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BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Central Albertans are willing to dig deeper to pay for “non-essentials” in order to “do their part” in tough times.

As of Friday, Albertans paid 16 cents more for a bottle of wine, 90 cents more for a 12-case of beer and $5 more for a carton of cigarettes.

But it is the newly-introduced health-care levy that raised concerns among shoppers in Red Deer on Sunday.

The levy will go in effect on July 1 on personal income tax returns.

While Calvin Ast has no problems with “sin taxes,” he has questions about the new levy.

He wants more concise information about how the new program will work.

Ast said he is a higher income earner who will likely have to pay the maximum. Ast has questions around tax deductions and maximum payouts per household.

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Fighting in his first bout Patrick Leblanc, right, of Rocky Mountain House momentarily stuns Josh Strate of Calgary with his right hook during the second amateur fight of the night at the Havoc Fighting Championships at Westerner Park on Friday in Red Deer. Strate went on to win the fight in the second round scoring a TKO against Leblanc. For more on the Havoc Fight Championships event see page B4.

Former MP Brian Jean DeWit beats wins Wildrose leadership LACOMBE-PONOKA

Fox for PC nomination

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A former member of Stephen Harper’s Conservative caucus is the new leader of Alberta’s Official Opposition.

Brian Jean, a 52-year-old lawyer from Fort McMurray, Alberta, defeated two challengers to become the new leader of the Wildrose Party.

“I’m very happy. I’m very excited. I’m very humbled by the trust you’ve placed in me tonight,” said Jean who resigned from federal politics last year.

“I actually regard it as a sacred trust,” he said to several hundred cheering supporters in Calgary.

Twice during his victory speech, Jean choked back tears while speaking about his son, Michael, who died of cancer earlier this month during the thick of the leadership campaign.

He thanked others who continued to campaign when he couldn’t in order to spend time with his family.

“Mikey was a very, very special person. When cleaning his room this week, I found a handwritten note on the table beside his bed,” Jean told party members on Saturday.

“He wrote in his own handwriting, ’What you do for yourself dies with you, but what you do for others remains and is immortal.”’

The Wildrose leadership race became necessary when former leader Danielle Smith and eight Wildrose colleagues crossed the floor to join the ruling Progressive Conservative Party, leaving Wildrose with just five seats.

Jean, who will run in Fort McMurray, edged out current Wildrose member Drew Barnes and former Strathcona County mayor Linda Osinchuk.

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According to the leadership committee chair, 35 per cent of the party’s 25,000 members voted, and Jean took 55 per cent of the ballots cast.

Jean, who represented a northern Alberta riding in the House of Commons between 2004 and 2014, said he intends to keep the government of Premier Jim Prentice honest. But he is under no illusions about forming government.

“I don’t look at a probability right now that we are going to form government in the next election. I believe we will win a strong mandate from the people, a strong mandate is what we need,” Jean told reporters.

Incumbent floor-crosser Rod Fox could not hold onto the Progressive Conservative nomination in the Lacombe-Ponoka constituency.

Instead Peter DeWit, a Gull Lake-area businessman, is the PC’s choice.

DeWit defeated Fox along with challengers Larry Henkelman and Wayne Rempel in the four-candidate contest on Saturday.

Fox was one of 11 Wildrose MLAs who defected to the PCs late last year. DeWit said his campaign team worked very hard and he is pleased with the support and the results. He owns Nova Media Inc, a consulting company, and is a contract instructor at the Donald School of Business.

“Lacombe-Ponoka is fast growing,” said DeWit, 49. “There’s a lot of projects that need to happen. Infrastructure, schools need to be built. I see that is going to be very important election issues when the election is called.”

DeWit said he will bring his strong business background and agricultural roots to the table. The 49-year-old grew up on a dairy farm in The Netherlands and worked in the Information Technology sector before moving to Canada in 1993.

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Newly elected Wildrose Leader Brian Jean speaks after winning the party leadership vote in Calgary on Saturday.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HIGH RIVER, Alta. — The former leader of Alberta’s Official Opposition paid a high political price on Saturday after creating a national stir when she crossed the floor to join the governing Progressive Conservatives.

Danielle Smith lost the Tory nomination to Carrie Fischer, a town councillor in Okotoks, in the provincial riding of Highwood, south of Calgary.

Smith led eight of her colleagues of the Wildrose party across the floor to join the government last December in a stunning move that created considerable buzz among political watchers.

“This is of course a mixed emotions day for me. I did want to get a mandate to be the PC candidate for Highwood but of course residents felt otherwise,” she said in her concession speech.

“I’m grateful for the residents of Highwood for coming out and participating in the process. I think it was an invigorating process. I think it was good for the party.”

Smith still believes switching parties was the right thing to do and she has no regrets about crossing the floor four months ago.

“No. Absolutely not. I believe that Jim Prentice is exactly the leader that we need right now. I think it’s important for Conservatives to unify under his leadership,” said Smith.

Smith’s loss happened on the same day that the Wildrose picked former federal Conservative MP Brian Jean as the new leader of the opposition party in a leadership vote.

The Progressive Conservatives did not give a breakdown on the nomination results but say 972 people voted.

Fischer said she understands that the floor crossing did have an impact on the outcome.

“I think it was on the minds of some of the voters but I hope my conversations with them earned their trust and support,” said Fischer.

Smith said she has no immediate plans but intends to join her parents on a trip to Mexico in May. She told reporters earlier this year that she underestimated the amount of public anger that resulted from her decision to abandon the Wildrose Party.

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BUDGET: Not good for working class “Consumption taxes I do not have a problem with,” said Ast. “I just have a problem with putting money into an empty pit or black hole where we have no control of knowing where that money is going. General revenue drives me crazy. If I am going to pay for something, I want to know where the money is going.”

Emil Boratynec said the budget is “not good for the working class.”

Boratynec, who has been waiting for a knee replacement, said the health-care levy was “garbage.”

“I was told I have to wait up to 18 months for my knee,” he said. “That’s garbage. Tell them have to quit their spending.”

Arthur Kennedy, who moved to Red Deer from Barrie, Ont. in September said he is okay with the slight increases to beer, cigarettes and even gas.

Kennedy said he was initially worried about moving to Alberta because he had heard the prices were higher.

“Prices are not too bad right now,” said Kennedy.

“Everything goes up. We are happy to both have jobs.”

Blackfalds’ Carol Meerman said “you got to do, what you got to do” in the tough times. She understands the province’s reasoning for the increase to various items.

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Red Deer Firefighters Shelby Hauck, Mark Stadnick, Dan Henschel and Austin Gehl pose for a picture after setting up their tent during the irst annual Rooftop Campout and boot drive in support of Muscular Dystrophy Canada at Firehall 2 on 67th St. on Saturday. The firefighters are camping out until March 31st in order to raise awareness and money for Muscular Dystrophy which affects over 50,000 Canadians.

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Wandering toddler prompts licence suspension of daycare COLWOOD, B.C. — A woman in Colwood, B.C., has

Fuel tax on gas and diesel also went up to 13 cents per litre, a four cent increase.

She said paying more for alcohol and gas will likely not change her purchasing habits.

“That’s the place where you want to put the increases,” she said.

“I would rather have it here than in other areas.”

Michael Nicolas said he is cutting back on his drinking and smoking anyway.

Nicolas said the increases are reasonable under the circumstances.

The increases and levy were announced as part of the 2015 provincial budget released on Thursday. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

WILDROSE: Want a strong opposition “I don’t think Albertans are ready for us to win.

I think Albertans want a strong opposition but they are not prepared to elect us.”

Prentice issued a statement congratulating his former caucus colleague.

“We will not always agree on issues in the weeks and months ahead. For today, let me congratulate Brian on having earned these new responsibilities, and for his ongoing commitment to public service,” said Prentice.

Calgary political scientist David Taras predicted Jean would probably win, but doubts a new leader will make much of a difference with the voting public.

“The downside is the vast majority of Albertans couldn’t pick him out of a lineup and his views are

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had her daycare licence suspended after a toddler in her care was found wandering alone along the side of a road. Vancouver Island Health Authority has suspended the licence of Lynette Johner, who operates Lynette’s Family Day Care for up to seven children from her home on Vancouver Island.

A passing motorist found the two-and-a-half-yearold child walking on a nearby street and returned him to the daycare uninjured.

Health authority spokesman Eric Berndt cited immediate health and safety risks as its reasons for suspending the daycare’s licence.

The province’s Ministry of Children and Family Development is also investigating the incident. too far to the right for most Albertans,” said Taras from Mount Royal University.

“The party is in disarray and has very little time to get its house in order. But at least they will finally have a leader.”

DEWIT: Efficiencies can be made “My nomination campaign was run on common-sense leadership and that describes my qualifications and my experience,” said DeWit. He said as in business, there are areas in the government where efficiencies can be made. DeWit said he looks forward to campaigning on the PC platform when the writ is dropped.

DeWit is the president of the Lacombe Rotary Club, director of the Lacombe Chamber of Commerce, board chair of the Central Alberta Christian High School and a minor soccer coach. In 1998, he was awarded the Lacombe Chamber of Commerce Business Person of the Year.

DeWit and his wife Lidy, have lived in Lacombe area for more than 20 years. His wife is a homecare worker.

They have three children between 16 and 20.

Also running in the Lacombe-Ponoka constituency is Doug Hart under the New Democratic Party banner.

The Alberta PCs hosted its sixth and final Super Saturday. Now the party has 83 of its 87 candidates in place for the still-to-be announced general election. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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Kaylee Bunbury, 8, left, and Saige Stewart, 9, sport fancy hats as they dish up during the seventh annual Joyce deHaan Memorial Mad Hatter Tea Party at the Black Knight Inn’s Grand Ballroom on Saturday. A total of 340 people attended the event, which included afternoon tea, raffles, silent auctions and door prizes in support of those surviving cancer and in need of hats and wigs.

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BRIEF Teen stabbed at house party A 17-year-old stabbing victim is recovering from minor wounds in a Calgary hospital.

Rocky Mountain House RCMP responded to a 911 call of a report of a stabbing on the O’Chiese First Nation early on March 28.

Police say they arrived to find an underage house party where several under-age youth were fighting.

During the altercation, a male youth stabbed another male youth.

A male youth was transported to Calgary via STARS Air Ambulance for treatment of his injuries.

A male youth, age 17, was arrested at the scene and taken into custody.

Two other partygoers received minor cuts and abrasions but were not involved in the stabbing.

The victim’s mother, who was out of town during the party, has been notified.

The names of the suspect and victim will not be released in accordance the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

GLEICHEN — Three people were found dead in a fire in a First Nation community east of Calgary.

The Mounties said the bodies of two men, both aged 28, and a woman, 25, were discovered after the fire was brought under control on the Siksika Nation on Saturday morning.

Police said neighbours called RCMP after noticing smoke coming from the windows.

Tom Littlechild, the director of emergency services for the Siksika Nation, said flames were already coming out the windows of the kitchen and living room windows by the time the community’s firefighters arrived.

Littlechild said the firefighters called for extra help from the fire department in the neighbouring community of Cluny, and they were able to put the flames out quickly.

When they got inside, a man and a woman were discovered in one bedroom, and the other man was discovered in another bedroom.

“The fire, the bulk of it, was on the east end of the house where the kitchen and living room were. The bedrooms, for all intents and purposes, were not really touched by flames at all,” Littlechild said.

There were no reports that anyone else was in the house at the time of the fire, Littlechild said.

