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BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS EDMONTON — Highlights of the 2015-16 Alberta budget: The bottom line: Total spending of $48.4 billion on revenue of $43.4 billion for a $5-billion deficit — the largest in Alberta’s history. The deficit will be covered mainly by the province’s contingency fund.

End of the flat tax: Alberta will end its 10 per cent flat income-tax rate and phase in two new tax brackets for those making more than $100,000 or $250,000 a year. The change will affect about 330,000 workers.

Health levy: Individuals making more than $50,000 a year will have to pay a health-care levy, effective July 1.

The amount will be tied to income and capped at $1,000 annually. The levy is to be collected through the income-tax system and won’t be paid by employers.

Gasoline tax: The gasoline tax jumps four cents a litre on Friday. The government notes Alberta’s gas tax has not been raised since 1991 and remains the lowest in the country.

Smokes and booze: It will cost 16 cents more for a bottle of wine and 90 cents more for a case of 12 beers starting Friday. The tax on a carton of cigarettes will go up by $5 to $45.

Tax breaks for the working poor: Families earning less than $41,220 a year will be eligible for a supplement for each child, to a maximum of $2,750 each year. The government says about 75,000 families will be eligible.

Fees aplenty: Fees are going up for everything from camping to court filings and marriage certificates. Traffic fines are being boosted by an average of 35 per cent.

Job cuts in government: The government plans to shed 2,016 full-time jobs across all departments. Most of those positions are already vacant and will not be filled. About 370 layoffs are expected.

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EDMONTON — Albertans will pay more to get married, go camping, have a drink, go for a drive or do pretty much anything else as the province fights to get out from under the collapse in oil prices.

The 2015-16 budget increases taxes and fees virtually across the board and runs the largest deficit in Alberta’s

history at $5 billion.

The government is retooling its tax take so the wealthy will pay more. It’s also bringing in a health-care levy, boosting the gasoline tax by four cents a litre and increasing sin taxes on cigarettes and booze.

“This has been one of the hardest budgets to develop in many years and has required tough decisions,” Fi-

nance Minister Robin Campbell said.

“We’re going to get off of oil.”

Premier Jim Prentice has billed the document as necessary to make up for billions in lost oil revenue and to insulate the province’s spending from roller-coaster swings in energy prices.

The premier has also said he needs a mandate to implement the budget and is expected to call an election soon.

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Deer Park Co-op gas bar attendant Evan Keith was kept busy as customers lined up to fuel their vehicles Thursday afternoon. The gasoline tax jumps four cents a litre today.

Budget greeted with caution, optimism A tough spring budget was greeted with some caution and optimism.

Despite a significant cut in Municipal Sustainability Initiative funding, Mayor Tara Veer said the city will be able to fulfill its commitments in the city’s 2015 capital budget but cannot predict what will happen beyond 2016.

Red Deer will receive $9.7 million in MSI funding, compared to $18 million in 2014 and $6.2 million in Basic Municipal Transportation Grant, compared to $6.1 million last year.

The decrease will be offset by the one-time $8 million MSI injection from the province earlier this month.

City staff are currently reviewing the other areas of the budget, includ-

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ing policing, to determine potential impacts on the municipality.

“Every indication that the province has given us in the last couple months, it would be a time of fiscal restraint,” said Veer.

through on its funding commitments.

“Beyond 2016, obviously we will have to reserve judgement,” said Veer.

Veer was pleased that the province remains committed to keeping Michener Centre open, no cuts to Family Com-

‘EVERY INDICATION THAT THE PROVINCE HAS GIVEN US IN THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS, IT WOULD BE A TIME OF FISCAL RESTRAINT. OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE QUITE A FEW AREAS AFFECTING THE CITY DIRECTLY AND THE COMMUNITY . . . THAT WE WERE WATCHING.’ — TARA VEER MAYOR OF RED DEER

“Obviously there are quite a few areas affecting the city directly and the community ... that we were watching.”

Veer said the 2015 capital plan is stable and the city will be able to follow

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munity and Support Services funding, and the repurposing of the Red Deer Nursing Home site as announced last week.

She was also pleased to see a

$20-million commitment to Red Deer College for its multi-use facility and follow-through on the previously announced new schools in Red Deer.

The city will also be keeping a close eye on the impacts of increased user fees, levies and taxes for any possible downloads from the province.

The budget also boosts public library services to $36 million, up $3 million.

Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski said she was proud of her government’s new budget.

“I was worried. But I think that we have found a balance here for all our families and I think it’s something we can all live with,” said Jablonski about her final provincial budget since she isn’t running in the next election.

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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO AND SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF More belt-tightening is ahead for Red Deer College and school boards, but there are a few bright spots on the education front in the provincial budget.

RDC will receive $20 million as part of the province’s five-year capital plan in 2016-17 for the proposed Centre for Health, Wellness and Sport.

The estimated $88-million project is expected to be built in time for the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer.

The college has about $50 million in commitments for the project.

RDC president Joel Ward said construction is expected to get underway in the next six to eight months and the contribution certainly helps move the project forward.

“That’s a huge contribution from the province,” said Ward. “We are just thrilled. It shows their commitment to this college and the Canada Winter Games and the lasting legacy for the day after the games.”

RDC has had the ear of the province regarding the project for many months.

The line item was part of the province’s five-year capital plan.

However, a closer took at the budget indicates that Campus Alberta, the umbrella of 26 publicly funded post-secondary institutions, will take a 1.4

per cent cut in 2015-2016 and 2.7 per cent in 2016-2017 as part of the new plan.

Innovation and Advanced Education’s consolidated expenses are budgeted at $5.8 billion, a one per cent reduction from 2014-15 forecasts, equal to $55 million. This spending includes $5.2 billion budgeted for post-secondary operations and $227 million for student aid, a $14 million increase.

Finance Minister Robin Campbell said in his budget speech that post-secondary institutions rely on the province to pay 58 per cent of their operating costs while in some cases other provinces pay only 42 per cent.

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BUDGET: Corporate taxes remain at 10% The budget details $1.5 billion in hikes and new levies and outlines a new tax model.

Albertans will no longer be charged a 10 per cent flat tax. Everyone will still pay that much on the first $100,000 of taxable income, but there will be two tax brackets for anyone earning more than that.

There will be a new refundable tax credit and improvements to rules to aid lower-income working families.

Fuel taxes will go up to a total of 13 cents a litre Friday — still the lowest in Canada.

Traffic fines will rise by an average of 35 per cent.

Other increases will hit registration fees, court and land-title searches, marriage certificates and camping costs.

Alcohol taxes are going up by 16 cents for a bottle of wine and 90 cents for a 12-pack of beers. Tax on a carton of cigarettes will jump to $45 a carton from $40.

A levy will be added to provincial income tax starting July 1 to help offset the cost of health care. It will be paid on an escalating basis, starting with individuals earning $50,000 or more in taxable income, with a cap at $1,000 a year.

The province says the average Alberta family — with two children and two working parents making a combined $120,000 a year — will pay an estimated $288 more in taxes this year and $480 in 2016.

Corporate income taxes will remain at 10 per cent, the lowest in Canada. Campbell said it’s important to keep those rates low to prevent further damage to Alberta’s fragile economy. There will be no change to oil royalties.

Alberta still does not have a provincial sales or payroll tax.

Some government departments will see budgets cut, while others will hold the line. There will be slight increases for education and social services.

Opposition parties criticized the budget as a sop to corporations at the expense of working families.

“Middle-income families are being told they need to pay more and get less. Much, much less,” said NDP Leader Rachel Notley “That’s happening so that this premier can continue to protect the interests of his boardroom and backroom buddies.”

Wildrose Leader Heather Forsyth said the new fees are unnecessary and unfair.

“Gas tax, health tax, birth tax, marriage tax, death tax. It just goes on and on,” said Forsyth. “It’s going to affect everybody, but I think it’s going to affect the people that it shouldn’t and doesn’t need to affect, and that’s middle and lower-income families.”

Liberal Leader David Swann said the budget is “a small movement towards getting off the oil and gas roller-coaster, (but) we think everybody should share in the burden.

“That includes the large corporations.”

Government revenue is projected to be $43.4 billion and expenses are pegged at $48.4 billion. The deficit will be covered off mainly by the $6.5-billion contingency fund.

Borrowing for infrastructure will increase Alberta’s debt burden to almost $18 billion.

Bitumen and conventional oil royalties — Alberta’s two main money-makers — are pegged to bring in $2 billion. That’s far less than had been projected before oil prices plunged from US$107 a barrel last summer to the current mid-$40 range.

The plan is to have the budget back in the black

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by 2018, as long as there is a modest rally in oil prices over the next few years.

After that, the government plans to use increasing percentages of oil revenues to replenish the contingency fund and reinvest in the long-term Heritage Savings Fund.

REACTION: Levy criticized “We know that we have to do something about our spending and we’re going to do it over three years so we don’t hit Albertans hard with restraints the first year. We have been told by the best economists in the world that if we did that in one year we could create a recession for our province.”

Her colleague Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas was also pleased with the budget after spending six months hammering out the numbers as part of the Treasury Board. He said the long-term outlook looks positive for the province.

“The necessary components delivered in this budget are what are going to be required to take us off that roller coaster that is associated with the ups and downs of resource revenue,” he said. “I think that if we approach that in a thoughtful way together as Albertans we will achieve that and our long-term outlook for Alberta is even brighter.”

Jablonski said declining oil prices provided plenty of encouragement to move to a progressive personal income tax system.

And she said people shouldn’t be surprised that a health care levy returned because a lot of Albertans were calling on government to bring it back to help address the province’s revenue shortfall.

She said it was important to note that the health care levy was based on taxable income of $50,000, rather than gross income. The new personal income tax brackets were also based on taxable income.

Jablonski was pleased Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre will get $10 million for its obstetrical operating rooms, and that construction of different school projects will move forward.

“The idea is in this time of really low interest

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Funding for the Protection of Children Abusing Drugs (PChAD) program, that allows parents of a minor who is abusing alcohol or drugs to seek an apprehension and confinement order for detox, also saw more funding, increasing to $5.8 from $5.7 million.

“It’s a minor (increase) but it’s important for people who have children who are addicted to drugs,” Jablonski said.

Brenda Corney, chair of the Red Deer Chapter of Friends of Medicare, said she didn’t agree with the new health care levy because it will be a burden to a lot of Albertans and it’s not going to improve wait times for health care.

“You don’t have to be on welfare to be struggling these days. The cost of living is so high. For some people, the difference between making it and the food bank can be just a couple hundred dollars in a month,” Corney said.

But Dallas said the levies are phased in over three years, the contribution is based on income and low-income Albertans are excluded from paying them.

“I think a lot of Albertans when they look at that $7 billion challenge in the drop in resource revenue felt strongly that was one of the areas that they could make a modest contribution in,” said Dallas.

“Really the contributions are quite modest. If you think about Albertans desire to pay a small proportion of the overall health-care delivery costs through a levy like that I think the response will be reasonable.”

Corney said it was disappointing that there were no new taxes for business and no increase in royalties for the oil and gas industry.

“There’s no doubt we’re in a mess. Part of the mess we’re in is because we’ve had so many years of this government and how they’ve placed their priorities. As much as Jim Prentice is trying to say that Alberta is under new leadership, it has a new leader, but I’m not sure it has a new concept to run government.” crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

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EDUCATION: ‘We know there are going to be cuts’ “There are some reductions,” said Ward. “We know there are going to be cuts, we just don’t know the extent ... Any cut is going to hurt.”

Specific details will be released to the college today.

Over the next five years, the model for postsecondary institutions will be moved to a model that reduces reliance on government spending.

“They are certainly signaling more of a reliance on us to do more fund development of our own and less reliance on government,” said Ward. “Change is the nature of our institution. If government funding goes down we have to make up the revenue ourselves somehow.”

Ward said the college has been moving in this direction in the last five years by increasing its earned revenue to the operations of the institution. Increases to the student loan program were announced.

School board officials also feared a tough budget in light of the substantial drop in oil prices.

Guy Pelletier, Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools board chair, said his division was bracing for up to a nine per cent funding cut so the three per cent cut to non-teaching costs was better than expected.

“It really affirmed the importance of education in the province and I think to some degree the efficiency we were already operating at. There just wasn’t much room to cut from the education budget,” Pelletier said.

For Red Deer Catholic, the cut is about $1 million from its entire $90-million budget, he said.

“Certainly it’s something we can work with in the short-term, looking for efficiencies across the budget across the division.”

Non-teaching costs make up 40 per cent of a school board budget and include costs like plant operations, transportation, non-teacher staff, supplies and services, and governance.

The province also announced that school jurisdictions won’t get more funding to address enrolment growth.

Pelletier said Red Deer Catholic has seen healthy growth of four to seven per cent in recent years so whether that means slightly larger classes, or finding areas to cut, will have to be decided.

The good news is the province will go ahead with previously announced school construction which will help with growing enrolment, he said.

Construction on the division’s new Red Deer high school should start this spring. St. Joseph High School will have Grade 10 to 12 students. Work on an addition to St. Francis of Assisi Middle School, and a new kindergarten to Grade 9 school in Blackfalds, are also expected to begin in the fall.

Bev Manning, Red Deer Public Schools board chair, said the district is looking forward to opening its Inglewood school in 2017.

But she had concerns about the province’s increasing control over how school boards manage their budgets.

“In Red Deer we make really good decisions locally. We have really good input from our stakeholders. We spend a lot of time consulting with our community. We know what’s important to them and I think we are in the best position to be making some of these decisions,” Manning said.

According to the budget, school boards cannot reduce teaching positions unless enrolment drops, but non-teachers in the classroom could be impacted by the reduction in funding to non-teaching costs.

“I think it’s good that they are looking to protect the classroom. But there are other supports in the classroom beside the teacher. We have education assistants and other classroom supports that we have developed and grown over the years due to diversity in our student learning needs,” Manning said.

She said how much funding Red Deer Public will lose for non-teaching costs was not yet determined.

The district regularly sees a two per cent increase in enrolment so lack of funding for enrolment growth will also be tricky to manage, Manning said. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

EDMONTON — Some of the winners and losers in the Alberta budget released Thursday: Winner — Corporations and oil companies: No changes to the 10 per cent corporate income tax rate and no changes to oil royalties. The government said raising them could tip the province into recession.

Winner — The working poor: Any family making less than $41,220 annually will be eligible for the Alberta Working Family Supplement, which provides a refundable tax credit of up to $2,750 depending on the number of children in the family.

Loser — The wealthy: The province is ending its 10 per cent flat income tax system and phasing in two tax brackets for anyone making more than $100,000 a year.

Loser — The middle class: The budget contains a health levy to be paid by individuals making more than $50,000. It is tied to income and capped at $1,000 annually. There are also a host of fee increases. In total, a single person making $60,000 a year can expect to pay $161 more annually. A two-income family making $120,000 a year with two children can expect to pay $288 more.

Loser — Drivers: The gasoline tax is going up by four cents a litre starting Friday. Fees to register vehicles are going up by $9. Traffic fines are being increased by an average of 35 per cent.

Loser — Smokers and drinkers: Wine will cost 16 cents more while 12 beers will cost an extra 90 cents.

The tax on a carton of smokes is going up $5 to $45.

Loser — Charities: The Charitable Donation Tax Credit is being reduced to 12.75 per cent from 21 per cent for donations more than $200.

TORONTO — A woman who injected industrial silicone oil into customers’ buttocks had no regard for their safety and preyed on her victims for financial gain, a Toronto judge found Thursday as she sentenced Marilyn Reid to eight years in prison.

The sentence means that, with credit for time already spent in custody, the 50-year-old Newmarket, Ont., woman has five years and three months left to serve.

“Ms. Reid has wounded, maimed, disfigured and endangered the lives of the victims,” said Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly. “The offences appear to have been motivated by greed.”

Reid cradled her head in her hands and looked down at the floor of the prisoner’s box as her sentence was delivered.

She had pleaded guilty to eight counts of aggravated assault in January. A ninth victim came forward after her legal case was underway.

“The victims were vulnerable,” Kelly said. “When they asked about risks, they were lied to. When they asked about qualifications, they were lied to.”

Court heard that Reid used syringes attached to a caulking gun to inject silicone into women’s buttocks between April 2011 and August 2012.

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BY REFORMING TAX POLICY, WESTERN CANADIAN PROVINCES HAVE ENSURED ECONOMIC STABILITY OVER THE LONG RUN

BY MARK MILKE SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE As everyone from the Manitoba-Ontario border to Tofino knows, the local and provincial economies, which depend on resource extraction, have slowed.

So this is a critical time to get some perspective on the past. If governments panic and enact poor policy (higher taxes, the wrong type of taxes, forced “diversification” efforts, rescuing companies about to go under, or other illadvised schemes), provincial governments in the West risk hollowing out the advantages, which if left alone, will help Western Canada bounce back economically.

Consider the last two decades and one telling indicator — private-sector business investment (excluding housing). This type of investment drives job-creation which, among other benefits, can help governments balance their books (fewer people needing social programs, more people working and paying taxes).

Between 1994 and 2013, as the three westernmost provinces began to seriously reform spending and tax policies (Alberta in the 1990s, Saskatchewan

partly in the 1990s and into the new century, B.C. beginning in 2001) Alberta attracted an average of $37,285 of private-sector investment per worker.

That was followed by Saskatchewan ($29,024), British Columbia ($12,116) and Manitoba ($12,080). Ontario ($9,132) and Quebec ($8,836) lagged far behind.

As a result, Alberta and B.C. recorded comparatively low unemployment rates despite substantial migration to both provinces from other parts of the country.

For example, between mid-1993 and mid-2013, among the 15 to 64 age group, Alberta’s net interprovincial migration number (340,111 people) was tops in Canada, followed by B.C. (93,392).

Every other province lost people in the interprovincial migration game.

That included Ontario (-56,391), Quebec (-121,428), all of Atlantic Canada (-128,273), Manitoba (-68,153) and Saskatchewan (-52,900).

Of note, however, after Saskatchewan began to reform (lowering business taxes, for example) and strengthened its economy, interprovincial migration numbers reflected that shift.

Since 2007, when the migration numbers turned positive, Saskatchewan gained 8,974 people 15 to 64 years old from other provinces.

That 15 to 64 age group can serve as an approximate proxy for Canadians in search of a job (let’s assume that teenagers and young adults in postsecondary education are a small slice of that group). Their movement can thus potentially impact subsequent unemployment numbers. Ergo, it’s fair to assume most people moved to Alberta, B.C. and more recently, Saskatchewan, for jobs.

Need proof? Check out the unemployment lines.

Between 1994 and 2013, Alberta and Saskatchewan’s annual unemployment rates (for those aged 15 to 64) averaged 5.4 per cent and 5.5 per cent respectively. B.C. (7.4 per cent) beat Ontario (7.5 per cent) and Quebec (9.1 per cent).

The West’s relatively low unemployment occurred despite an influx of workers from other provinces to Alberta and B.C. Manitoba’s unemployment rate (5.6 per cent) was also low, but the province was bleeding people.

So why is all of this happening?

Luck? High resource prices?

Healthy prices for goods or services (oil and gas, for example) obviously help regional economies. However, they alone don’t explain why Alberta and B.C. (and Saskatchewan, more recently) outperform central Canada in

good times and bad, despite high levels of migration from other parts of Canada.

Government policy matters. Otherwise, resource-rich Venezuela would be wealthy and resource-poor Hong Kong would be destitute — which is the exact opposite of reality.

In Canada, as my colleagues have discovered, Alberta, Saskatchewan and B.C. have done relatively well on policies that matters to healthy economies: taxes, regulation, labour laws, property rights, et al. Such relative smarts are why these three provinces remain among the most economically free jurisdictions in North America.

So, however Western provincial governments respond to low resource prices, if they care about jobs, they should ensure the attractiveness of their jurisdiction is not artificially hampered by eroding western advantages.

Those advantages have helped the West weather serious downturns before. That also benefited the rest of Canada by attracting investment, creating jobs and tax revenues. If the advantages are left intact, history will repeat itself.

Milke is a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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BY STEPHEN MURGATROYD SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Two recent reports should give the Alberta government cause for pause as they reduce funding for post-secondary education in the province.

The first is the annual rankings of universities around the world. Canada has just three in the top 100 — University of Toronto (16), McGill (35) and UBC (37). For engineering, we can add Waterloo (68).

No Alberta institution made the grade.

What is interesting is that the middle of this list is now increasingly featuring Asian and Latin American institutions.

Some time ago, the University of Alberta indicated its intention to be on this list. It still isn’t.

The second report is from the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, which looked at the performance of Canadian institution in terms of key outcomes such as job qualifications and earnings; access to education based on levels of student aid and debt; research funding and reputation.

Again, Alberta did not appear to be the shining star of Canada. In fact, we had the second worst outcome overall in Canada, slightly ahead of Saskatchewan.

The report indicates we are a high-cost, low-outcome performer.

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No doubt the Alberta government will seize on this point — “high-cost, low-outcome” — to blame those who lead and manage our universities. In some cases, this may well be correct.

But the reality is that the government keeps changing the rules of the game.

Making Mount Royal and McEwan universities, expanding private universities, permitting degree granting for colleges, capping tuition, developing clear and focused research strategies, which may be appropriate but don’t match the skills and capacities of our institutions, changing the basis of funding have all led to presidents and their leadership teams working in an atmosphere of constant uncertainty.

The high point came when a planned increase in funding was quickly followed by a budget reduction, all within two and a half months during the brief tenure of one minister.

Alberta needs a more focused strategy for its postsecondary system, one that goes beyond the crude rhetoric of “skills” and “employability” (not that these are unimportant). Just what do we want our universities and colleges to contribute and what is a plan for enabling this to occur with a sense of stability and focus so that leaders can lead and managers can manage?

In any case, something needs to happen. Alberta’s major universities are running deficits and one — Athabasca University — is in deep and serious trou-

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Making this decision will tell us a lot about the way Premier Jim Prentice’s government sees universities.

When Janet Tully and I wrote our book Rethinking Post-Secondary Education, we explored the changes which need to occur because the world of higher education is fast changing. We outlined a great many options and strategies which need to be considered, but the key is public commitment to public education.

As funding per capita for higher education students declines in real terms, it gets more difficult to be strategic, with presidents and their teams in “reaction” and “problem solving” mode more often than in planning and development mode. I know, I have been at the table.

What they need now is long-term, stable funding decisions and a government that gets out of the way so that they can do the institution building and transformations they see as appropriate to their strategic intent.

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Lawyer seeks to prevent election

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON — An Edmonton lawyer is seeking a court order to prevent Alberta Premier Jim Prentice from calling an early provincial election.

Tom Engel wants a judge to declare that the next vote must be held between March 1, 2016, and May 31, 2016 — four years after the last election.

That time period is spelled out in Alberta’s Election Act introduced by the Progressive Conservatives and passed by the legislature in 2011.

Engel says as a taxpayer and a voter he expects the government to live up to the law. “It kind of grinds one’s gears when you see these promises being made by government and legislation brought in to back up those promises and then they just disregard it,� Engel said Thursday in an interview. “They promise these things to get votes and then they break these promises and this is a very important one.�

Engel, who said he doesn’t belong to any political party, said Alberta Justice officials were served with

‘Imagine the damage I could have done’

the legal documents Thursday.

In an affidavit to support his application Engel quotes former justice minister and attorney general Verlyn Olson from Hansard speaking about the need for fixed election dates on Nov. 22, 2011, before amendments to the Election Act were passed. “Currently the premier is able to choose the date of the general election. A drawback of this approach is the perception that the chosen election date is purely political,� Olson is quoted as saying in Hansard. “This is not the perception we want the public to have. We want to inspire an even greater confidence in our electoral system, we want Albertans to trust in the integrity and fairness of the system.�

Prentice has not ruled out calling an early election to get a mandate to deal with the province’s financial problems.

The Election Act contains a clause that nothing affects the power of the lieutenant governor to dissolve the legislature so that an election can be called.

Justice Minister Jonathan Denis said Thursday that Alberta’s election law is sound. “Every province that has a fixed election law has

a qualification indicating that it is subject to the lieutenant-governor’s authority. Otherwise it would not be constitutional,� Denis said. “Anybody can take a matter like this to court.

Whether or not it has any chance of succeeding, I’ll leave that up to the court to decide.�

The Progressive Conservatives currently hold 70 seats in Alberta’s 87-seat legislature.

The opposition Wildrose and Liberals have five seats each, the New Democrats have 4 and there is one Independent. Two seats are vacant.

Engel notes there are other reasons why a snap election is not in the best interest of Albertans.

He said the NDP has just recently elected a new leader and the Wildrose and Liberal parties are without leaders elected by their parties.

Engel hopes the court will deal with his application next week. “It has a lot of ramifications for the integrity of the democratic process in the province of Alberta.

That is why I am doing it,� he said. “It is a very serious issue and I think most Albertans would think that it is a very serious issue, too.�

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There was no indication that a ship returned to the Vancouver Island base at that time.

Fewer than two months later, Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody were arrested for allegedly planting three homemade pressure-cooker bombs on the lawn of the B.C. legislature on Canada Day. In audio and video recordings taken in May of that year and played for the jury on Thursday, Nuttall tells the undercover officer of applying alongside his brother to join the Canadian military years earlier and feeling “dejected� after he was refused admission for health reasons. “Right there I felt like my country didn’t care for me at all,� he says. “This is where it all started, my search for what I wanted in life.�

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Canadian airlines and the federal government moved swiftly on Thursday to tighten security policies after it was revealed the pilot of the airliner that crashed in the French Alps this week was locked outside the cockpit.

French investigators concluded that the co-pilot deliberately crashed the Germanwings plane, killing all 150 people on board and several Canadian carriers, including Air Canada, WestJet and Air Transat quickly announced that all flights would have two people in the cockpit at all times.

Air Canada and WestJet said it was a change in policy while Air Transat admitted it did not have any policy in place.

The federal government issued an interim order requiring any Canadian airline carrying passengers to have two crew members in the cockpit at all times.

“If you’re carrying passengers, this is going to apply to you,” Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said in a surprise announcement outside the House of Commons.

Raitt said the directive requires two members of the cabin crew — not necessarily both licensed pilots — to be on the flight deck at all times.

“This order is seeking to fill a gap that is in the

rules. That’s what this order does. There now — currently, there is not the requirement to have two members in the order in the cabin.”

