AND rig move and winch experience.

HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER with NCSO and oilfield transportation experience.

For Red Deer area.

Fax resume & abstract to 403-885-0473 email: info@trysonenergy.com No phone calls please.

NOW HIRING BARDEN Oilfield Hauling is looking for Experienced Picker Operators & Swampers for camp work. Shifts are 15 on & 6 scheduled days off. Fax resumes to 403 341 3968 or email bardentrucking@telus.net No phone calls please.

Well Testing Personnel Experienced Supervisors & Operators Must have valid applicable tickets. Email: lstouffer@ testalta.com

Oilfield

800

Services

810

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Attn: Human Resources email:payroll@ bearspawpet.com Fax 403-252-9719 Mail: Suite 5309 333 96 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T3K 0S3

Red Deer Advocate Publication dates: SAT. AUGUST 30 TUES. SEPT. 2 Deadline is: Fri. August 29, 5 p.m.

Snubco Pressure Control Ltd. Now Hiring All Snubbing Positions Candidate must have a valid Class 1 or Class 3 license (No GDL Please) Valid H2S, Fall Arrest, and First Aid tickets must express a strong work ethic.

Positions are base out of Nisku, AB Qualified applicants can email their resumes to careers@snubco.com or fax to 780 955 3508 attn. AJ Grant

Central AB Life Publication date: THURS. SEPT. 4 Deadline is: Fri. August 29, 5 p.m.

Ponoka & Lacombe Express Publication date: WED. SEPT. 3 Deadline is: Thur. August 28, 5 p.m.

Rimbey Publication date; TUES. SEPT. 2 Deadline is: Thur. August 28, NOON Stettler & Weekender

BRICAR CONTRACTING now hiring Experienced Dozer & Hoe Operators.

Send resumes by Fax: 403-347-6296 or email: aron@bricar.ca You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

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Castor - Regular deadline Have a safe & happy holiday CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

GOODMEN ROOFING LTD. Requires SLOPED ROOFERS LABOURERS & FLAT ROOFERS Valid Driver’s Licence preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca or (403)341-6722 NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! HIRING IMMEDIATELY Steel Stud Framers & Laborers. Light/heavy gauge steel framing. Great work experience, long term work and on going projects in Red Deer and surrounding areas. F: 403.

668.1142 E:info@lwbsi. com www.lwbsi.com Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL OVERHEAD DOOR INSTALLERS & SERVICE TECHNICIANS REQUIRED We offer top wages for experienced technicians.

Excellent benefit package.

Room for growth within the company.

Please submit resume to: jfrost @globaloverheaddoors.com

SHUNDA CONSTRUCTION Requires Full Time

Carpenters & Helpers Competitive Wages & Benefits.

Fax resumes & ref’s to: 403-343-1248 or email to: admin@shunda.ca

SPARTEK SYSTEMS INC In Sylvan Lake, AB is seeking qualified

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATOR/WRITER For complete job descriptions, please refer to our website at www.sparteksystems.com Applicants please forward resume to: keri.lee@ sparteksystems.com or fax to 403-887-4050 Please state which position you are applying for in your cover letter.

WRENCHMASTERS AUTOPRO has an immediate opening for an individual with strong parts & estimating skills.

Duties will include estimates, labor times, and inventory control as well as working with technicians. Strong computer knowledge & the ability to work with Automotive software is a huge asset.

Please email resume to jeff@wrenchmasters.ca Start your career!

See Help Wanted

820

F/T dishwasher, Mon. - Fri. 8:30 - 4, in Burnt Lake Park, Red Deer.

403-340-3302 email resume: scottnshaw@telus.net

SERVICE BEN ’S WRITER

Southside Dodge is looking for a new full-time team member to join our great staff!

IMMEDIATE OPENINGS Sylvan Lake. SWAMPERS REQ’D. Safety bonus program, top wages and benefits. Email resume: tom@roncooilfield.ca or fax: 403-887-4892

880

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DAIRY equipment supplier looking for GENERAL LABORERS For our parts & service dept.

Competitive wages and benefits package. E-mail resume: info@prolineinc.ca Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

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

Buying or Selling your home?

Check out Homes for Sale in Classifieds

Counter Salesperson A local company requires an enthusiastic person for counter sales.

Email resume to mark@aesreddeer.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 GULL Valley Greenhouses Blackfalds AB has 2 positions for Greenhouse Supervisors.

Must have 2-3 yrs. exp. working in a tomato vegetable greenhouse. Job involves training & supervising workers, also performing same jobs as workers. Terms of employment incl. a 40 hr week, Sunday’s off & $20.00/hr.

Jobs starting Aug 19th 2014.

Reply with info to: phil@gullvalley.ca Integra Tire Innisfail, req’s a Tire Tech with Lube Bay and Service Truck exp.

Valid class 5 license and driverabstract req’d. Send resume to innisfail@ integratire.com or fax to 403.227.6689

880

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RV TECHNICIAN/ RV TECH APPRENTICE Duties include:

Attributes:

• All aspects of RV Service work • Seasonal extended hours • Customer interaction

• • • •

Previous experience Organized & Reliable Physically fit Mechanically inclined

Will consider: • Journeyman RV Technician status or equivalent related trade experience • Salary based on experience and ability • Company benefits • Top industrial wage for right person

To deliver the 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS

• This is a career position.