He said the home did not have a working smoke detector.

RCMP, the Siksika Nation fire department and the Cluny fire department are still investigating the cause of the fire, but police said in a news release the blaze appears to have started inside the home and doesn’t appear suspicious.

The release said the three victims were all residents of the Siksika Nation and had only recently moved into the house.

Their names haven’t been released and police said they are contacting their families. Autopsies will be performed in Calgary next week, the release said.

The Siksika Nation, which is about an hour’s drive east of Calgary, is home to approximately 7,000 people. It was hard hit when the Bow River spilled its banks in June 2013 and about 170 homes were flooded.

Littlechild said he doesn’t recall a fatal fire in the community in over five years.

He said he didn’t know the victims of the fire personally, but he said counselling would be available for other members of his department.

“Even though it’s a tragic event, the positive thing I guess to try to get across to everyone is the importance of having a working smoke alarm in your home,” Littlechild said.

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A better world is possible Cars, air travel, space exploration, television, nuclear power, high-speed computers, telephones, organ transplants, prosthetic body parts. … At various times these were all deemed impossible.

I’ve been around long enough to have witnessed many technological feats that were once unimaginable. Even 10 or 20 years ago, I would never have guessed people would carry supercomputers in their DAVID pockets — your SUZUKI smart phone is more powerful than all the computers NASA used to put astronauts on the moon in 1969 combined!

Despite a long history of the impossible becoming possible, often very quickly, we hear the “can’t be done” refrain repeated over and over — especially in the only debate over global warming that matters: What can we do about it? Climate change deniers and fossil fuel industry apologists often

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argue that replacing oil, coal and gas with clean energy is beyond our reach.

The claim is both facile and false.

Facile because the issue is complicated. It’s not simply a matter of substituting one for the other. To begin, conservation and efficiency are key. We must find ways to reduce the amount of energy we use — not a huge challenge considering how much people waste, especially in the developed world. False because rapid advances in clean energy and grid technologies continue to get us closer to necessary reductions in our use of polluting fossil fuels.

It’s ironic that anti-environmentalists and renewable energy opponents often accuse those of us seeking solutions of wanting to go back to the past, to living in caves, scrounging for roots and berries. They’re the ones intent on continuing to burn stuff to keep warm — to the detriment of the natural world and all it provides.

People have used wind and solar power for thousands of years. But recent rapid advances in generation, storage and transmission technologies have led to a fast-developing industry that’s outpacing fossil fuels in growth and job creation. Costs are coming down to the point where renewable energy is competitive with the heavily subsidized fossil fuel industry. Accord-

ing to the International Energy Agency, renewable energy for worldwide electricity generation grew to 22 per cent in 2013, a five per cent increase from 2012.

The problem is that much of the world still burns non-renewable resources for electricity and fuels, causing pollution and climate change and, subsequently, more human health problems, extreme weather events, water shortages and environmental devastation. In many cities in China, the air has become almost unbreathable, as seen in the shocking Chinese documentary film Under the Dome. In California, a prolonged drought is affecting food production. Extreme weather events are costing billions of dollars worldwide.

We simply must do more to shift away from fossil fuels and, despite what the naysayers claim, we can. We can even get partway there under our current systems. Market forces often lead to innovation in clean energy development. But in addressing the very serious long-term problems we’ve created, we may have to challenge another “impossibility”: changing our outmoded global economic system. As economist and Earth Institute director Jeffrey Sachs wrote in a recent Guardian article, “At this advanced stage of environmental threats to the planet,

and in an era of unprecedented inequality of income and power, it’s no longer good enough to chase GDP. We need to keep our eye on three goals — prosperity, inclusion, and sustainability — not just on the money.”

Relying on market capitalism encourages hyper-consumption, planned obsolescence, wasteful production and endless growth. Cutting pollution and greenhouse gas emissions requires conserving energy as well as developing new energy technologies. Along with reducing our reliance on private automobiles and making buildings and homes more energy-efficient, that also means making goods that last longer and producing fewer disposable or useless items so less energy is consumed in production.

People have changed economic systems many times before, when they no longer suited shifting conditions or when they were found to be inhumane, as with slavery. And people continue to develop tools and technologies that were once thought impossible. Things are only impossible until they’re not.

We can’t let those who are stuck in the past, unable to imagine a better future, hold us back from creating a safer, cleaner and more just world.

Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. www.davidsuzuki.org

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Spin merchants of shame and the global warming myth Re: The science of doubt, by Chris Mooney, in the Advocate on Saturday, March 21.

Have you noticed how newspapers, magazines and news broadcasts have been full of dire warnings of climate doom lately? Have you noticed how climate skeptics have been mercilessly hounded lately?

Yep, it’s happening ... and it’s accelerating. Why? There seems to be a huge push to fertilize the fears of climate warming/change before the UN climate conference in Paris this December. A public that is scared silly will be ready to endorse a radical pronouncement that will bring no noticeable change to climate yet cost hundreds of billions of dollars.

Chris Mooney has written a provocative piece about a dubious book and resulting documentary movie, Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes (and Erik Conway). He says it’s “poised to become a mustwatch film in the climate debate.” So far, it’s listed as 494th in documentaries.

Oreskes (and by extension Mooney) are reducing the climate science argument to a smear campaign via innuendo. They equate climate skeptics with those who doubted the smoking/cancer issue 30 years ago.

A more reasonable comparison would be the extremism of modern climate science compared to extreme “global cooling” — the alarm de jour of the 1960s and ’70s. A common response is: “but that was only a couple magazines that pushed that idea.”

Nope. Check it out — many of the major science organizations of the day embraced it only to reject it in a few years.

And ironically some of the prime scientists behind the cooling scare are now pushing the warming scare (Hansen, Schneider). But Oreskes and Mooney have the gall to tell us that questioning the present science scheme is not acceptable — worse, it’s abhorrent.

Shame.

Dr. Judith Curry was a highly respected climate scientist until she switched to the skeptical side.

Now she’s an object of derision. Her conclusions re: Merchants of Doubt: “The bottom line here is that very sloppy history and social science research (Oreskes and Conway) is being used to justify ad hominem attacks against scientists that do not support the prevailing consensus. I find this reprehensible. ...

It’s time for the ‘convinced’ to start beefing up their scientific arguments; they are not going to win any arguments by making ad hominem attacks on other scientists.” (blog March 15) Oreskes is the mother of spin and Mooney is her acolyte.

Murray Snyder Rocky Mountain House

Who are we to hasten the process?

Life is a gift from God Assisted suicide is not possible. The word suicide means to intentionally cause one’s own death. Assisted means to help, aid or support. So if you help someone to kill themselves, it’s a crime. Call it what you want but whatever you call it, it is wrong.

Why is it if a child is born ill, everything is done to save the child, but 80 years later when that individual is suffering or struggling we want to kill them or they want to kill themselves.

Suffering seems to be the biggest consideration in ending life. We don’t want to see our loved ones suffer and we don’t want to suffer, but we don’t look at it for what it is. It is life. It is not a choice of take it or leave it. Life is life from the day we are conceived.

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Some suffer greatly through life and others breeze through with no pain or suffering. We would all choose the latter if we had the choice. But we don’t have that choice.

Why is it when we are dealt a very severe blow that we lose that struggle for life? It is very difficult to comment on other peoples difficulties without walking in their shoes. I think we have lost our perspective. Science and medicine offered us psychological excuses for our actions or inactions.

The suffering and infirm can be given a pill or a needle, it’s OK, they won’t feel a thing, it’s painless, it will put them out of their suffering, they’ll be in a better place. Most of us believe we will be in a better place when we leave this Earth but who are we to hasten that process? I believe that life is a gift from God and only God can take it.

Suffering for Christians is a means of achieving a higher meaning of life. In 2 Corinthians, “I am content with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, for the sake of Christ, for when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Hinduism holds that suffering follows naturally from negative behaviours in this current life or in a past life and one must accept suffering as a just consequence and an opportunity for spiritual progress.

In Islam, the faithful must endure suffering with hope and faith, not to resist or ask why, accept it and submit to it as a test of faith.

Regardless of your faith or lack of it, assisting or taking one’s own life is not in Gods’ plan and is far beyond human thinking. We were all given a life and it is up to us to live it to the fullest, to its natural end.

As a Canadian culture, we need to counter this negative end-of-life attitude with one of hope and a spiritual perspective. Life is a sacred gift from God and only He can take it.

Leo Leonard Red Deer

Casino’s parking lot proposal will set back downtown progress Ten years ago I never went downtown, but the investments our city has made are starting to pay off

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and I now regularly go downtown. In fact I choose to operate my business on Ross Street near the Jackpot Casino; near the bulldozed residential lots that may soon be paved over and made into a sprawling parking lot.

The downtown has been greatly revitalized over the last 10 years!

We know what does not work and we know what does work. Let’s keep the positive momentum going and consider all our options and find a better use for that space than just pavement.

We must be mindful of the bigger picture and the long-term vision to ensure that we continue in this direction and build on the successes of the past.

Our downtown is now more walkable, it is now more interesting and vibrant and it is now more safe.

But there is still a lot of potential to be realized and we have a lot of work to do.

The design of our city shapes who we are and how we live. With that in mind, we would be well served to understand that people adapt. If we build a parking lot, people park in it. If we build an apartment, people live in it. If we build a multi-storey, mixed use commercial/residential building with underground parking and a walkable street facade, the entire area will prosper, including the casino.

We should also discuss the sustainability of our tax base. Developed spaces, specifically in our downtown, sustain our city’s tax base. We diminish our tax base by paving over prime real estate to make way for a lower value development?

I will be speaking out against the proposal before city council today for a new parking lot across from the Jackpot Casino. The casino already has a lot of parking available and paving under more of our valuable downtown space would be a tragedy.

When we factor in the potential benefits of cultural vibrancy, environmental sustainability and the supporting tax base to compare our options for the use of that space, almost anything other than a parking lot would be more beneficial for Red Deer!

Our downtown has the potential to really thrive and we have the blueprint and the resources to make that happen. Now all we need is the political will.

Jonathan Wieler Red Deer

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ISIL MISSION

OTTAWA — How to avoid missile batteries and navigate defensive radar systems in Syria are among the issues preoccupying military planners as Parliament debates the merits of expanding and extending Canada’s Middle East mission.

So far, the debate among MPs has revolved around the need for a broader military mission in Iraq and the legality of extending air strikes to include that country’s troubled neighbour.

Scant attention has been paid to the extraordinary nature of what pilots are being asked to do and the risks they’ll face.

Extremists in Syria won’t have much in the way of air defences, other than shoulder-launched missiles that are mostly useless against high-flying jets.

But the mission — bombing targets belonging to the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — is unprecedented in the sense that Canadian jets are being deployed with no effort to suppress or destroy potential anti-aircraft threats, defence experts say.

The opening shots of allied air forces in Libya, Kosovo, and Iraq during the first Gulf War, were always directed at taking down the enemy’s air defence network, which in Syria consists of at least 131 active Russian-made surface-to-air missile sites.

Destroying that network is not part of the mission.

Flying into Syria requires a high level of trust that no one in that country’s military has an itchy trigger finger. It will also necessitate clear rules of engagement for pilots that’ll likely include taking out mis-

sile batteries that lock on to them with radar.

Defence Minister Jason Kenney has noted that no coalition jets have been fired upon by the Syrians, and says he has a high level of confidence in the U.S. commanders running the war.