Raitt also says she has asked her department to review all policies and procedures that may be applicable to the safety of passengers.

Air Canada said in a statement that it would not elaborate on flight deck protocols and access because they involve security measures.

The airline also said that when pilots are initially hired they undergo a behavioural assessment.

They also receive recurrent medical exams every

year — twice a year after the age of 60, it added.

The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA), which represents 53,000 pilots among 39 airlines in the U.S. and Canada, also issued a similar statement.

It said that once hired, flight crew members are evaluated continuously throughout their careers through training, medical exams, and other programs by the airline and during random flight checks

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“I don’t have any concerns, I’ll fly on any airline in Canada,” said Mark Clitsome, director of air investigations with the Transportation Safety Board, following the fatal Germanwings crash in France.

“But we have not had a major airline with this type of incident that I’m aware of, and I’ve been here 20 years.”

Prosecutors in France concluded on Thursday the co-pilot of the commercial airliner deliberately rammed the jet packed with 150 people into the French Alps, killing everyone on board.

Clitsome said in an interview that people shouldn’t ruminate over pilot-related safety concerns, because the circumstances of the European tragedy were “very, very, very highly rare.”

He said he’s “absolutely” confident in current protocols, noting Canada’s safety record is excellent and the aviation accident rate is declining, especially when compared around the world.

Clitsome noted there’s always room for improvement, and said the agency maintains an ongoing watch-list of deficiencies, “but none of them touch on what happened in France.” That indicates the psychological well-being of pilots has not been a realm of concern, he concluded.

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Opposition demands more humanitarian support

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IRAQ MISSION

OTTAWA — The question of what role the military should play in halting the spread of radical extremism across the Middle East was at the heart of Thursday’s debate about expanding Canada’s mission in the region.

The Conservative government has signalled its intent to keep the existing Canadian Forces contingent in Iraq there for another year, and to broaden the mission to include airstrikes in neighbouring Syria.

The Opposition New Democrats want the soldiers pulled out immediately, while the Liberals suggest they could remain, but solely to train existing security forces.

Both opposition parties also called on the government to increase and expand the humanitarian support being provided to both countries.

The government will consider that, said Foreign Affairs Minister Rob Nicholson, but security must come first for the good of the region and for Canadians.

“ISIL’s barbarity is an affront to human dignity and to the civilized world,” Nicholson said.

“It threatens the very principles that shape Canada’s national identity and guide our engagement on the global stage it’s violent ideology and expansionist agenda jeopardize Cana-

dian interests and threaten Canadian citizens.”

There have been six CF-18 jets, two surveillance planes, a refuelling aircraft and 600 supporting personnel in Iraq since Parliament signed off on the first six-month deployment last fall.

But the NDP says Canada can be involved in that fight in ways that don’t involve dropping bombs or training foreign fighters.

They introduced a series of amendments which, among other things, would require the Canadian Forces to stop taking part in airstrikes and training as soon as possible.

“We would take our soldiers out of the theatre,” said NDP foreign affairs critic Paul Dewar.

Instead, the NDP would increase humanitarian aid in areas where there would be immediate impact, increase support for refugees, offer help for political stabilization and maintain efforts to stop foreign fighters from joining ISIL’s ranks.

“We can save lives, we can build peace to help the people in Iraq,” Dewar said.

The amendments don’t rule out a role for the military altogether, proposing military support for the transportation of weapons to help the fight against ISIL.

Liberal defence critic Joyce Murray told the Commons that her party does see a role for soldiers. Over 1,000 Canadians worked as military trainers in Afghanistan, she noted.

“Surely Canada can do more now in Iraq, and we can and must do it away from the front lines.”

A contingent of 69 elite Canadian soldiers deployed to northern Iraq last September and have since trained around 650 peshmerga fighters, but debate has persisted about how much of the training is actually putting those soldiers into combat positions.

Expanding the mission into Syria isn’t on the table for either opposition party, who see it as expressly supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The Conservatives argue that ISIL is using parts of Syria as a base for fighters and equipment, and can’t be allowed space to regroup.

The NDP’s amendments also call for the government to regularly report back on the cost of the military and humanitarian contributions.

To date, the military mission has been reported to have cost $122 million and Defence Minister Jason Kenney said additional funds will be allocated to his department to cover the incremental costs of the mission.

The Conservatives have spent more than $100 million on assistance to Iraq, and since 2011, more than $700 million has been spent in Syria.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The Harper government has built a military that it cannot afford and will be forced to make tough choices in the future, if it sticks with the current funding envelope, the country’s budget watchdog said.

The new assessment by the parliamentary budget office came as debate kicked off in the House of Commons about an expanded and extended war against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, a conflict that MPs were warned will last more than a year.

Jean-Denis Frechette, the parliamentary budget officer, says the federal government will need to either pour more money into its defence budget, scale back its ambitions, or do a mixture of both to put Canada’s military on a sustainable footing.

The Harper government spends $21.5 billion on defence — or 1.1 per cent of the gross domestic product.

In order to sustain the existing number of troops, bases, tanks, planes and ships, the budget office says the Conservatives will have to spend about 1.6 per cent of GDP, which would be an increase of at least $3 billion annually.

Defence Minister Jason Kenney did not respond directly to the contents of the report, but told the Commons on Thursday that under the Conservatives the overall defence budget has increased by 27 per cent. However, a defence research report noted last year that the corrosive effect of inflation whittles that down to just seven per cent.

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Earlier this month, Prime Minister Stephen Harper sparked controversy with his comment that guns provide “a certain level of security” to people who live far away from police stations.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard and former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant were quick to criticize Harper.

OTTAWA — The Harper government may be headed for another political collision with the Supreme Court of Canada, which is set to rule Friday on the fate of Quebec’s gun registry data.

The Conservatives abolished the registry for long guns in February 2011, fulfilling a five-year-old campaign promise after forming a majority government.

They also ordered that all data collected by the provinces be destroyed — a decision the Quebec government went to court to overturn.

A Quebec judge originally granted the province’s request to preQueen Set serve the data, calling it a constitutional infringement to destroy it.

But that decision was overturned by the Quebec Court of Appeal, which said there was no constitutional violation in the federal order to destroy the data.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — An undercover cop purchased marijuana ostensibly supplied by Alexander (Sandro) Lisi, a friend of Rob Ford’s, but was unaware Lisi was part of an extraordinary investigation into the former mayor’s “crack video,” an Ontario court heard Thursday.

Under cross-examination, Det. Ross Fernandes said he had never seen anything like the surveillance aircraft, secret pole cameras and other tactics police used to investigate Ford in 2013 amid reports of a video showing him apparently smoking crack cocaine.

Instead, Fernandes said, his “target” was Jamshid (Jay) Bahrami, owner of a west-end dry cleaners, and later Lisi, who was Ford’s pal and some- Alexander Lisi time driver and bodyguard.

In hours of intercepts played for the court, Fernandes presses Bahrami to hook him up with Lisi for a drug deal. Lisi, however, feeling the heat from the “crack video” probe, was keeping a low profile.

Finally, on Oct. 1, 2013, Bahrami told Fernandes, who is no longer an undercover agent, to come by to pick up “some shirts” apparently dropped off by Lisi.

Fernandes, under drug-squad orders to make no arrests, heads to the store and agrees to buy about 115 grams of pot. Lisi wants $1,000, Bahrami tells him. He offers $800.

Bahrami, as middle man, calls Lisi and gets him to agree to “nine shirts” or $900. But Lisi refuses to show his face as Fernandes wants.

“The heat’s on him,” Bahrami explains to Fernandes. “He’s getting psycho.”

Bahrami, 49, had a licence to grow and possess medicinal marijuana for chronic rheumatoid arthritis, but Fernandes told court his superiors never mentioned his licence even though they knew about it.

Before leaving with the drugs, Fernandes asks Bahrami how much Lisi can supply in the future.

“Any amount you want,” the store owner responds.

Fernandes had no further contact with Bahrami, who was arrested with Lisi, 36, two weeks later and charged with various drug offences. Both men have pleaded not guilty.

The officer never did meet or talk to Lisi. He also admitted he never saw Bahrami, who increasingly appeared to consider the agent a close friend, actually sell any marijuana.

“There was no procession of dubious characters in and out of the store?” Bahrami’s lawyer, Jacob Stilman, asked.

“No.” Fernandes said. “Was Mr. Bahrami a nice man? Absolutely.”

In total, after six weeks of cozying up to Bahrami, Fernandes managed to buy a total of 680 grams of marijuana worth a total of $3,100 at the store — $2,200 of it from a supplier called Dan, court heard.

Ford, now a city councillor who publicly admitted to use crack cocaine, was never charged.

The trial continues Friday with further cross-examination of Fernandes and the officer who arrested Lisi.

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OTTAWA — Manitoba judge and former Conservative cabinet minister Vic Toews was to have his wages garnisheed earlier this year in order to settle a dispute with an Ottawa-area landlord.

Toews unsuccessfully tried to block the repayment, arguing that he didn’t realize what was going on because he couldn’t read the official French-only documents from Quebec’s rental tribunal.

The administrative judge from the Regie du Logement said in a ruling last week that Toews should have known better.

“More than anyone, he should be in a position to understand the respect and attention that should be paid to a document titled ”DECISION,“ wrote Pierre Gagnon.

The matter dates back to the summer of 2013, when Toews announced he was leaving federal politics. He was renting from the Gatineau, Que., firm Immeubles Desmarais, and according to tribunal documents did not pay rent for the final three months of his lease — an outstanding total of $3,900.

Landlord Raymond Desmarais went to the tribunal that November, but Toews did not show up to defend himself. The judge ruled that Toews repay the rent, plus interest and $78 in court costs.

But Toews did not repay Desmarais. In December 2014, he received a collection agency letter saying he owed $17,490, with the 2013 tribunal decision attached.

Toews’s lawyer, Alexander Bayus, said it wasn’t until January that he learned what had happened at the tribunal, as he discovered his wages were about to be garnisheed.

He filed a motion in February to reverse the judge’s decision, and said that the landlord’s initial request for payment was sent to the wrong address back in 2013.

TORONTO — A “troubled” man who snatched a sleeping five-year-old girl from her bed and sexually assaulted her in a neighbour’s yard violated her sense of security “in the most vile way,” an Ontario judge found Thursday in sentencing him to seven years in prison.

Ryan Belbin, 31, was found guilty in October of breaking and entering, abduction of a person under 14, sexual assault and sexual interference in the 2011 Boxing Day incident, though he maintained his innocence throughout the trial.

Belbin’s actions have caused severe “emotional and psychological distress” for the girl and her family, Judge Nola Garton noted in giving her decision.

While the girl’s physical injuries were limited to scrapes and bruises, “it is not known what the longterm psychological impact of the offences will be on her,” she said.

“As a result of her groggy state of mind when she was abducted, and the fact that her father carried her back into the house after the assault, the victim believes that her father was responsible for taking her outside in the middle of the night, putting his hand over her mouth and hurting her,” Garton said.

After seeking professional advice, the girl’s parents have decided not to tell her the truth, believing it would be more traumatizing for her to hear a stranger abducted her from her bed, the judge said.

“It is not known how the victim’s mistaken belief may affect her relationship with her father in the future, but it has certainly posed a painful dilemma for her parents and added to their level of stress.”

Belbin, who’s from Toronto, has been in custody since his arrest in early 2012, which means he has two years and four months left to serve behind bars.

He also faces a lifetime ban on going to public

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — Battling for their playoff lives, the Calgary Flames begin a stretch of five straight road games on Friday when they face the Minnesota Wild.

The Flames, who completed their recent five-game homestand with a 2-12 record, will also face the Nashville Predators, Dallas Stars, St. Louis Blues and Edmonton Oilers during their final extended road trip of the regular season.

“It seems that we always find a way to elevate our games in situations that we need to and right now we’re all in,” said Calgary coach Bob Hartley. “The chips are all on the table right now.

There’s no bluffs. We have to come up with our best performances and it’s fun.”

Calgary (40-27-7) erased deficits of 2-0 and 3-2 to Dallas on Wednesday at the Saddledome before eventually losing 4-3 to the Stars in a shootout.

“We got some big points,” said Flames defenceman Kris Russell. “Obviously we would have liked to have added a few, especially (on Wednesday), but we know that going into a road trip like this we’re carrying some momentum, so we’ve got to make sure that we really go after some teams on the road and play strong.”

The Flames still gained a point on Wednesday to retain their grip on third place in the Pacific Division, just one point ahead of the Los Angeles Kings (36-23-14), who face the New York Islanders on the road on Thursday night.

“You can have brain damage worrying about all the different gyrations of who beats who and looking out of town,” said Calgary general manager Brad Treliving, who wants the Flames

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After making 27 saves to help Calgary earn a point against Dallas on Wednesday, Karri Ramo will make his fifth straight start in net for the Flames against the Wild.

“We’ve said it all along the way, we have two goalies capable of winning games,” said Hartley, who has also chosen to go with Jonas Hiller in net for extended stretches earlier this season.

“Obviously right now we feel that Karri is playing well. He’s giving us a chance to win games, but at the same time we’ve been like this all year and we’ve very comfortable with it. That’s our situation. It’s one game at a time.”

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nyk from the Arizona Coyotes on Jan. 14 in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2014 NHL Draft, the Wild (42-257) have made their way up the standings and into a playoff spot.

Dubnyk has compiled a 24-6-1 record during his time with the Wild, who hold down the first wild-card spot in the Western Conference, three points ahead of the Winnipeg Jets (3824-12).

“He’s a guy that just never quits,” said Russell, who won gold with Dubnyk as a member of Canada’s team at the 2006 World Junior Hockey Championships in Vancouver.

“He’s showed what he can do and what level he can play at, so obviously he’s playing at the top of his game right now. He’s a guy that we’re going to have to challenge and get a lot of pucks to and get a lot of bodies there, because he’s playing so well.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS John Morris, Carter Rycroft and Nolan Thiessen are all former world men’s curling champions.

They’re hoping to get their skip his first world title at this year’s tournament in Halifax.

Pat Simmons will guide the host Canadian side at the competition, which begins Saturday at the Scotiabank Centre. He took over skipping duties from Morris after the team struggled in the early going at the recent Brier.

Simmons went on to lead the Calgary rink to the playoffs and a successful title defence as the first Team Canada entry at the national championship. A 6-5 victory over Northern Ontario’s Brad Jacobs gave them a berth in the 12-team world championship along with a chance to make up for a disappointing fourth-place finish last year in Beijing.

“That’s one of our big motivators going into Halifax,” said Morris. “We want to get that world championship for Pat.” Simmons, Rycroft and Thiessen won the Brier last year with Alberta skip Kevin Koe. However, reports surfaced shortly before the 2014 world championship that Koe planned to move forward with a new lineup for this season.

They still made it to the bronzemedal game but settled for fourth place after a loss to Switzerland. It was the first time since 2001 that Canada had missed the podium at the world playdowns.

Koe’s former teammates later recruited Morris as skip and had an automatic entry at the Brier as the defending champions. Team Canada played a light schedule ahead of the national playdowns and stumbled to a 2-3 record after five games. That’s when Morris demoted himself to third and handed skipping duties to Simmons, who shone in the role. They made the final four, pulled off two close playoff wins and knocked off the reigning Olympic champions in a nailbiting final.

Not bad for someone who hadn’t been a full-time skip in five years.

“As it turned out, it came back relatively quick,” Simmons said. “There’s still probably room for improvement in that respect, but I definitely was pleased with how quickly everything did come back for sure.”

Simmons, a Moose Jaw native, skipped the Saskatchewan entry at the Brier for several years before starting to move away from skip duties in 2010’11. He joined skip Steve Laycock’s team that season, although Simmons still threw last stones.

Simmons moved to Koe’s team the following season and spent three years as a third for that rink. Morris, meanwhile, won a world championship in 2008 in Grand Forks, N.D., with Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert and retired skip Kevin Martin, a team that won Olympic gold at the 2010 Vancouver Games.

Rycroft and Thiessen won a world title with Koe and Blake MacDonald in 2010 at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Koe added Kennedy, Hebert and Brent Laing to his team this season.

They won the Alberta provincials but didn’t reach the Brier playoffs.

Morris appeared much more comfortable as a third at the Brier, a position he played for Martin from 2006 to 2013. He said he feels “100 per cent confident” that his team can win the world championship, adding everyone feels really natural and comfortable.

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Nashville Predators’ Paul Gaustad, left, crashes into Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Ben Bishop after tipping in a puck to score as J.T. Brown (23) looks on during the first period of an NHL game Thursday, in Tampa, Fla. The Predators won the game 3-2. More from Thursday’s NHL action on page B7.

Duhamel and Radford win pairs gold at figure skating world championships

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SHANGHAI — Canadians Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford have their perfect season.

The pair held off two Chinese teams in the free skate to capture gold in the pairs event on Thursday at the world figure skating championships.

After a seventh-place finish at the Sochi Games last year, Duhamel, from Lively, Ont., and Radford, from Balmertown, Ont., decided to continue their careers and skate another year — and haven’t lost since. They’ve won all six international events they’ve entered this season, including the Grand Prix Finals and Four Continents.

“Some dreams are so big that you can’t even imagine them happening and it’s all happening right now,” said Radford. “I could never have imagined it and I can’t tell if it’s a dream or reality.

“We’ve worked so hard to get here and it’s amazing.”

Duhamel and Radford, who won bronze at the previous two world championships, were the leaders after the short program. It is Canada’s first pairs title since Jamie Sale and David Pelletier won in 2001.

“This is a very personal victory. Every single victory along the way this season had a very special meaning,” Duhamel said.

Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China finished second, and 35-year-old veterans Pang Qing and Tong Jian, competing in their 16th world championships, took home the bronze.

Pang and Tong, who came out of retirement this year to finish their careers in Shanghai, now have six world medals (two gold, one silver, three bronze) to go with their silver medal from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

“I fulfilled (my partner’s) wishes to come back to the rink,” Tong said, before adding with a smile, “I certainly hope Pang Qing will not drag me back to the rink once again.”

Also, 18-year-old Russian Elizaveta Tuktamysheva landed a triple Axel on her first leap of the figure skating world championships on Thursday,

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Gold medal winners in the Pairs Free Skating event Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford of Canada, hold the Canadian flag as they wave to spectators followed by Sui Wenjing and Han Cong of China, with silver in rear, at the ISU World Figure Skating Championship 2015 held at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China, Thursday. opening up a big lead over the rest of the field after the short program.

“When I landed the triple Axel, I got goosebumps and I thought, ’Is this a dream or did I really just do the triple Axel at the world championships?”’

Tuktamysheva said.

Only a handful of women skaters have successfully landed a triple Axel in international competition, among them Tonya Harding, Midori Ito and Mao Asada. Tuktamysheva landed the difficult jump in one of the biggest competitions of her career after only practising it for a couple months.

“It’s 50 per cent I could land it and 50 per cent I could miss it, anything could happen with this jump,” Tuktamysheva said.

“However, I think that figure skating needs to develop and many girls will do the triple Axel in the future.

You have to do difficult elements and you cannot stagnate.

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“Maybe we will even be doing quad (jumps) in the future, who knows?”

A year after inconsistent results kept her off the Russian team for the Sochi Olympics, Tuktamysheva is having a banner season. She has captured seven titles in nine events, including the European Championships and Grand Prix Finals, and is now closing in on her first world title.

Skating to Maurice Ravel’s “Bolero,” Tuktamysheva dazzled not just with her jumps — her footwork was crisp and her spins tight and blisteringly fast.

She scored 77.62 points, the thirdhighest short program tally since the International Skating Union changed its judging system in 2004. Sixteenyear-old Elena Radionova of Russia was more than eight points behind in second, while Satoko Miyahara of Japan finished third on her 17th birthday.

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Changing of the guard

Red Deer Rebel Brett Cote chased by Clagary Hitmen Jake Virtanen during action at the Centrium Mar 13.

Cote was one of the acquisitions by the Rebels to help transform a defence that struggled last season.

Photos by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

MAKEOVER TURNS REBELS DEFENCE INTO ONE OF THE BEST IN WHL

BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR It didn’t happen overnight; it just seemed that way.

The Red Deer Rebels blueline was a mess during the 2013-14 WHL season, to the extent that GM/head coach Brent Sutter realized that a drastic make-over was necessary. With just two returning rearguards — confirmed keepers Haydn Fleury and Kayle Doetzel — on this season’s squad, the Rebels, arguably, boast one of the better back ends in the league.

“We knew that it was certainly a question mark going into the season. It was an area we felt we had to shore up,” Sutter said this week, as his club prepared for their first-round playoff series versus the Tigers opening Saturday and Sunday in Medicine Hat Tigers. “With the type of game we want to play, we had to add some skill and some mobile guys back there . . . more size and guys with experience.”

The facelift started last summer when Sutter dealt a second-round draft pick to the Victoria Royals for Brett Cote and nabbed a pair of blueliners in the import draft. Just one of the imports, Mario Grman, is still with the club and in fact currently lines up at a forward position, but Cote was a valuable addition.

The Rebels also confirmed that draft picks Austin Strand and Josh Mahura had worked their way onto the roster following training camp and a series of preseason outings.

“We knew they would both have a chance of making our team and Josh, as a 16-year-old, has really developed this year,” said Sutter. “And Strander came in as a question mark in training camp, but played extremely well and made our hockey team, so it was great to have those two young kids.”

But . . .

“We just felt that we needed to add something more,” said Sutter, who swung deals with the Saskatoon Blades and Spokane Chiefs in December to bring in Nelson Nogier and Colton Bobyk.

“To be able to acquire Nogier, both him and Bobs . . . was huge for us. It set us up on the back end for two seasons. Obviously we had to have next year in mind (as 2016 Memorial Cup hosts) while also trying to improve our team this year.”

As it stands, the Rebels boss is comfortable with the back end group he now has, a contingent that will likely remain intact next season, minus the

Red Deer Rebel Hayden Fleury is one of two holdovers from last season’s defensive core and has not disappointed in helping lift the defence from last year’s struggles graduating Cote.

The Rebels’ defence corps, quite simply, is the axis around which the team revolves, a nice mix of size and mobility with puck-movers and stay-athome types.

“You’re always trying to find the right fit for the type of team you want to have,” said Sutter. “We felt we wanted to be a puck-moving team, a good skating team, plus we wanted to have hockey sense back there.

“You look at that group, they have good size. They all can skate and move the puck, and they’re all pretty responsible players. Our defence is certainly better today than it was at the start of the season.

No question, when you look at our defence it prob-

ably is the strength of our hockey team.”

Fleury, who last June was selected seventh overall by the Carolina Hurricanes in the NHL entry draft, agreed with his coach.

“Throughout the year we’ve gotten a lot better and now we’re a group of six who feel like we can be among the best in the league and we’re going to have to show that in the playoffs,” said Fleury.

“Brent has made some trades that have helped us a lot and then brought in Strander and Mahura through the draft. It’s been a good transition this season.”

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Rebels rookies looking forward to first playoffs

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Rylan Toth came into his rookie campaign just hoping to get a chance to prove himself in the Red Deer Rebels net.

Now, with the start of the WHL playoffs, he has a chance to establish himself as a star 13 months out of hosting the 2016 MasterCard Memorial Cup. “It’s exciting and I’m looking forward to it,” said Toth, 18, knowing that mistakes and miscues are magnified that much more in the post-season. “It will be something different, I’ve never experienced the playoffs at this level before.”

Toth is one of five first year Rebels trying to carve out their own place on the roster as they prepare for a first round showdown with the Medicine Hat Tigers.

As starting goalie, however, few will have the chance to make as big an impact on the team. If he struggles, second year ’tender Taz Burman will jump into his place.

Toth posted a 28-18-4-5 record this season with a 2.84 goals against average and a .904 save percentage.

Last year he starred for the Battlefords North Stars in the Saskatchewan Midget Hockey League, posting a 2.43 GAA and a .923 save percentage in the regular season and a 2.569 GAA and .914 save percentage in the playoffs.

“A lot of these Western League teams, they bring these guys a long slowly, but if you look at Rylan Toth where he came from last year to this year, my expectations are really high for him, I think he can carry the load,” said Rebels assistant coach Steve O’Rourke. “If he does falter, Taz has been extremely good for us down the stretch.”

Staring Toth down at the other end of the ice in the first round is a player in the exact opposite situation. The Tigers’ Marek Langhamer, 20, is an Arizona Coyotes draft pick and is in his third year in the WHL. It’s a match up Toth pays little attention too, though he is hoping to build a similar reputation ahead of the Memorial Cup nest year.

“It’s kind of in the back of your head, you definitely know you’re playing against a goalie that’s drafted, so if you can have a better game than he does, it looks good for you,” said Toth. “In games when you’re playing against a goalie like that, you want to be at your best.”

Austin Strand has as much to gain from a strong playoff performance this year. The six-foot-three, 193-pound blue-liner is one of the Rebels’ highest ranked prospect heading into the NHL entry draft this summer. But his focus is on the Tigers.

“It’s pretty important but I’m just going to try and stick to what I do, not try and do anything out of the ordinary and try to help them get as far as we can by bringing what I can bring,” said Strand, 18, who was a third round draft pick of the Rebels in the 2012 WHL bantam draft.

“I’m just looking forward to playoffs, it’s unreal.

Growing up as a kid I just always wanted to play for the Rebels.”

Strand has played well in his debut WHL season, picking up 13 points (four goals, nine assists) in 54 games while posting a minus-2 rating and 44 penalty minutes.

He’ll be joined on the blue-line by 16-year-old defenceman Josh Mahura who has also played well, despite his youth, scoring eight points (2-6-8) with 20 penalty minutes in 51 games.

Photo by JEFF STOKOE/Advocate staff

Medicine Hat Tigers Zach Fischer and Chad Labelle crash the goal as Red Deer Rebel goaltender Rylan Toth defends during action at the Centrium earlier this season. Toth has been solid in net for the Rebels during his rookie season and his hoping to continue his development in his first taste of WHL playoff action.

But the playoffs will be a whole new animal for the six-foot, 165-pound St. Albert native.

“It’s been a great learning experience for me so far, I’m still learning things every day from the coaches and the experienced players around me,” he said. “I’ve just got to be ready to go (for the playoffs), I’ve got to be mentally there and physically there as well.”

Jeff de Wit made a home for himself on the Rebels fourth line, putting forth a respectable first year for his hometown team. While his numbers offensively don’t jump off the page — 13 points (3-10-13) in 65 games — he didn’t hurt his team.