• Salary based on experience and ability.

• Profit sharing and company benefits.

Apply by: Email: bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn: Bill/Service

Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303

860

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

DEER PARK AREA

www.ferus.com

Ferus requires experienced Professional Class 1 drivers with three years or more experience to operate a variety of late model liquid carbon dioxide and liquid nitrogen equipment out of our Blackfalds & Grande Prairie bases.

Depalme St. & part of Dunning Cres. & 3 blocks of Douglass Ave. $78./mo also Dixon Cres. $103/mo.

GRANDVIEW AREA

We offer:

Southside Dodge is looking for an

3900 to 4400 blocks of 40A Ave., 2 blocks of 41 Ave, and 1 block of 39, 46 & 47 St. $71/mo.

MOUNTVIEW AREA

PLUS:

Surveyor Assistants

• • • •

(Red Deer & Lacombe)

Flexible Spending Account Group RSP Savings Plan Comprehensive Health and Dental Plan Career Advancement Opportunities

3400 black of 44A Ave and 35 St. Cres.

We offer a work rotation of 15 days on & 6 days off.

Preference will be given to applicants with off-road experience.

If you are interested in working in a positive and dynamic environment please send your resume & driver abstract to humanresources@ferus.com or by fax to 1-888-879-6125 439504H30

440464I4

Class 1 Operators to join our team of drivers hauling clean fluids for the Oil & Gas Industry.

Home most evenings, scheduled days off, company benefits with exceptional pay structure that includes guarantied salary + hourly when hauling. Must be able to work on their own with minimal supervision.

Fax resume w/all tickets and current drivers abstract to: 403-346-3112 or email to: roger@fluidexperts.com

ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS

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

800

Just Graduated from High School?

This job could be for you! If you enjoy working in the out of doors, are enthusiastic about learning new skills and would like to work toward a career in the recognized profession of Land Surveying then please visit our website at: www.questinc.ca

Of Red Deer is seeking experienced

ACADEMIC Express

CARRIERS REQUIRED

• Industry competitive wages based on an hourly pay schedule • Automatic pay increases • Daily per diem allowance • Recognition and incentive programs • Mechanic-maintained equipment • Travel Compensation

Vehicle Admin/Customer Service Representative

Fluid Experts Ltd.

880

Comfort Close, Connell Close, Chappell Drive, Chism Close & 1 block of Cornett Dr. $98/mo

CENTRAL ALBERTA’S DAILY NEWSPAPER

Oilfield

CLASS 1 DRIVER with super B and grain hauling experience for Central AB. Call Wayne 403-341-9113 CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

CLASS 1 or 3 drivers req’d for moving equipment.

Resumes to be dropped off at Key Towing. 4083-78 St. Cres. Red Deer.

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

Misc.

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Advocate Opportunities

- Outgoing - Organized - Mechanically Inclined - Computer Proficient - Previous Experience A Must

Truckers/ Drivers

860

Truckers/ Drivers

E-mail bill@unclebensrv.com Fax: (403) 346-1055 or drop off resume, Attn Bill/Service

PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS WANTED

720

Southside Dodge is looking for a new fulltime team member to join our great staff!

The right candidate is punctual, can work independently and is computer savvy. You must be a quick learner. Experience with websites and customer service would be an asset. Our company offers competitive wages and excellent benefits. If you think you can be an asset to the Southside family then please contact us with your resume via: jsparks@southsidereddeer.com.

is currently seeking SERVICE ADVISORS. We offer competitive wages, a great working environment, and a great benefit package.

Please email resume to Joey Huckabone joey@pikewheatonchev.ca

Attributes:

classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com wegotads.ca

Clerical

PIKE WHEATON CHEVROLET

- Service Writing - Warranty Administration - Service Scheduling - Maintaining Paper Flow

Please send resume to: FAX: (403) 948-4924 or email tanya.dowie@btgi.ca

Daily the Advocate publishes advertisements from companies, corporations and associations from across Canada seeking personnel for long term placements.

Bashaw Publication date: WED. SEPT. 3 Deadline is: Wed. August 27, noon

DUE TO A LARGE INCREASE IN BUSINESS,

Duties include:

Find the right fit.

Sylvan Lake News & Eckville Echo Publication date: THUR. SEPT. 4 Deadline is: Fri. August 29, 5 p.m.

850

Trades

880

Misc.

Help

Boundary offers a competitive salary and benefits package as well as an RRSP program. We are a Construction/Land survey company based in Airdrie.

Restaurant/ Hotel

850

Trades

In the Red Deer and surrounding area

CONSIDERING A CAREER CHANGE?

Publication date: WED. SEPT. 3 FRI. SEPT. 5 Deadline is: Fri. August 29, NOON

820

PROFLO PRODUCTION JJAM Management (1987) SEPARATORS is currently Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s seeking an individual for a Requires to work at these SEMI F/T Red Deer, AB locations: SHOP FOREMAN. 5111 22 St. He must have a valid 37444 HWY 2 S driver’s licence & be able 37543 HWY 2N to drive a standard in a 1 700 3020 22 St. ton truck. He must be FOOD ATTENDANT Req’d permanent shift mechanically inclined & weekend day and evening have oilfield exp. Duties both full and part time. would include washing & 16 Vacancies, $10.88/hr. + maintaining separators, flare stacks, office trailers, benefits. Start ASAP. shop & yard. Candidate Job description www.timhortons.com must have first aid &, H2S. Hours are flexible but 9 - 4 Education and experience not req’d. would be the standard.