“The military advice I’ve received is that the Syrian military has no radar coverage or anti-aircraft armaments in that part of Syria,” Kenney told CTV’s Question Period on Sunday.

A study by Australian defence researchers, first written in 2010 but updated in 2012, shows there are 22 modern early warning radar sites in the embattled country — five of which are in territory where coalition jets are expected to fly. Whether those sites are still operational after years of bloody conflict remains unclear.

Kenney said hundreds of sorties have already been flown over eastern Syria “with no risk to our allies.”

There’s a reason for that, one defence expert said.

“I think they’ve made it clear through third-party interlocutors that if the Syrian air defence radar lights up, they’ll take it out,” said retired colonel George Petrolekas of the Conference of Defence Associations.

That is how allied air forces have established no-fly zones in various parts of the Middle East over the years. Whether Canadian pilots will be given the same orders is unclear.

A senior defence source said “this is unique and

there is more risk” associated with trying to avoid Syrian defences. Pilots could be left with no choice “but to take out somebody who’s painted (targeted) them.”

The Australian study noted that the anti-aircraft network was showing its age.

“Syria’s SAM network is very robust on paper, and would appear to offer a significant degree of protection at first glance, but this is not necessarily the case,” said the report written for Air Power Australia.

“Against a limited incursion, the Syrian air defence network remains capable, despite the reliance on aging Soviet-era systems.... Said reliance on Soviet-era legacy SAM systems will provide a serious handicap when facing a major air incursion by a modern opponent.”

The only coalition jet to crash while taking part in the anti-ISIL mission belonged to Jordan, and that was apparently the result of mechanical trouble.

The pilot was captured and eventually burned alive by militants. Kenney told CTV there’s “an inherent risk” in any military operation.

“We have contingencies that we develop — in this case with the United States — for rapid evacuation in the case of an incident like that,” of a downed Canadian pilot.

The United Arab Emirates briefly suspended its combat mission against ISIL in February amid concerns about the coalition’s ability to recovered downed pilots. The U.S. has since moved combat search and rescue aircraft and commandos to northern Iraq to be closer to the front in case of emergency.

Tories to tackle lump sum payments to wounded vets

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — The system of awards for the pain and suffering of the country’s most severely wounded soldiers is about to be overhauled as the Harper government attempts to defuse a volatile issue within the angry veterans community.

Multiple federal sources tell The Canadian Press that Veterans Affairs Minister Erin O’Toole will announce targeted improvements Monday to bring lump sum awards for the most severely disabled more in line with what courts award civilians injured in workplace accidents. Just how much soldiers — with missing limbs and other injuries such as post-traumatic stress — should be paid in compensation has been a lightning rod issue since the federal government overhauled the benefits regime in 2006. Currently, the maximum tax-free award is $306,698, which is considerably lower than the benchmark civilian award of $342,500, established in 2012 by the B.C. Supreme Court.

Addressing the issue is crucial this election year for the ruling Conservatives and O’Toole, who’ve proposed a series of new and improved benefits to

win back the allegiance of increasingly outspoken and alienated ex-soldiers. Legislation to enact the changes is expected to be dropped Monday in the Commons, with the issue of the lump sum award being among the most crucial. Payments are determined on a sliding scale depending on the degree of disability, but the sources say not to expect an across-the-board increase for every category of injury. Instead, the measures will be “limited to the people who are most critically injured.” One source, who was not authorized to speak to the media, said on background one mechanism under consideration since last fall was an additional one-time, $70,000 top-up payment that could be added separately to whatever lump sum is given to a soldier.

The move would bring the payment system in line with Ontario’s compensation framework, said a second federal source.

The fact that modern-day veterans receive less is at the heart of the class-action lawsuit by angry Afghan veterans. The government and lawyers for the plaintiffs recently put the suit on hold as they negotiate a settlement.The government has heard complaints for years, and in 2011 it tried to placate injured veterans by allowing them the choice of

whether to take the lump sum or have it paid out in stages. Only two per cent of those eligible have taken up the offer and the payment schedule remained unchanged. The Commons veterans committee weighed in last summer, finding the pain and suffering awards given to severely injured soldiers don’t match what courts or provincial compensation systems provide.

“The amount of the lump sum payment is considered very low by those with very serious injuries in the short or medium term, who are forced to leave the Canadian Forces but whose permanent disabilities are moderate,” said the all-party’s committee report, released last June.

Many veterans view the one-time disability award as the government simply washing its hands of the wounded, the committee was told in public hearings.

Former Liberal Senator Romeo Dallaire, a retired lieutenant-general, was among the most outspoken in saying the measure was detrimental to soldiers.

Kevin Berry, a veteran of the Afghanistan mission and a veterans advocate, told the committee the ongoing payments for pain and suffering made under the old pension-for-life system, replaced in 2006, had symbolic value.

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Investigators stand near Air Canada flight AC624 that crashed early Sunday morning during a snowstorm, at Stanfield International Airport in Halifax on Sunday. Air Canada says 25 people were taken to hospital. The flight had 133 passengers and five crew members.

Plane crash lands at Halifax airport AIR CANADA DEFENDS DECISION TO LAND PLANE DURING SNOWSTORM

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — It was safe to land an Air Canada plane that crashed at the Halifax airport in the midst of a snowstorm, the company said Sunday.

The two pilots flying AC624 circled above Halifax Stanfield International Airport before concluding the conditions were suitable for landing, said chief operating officer Klaus Goersch. “It was safe to fly in this weather.

The aircraft did circle for a period of time but when the approach was initiated, the weather was at the approach minimums,� Goersch told a news conference. “The weather was appropriate for landing.�

The plane left Toronto just before 9 p.m. Saturday carrying 133 passengers and five crew members. It landed hard and skidded off a runway Sunday at 12:43 a.m. AT, Air Canada said.

The Halifax area was under a snowfall warning at the time and Goersch said wind speeds were 30 knots, or about 55 kilometres per hour.

Airport spokesman Peter Spurway said the plane was flying from the south in a northerly direction when it landed on the airport’s main runway, adding that it is up to pilots to decide whether it is safe to land in bad weath-

er based on information relayed from ground crews to the tower.

Goersch said 25 people were taken to hospital and all but one of them were released. “All of us at Air Canada are greatly relieved that there have been no critical injuries as a result of this incident,� he said. “It obviously has been very unsettling for our customers and their families and we have been working very hard with them to take care of them and see after their needs.�

Randy Hall and his wife Lianne Clark were on their way home from a Mexican vacation when they said the plane ran in to trouble. “We just thought that we were landing hard. And when the ... air bags started to deploy and you saw things falling on the floor, we said, ’Oh no.

We’ve got to get out,’ � said Clark, a computer consultant. “We just opened the doors when we landed and everyone started to pile out.�

Hall said he believes the jet hit a power line before it landed hard on the runway. There were sparks but no fire, he said. “There was a big flash,� said Hall, who is retired and lives in Mount Uniake, N.S. “The plane came down, bang! It jumped up in the air again.�

The aircraft skidded for a long time before coming to a stop, said Hall, adding that it hit so hard, the landing gear and at least one of the engines was ripped from it.

The Transportation Safety Board released photographs of the wreckage but it cannot be determined whether the engines are still attached to the plane. A photo of the front of the plane released on the board’s Twitter account shows what appears to be the engine on the starboard side of the plane crumpled under the wing, while the view of the port side wing is obscured by an emergency slide.

Hall said passengers left the plane immediately but they were left standing on the tarmac, some in their stocking feet, as they were lashed by windwhipped snow before buses arrived.

There were reports passengers had to wait on the runway up to 50 minutes to be shuttled from the scene.

Spurway said the airport is reviewing its response. “We feel badly that they were out there as long as they were,� he said. “From what we understand, the aircraft was evacuated within 60 seconds which is a credit to the crew and a credit to the passengers.�

Dominic Stettler, 31, of Wolfville, N.S., said people on board the plane responded with level heads.

VANCOUVER — Canadians joined millions around the world Saturday night in turning off their lights to mark Earth Hour, celebrating the ninth year of the annual event.

But as participation appeared to be on the decline in recent years, supporters emphasized the goal was to raise awareness of climate change — 24 hours a day. “Every passing year it becomes more infectious,� said Ontario Environment Minister Glen Murray in a phone interview. “It’s actually really doing what it intended to do, which is to get into the popular culture. “It’s not just government and environmental groups who are talking about climate awareness, but it’s also companies and industries, your local pub, your local brewery.�

Nova Scotia Power reported a 0.5 per cent drop in usage Saturday night as residents dimmed their lights between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. Toronto Hydro reported a 3.5 per cent reduction, which it said was equivalent to taking 42,000 homes off the grid.

Earth Hour was launched in Australia in 2007 as a way to draw attention to environmental issues including climate change. It has grown to a worldwide event involving 162 countries.

The main organizer, the World Wildlife Fund, said more than a third of Canadians participated in Earth Hour last year. But enthusiasm appears to have waned over the years.

For example, energy savings in B.C. this year dropping to a tenth of 2013 levels.

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BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Tigers 1 Rebels 0 (OT) MEDICINE HAT – How many overtime games are decided by an unusual goal?

Most, it seems, and Trevor Cox’s extra-time winner Sunday at the old Arena was no exception.

The diminutive forward worked out of the corner and wired a sharp-angle shot that deflected in off the pad of Red Deer Rebels netminder Rylan Toth at 10:05 of overtime to give the Medicine Hat Tigers a 1-0 win and a 2-0 lead in a WHL Eastern Conference quarter-final.

The Tigers prevailed 2-1 in the opening game of the series Saturday night. The third and fourth games of the bestof-seven set will be played Wednesday and Thursday at the Enmax Centrium.

The goal spoiled a splendid performance by Toth, who made 36 saves, including nine in overtime, and came just seconds after the game nearly ended in Red Deer’s favour as a Tigers player dug a loose puck out of the Medicine Hat crease.

“Stants (Tigers defenceman Ty Stanton) head-manned the puck after a pretty crazy scramble in front of our net,” said Cox. “I saw them kind of changing so I dropped it back to (Cole) Sanford.

“He gave it back to me and I just threw it at the net and it found its way in. After that I just kind of blacked out.”

The Tigers carried the play in overtime, outshooting their guests 10-6 in the process. Toth kept the game in doubt by robbing Chad Butcher point blank and Sanford rang a shot off the crossbar.

Still, the game was there for the taking for the Rebels,

but the Tigers got the break to end the lengthy, tight-checking contest.

“That’s a tough goal against (Toth),” said Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter. “But that being said, both goalies were good tonight.

“They got the break, but again, it’s tough to win if you don’t score any goals, either.

We scored one goal in two games.”

Despite Sutter’s line juggling, the Rebels couldn’t mount sustained attacks and Tigers netminder Marek Langhamer shut the door when the visitors did threaten.

His first-period glove save on Wyatt Johnson from the edge of the crease was pure thievery. Langhamer turned aside 27 shots to post the shutout and was named first star of the game, with Toth and Cox selected as the second and third stars.

“Some of our offensive guys have got to be better for us,” said Sutter. “We need more from Bleacks (Conner Bleackley), more from Sheener (Riley Sheen) and more from (Connor) Gay. “Guys who we expect to score goals for us, we need more from even though they have to play the right way.

They have to do more in the offensive zone for us.”

The Rebels couldn’t took advantage of three power plays, while the Tigers were zero-for-five with a man advantage and enjoyed a fourminute power play when Bleackley was assessed a double minor for spearing in the third period.