This playoff run will be critical to his development.

“I’m excited, I’m expecting it to be a little more physical and a little more serious ... you’ve just got to be ready each game,” said the six-foot-two, 180-pound centre. “It’s definitely huge if we can get through a few series and show us rookies what it takes to win in big situations. With the Memorial Cup next year, it will be huge.”

Reese Johnson, 16, was called up to the Rebels from the Saskatoon Blazers midget AAA team a month ago after the Blazers failed to qualify for the playoffs. Instead, he will be immersed in a much higher level of post-season.

He led the Blazers in scoring with 38 points (23-1538) in 43 games this season, but has just two goals in 12 games with the Rebels.

“It’s been a lot quicker pace than what I’m used to, but I thought I adjusted to it real good,” said

Johnson. “Hopefully I can get into the lineup and contribute as best as I can and try to win.”

While the Rebels do have an accomplished set of veteran forwards like captain Conner Bleackley, Riley Sheen Brooks Maxwell and Wyatt Johnson, O’Rourke says the playoffs are a prime time for young players to step up.

“This is the real true test of their character, we’ve known them all year, now what do they bring?” said O’Rourke, adding second year winger Grayson Pawlenchuk is due to break out. “This is where you really make it or break it, this is where you really jump your draft status for yourself with a big performance. We’ve seen it with the unsung heroes in the NHL who score five, 10, 12 goals in a playoff run, that’s what we need from these guys.”

The Rebels are firmly focused on a long run this year, but everything they have done roster wise has been with an eye to next season when they host the Memorial Cup, and a long run this year may be as beneficial than any new player they can bring in.

“As soon as the Memorial Cup was announced, Brent and Shaun Sutter went to work on building this team for next year, but the whole goal in mind was to win this year,” said O’Rourke. “Maybe we could have gone out and got a couple of 19-year-ols, but we got 18-year-olds in (Nelson) Nogier and (Colton) Bobyk to help us right today but with that eye on the future ... We’re going to push this year to get as much experience as possible and hopefully win it this year.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

CONTINUED FROM PAGE B2 While the likes of Fleury, Cote and Bobyk are mainstays on the team’s power play, Nogier and Doetzel are rock-solid defensively and certainly appreciated by the coaching staff.

“They’re dependable guys,” said Sutter. “We’re not afraid to play any of our guys against the other teams’ top lines. Guys like Doetzel and Nogier are very defensive-minded guys but they can move pucks and are very positional players. They can skate and have some ruggedness to their game. That’s nice to have on your back end.”

How much does the coaching staff appreciate fourth-year veteran Doetzel? Enough to select the six-foot-three, 198-pound Rosetown, Sask., native as the team’s defenceman of the year.

The appreciation runs both ways.

“Considering the points some of these (fellow defencemen) have put up this season, hearing my name called as defenceman of the year was definitely a real big honour,” said Doetzel, in reference to the team’s awards presentations prior to last Saturday’s final regular-season game against the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings.

“It makes you feel good knowing the coaches think you’ve had a real strong year. It definitely makes you feel good as a person.”

Speaking of appreciation, Rebels netminders Rylan Toth and Taz Burman undoubtedly value the savvy of a blueline that collectively features 18 seasons of major junior experience.

“Another reason why we felt it was important to have experience back there is we have (inexperienced) goalies,” said Sutter.

“We wanted to be better in our zone to help our young goalies out, with our back end handing the rushes the right way. I think it has done that and

Kayle Doetzel has been Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter’s go to guys that he put out on the ice against the other team’s top lines this season.

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helped our goalies develop the way we want them to develop.”

Now, at the most important point of the season, the Rebels’ defensive corps has to prove it is worthy of taking the club on a lengthy playoff run.

Doetzel is firm in his belief that the blueline bri-

gade is more than capable of delivering.

“We’ve definitely taken a lot of big steps as a group,” he said. “Overall, it feels like we’re taking our game to another level. Our defence is definitely one of the strong points of our team.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Times changing for Tigers getting up-ice. To be honest with you, in overtime you just want to put pucks on net and I got myself in a spot where I thought it was a time to throw it on After 44 years of play-by-play and net.

“Seeing that puck go in was one of driving the bus, Bob Ridley had to the best feelings in my life.” make a change.

But neither of those can be conThe incredible hours put in by the Medicine Hat Tigers’ legendary broad- sidered the most successful teams to caster had taken their toll. More than grace the old barn’s ice. It was in 1987 a million kilometres, shuttling junior and 1988 that the Tigers — featuring hockey players from one city to anoth- hometown hero Trevor Linden — won er, often through the night, then check- not just league titles, but the Memorial ing and re-checking the bus to make Cup as well.

“Two Memorial Cups back to back, sure it was still in working order.

This past season, the 70-year-old there’s only three teams in the modwho’s been the voice of all but one of ern era that did that,” said Scott Mcthe team’s games gave up the steer- Cready, a member of both squads who ing wheel. And whenever this playoff now lives in Calgary. “The group of season is over, he’ll also close the door guys we had on those teams, it was on The Arena itself as he and the team a special group. On top of that there get set to move to the Medicine Hat Re- were four or five of us that went on and won a gold medal for Canada. Mr. gional Event Centre this fall.

“It was really tough, only because Maser (George, a team owner) came to of the fact when you do something for Russia when we played in ’88.”

Back Saturday for the team’s fareso long, it becomes a part of you, really it does,” said Ridley. “It was starting well celebration, McCready felt transto affect my health. I’m glad I recog- ported back in time.

“It hasn’t changed at all, right? The nized it was time, but at the time it was building was warm, it was a full house. tough.”

He was talking about the bus, but It reminds me exactly of the same time a similar sentiment could exist for when we played here.”

But times weren’t always so good.

The Arena. Built in mere months in Alumnus and Fox 1970 after the old Valley, Sask., native one burnt down, ‘THIS OLD BUILDING Stefan Meyer used it’s been the site to talk about how he of countless amazHAS SERVED US VERY run around ing moments, goals, VERY WELL. I’M SAD TO could the stands growing laughs, tears and a up. By the time he few floods.

SEE IT GO, BUT THAT’S finished playing for It’s not being torn down yet, but PROGRESS. WE’VE GOT TO the Tigers in 2005, the string of five it’s time for the TiMOVE ON.’ straight seasons gers to say goodbye.

— BOB RIDLEY without a playoff “The building, MEDICINE HAT TIGERS BROADCASTER game were over. quite frankly, suited Sellouts, 4,006 ever us perfectly,” said since fire marshalls Lanny McDonald, whose No. 8 is the only one retired by stepped in to limit the capacity, were the norm starting with the 2003 playthe team. “It was jammed every night.

“I’ll never forget, I understand they offs.

Former captain Steve Marr rememfinally changed them, the double seats.

How much fun was that? You got to bers that’s when Medicine Hat earned the moniker “Loudest Barn in the know your neighbour real good.”

Indeed, the building for many ‘Dub.” “When we stepped on that ice for years was known as the smartie box, its colourful array of unfixed seats a Game 3 (against Swift Current), it was unique feature when McDonald played so loud I was tearing up,” said Marr. there from 1971 to 1973. The future “It was pent-up, just finally… To have Hall of Famer — who on Wednesday been able to be a part of that, give was chosen to succeed the late Pat back to a city that’s bled this team – Quinn as chair of the Hockey Hall of and they did, they paid their dues – to Fame — led Medicine Hat to an unex- see how much it meant to them. We pected league title in ’73, which Rid- thought it meant a lot to us, but when ley believes included the second-most you come out and feel how much it meant to them was so special. iconic moment in the building.”

“Not a lot of people get to experi“I don’t think a lot of the fans remember back in ’73 when the Tigers ence things like that.”

The past 13 years’ worth of playwon a championship over the Saskatoon Blades here,” said Ridley. “I think off runs began with head coach Willie Barry Dean got the game-winning goal, Desjardins, who molded a team with (Tom) Lysiak, McDonald contributed speed and skill and won a league title hugely and Boyd Anderson was a big in 2004, then again in ’07. Now coachpart of that as well as the Gassoff gang. ing the NHL’s Vancouver Canucks — And that was pretty exciting, mainly hired by Linden, no less — he recalls a because of the fact that they were only speech by then-captain Ben Thomson three years into the franchise. Here as helping define the turnaround.

“My first year there, we hadn’t beatyou are in the league final, here you are going to the Memorial Cup. How en Swift Current all year, it was late in the regular season, maybe two or three wild is that?

“The team at that time really caught games left and Benny Thomson gave a the imagination of the Medicine Hat great speech in the dressing room before the game,” said Desjardins. fan.”

“Then we went out and I think we The vision most fans see when asked to recall their favourite, however, came tied the game late, Benny scored in much later. May 14, 2007. Game 7 of overtime to win it. And he gave anoththe WHL championship series against er great speech at the end of the game.

I remember after he gave his speech, Vancouver. Double overtime. Fog. “I remember being pretty tired,” it had to be five to 10 minutes after the said Brennan Bosch, who scored the game is over, there’s still this noise goal, a slapper that beat Giants net- coming from the arena. I don’t know minder Tyson Sexsmith low stick side. what’s going on.

“So I honestly went out to see what “It was a long game, a long series.

“I remember just getting the puck, was happening, and the fans were just

BY SEAN ROONEY MEDICINE HAT NEWS

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Medicine Hat Tigers’ legendary broadcaster Bob Ridley has more than a million kilometres, shuttling junior hockey players from one city to another but he has hung up the steering wheel and now will also say goodbye to his home away from home at the end of this season. The Tigers will be moving to their new arena where Ridley will broadcast future Tigers games. still standing there cheering.”

Not all of the best moments are quite so grandiose. Jim Hall — better known as superfan Sideshow with a giant wig and costume — worked for the city when a motocross event was booked. From concerts and curling to rodeos, wrestling and monster trucks, The Arena has seen plenty of nonhockey entertainment, but this one presented a challenge.

“That would’ve been 1993, ’94, and we found out we didn’t have the proper exhaust system or the clock high enough for the motocross event,” said Hall.

“We just opened every door we could, the garage door was open, it was cold outside and we went with it.

“They had to work around the clock, it was pretty funny actually. We were scared somebody was going to get hurt.

It went off without a hitch.”

Ridley counts hometown goaltender and future Stanley Cup winner Chris Osgood scoring a goal Jan, 3, 1991 as

one of his favourite calls. Kieran Block — now with Canada’s national sledge hockey team — remembers scoring on his former team, the Vancouver Giants.

But for so many, thinking of The Arena brings Ridley to mind. Just like the team, the two are intertwined.

“This city’s a very hard-working city, and everyone here works for what they’ve got and they come here and let it all out,” said Marr.

“If you get to see Bob behind the scenes, how hard he works with driving the bus, how hard he works on the radio and then he lets it out. It’s a symbiotic relationship the city has with him.”

So to hear Ridley isn’t driving anymore may surprise some. But he’s feeling better about it in hindsight, and he hopes the city will echo that sentiment for the arena.

“This old building has served us very very well,” he said. “I’m sad to see it go, but that’s progress. We’ve got to move on.”

Lewington suspended for playoff opener against Rebels

to Wednesday’s team skate. “It got the best of myself there at the end.

Obviously a tough pill to swallow, getting suspended for the first game, I want to be out there but at the same time I’ve got to respect the league and their decision to give me a one-game suspension.”

Lewington added he will be preaching to his teammates in the days leading up to Game 1 that they still have to play their game “the right way,” in order to keep up the success that earned them home ice in the series.

“Because it’s playoffs you’ve obviously got to crank it up a bit, but you can’t try to do too much or overthink things. You can’t let the pressure get to you, try to stay composed and have confidence with the puck,” he said.

“The team is going to come out hard in Game 1 and I’ll just be happy to get back in there Game 2 and try to help out as much as I can.”

The puck drops for Game 1 at The Arena Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

BY RYAN MCCRACKEN MEDICINE HAT NEWS Physically resisting an official never bodes well for a hockey player, and Medicine Hat Tigers defenceman Tyler Lewington found that out the hard way.

After engaging in an altercation with Saskatoon Blades defenceman Kolton Dixon, Lewington wrestled off the linesman restraining him to initiate another scrap with Amil Krupic in last weekend’s regular season finale at The Arena. As a result, the WHL suspended Lewington for his team’s playoff opener against the Red Deer Rebels Saturday.

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Am’s rely on goaltending going into playoffs league-high seven shutouts during the regular season.

Sarthou was injured in the Jan. 25 game at Portland and didn’t play again until March 4, when he shut out Vancouver 3-0.

Comrie came back for several games until he was injured again. The Americans had to use affiliate goalies for four games, costing them valuable points at a time when they were neck and neck with Spokane for the first Western Conference wild-card spot.

Last weekend, Comrie earned wins over Portland and Spokane as the Americans earned a playoff spot for the 12th consecutive season. Sarthou had 49 saves Sunday in a 5-3 loss to Portland.

“They both looked great,” Williamson said. “I don’t think it took them a long time to get back. They are both pretty phenomenal athletes and did what they could so they could make sure their return would be as smooth as possible. They both looked at the top of their game. Like I said, they are the strength of our team, and we need them to perform well.”

Goalie coach Lyle Mast helped along the returns of Comrie and Sarthou, making sure their timing and positioning were back to their high standards.

“Lyle is a valuable resource for us,” Williamson said. “Lyle does a good job and has a good relationship with both guys. He is an expert in what he does.

He does a phenomenal job with the goalies he works with. We are thankful he is here working with these guys. We are fortunate enough to get him in here every 3 to 4 weeks. The timing worked out really great to be able to step on the ice as they were both returning.”

The playoffs likely will be Comrie’s last games in an Americans jersey. He has signed with the Jets and will be an overage player next season.

BY ANNIE FOWLER TRI-CITY HERALD Every Western Hockey League team has its strength, whether it be scoring or goaltending.

For the Tri-City Americans, goaltending has been king. For a team that scores an average of 2.64 goals a game, the goaltending of Eric Comrie and Evan Sarthou has had to come to the rescue this season.

“Right at the start of the year, I think we felt we had two outstanding goaltenders, probably the best tandem in the league,” Tri-City coach Mike Williamson said. “Obviously, with Eric gone as much as he was, then getting hurt, and Sarts being hurt, it disrupted things a little bit and took a key strength of our team from us. They are healthy now. I think we managed the situation well as far as we didn’t rush them back in and prolong the injuries.

We bit the bullet a bit and probably lost some points along the way because of it, but it has been worth it. They both feel great right now.”

That’s good to hear as the Americans enter their first-round playoff series with the Kelowna Rockets, starting Friday at Prospera Place in Kelowna.

The high-powered Rockets scored 305 goals this season, second only to Brandon’s 340. With Kelowna averaging 4.24 goals per game, quality goaltending is key if the Americans plan to extend their season beyond the first round.

“Goaltending is the strength of our team, and our top players have to make sure they are at the top of their game,” Williamson said. “We are going to need everyone to really step up. Playoffs are a special time, and you need everyone to dig deep. The difference between winning and losing, and scor-

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Tri-City Americans goaltender Eric Comrie makes a stop on Spokane Chief Dominic Zwerger earlier this season. For a team that scores an average of 2.64 goals a game, the goaltending of Comrie and Evan Sarthou has had to come to the rescue this season. ing and not scoring, is a very fine line.

You have to pay attention to details, and the starts to your game have to be strong, especially on the road. And you can’t give up any easy offense to their team.”

The Americans handed the Rockets their first regulation loss, 5-2 on Oct. 18 at Toyota Center. The Rockets then countered with wins of 4-0, 4-1 and 7-1.

Comrie played the first three games, and Sarthou was on the losing end of the 7-1 game — his 14th consecutive start in a string that ran to 20 before an injury sidelined him for more than a month.

“I think the most important thing is your focus for 60 minutes,” William-

son said of beating the Rockets. “They are a very deep team, they have some top-end players, but they rely on their whole lineup to get the job done. If you fall asleep or think you can rest for a 3-to-4-minute stretch, that’s when their depth takes over and turns games for them. From start to finish, whoever is on the ice has to be ready to pay the price and compete. If we have any passengers, they will exploit that.”

Sarthou started the first two games of the season when Comrie was at the Winnipeg Jets’ camp, then took over when Comrie went to the World Junior Championship with Team Canada.

When Comrie returned with an injury, Sarthou stayed the course. He had a

Padakin preparing to help Pats for long playoff run team but not as good as us.”

The lesson? There are no guarantees in the playoffs.

“Some guys think, ‘Oh, we’re a young team,’ ” he noted. “But the big thing is to take all those things from your mind. You just need to come out and play hard and the best thing is to stay out of the penalty box. Five on five, everybody knows we’re one of the best teams.”

Padakin has experienced playoff successes and failures during his WHL career. He believes that both will benefit him this season with the Pats.

“It will help me because I’m not going to feel so much pressure,” he said.

“I’ll just come on the ice and play as hard as I can and try to score goals and kill penalties. For the young guys, they just need to follow the older guys.”

The Pats’ 24-man roster includes 14 players — most of them rookies — who’ve never had a chance to get their

feet wet in the WHL playoffs. One of them is 16-year-old forward Luc Smith, who can’t wait to dive right in.

“Everybody knows the intensity is going to be up there,” said Smith.

“Even in practice it has jumped. (Monday’s) practice was a hard one and everybody knew, ‘This is real.’ Everybody is going to be moving faster and working harder, plays are going to be happening quicker.”

It’s up to the youngsters to keep pace.

“After the first game is over we all have one game of experience,” added Smith, who believes the rookies will have to find “the right balance” in managing their emotions. “You don’t want to get too jacked up and end up not playing good but it would be impossible for guys not to be excited. As a team, we’re ready. This is what you play all year for. This is playoffs.” gharder@leaderpost.com

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However, the Broncos have an older team with a combined 144 games Pavel Padakin hasn’t started grow- of WHL playoff experience. The Pats ing his beard, but he’s already a griz- have just 60, most of which came during a four-game sweep last season at zled veteran of the WHL playoff wars.

The 20-year-old forward plans to the hands of the Brandon Wheat Kings.

Swift Current has been knocked out abandon his clean-shaven look when in the first round each of the the Regina Pats commence a past two seasons. first-round series on Friday “We’re shorter on experiagainst the Swift Current ence for sure,” said Pats head Broncos. coach John Paddock. “But I “It’s a playoff tradition and think we have a lot of enthuI will do it,” Padakin said with siasm. With the kind of year a smile. “I don’t like to have a we were able to have, I think beard but I think I could do it it helps us. Guys like (Adam) pretty good. Let’s see how long Brooks and (Austin) Wagner we’ll grow it.”

Padakin hopes that sev- Pavel Padakin sat on the bench last year.

They were hungry this year. eral of his teammates will be sporting some serious facial hair this They’re ready to play.”

The same goes for Padakin, who spring. The trouble is, the Pats’ dressing room is filled with baby-faced kids leads the team with 18 games of playoff who comprise one of the WHL’s young- experience — all with the Calgary Hitmen. est rosters.

“We’re doing everything in our “Some guys can (grow a beard),” noted Padakin. “I don’t think we have power to prepare,” said Padakin, who a lot of them but it’s not about that. We helped Calgary reach the Eastern Conhave a young team but what matters is ference final two seasons ago. “Last how we play on the ice. We’re a pretty year I was on a team that we were going for (a championship). We had a regood team.”

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Hoffman tames wind-swept Texas Open

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — Charley Hoffman took advantage of calmer afternoon conditions to take the first-round lead in the wind-swept Texas Open, shooting a 5-under 67 on Thursday.

After wind gusts threatening 40 mph pummeled the morning starters, Hoffman faced steady 15 mph wind in the afternoon at TPC San Antonio. He had the lone bogey-free round, birdieing Nos. 2, 3, 9, 11 and 17.

The winner last year in Mexico at the start of the wraparound season, Hoffman has eight top-10 finishes in nine appearances in San Antonio. He was second in 2011 and third in 2013.

“I don’t know the answer to (the success here),” Hoffman said. “Visually, the course sets up nice for me off the tee. It was just a pretty low-stress round for me.”

Aaron Baddeley was second after a 68. The Australian had a remarkable birdie on the par-4 17th when he snap-hooked his drive deep into thick woods, went back to the tee and holed out from 336 yards.

“That was crazy,” Baddeley said.

“I hit it, started walking, and the crowd starts going nuts. So, I’m ’Wait.

I just made birdie.’ It rolls up and goes in.”

Max Homa had a 69, and Phil Mickelson and Ryan Palmer shot 70.

Mickelson, winless since the 2013 British Open, lost the clubhead off his 8-iron when it came flying off while he hit from a fairway bunker on the 12th hole.

“That was weird,” Mickelson said.

“But I thought it was playable out there, for the conditions. It’s nice, selfishly, to be on the good end of the tee times in the afternoon. It really looked tough for the guys in the morning.”

With gusts reaching 38 mph early in the day, no one with a morning tee

time managed to break par. Only Matt Kuchar and Cameron Percy matched it, and conditions might have been worse if not for maintenance crews slithering hoses onto some of the greens to water them down.

The stroke average for the morning wave was 78.61 and the overall average was 75.9.

From the 69 players in the morning, 23 failed to break 80. Jim Furyk and Dustin Johnson managed to keep it in the 70s, but they had their struggles with the wind.

Furyk opened his day with a 52-foot birdie putt, but he shot 76. Johnson had a 78, his worst since shooting a first-round 80 before withdrawing last year from the Houston Open.

U.S. Open champion Martin Kaymer had two triple bogeys in an 82.

Defending champion Steven Bowditch opened with an 80.

Sam Burns, an 18-year-old high school senior from Sherevport, Louisiana, who earned a spot in the field by winning the Junior PGA Championship last summer, carded an 89 with a quadruple bogey at No. 9.

Hoffman took the lead when he drove near the collar of the 17th green, chipped up and made a 6-footer for birdie.

“I got lucky that when it was blowing hard, my first four holes were downwind,” Hoffman said. “I was able to birdie a couple of them. The wind started to die down a little bit at No. 5, and I felt comfortable.”

Graeme McDowell was one of three players from the morning wave who withdrew while shooting high numbers, citing injuries. McDowell, the 2010 U.S. Open champion, said his left ankle and foot were bothering him when he pulled out after a 5-over 41 on his first nine. Sang Moon Bae (back) was 6 over through seven, and Colt Knost (thumb) had it at 9 over through eight with a quadruple bogey at No. 3.

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Jimmy Walker lines up a putt on the fifteenth green during the first round of the Valero Texas Open golf tournament, Thursday, in San Antonio.

Lee shoots 7-under to take 1-shot lead over Yani Tseng in Kia Classic

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LPGA

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Mirim Lee birdied all four par-5 holes and finished with a bogey-free 7-under 65 on Thursday to take the first-round lead in the Kia Classic.

Lee took the outright lead with an 8-foot putt on the par-5 fifth — her 14th hole in her afternoon round at Aviara — and hit a wedge to 3 feet to set up her final birdie on the par-5 eighth.

The 24-year-old South Korean player won LPGA Tour events last year in Michigan and China.

“Today was putting,” Lee said.

Lee had only 25 putts, holing 40-footers for birdies on Nos. 16 and 17.

She struggled last week in Phoenix, finishing 77th in the Founders Cup. “I practiced a lot this week,” Lee said. “I changed the grip.”

Yani Tseng, winless in 70 starts since her victory in the 2012 event at nearby La Costa, had a 66. She finished with a 4-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th after hitting a 150-yard, 7-iron shot from near a fairway bunker with the ball well above her feet — and water to the right of the green.

“I never thought it was going to be that close,” Tseng said. “I was a little like unbalanced, so I kind of tied my shoes a little bit. Actually, there was one second in my mind I was like, ’How about if I hit it in the water.’ I was like, ’Oh, if I hit it in the water, I just go drop another ball. I got like a few birdies in my pocket and should be OK.’ So I was like, ’If I make bogey, it’s no big

deal.”’

The Taiwanese player birdied Nos. 7-9 and made a 20-foot eagle putt from the fringe on the par-5 10th. She dropped a stroke on the par-4 14th when she missed a 3-foot par putt and rebounded with a 3-foot birdie putt on the par-4 16th.

Top-ranked Lydia Ko was two strokes back at 67 in the final event before the first major of the season, the ANA Inspiration next week in Rancho Mirage. The 17-year-old New Zealander has 10 straight top-10 finishes and has broken par in her last 25 LPGA Tour rounds — four of Annika Sorenstam’s record set in 2004 — and 28 worldwide.

“It’s not easy,” Ko said. “I’m trying to take one round at a time, one shot at a time, and that kind of breaks it up. a little bit. It’s tough. Playing weeks back to back and all courses just being different, I think that’s the hard thing, but I’m just trying to keep focused. I know that I’ve played well the last couple of events. It’s always good to know that you’re playing well. You can be confident.”

Ko has two worldwide victories this year, winning the tour’s Women’s Australian Open and the Ladies European Tour’s New Zealand Women’s Open in consecutive weeks. She has six career LPGA Tour victories and 10 worldwide wins in professional events.

Hall of Famer Karrie Webb, Cristie Kerr and Lin Xiyu also shot 67.

SPORTS

BRIEFS

Pollock, Oil Kings take Game 1 against Wheat Kings 4-1 Brett Pollock scored twice and set up one more as the Edmonton Oil Kings opened their Western Hockey League playoffs with a 4-1 win against the Brandon Wheat Kings on Thursday. Tyler Robertson and Lane Bauer also scored for the Oil Kings, who lead the best-of-seven first-round matchup 1-0, while Dysin Mayo tacked on two helpers. Peter Quenneville responded for the Wheat Kings.

Edmonton’s Tristan Jarry made 25 saves for the win as Brandon’s Jordan Papirny kicked out 30-of-34 shots in defeat. Brandon hosts Game 2 on Friday.

Arizona Coyotes broadcaster Nick Boynton arrested after incident at Buffalo casino Arizona Coyotes radio analyst Nick Boynton has been placed on a leave of absence by the team after being involved in a disturbance at the casino in Buffalo while in town for Thursday night’s game against the Sabres.

Buffalo Police Department spokesman Michael DeGeorge says the 36-year-old former NHL player “is in police custody” at Erie County Medical Center in Buffalo. DeGeorge says Boynton was arrested following an overnight incident at the Buffalo Creek Casino, a few blocks from First Niagara Center, the Sabres’ home ice. The police spokesman says charges “are being finalized at this time” but declined to give details of what happened.