Please drop off your Apply in person or fax resume at 8006 Edgar resume to: 403-314-1303 Industrial Ave. with current drivers’ licence abstract & JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s a copy of safety tickets.

Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. SERVICE RIG Manager/Food Services Bearspaw Petroleum Ltd Permanent P/T, F/T shift. is seeking Wknd, day, night & eves.

LEASEHAND Start date ASAP. $18/hr. 40 Locally based, home every hrs/week, + benefits , night! Qualified applicants 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., must have all necessary criminal record check req’d. valid tickets for the position Req’d education some secbeing applied for. ondary. Apply in person or Bearspaw offers a fax resume to: very competitive salary 403-314-1303 For full job and benefits package description visit www. along with a steady timhortons.com work schedule.

Please submit resumes: RAMADA INN & Attn: Human Resources SUITES Email: req’s Permanent payroll@bearspawpet.com ROOM ATTENDANTS Fax: (403) 252-9719 or Attendants. Exp. not nec.

Mail to: Suite 5309, will train. Approx. 35 - 40 333-96 Ave. NE hrs/wk. Rate: $12.75 Calgary, AB T3K 0S3 $14/hr. Duties incl’d but not limited to: vacuuming, dusting, washing floors, making beds, empty trash, disinfecting & cleaning bathrooms. Performance based bonus program.

Must be fluent with verbal l& written English, be physically fit. Applicants may apply in person at TANKMASTER RENTALS 6853 - 66 St. Red Deer req’s Exp’d Class 1 Fluid T4P 3T5 or fax 403-342-4433 Haulers for Central or email: Alberta. Oilfield tickets info@ramadareddeer.com req’d. Competitive wages and benefits.

THE RUSTY PELICAN is admin@tankmaster.ca or now accepting resumes for fax 403-340-8818 F/T DISHWASHER Apply within: 2079-50 TREELINE Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. WELL SERVICES Fax 403-347-1161 Phone Has Opening for all calls WILL NOT be accepted. positions! Immediately.

All applicants must have current H2S, Class 5 with Q Endorsement,and First Aid. We offer competitive wages & excellent benefits.

Please include 2 work reference names and THE RUSTY PELICAN numbers. is now accepting resumes Please fax resume to: for an EXPERIENCED 403-264-6725 LINE COOK Or email to: MUST HAVE tannis@treelinewell.com REFERENCES. No phone calls please.

Apply within: 2079-50 www.treelinewell.com Ave. 2-4 pm. Mon.-Fri. Fax 403-347-1161 Phone ZUBAR Production calls WILL NOT be accepted.

is currently taking resumes for experienced LOOKING for P/T Production Testing Medical Receptionist, Personnel 3 - 4 evenings per wk.

KROMM TRANSPORT Email resume to: from 2 pm - 8 pm and LTD. LOOKING FOR OIL & GAS OPERATOR rdzubaroffice@telus.net 2 - 3 Saturdays per month FULLTIME CREW TRUCK Bearspaw currently has a from 10 am - 4 pm HELPER position in our Stettler field or fax to (403)346-9420.

Apply to Highland Park for oilfield maintenance operations for an intermediate Medical Clinic shop near Haynes/Joffre. oil and gas operator. Applicants 2B, 6315 Horn St. Must have current H2S & must have experience as a Red Deer AB T4N 6H5 First Aid tickets and own heavy duty mechanic or Professionals transportation to/from shop. journeyman instrument P/T Professional Medical Fax resumes to mechanic and possess Secretary needed in Red 403-784-3813 or e-mail to: strong mechanical skills, Deer. Fax: 403-314-0499 bkkromm@telus.net. be quick learners, motivated and hard working and live or be willing to relocate Coming within a 20 minute commute Boundary to workplace location. This Events Technical Group Inc. position offers a challenging Is now hiring for: work environment, attractive benefits with competitive - Technologist (Party pay and significant room CLASSIFIEDS LABOUR DAY Chief) for promotion.

Hours & Deadlines Technician (Rodman) Please submit resumes

OFFICE & PHONES CLOSED MONDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Restaurant/ Hotel

Please Reference: Driver #0514 Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants considered for the position will be contacted.

439937H29

Human Resources Johnston Ming Manning LLP 3rd Floor, 4943 50th Street Red Deer, AB T4N 1Y1 Fax: (403) 342-9173 Email: hr@jmmlawrd.ca

790

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Johnston Ming Manning LLP has an opportunity for a full time Senior Conveyancer. This position requires someone who displays a team player outlook, effective communication skills, the ability to multi-task, and the ability to work in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working in a law firm, and a minimum of 2 years experience working as a Legal Assistant in residential real estate. We offer a great benefit package and the opportunity for personal and professional growth. Please respond in confidence with a cover letter and resume to:

Medical

438446H28

780

Legal

3200 & 3300 blocks of 44A Ave & 33 St. & 33A St. $100./mo.