The Rebels killed it off in impressive fashion, holding the Tigers to two shots, and then killed a later hooking infraction to defenceman Kayle Doetzel.

“Defensively, we’ve been good,” said Sutter. “Both

Photo by RYAN MCCRACKEN/Medicine Hat News

Red Deer Rebels left winger Riley Sheen fires a puck on goal while Medicine Hat Tigers centre Anthony Ast sprawls out on the ice during Eastern Conference quarter-final Game 2 action, Sunday in Medicine Hat. games have been head-tohead, with shots on goal very similar.

“You never read anything into shots on goal in this building. It’s not often the visiting team is going to have more shots than the home team, that’s the way it works here.

“But we’re right there. We just have to focus in on Game 3 now. We’re going back to our building and we need to have that emotion of our building working for us.”

Both games were intense, heated affairs, with the Rebels having the advantage in the physical department.

“Red Deer is a really defensive club and they play us

hard every game,” said Cox. “We knew that coming into this series and we just have to stay patient.

“If we play like we did in overtime tonight the rest of the series, I’m confident we can wrap this thing up.”

Rebels forward Presten Kopeck is confident his club will draw even at home.

“Bounces go whatever way and tonight wasn’t our night,” he said.

“We have to regroup. We have two games at home to get right back on track.”

As long as the Rebels can find their scoring touch, that is.

“That’s the biggest thing,”

said Kopeck. “Their goalie is standing on his head right now and we have to find a way to get past him. As soon as it happens I think the floodgates will open.”

Kopeck praised Toth and felt bad for his teammate.

“He’s the one who kept us in the game. He was making good stops all game,” said Kopeck.

“It was an unfortunate bounce at the end but I’m not going to blame that on Tother whatsoever.

“We have to figure out a way to score and we have to help him out back there too.”

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 5 Predators 2 NASHVILLE — The Calgary Flames needed a total team effort to beat the Nashville Predators and get back into playoff position in the Western Conference.

Lance Bouma had two goals, and Michael Ferland, Kris Russell, and Jiri Hudler also scored for the Flames, who snapped a two-game losing streak with a 5-2 victory on Sunday.

“Tonight, I really believed that we played what I would say is our most complete game in a long time,” Calgary coach Bob Hartley said. “Not that the others were not good, but tonight I am so proud of our four lines, our six Ds, and Jonas Hiller came up with some big saves at the right times. It’s a big team win. It feels great.”

Calgary entered Sunday one point behind the Los Angeles Kings for the Western Conference’s final wild-card playoff spot. With the win, the Flames moved ahead of the Kings, but Los Angeles has played one fewer game.

Roman Josi and Seth Jones had goals for Nashville. Playing their third game in four days, the playoff-bound Predators’ four-game winning streak came to an end.

“We weren’t at our best tonight,” Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. “It seemed like we were slow to get in the battles or at least get a second or third man into the battles.

When we got there, I don’t think that we did a very good job of taking the majority of those battles into our possession.”

Calgary took a 2-1 lead at 17:48 of the first on a goal by Russell, when his shot from the right point hit the skate of Nashville forward Paul Gaustad in the low slot and beat Carter Hutton on the short side. Ferland made it 3-1 at 6:57 of the second for his first NHL goal.

“It felt awesome,” Ferland said of the milestone goal, which also proved to be the game-winner. “I was always itching to get that first one and always imagined how it would feel. I feel like I got 200 pounds off my back now. It was one of the best feelings I’ve ever had, for sure.”

Hudler scored at 11:53 of

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Calgary Flames left wing Jiri Hudler celebrates after Kris Russell scores a goal against Nashville Predators goalie Carter Hutton in the first period of an NHL game Sunday, in Nashville, Tenn.

Predators’ Paul Gaustad (28) also defends. The Flames won the game 5-2. the period, putting Calgary up by three goals.

Jones made it 4-2 at 9:55 of the third. On a delayed penalty to Calgary, Jones beat Hiller with a wrist shot from above the right circle.

“We need to tighten up defensively,” Jones said. “We gave up way too many chances, point-blank right in front of our net. We kind of left (Hutton) out to dry tonight a little bit.”

Josi assisted on Jones’ goal, giving him 55 points on the season, one shy of Nashville’s record for points in a season by a defenceman.

Bouma added an empty-net goal in the game’s final minute.

Josi scored the game’s first goal at 6:17 of the opening pe-

riod on a one-timer from the left point that beat fellow Swiss countryman Hiller high to the glove side.

Bouma evened the game at 1 at 9:13 of the first. In the low slot, Bouma attempted a backhand, which was blocked by Nashville defenceman Mattias Ekholm. The rebound came back to Bouma, and he beat Hutton between the pads. Hutton saw his first game action since March 3.

“It was huge,” Bouma said.

“Everyone knows the importance of this game, and everyone really played it like a playoff game and really took charge.”

NOTES: Nashville D Shea Weber missed his second consecutive game with a lowerbody injury.

Greg Meachem, Sports Editor, 403-314-4363 E-mail gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

HALIFAX — Pat Simmons has been in fine form since replacing John Morris as skip earlier this month.

Simmons guided the Canadian team to victory at the Tim Hortons Brier in Calgary and has picked up where he left off at the Ford world men’s curling championship. The host rink opened with an impressive 11-10 victory over the U.S. on Saturday night and added two more victories Sunday to improve to 3-0.

“He’s been amazing, just like he was in the Brier,” Morris said. “He’s kept it up, which is awesome to see and he’s a great leader. He’s really easy to play for. He just seems more comfortable in that skip role than that third role and vice-versa for me.”

Simmons defeated China’s Jialiang Zang 7-4 on Sunday afternoon and topped Sweden’s Niklas Edin 9-6 in the evening at Scotiabank Centre. That left the Canadian team of Simmons, Morris, Carter Rycroft and Nolan Thiessen alone in first place after five draws.

“The longer we stay with that bagel in the loss column, the better,” Thiessen said.

The Morris-Simmons positional change was a big story at the national championship and it’s still a talking point at the world playdowns.

The host broadcaster aired a feature segment dubbed “The Switch” over the weekend. The Eye Opener newspaper gave the topic some ink Sunday, but used a different approach.

The headline “Should Have Called Martin” appeared above a picture of Kevin Martin, who teamed with Morris to win Olympic gold five years ago. A column in the Curling Canada publication, which is distributed on site at the arena, included an interview with the retired skip.

In the piece, Martin suggested Morris didn’t have the right personality to skip and is a much better fit as a third.

Morris said he saw the headline but didn’t read the story.

“Kevin and I, to be honest with you, we don’t have a bad relationship,” Morris said.

“We’re not the best of friends but it’s not like we don’t like each other. We did some great

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things together and we have a good mutual respect that way.”

Morris had heard critical comments in the past about his skipping ability, but tried not to pay attention to it. It’s a rather moot point at this juncture anyway, given the positional changes.

After a limited schedule this season, a 2-3 start at the Brier was enough for Morris to demote himself and move Simmons into the skip role. The team has thrived ever since.

“We’re proving right now, especially with Pat, he’s a better skip than I think he was a third,” Morris said.

Defending champion Thomas Ulsrud of Norway edged Russia’s Evgeny Arkhipov 7-6 in an extra end to improve to 2-1. Norway was joined by Switzerland, Italy, the Czech Republic and Japan in a tie for second place.

Sweden, China, Russia, the U.S., and Finland were next at 1-2 and Scotland was the lone winless rink at 0-3.

Canada will play the Czech Republic and Russia on Monday. Round-robin play continues through Thursday.

“A lot of the game and success for teams has to do with dynamics,” Morris said. “It’s something that we have. We have a great dynamic. Our team has dealt with a lot this year and found ways to win. I find creating a story like that just to create a buzz and to create some negative thought, it just doesn’t jive with me.

“I wasn’t a big fan and same thing with the rest of my team.

We’re just going to focus on how we’ve been doing well.”

Simmons handled skipping duties on a different team for years before moving to third five years ago. He has embraced the return to skip and is quite comfortable throwing last stones.

Morris left Martin’s rink two years ago after a successful seven-year run that included national, world and Olympic titles. A message left with Martin, who retired last year, wasn’t immediately returned.

Morris was less than pleased with the author of the column, saying he probably won’t talk to him again at this tournament or for the rest of his career.

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Canada shuts out Russia at women’s worlds

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MALMO, Sweden — Ann-Renee Desbiens looked like she belonged.

In her first career start for the Canadian women’s hockey team, the 20-yearold goaltender from La Malbaie, Que., produced a 19-save shutout Sunday in a 4-0 win over Russia at the women’s world hockey championship.

“It was a lot of fun out there,” Desbiens said.

Montreal’s Caroline Ouellette and Courtney Birchard of Mississauga, Ont., paced Canada with a goal and an assist apiece.

Laura Fortino of Hamilton and captain Marie-Philip Poulin of Beauceville, Ont., also scored. Rebecca Johnston of Sudbury, Ont., contributed a pair of assists.

Canada (1-1) opened the tournament Saturday with a 4-2 loss to defending champion United States and concludes Pool A against Finland on Tuesday.

A win in regulation or overtime gives Canada a bye to Friday’s semifinals. The U.S. (2-0) secured a semifinal berth with Sunday’s 4-1 win over the Finns.

With a 2-0 victory over Germany, Japan continued its surprising start in Pool B with a second win in as many days. Host Sweden beat Switzerland 3-2 to put both countries at 1-1.

Hockey Canada brought its youngest team ever to a world championship to give the inexperienced the experience of pursuing a gold medal at the highest level of the women’s game.

Desbiens is one of 10 on Canada’s 23-player roster making their world championship debuts.

Her teammates were intent on preserving the shutout for Desbiens. Fortino nearly bowled Desbiens over late in the third period to bat away a puck the goalie momentarily lost track of as it deflected high above her head.

There was no panic in Desbiens’ demeanour, however. She killed off a Russian two-man advantage early in the third.

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Canada’s Laura Fortino, front, scores her team’s second goal past Russia’s Yulia Leskina during the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey Women’s World Championship group A match between Canada and Russia at Malmo Isstadion in Malmo, southern Sweden, Sunday.

“She’s a very calm goalie and for the defence, especially myself, I found that right off the bat she was really calm and plays the puck well,” Fortino said.

“She handled every situation to the best of her ability today.”

Desbiens also executed what resembled the figure skating move, the Russian splits, when she leaped in the air and lifted her legs to avoid Olga Sosina bulldozing into her net early in the second period.

“I got a good score on that from my goalie coach,” Desbiens joked. “It was a pretty nice jump. Just having fun out

there making some acrobatic moves, I guess.”

The four-goal differential matched the tightest game between Canada and Russia at a women’s world championship. The other was a 5-1 decision in 2001.

Russia is much improved from their 14-1 thrashing from Canada in 2012.

They’re benefiting from the increased attention bestowed on them by their federation in the year and a half prior to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Russia won the bronze medal at the

most recent world championship in Ottawa in 2013. They finished sixth in the Winter Games.

With less than 24 hours to recover from a shootout loss to Finland, Russia sustained their discipline and effort against Canada until the final buzzer.

Maria Sorokina stopped all but one of 24 shots Sunday in relief of starter Yulia Leskina.

“Between the first and second periods, we made some adjustments to make sure we played well in the defensive zone,” said Iya Gavrilova, who plays for the University of Calgary.