“I think it’s a course you got to be pretty patient on,” Webb said. “I think the greens actually are putting the nicest they have out of the three years that we’ve been here, which is helpful.

They’re pretty slopey greens, so you have to leave yourself better, easier putts if you’re going to make a lot out here. Pin-high sometimes is not even a good option. There’s lots of break on them.”

Second-ranked Inbee Park, No. 3 Stacy Lewis and No. 4 Hyo Joo Kim were at 68 along with Lexi Thompson, Brittany Lang, Austin Ernst, Laura Diaz, In Gee Chun, Jackie Stoelting and Karine Icher.

The 19-year-old Kim won on Sunday in Phoenix for her second LPGA Tour victory in 13 career starts. Park took last week off after winning in Singapore and finishing second in a Ladies European Tour event in China.

Lewis, second in Phoenix, had seven birdies, a bogey and double bogey on the par-4 15th.

Thompson, preparing for her title defence in the ANA Inspiration, holed out from 98 yards for eagle on the par-4 seventh.

“Downhill, a little downwind, and I landed my 55 degree about 95,” Thompson said. “It one-bounced, past, went back and actually stayed on the lip for a little bit and then fell. So, pretty awesome.”

Michelle Wie opened with a 69. She has an endorsement deal with title sponsor Kia. Defending champion Anna Nordqvist shot a 72.

Poulin named Canada’s captain for women’s world hockey championship

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MALMO, Sweden — Marie-Philip Poulin has been named captain of the Canadian women’s hockey team for the world championship starting Saturday.

The 23-year-old from Beauceville, Que., scored the equalizer with less than a minute remaining and the overtime winner for Canada in last year’s Olympic gold-medal game against the United States.

Poulin was just 19 when she scored both of Canada’s goals in a 2-0 win over the Americans in the 2010 Olympic final. She was captain of the Boston University Terriers in her senior year this past season.

Canada opens the 2015 world championship against the defending champion U.S. on Saturday in Malmo, Sweden. The Canadians meet Russia on Sunday.

Head coach Doug Derraugh of Arnprior, Ont., chose Brianne Jenner of Oakville, Ont., Rebecca Johnston of Sudbury, Ont., Toronto’s Natalie Spooner and Lauriane Rougeau of Beaconsfield, Que., as Poulin’s alternate captains.

Spooner scored twice for Canada in their final pre-tournament game Thursday in Lund, Sweden,. The women defeated Skanes, a local team of 16-year-old males, by a score of 2-1.

Jessica Campbell of Melville, Sask., and Montreal’s Caroline Ouellette each had an assist.

The women were outshot 42-29, but Genevieve Lacasse of Kingston, Ont., and Emerance Maschmeyer of Bruderheim, Alta., combined for the win in net

Pospisil win opener against del Potro at Miami Open TENNIS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil defeated Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro 6-4, 7-6(7) on Thursday afternoon at the Miami Open.

It took Pospisil nearly two hours to earn his first win at the Miami event.

Pospisil claimed a key break with del Potro serving for the second set at 5-4. He again escaped trouble by saving two set points in the tie-break before closing out the match.

The 24-year-old Pospisil will meet No. 9 seed Grigor Dimitrov in the second round.

Del Potro, ranked No. 616 in the ATP Rankings, played just four tournaments in 2014 before undergoing surgery on his left wrist last March.

“I don’t feel frustrated,” del Potro said. “I have to take the positive things on my comeback. The score doesn’t matter for now.”

Del Potro had been sidelined with a lingering left wrist injury. The 2009 U.S. Open champion had wrist surgery a year ago and played in just four tournaments in 2014, and his ranking has fallen to No. 616.

Rustiness showed in the second set, to the disappointment of a partisan stadium crowd rooting for the Argentine.

He served at 5-4 and was broken.

He double-faulted holding a set point, lost another set point and double-faulted again on the next-to-last point.

Del Potro converted only one of six break-point chances and hit just nine winners to 36 for the 60th-ranked Pospisil.

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Vasek Pospisil, of Canada, returns the ball to Juan Martin del Potro, of Argentina, during their match at the Miami Open tennis tournament in Key Biscayne, Fla., Thursday.

“I didn’t serve well in the special moments,” del Potro said. “But now I’m OK. Just playing the tournament and being here means a lot for me.”

Del Potro said he felt fine physically after the match. He said his wrist is not yet 100 per cent, but it’s improving week by week.

“It doesn’t matter how long it takes me to be at the top again,” he said. “I just wanted to play tennis and without pain.”

Former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki won her opening match against American Madison Brengle, 6-0, 6-1. Wozniacki is seeded fourth, and all seeded players had first-round byes.

No. 7-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska, the 2012 champion, beat Anna Schmiedlova, 6-4, 7-5. No. 9 Andrea Petkovic topped American Christina McHale 6-2, 6-2.

No. 2 Maria Sharapova and No. 16 Venus Williams were scheduled to play their opening matches later Thursday.

In other men’s play, American Steve Johnson lost to Mikhail Kukushkin, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. Former Australian Open runnerup Marcos Baghdatis was eliminated by Simone Bolelli, 6-2, 6-2.

Martin Klizan won and will face No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the second round Saturday night.

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Top seeds keep runs going, move on to Elite Eight NCAA BASKETBALL

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WISCONSIN 79 NORTH CAROLINA 72 LOS ANGELES — Sam Dekker scored a careerhigh 23 points, Frank Kaminsky added 19 and topseeded Wisconsin rallied in the final 10 minutes to hold off North Carolina 79-72 on Thursday night and advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament.

Reserve Zak Showalter scored six points in the Badgers’ 19-7 run that sent them into the West Regional final Saturday against either No. 2 seed Arizona or sixth-seeded Xavier.

Brice Johnson and Justin Jackson scored 15 points each for the fourth-seeded Tar Heels (26-12), who got within one point with 4:21 remaining but couldn’t retake the lead they owned for much of the second half.

Marcus Paige hit consecutive 3-pointers that drew Carolina within one with 54 seconds to go, but Wisconsin (34-3) made all eight of its free throws — four

by Kaminsky — over the closing seconds.

Paige added 12 points for the Tar Heels.

NOTRE DAME 81, WICHITA STATE 70 CLEVELAND (AP) — Demetrius Jackson scored 20 points and third-seeded Notre Dame dominated Wichita State to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time in 36 years.

The Irish (32-5) shot 75 per cent (18 of 24) in the second half, easily pulling away from the seventhseeded Shockers (30-5). Pat Connaughton added 16 points and 10 rebounds for Notre Dame and Jerian Grant had nine points and 11 assists as the Irish won their eighth straight.

Notre Dame will play either unbeaten Kentucky or West Virginia on Saturday night with a Final Four spot on the line.

Fred VanVleet led Wichita State with 25 points, Darius Carter had 19 points and eight rebounds but guard Ron Baker had just nine points and went scoreless in the second half.

ARIZONA 68 XAVIER 60 LOS ANGELES — T.J. McConnell scored 13 of his 17 points in the second half, freshman Stanley Johnson added 12 points, and second-seeded Arizona made a dominant late rally for a 68-60 victory over sixth-seeded Xavier in the West Regional semifinals on Thursday night.

Kaleb Tarczewski had 12 points and 12 rebounds as the Wildcats (34-3) weathered a major scare from

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Arizona guard Gabe York, center left, and Xavier guard Larry Austin Jr. battle for a loose ball during the second half of a college basketball regional semifinal in the NCAA Tournament, Thursday, in Los Angeles. the underdog Musketeers (23-14) and clamped down defensively during a game-ending 19-7 run.

Arizona is again on the brink of its first Final Four under coach Sean Miller, who led Xavier for five years until 2009.

Arizona will face top-seeded Wisconsin (34-3) on Saturday at Staples Center in a rematch of last season’s West final.

Matt Stainbrook had 17 points and 10 rebounds in his final game for Xavier.

KENTUCKY 78 WEST VIRGINIA 39 CLEVELAND — Perfect and pulverizing. Kentucky made West Virginia’s press look pathetic.

Saskatoon’s Trey Lyles scored 14 points, Andrew

Harrison added 13 and the unbeaten Wildcats, chasing history and a ninth national title, rolled to a 78-39 victory over the Mountaineers on Thursday night in the Midwest Regional semifinals of the NCAA Tournament.

The tourney’s top seed and an overwhelming favourite to cut down the nets next month in Indianapolis, Kentucky (37-0) advanced to Saturday’s regional final to play third-seeded Notre Dame, an 81-70 winner over Wichita State in the other semifinal.

The Fighting Irish may need to call Rudy, consult with Digger Phelps and wake up the echoes from some of those stunning upsets in football and hoops they have pulled off in the past.

Kings keep rolling with win over slumping Islanders

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KINGS 3 ISLANDERS 2 UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Anze Kopitar scored with 4:23 left, defenceman Alec Martinez had two assists, and the Los Angeles Kings won their third straight on their road trip by beating the slumping New York Islanders 3-2 on Thursday night.

Kopitar, who had a goal and five assists in his previous three games, got to a deflected puck off a drive by defenceman Andrej Sekera and fired it past Jaroslav Halak for his 16th goal.

Jonathan Quick made 25 saves in his 400th NHL game. He has won at New Jersey, the New York Rangers, and the Islanders on this trip that has two games left.

Nick Shore netted his first career goal in his 28th game, and Tyler Toffoli also scored for the playoffhopeful Kings.

PREDATORS 3, LIGHTNING 2 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Pekka Rinne made 28 saves for his 40th win, and the Nashville Predators moved into first place in the Central Division.

Mike Ribeiro, Paul Gaustad and Mike Santorelli scored for the Predators, who took a one-point lead over St. Louis. The Blues have played one fewer game.

Rinne made a pad save on Alex Killorn’s in-close backhand early in the third. The goalie had a careerbest 43 wins in 2011-12. Tampa Bay got goals from Vladislav Namestnikov and Brian Boyle.

DUCKS 3, BRUINS 2 BOSTON (AP) — Ryan Getzlaf scored 3:09 into overtime to lift the Anaheim Ducks to victory.

Getzlaf, who also assisted on Corey Perry’s tying goal late in the third period, beat Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask from the slot with a wrist shot over his shoulder to snap the Ducks’ two-game skid.

Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen stopped 27 shots.

Loui Eriksson and Ryan Spooner scored for the Bruins. Rask finished with 29 saves.

Boston dropped its sixth straight (0-4-2) but tied Ottawa for the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference.

RANGERS 5, SENATORS 1 OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Chris Kreider had two goals and an assist and the New York Rangers clinched a playoff spot.

Dan Boyle, Mats Zuccarello and Tanner Glass also scored for the Rangers, who have 101 points.

Cam Talbot made 23 saves for New York, which handed Ottawa’s Andrew Hammond his first regulation-time loss.

Curtis Lazar scored for the Senators.

HURRICANES 5, PENGUINS 2 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Eric Staal had a goal and two assists for the Carolina Hurricanes.

Ryan Murphy, Jay McClement, Alexander Semin and Andrej Nestrasil also scored for Carolina, which had been 0-3-3 in its last six home games since a 7-4 win over Edmonton on March 8.

Brad Malone had a pair of assists as Carolina won for the first time in its last five home games against the Penguins.

Brandon Sutter and Ian Cole scored for the Penguins. Carolina goalie Cam Ward had 27 saves.

CAPITALS 3, DEVILS 2, OT WASHINGTON (AP) — On a quiet night for Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, the Washington Capitals got rare goals from Matt Niskanen, Karl Alzner and Eric Fehr, along with 29 saves from Braden Holtby.

Defenceman Niskanen’s fourth goal of the season came 73 seconds into the extra period, off an assist from Alzner.

Washington led 2-0, but the Devils got one goal on Travis Zajac’s short-handed score with a little more than five minutes left in the second period, then tied it on Steve Bernier’s goal with 29.2 seconds remaining in regulation.

Ovechkin entered leading the NHL in goals, Backstrom came in No. 1 in assists, and both were in the top five in points.

COYOTES 4, SABRES 3 BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sam Gagner scored 56 seconds into overtime to lift the Arizona Coyotes to the win over Buffalo on, earning cheers from the last-place Sabres’ fans hoping to get the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL Draft.

Jordan Szwarz, Oliver Ekman-Larsson and David Moss also scored for Arizona, which has won consecutive games for just the second time in 2015.

The 29th-place Coyotes moved six points ahead of the Sabres, delighting the home crowd clamouring for the best odds at the top pick.

Tyler Ennis, Brian Gionta and Rasmus Ristolainen scored in the Sabres’ fourth-consecutive loss.

SHARKS 6, RED WINGS 4 DETROIT (AP) — Patrick Marleau scored twice and Antti Niemi made 30 saves.

Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Matt Nieto, Chris Tierney and Logan Couture also had goals for San Jose, which ended a two-game skid.

Detroit got goals from Tomas Jurco, Tomas Tatar, Stephen Weiss and Justin Abdelkader as it dropped its second straight at home.

Jimmy Howard made seven saves, but allowed three goals in the first before being pulled for backup Petr Mrazek.

PANTHERS 4, MAPLE LEAFS 1

TORONTO (AP) — Brandon Pirri scored twice for the Florida Panthers to send Toronto to its seventh straight loss.

Roberto Luongo delivered a solid performance in goal and Jonathan Huberdeau, Steven Kampfer and Pirri scored second-period goals to put Florida in front. Pirri added a late empty-netter for his 20th of the season.

Toronto’s Jonathan Bernier was replaced with 5:26 remaining in the second period after allowing three goals on 16 shots. The Leafs No. 1 goalie has been pulled seven times this season.

JETS 5, CANADIENS 2 WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Ondrej Pavelec made 39 saves for his sixth consecutive win.

Mark Scheifele and Jim Slater each had a goal and an assist and Blake Wheeler, Dustin Byfuglien, and Adam Lowry also scored for the Jets.

Dustin Tokarski stopped 17 of 22 shots for the Canadiens, who were resting starter Carey Price. Andrei Markov and Brendan Gallagher scored for Montreal.

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NHL ROUNDUP

SCOREBOARD Hockey N.Y. Rangers 5, Ottawa 1 San Jose 6, Detroit 4 Nashville 3, Tampa Bay 2 Winnipeg 5, Montreal 2 Colorado 4, Vancouver 1

Medicine Hat vs. Red Deer Saturday, Mar. 28 Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 29 Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 6 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 1 Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Apr. 2 Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

Friday’s Games Calgary at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Chicago, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Nashville at Washington, 10:30 a.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Boston, 11 a.m.

Anaheim at N.Y. Islanders, 11 a.m.

San Jose at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.

Arizona at Pittsburgh, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, noon Ottawa at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Florida at Montreal, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Columbus at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Brandon vs. Edmonton (Edmonton leads series 1-0) Thursday, Mar. 26 Edmonton 4 Brandon 1 Friday, Mar. 27 Edmonton at Brandon, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 29 Brandon at Edmonton, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 31 Brandon at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Calgary vs. Kootenay Friday, Mar. 27 Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 29 Kootenay at Calgary, 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 31 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 1 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

Thursday’s summaries Avalanche 4, Canucks 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Edler Vcr (stick holding) 6:18, Tanev Vcr (delay of game) 6:59, Hejda Col (hooking) 10:41, Vrbata Vcr (delay of game) 15:31, McLeod Col (fighting) 18:25, Dorsett Vcr (fighting) 18:25.

Second Period 1. Colorado, Iginla 26 (Landeskog, Barrie) 3:23.

2. Colorado, Tanguay 22 (Redmond, O’Reilly) 10:17.

3. Colorado, Landeskog 22 (Tanguay, O’Reilly) 12:56 (pp).

Penalties — Kenins Vcr (hooking) 11:28, Iginla Col (hooking) 18:50.

Third Period 4. Vancouver, Weber 9 (H. Sedin, Edler) :15 (pp).

5. Colorado, Mitchell 9 (Duchene) 19:00 (en-pp).

Penalties — Col Bench (too many men) 10:27, McLeod Col (tripping) 13:53, Vey Vcr (holding) 17:09.

Shots on goal Colorado 18 13 7 — 38 Vancouver 5 11 18 — 34 Goal — Colorado: Berra (W, 3-3-1); Vancouver: Lack (L, 14-11-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Colorado: 2-5; Vancouver: 1-4.

Everett vs. Spokane Friday, Mar. 27 Spokane at Everett, 8:35 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 28 Spokane at Everett, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 1 Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna vs. Tri-City Friday, Mar. 27 Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 28 Tri-City at Kelowna, 8:05 p.m.

Tuesday, Mar. 31 Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 1 Kelowna at Tri-City, 8:05 p.m.

Portland vs. Seattle Saturday, Mar. 28 Seattle at Portland, 7 p.m.

Sunday, Mar. 29 Seattle at Portland, 6 p.m.

Regina vs. Swift Current Friday, Mar. 27 Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 28 Swift Current at Regina, 7 p.m.

Victoria vs. Prince George Friday, Mar. 27 Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday, Mar. 28 Prince George at Victoria, 8:05 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts Montreal 75 46 21 8 100 Tampa Bay 75 46 22 7 99 Detroit 73 39 22 12 90 Ottawa 73 37 25 11 85 Boston 74 36 25 13 85 Florida 74 34 26 14 82 Toronto 75 27 42 6 60 Buffalo 74 20 46 8 48 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts x-N.Y. Rangers73 47 19 7 101 N.Y. Islanders 75 44 26 5 93 Pittsburgh 74 40 23 11 91 Washington 74 40 24 10 90 Philadelphia 75 30 29 16 76 New Jersey 74 31 31 12 74 Columbus 73 34 35 4 72 Carolina 73 27 36 10 64

GF 197 244 212 213 195 184 194 141

GA 167 194 201 195 193 202 241 249

GF 224 228 204 215 196 166 198 170

GA 168 208 186 182 216 189 228 201

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Nashville 75 46 21 8 100 214 180 St. Louis 74 46 21 7 99 226 182 Chicago 73 44 23 6 94 207 167 Minnesota 74 42 25 7 91 211 183 Winnipeg 75 39 24 12 90 212 197 Dallas 74 36 28 10 82 232 236 Colorado 74 34 28 12 80 200 206 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 76 47 22 7 101 222 213 Vancouver 74 43 27 4 90 212 199 Los Angeles 74 37 23 14 88 199 184 Calgary 74 40 27 7 87 217 195 San Jose 74 36 30 8 80 207 210 Edmonton 74 21 40 13 55 177 254 Arizona 75 23 44 8 54 158 249 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot Wednesday’s Games Dallas 4, Calgary 3, SO Philadelphia 4, Chicago 1 Edmonton 4, Colorado 3 Thursday’s Games Anaheim 3, Boston 2, OT Arizona 4, Buffalo 3, OT Los Angeles 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Washington 3, New Jersey 2, OT Carolina 5, Pittsburgh 2 Florida 4, Toronto 1

Predators 3, Lightning 2 First Period 1. Nashville, Ribeiro 14 (Josi) 3:28.

2. Nashville, Gaustad 4 (Beck) 4:08.

3. Tampa Bay, Namestnikov 7 (Sustr, Barberio) 19:31.

Penalties — Boyle TB (hooking) 9:28, Jones Nash (holding) 11:58.

Second Period 4. Nashville, Santorelli 12 (Jarnkrok, Stalberg) 6:47.

5. Tampa Bay, Boyle 15 (Brown, Drouin) 13:19.

Penalties — Johnson TB (high-sticking) 2:15, Weber Nash (tripping) 9:15, Killorn TB (slashing) 10:07, Wilson Nash (high-sticking) 10:33, Gaustad Nash (roughing) 14:54.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Drouin TB (hooking) 8:00, Josi Nash (tripping) 15:41, Carle TB (delay of game) 17:48.

Shots on goal Nashville 4 9 6 — 19 Tampa Bay 12 7 11 — 30 Goal — Nashville: Rinne (W, 40-15-4); Tampa Bay: Bishop (L, 36-12-4).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Nashville: 0-5; Tampa Bay: 0-5.

Jets 5, Canadiens 2 First Period 1. Winnipeg, Byfuglien 16 (Slater, Pardy) 12:33.

Penalties — Wheeler Wpg (cross-checking) 7:18, Wheeler Wpg (tripping) 13:58, Prust Mtl (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:48, Lowry Wpg (unsportsmanlike conduct) 17:48.

Second Period 2. Winnipeg, Scheifele 14 (Myers) 6:05.

3. Montreal, Markov 9 (Desharnais) 6:46.

4. Winnipeg, Slater 3 (Stempniak, Tlusty) 9:13.

5. Winnipeg, Wheeler 24 (Scheifele, Stafford) 19:00.

Penalties — Pardy Wpg (roughing) 5:46, SmithPelly Mtl (stick holding) 5:46, Mitchell Mtl (hooking) 10:36, Ladd Wpg (boarding) 13:42, Slater Wpg (fighting) 17:50, Beaulieu Mtl (fighting) 17:50.

Third Period 6. Montreal, Gallagher 23 (unassisted) 11:37.

7. Winnipeg, Lowry 10 (Frolik, Ladd) 12:22.

Penalties — Trouba Wpg (roughing) 17:43.

Shots on goal Montreal 20 11 10 — 41 Winnipeg 5 8 9 — 22 Goal — Montreal: Tokarski (L, 6-6-3); Winnipeg: Pavelec (W, 19-14-7).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Montreal: 0-4; Winnipeg: 0-1.

Coyotes 4, Sabres 3 (OT) First Period 1. Arizona, Szwarz 1 (Chipchura, Cunningham) 7:55.

2. Buffalo, Ennis 19 (Moulson, Larsson) 10:49.

Penalties — Crombeen Ari (roughing) 14:57, Moulson Buf (slashing) 15:14, McGinn Ari (charging) 18:04.

Second Period 3. Buffalo, Ristolainen 6 (Ennis, Gionta) 8:37 (pp).

4. Arizona, Ekman-Larsson 21 (Erat, Arcobello) 11:29.

5. Arizona, Moss 4 (Gagner) 14:20.

Penalties — Stone Ari (hooking) 7:40, Buf Bench (too many men) 9:26, Zadorov Buf (holding) 15:51.

Third Period

6. Buffalo, Gionta 10 (unassisted) 16:23 (pp).

Penalties — Buf Bench (too many men) 0:59, Murphy Ari (holding) 4:29, Murphy Ari (interference) 15:36, Weber Buf (tripping) 19:30.

Overtime 7. Arizona, Gagner 13 (Ekman-Larsson, Moore) :56 (pp).

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Arizona 12 18 11 1 — 42 Buffalo 11 10 14 0 — 35 Goal — Arizona: Smith (W, 13-37-5); Buffalo: Hackett (LO, 0-3-1).

Power plays — Arizona: 1-5; Buffalo: 2-5.

Panthers 4, Maple Leafs 1 First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Barkov Fla (face-off violation) 5:56.

Second Period 1. Florida, Huberdeau 13 (Barkov, Petrovic) 4:23.

2. Florida, Kampfer 2 (Jagr, Barkov) 4:53.

3. Florida, Pirri 19 (Trocheck, Campbell) 14:34.

Penalties — MacWilliam Tor (roughing) 14:59, Thornton Fla (roughing) 14:59, Komarov Tor (roughing) 14:59, Mackenzie Fla (roughing) 14:59, Kampfer Fla (delay of game) 15:53, Bolland Fla (stick holding) 19:58.

Third Period 4. Toronto, Carrick 1 (Rielly, Lindstrom) 9:13.

5. Florida, Pirri 20 (unassisted) 18:24 (en).

Penalties — Panik Tor (misconduct) 14:52, Kessel Tor (interference) 16:10.

Shots on goal Florida 9 11 8 — 28 Toronto 9 7 9 — 25 Goal — Florida: Luongo (W, 26-17-11); Toronto: Bernier (L, 20-27-6).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Florida: 0-1; Toronto: 0-3.

Rangers 5, Senators 1 First Period 1. NY Rangers, Kreider 19 (Stepan) 12:38.

2. Ottawa, Lazar 5 (Condra) 12:57.

3. NY Rangers, Boyle 9 (Nash, Kreider) 14:40.

4. NY Rangers, Kreider 20 (Stepan, Zuccarello) 19:00.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 5. NY Rangers, Zuccarello 14 (Hayes, Yandle) 1:42.

6. NY Rangers, Glass 1 (Hayes, Boyle) 16:02.

Penalties — Nash NYR (tripping) 10:02, Nash NYR (elbowing) 12:31, Glass NYR (slashing) 13:57.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Hunwick NYR (delay of game) 2:12, Smith Ott (roughing) 5:30, Yandle NYR (high-sticking) 5:30, Stepan NYR (high-sticking) 6:26, Boyle NYR (delay of game) 9:20.

Shots on goal NY Rangers 14 14 4 — 32 Ottawa 11 4 9 — 24 Goal — NY Rangers: Talbot (W, 20-8-4); Ottawa: Hammond (L, 14-1-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — NY Rangers: 0-0; Ottawa: 0-6.

Sharks 6, Red Wings 4 First Period 1. San Jose, Vlasic 9 (Karlsson) :19.

2. San Jose, Nieto 8 (Tierney, Braun) 9:14.

3. Detroit, Jurco 3 (Miller, DeKeyser) 10:04.

4. Detroit, Tatar 27 (DeKeyser) 11:44.

5. San Jose, Tierney 4 (Wingels, Mueller) 16:02.

Penalties — Thornton SJ (slashing) 3:41, Pavelski SJ (holding) 17:56.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Thornton SJ (tripping) 1:03, Zidlicky Det (cross-checking) 7:50.

Third Period 6. San Jose, Couture 24 (Marleau) :31.

7. Detroit, Weiss 8 (Pulkkinen, Smith) 3:39.

8. San Jose, Marleau 16 (Burns) 4:56.

9. Detroit, Abdelkader 22 (Ericsson, Kronwall) 7:27.

10. San Jose, Marleau 17 (Hertl, Couture) 18:43 (en).

Penalties — Marleau SJ (hooking) 9:49, Vlasic SJ (roughing) 15:31, Abdelkader Det (roughing) 15:31.

Shots on goal San Jose 10 7 13 — 30 Detroit 12 12 10 — 34 Goal — San Jose: Niemi (W, 29-22-7); Detroit: Mrazek (L, 14-7-1).