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

RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 D3

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

ADVERTISE YOUR VEHICLE IN THE CLASSIFIEDS AND GET IT

1998 CHRYSLER AWD

Town N` Country, 7 pass., 199,000 kms., command start, hitch, special mag whls. $1500 **SOLD**

2003 WINDSTAR LX, fully loaded, very good cond. $3500.

403-755-2867

1966 FORD Mustang Coupe appraised $15,500. Runs good.

Would like at least $9500 403-391-3456

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

DO YOU HAVE

1985 BUICK Riviera.

Original paint, fully loaded, sunroof, exc. shape. 2nd owner.

Immaculate interior. 158,000 km. $3750 obo.

403-347-3950

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

2004 DODGE DAKOTA 4x4 Good shape. $5700.

403-598-4131

1987 GLENDALE Cutaway 24’ $6000 obo 403-302-2992

2000 JAYCO EAGLE Great cond. Clean, 6400 lbs. $9500. - $8500.

403-346-0242

2004 TITANIUM

2008 HONDA Ridgeline EXL, mint, well maint. new timing belt, Michelin tires, alignment, new brakes. $18.900. obo.

SOLD

“SNOWBIRDS “ 2011 Alpine 39’, pristine cond., 4 slides, dish, 7500 w gen., fireplace, king bed, $44,900. obo, 1/2 price of new 403 358-4031 357-9541

403-346-1392 340-9068

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.

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

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

403-347-5947

2011 F150 XLT Supercab, Exc. cond.

403-347-5078

2007 Dutchman Express 26’ Class C 12,800 Miles

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

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

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

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

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

PRISTINE 2007 Special Edition Mazda Miata MX5. 97,000 km, $15,000 firm 343-3208, 506-3047 cell

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

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

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

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

587-679-1000

2010 Ford Explorer

2014 GMC, S/B, Loaded, z71, $34,300.

587-679-1000

2006 KAWASAKI, ZZ-R250 black, 2468 kms., never dropped, lady driven. $3500. obo 403-340-1936

2006 VW Jetta TDI

VEHICLE ACCESSORIES

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

137,000 kms, fully loaded, sunroof, diesel, auto, $10,500

1988 23’ TIOGA 460 Ford motor, exc. cond. low kms. $6900, obo **SOLD**

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

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

1989 GMC SIERRA Auto 350, s/b, no rust.

Glass exc. 144,000km $4900.

403-340-8950

2001 VOLVO S60.

Loaded, very good cond.

182,000 km. $6500 obo 403-343-2058

2005 SATURN ION 2 dr, stnd, black, 170,000 kms, keyless entry c/w winter tires $4000 403-598-6124

1991 ALLEGRO-BAY 29’.

Class A, 35,000 miles, Generator, AC, Rear Bed, Exc. Cond. $10,000 obo.

Call 403-442-3837

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. **SOLD**

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**

1994 CHEV Z71 e/c, fuel tank c/w 12V pump, tool box, runs good.

361,000 km. $4000 obo 403-343-2058

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

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

2008 AVALANCHE, leather Z71, $16,400.

403-391-9662

1997 SKIDSTEER Case 1840, only 3300 hrs. $15,500.

587-679-1000

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

2006 Honda Goldwing Trike w/Lehman Monarch 2 trike kit. All options + lots of chrome. 49,500 kms. 2012 Lea-sure lite cargo/ camper trailer w/many options. $33,000. for Trike $4500 for trailer. (403)318-4653

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

6 DAYS IN THE RED DEER ADVOCATE 1 FRIDAY FORWARD 2 CENTRAL ALBERTA LIFE

2 FREE SALE SIGNS AND TIP SHEET

IF YOUR VEHICLE DOESN’T SELL THE FIRST WEEK, THE 2ND WEEK IS HALF PRICE!

FREE PHOTO AD WEDNESDAYS IN FAST TRACK FOTOS

AD ON THE INTERNET

AD APPEARS EVERY DAY YOUR AD IS PUBLISHED IN THE ADVOCATE

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

403-318-5505

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

7th 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 AN ATV TO SELL? ADVERTISE IT IN THE FAST TRACK, Call 309-3300.

D4 RED DEER ADVOCATE Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 Misc.

Help

880

EquipmentHeavy

1630

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

Firewood Labourers, Flag Persons & Operators Busy road construction company looking for Labourers AND flag persons. Work is throughout Alberta. Must have a Class 5 license. Fax resume to 403-309-0489

1660

AFFORDABLE

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

LOGS

1720

Household Furnishings

CHINA CABINET 12x60, 2 end cupboards w/2 shelves, dark wood, $75.

CHEST OF DRAWERS, oak 17x32 w/3 drawers, $50.

BED FRAME & HEADBOARD. Frame: adjustable queen/double, headboard: green w/dark brown trim, queen size. $50 for both.

403-343-2730

RESIDENTIAL APT MANAGER 23 suite apt. complex.

Live-in role. Responsibilities incl. cleaning, maintenance, yard care, administration.

Fax to 403-346-5786 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. Graveyard Shift.

11 pm -7 am. Fax resume to: 403-346-9099 or drop off to: 3301-Gaetz Avenue

GRASS TRIMMER (Electric), $20.

LAWN EDGER, (Electric) $15.