“We kind of fixed those things and got better in our speed. That kind of led us to a good third period.”

With Shannon Szabados about to start playoffs with the SPHL’s Columbus Cottonmouths and three-time Olympian Charline Labonte not on this roster, Canada is unusually unseasoned in net in Malmo.

Genevieve Lacasse of Kingston, Ont., has the most international experience of the three goalies.

The 25-year-old has yet to start a world championship final or play in an Olympic Games.

Desbiens and Canada’s other young goalie, Emerance Maschmeyer of Bruderheim, Alta., both played high-stakes games within a week of the world championship’s opening weekend.

Wisconsin’s Desbiens took the 20-save loss in a 3-1 Frozen Four semifinal loss to Minnesota on March 21.

Harvard’s Maschmeyer then stopped 29 in a 4-1 loss to the Golden Gophers in the NCAA final the following day.

“We wanted to get some of our other goaltenders some action here in the tournament,” Canadian head coach Doug Derraugh said. “Ann-Renee did play really well this year in the NCAA and played very well for us in an exhibition game.

“As a young goaltender, she looked really calm in there. Sometimes when you put in a goaltender for their first senior national game, you wonder what you’re going to get, but it didn’t seem to phase her at all.”

Walker wins Blue Jays fall to Orioles’ split squad hometown Texas Open

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SECOND PGA TOUR VICTORY OF THE SEASON

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — Jimmy Walker won his hometown Texas Open on Sunday to become the first two-time winner this season on the PGA Tour, beating fellow Texan Jordan Spieth by four strokes.

Walker closed with a 2-under 70 to finish at 11-under 277 at TPC San Antonio, a 35-minute drive from his home.

The 36-year-old former Baylor player won the Sony Open in Hawaii by nine shots in January and has a tourbest five victories in the past two seasons.

Spieth also finished with a 70, making four late birdies in a row. The 21-year-old Dallas player was coming off a playoff victory two weeks ago at Innisbrook.

Walker and Spieth will move to career highs in the world ranking, with Spieth going from sixth to fourth and Walker from 13th to 10th.

FedEx Cup champion Billy Horschel was third at 4 under after a 71.

Daniel Summerhays, second last year behind Steven Bowditch, tied for fourth with Chesson Hadley at 3 under. Summerhays closed with a 69, and Hadley had a 71.

Doral winner Dustin Johnson shot his second straight 68 to match Ryan Palmer at 2 under. Palmer also had a 68.

Phil Mickelson, looking for some momentum heading to the Masters, closed with a 76 to drop into a tie for 30th at 4 over.

Ten players finished under par, with the Oaks Course playing the toughest on the PGA Tour this season with a 74.581 stroke average — more than two shots over par. The previous high was PGA National’s Champion course at 1.832 over par for the Honda Classic.

Marc Warren and Harris English failed to crack the top 50 in the world ranking, which would have given them spots in the Masters.

Warren, 52nd, needed to finish ahead of Brendan Todd to get in, but closed with a 70 to finish 35th.

English, 53rd, needed at least a top 10. His final-round 72 only got him to 30th.

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Jimenez, who is competing for a spot in Baltimore’s rotation, allowed one run and five hits. The 31-year-old right-hander also struck out three and walked one.

“I don’t even think about the rotation or anything like that,” said Jimenez, who entered with a 6.06 ERA in five exhibition starts. “The only thing I have in my mind is getting myself ready for the season like I have done the last 10 years.”

Jimenez signed a $50 million, fouryear contract with Baltimore last February, and then struggled. The 2010 All-Star with Colorado went 6-9 with a 4.81 ERA. He also was left off Baltimore’s roster for the AL championship series.

But Jimenez insists he isn’t worried about his situation.

“Every time I get out there, I’m feeling like I’m getting more comfortable and more confident with what I’m supposed to do out there,” he said.

Josh Donaldson hit his fourth spring homer in the fourth for Toronto, and

Duke heads to Final Four for 16th time, Michigan State there for 9th time Duke is headed to Final Four after a 66-52 victory over Gonzaga in the South Regional on Sunday.

It will be the Blue Devils’ 16th appearance in the Final Four and 12th under coach Mike Krzyzewski, matching the all-time record of UCLA’s John Wooden.

Justise Winslow had 16 points, including a big 3-pointer in the closing minutes, Matt Jones had 16 points, Tyus Jones had 15, and Jahlil Okafor added nine points and eight rebounds.

Duke (33-4), the No. 1 seed, is going

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REBELS: Saturday ● The Tigers scored once in each of the first two periods Saturday, then survived a strong Rebels push in the final frame to hang on for the victory.

Kyle Beckcr connected in the opening period and Sanford scored a power-play marker in the second that was

Mark Buehrle pitched five effective innings. Buehrle allowed one run and seven hits.

STARTING TIME Blue Jays: The rotation has not officially been set, but Buehrle said he expects his first regular-season start to be April 10 against the Orioles in Baltimore.

“I think it helps out because I go out there and throw slop up there when everybody’s energized and going crazy,” Buehrle said.

TRAINER’S ROOM Orioles: C J.P. Arencibia (flexor mass strain) travelled, but did not play.

Blue Jays: LHP Brett Cecil (rotator cuff inflammation) walked one and struck out one in an inning of relief.

TORONTO’S MOST TALENTED? Toronto manager John Gibbons said he believes this year’s group is the most talented he’s ever had coming out of spring training.

“I think if you go around the field - all the positions, the bullpen, things like that - it’s pure talent,” Gibbons said.

“But what that translates into, we don’t know yet.”

With heightened expectations, a 21-year post-season drought and a seemingly wide-open AL East, Gibbons said he understands his team will be under the microscope this season.

“The heat is definitely on. It’s on all of us,” Gibbons said.

“The team was expected two years ago to conquer the world, but we finished far from that. People want results. But as far as (pressure), I really don’t focus on that at all. Never really have. I don’t think you can approach your job with that hanging over your head.”

JOEY CATCH Toronto right fielder Jose Bautista made a diving grab in the third on a hard liner by Delmon Young. Bautista tumbled forward onto the grass after the catch, but managed to hold on.

MAKING MOVES The Blue Jays claimed first baseman Andy Wilkins off waivers from the White Sox and optioned him to TripleA Buffalo. Wilkins, 26, batted .293 with 30 homers and 85 RBIs with Chicago’s Triple-A affiliate in Charlotte, North Carolina last season.

UP NEXT Orioles: Touted prospect Zach Davies is scheduled to start on Monday against the Rays in Port Charlotte.

The right-hander struck out one in one inning in his lone appearance, also against Tampa Bay, on March 5.

Blue Jays: Daniel Norris, Colt Hynes, Liam Hendriks and Cecil are all expected to work against the Astros on Monday in Kissimmee.

to Indianapolis to play seventh-seeded Michigan State in the Final Four. The other national semifinal game Saturday matches undefeated Kentucky and Wisconsin.

Duke’s last Final Four and national title was in 2010, when the Blue Devils were also the No. 1 seed in the South Regional and had to go through Houston.

No. 2 seed Gonzaga (35-3) had taken a 38-34 lead less than 4 minutes into the second half, putting the Blue Devils in their largest deficit of this tournament.

The young Blue Devils responded with nine straight points and never trailed again.

Gonzaga, in its 17th consecutive NCAA Tournament, was trying to get to

the Final Four for the first time.

Kyle Wiltjer had 16 points for Gonzaga.

Senior guard Travis Trice scored 17 points and the seventh-seeded Spartans clamped down on defence to advance to their ninth Final Four, seven under coach Tom Izzo.

The Spartans (28-11), who were nearly counted out of the tournament conversation in February, won for the 12th time in 15 games. It’s a run that included them knocking off secondseeded Virginia last weekend and third-seeded Oklahoma in the regional semifinal on Friday.

Michigan State advances to face Duke, the South Regional champion.

Wayne Blackshear had 28 points for the Cardinals (27-9).

the eventual winner.

Grayson Pawlenchuk pulled Red Deer to within one at 11:19 of the third period but the visitors couldn’t find the equalizer despite holding a 16-7 advantage in shots over the final 20 minutes.

“Our second period hurt us,” said Sutter. “We got on our heels and they dictated the play in the second.

“But we were better in the third and we had a good first period.”

Both Toth and Langhamer finished with 31 saves.

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WORLDS: Winning He wants to concentrate on positive things and won’t be reading any press clippings.

“We’re not focusing on that stuff this week,” he said. “We’re focusing on winning the world championship, seafood, and maybe a beer or two at the Lower Deck. That’s about it.”

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Hamlin helps team get back on track LATE PASS, GORDON’S BLUNDER GIVES GIBBS RACER FIFTH VICTORY AT MARTINSVILLE

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Denny Hamlin just needed a visit to Martinsville Speedway to get his racing team back on track.

Now, with his spot in NASCAR’s Chase for the championship virtually assured, they can work to make it better.

Hamlin passed teammate Matt Kenseth for the lead with 28 laps to go Sunday and ended Toyota’s 32-race winless streak in the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville Speedway. It was his fifth victory on NASCAR’s oldest, smallest circuit.

“We had a very fast car, but obviously some pit road issues, but we overcame it,” Hamlin said after his 25th career victory, which was helped along by a serious blunder that took four-time champion Jeff Gordon out of contention late.

Hamlin’s pit crew, unlike Gordon, made their mistake early enough in the race to recover. Before the event was 200 laps old, Hamlin was penalized when his crew failed to control a tire on pit road.

It dropped him from the lead to 22nd place.

He was back in the top 10 by the midpoint, and stalking the leaders shortly thereafter.

“The last 60, 70 laps played out how they needed to play out for us to win today,” Hamlin said.

Hamlin also held off a five-lap, bumper-to-tail challenge from Brad Keselowski at the finish. There was some bumping and nudging, and a big wiggle for Hamlin in the final fourth turn, but Keselowski never caused him to spin.

“We just weren’t going to be denied today, and hats off to Brad,” he said, thanking Keselowski for not wrecking him.

“I did everything I could other than wreck him,” Keselowski said.

The race was run without reigning

rookie of the year Kyle Larson, who watched from a North Carolina hospital where he was undergoing testing after fainting at an autograph session on Saturday. Regan Smith drove in his absence, finishing 16th.

Keselowski was second, followed

by Joey Logano, Kenseth and David Ragan, giving Joe Gibbs Racing three cars in the top five. The jolt was especially appreciated in a week when the team announced that President J.D. Gibbs is being treated for a “symptoms impacting areas of brain function,” an issue that has left doctors with very few answers thus far.

It was J.D. Gibbs who discovered Hamlin on a North Carolina short track, and Joe Gibbs thought of that near the end.

“For me it was emotional and thinking about J.D. and all that he means to our team, so it was a big week for us, but a great finish to a story there,” Gibbs said.

Logano, the pole-sitter, was trying to become the first driver to sweep a weekend at Martinsville, having won the truck race on Saturday. He led 109 laps, but said his car at the end was not as strong as the leaders.

Gordon, an eight-time Martinsville winner, took the lead for the first time with 58 laps to go and then got caught entering pit road too fast when the 16th and final caution came out with about 40 laps to go.

The mistake put him well back in the field, and while he rallied to finish ninth, was left disappointed.

“Wow. I’m sorry guys,” he said on the radio when told of the penalty.

“That’s on me. I apologize.”

Gordon said he knew he was pushing the limit, knowing he had a chance to win the race.