Power plays (goal-chances) — San Jose: 0-1; Detroit: 0-4.

Capitals 3, Devils 2 (OT) First Period 1. Washington, Alzner 5 (Niskanen, Johansson) 2:51.

Penalties — Fraser NJ (roughing) 1:45, Wilson Wash (roughing) 1:45.

Second Period 2. Washington, Fehr 19 (unassisted) 1:35.

3. New Jersey, Zajac 11 (Elias, Larsson) 14:41 (sh).

Penalties — Merrill NJ (closing hand on puck) 14:08.

Third Period 4. New Jersey, Bernier 13 (Gomez, Cammalleri) 19:30.

Penalties — Josefson NJ (roughing) 2:49, Orpik Wash (unsportsmanlike conduct) 2:49, Johansson Wash (holding) 8:03, Tootoo NJ (roughing) 14:10, Wilson Wash (roughing) 14:10.

Overtime 5. Washington, Niskanen 4 (Alzner, Kuznetsov) 1:13.

Penalties —None.

Shots on goal by New Jersey 6 12 12 1 — 31 Washington 8 10 5 1 — 24 Goal — New Jersey: Schneider (LO, 26-27-8); Washington: Holtby (W, 36-19-9).

Power plays (goal-chances) — New Jersey: 0-1; Washington: 0-1.

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training AMERICAN LEAGUE W 13 14 14 14 10 11 11 13 10 9 10 9 8 9 9

L 8 9 9 9 8 9 9 11 12 11 13 12 12 15 15

Pct .619 .609 .609 .609 .556 .550 .550 .542 .455 .450 .435 .429 .400 .375 .375

NATIONAL LEAGUE Los Angeles New York Colorado St. Louis Cincinnati Arizona Miami Pittsburgh San Diego Philadelphia Milwaukee Washington Atlanta Chicago

FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015

Local Sports

WHL - PLAYOFFS Round of 16

Los Angeles Kansas City Oakland Toronto Houston Boston Tampa Bay New York Seattle Texas Cleveland Minnesota Chicago Baltimore Detroit

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W 13 14 13 10 11 12 12 10 11 11 10 9 10 9

L 6 10 10 8 9 10 10 10 11 12 11 11 13 14

Pct .684 .583 .565 .556 .550 .545 .545 .500 .500 .478 .476 .450 .435 .391

San Francisco 6 18 .250 NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Wednesday’s Games Houston 7, Philadelphia 1 N.Y. Mets 7, N.Y. Yankees 2 Tampa Bay 2, Minnesota 1 Toronto 5, Baltimore 2 Detroit 8, Miami 4 St. Louis 1, Washington 0 L.A. Dodgers 9, San Diego 5 Milwaukee 9, Oakland 9, tie L.A. Angels 4, Cleveland 3 Colorado 5, San Francisco 2 Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City 0 Cincinnati 5, Texas 0 Seattle 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Thursday’s Games Miami 5, St. Louis 3 Detroit 6, Baltimore 4 Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Yankees 5 Atlanta 7, Pittsburgh 5 Boston 5, Minnesota 4, 10 innings Toronto 4, Philadelphia 1 Kansas City 3, Seattle (ss) 0 Cincinnati 13, Cleveland 2 Milwaukee 15, Seattle (ss) 1 L.A. Dodgers 9, Chicago White Sox 6 Arizona 3, San Diego 3, tie, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 8, Washington 3 L.A. Angels 8, Chicago Cubs 4 Texas 6, Colorado 3 Oakland vs. San Francisco, late

Friday’s Games N.Y. Yankees vs. Philadelphia, 11:05 a.m.

Tampa Bay vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m.

Boston vs. Atlanta, 11:05 a.m.

N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis (ss), 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis (ss) vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m.

Pittsburgh vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

Detroit vs. Toronto, 11:07 a.m.

Texas vs. Oakland, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago White Sox vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Arizona (ss), 2:10 p.m.

Arizona (ss) vs. L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m.

Miami vs. Houston, 4:05 p.m.

Seattle vs. Kansas City, 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. L.A. Dodgers, 8:05 p.m.

Milwaukee vs. Cincinnati, 8:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. San Diego, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Boston vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m.

Houston vs. Miami, 11:05 a.m.

Toronto (ss) vs. Pittsburgh, 11:05 a.m.

Baltimore vs. N.Y. Yankees, 11:05 a.m.

Philadelphia vs. Minnesota, 11:05 a.m.

St. Louis vs. Detroit, 11:05 a.m.

Atlanta vs. Toronto (ss), 11:07 a.m.

Washington vs. N.Y. Mets, 11:10 a.m.

Oakland vs. Chicago White Sox, 2:05 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (ss) vs. Cincinnati, 2:05 p.m.

Colorado vs. Chicago Cubs (ss), 2:05 p.m.

San Francisco vs. Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

Cleveland vs. Milwaukee, 2:05 p.m.

San Diego vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Arizona, 2:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers vs. L.A. Angels, 2:10 p.m.

Transactions Thursday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned OF Bryce Brentz, 3B-OF Garin Cecchini and RHPs Heath Hembree and Zeke Spruill to Pawtucket (IL). Reassigned LHP Henry Owens to their minor league camp. Released RHP Mitchell Boggs.

CLEVELAND INDIANS — Optioned RHP C.C. Lee to Columbus (IL). Reassigned INF Audy Ciriaco, OF Destin Hood, INF Francisco Lindor, RHP Dustin Molleken, C Adam Moore, RHP Bryan Price and LHP Michael Roth to their minor league camp.

DETROIT TIGERS — Optioned RHP Buck Farmer to Toledo (IL). Assigned RHP Rafael Dolis to their minor league camp.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Traded INF Dan Johnson to Cincinnati for a player to be named.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Released RHP Jared Burton from his minor league contract.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Optioned RHP Steve Delabar to Buffalo (IL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Announced the retirement of C John Buck.

CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned RHP Blake Parker and LHP Joseph Ortiz to Iowa (PCL). Assigned RHPs Daniel Bard, Anthony Carter, Jorge De Leon and Gonzalez Germen; LHPs Francisley Bueno; INF Chris Valaika; OFs Albert Almora, Mike Baxter and Adron Chambers; and C Kyle Schwarber to their minor league camp.

CINCINNATI REDS — Traded INF Devin Lohman to Philadelphia for a player to be named or cash.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Optioned OF Shane Peterson and INF Luis Sardinas to Colorado Springs (PCL).

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Claimed RHP Jandel

Gustave off waivers from Kansas City. Placed C Tim Federowicz on the 60-day DL. American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed C Rey Otero, RHP Andrew Aizenstadt and OF Aaron Haag, ST. PAUL SAINTS — Signed RHP Robert Coe. Atlantic League SUGAR LAND SKEETERS — Signed RHPs Shane Loux, Sean Gallagher and Andrew Carpenter, INF Patrick Palmeiro, INF-OF Kevin Russo and OF Dustin Martin.

Can-Am League QUEBEC CAPITALES — Traded RHP Joe Riley to Ottawa to complete an earlier trade.

ROCKLAND BOULDERS — Traded OF Carlos Guzman to Camden for a player to be named.

TROIS-RIVIERES AIGLES — Signed INF Jose Cuevas, RHP Matt Rusch, INF Eric Grabe and LHP Philippe Valiquette.

Frontier League RIVER CITY RASCALS — Signed RHP Josh Frye.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association UTAH JAZZ — Assigned F Grant Jerrett to Idaho (NBADL). Signed Fs Jack Cooley and Chris Johnson to multiyear contracts.

Women’s National Basketball Association NEW YORK LIBERTY — Named Herb Williams and Katie Smith assistant coaches, and Teresa Weatherspoon director of player development.

FOOTBALL National Football League CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed DT Pat Sims.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed DT Nick Hayden.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed DL Derrick Shelby.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed OT Babatunde Aiyegbusi. Waived LB Justin Anderson and G Jordan McCray.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed WR Darrius

Heyward-Bey to a one-year contract.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Waived OL Jonathan Martin.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Columbus F Jared Boll three games for an illegal check to the head of Anaheim F Patrick Maroon during a March 24 game.

CALGARY FLAMES — Signed F Austin Carroll to a three-year entry-level contract.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Kyle Baun and D Michael Paliotta on two-year contracts.

EDMONTON OILERS — Recalled D Brandon Davidson from Oklahoma City (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Reassigned F Kevin Fiala to Milwaukee (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Signed G Joel Rumpel to a one-year contract and D Joakim Ryan to a two-year contract and assigned them to Worcester (AHL).

WINNIPEG JETS — Agreed to terms with F Andrew Copp on a three-year entry level contract.

ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Signed D Jacob MacDonald.

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended Vancouver D Diego Rodriguez for two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for violent conduct toward Orlando City D Aurelien Collin during a March 21 game.

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Announced the addition F Ishmael Yartey on loan from FC Sochaux-Montbeliard (French Ligue 1).

United Soccer League PORTLAND TIMBERS2 — Signed Fs Fatawu Safiu and Rundell Winchester; MFs Seth Casiple, Blair Gavin and Tim Payne; D Matt Rose; and Gs Justin Luthy and Daniel Withrow.

Today

● Curling: Canadian college championships at Olds College. ● Mixed martial arts: Havoc Fighting Championship #8 at Westerner Prairie Pavilion, 7:30 p.m. ● Midget AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Indy Graphics, third game of bestof-five South Central Alberta League final, 7:45 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Saturday

● Curling: Canadian college championships at Olds College. ● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat,

first game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final, 7 p.m. (The Drive) ● Midget AA hockey: Wheatland at Red Deer Indy Graphics, fourth game of bestof-five South Central Alberta League final, 7:45 p.m., Red Deer Arena.

Sunday ● Men’s basketball: Playoff games at 4:15 and 5:30 p.m., Lindsay Thurber. ● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, second game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final, 6 p.m. (The Drive)

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Atlanta 54 17 .761 — x-Cleveland 47 26 .644 8 x-Chicago 44 29 .603 11 x-Toronto 42 30 .583 12 Washington 40 32 .556 14 Milwaukee 36 36 .500 18 Miami 33 38 .465 21 Boston 31 40 .437 23 Indiana 31 41 .431 23 Brooklyn 30 40 .429 23 Charlotte 30 40 .429 23 Detroit 27 44 .380 27 Orlando 22 51 .301 33 Philadelphia 18 54 .250 36 New York 14 58 .194 40

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

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L Pct GB y-Golden State 58 13 .817 — x-Memphis 50 22 .694 8 1/2 Houston 48 23 .676 10 d-Portland 45 25 .643 12 1/2 L.A. Clippers 47 25 .653 11 1/2 San Antonio 45 26 .634 13 Dallas 45 27 .625 13 1/2 Oklahoma City 41 31 .569 17 1/2 Phoenix 38 34 .528 20 1/2 New Orleans 37 34 .521 21 Utah 31 40 .437 27 Denver 27 45 .375 31 1/2 Sacramento 26 45 .366 32 L.A. Lakers 19 51 .271 38 1/2 Minnesota 16 55 .225 42 d-division leader x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division

Wednesday’s Games Indiana 103, Washington 101 Chicago 116, Toronto 103 Atlanta 95, Orlando 83 Brooklyn 91, Charlotte 88 L.A. Clippers 111, New York 80 Miami 93, Boston 86 Houston 95, New Orleans 93 Cleveland 111, Memphis 89 L.A. Lakers 101, Minnesota 99, OT Philadelphia 99, Denver 85 Portland 92, Utah 89 San Antonio 130, Oklahoma City 91 Sacramento 108, Phoenix 99 Thursday’s Games Milwaukee 111, Indiana 107 Friday’s Games L.A. Clippers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Washington, 5 p.m.

Detroit at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Miami at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Dallas at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at Denver, 7 p.m.

Portland at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s Games Atlanta at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

New York at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Utah, 7 p.m.

Denver at Portland, 8 p.m.

Golf PGA-Valero Texas Open Thursday At TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course San Antonio Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 (36-36) (a-amateur) First Round Charley Hoffman 33-34 Aaron Baddeley 34-34 Max Homa 36-33 Phil Mickelson 35-35 Ryan Palmer 36-34 Cameron Beckman 36-35 Daniel Summerhays 35-36 Jordan Spieth 38-33 Jimmy Walker 36-35 Chris Kirk 36-35 Zach Johnson 35-36 Chesson Hadley 35-36 Cameron Percy 38-34 Matt Kuchar 36-36 S.J. Park 37-35 Kevin Na 38-34 Billy Horschel 35-37 John Merrick 38-34 Scott Piercy 36-36 Jason Kokrak 35-37 William McGirt 38-34 Fabian Gomez 36-36 Brian Davis 34-39 Jerry Kelly 38-35 Kevin Chappell 38-35 Brendon Todd 36-37 Michael Thompson 37-36 Bryce Molder 38-35 John Huh 37-36 Scott Pinckney 35-38 Thomas Birdsey 35-38 Retief Goosen 36-38 John Peterson 35-39 Marc Warren 38-36 David Lingmerth 36-38 Chez Reavie 35-39 Troy Merritt 38-36

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67 68 69 70 70 71 71 71 71 71 71 71 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 72 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 73 74 74 74 74 74 74

Brendan Steele Seung-Yul Noh Billy Hurley III Shane Lowry Brian Stuard George McNeill Eric Axley Robert Garrigus Harris English Branden Grace Jim Herman Jeff Overton Gary Woodland K.J. Choi John Senden Scott Brown Andres Romero Cameron Tringale Lance Lopez

37-37 41-33 39-35 39-35 36-38 39-35 40-34 38-37 38-37 38-37 38-37 39-36 38-37 36-39 38-37 37-38 40-35 38-37 40-35

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74 74 74 74 74 74 74 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75 75

LPGA-Kia Classic Thursday At Aviara Golf Club Course Carlsbad, Calif.

Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 6,593; Par: 72 (36-36) (a-amateur) First Round Mirim Lee 33-32 Yani Tseng 33-33 Cristie Kerr 33-34 Lydia Ko 33-34 Xiyu Lin 32-35 Karrie Webb 33-34 In Gee Chun 34-34 Laura Diaz 34-34 Austin Ernst 34-34 Karine Icher 33-35 Hyo Joo Kim 34-34 Brittany Lang 31-37 Stacy Lewis 32-36 Inbee Park 34-34 Jackie Stoelting 33-35 Lexi Thompson 32-36 Paula Creamer 34-35

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65 66 67 67 67 67 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 68 69

Curling Championship Pool Team (Skip) Alberta (Hansen) Manitoba (Neufeld) Quebec (Butler) New Brunswick (Tallon) Ontario (McCrady) Nova Scotia (Sangster) Saskatchewan (Despins) B.C. (Craig)

2015 World Men’s Curling Championship HALIFAX — Schedule for the 2015 men’s world curling championship, at the Scotiabank Centre from March 28-April 5: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) W L Canada (Morris) 0 0 China (Zang) 0 0 Czech Rep. (J.Snitil) 0 0 Finland (Kauste) 0 0 Italy (Mosaner) 0 0 Japan (Y.Morozumi) 0 0 Norway (Ulsrud) 0 0 Russia (Arkhipov) 0 0 Scotland (MacDonald) 0 0 Sweden (Edin) 0 0 Switzerland (M.Pfister) 0 0 U.S. (Shuster) 0 0

W 5 5 4 4 3 2 1 0

Thursday’s results Third Draw New Brunswick 9 Saskatchewan 4 Quebec 6 B.C. 3 Alberta 6 Ontario 5 Manitoba 6 Nova Scotia 2

Saturday’s games First Draw, 11:30 a.m.

Russia vs. Japan; Czech Republic vs. Switzerland; Scotland vs. Italy; Sweden vs. Finland.

Second Draw, 4:30 p.m.

Norway vs. China; Japan vs. Scotland; Finland vs.

Czech Republic; U.S. vs. Canada.

Sunday’s games Third Draw, 6:30 a.m.

Italy vs. Sweden; Russia vs. Switzerland.

Fourth Draw, 11:30 a.m.

Finland vs. Scotland; Canada vs. China; Norway vs.

U.S.; Czech Republic vs. Japan.

Fifth Draw, 4:30 p.m.

Switzerland vs. U.S.; Norway vs. Russia; Canada vs. Sweden; Italy vs. China.

Monday, March 30 Sixth Draw, 6:30 a.m.

Czech Republic vs. Canada; U.S. vs. Finland; China vs. Japan; Norway vs. Scotland.

Seventh Draw, 11:30 a.m.

Japan vs. Finland; Switzerland vs. Italy; Czech Republic vs. Scotland; Russia vs. Sweden.

Eighth Draw, 4:30 p.m.

U.S. vs. Italy; Russia vs. Canada; Sweden vs. Norway; China vs. Switzerland.

Canadian Senior Curling Championships EDMONTON — Championship, seeding pool standings and results Thursday from the 2015 Canadian senior curling championships, through to March 29: MEN

Friday’s games Fourth Draw, 2 p.m.

Quebec vs. New Brunswick; Saskatchewan vs. B.C. Fifth Draw, 6:30 p.m.

Alberta vs. Manitoba; Nova Scotia vs. Ontario.

End of draws WOMEN Championship Pool Team (Skip) Saskatchewan (Inglis) Alberta (Loblaw) Nova Scotia (Jones) B.C. (Jenkins) Northern Ont. (Taylor) Manitoba (Link) Quebec (Roy) N.L. (Philips)

W 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 0

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF New York City 3 1 0 2 3 New York 2 1 0 1 3 Orlando 3 1 1 1 2 Columbus 2 1 1 0 2 Toronto 2 1 1 0 3 D.C. 2 1 1 0 1 Philadelphia 3 0 1 2 3 Montreal 2 0 1 1 0 New England 3 0 2 1 0 Chicago 3 0 3 0 1

GA 1 1 2 1 3 2 5 1 5 5

Pt 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 0

Western Conference GP W L T GF 3 3 0 0 6 3 2 1 0 5 3 2 1 0 3 3 1 0 2 5 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 0 5 3 0 0 3 2 2 0 0 2 3 2 0 0 2 0 3 0 1 2 2

GA 1 4 3 3 2 3 2 3 0 4

Pt 9 6 6 5 4 3 3 2 2 2

L 1 1 2 2 2 3 4 5

Thursday’s results Second Draw B.C. 4 Nova Scotia 2 Northern Ontario 6 Alberta 5 Quebec 5 Manitoba 2 Saskatchewan 8 N.L. 7 Friday’s games Third Draw, 9:30 a.m.

Northern Ontario vs. N.L.; Saskatchewan vs. Manitoba; Nova Scotia vs. Alberta; Quebec vs. B.C. Fourth Draw, 6:30 p.m.

Quebec vs. N.L.; Saskatchewan vs. Alberta; Nova Scotia vs. Manitoba; Northern Ontario vs. B.C. End of draws

Soccer

Dallas San Jose Vancouver Los Angeles Houston Seattle Portland Salt Lake Colorado Kansas City

L 1 1 2 2 3 4 5 6

Saturday’s games San Jose at New England, 1 p.m.

Orlando at Montreal, 2 p.m.

Los Angeles at D.C., 5 p.m.

Kansas City at New York City, 5 p.m.

New York at Columbus, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Colorado at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games Philadelphia at Chicago, 3 p.m.

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Friday, April 3 D.C. at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 4 Toronto at Chicago, 1 p.m.

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Houston at Seattle, 8 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 5 Salt Lake at San Jose, 3 p.m.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DUNEDIN, Fla. — Cole Hamels allowed two hits in five scoreless innings during the Philadelphia Phillies’ 4-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday.

A focus of trade speculation, Hamels didn’t allow a hit until Kevin Pillar reached on an infield single leading off the fifth. Hamels picked off Pillar, Dalton Pompey tripled to left-centre field and Hamels struck out Jose Reyes on three pitches.

Hamels, a four-time All-Star, struck out four and walked three.

With one exhibition start remaining before Philadelphia’s opener against Boston on April 6, the lefty said his primary objective will be to lessen his pitch count early for a longer outing.

“I would prefer to go out six or seven innings,” Hamels said. “I threw a lot of pitches in the first two innings today, so I think that’s kind of the focus is to try to get ahead of hitters early and then be able to get them out in three or four pitches or less just so I can go a lot longer and stretch out my innings.”

Steve Tolleson hit a grand slam off Ken Giles in the eighth.

Blue Jays starter Aaron Sanchez gave up one run, two hits and one walk in 5 1-3 innings.

Edwin Encarnacion returned to Toronto’s lineup at designated hitter after missing 16 games with back inflammation. He walked twice and reached on a fielder’s choice.

DELABAR UNHAPPY Toronto optioned reliever Steve Delabar to Triple-A Buffalo.

“I’m not happy with the move, neither should I be, because I’ve had a pretty good spring so far,” Delabar said.

“I thought I was going to be a big part of it to begin with.”

The 31-year-old was an All-Star in 2013, but struggled to replicate that success last season; he had a 4.91 ERA with the Blue Jays and also spent time at Triple-A. He gave up three runs in seven outings during spring training and had been scheduled to pitch

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Toronto Blue Jays Dalton Pompey, left, is safe at third on a fifth-inning triple as Philadelphia Phillies third baseman Andre Blanco has the ball in his glove, but no play, in an exhibition baseball game in Dunedin, Fla., Thursday. against Philadelphia before the move.

Manager John Gibbons said he understands the frustration.

“We wanted him to be on the team.

It’s just not the way we’re putting the team together right now,” he said.

“That could change. That’s the business side of it.”

STARTING TIME Blue Jays: Marcus Stroman, who is out for the season after tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on March 10, sat behind home plate in the stands to watch Sanchez’s start.

Stroman, who wore a black hat and T-Shirt, tweeted, “Sat in the stands to watch my brother bA—Sanch41 throw today. He’s more than ready to take

the ball every fifth day and dominate!

StroChez” TRAINER’S ROOM Phillies: 3B Cody Asche was a late scratch from the lineup after feeling tightness in his back while stretching during morning warmups. He was replaced by Andres Blanco, who was hitless in three at-bats. ... LHP Mario Hollands (strained common flexor tendon) is leaning toward having surgery, but will seek a second opinion from noted orthopedic surgeon James Andrews before making a final decision. ... SS J.P. Crawford (strained left oblique) likely will be sidelined four to six weeks.

Blue Jays: LHP Brett Cecil (rotator cuff inflammation) made his first ap-

pearance of spring training, striking out one in one inning. He is scheduled to pitch again on Sunday against a Baltimore split squad and Monday at Houston. ... Gibbons said OF Michael Saunders (torn meniscus) and INF Maicer Izturis (groin strain) will both start the season on the disabled list.

UP NEXT Phillies: Former LSU star Aaron Nola, the seventh overall pick in last year’s amateur draft, will make his first appearance against the Yankees on Friday night in Clearwater.

Blue Jays: Drew Hutchison is scheduled to start on Friday against the Tigers in Dunedin. The righty has allowed two runs in 10 innings.

Teams on the clock as MLB season about to get started Even before Max Scherzer, Bryce Harper and the rest of the ramped-up Washington Nationals hit the field for their first full-squad workout at spring training, they got the message.

There it was, printed across the top of a practice schedule posted in the clubhouse at Space Coast Stadium.

Simple and direct, from manager Matt Williams.

“The road to the World Series begins today.”

A challenge? A prediction? A statement?

Or, perhaps, a rally cry from Wrigley Field to Fenway Park. Because as Major League Baseball launches speedup rules this year to cut the length of games, a lot of teams are on the clock.

Throw in the return of Alex Rodriguez from a drug suspension, the possible reinstatement of Pete Rose — imagine the roar he’d get at the AllStar Game in Cincinnati — and fresh ideas pitched by new Commissioner Rob Manfred, and it’s a full plate going into opening day.

“There are so many plotlines unfolding, especially at the start of the year. It’s like a very meaty novel — people want to see how it’s going to turn out,” Toronto Blue Jays sage R.A. Dickey said.

Chicago Cubs newcomer Jon Lester will throw the first pitch of the season, a Sunday night special on April 5 against St. Louis.

Hope springs eternal all over, and now there’s a special kind of Chicago Hope. Credit that to a key free agent — wily, ol’ manager Joe Maddon.

The Cubs haven’t won the crown since 1908, before Wrigley was built.

As the fabled ballpark gets a renovation that includes a giant, bright video board, fans are thrilled their franchise is being refurbished, too.

“I always feel good vibes in baseball,” Maddon said.

CFL RULE CHANGES

The feeling is mutual across the big leagues. From Cuba to Canada, from the Bay Area to the snow-besieged Northeast, great expectations abound.

Pablo Sandoval, Hanley Ramirez and the remade Boston Red Sox; Nelson Cruz with the run-starved Seattle Mariners; Jimmy Rollins and the justkeep-missing Los Angeles Dodgers.

Hey, if Kansas City can come so close in the World Series — should Alex Gordon have tried to score in Game 7? — and Pittsburgh can blossom into a perennial playoff contender, then any club truly can reverse its fortunes.

“You look at what the Royals and Pirates have done,” Yankees veteran Carlos Beltran said. “The success they’ve had, other teams want to emulate that. They inspired a lot of people to think, ’This could be us.’ The Cubs, the Mets, the White Sox, more. Everybody has a chance.”

No wonder Harper, after hearing his Nats had added Scherzer to their robust rotation, said he started laughing and thought: “Where’s my ring?”

Toss the Angels, the Cardinals, the Padres, the Indians, the Tigers and champion Giants and a few more into the mix, along with Rusney Castillo and plenty of Cuban prospects.

“You have more young talent now, elite talent. More than I’ve ever seen from the mound,” Dickey said. “That’s why so many teams are hopeful, because youth is hopeful.”

So start with this: With Derek Jeter gone, who will reign as the face of the majors? Could be Andrew McCutchen, despite trimming his trademark dreadlocks. Or $325 million man Giancarlo Stanton or unanimous MVP Mike Trout or King Felix or ace Clayton Kershaw, provided he can overcome his October struggles.

Maybe the main man on Madison Avenue will be the MadBum himself, Madison Bumgarner. That is, if his long left arm holds up after he threw 270 innings while becoming the World Series MVP and leading San Francisco to its

third title in five years.

The Giants get a boost with the return of injured pitcher Matt Cain.

That’s a common theme, guys named Matt coming back from health woes — Harvey, Wieters, Shoemaker. Plus, Prince Fielder, Jose Fernandez and Manny Machado are on the mend.