403-346-3086 LAWNMOWER rear bag,6.5 B & S motor, 1 yr. old $190. 403-314-0804

Health & Beauty

WHEEL CHAIR, electric, like new! Asking $3500.

587-272-2530

Household Appliances Warehouse Shipper/ Receiver

1700 1710

FRIDGE, Kenmore 21 cu ft. 8 yrs. old, black, $200 o.b.o. 403-343-2754 PERMA WASHING MACHINE, Maytag.

Good cond. $175 SOLD

Competitive starting wages plus regular increases.

Hours: M-F 7:30am-4:30pm Excellent benefits package. Opportunities to advance. Must be dependable, hardworking Household and seeking a long-term Furnishings career. Apply in person, or email to: 40” WIDE round wooden hartleytj@eecol.com table w/2leafs, $25; wood4747 - 61st Street en round pedestal table w/2 leafs and 4 chairs $50; twin metal bed $50 obo 403-342-2537

1720

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WANTED

stuff

Antiques, furniture and estates. 342-2514

CLASSIFICATIONS 1500-1990

Advocate Opportunities

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

1760

12 5PC SETTING of dinner wear with all completer pieces, white with blue & silver trim, $125.

403-886-2542 2 WINDOW AIR CONDITIONERS: 1- 5200 BTU, $75, 1- 8000 BTU $100.

403-886-2542 BBQ, triple burner CharBroil, side combination burner/griddle, propane. (bottle not included).

Insulated cover. Clean, works well. Downsizing! $20. 403-309-3475 CARPETS, wool, various sizes & colors. From $50. & up. 403-342-1656 INGLIS FRIDGE - almond colour - runs perfect, $125.

VINYL TAN colour rocking chair & ottoman, $60.

OAK END TABLE, $20.

403-886-2542 MICROWAVE, white $20; 32”RCA tv $25; 12” RCA tv $20 403-346-4116 ROUND WHITE RESIN & GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, chairs & umbrella, $100.

403-343-2730

Musical Instruments

BEGINNERS GUITAR AMP - Rocker RX100.

7 Watt, $30.

403-227-2976

Music Lessons

BOWER AREA Bunn Cres.

Baile Close Boyce Street Byer Close Barrett Drive Bell Street Baker Ave. Broughton Cres.

Brookes Cres. Beatty Cres.

For more information or to apply, please call Ashley at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4316 ADULT CARRIERS NEEDED For morning delivery of the ADVOCATE Delivery by 6:30 a.m.

6 days/week in:

1780

PIANO Lessons, beginner/ advanced, exam prep., rudiments/theory. Adult beginners welcome.

403-506-9778

Pets & Supplies

1810

37 TABS, 225 mg, exp.

05/2015 FOR PROPER LIVER FUNCTION DOGS/CATS ONLY. Made with milk thistle.

Vet price $85, asking $50.

403-227-2976

1830

Cats NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery Wednesday, Thursday & Friday

1770

2 BALINESE KITTENS & 2 BERMAN KITTENS $50/ea. 403-887-3649

Sporting Goods

1860

ANTIQUE GOLF CLUBS, $25 obo.

GOLF BALLS, $7.50/dozen.

403-346-3086 FITNESS Chair, an instride cycle. Brand New. $150.

403-342-1656 GOLF BAG WITH MISC. CLUBS. $100.

For more info call 403-314-0804

1860

STABILITY BALL - Thera-Band, red. 55 cm in diamtre, asking $35.

403-227-2976

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

DINING Room table with 2 leafs & 6 chairs. $200.

403-309-5028

Semi loads of pine, spruce, ROUND WHITE RESIN & tamarack, poplar.

GLASS TOP PICNIC TABLE, Price depends on location. chairs & umbrella, $100.

Lil Mule Logging 403-343-2730 403-318-4346 Looking to hire experiSTENO CHAIRS, enced sign shop person. Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner 1 @ $5, 1 @ $15.

Clean Class 5 required.

BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / 403-346-3086 Wage dependent upon ex- Delivery. Lyle 403-783-2275 perience. Email resume to office@questsigns.ca Misc. for Only those selected for an Garden Sale interview will be contacted. Supplies

1680

Sporting Goods

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Horses

2140

WANTED: all types of horses. Processing locally in Lacombe weekly.

403-651-5912

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rentals CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

3030

Advocate Opportunities

ORIOLE PARK Otterbury Ave

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

1 & 2 BDRM apt. for over 40 yr. old working tenants, no pets, no partiers, no drugs.

Free laundry, heat, water, private parking at 5910-55 Ave. in Riverside Meadows.

Rent/Sec. $850 then $1100 respectively for the 2 bdrm.

Avail. Sept. 1st. 403-341-4627

Antique & Classic Autos

5010

1997 GMC S/B, stnd. cab, 4 wd, box roll cover, great shape, 1 owner, 190,000 kms, $6200 403-350-1777

Motorcycles

5080

5020

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net You can sell your guitar for a song... or put it in CLASSIFIEDS and we’ll sell it for you!

4020

Houses For Sale

CUSTOM BUILT

2 BDRM. N/S, no parties, no pets. $850 rent/d.d.

403-346-1458

NEW HOMES

by Mason Martin Homes Kyle, 403-588-2550

ADULT 2 BDRM. spacious suites 3 appls., heat/water incld., Oriole Park.