“I thought with our track position there at the end, we had a shot at it,” he said. “Oh, my gosh, I’m so disappointed. I don’t even know what to say right now. Of course, then the car is the absolute best it has been all day ...”

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In a photo provided by NASCAR, Denny Hamlin (11) he takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Martinsville Speedway on Sunday, in Martinsville, Va. The race also ended Kevin Harvick’s streak of top-two finishes at eight. Harvick, who was three races shy of tying Richard Petty’s record of 11, set in 1975, led a race-high 154 laps, but got caught in the outside lane on a restart and faded to eighth.

“Just lost track position at the wrong time,” the defending series champion said.

Gordon and his Hendrick Motorsports teammates have dominated at the 0.526-mile oval in recent years, but Gordon’s finish and an 11th for Kasey Kahne were the best they could muster. Dale Earnhardt Jr., who won here last fall, wound up in the garage after losing his radiator in a large crash in turn one before the midpoint of the

Regina Rams defensive back Campbell sets CFL combine record

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Denver’s Tanner Jaillet, from Red Deer, rests on a knee after Providence’s Brandon Tanev scored in the third period of the NCAA East Regional final hockey tournament, Sunday, in Providence, R.I. Providence beat Denver 4-1 Sunday and will advance to the Frozen Four.

Frozen Four set after Nebraska-Omaha and Providence win

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OMAHA-NEBRASKA 4 RIT 0 SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Ryan Massa made 40 saves and Nebraska-Omaha beat Rochester Institute of Technology 4-0 on Sunday night in the NCAA Midwest Regional final to advance to the Frozen Four for the first time.

Omaha (20-12-6) will face Providence in the semifinals in Boston on April 9.

Boston University will play North Dakota in the other semifinal.

Jake Randolph opened the scoring at 1:01 of the third period and Austin Ortega, Justin Parizek and David Pope — into an empty net — added goals in the final 4 ½ minutes.

On Saturday night, Massa made 33

race, and Jimmie Johnson, an eighttime Martinsville winner, had issues throughout and finished 35th, 32 laps down. Earnhardt finished right behind him.

The race also marked the Cup debut of Chase Elliott, who will replace the retiring Gordon in the Hendrick stable next season, and Elliott got a quick welcome. His car was bounced around early, also wound up in the garage and finished 38th.

The day went better for Danica Patrick, who was seventh, her fifth career top-10 finish. That tied her with Janet Guthrie for most top-10s by a female driver, and was one spot off Patrick’s career-best sixth place run at Atlanta last year.

saves in a 4-1 victory over Harvard, the Mavericks’ first win in NCAA Tournament play. RIT (20-15-5) beat Minnesota State-Mankato 2-1 in the semifinals, the first time the 16th-seeded team has beaten the No. 1 overall seed in the history of the tournament.

PROVIDENCE 4, DENVER 1 PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Tom Parisi broke a tie on a power play goal with 5:01 left and Providence beat Denver to reach the Frozen Four for the first time since 1985.

The game turned late in the third period after Denver’s Joey LaLeggia was handed a 5-minute major and a game misconduct for contact to the head. Parisi’s snap shot from the left point beat Tanner Jaillet.

Noel Acciari opened the scoring for Providence (23-13-3) on a power play with 5:38 left in the second period and Brandon Tanev and Kevin Rooney added empty-net goals.

Denver (24-14-2) tied it at 7:52 of the third on LaLeggia’s power-play goal.

TORONTO — Tevaughn Campbell picked a great time to run a personalbest 40-yard dash.

With personnel from all nine CFL teams looking on, the Regina Rams defensive back posted a national combine-record time of 4.355 seconds Sunday. The six-foot, 185-pound Campbell broke the mark of 4.41 seconds set earlier at Varsity Stadium by UNLV running back Shaquille Murray-Lawrence.

Campbell immediately proved it was no fluke, finishing his second run in 4.363 seconds. Then Campbell, the ’12 Canada West 60-metre track champion, had the lone interception in oneon-one drills between defensive backs and receivers.

“I wanted to show I’m a football player,” Campbell said. “A lot of them ask, ’Are you a track guy?’ I was really looking forward to the one-on-ones got the only interception, which I was pretty proud of. I trained all year for this, two-a-days with football and track, so I was hoping to put down a fast time.

When I went to the interviews with all the coaches (Friday night) I told them 4.29 so I was disappointed I didn’t hit my goal but maybe another day I’ll try to get that.”

Both Campbell and Murray-Lawrence set electronic 40-yard dash records, breaking the previous mark of 4.42 seconds held jointly by Shamawd Chambers and Kristopher Robertson.

Steven Turner has the all-time standard of 4.31 seconds, set in ’09 when it was hand-timed. The CFL adopted electronic timing in 2010.

Campbell certainly had incentive to perform well at the combine. In September he was ranked No. 18 on the CFL Scouting Bureau’s top-20 draft prospects list but didn’t make the one released in December.

Campbell believes his versatility would benefit any team he joined, either as a draftee May 12 or free agent.

“They’re going to get a fast, aggressive player,” the Toronto native said.

“An all-around player who can play offence, defence and special teams.”

Fifty draft-eligible players participated in the weekend combine. But the top two ranked draft prospects — offensive linemen Brett Boyko of UNLV and Alex Mateas of UConn — and No. 4 running back Tyler Varga of Yale, skipped it to concentrate on their respective pro days. That left Western defensive lineman Daryl Waud, at No. 3 overall, as the top-ranked prospect.

“It would certainly be an advantage for us, for any team, to sit there and watch them and interact with them,” Ottawa Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins said of the absentees. “Look, they’ve got to do what’s most important for them. I don’t hold it against them by any stretch.”

With Boyko and Mateas absent, that left Calgary Dinos Sean McEwen (No. 6) and Sukh Chungh (No. 7) as the combine’s top-ranked offensive linemen.

On Sunday, they anchored a solid overall performance by the unit in one-onone drills.

“I think it was apparent across the board they really stood out,” Waud said. “I think every defensive lineman is thinking, ’I wish I had that one back, I wish I could do it again,’ but I thought (offensive linemen) really did well.”

Waud admitted he felt the spotlight’s glare as the combine’s topranked player.

“A little bit, yeah,” he said. “But at the end of the day I feel fairly happy about my test numbers. I wish I could’ve done better in the one-onones but I’m going to get back to work to become a better football player.”

Desjardins, who holds this year’s first-overall pick, said Waud is pretty good right now.

“He’s a solid football player who did well here,” Desjardins said. “He’s a guy who’s going contribute to a CFL team.”

The six-foot-four, 300-pound Chungh, participating in his third combine this month, felt he did enough this weekend to merit consideration as the No. 1 pick.

“If they watched the film from the one-on-ones and (look at) my numbers I think I showed my talents that I can be a high draft pick,” he said.

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Indy Chiefs run ends in league final MIDGET AA HOCKEY

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF Wheatland 5 Chiefs 1 The Red Deer Indy Graphics Chiefs were set up for a year of celebration, but ended up with heart ache.

The Chiefs season came to a crashing end on Saturday as they lost 5-1 in Game 4 of the South Central Alberta Midget AA Hockey League final to the Wheatland Chiefs out of Strathmore at the Red Deer Arena.

The 3-1 series loss followed closely on the heels of falling in overtime of the provincial final at the Arena the previous weekend, after rallying from a 3-0 third period deficit against the Calgary Royals.

“This year was an unbelievable run, we started in September and told these kids our goal was to be a provincial champion and a league champion,” said Chiefs head coach Al Sims. “We got to the dance in both but unfortunately got silver in both of them.”

On Saturday, Kyle Gibson scored the lone goal for Red Deer while Justin Anderson allowed four goals on 17 shots before getting replaced 37 seconds into the third period. Geordan Andrew stopped three of the four shots he faced.

Jayden Smith scored twice for Wheatland while Jayse Wilson, Cole Busslinger and Ryan Skytt also scored.

Nolan Kent made 28 saves for the win.

Between provincials and league finals, they Chiefs played a lot of hockey in the last two weeks and appeared to run out of gas on Saturday.

But in truth, they probably lost the series on Friday when they lost 3-1 despite outshooting Wheatland 41-24.

The game was tied 1-1 12 minutes into the third period when Wheatland was given a full five-on-three power

play on two calls the Chiefs debate.

Wheatland scored 25 seconds into the power play and then added an empty-netter to take all of the momentum in the series.

“Our coaches competed and our team competed and somebody else didn’t do the right thing in the game and didn’t compete properly,” said Sims. “It was an adversity that any team shouldn’t have to go through.”

It was still a largely successful season for the Chiefs, who rolled through the regular season at 26-6-2 to finish second in the North Division, one point behind the Red Deer Elks.

The Chiefs beat the Elks in the North final to advance to the league final.

The Elks, however, edged the Chiefs in the zone final to carry the banner into provincials. The Chiefs got their revenge in the zone semifinal, beating the Elks 4-2 to advance to the tournament final.

“You evaluate these kids in September and you pick kids for what you see, and sometimes they’re not the most talented kids in September but you know where you can bring them to in March and these kids have come a long way,” said Sims. “It’s been a good group, they listened and they learned.”

The Chiefs are graduating seven 17 year olds on to junior next year while many of the 16 year olds are expected to push for spots on the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs midget AAA team.

Lessons learned this year will go a long way into the steps they take in September.

Sims, however, will be walking away from the game, taking a much needed break from coaching after 15 years behind minor hockey benches. It’s a tough note to go out on.

“I actually had a tear in my eye during the national anthem, because look-

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Red Deer Indy Graphics Chiefs goalie Justin Anderson watches as Wheatland Chiefs forwards Jayden Smith (10) and Jayse WIlson celebrate to go up 3-1 during Game 4 of the South Central Midget AA Hockey League final at the Red Deer Arena on Saturday. Wheatland won 5-1 to win the best-of-five series and the league championship. ing over I knew this was the last time I was going to hear the national anthem while coaching this group of kids, my son included,” said Sims. “The other lousy thing for me is that this is the

second last year for the Arena and my last year of coaching in it. It’s a glorious barn and it’s not right that it’s going to be torn down.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer’s Ryan gets big win to claim Havoc flyweight belt

Kings start reloading for next season

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF After five years of training and fighting, Austin Ryan hopes he has fast tracked his mixed martial arts career.

The Red Deer native improved his professional record to 5-0 by winning the Havoc flyweight belt with a TKO over Malcolm Gordon (5-2) on Friday night at Havoc FC8 at the Westerner Prairie Pavilion.

“It feels great, just like any other victory though,” said the Gary Vig trained fighter, who is now focused on recovery and helping other fighters train for their upcoming matches.

“MMA is not a team sport, but it takes a team to do it, you can’t train by yourself, you have to have your friends or your training partners.”

Going up to the UFC — MMA’s biggest promotion — is a step that Havoc coowner and promoter Ryan Machan says Ryan should be able to make.

“Malcolm had a great record, he was knocking on the door to the UFC, Austin won the fight so now he’ll be knocking on the door to the UFC and it looks great as our promotion helping these guys get to where they’re going,” said Machan.

With the crowd of 1,400 chanting “Austin! Austin!

Austin!” Ryan, 23, rallied back a few times from the edge of defeat before catching Gordon with a knee while in the clutch. He hurt the London, Ont., fighter, who was defending the belt for the first time, and then pounced to deliver a few more blows when referee Andy Social jumped in to call the fight at 3:20 of the second round.