Several stars weren’t so lucky in spring training. Pitchers Yu Darvish, Zack Wheeler, Marcus Stroman and Tim Collins already are lost for the

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The Governors also have the option of choosing to test a more radical approach during pre-season games — a convert worth three points when a team chooses to run or pass the ball over the goal line from the 10-yard line.

The Canadian Football League’s Rules Committee is proposing a handful of rule changes for 2015.

The convert would be less automatic, receivers would have more space, and the game would speed up, if the changes are approved by the Board of Governors this spring.

The Rules Committee is recommending modifying the convert that follows a touchdown. A kick for a single point, which now comes from the 12-yard line, would instead come from the 32-yard line. Under the proposal, a kicked convert that is wide would remain live and can be run back for a two-point score.

If a team opts to run TELUS or pass the ball into the OPTIK TV end zone for a two-point convert following a touchdown, the ball would be scrimmaged from the three-yard line, instead of the current five-yard line, which may entice more coaches to go for two points.

season, Cliff Lee and Chris Sale are ailing, and Kershaw is OK after being hit in the face by a line drive.

Giants sparkplug Hunter Pence is out for a while, his forearm broken by an errant pitch. Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar missed 10 days and was hurt in a much different fashion — he strained his side when he sneezed.

“I was very upset that it got out and it became as big of a story as it was,” Pillar said.

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BOOK REVIEW

Mysterious story of girl’s journey to find her mother

Readers who know the British countryside around Cambridge will enjoy the writing because Macdonald’s description is of beautiful fields and thickets.

The day-to-day training of the goshawk is quite thrilling, although the weather seems never to be anything but soaking rain, and Mabel’s kills are gruesome.

This book receives glowing reviews, quite deservedly, but is for a reader committed to non-fiction.

Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.

professor at Stowe, in many ways a troubled man who had attempted many dangerous things in a search for acceptance. He became a falconer in the 1930s, not very successfully, and he wrote books about his attempts, including The Goshawk. There is rather a lot of the story of White in this book.

So she gets her hawk, on a foggy day on a Scottish pier, and it has been raised from an egg.

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But when she asked her Dad, the ferryman, he tells her that her mother was the loveliest thing he’d ever laid eyes on; she was a mermaid who gave up her tail for him. Yet she couldn’t stay and live a life on land so she returned to her own people.

However, the village that Malin grew up in decided to take to her Gran’s description of her mother, thus making Malin an unwanted and bullied child.

The only one who ever showed her any love was her father, and when he passes away she has no one to turn to.

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Time passes as a numbing blur for poor Malin. The area is hit by a horrible drought and as each day passes, she finds herself dreaming of rain, suffering from a dry mouth and yearning for the scent and taste of fresh, crisp salt air.

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Joe is nothing but a gambler and an overall scumbag, who uses Malin as a call girl for money.

When overhearing that he lost a card game and that she was the payment, Malin escapes and pursues her goal of finding the mermaids.

But for Malin, it is just the beginning of an insane, long haul of sailing, pirates, slavery and almost roasting alive in the desert.

Jo Baker, the bestselling author of Longbourn, has written a sour tale of a young girl’s journey to find her mother, enthralling readers with raw characters and nonstop danger.

Never mind that until about half way into the novel, the reader still is not exactly sure if Malin is a boy or girl — thus making this crazy novel more absurd, but alluring!

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Sewage project cost drops SYLVAN-AREA HOMEOWNERS TO GET A BREAK AFTER CONSTRUCTION BIDS COME IN LOWER THAN EXPECTED FOR COMMUNAL SYSTEM

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Residents in four Sylvan Lake subdivisions will pay thousands less than forecast to tie into a proposed communal sewage system.

Lacombe County got some good news when bids came in for the project to provide a sewage system for up to 69 homes in the Yuill, Palm Bay, Blissful Beach and Kuusamo Krest subdivisions.

Originally projected to cost $3.7 million, the new price tag is estimated at $2.4 million.

“You have companies looking for work right now. So you got lucky timewise,” Keith Boras, county manager of environmental and protective services, told county council on Thursday.

For homeowners, the new pricing means hooking up to the sewer line and having a pump and tank installed will cost on average of $18,300, less than half of the initial $40,000-plus perlot estimate.

Many residents were not unhappy with the expense of tying into the sewage line. Council later voted to put $1.3 million into the project to reduce the per-lot costs and ensure access to a $1.27-million federal grant was not

jeopardized.

Most homeowners could still expect a tie-in bill over $20,000 until the most recent calculations.

About two-thirds of property owners have asked the county for information on their costs to tie in, which is seen as a positive sign by the county.

Tim Timmons, county corporate services manager, said some residents are still reluctant to tie in because of the cost but the county is committed to undertaking the project.

Getting lake-area homes off individual septic systems is seen as a key provision to ensure the lake remains clean.

Coun. Barb Shepherd said the county is doing the right thing.

“I know at the time it may not have been a very popular decision. But I think it was definitely the right one,” she said.

Coun. Dana Kreil voted against. She had proposed reducing the county’s share of the costs by passing them on to subdivision residents, boosting the per-lot cost to around $20,000. That was a reasonable price for the service, she suggested.

Sylvan Lake’s Urban Dirtworks Inc. won the contract to do the work, which will take place this year. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

PAIRING UP AT ST. PAT’S Photo by JEFF STOKOE /Advocate staff

It was spirit day at St. Patrick’s Community School in Red Deer on Thursday. So to celebrate, a Twins Day theme was in order. Here from the left, Grade 3 students Abigail Kondrat and Jordyn Richardson and Isabelle Selden and Maggie Hales did their best to dress as twins, as did many of the their classmates — and some of the staff members as well.

Blackfalds, county join forces for wetlands

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF Blackfalds has recruited Lacombe County as a partner in a proposed $7.2-million wetlands project.

Town Mayor Melodie Stol came to county council on Thursday to lobby for county support for the project, which relies on landing provincial and federal funding to cover two-thirds of the cost.

Stol said that regional initiatives are given more weight by grant de-

cision makers and by joining forces there is a better chance of success.

The county’s share is only five per cent of the cost — or $120,000 — to join the grant application.

The town’s plan is to link several existing wetlands on the east side of town into a larger wetland to better drain the area and provide more room for future growth. Water will be directed through pipes or ditches to nearby Blackfalds Lake and on to the Red Deer River.

The wetlands will provide a scenic natural feature that could be ringed by

TOM HAMILTON

Ponoka legacy project planned to remember avalanche victim A toboggan hill in Ponoka will be named for a local avalanche victim.

The rise that’s under development in Kinsmen Recreation Centre Park will be known as the Tom Hamilton Memorial Hill, in memory of the young community builder who died near McBride, B.C., on Saturday while snowmobiling in the mountains.

Kinsmen member Darrell Johnston said the legacy project was requested by the Hamilton family instead of a proposed trust fund for Hamilton’s children.

“The family wanted the money to go to the hill as a legacy for Tom.” The project in a park on the edge of town still requires some fencing, landscaping and the addition of a smaller toboggan hill for younger children, said Johnston.

Donations can be made at www.GoFundMe.com/py3fk4. The Ponoka Kinsmen are also holding a live and silent auction on April 18 at the recreation centre to benefit the project.

The Ponoka Kinsmen’s Facebook page states: “In the wake of Tom Hamilton’s passing, our club and the family have been overwhelmed by the show of support from friends, acquaintances, community, and fellow Kin from across

Canada.”

Johnston said there’s now a project in place for those who wish to donate.

Funds can also be dropped off at The Brick in Ponoka, care of club member Andrew Middleton. For more information, call Johnston at 403-352-3675.

Hamilton’s funeral is set for Monday at 3 p.m. at the Stagecoach Saloon on the Ponoka Stampede grounds, with a public viewing from 12:30 p.m.

The 29-year-old is survived by his wife, Amanda Hamilton, their daughter Kaitlyn, 18 months, his son James, six months.

Amanda said her husband’s death has also devastated his mother Jonnette, grandmother Peggy and brother Declan, as well as his father Jim and sister Amy. Money raised in lieu of flowers will be split between the Lacombe Parent Link centre, which was helpful when Amanda moved to the community (as a Kinette member, Amanda already helped raise $5,000 to outfit the kitchen of the new Ponoka Parent Link centre), and the Robson Valley Search and Rescue group.

“I am very grateful to them for all their efforts and hope it can help someone else in the future,” Amanda said.

trails in the future.

For the county, the initiative offers the opportunity to boost its role as wetlands manager and improve the environment, said Stol.

Funding for the project is being sought through the Canada-Alberta Building Canada — Small Communities Fund. The $282-million matching fund is split three ways between the federal and provincial governments, and municipalities.

The first phase of the project needs to be in place by 2016-17. As areas build out, developers will pay their

share of infrastructure through levies.

Lacombe County agreed to join Blackfalds’ application and will also apply to the same fund to recoup twothirds of the cost for a number of other projects: ● Upgrading water and sewage systems in Mirror ($1.5 million total cost) ● Improving broadband service in under-served areas of the county ($1.17 million) ● Extending water and sewer to the site of a proposed Clive community hall ($418,000). pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

City man wins awards to pursue cancer study

BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF A former Red Deer student will be using his excellent university math skills to study a white-cell disease that affects people receiving chemotherapy.

Tyler Cassidy, 21, graduated from Notre Dame High School, and has been attending the University of Alberta the past four years. He finishes there in April and will be attending McGill University in Montreal in September.

He has just been awarded a Sir James Lougheed Award of Distinction scholarship, worth $15,000. The award comes through the Alberta Scholarships Program.

In addition to this, Cassidy has been awarded funding from McGill University, worth $40,000. This involves a combination of teaching assistantships, research assistantships and some scholarship money.

Cassidy started at the U of A at the francophone Campus Saint-Jean, in education science, but last year he changed to the honours math program in the department of math after encouragement from an applied math-

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ematics professor, Hassan Safouhi.

Cassidy said he will be doing a twoyear master’s degree in mathematics at McGill, and will be working with two professors who study how white blood cells react in the body.

Specifically, he will be studying a disease where the population of white blood cells oscillate between healthy and unhealthy levels, and using mathematical models to try to understand what’s going on, and maybe improve treatment protocols for people receiving chemotherapy.

The disease often occurs in people receiving chemotherapy, and so limits how often chemo can be done.

“I had no idea,” Cassidy said when asked if he knew he would end up in medical research after switching to mathematics.

After McGill, Cassidy, who was born and raised in Red Deer, said he is not sure what he will do next, but he could pursue a doctorate.

The money will enable him to get established next year and cut down on the amount of extra work he has to do as a teaching assistant, leaving him more time to focus on the research.

“I’m thrilled,” Cassidy said. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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Man guilty of 18 offences; awaits sentencing in June

Sundre men plead guilty to lighting grass fires

A man facing scores of charges from across Central Alberta pleaded guilty in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday.

Lance James Peters, 24, will be sentenced in June after completion of both a pre-sentence report and a Gladue report. A Gladue report is typically requested when sentencing Aboriginal offenders.

Calvin Barry of Toronto, counsel for Peters, entered guilty pleas on his behalf to 18 offences.

The charges included five counts of break and enter to commit theft, two counts of failing to stop and evading police, two counts of uttering threats and one count each of possession of a controlled substance, break and enter to steal a firearm, having a prohibited weapon in a vehicle, failing to comply with conditions of a release, theft of a motor vehicle, obstructing and resisting a peace officer, robbery with a firearm, assault with a weapon and break and enter to commit assault.

A large number of other charges were then withdrawn by Crown prosecutor Wayne Silliker.

Peters was arrested on Oct. 16. 2014, when he was a passenger in a vehicle that Edmonton Police Service had pulled over. He was arrested without incident.

Peters will be sentenced on June 26 in Red Deer provincial court.

Two Sundre men pleaded guilty to mischief charges in relation to five arsons near Longview last year.

Dale Christopher Aldrich, 22, and Marc Pierre Boulanger, 25, each pleaded guilty to one count of property mischief by damage on Wednesday in Calgary provincial court. As a result, each had three charges of arson withdrawn by the Crown.

The charges were laid on May 1, 2014, in relation to grass fires lit on the west side of Hwy 22 south of Longview.

Police said these fires were started by the use of fireworks.

As a result of the guilty pleas, Boulanger and Aldrich were each fined $100.

Antiques Roadshow at Parkland Mall Central Albertans can have their art and antiques appraised in Red Deer by expert and specialty appraisers.

The British Antiques Roadshow has been appraising items in Canada for the past 15 years.

The road show will be at the Parkland Mall on April 23, 24 and 25 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Parkland Mall is located at 4747 67th St. To set up an appointment to have an item appraised, call 403-343-8997.

Appointments are roughly 10 minutes each.

The cost is $15 for one item, $30 for two items and $40 for three items.

For further information, visit www.artiquesroadshow.com.

Man faces 60 charges in Alberta bank robberies A Wetaskiwin man arrested in Camrose is believed to be linked to 14 bank robberies across Alberta, including at least one in Red Deer.

The man was arrested on Saturday at a Camrose financial institution at about noon. According to a release from the Edmonton Police Service, the arrest was made possible through intelligence sharing between several police agencies.

On March 13, Strathcona RCMP pulled over a vehicle matching the description of one observed by witnesses and video surveillance during the 14 robberies.

Instead of arresting the individual, EPS robbery section detectives and Strathcona RCMP set up surveillance on the suspect and followed him to the Camrose financial institution.

“These crimes put the public at considerable risk throughout many different communities in the province,” said Supt.

Gary Peck, officer in charge of the Strathcona County RCMP. “The ability to work seamlessly with agencies across multiple jurisdictions proved invaluable in preventing further occurrences and potential harm to the public.”

Christopher Allan Zubko, 52, faces 60 armed-robbery related charges laid by RCMP and EPS. According to a release, more charges may be laid against him.

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Corrections ● An incorrect phone number appeared in a story on Wednesday about the Ducks Unlimited banquet in Red Deer on May 2. The correct number to call to get tickets from Christine Sweet is 403-304-4689. Tickets can also be obtained online by going to www.ducks. ca/events. ● A story and list of candidates in Thursday’s Advocate had some incorrect information about two candidates running under the Alberta Party banner. Serge Gingras is running in Red Deer South. Krystal Kromm is running in Red Deer North. The story appeared on Page C1.

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Christopher Stephen Wales, 31, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court.

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CRTC proposal helps consumers TELEVISION SERVICE CONTRACTS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada’s broadcast regulator issued its final thrust Thursday in a series of moves aimed at positioning consumers “in the driver’s seat,” ahead of the country’s broadcasters, offering up a draft code that would require cable and satellite companies to make customer contracts easier to understand.

Broadcast service providers would also have to more clearly spell out fees and policies surrounding early contract cancellations and adding or removing individual channels under the code.

In issuing the proposed code, the CRTC also said it expects closed captioning services for Canadians with disabilities, already available through regular television programming, to be included free of charge when those programs are broadcast online and on mobile devices.

And it said described video — a talk-over service for visually impaired viewers — must be expanded, with a requirement that all programs aired between 7 and 11 p.m. include the service by September 2019.

“Canadians will have access to compelling television content, the freedom to choose the content that meets their needs and tools to navigate a dynamic marketplace,” Canadian Radio-televi-

sion and Telecommunications Commission chairman Jean-Pierre Blais said.

“They are now in the driver’s seat.”

The CRTC received more than 13,000 submissions from individuals, interest groups and industry players since it launched a wide-ranging consultation process called Let’s Talk TV in 2013.

From the get-go, the commission made clear its decisions would move regulation in a more consumer-friendly direction, away from favouring the commercial marketplace.

It should come as no surprise, said John Lawson of the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, given statements made

by Blais when he was named by Prime Minister Stephen Harper to head up the regulatory body in June 2012.

“When he was first appointed, he did a number of interviews and quite clearly said ’I’m here to do consumer stuff’,” said Lawson.

It’s a welcome change for consumer advocacy groups like OpenMedia, which have been encouraging a change in direction since the days when former CRTC chairman Konrad von Finckenstein declared in a public hearing that “citizen comments and concerns are out of scope” with the regulator’s mandate.

“There’s definitely been a cultural change,” said OpenMedia campaign coordinator Josh Tabish.

“That being said, they still have a long way to go to improve things.”

Still, the decisions have sparked disappointment and even outrage on the part of some broadcasters.

But they are not intended to invoke a negative reaction from industry, said Scott Hutton, the CRTC’s executive director, broadcasting.

“It’s not putting down companies,” said Hutton.

“It’s essentially looking at the Broadcasting Act and ensuring that everyone who is in the industry and everyone who should benefit from those objectives . . . get something out of it.”

The TV code proposal follows on other recent CRTC directives that prohibited 30-day cancellation policies and required cable and satellite services to offer individual channel selection on top of a trimmed-down, lowercost basic TV service.

The regulator also announced a dramatic overhaul of what some critics had complained were protectionist rules governing the amount of Canadian television programming.

The CRTC said last month it was eliminating the 55-per-cent daytime quota for Canadian programs that local TV stations must broadcast, but maintaining rules requiring that broadcasters spend to produce Canadian content.

Thursday’s proposed code also comes on the heels of a dispute that went public this week between the president of Bell Media and Blais over the regulator’s so-called “pick-andpay” system.

The spat erupted after Blais announced the so-called “pick-and-pay”

model for TV service.

The Globe and Mail reported that, shortly after Blais released the decision last week, the president of Bell Media intervened to exclude the regulator from news coverage on CTV, the country’s largest private broadcaster which is owned by Bell Media parent BCE Inc. It was just the latest in a series of bitter disputes between Bell companies and the CRTC. Industry watchers say Bell, unlike most other telecom companies in Canada, is worried that the CRTC’s consumer-friendly approach is hurting its bottom line. And for good reason, say consumer advocates.

“Bell has more to get mad about,” said Lawson.

“They’re behemoth-sized,” he said, pointing out that Bell has moved over the years from being a telephone company to what is now one of the largest vertically-integrated firms in the country with business holdings in TV networks, satellite distribution, newspapers, cellular services as well as traditional landline phones.

The regulator is accepting public comments on the draft TV service code until May 25.

It wants to know what information consumers are looking for from cable and satellite providers when they sign up for service. It’s also asking how much notice cable and satellite companies should give customers before hiking prices and what constitutes a “reasonable time frame” for service calls.

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Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states launched strikes on key military installations in Yemen. They aim to oust Shiite rebels who forced the country’s embattled president to flee.

U.S. crude rose $2.22, or 4.5 per cent, to close at $51.43 a barrel in New York.

U.S. crude oil has jumped 17 per cent since hitting a low of $43.96 a barrel a week ago.

It was the first time the benchmark U.S. oil contract closed at $50 or higher since March 9. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils used by many U.S. refineries, rose $2.71, or 4.8 per cent, to close at $59.19 a barrel in London.

The price of oil has been bouncing back over the past week as concerns about tensions in the Middle East intensify. Phil Flynn, senior market analyst for the Price Futures Group, wrote in a note to clients that oil prices have “turned the corner” after the Saudi air strikes put 3.5 million barrels of oil exports at risk.

The price of oil is still down sharply from June 2014, when it traded as high as $107 a barrel. Abundant supplies and diminishing global demand were blamed for the extended slide in the price of oil.

Lululemon Q4 revenue up 16 per cent Strong North American sales helped drive fourth-quarter results at Lululemon Athletica Inc., but the Vancouver-based retailer says its hopes for future growth centre largely on international markets. Chief executive Laurent Potdevin said Thursday the company is on track to meet a previously announced goal of having 20 stores a piece in both Europe and Asia by the end of 2017. The company will open stores in the U.K., Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai this financial year, he said, adding the company sees considerable promise in locations beyond North America.

“As we grow in new markets, we see growing demand for our strong brand,” Potdevin said in a conference call to discuss the company’s fourth-quarter results. “We are on track to expand our global footprint and believe our international business could match and ultimately exceed our overall North American revenues over the long-term.”

However, the company has no plans to shelve expansion plans in Canada and the United States, Potdevin said, adding the company hopes to see double-digit square footage growth during the coming year. Potdevin hopes to build on momentum established last year by introducing redesigned staples of its fashion-oriented athletic gear.

The second quarter of 2015 will see the store roll out a selection of women’s tank tops offering varying levels of support, while the third quarter will offer customers a revamped selection of pants.

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A construction workers walks across the roof of a new condominium complex under construction in Sylvan Lake on Thursday. The Waters Edge Marina Development features condos surrounding the marina next to the Wild Rapids Waterslides.

TD Bank CEO says bank needs to adapt

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — TD Bank’s chief executive is urging the financial regulators to introduce rules governing new players in the financial services space.

Bharat Masrani said new entrants — from tech giants like Apple and Google offering mobile payment systems to alternative lenders in the shadow banking sector — are creating heightened competition.

Many of these non-traditional competitors are not subject to the same regulations that govern banks and other financial institutions, which allows them a competitive advantage, Masrani said.

They are also not bogged down by legacy systems, allowing them to be more nimble and efficient than the banks. At TD Bank’s (TSX:TD) annual meeting Thursday, Masrani urged regulators to take a closer look at these non-traditional entities.

“We are talking people’s livelihoods,” Masrani told reporters following the meeting. “Banks are highly regulated to make sure that our financial system is safe and sound. In light of that, I think it is important that — as a country, as a system — we ensure that those things are not compromised as new innovation comes through.”

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“We find ourselves in a challenging operating environment,” Masrani told shareholders. “In addition to the economic, regulatory and competitive pressures we face, people expect more from their banks.”

He said it’s unlikely that growth this

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The big decline in oil prices will continue to hurt consumer confidence and hamper Canada’s economic growth, he added.

One bright spot for the bank is the economic recovery south of the border, where TD has a large division.

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Maple Leaf Foods. . . . . . 23.49 Rona Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.98 Wal-Mart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.89 WestJet Airlines . . . . . . . 29.60

Diversified and Industrials Agrium Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 134.05 ATCO Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . 45.93 BCE Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.34 BlackBerry . . . . . . . . . . . 11.60 Bombardier . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.51 Brookfield . . . . . . . . . . . . 66.49 Cdn. National Railway . . 83.62 Cdn. Pacific Railway. . . 229.91 Cdn. Utilities . . . . . . . . . . 39.81 Capital Power Corp . . . . 24.86 Cervus Equipment Corp 18.91 Dow Chemical . . . . . . . . 46.86 Enbridge Inc. . . . . . . . . . 61.06 Finning Intl. Inc. . . . . . . . 23.18 Fortis Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.17 General Motors Co. . . . . 37.35 Parkland Fuel Corp. . . . . 24.43 Sirius XM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.49 SNC Lavalin Group. . . . . 40.93 Stantec Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 30.79 Telus Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 41.94 Transalta Corp.. . . . . . . . 11.65 Transcanada. . . . . . . . . . 55.08

Mining Barrick Gold . . . . . . . . . . 14.09 Cameco Corp. . . . . . . . . 18.49 First Quantum Minerals . 14.99 Goldcorp Inc. . . . . . . . . . 23.17 Hudbay Minerals. . . . . . . 10.30 Kinross Gold Corp. . . . . . . 2.95 Labrador. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.07 Potash Corp.. . . . . . . . . . 40.92 Sherritt Intl. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.21 Teck Resources . . . . . . . 18.01 Energy Arc Resources . . . . . . . . 22.10 Badger Daylighting Ltd. . 27.02 Baker Hughes. . . . . . . . . 62.84 Bonavista . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.77 Bonterra Energy . . . . . . . 34.65 Cdn. Nat. Res. . . . . . . . . 39.08 Cdn. Oil Sands Ltd. . . . . . 9.91 Canyon Services Group. . 6.81 Cenovous Energy Inc. . . 21.06 CWC Well Services . . . 0.3000 Encana Corp. . . . . . . . . . 14.07 Essential Energy. . . . . . . . 1.14

Consumer Canadian Tire . . . . . . . . 129.90 Gamehost . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.28 Leon’s Furniture . . . . . . . 14.68 Loblaw Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 62.72 MARKETS CLOSE TORONTO — The Toronto Stock Exchange finished lower Thursday after see-sawing most of the day as investor sentiment buoyed by higher commodity prices was finally overcome by concerns over renewed conflict in the Middle East. The S&P/ TSX composite index closed down 59.57 points at 14,869.80, adding to a triple-digit plunge on Wednesday. The Canadian dollar rose 0.30 of a U.S. cent to 80.19 cents. U.S. markets also finished in the red after going into a tailspin Wednesday amid reports that a Saudi-led coalition was taking military action against rebel positions in neighbouring Yemen. Saudi Arabia has launched air strikes to oust Yemen’s Houthi rebels who forced the country’s embattled president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, to flee. The Saudis accuse Iran of backing the Houthis to destabilize the region and has the support of several regional powers, including Egypt and Jordan. Although not a major oil producer itself, Yemen sits astride straits that join the Red Sea and the Suez Canal with the Arabian Sea, an important energy trade route. The May oil contract closed up $2.22 at US$51.43 a barrel, the fifth consecutive increase, and the energy sector rose 0.39 per cent, one of only

Exxon Mobil . . . . . . . . . . 84.32 Halliburton Co. . . . . . . . . 43.18 High Arctic . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.69 Husky Energy . . . . . . . . . 25.73 Imperial Oil . . . . . . . . . . . 50.89 Pengrowth Energy . . . . . . 3.95 Penn West Energy . . . . . . 2.18 Pinecrest Energy Inc. . . . 0.005 Precision Drilling Corp . . . 8.05 Suncor Energy . . . . . . . . 36.55 Talisman Energy . . . . . . . . 9.50 Trican Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.65 Trinidad Energy . . . . . . . . 4.25 Vermilion Energy . . . . . . 55.52 Financials Bank of Montreal . . . . . . 75.79 Bank of N.S. . . . . . . . . . . 62.69 CIBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.49 Cdn. Western . . . . . . . . . 28.22 Great West Life. . . . . . . . 36.78 IGM Financial . . . . . . . . . 45.80 Intact Financial Corp. . . . 94.20 Manulife Corp. . . . . . . . . 21.44 National Bank . . . . . . . . . 46.72 Rifco Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.22 Royal Bank . . . . . . . . . . . 75.79 Sun Life Fin. Inc.. . . . . . . 39.67 TD Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.64

three sectors in positive territory along with information technology and health-care. April gold advanced $7.80 to US$1,204.80 an ounce, but the sector was down 1.89 per cent, making it the worst performing sector in Toronto. In New York, the Dow Jones Industrials fell 40.31 points to 17,678.23, while the Nasdaq lost 13.16 point to 4,863.36. The S&P 500 dropped 4.90 points to 2,056.15.