Mike 403-350-1620 403-986-6889

Classifieds...costs so little Saves you so much!

THE NORDIC

3090

7th 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

2009 TOYOTA Corolla SRX red, auto, loaded, 59,000 kms, $12,400 403-341-0603

2006 Honda Goldwing Trike w/Lehman Monarch 2 trike kit.

This unit is loaded with all options plus lots of extra chrome. 49,500 kms bike was triked in 2011.

Also have 2012 Lea-sure lite cargo/camper trailer w/many options.

Will sell together or separate.

Asking $33,000. for Trike and $4500 for trailer.

Call (403)318-4653

Motorhomes

5100

CAR dolly by Knight, total rebuild, powder coated, stores easily, inclds. magnetic vehicle taillights, 2 brand new trailer rated tires $1475 403-350-1777

5150

ATV's

2005 HONDA 4 Trax 350 elec. shift w/winch $4000 2005 SATURN ION 2 dr, obo 403-886-4663 stnd, black, 170,000 kms, keyless entry c/w winter Tires, Parts tires $4000 403-598-6124

5180

Acces.

2005 DIESEL Smart Car, extra tires $5500 obo; BOOT TOP for 2001 403-886-4663 Mustang convertible. $200.

403-309-5028

SUV's

5040

2007 Lincoln MKX AWD, Pewter Grey, fully loaded with Panoramic roof, topnotch sound system, Navigation, leather heated/ cooled seats, electric rear gate, new-near Michelin tires, trailer hitch, 172400 km. of primarily highway miles. Call 403.887.1070.

2005 TOYOTA Rav 4, black leather int., loaded, 141,000 kms., 1 owner, new tires & windshield. $9000. 403-340-6857

HITCH - fits Chevy. New. $100. 403-314-0804

Red Deer ADVOCATE CLASSIFIEDS 403-309-3300

5190

Auto Wreckers

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

3110

3140

3180

Celebrate your life with a Classified ANNOUNCEMENT

3300

Housesitting Wanted

ATTN. SNOWBIRDS Retired, N/S, no pets couple will give your home loving care & company while you escape winter.

Call 403-728-3768 Tired of Standing?

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ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres.

Ashley Ave/Ashley Close Allan Street Ahlstrom Close Archibald Cres.

Andrews Close Archer Drive/Austin Dr. Anquetel/Atlee Close Allsop Ave/Atkins Close Allison Cres MORRISROE AREA SUNNYBROOK AREA Springfield Ave.

DEERPARK AREA

Lawrence Cres/Lees Street

For More Information, please call Jamie 403-314-4306

3060

Suites

Automotive Services

ROUTES IN:

LANCASTER AREA

$712/mo.

2 bdrm. 4-Plex, 4 appls.

Rent $1125. incl. sewer, water and garbage. D.D. $650. Avail. Sept. 1 or Oct. 1. 403-304-5337

5000-5300

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

3 days per week, no weekends

$605/mo.

MICHENER AVE

4010

CARRIERS NEEDED

Metcalf Ave

Duval Cres, Doncaster Place area $332/mo.

Douglas St. Dowler St. area. $423/mo.

Realtors & Services

5050

Trucks

PASTURE available for ten cow/calves. 403-896-1672

For more information or to apply call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

EASTVIEW AREA

CLASSIFICATIONS

4000-4190

Looking for a new pet?

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Pasture

Jarvis Ave, Jackson Cl. & Jewel St.

Monday through Saturday.

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am.

Reliable vehicle needed.

CLASSIFICATIONS

4140

ANDERS INGLEWOOD MORRISROE AND VANIER AREAS

RED DEER ADVOCATE

wheels

4040

JOHNSTONE PARK

Adult Newspaper Carriers Needed For Early Morning Delivery of the

2 BDRM., 4 appls, fenced yard, water, sewer, garbage pick up incl. No pets, $900.

Normandeau. 403-391-2795

homes

MORRISROE MANOR

KENTWOOD

Phone 403-314-4301

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

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FREE Weekly list of properties for sale w/details, Houses/ prices, address, owner’s GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm.

Duplexes apartments, avail. immed, phone #, etc. 342-7355 Help-U-Sell of Red Deer rent $875 403-596-6000 www.homesreddeer.com 2 + 1 BDRM home, with lrg INNISFAIL deluxe 2 bdrm. garage. $1600/mo MUST SELL newer 4 plex $860 inclds. + d.d., avail. Oct. 1, 1217 sq.ft. duplex. water,Oct. 1, RENTED 403-347-1563 4 bdrm., $191,900.

LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. 403-588-2550 5 BDRM. house in Red Deer extra large det. shop, SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111 MUST SELL no pets, n/s, $1900/mo. + New Home. 1335 sq.ft.

DD avail. Sept. 1 bi-level, 24x23 att. garage.

587-679-5789 403-588-2550 COZY COTTAGE - 2 bdrm 1 bath, in gated community at 1 & 2 bdrm., Avail. immed.

Pine Lake. Partially furnished, Adult bldg. N/S No pets Condos/ hot tub, 2 decks. $1000/mo.