“I knew it was going to be a tough fight like this, I didn’t think we would grapple so much, but I was ready for anything and he was hitting me real hard, he stunned me once or twice in there,” said Ryan. “There was one second where I was

like ‘Oh ...’ but I have that fight in me, so I knew I just had to hit him hard and hit him back.”

Hearing his name chanted during the fight and after it was a new experience for Ryan, one of three Red Deer fighters on the card.

“They were definitely a good support group of mine, a lot of these guys I grew up with, it was just great, a great noise,” he said.

Ryan, who trains out of Arashi Do Red Deer and Absolute Fitness, has not lost in his professional or amateur career. He got into the sport chasing a desire to prove himself as the best, he is hooked and cannot see himself doing anything else.

“It’s the passion you’ve got to follow in life,” he said.

“It’s the competition of it, it’s you and another man in there. It goes back to the beginning of time. That’s just the competition in men, I think.”

Friday’s card, sanctioned by the Central Combative Sports Commission, was loaded with potential, but had a number of short fights.

The co-main event was a rematch of one of the bloodiest fights in Havoc history, pitting Devon Neis (5-5) of Black Dragon in Red Deer against Grayson Wells (1-1) of Kelowna in a heavyweight fight.

Wells lost the first meeting when the ref stepped in and stopped it on account of the amount of blood he had lost.

It didn’t get that point this time as he stopped Neis 32 seconds into the first round, catching the Red Deer fighter flush with a right cross that stopped him in his tracks. Wells jumped in for two more quick punches before the ref stopped the fight.

“The first time they went in, they just brawled it out, the second time Grayson went in with a game plan and it worked out,” said Machan.

Trent Rowell (2-3) of Iron Fist Rocky Mountain House submitted Ronnie Oar (01) from Peerless First Na-

HANDBALL The Notre Dame Cougars and Mayerthorpe split the finals at the Notre Dame Cougars Classic Handball Tournament on the weekend.

Led by Keegan MacDonald’s 10 goals, the Cougars boys beat Mayerthorpe 27-25 in overtime while the Cougars girls fell 12-11 to finish with

HOCKEY

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by JOSH ALDRICH/Advocate staff

Austin Ryan shows off the Havoc Fighting Chgampionship flyweight championship belt after winning it with a TKO in the second round over Malcolm Gordon at Havoc FC8 on Friday at Westerner Prairie Pavilion. tion, 46 seconds into the first round at 205 pounds, and Arashi Do Red Deer fighter Wolfgang Janssen (4-1) won a controversial fight against Jamark Brady (3-7) out of Calgary at 155 pounds, as the ref ruled Brady tapped out, a ruling Brady disputed.

In arguably the best fight on the pro card before the main event, Calgary’s Dan Juricic (1-0) TKO’d Calgary’s Zach Chalmers (1-2) at 1:54 of the second round in a 205-pound fight with both fighters throwing bombs.

“The first fight was a bit of a shame, because no one knew if he tapped, but the rest of the fights were all finishes and that’s what everyone wants to see,” said Machan.

The amateur card had some of the best fights of the night with Travis Marshall (Fort Saskatchewan) earning a split decision win over Daniel Yoner (Calgary) at 205 pounds, and Andrew Marsden (Edmonton) winning a unanimous deci-

silver as Hade Lee lead Notre Dame with five goals.

The Cougars boys beat the Lindsay Thurber Raiders 14-8 in the semifinal to advance to the gold medal game with MacDonald and Nic Walker both scoring four times for Notre Dame.

Justin Van Tetering, Cameron Black and Tseguye Adair all scored twice for the Raiders, who finished with bronze.

The Lindsay Thurber girls beat

sion over Austin Stewart (Fort Saskatchewan) at 170 pounds.

Simone Villetard (Fort Saskatchewan) beat Alix Beatty (Calgary) in the only women’s fight of the night at 135 pounds with a triangle choke at 1:55 of the second round.

Josh Strate (Calgary) TKO’d Patrick Leblanc (Rocky Mountain House) at 1:46 of the second round at 145 pounds and Mike Pyska (Sherwood Park) submitted Murray Hunter (Rocky Mountain House) with a triangle choke hold at 2:44 of the first round.

“The amateur card was really well matched up,” said Machan. “You never know because you can have two guys that are 0-0 but you never know how advanced they are or how nervous they are in the cage and how it affects them.”

Havoc FC 9 is set for June 19 at the Prairie Pavilion. jaldrich@reddeeradvocate. com

Canmore 7-2 in the girls bronze medal game with Melissa Henderson leading the Raiders with two goals.

Notre Dame’s Chris Huddleston was named MVP for the boy’s tournament while MacDonald was also named an all-star, while Jeffrey Willoughby was named a tournament all-star for the Raiders. Lee was named an all-star for the Cougars in the girls’ event as was Kallie Loewen for the Raiders.

The Red Deer College Kings men’s hockey team has started the reloading process for next season.

On Saturday head coach Trevor Keepeer announced the signing of Red Deer defenceman Kirk Johnson.

The WHL veteran helps to fill a large void on the blue line with the Kings after they lost top defencemen Nick Bell and Joel Topping as well as converted forward Davis Claffey.

Johnson was a member of the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs 2012 Telus Cup team, scoring 13 points (three goals, 10 assists) in 29 games, and spent the next two seasons with the Moose Jaw Warriors in the WHL. This past season as a 20-year-old, the five-foot-11, 201-pound blueliner became a casualty of the numbers game with the Calgary Hitmen and signed on to play for the Olds Grizzlys of the Alberta Junior Hockey League.

“He’s had good coaching a long the way and looking at his skill set as a defenceman who can skate and move the puck and he’s solid too in terms of his size,” said Keeper.

“That experience will suit him fine at the ACAC level. We saw that with Joel Topping last year, similar size, a good skater, and even though Joel was still of junior age, he was able to step in and contribute at the pace of our league.”

The Kings also lost top forwards Greg Lamoureux and Riley Point who have been with the club since it returned to the Alberta Colleges Athletic Association two years ago, both to the Mount Royal University Cougars in the Canada West University Athletics Association.

Keeper has his work cut out to fill all four of the remaining spots, but three years into a rebuilding project, this was expected and says he should have more announcements in the next few weeks.

Helping in the process is the success the team has had the first two seasons in the ACAC, making the playoffs both years.

“You just want to keep improving, but the reality is most teams will take three or four or five years to get to a point where they’re in the top level of a league,” said Keeper. “We definitely ant to be there next year and push through and go deeper than we have the last two seasons.

“Our success early has led to the opportunity for me to receive a lot of calls from some good players that want to come here. Two years ago when I started recruiting, I was at the initial stage of explaining that our team was back and what our program was all about. The guys that committed ... they didn’t have a clue what they were getting into because we were a brand new entity. Now that we’re established a bit, it makes recruiting easier.” jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

SCOREBOARD Hockey

B5

MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015

Local Sports Saturday, Mar. 28 Regina 3 Swift Current 2 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 1 Regina at Swift Current, 7 p.m.

WHL - PLAYOFFS Round of 16 Medicine Hat vs. Red Deer (Medicine Hat leads series 2-0) Saturday, Mar. 28 Medicine Hat 2 Red Deer 1 Sunday, Mar. 29 Medicine Hat 1 Red Deer 0 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 1 Medicine Hat at Red Deer, 7 p.m.

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

Saturday, Apr. 4 x-Red Deer at Medicine Hat, 7:30 p.m.

Victoria vs. Prince George (Victoria leads series 2-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Victoria 5 Prince George 3 Saturday, Mar. 28 Victoria 5 Prince George 4 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Victoria at Prince George, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Tigers 2, Rebels 1 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Becker 1 (Owre, Cox) 6:32.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 2. Medicine Hat, Sanford 1 (Cox, Hunt) 14:29 (pp).

Penalties — Mahura RD (tripping) 13:35.

Third Period 3. Red Deer, Pawlenchuk 1 (Feser, Bobyk) 11:19.

Penalties — Johnson RD (hooking) 6:05, Sheen RD (roughing) 19:57, Stanton MH (roughing) 19:57.

Shots on goal Red Deer 9 8 15 — 32 Medicine Hat 9 16 8 — 33 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 0-1-0); Power plays (goal-chances)Red Deer: 0-0; Medicine Hat: 1-2.

Kyle Kowalski.

Brandon vs. Edmonton (Brandon leads series 2-1) Thursday, Mar. 26 Edmonton 4 Brandon 1 Friday, Mar. 27 Brandon 8 Edmonton 1 Sunday, Mar. 29 Brandon 3 Edmonton 2 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Brandon at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Apr. 1 Brandon at Edmonton, 8 p.m.

Calgary vs. Kootenay (Series tied 1-1) Friday, Mar. 27 Kootenay 4 Calgary 3 Sunday, Mar. 29 Calgary 3 Kootenay 2 (OT) Tuesday, Mar. 31 Calgary at Kootenay, 7 p.m.

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

Sunday’s summary Tigers 1, Rebels 0 (OT) First Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Fleury RD (elbowing) 11:37, Eisenschmid MH (boarding) 17:55, Becker MH (tripping) 19:23.

Second Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Kopeck RD (slashing) 18:33.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Owre MH (cross-checking) 3:13, Bleackley RD (spearing) 6:56, Bleackley RD (spearing) 8:56, Doetzel RD (hooking) 15:36.

Overtime 1. Medicine Hat, Cox 1 (Sanford, Stanton) 10:05.

Penalties — None.

Shots on goal Red Deer 9 7 5 6 — 27 Medicine Hat 12 9 6 10 — 37 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (LS, 0-1-1); Power plays (goal-chances)Red Deer: 0-3; Medicine Hat: 0-5.

Everett vs. Spokane (Series tied 1-1) Friday, Mar. 27 Everett 5 Spokane 1 Saturday, Mar. 28 Spokane 6 Everett 2 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Kelowna vs. Tri-City (Kelowna leads series 2-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Kelowna 6 Tri-City 0 Saturday, Mar. 28 Kelowna 3 Tri-City 0 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 (Series tied 1-1) Saturday, Mar. 28 Seattle 4 Portland 3 Sunday, Mar. 29 Portland 3 Seattle 0 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m.

National Hockey League EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts x-Montreal 76 47 21 8 102 Tampa Bay 76 46 23 7 99 Detroit 75 40 23 12 92 Boston 76 38 25 13 89 Ottawa 75 37 26 12 86 Florida 76 35 26 15 85 Toronto 76 28 42 6 62 Buffalo 75 20 47 8 48

Regina vs. Swift Current (Regina leads series 2-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Regina 4 Swift Current 2

GF GA 200 169 244 198 220 206 201 196 218 203 190 207 198 244 144 254

Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-N.Y. Rangers75 47 21 7 101 228 177 Pittsburgh 76 42 23 11 95 210 190 N.Y. Islanders77 45 27 5 95 235 215 Washington 76 41 25 10 92 223 188 Philadelphia 76 30 29 17 77 198 219 Columbus 75 36 35 4 76 207 232 New Jersey 76 31 33 12 74 168 194 Carolina 75 28 36 11 67 174 204 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Nashville 77 47 22 8 102 220 188 St. Louis 75 46 22 7 99 228 186 Chicago 75 45 24 6 96 213 175 Minnesota 76 44 25 7 95 219 186 Winnipeg 76 39 25 12 90 215 201 Dallas 76 37 29 10 84 236 243 Colorado 75 35 28 12 82 205 209 Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA x-Anaheim 78 49 22 7 105 227 216 Vancouver 75 43 27 5 91 215 203 Calgary 76 41 28 7 89 224 201 Los Angeles 75 37 24 14 88 200 188 San Jose 76 37 30 9 83 212 215 Edmonton 75 22 40 13 57 181 254 Arizona 76 23 45 8 54 160 252 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s Games San Jose 3, Philadelphia 2, SO Nashville 4, Washington 3 Boston 4, N.Y. Rangers 2 Anaheim 3, N.Y. Islanders 2 Pittsburgh 3, Arizona 2 Detroit 4, Tampa Bay 0 Toronto 4, Ottawa 3, OT Montreal 3, Florida 2, OT Carolina 3, New Jersey 1 Columbus 4, St. Louis 2 Minnesota 4, Los Angeles 1 Colorado 5, Buffalo 3 Dallas 4, Vancouver 3, OT

Friday

● Junior B hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at provincial championship tournament at Stony Plain.