Gold futures: US$1,204.80 per oz., up $7.80 (April contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $22.162 oz., down 1.3 cents $712.51 kg., down 42 cents ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $6.70 lower $453.90; July ’15 $4.20 lower $455.90; Nov ’15 $1.20 lower $448.40; Jan. ’16 $1.40 lower $449.20; March ’16 $1.50 lower $451.00; May ’16 $1.50 lower $452.70; July ’16 $1.50 lower $454.40; Nov. ’16 $1.50 lower $450.50; Jan. ’17 $1.50 lower $450.50; March ’17 $1.50 lower $450.50; May ’17 $1.50 lower $450.50.

Barley (Western): May ’15 unchanged $202.00; July ’15 unchanged $202.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $187.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $187.00; March ’16 unchanged $187.00; May ’16 unchanged $187.00; July ’16 unchanged $187.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $187.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $187.00; March ’17 unchanged $187.00; May ’17 unchanged $187.00.

Thursday’s estimated volume of trade: 490,800 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 490,800.

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Environmental green light given to gold, silver mine in northwest B.C. VICTORIA — The B.C. government has granted environmental approval to an underground gold-and-silver mine near the Alaska border.

The Brucejack mine is located about 65 kilometres northwest of the community of Stewart and is owned by Vancouver-based Pretium Resources Inc.Attached to the Ministry of Environment’s certificate are 15 conditions related to construction, operation and decommissioning.

The certificate approves the storage of tailings underground and in Brucejack Lake, but the ministry says it still wants more information on the effectiveness of the mine’s proposed watertreatment plants. It says construction cannot proceed until regulators are satisfied that discharges comply with provincial rules and will not harm the nearby Unuk River.The $450 million project is expected to be completed in two years, create 500 jobs, and once in operation the mine is projected to produce 2,700 tonnes of ore daily.

Quebec premier appeals to Cirque founder to keep head office in Montreal if sold Quebec Premier Philippe Couil-

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Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 14,869.80, down 59.57 points Dow — 17,678.23, down 40.31 points S&P 500 — 2,056.15, down 4.90 points Nasdaq — 4,863.36, down 13.16 points Currencies: Cdn — 80.19 cents US, up 0.30 of a cent Pound — C$1.8518, down 0.92 of a cent Euro — C$1.3573, down 1.56 cents Euro — US$1.0884, down 0.84 of a cent Oil futures: US$51.43 per barrel, up $2.22 (May contract)

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lard issued an appeal Thursday to the founder of the Cirque du soleil to keep its head office in Montreal.

Couillard told reporters in Quebec City that Guy Laliberte is one of Quebec’s great entrepreneurs and the Cirque is a huge source of pride for the province. The premier said it’s not only important that the international headquarters and its almost 1,500 workers stay in Montreal, but that the Cirque’s creative activities should also remain in the city.

“I’m certain that, as a Quebecer, he would be quite sensitive to that,” Couillard said.

“Let’s remember the history of how the Cirque du soleil got started,” he added. “It was the government of Quebec at the time that supported him — taxpayers.”

The Globe and Mail reported that bidders have been given until next week to submit offers to purchase Laliberte’s controlling stake in the Cirque.

The newspaper cited sources as saying Laliberte has agreed to sell all but 10 per cent of his share.

During question period in the national assembly, Parti Quebecois leadership candidate Pierre Peladeau described the Cirque as “Quebec’s international calling card.”

He also said the government has known for months that Laliberte intended to sell off a huge chunk of his shares, but that it has remained silent.

Peladeau wanted to know what was being done to keep the Cirque in the hands of Quebecers.

Jacques Daoust, the minister of economy and innovation, replied that a Quebec group has been involved “for a while”.

“I can say that confidentially, there are Quebecers who are serious (and) who are at the heart of this transaction,” he added.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Stephen Poloz stood on an international stage Thursday and defended his surprise January decision to cut the Bank of Canada’s key interest rate.

The central bank governor used a speech in London to justify a move that shocked markets, stressing the urgency to react to the stunning speed and magnitude of the oil-price shock.

Poloz acknowledged he was well aware dropping the overnight rate would catch everyone off guard.

“We knew at the time that financial markets would be surprised by the move in January, and we generally prefer to avoid surprises,” Poloz said in his address to the Canada-United Kingdom Chamber of Commerce.

Observers have questioned the decision, with some suggesting the central bank’s integrity may have taken a hit as a result. Poloz appeared to respond to critics in the speech, arguing the central bank’s credibility remained intact.

He continued by saying bouts of increased volatility should be expected as the world emerges from the Great Recession, abandons unconventional policy tools — like forward guidance — and returns to a normal trading environment.

Poloz described the bumpy reaction of financial markets to this kind of economic uncertainty as natural and “not an erosion of central bank credibility.”

The central bank slashed its rate for the first time in years to 0.75 per cent from one per cent.

It argued the move would provide “insurance” for Canada’s oil-exporting economy amid plunging crude prices.

On Thursday, Poloz reiterated — this time for a

foreign audience — his explanation that the cut was a way to buy the bank time to assess the evolving economic impact of the oil-price plunge.

“We thought that it would be best to act sooner rather than later,” Poloz said in his speech, titled “Central Bank Credibility and Policy Normalization.”

“This (oil-price) shock, of course, surprised everybody, and the fact that it is so large and happened so quickly means that many of us have had to work hard to fully grasp all of its implications.”

He said the negative impacts of the oil slump are starting to appear in the country’s economic data, while the offsetting positives, tied to factors such as the lower Canadian dollar and the strengthening U.S. economy, will take longer to emerge.

Since the rate cut, Poloz said inflation has declined as the bank expected.

He also said financial conditions have eased and crude prices have stabilized in a range “reasonably close” to the bank’s January predictions.

“This made us feel increasingly comfortable with the amount of insurance we had already taken out,” he said, explaining why the bank decided to hold the rate steady earlier this month.

One expert told his clients Thursday that this remark likely signals Poloz will avoid another rate cut at the Bank of Canada’s next policy announcement, scheduled for April 15.

However, National Bank senior economist Krishen Rangasamy remained unsure of what to expect from Poloz.

“As we’ve seen before, the (Bank of Canada’s) comfort with the economic situation can change quickly in response to updated data such as oil prices or employment,” wrote Rangasamy.

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Republican, Democratic lawmakers voice concerns about new drilling rules HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Republican and Democratic lawmakers in the House have found something in common. Many have issues with the Obama administration’s new regulations requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing.

Republicans say the new regulations, announced last week, will delay new drilling projects and take marginal lands out of production.

Democratic lawmakers say the regulations are so mild that they won’t change current operating standards.

The lawmakers’ complaints were aired Thursday during a House subcommittee hearing called to review the Bureau of Land Management’s budget for the coming fiscal year.

Bureau Director Neil Kornze said fracking is taking place in 32 states, and the new federal regulations were aimed primarily at those states with limited or no regulation of the practice.

He projected that the new regulations would increase costs by about $11,000 per well.

“We think the confidence that this brings to the American public, and the protection it brings to groundwater and other resources, we believe it’s worth it,” Kornze said.

The new rule will take effect in June. It also updates requirements for well construction and disposal of water and other fluids used in fracking, as the drilling method is more commonly known.

The rule has been under consideration for more

than three years, drawing criticism from the oil and gas industry and environmental groups alike.

Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., said he wished the rule would only have been applied to states that aren’t regulating fracking.

He said states such as his are already doing a good job.

He said that delays caused by complying with the new regulations would discourage the oil and gas industry from drilling on federal lands, which would take away jobs and drive away federal revenue.

Rep. Alan Lowenthal, D-Calif., said complaints were overblown. If the state laws regarding fracking are stronger than the new federal rule, and many of them are, the state law wins out.

He said he would challenge the industry to point to requirements in the federal regulation that they don’t already have in place.

Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., said the regulation was so lax it was like requiring the auto industry to ensure that every car has a steering wheel and a brake pedal.

“This rule does absolutely nothing,” Grijalva said.

Fracking involves pumping huge volumes of water, sand and chemicals underground to split open rocks to allow oil and gas to flow.

Improved technology has allowed energy companies to gain access to huge stores of natural gas underneath states from Wyoming to New York but has also raised widespread concerns about whether it leads to groundwater contamination and even earthquakes.

Downtown (Railyards) Saputo Dairy Products Canada G.P. – site development for four additions totaling 1068m2, to the existing Saputo facility, located at 5410 50 Avenue.

You may appeal discretionary approvals and denials to the Red Deer Subdivision & Development Appeal Board, Legislative Services, City Hall, prior to 4:30 p.m. on April 10, 2015. You may not appeal a Permitted Use unless it involves a relaxation, variation or misinterpretation of the Land Use Bylaw.Appeal forms (outlining appeal fees) are available at Legislative Services. For further information, please phone 403-342-8132.

Timberlands North Residential Lot Draw Timberlands North is located at the intersection of 67th street and 30th avenue, in the city’s northeast. This exceptional subdivision will feature a town centre with mixed use commercial, livework residential space, single-family residential and convenient services for the surrounding residents.

Timberlands North – Phase A will be sold via Lot Draw on Thursday, April 30, 2015 at the Westerner Park Harvest Centre, with registration starting at 9:00 am.

Participants must submit an application in order to take part in the Lot Draw with an accompanying $5,000 application fee. Applications will be accepted at the Land & Economic Development office Monday to Friday, between the hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, April 13th – 24th. No late registrations will be accepted.

Land & Economic Development 4th Floor – City Hall 4914 – 48 Avenue The application fee of $5,000 is applied to the price of the lot. Proponents unsuccessful at obtaining a lot at the Lot Draw will have their cheques returned or destroyed.

There are 23 Single Detached (R1) lots and 75 Single Detached – Carriage Home (R1C) lots in Phase A of Timberlands North. For more information on the Timberlands North neighbourhood, please visit www.reddeer.ca/land or visit our office.

Development Officer Approvals On March 24, 2015, the Development Officer issued approval for the following applications: Permitted Use Anders Park East 1. C. Knowles – a 0.29 metre relaxation to the minimum side yard and a 1.0 metre relaxation to the distance from the doors to the lane, to a proposed detached garage, to be located at 87 Alexander Crescent.

FRIDAY TO SUNDAY MAR 27-29, 2015 Hurry in. While quantities last!

Timber Ridge 2. Laebon Developments Ltd. – a 0.41 metre relaxation to the maximum height to a proposed single family dwelling and attached garage, to be located at 53 Tanner Street.

Discretionary Use Eastview 3. E. Eaton – a secondary suite with two bedrooms, to be located within an existing detached dwelling at 4434 35 Avenue.

Glendale 4. Al-Terra Engineering Ltd. – site redevelopment to accommodate a student drop-off lane at the existing St. Teresa of Avila school, located at 190 Glendale Boulevard.

Michener Hill 5. Group 2 Architects – a temporary care facility, for PChAD, to be located within an existing building at 24 Michener Street.

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It doesn’t seem to be a public health threat, and likely was around for many NEW YORK — Health officials have years before it was identified, said Dr. discovered a new germ in Eastern Donald “D.A.” Henderson. He is a reEurope that is related to the dreaded nowned smallpox expert at the Universmallpox and monkeypox viruses but sity of Pittsburgh who was not involved so far seems far less threatening. in the Akhmeta virus research.

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BY SANDIE ANGULO CHEN ADVOCATE NEWS SERVICES Evoking The Wizard of Oz, Annie and E.T., Home is g for the comforts of family. y But about the y yearning this kiddie sci-fi adaptation doesn’t quite live up to its evocative title.

Based on Adam Rex’s best-selling children’s k The True Meaning of Smekday, Home is essenbook ly a roa rroad-trip oadd tr trip ip bud b uddy dy com c omed edy y ab abou outt a li litt ttle le gir g irll tially buddy comedy about little girl king for her mom and a lonely alien looking for looking iend. When the Boov, a colour-changing alien a friend. cies that’s perpetually on the run from the species evill Gorg, invade Earth, leader Capt. Smek ced by Steve Martin) renames Earth “Sme(voiced nd,” relocating all humans to amusementkland,” k compounds in Australia. park Th 12 12-yearold ld h eroii ne, Grat G t uit ity The 12-year-old heroine, Gratuity p” Tucci (singer Rihanna), is ac“Tip” entally left behind as her single cidentally her (Jennifer Lopez) is whisked mother ay. Alone with her feisty pet cat, away.

Tip sets out in the family car in hopes of finding her mom, teaming up along the way with Oh (Jim Parsons), a misfit Boov who’s a wanted criminal after sending a party invite to every creature in the universe — including the Gorg. If the Boov don’t stop that e-mail from going through, the Gorg will arrive and destroy the planet.

The character of Tip was obviously written for Rihanna. Like the pop star, Tip is beautiful, from Barbados and multiracial, so it’s an understatement to say Rihanna was perfectly cast. She holds, unsurprisingly, the biggest appeal of the film, not only contributing her cultural background and voice acting to the th e pr proj ojec ectt, b but ut a als lso o he herr project, also music. Several of the songs

on the soundtrack are Rihanna’s, with Lopez contributing a ballad as well.

Oh, who is basically an alien version of Sheldon from “The Big Bang Theory,” is a brilliant mechanic — he turns Tip’s mother’s car into a slushiefueled hovercraft — but he can’t read social cues.

He keeps calling Boov security officer Kyle (Matt Jones) his best friend, when the feeling is decidedly not mutual. The odd-couple chemistry between Tip and Oh will win over younger audiences, just like Lilo and Stitch’s did a decade ago.

Adult audiences, however, won’t find the Boov as lovable as the Minions from “Despicable Me.” The recurring joke about how the Boov don’t just go number one and number two, but also number thre th ree e — an eva e vacu cuat atio ion n so gra g rand nd it it re requ quir ires es an an en enthree evacuation grand requires tire day to accommodate — isn’t that hilarious to begin with, much less upon third reference.

Fans of Rex’s books will be similarly disappointed that all the pop-culture references have been edited out of the screenplay. And only fans of the book will get the inside joke of casting Lopez pe z. (In (In “ Smek Sm ekda day y,” Oh Oh’ss c cha hara ract cter er is is ca call lled ed J .Lo Lo.)) pez.

“Smekday,” character called J.Lo.) So go for RiRi’s performance, then buy your kid the book. It’s far better and funnier than the movie.

Chen is a Washington Post film critic.

Making sense of life through music PERFORMING IN AFGHANISTAN WAS LIFE-CHANGING FOR J.P. CORMIER

BY LANA MICHELIN ADVOCA STAFF ADVOCATE Juno-nominated singer/songwrite singer/songwriter J.P. Cormier has heard from “hundreds of thousands,” of emotionally scarred soldiers since Hom writing the song Hometown Battlefield about post-traumatic stress disorder. the told me, ‘I heard your song and de“Some of them cided not to shoot myself.’ That’s huge ... I have to w try to be worthy of all that,” said Cormier, who performs on Wednesday, April 15, at Fratters Speakeas in Red Deer.

Speakeasy N The Nova Scotia-based multi-instrumentalmaint ist maintains he never had advocacy in mind when he wrote Hometown Battlefield. The lyrics cam came to him after hearing a radio report about tthree Canadian soldiers committing suicid suicide in one month.

“It was preying on me,” said Cormier.

T The 46-year-old went through his own lifelife-changing experience while entertaining ttroops in Afghanistan in 2007.

The plane carrying him came under en enemy fire while flying over mountains to toward the Canada Forces base in K Kandahar. Cormier recalled Taliban fi fighters were also firing rockets and g grenades at the base during his perform mance for the troops.

“You hoped for the best but they w were actually shooting things over the w walls.”

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It’s easy to forget that there was a time not that long ago that people seemed sick and tired of Mulder and Scully. Fox is gambling that the show can work its magic on viewers again after a 13-year hiatus.

“The X-Files was not only a seminal show for both the studio and the network, it was a worldwide phenomenon that shaped pop culture — yet remained a true gem for the legions of fans who embraced it from the beginning,” Fox Television Group chairs Gary Newman and Dana Walden said, as Variety reported. “Few shows on television have drawn such dedicated fans as The X-Files, and we’re ecstatic to give them the next thrilling chapter of Mulder and Scully they’ve been

waiting for.”

As champagne corks pop among the SETI set, it’s easy to forget that there was a time not that long ago that people seemed sick and tired of Mulder and Scully. The X-Files didn’t go off the air at the top of its game, but amid declining ratings after Duchovny’s departure from the series.

“It was fun for a while, playing along with The X-Files, rooting for this little spook show on the fourth-place Fox network as it wormed its way into the

popular consciousness,” a New York Times writer said in 2002. “It wasn’t until the incomprehensible 1998 feature film The X-Files: Fight the Future, an overgrown sweeps episode, that it became obvious that Mr. Carter was making up the show’s ‘mythology’ (the sadistically convoluted plot line about a secret government war on extraterrestrials) as he went along.”

last year and gained an international following after being posted on his Facebook page, it is included in the singer’s just-released album, The Chance.

The title pays homage to the first song Cormier ever wrote at the age of 13, when his formidable musical talents were recognized and he became a regular on the East Coast TV show Up Home Tonight. “It’s the idea I’ve come full circle,” he said, but also summarizes new songs he’s written about the randomness of life.

For instance, lyrics of The Unfinished Song were taken from a chance encounter that Cormier had with the father of an old flame.

The man had a few regretful things to say to him “about the way things went down,” said Cormier. Although the father wasn’t a poet, the words he chose were so heartfelt and true, the singer practically transcribed them for the song.

So does he think turning life experiences into music is a good way to make sense of things?

“I think art may be the only way to make sense of life,” said Cormier, who

played with country music legends Waylon Jennings, Marty Stuart, Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe while living in Nashville in the early 1990s.

“When you think about it, even people who aren’t artists turn to art, books or music — especially music — to make sense of life,” he added. “We use music as a crutch, or for healing, or as an expression of our own emotions. ...

We’d be lost without it. People don’t realize how much they (need) music every single day.”

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A military photographer who Cormier had flown in with, Master Corporal Darrell Priede, 30, did not live to board the return flight home. He was killed with six others on May 30, 2007, when a Chinook helicopter was shot down by the Taliban.

Priede’s camera was found among the debris. His digital images were later aired by the CBC, “and the last three pictures were of me,” said Cormier.

“It was not a real pleasant time,” responded the singer when asked how he coped with this experience.

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The truth is out there: Network executives always need a hit. They’ll come right out and say so in a major American newspaper.

“We need some new hits,” Fox Networks Group chief Peter Rice told USA Today last year. “Big ones.”

Rice must be satisfied. Fox now has the ratings juggernaut and cultural vortex that is Empire. Averaging 13 million viewers per week, this show was the toast of Wednesday nights: unavoidable, well-dressed and tweetable.

It even has songs.

But Empire’s finale aired last week.

What’s next for Fox? The TV business is like the music business: You’re only as good as your last jam.

Meanwhile, broadcast television is facing stiff competition from that thing called the Internet. Netflix. Hulu. Amazon. And then there are DVRs. And on-demand viewing. And, in case anyone forgot: Millennials don’t watch TV. What’s a conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch to do?

Enter The X-Files. Again.

“The good news is the world has only gotten that much stranger,” Chris Carter, the show’s creator, told the Associated Press. How he thinks of the show’s long hiatus: a “13-year commercial break.”

Carter’s right to say his 22-year-old franchise has only been on pause. Back in 1993, television was turned upsidedown by the fluke success — and fast flame-out — of Twin Peaks, a quirky show that, at least some of the time, was about an FBI agent chasing aliens.

(And, not incidentally, also featured David Duchovny as a transgendered G-Man). So Fox, then known for halfhour comedies such as Married: With Children, took a chance on an hourlong drama about extraterrestrials, government conspiracies — and two FBI agents who were easy on the eyes and might, just might, get together one day.

The gamble paid off. The X-Files ran for nine seasons. It got Fox its first Emmy nomination. And it put “I Want to Believe” posters on countless dorm room walls.

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Either I’ve lost my marbles or Big Time in Hollywood, FL is a work of near-genius.

Disguised as precisely the sort of sketchy Comedy Central fare that viewers might be tempted to skip, Big Time in Hollywood, FL instead turns into a wonderfully absurd, 10-episode serialized mini-epic about two self-absorbed brothers in suburban Florida whose filmmaking ambitions take a sudden turn into a dark, hilariously violent misadventure.

What works here is the unflinching, hypermanic commitment from everyone involved, starting with creators Alex Anfanger and Dan Schimpf and executive producer Ben Stiller and extending to each and every member of a cast that’s headed by Anfanger and co-stars Lenny Jacobson, Jon Bass and Cuba Gooding Jr. Together they take a story about delusionary greatness and wind up with a show that is great in a delusional way.

It’s also not as complicated as that. Anfanger and Jacobson play brothers Jack and Ben Dolfe, who, with their dense but loyal neighbor, Del (Bass), have been busily making cop/action films at the Dolfe family house and posting them online, to little or no fanfare. As imagined by the Dolfe brothers, these films are on par with Martin Scorsese and Michael Bay; in reality they’re just more cheap trash on YouTube.

Jack and Ben’s too-tolerant parents, Diana and Alan (Kathy Baker and Stephen Tobolowsky), at last work up the courage to insist that their sons, nearing 30, move out of the house and get their own place.

Outraged, the brothers instead hatch a scheme to swindle $20,000 from their parents, enlisting a recovering addict and aspiring actor (Stiller) to portray a drug lord who kidnaps Del for a ransom. When Diana

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On the French side, Radio-Canada announced 100 job cuts across the country, including 20 vacancies and retirements.

Jennifer McGuire, Editor-in-Chief of CBC News, announced the English layoffs in a note to staff, which stressed that no stations are being closed and all local radio programming is being maintained.

But there will be significant job losses, including 37 positions in Alberta, 30 in Ontario and 25 in British Columbia.

The cuts are part of a five-year strategy announced last June to shift priorities to mobile and digital offerings.

McGuire admits that “local services will be smaller overall,” but says the relative size of each region remains the same.

“It’s a significant change in our delivery of local news and information — perhaps the largest transformation ever undertaken by CBC in local,” McGuire says in Wednesday’s letter.

Last year, the CBC announced plans to shorten all local supper-hour newscasts to 30 or 60 minutes and broadcast Radio One morning shows on TV beginning next fall.

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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Alex Anfanger, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Lenny Jacobson in Big Time in Hollywood, FL. calls the Drug Enforcement Administration, as any mom might, their plans go seriously south.

It wouldn’t be the first time a skit on Comedy Central ended in a hail of gunfire and other satirical bloodiness; at that point, most comedy series would reboot and just pick up next week with some other riff. Big Time in Hollywood, FL however, is a fully imagined serialized story with a surprising emphasis on realism, as the Dolfe brothers fall deeper and deeper (and often obliviously) into trouble.

At one point, Ben complains that, in the course of all this, while Jack fixates on funding their next film

project, they’ve lied to their parents and the police, stolen money, gotten people killed, faked addiction, endured rehab, tampered with a crime scene and become involved with a guy who secretly films people using toilets.

“Then I guess you’re just not cut out for the biz!”

Jack screams at his brother.

Gooding, meanwhile, seems like he’s having the most fun he’s had in years, playing a cocaine-addicted version of “Cuba Gooding Jr.” (the same way Matt LeBlanc plays “Matt LeBlanc” in Showtime’s Episodes), a celebrity who is in deep trouble with a cartel and winds up entangled with the Dolfe brothers.

Buried in all this, surprisingly enough, is a quaint rumination on the angst of all millennials, who are hounded by their parents to get off their duffs and make something of themselves in a world that fails to recognize their brilliance. The Dolfe brothers are contemptible egomaniacs, yet you wind up rooting for them to come out ahead.

Episode by episode, Big Time in Hollywood, FL begins to resemble the kind of movie-within-a-movie that the Dolfes always fantasized they could make — an Argo colliding headlong into Scarface. Gooding enlists the brothers to write and direct a cop-buddy film co-starring a chimpanzee called Monkey Largo, which, unknown to Jack and Ben, is just a front for a drug operation. The brutality and violence fester to an almost cataclysmic end, but it comes with a knowing, Tarantino-like wink that’s a scream to watch.

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The centre would include a “visible vault” and would offer education programs about the North.

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Carter himself — citing, ahem, the attacks of Sept.

11, which some say were predicted by a spinoff of the show — tearfully waved goodbye to his creation just a few years before he was saying hello to it again.

“There was lots more we could have done but we ended at the right time,” Carter said in 2008 ahead of the premiere of another X-Files film. “Things had changed after 9/11 ... and now the mood is right once more.”

And, in 2015, it seems the mood is right once more again. Though X-Files planned six-episode run will not reinvent Fox to the degree Empire has, the network must be listening to Peter Allen. As the Australian singer put it in 1974: “Don’t throw the past away/ You might need it some rainy day/Dreams can come true again/When everything old is new again.”

Of course, leftovers are nothing new for television.

The glow of nostalgia — and a prepackaged idea already familiar to viewers — has brought countless shows back from the dead, including but by no means limited to Hawaii Five-O, Star Trek and The Twilight Zone. Even Twin Peaks is slated for a return to Showtime (if it can get into production).

But those behind the X-Files better hope the reboot looks more like Battlestar Galactica — a stunning reimagination of a cheesy 1970s show — than like the new Knight Rider, which flopped in 2008.

“What makes TV shows great ... is a rarefied form of magic,” Stephen Marche wrote in Why TV Reboots are a Bad Idea in Esquire. “Nobody really knows what makes them great. It’s not just the showrunner and the directors and the writers and the actors; it’s all of those people in a particular time. And no amount of crowdsourcing or wishful thinking can change the fact that the magic is gone.”

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DAHL Mable Evelyn 1918 - 2015 Mable Evelyn Dahl passed away peacefully in her sleep at her home on Saturday, March 14, 2015 at the age of 96 years. Mable was born on November 26, 1918 in Claresholm, Alberta to Ole and Inga (Bergeli) Dahl. He father Ole was born on January 26, 1875 at Trondheim, Norway and her mother Inga Bergeli was born on August 1, 1888 at Valdres, Norway.