403-596-2444 Townhouses No Pets. 587-229-3823 NEWLY RENOVATED OLDER 1 bdrm. smaller bachelor, 1 & 2 bedroom NEW CONDO house, large lot, Penhold. suites available 1000 sq.ft. 2 bdrm., 2 bath. $850/mo. negotiable in central location. $192,000. 403-588-2550 403-886-5342, 403-357-7817 leasing@rentmidwest.com Classifieds...costs so little 1(888) 679-8031 SYLVAN LAKE Saves you so much!

4 fully furnished rentals, SUNNYBROOK including dishes, bedding, 2 bdrm. Water & heat Businesses utilities. Avail. incld, clean and quiet, Sept. 1, 2014 - June 15, 2015 great location, no pets.

For Sale Price range $1200 to $1600 403-346-6686 per month. 403-880-0210.

FLARING business, domestic and international Condos/ connections. kplace06@telus.net Townhouses 1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

TOO MUCH STUFF? 3 BDRM, 1.5 bath townhouse 403-596-2444 Let Classifieds for over 40 yr old employed help you sell it. tenants. 6appls, private yard & parking, 1 small pet with Rooms additional Sec. Dep. of $500. For Rent Quiet people, no drugs, no partiers, no police etc. FURNISHED room, execuAt #9, 15 Stanton Street, tive style home incld’s Sunnybrook. Rent & S.D. cable, internet, utilities & $1400/mo. 403-341-4627. kitchen. Avail. now.

SEIBEL PROPERTY $600./mo. 403-346-2859 www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 Offices 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights 2000 SQ.FT. OFFICE, ~ Riverfront Estates 4836 51 Street. ~ Westpark Parking is avail. $1800/mo. ~ Kitson Close 403-343-9300 ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. Central Alberta’s Largest S.D. $1000 Car Lot in Classifieds Rent $1245 to $1445 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, Warehouse lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Space References required.

SHOP/OFFICE, 1500 sq. ft.

SOUTHWOOD PARK $1000 Phil 403-350-0479 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, Looking for a place generously sized, 1 1/2 to live? baths, fenced yards, Take a tour through the full bsmts. 403-347-7473, CLASSIFIEDS Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

GLENDALE Grimson Street & Goodall Ave.

6 Days a week!

Delivery to be done on/or before 6:30 am For More Information, Please call Prodie

2 BDRM in Alix. 4 appls, $900/mo. inclds. water, immed., no pets 403-348-6594

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3040

3 BDRM. 4 appls. no pets. $1000/mo. 403-343-6609

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery 3 Days/Week (Wed., Thurs. & Fri.)

Call Joanne 403-314-4308 for more information

Manufactured Homes

Logan Close Lord Close VANIER AREA

Call Classifieds 403-309-3300 classifieds@reddeeradvocate.com

Accounting

1010

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

1100

ELECTRICIAN QUALITY WORK, REASONABLE RATES lektrix7@gmail.com 403-358-1278

Massage Therapy

1280

Painters/ Decorators

1310

MASSAGE ABOVE ALL JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

WALK-INS WELCOME Free Est. 403-872-8888 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161

1370

VII MASSAGE Roofing #7,7464 Gaetz Ave. Pampering at its PRECISE ROOFING LTD. BEST! 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail.

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Garage/Patios/RV pads of the town. exp. 403-350-7602 Sidewalks/Driveways www.viimassage.com

1130

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Dean 403-505-2542

BRIDGER CONST. LTD. We do it all! 403-302-8550

CONCRETE???

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Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or

Vanier East

DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

DOORS, windows, siding, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

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

Contractors

RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Escorts

1165

KAYLA 392-0891 *BUSTY* INDEPENDENT w/own car

Massage Therapy

1280

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Misc.

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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 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE. Save 50%. 403-358-1614

Specials. 11 a.m.-3 a.m. WE do dump runs/odd jobs Private back entry. 403-341-4445 403-550-2502/403-885-5333

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Seniors’ Services

1372

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WEDNESDAY, AUG. 27, 2014 UKRAINE

Putin, Poroshenko meet for first talks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Israel, Hamas agree to open-ended cease-fire

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GAZA, Gaza Strip — Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighbourhoods in the blockaded territory.

Hamas declared victory and bursts of celebratory gunfire erupted across Gaza, but the terms of the deal fell far short of Hamas’ demand that Israel and Egypt open Gaza’s borders.

Under the Egyptian-brokered deal, Israel is to ease imports into Gaza, including aid and material for reconstruction. It also allows Palestinians to fish six nautical miles offshore, up from three nautical miles.

In a month, the cease-fire calls for talks to begin in Cairo on more complex issues, including building a seaport and airport in Gaza, and Israel’s demand that Hamas disarm.

However, the agreement appeared to contain no major Israeli concessions and previous understandings after a round of fighting in 2012 quickly dissipated.

Previous cease-fire deals have collapsed since the war began July 8, and it was not clear if this one would hold. The truce took effect at 7 p.m. local time, but violence persisted until the last minute.

In Israel, mortar shells fired from Gaza killed one man and seriously wounded two people, authorities said.

In Gaza, police reported that an Israeli airstrike 13 minutes before the cease-fire began collapsed a five-story building in the town of Beit Lahiya. Booms from Israeli strikes could be heard in Gaza after the truce announcement was made.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a long-

time rival of Hamas, likely will play a key role in any new border deal for Gaza. Abbas lost control of Gaza after Hamas seized the territory in 2007. He is expected to regain a foothold there under the Egyptian-brokered agreement.