They immigrated to Canada and settled in Claresholm, where they homesteaded a section of land just on the edge of town, what is now the downtown section. Mable grew up on the farm with her large family of seven siblings.

She loved to skate and play dress up. She loved wearing hats and remained a very smart lady who always wanted to look her best.

Mable came to reside at the Michener Centre during her late teens and was well loved by all her caregivers, staff and residents. Her favorite colours were pink and purple and she loved bright fresh flowers of every kind. Mable will be deeply missed by all who loved and knew her.

Mable will be lovingly remembered by her brother John “Ole” Dahl (94) of Calgary, Alberta and her sister Dorothy Trevelyan (99) of Kelowna, B.C. as well as her loving caregivers and many dear friends. Mable was predeceased by her sisters; Esther Ramsey, Martha Causton and Florence Fisher, brothers Arthur Dahl and Allan Dahl, as well as numerous nieces and nephews. A family graveside service was held at Queen’s Park Cemetery, Calgary, Alberta. Mable’s family would like to extend their deepest and most sincere gratitude to her loving caregivers and all the wonderful staff and friends Mable had at the Michener Services for so many joyful years of her life.

We are truly thankful that Mable was so happy and loved by so many.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements in care of Rhian Solecki, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Obituaries

Obituaries COLE Kevin Tamus 1969 - 2015 It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Kevin Tamus Cole. Kevin passed away peacefully at his home on Saturday, March 22, 2015 at the age of 46 years. Growing up, Kevin loved creating dungeons and dragons dioramas, swimming and snowboarding. Playing crokinole with his niece and nephew was high on his list when they were visiting him in Red Deer. Kevin is survived by his mom Eileen Cole of Red Deer, sister Allison (Aaron) Charlton, niece Maddison and nephew Noah all of Victoria, B.C. A Celebration of Kevin’s Life will be held at Parkland Funeral Home, 6287 67A Street, Red Deer, on Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 2:00 p.m.

If desired, memorial donations may be made directly to the S.P.C.A. at www.reddeerspca.com, a favorite of Kevin’s or to a charity of the donor’s choice.

Condolences may be sent or viewed at www.parklandfuneralhome.com Arrangements in care of Gordon R. Mathers, Funeral Director at PARKLAND FUNERAL HOME AND CREMATORIUM, 6287 - 67 A Street (Taylor Drive), Red Deer.

403.340.4040.

FILIATRAULT Jason Conrad Jason was born on August 15th, 1969 in Windsor, Ontario to Vivian (Briffa) and Gabriel. Late of Red Deer, Alberta, March 24, 2015.

Dear older brother to Jeremie. Devoted father to Bella Raine (his beautiful rain) and his twins Jasmine Jade and Jett Dylan, he considered Dad to be the best name he answered to.

Loving companion to Kari Shoemaker.

Grandson to the late Armand & Delvina Filiatrault and Carmel & Mary Briffa. Loved by numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.

As a young boy, his family moved to Belle River. A natural talent for art led him to Toronto where, shortly after, he began the pursuit of his love for music. Jason’s musical ability was renowned and he traveled throughout Canada and the U.S. performing with many bands.

He eventually settled in Red Deer where he started a family and was a long time employee of Parkland Audio.

Jason made many friends over the years, sharing his gift of music and positive energy.

He lived in the moment and bravely fought cancer, keeping a positive attitude and inspiring many.

Jason had a full life that was lived well in a short amount of time. He is loved and will not be forgotten, his memory and spirit will live on! For those who wish to pay their final respects, visitations will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapels, 4820-45th Street, Red Deer, Alberta on Sunday, March 29th, 2015 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

A Celebration of Life will be held at Crossroads Church, 38105 Range Road 275, Red Deer County, Alberta on Monday, March 30th, 2015 at VELJI 1:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, Karim an In Trust account at Servus Celebration of Karim’s life will Credit Union has been setup be held at Carnival Cinemas for Jason’s children. on Saturday, March 28, 2015 Cheques to be payable to: at 10:30 am. - 12:30 pm.

“Steven Sogge ITF Jason Filiatrault”, or E-Transfers may be sent to: filiatraultmemorialfund@gmail.com Condolences may be Funeral Directors forwarded to the family & Services by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

Funeral Directors & Services HARTWICK Eric Martin We are saddened to announce the loss of our beloved son and brother, Eric Martin Hartwick, on Saturday, March 21, 2015.

A Funeral Service will be held at Eventide Funeral Chapel, 4820-45 Street, Red Deer, on Tuesday, March 31, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 403-347-8650

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F/T & P/T Pharmacist positions req’d. Apply w/ resume to: Highland Green Value Drug Mart, Red Deer P/T Professional Medical Secretary needed in Red Deer. Fax: 403-314-0499

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F/T IN-HOME Nanny for toddler, $10.20/hr., 44 hrs./wk. At least 1 yr. exp with Childcare.

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FLEET SERVICES & LOGISTICS Qualifications: Must hold a minimum of a class 5 driver’s license Experienced and comfortable with towing and backing up trailers Is knowledgeable of tools Professional attitude Exc. communication skills Good listening skills Capable of taking direction Organized and dependable

Duties include but are not limited to: Classifieds Cleaning vehicles inside Your place to SELL and out Your place to BUY Expediting & hotshots Maintaining inventory and LOOKING for a live-in tool cribs caregiver, $10.20/hr., Preparation of vehicles less room & board. Please and equipment for field use send resume to Vehicle maintenance and bautista_annielee@ record keeping yahoo.com Various other duties as required Preference will be given to candidates who are Dental reliable, efficient, accurate, highly organized and BOWER DENTAL capable of multi tasking CENTER and able to complete tasks req’s a full time Registered in a timely manner. We Dental Assistant who is a are looking for Team Players. motivated, committed and Please send resumes to: passionate individual. We resumes@ run a high paced practice newcartcontracting.com where experience is an AND keggen@ asset, but new grads are newcartcontracting.com welcome. Must be avail. on OR Fax to 403-729-2396 evenings and one Sat. per NO PHONE CALLS month. Very rewarding PLEASE position. Please send LOCAL SERVICE CO. resume to: in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. ebakleh@yahoo.com or VACUUM TRUCK apply within office.

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HAPPY 18th JILL We hope your journey is an unforgettable adventure.

Love, Mom, Dad, Connor and Kaiah

KEYERA is looking for a Plant Operator to join our Nevis Gas Plant.

The Nevis Gas Plant is a first class steam plant and a sour gas processing facility located approximately 50 km east of Red Deer.

- Minimum of 3-5 years sour natural gas operations experience - Experience with inlet compression, gas sweetening, compression, fractionation, lean oil systems, power boilers, sulphur plant, refrigeration, DCS and product storage will be considered assets - Preference will be given to a 2nd Class Steam Ticket or a 3rd Class with positive progression towards a 2nd Class Please visit www.keyera.com for more information

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FREE Hamburgers THE WORX on site! is now looking for Part time Contact us for more to Full time Hair Stylist to info. 403-586-2448 start immed.

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Deer, AB T4R 1M9 HIGH PAYING Real Estate Career opportunity.

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LUCKY’S LOUNGE located in Jackpot Casino, requires Full Time Waitress’s. Please apply in person at 4950 47 Ave. No phone calls please

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MESSINGER Meats in Mirror, AB Req’s a BUTCHER immed.

MUST BE EXPERIENCED meat cutting, deboning, sausage making and kill floor work. F/T (44 HRS) permanent position, $18/hr. Please call 403-391-6061

NOW HIRING STEEL STUD FRAMERS Light/Heavy Gauge Framing. Must have experience. Great opportunity for long term employment. Email: info@lwbsi.com or Fax: 403.668.1142 Buying or Selling your home?

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons CENTRAL AB based 15 vacancies at each trucking company requires location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS CONTRACT for 3 locations $10.88/hr. + DRIVERS benefits. F/T & P/T in AB. Home the odd night. positions. Permanent shift Weekends off. work, weekends, days, 403-586-4558 nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible.

No experience or Misc. education req’d. Job Help description avail. at www.timhortons.com ACADEMIC Express Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, ADULT EDUCATION 6017 Parkwood Road, AND TRAINING Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. Fax: SPRING START 403-782-9685 or Call 403-848-2356 • GED Preparation JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s • Women in the Trades Requires to work at these Program Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. • Math and Science for 37444 HWY 2 S the Trades Program 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Gov’t of Alberta Funding FOOD ATTENDANT may be available.

Req’d permanent shift weekend day and evening 403-340-1930 both full and part time.

16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + www.academicexpress.ca benefits. Start ASAP. BULLDOG Metals Ltd. Job description is looking for a highly www.timhortons.com Education and experience motivated Assistant Shop Supervisor. Position is not req’d.

FT. Key Duties include: Apply in person or fax Ability to deal with a resume to: 403-314-1303 multitude of personalities.

JJAM Management (1987) Ability to take & give Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s direction. Ability to deal Requires to work at these with multiple tasks. Ability Red Deer, AB locations: to adjust to change & 5111 22 St. challenges. Good team 37444 HWY 2 S player. Experience with 37543 HWY 2N scrap metal materials are 700 3020 22 St. an asset but not nec. If Manager/Food Services interested in applying, Permanent P/T, F/T shift. please deliver resume in Wknd, day, night & eves. person to the Attn: of Kevin Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. at 4305 78 St Cres.

40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., DISPATCHER REQ’D. criminal record check req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer Req’d education some and area is essential. secondary. Apply in Verbal and written person or fax resume to: communication skills are 403-314-1303 For full job req’d. Send resume by fax description visit www. to 403-346-0295 timhortons.com

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ALSO 41 Ave. between 36 and 38 Street $55.72/mo.

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SOURCE ADULT VIDEO requires mature P/T help Fri & Sat. and Thurs. 3 pm-11 pm. Graveyard Shift. 11 pm -7 am. e-mail resume to: nwoods1976@ hotmail.com, fax to: 403-346-9099 or drop off at: 3301-Gaetz Avenue TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

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VINTAGE Retro ANTIQUE SALE Sat. Mar.28, 10-3 Clearview Hall 93 Cornett Dr.

Auctions

Firewood

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Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split. avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 B.C. Birch, Aspen, Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

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POLICE SEIZURE Liquidation Auction

Misc. for Sale

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BROWNIE 8 movie camera, bar lights and 8 mm movie splicer, Brownie 500 movie projector all for $50 SOLD CHINA - Set of Nikko dishes. Dinner plates, luncheon plates, bowls, cups, saucers, salt & pepper. All for $25.

403-314-9603 LAMPS, (2) electric, 25 yrs. $20. for both; over 100 LP records, all for $100.; Misc. collection of matches, $5.

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SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca Looking for a new pet?

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H.D. 4-WHEELED SCOOTER, used very little, $900. 403-347-4003

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2 TABLE lamp sets, colored glass stems and metal base, Like new. $8. set; 403-346-2192

FILING CABINET, 2 drawer metal $10.

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TO GIVE AWAY TO GOOD LOVING HOME. 6 yr old Maremma Italian Sheep Dog. Male.

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3 BDRM. bsmt suite, 6 appls. $1500 rent/s.d., water incld., n/s, no pets.

Avail. immed. Newly Reno’d.403-346-8664

LOOKING For a BATHROOM VANITY, RECLINER, brown leather, white, with drawers, but like new. $125. without sink or taps, 403-358-5568 size approx. 28” wide x 18” ROLLING kitchen island deep x 32” high.

43 x 18 x 36H, 4 doors, 2 403-346-5360 drawers, knife block, cherrywood, paid $360, sell for $175 403-886-2542

Sunday March 29 10 am * Viewing 9 am Location: Ridgewood Community Hall SET of 2 rocker swivel Partial List only chairs, $40; set of 2 New Party Tents wooden kitchen chairs, – Driveway Gates $30; and queen size hide–Shop Tools – 2004 Chevy away bed, $60. Can CLASSIFICATIONS Malibu – Western Saddles deliver. 403-346-0674 FOR RENT • 3000-3200 –Industrial Cleaning Equipment – Celebrity X TAN vinyl rocking chair WANTED • 3250-3390 and ottoman, exc. shape, Scooter – Electronics – clean $60 ; 403-886-2542 Bikes – Hand & Power Tools – Antiques Houses/ WANTED – Furniture –Misc. – AND Antiques, furniture and Duplexes MUCH MORE estates. 342-2514 Complete list and 3 BDRM. house in Rimbey Directions visit $1200 +/mo. www.cherryhillauction.com Stereos 403-704-6397 Cherry Hill Auction & TV's, VCRs Appraisals INNISFAIL older 3 bdrm.

Phone 403-342-2514 or house, lrg. lot. $975/mo.

STEREO with radio, 403-347-8988 403-886-5342 or 357-7817 cassette & LP, one unit, CELEBRATIONS with clear lid & quality LANCASTER, 4 bdrm, HAPPEN EVERY DAY speakers, $25.

3 bath, att. gar., $2100/mo.

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1, 2 & 3 bdrm. Adult bldg. only, N/S No pets 403-596-2444 NEWLY RENOVATED 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly. 86 Bell Street, Red Deer leasing@rentmidwest.com 1(888) 679-8031

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RED DEER 4 bdrm. 2 1/2 bath, 5 appls, garage $1695 mo. 403-782-7156 or 357-7465

Advocate Opportunities CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in: INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

WEST PARK Just completely reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d.

Avail. now or Apr. 1.

403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

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2 BDRM. Condo Sylvan Lake w/parking. $1200/incl. N/P, N/S, May 1. 403-630-8515 to view.

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www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

~ Westpark ~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. & Apr. 1 References required.

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

Call 403-343-7955

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BOWER AREA Boyce St. / Byer Close Barrett Drive INGLEWOOD AREA Isaacson Cres. / Irwin Ave. Iverson Close

1 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

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Roommates Wanted

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BLACKFALDS $600 all included, furnished, 403-358-1614 Classifieds Your place to SELL Your place to BUY

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Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this undated photo provided by the French Interior Ministry, French emergency rescue services work at the site of the Germanwings jet that crashed on Tuesday, near Seyne-les-Alpes, France. The co-pilot of the Germanwings jet barricaded himself in the cockpit and intentionally rammed the plane full speed into the French Alps, ignoring the captain’s frantic pounding on the door and the screams of terror from passengers, a prosecutor said Thursday.

No accident GERMAN CO-PILOT LOCKS COCKPIT, DELIBERATELY SLAMS PLANE INTO ALPS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS — Passengers with moments to live screamed in terror and the pilot frantically pounded on the locked cockpit door as a 27-year-old German co-pilot deliberately and wordlessly smashed an Airbus carrying 150 people into an Alpine mountainside.

The account Thursday of the final moments of Germanwings Flight 9525 prompted some airlines to immediately impose stricter cockpit rules — and raised haunting questions about the motive of the co-pilot, whose breathing never wavered as he destroyed the plane and the lives of those aboard.

“We have no idea of the reason,” Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin said, revealing the chilling conclusions investigators reached after reconstructing the final minutes of the flight from the plane’s black box voice recorder.

Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz’s intention was “to destroy this plane.”

French, German and U.S. officials said there was no indication of terrorism. The prosecutor did not elaborate on why investigators do not suspect a political motive; instead they’re focusing on the co-pilot’s “personal, family and professional environment” to try to determine why he did it.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose nation lost 75 people on the flight, said the conclusions brought the tragedy to a “new, simply incomprehensible dimension.” Devastated families of victims visited the crash scene Thursday, looking across a windy

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North Korea detains 2 South Korean men for spying SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea says it has detained two South Korean men on charges of spying. The South Korean government says it is trying to confirm that the men are from South Korea. The official Korean Central News Agency said last Thursday that the two were detained last year after collecting confidential information about the North’s ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, state organizations and the military. The KCNA also released photos of the two men attending what the North said was a news conference in Pyongyang.

North Korea has occasionally detained South Korean nationals on accusations of spying in the past in what experts say are attempts to pressure Seoul or raise North Korean people’s hostility toward the South.

Virgin Islands captain charged with manslaughter ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands — A boat captain from the British Virgin Islands who was involved in a crash that killed a U.S. woman and a Jamaican man has been charged with manslaughter. New Zealand native Stephen Fossi was not required to enter a plea when he appeared in court Thursday. Prosecutors say the 45-year-old Fossi was taking a group of people out for entertainment the night of Jan. 26 when he hit a rock near the island of Virgin Gorda.

mountain meadow toward where their loved ones died.

The Airbus A320 was flying from Barcelona to Duesseldorf on Tuesday when it lost radio contact with air traffic controllers and began plunging from its cruising altitude of 38,000 feet, before slamming into the mountainside eight minutes later.

The prosecutor laid out in horrifying detail the final sounds heard in the cockpit extracted from the mangled voice recorder.

Lubitz, courteous in the first part of the trip, became “curt” when the captain began the mid-flight briefing on the planned landing, Robin said.

The pilot, who has not been identified, left the cockpit for an apparent bathroom break, and Lubitz took control of the jet.

He suddenly started a manual descent, and the pilot started knocking on the door.

There was no response. “It was absolute silence in the cockpit,” the prosecutor said — except for the steady breathing he said indicated Lubitz was not panicked, and acted in a calm, deliberate manner.

The A320 is designed with safeguards to allow emergency entry into the cockpit if a pilot inside is unresponsive. But the override code known to the crew does not go into effect if the person inside the cockpit specifically denies entry.

Instrument alarms went off, but no distress call ever went out from the cockpit, and the control tower’s pleas for a response went unanswered.

Just before the plane hit the mountain, passengers’ cries of terror could be heard.

“The victims realized just at the last moment,” Robin said. “We can hear them screaming.”

Their families “are having a hard time believing it,” he said, after briefing some of them in Marseille.

Many victims’ relatives visited an Alpine clearing Thursday where French authorities set up a viewing tent for family members to look toward the site of the crash, so steep and treacherous that it can only be reached by a long journey on foot or rappelling from a helicopter.

Lubitz’s family was in France but was being kept separate from the other families, Robin said. German investigators searched his apartment and his parents’ home in Montabaur, Germany, where the curtains were drawn.

The prosecutor’s account prompted quick moves toward stricter cockpit rules — and calls for more.

Airlines in Europe are not required to have two people in the cockpit at all times, unlike the standard U.S. operating procedure, which was changed after the 9-11 attacks to require a flight attendant to take the spot of a briefly departing pilot.

Canada and Germany’s biggest airlines, including Lufthansa and Air Berlin, as well as low-cost European carriers easyJet and Norwegian Air Shuttle announced new rules requiring two crew members to always be present.

Some experts said even two isn’t enough, and called for rules to require

three.

“The flight deck is capable of accommodating three pilots and there shouldn’t ever be a situation where there is only one person in the cockpit,” said James Hall, a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, referring to the “jump seats” all airliners are equipped with.

Others questioned the wisdom of sealing off the cockpit at all.

“The kneejerk reaction to the events of 9-11 with the ill-thought reinforced cockpit door has had catastrophic consequences,” said Philip Baum, London-based editor of the trade magazine Aviation Security International.

Neither the prosecutor nor Lufthansa — the parent company of lowcost carrier Germanwings — indicated there was anything the pilot could have done to avoid the crash.

Robin would not give details on the co-pilot’s religion or his ethnic background. German authorities were taking charge of the investigation into Lubitz.

Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr said that before Thursday’s shocking revelations, the airline was already “appalled” by what had happened in its low-cost subsidiary.

“I could not have imagined that becoming even worse,” he said in Cologne. “We choose our cockpit staff very, very carefully.”

Lubitz joined Germanwings in September 2013, directly out of flight school, and had flown 630 hours. Spohr said the airline had no indication why he would have crashed the plane.

Turmoil in Yemen grows

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANAA, Yemen — The turmoil in Yemen grew into a regional conflict Thursday, with Saudi Arabia and its allies bombing Shiite rebels allied with Iran, while Egyptian officials said a ground assault will follow the airstrikes.

Iran denounced the Saudi-led air campaign, saying it “considers this action a dangerous step,” and oil prices jumped in New York and London after the offensive. The military action turned impoverished and chaotic Yemen into a new front in the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Yemen’s U.S.-backed President Abed-Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who fled the country Wednesday as the rebels known as Houthis advanced on his stronghold in the southern port of Aden, reappeared Thursday.

He arrived by plane in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh, Saudi state TV reported.

Starting before dawn, Saudi warplanes pounded an air base, military bases and anti-aircraft positions in the capital of Sanaa and flattened a number of homes near the airport, killing at least 18 civilians, including six children.

Another round followed in the evening, again rocking the city.

Rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi angrily accused the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel of launching a “criminal, unjust, brutal and sinful” campaign aimed at invading and occupying Yemen.

“Yemenis won’t accept such humiliation,” he said in a televised speech

Thursday night, calling the Saudis “stupid” and “evil.”

The Houthis, who have taken over much of the country, mobilized thousands of supporters to protest the airstrikes, with one speaker lashing out at the Saudi-led coalition and warning that Yemen “will be the tomb” of the aggressors. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. Adel al-Jubeir said at a news conference in Washington on Thursday that Iran has been a major backer of the Houthis, with Revolutionary Guard officers and operatives from the Iran-backed Lebanese militia Hezbollah on the ground advising the rebels. White House spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters on Air Force One en route to Alabama that President Barack Obama had authorized logistical and intelligence support for the strikes, but that the U.S. is not joining with direct military action.

In the air assault codenamed “Operation Decisive Storm,” Saudi Arabia deployed some 100 fighter jets, 150,000 soldiers and other navy units, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV reported.

Also involved were aircraft from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Sudan and Egypt, though it was not clear which carried out actual strikes.

Once the airstrikes have weakened the rebels and their allies in the military forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a ground invasion of Yemen is planned by Egyptian Saudi and other forces.

The assault will come from Saudi Arabia and by landings on Yemen’s coasts along the Red and Arabian seas, according to three Egyptian military and security officials.

Three to five Egyptian troop carriers are stationed offshore, they said, although the number of troops was not specified, and the timing of the operation was not given.

The aim is not to occupy Yemen but to weaken the Houthis and their allies until they enter negotiations for powersharing, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk about the plans with the press.

Egypt is “prepared for participation with naval, air and ground forces if necessary,” Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri said at a gathering of Arab foreign ministers preparing for a weekend summit in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. Saudi Arabia and fellow Sunni-led allies in the Gulf and the Middle East view the Houthi takeover as an attempt by Iran to establish a proxy on the kingdom’s southern border. Iran and the Houthis deny that Tehran arms the rebel movement, though it says it provides diplomatic and humanitarian support. The Saudis and their Gulf allies on Thursday asked members of the United Nations Security Council for a resolution that would impose an arms embargo on the rebels and impose financial sanctions on individual members.

— A traditional ally of Saudi Arabia, the U.S. is trying to negotiate a nuclear deal with Iran by the end of the month.

— In Iraq, the U.S. and Iran are implicitly on the same side — helping the Shiite-led Baghdad government battle the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group, although Tehran and Washington are avoiding any actual contact.

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FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 2015

Alcoholic son needs a job My life was a living hell for a long time, culminating in a nervous breakdown.

I finally had enough and moved out, and it was the best thing I ever did.

He ended up marrying one of his “friends.”

I dodged a big bullet.

There is life after such a horrendous mistake if you get out in time.

I always thought I had to have a man in my life in order to be happy.

But after years of dating and being in unhappy relationships, I gave it all up, and I’ve never been happier or more free.

It’s exhilarating to know you can do for yourself and be truly content with life.

I would never go back to that crazy lifestyle. Tell that woman to run away as fast as she can.

She’ll be glad she did. — Older and Wiser Dear Older: No one should remain in a relationship where you don’t feel valued, where you think you have to put up with constant mistreatment and disregard because otherwise you would be on your own.

There are worse things than being alone, as you have learned.

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.

Trespassing suspect left behind credit card WEST SUNBURY, Pa. — State police in Pennsylvania say a trespassing suspect used his own credit card to jimmy open a garage door, then left it behind when the homeowner suddenly appeared and startled him. The important clue helped police arrest 41-yearold Brent Henry, of East Butler, on Saturday in Clay Township. Police say the Butler Eagle that Henry used the card to pick the lock at a friend’s mobile home. Police say the homeowner heard a noise and caught Henry, who ran away but left the credit card behind. They also say Henry told them he planned to take some gasoline for another friend’s car.

Man arrested in courthouse for skipping out on jury duty 11 times in two years SOMERSET, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man who skipped out on jury duty 11 times in the last two years has been arrested inside a courthouse while seeking relief from a child support ruling.

Somerset County Judge D. Gregory Geary told Owen Fazenbaker III on Monday that he found it “ironic” that Fazenbaker could find his way to court for that but not for jury duty.

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“blackballed.”

Regardless of his cooking skills, your son is not a reliable employee.

Before you check out a work program, please see if he will go to an AA meeting (aa.org).

You and your wife could also benefit from understanding how you may be enabling your son’s drinking, which undermines his efforts to find employment.

For you, we recommend Al-Anon (al-anon.alateen.org).

Your son can still turn his life around, but he needs to get off the booze first.

Dear Annie: I could have written the letter from “Tired of Sharing,” the woman in her 50s who was dating a man who always had a group of women around him.

It brought back vivid memories of a crazy time in my own life.

I, too, met a man who seemed witty and funny.

I fell hard, ignoring all the signs of a lousy relationship blooming on the horizon.

My guy had a harem of women, too.

They were only “friends” whom he talked about all the time.

They knew no boundaries and would call him at any hour for anything.

If they wanted help, he’d drop whatever he was doing, leaving me to handle stuff at home by myself.

How stupid of me not to know that the relationship could only go downhill.

BRIEF

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Dear Annie: My youngest son is 34 years old and lives with my wife and me.

He is an alcoholic and is unemployed, with no interest in getting a job.

He helps at home by doing the cooking.

He is a great cook by trade.

He was laid off as head cook at a restaurant and can’t get over it.

My son is a good person, and I love him very much.

MITCHELL He claims he was black& SUGAR balled.

He has had 10 good jobs over the past 15 years, but has had at least five DUIs and has been in jail three times.

Could this be true?

Is there any way I could get him out of the house and into a work program?

My wife will not back me up when I tell him he has to get a job. — Beside Myself Dear Beside: Employers routinely refuse to hire those who have a drug or alcohol problem and have been arrested multiple times.

It has nothing to do with being

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