In such a scenario, forces loyal to Abbas could be posted at Gaza’s border crossings to allay fears by Israel and Egypt about renewed attempts by Hamas to smuggle weapons into the territory.

Israel also is concerned that material for reconstruction could be diverted by Hamas for military purposes. In recent years, Hamas has built a network of attack tunnels under the border with Gaza that Israel says its forces largely demolished during the Gaza war.

In a televised address Tuesday night, Abbas said the end of the war underscored the need to find a permanent solution to the conflict with Israel.

“What’s next? Gaza has been subjected to three wars. Shall we expect another war in a year or two?

Until when will this issue be without a solution?” he asked.

Aides have said Abbas plans to ask the UN Security Council to demand Israel’s withdrawal from all lands captured in the 1967 Mideast war to make way for an independent Palestinian state.

Abbas alluded to the plan in his speech.

“Today, I’m going to give the Palestinian leadership my vision for a solution and after that we will continue consultations with the international community,” he said. “This vision must be clear and well defined and we are not going to an open-ended negotiation.”

In Gaza, Hamas declared victory even though it had little to show for seven weeks of fighting. The war killed more than 2,140 Palestinians and wounded more than 11,000, Palestinian health officials said.

The UN says about three-fourths of the Palestinians killed have been civilians.

1,400 children victims of sex exploitation in U.K. town: report LONDON — About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded Tuesday in a damning account of “collective failures” by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped and trafficked over a 16-year period.

Report author Alexis Jay cited appalling acts of violence between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham, a town of some 250,000. The independent report came after a series of convictions of sexual predators in the region and ground-breaking reports in the Times of London.

Reading descriptions of the abuse make it hard to imagine that nothing was done for so long. The report described rapes by multiple perpetrators, mainly from Britain’s Pakistani community, and how children were trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted and beaten.

“There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone,” Jay said.

“Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.”

Attention first fell on Rotherham in 2010 when five men received lengthy jail terms after convictions of grooming teens for sex. A series of other high-profile cases featuring Pakistani rings also emerged in Rochdale, Derby and Oxford— and communities began to look more closely at their child sex exploitation cases.

Rotherham decided to conduct a formal inquiry and Jay, a former chief social work adviser to the Scottish government, was appointed to investigate.

Police “regarded many child victims with contempt,” Jay said, adding that many of the children were known to child protection agencies. Even though earlier reports described the situation in Rotherham, the first of these reports was “effectively suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the data.

“The collective failures of political and officer leadership were blatant,” Jay said. “From the beginning, there was growing evidence that child sexual exploitation was a serious problem in Rotherham.”

Complicating the reporting was the fact that vic-

tims described the perpetrators as “Asian” and yet the council failed to engage with the town’s Pakistani community.

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Palestinians celebrate the cease-fire between Palestinians and Israelis at the main rood in Gaza, in the northern Gaza Strip, Tuesday. Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a sevenweek war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory.

MINSK, Belarus — The presidents of Russia and Ukraine met late Tuesday for their first bilateral talks at a much-anticipated summit in Minsk, which many voiced hopes may help bring an end to fighting between Kyiv’s forces and pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko met in the Belarusian capital, the first such meeting between the countries’ heads of state since Ukraine’s proRussian ex-president was ousted from power in February, according to the Twitter account of the Ukrainian presidential administration. The meeting, which had not been previously announced by either side, was also confirmed by Kremlin.

The talks came as Ukraine said it had captured 10 Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine and shelling spread to a new front in the country’s southeast. Kyiv and many Western countries have repeatedly accused Russia of providing arms and expertise to the rebels in east Ukraine, a charge Russia has denied.

While it is still unclear if the two leaders will find common ground and pave a way for peace in east Ukraine, the face-to-face meeting was a remarkable breakthrough for both sides.

Earlier, the two leaders sat on opposite sides of a large round table and were joined by the presidents of Belarus and Kazakhstan and three senior officials from the European Union. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko spoke briefly to the press late on Tuesday and said talks between the leaders were “tough,” but stopped short of saying that they had failed.

“Sadly, the situation there (in Ukraine) has gone so far that in the absence of agreements in principle any steps or technical accords are not going to lead to settlement,” he said.

Under pressure to seek a negotiated settlement and not a military victory, Poroshenko said the purpose of his visit was to start searching for a political compromise and promised that the interests of Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine would be taken into account.

“The fate of peace and the fate of Europe are being decided in Minsk today,” the billionaire chocolate magnate said in his opening remarks.

Putin devoted most of his opening statement to trade, arguing that Ukraine’s decision to sign an association agreement with the 28-nation EU would lead to huge losses for Russia, which would then be forced to protect its economy. Russia had been counting on Ukraine joining a rival economic union it is forming with Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Ukraine is set to ratify the EU association agreement in September.

On the fighting, Putin said he was certain the conflict “could not be solved by further escalation of the military scenario without taking into account the vital interests of the southeast of the country and without a peaceful dialogue of its representatives.”

Ukraine wants the rebels to hand back the territory they have captured in eastern Ukraine, while Putin wants to retain some sort of leverage over the mostly Russian-speaking region so Ukraine does not join NATO or the European Union.

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