Saturday

● WHL: Red Deer at Medicine Hat, fifth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference final, if necessary, 7:30 p.m.

(The Drive). ● Junior B hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at provincial championship tournament at Stony Plain.

Wednesday

● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, third game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final, 7 p.m., Centrium.

Thursday

● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, fourth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final, 7 p.m., Centrium. ● Junior B hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at provincial championship tournament at Stony Plain.

Sunday

● WHL: Medicine Hat at Red Deer, sixth game of best-of-seven Eastern Conference final, if necessary, 5 p.m., Enmax Centrium. ● Junior B hockey: Blackfalds Wranglers at provincial championship tournament at Stony Plain.

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Toronto 43 30 .589 — Brooklyn 32 40 .444 10 Boston 32 41 .438 11 Philadelphia 18 56 .243 25 New York 14 60 .189 29 Southeast Division W L Pct GB z-Atlanta 55 18 .753 — Washington 41 33 .554 14 Miami 34 39 .466 21 Charlotte 31 41 .431 23 Orlando 22 52 .297 33 Central Division W L Pct GB x-Cleveland 48 27 .640 — x-Chicago 45 29 .608 2 Milwaukee 36 37 .493 11 Indiana 32 41 .438 15 Detroit 28 45 .384 19

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 3, San Jose 2, SO Washington 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Florida 4, Ottawa 2 N.Y. Islanders 5, Detroit 4 Boston 2, Carolina 1, OT Calgary 5, Nashville 2 Anaheim 2, New Jersey 1 Chicago 4, Winnipeg 3 Monday’s Games Tampa Bay at Montreal, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Calgary at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Buffalo at Arizona, 10 p.m.

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct x-Houston 50 23 .685 x-Memphis 50 24 .676 San Antonio 47 26 .644 Dallas 45 29 .608 New Orleans 39 34 .534 Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 47 25 .653 Oklahoma City 42 32 .568 Utah 32 41 .438 Denver 28 46 .378 Minnesota 16 57 .219 Pacific Division W L Pct

Tuesday’s Games Florida at Boston, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Washington, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Ottawa at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Nashville, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Baseball Major League Baseball Spring Training

Today

● Midget AA hockey: Red Deer Indy Graphics at Strathmore Wheatland, fifth game of best-of-five South Central Alberta League final, if necesssary, 7:30 p.m.

NOTE: Split-squad games count in the standings; games against non-major league teams do not.

Colorado 11, Arizona 10, 10 innings Colorado 2, Arizona 1

Saturday’s Games Minnesota 7, Philadelphia 1 Miami 1, Houston 1, tie Pittsburgh 8, Toronto (ss) 3 Detroit 4, St. Louis 3 Boston 9, Tampa Bay 6 Baltimore 10, N.Y. Yankees 2 Atlanta 5, Toronto (ss) 3 N.Y. Mets 10, Washington 2 Chicago Cubs (ss) 18, Colorado 4 Cincinnati 9, Chicago Cubs (ss) 5 Cleveland 3, Milwaukee 2 Oakland 10, Chicago White Sox 4 San Diego 3, Texas 2 San Francisco 9, Seattle 8 Kansas City 10, Arizona 5 L.A. Dodgers 5, L.A. Angels 4

Monday’s Games Baltimore vs. Tampa Bay, 11:05 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

San Francisco vs. Chicago Cubs, 2:05 p.m.

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

L.A. Angels vs. Seattle, 2:05 p.m.

Kansas City vs. Texas, 2:05 p.m.

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

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

Minnesota vs. Boston, 5:05 p.m.

1/2 1/2 1/2

1/2 1/2 1/2

1/2

GB — 1/2 3 5 1/2 11 GB — 6 15 1/2 20 31 1/2 GB

z-Golden State 60 x-L.A. Clippers 49 Phoenix 38 Sacramento 26 L.A. Lakers 19 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference

13 25 36 46 53

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— 11 22 33 40

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

Saturday’s Games Charlotte 115, Atlanta 100 Chicago 111, New York 80 Golden State 108, Milwaukee 95 Utah 94, Oklahoma City 89 Portland 120, Denver 114 Sunday’s Games Houston 99, Washington 91 Brooklyn 107, L.A. Lakers 99 New Orleans 110, Minnesota 88 Cleveland 87, Philadelphia 86 Miami 109, Detroit 102 L.A. Clippers 119, Boston 106 San Antonio 103, Memphis 89 Indiana 104, Dallas 99 Oklahoma City 109, Phoenix 97 Monday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

Boston at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Houston at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 8 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

San Antonio at Miami, 6 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

AMERICAN LEAGUE W 18 16 13 15 15 13 10 11 11 11 11 10 9 9 10

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

L 9 10 10 12 12 11 9 11 13 15 16 15 14 14 16

Pct .667 .615 .565 .556 .556 .542 .526 .500 .458 .423 .407 .400 .391 .391 .385

NATIONAL LEAGUE W 15 16 13 13 14 15 11 12 14 12 11 10 12 11 9

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

L 8 11 10 10 11 12 10 11 13 14 13 12 15 14 19

Pct .652 .593 .565 .565 .560 .556 .524 .522 .519 .462 .458 .455 .444 .440 .321

Sunday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Atlanta 2 Philadelphia 4, Detroit 4, tie N.Y. Mets 3, St. Louis 2 Minnesota 6, Baltimore (ss) 5 Washington 11, Miami 7 Boston 3, Tampa Bay 2, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 7, Houston 0 Baltimore (ss) 4, Toronto 2 Cincinnati 8, L.A. Angels 6 L.A. Dodgers (ss) 10, Texas 5 Chicago Cubs 7, Kansas City 0 Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 1 Oakland 7, Milwaukee 0 San Francisco 11, L.A. Dodgers (ss) 9 San Diego 8, Seattle 5

Soccer

Tuesday’s Games Tampa Bay (ss) vs. Baltimore, 11:05 a.m.

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

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

N.Y. Mets vs. Washington, 11:05 a.m.

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

Boston vs. Tampa Bay (ss), 11:05 a.m.

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

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

Chicago White Sox vs. L.A. Dodgers, 2:05 p.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kansas City vs. San Diego, 8:05 p.m.

Major League Soccer EASTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts New York 2 0 1 7 D.C. United 2 1 0 6 New York City FC 1 1 2 5 Orlando City 1 1 2 5 New England 1 2 1 4 Columbus 1 2 0 3 Toronto FC 1 2 0 3 Chicago 1 3 0 3 Montreal 0 1 2 2 Philadelphia 0 2 2 2

GF GA 5 2 2 2 3 2 4 4 2 6 3 3 4 5 2 5 2 3 3 6

WESTERN CONFERENCE W L T Pts GF GA FC Dallas 3 0 1 10 6 1 Vancouver 3 1 0 9 5 4 San Jose 2 2 0 6 6 6 Real Salt Lake 1 0 2 5 5 4 Los Angeles 1 1 2 5 5 4 Houston 1 1 2 5 2 2 Sporting KC 1 1 2 5 3 4 Seattle 1 1 1 4 5 3 Colorado 0 0 3 3 0 0 Portland 0 1 3 3 3 4 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s Games New England 2, San Jose 1 Montreal 2, Orlando City 2, tie D.C. United 1, Los Angeles 0 Sporting Kansas City 1, New York City FC 0 New York 2, Columbus 1 Vancouver 2, Portland 1 Houston 0, Colorado 0, tie FC Dallas 0, Seattle 0, tie Sunday’s Games Chicago 1, Philadelphia 0 Real Salt Lake 2, Toronto FC 1 Friday, April 3 D.C. United at Orlando City, 5 p.m.

Saturday, April 4 Toronto FC at Chicago, 1 p.m.

New England at Colorado, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Houston at Seattle, 8 p.m.

FC Dallas at Portland, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday, April 5 Real Salt Lake at San Jose, 3 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sporting Kansas City, 5 p.m.

Lacrosse

Curling 2015 World Men’s Curling Championship HALIFAX — Standings and results Sunday from the 2015 men’s world curling championship, at the Scotiabank Centre from March 28-April 5: ROUND ROBIN Country (Skip) W L Canada (Simmons) 3 0 Czech Rep. (J.Snitil) 2 1 Italy (Mosaner) 2 1 Japan (Y.Morozumi) 2 1 Norway (Ulsrud) 2 1 Switzerland (M.Pfister) 2 1 China (Zang) 1 2 Finland (Kauste) 1 2 Russia (Arkhipov) 1 2 Sweden (Edin) 1 2 U.S. (Shuster) 1 2 Scotland (MacDonald) 0 3 Saturday’s results First Draw Japan 7 Russia 4

Switzerland 6 Czech Republic 5 (extra end) Italy 6 Scotland 5 (extra end) Sweden 6 Finland 5 Second Draw Canada 11 U.S. 10 (extra end) Norway 9 China 7 Japan 9 Scotland 3 Czech Republic 8 Finland 7 Sunday’s results Third Draw Italy 11 Sweden 5 Russia 5 Switzerland 3 Fourth Draw Canada 7 China 4 Finland 10 Scotland 7 (extra end) U.S. 10 Norway 7 (extra end) Czech Republic 8 Japan 6 Fifth Draw Canada 9 Sweden 6 Switzerland 9 U.S. 3 China 6 Italy 2 Norway 7 Russia 6 (extra end)

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.

Tuesday, March 31 Ninth Draw, 6:30 a.m.

Scotland vs. Russia; Czech Republic vs. Sweden; Switzerland vs. Finland; Japan vs. Italy.

Draw 10, 11:30 a.m.

China vs. Czech Republic; Finland vs. Norway; Japan vs. Canada; Scotland vs. U.S. Draw 11, 4:30 p.m.

Switzerland vs. Sweden; China vs. U.S.; Italy vs.

Russia; Canada vs. Norway.

National Lacrosse League East Division GP W L Pct GF x-Toronto 14 11 3 .786 184 Rochester 11 7 4 .636 121 Buffalo 13 7 6 .538 156 Minnesota 12 4 8 .333 131 New England 10 3 7 .300 113 West Division GP W L Pct Edmonton 11 7 4 .636 Colorado 11 6 5 .545 Vancouver 10 4 6 .400 Calgary 12 3 9 .250 x — clinched playoff berth.

GF 148 144 132 148

GA GB 148 — 120 2 1/2 159 3 1/2 158 6 136 6 GA GB 101 — 140 1 154 2 1/2 161 4 1/2

WEEK 13 Sunday’s results Minnesota 13 New England 9 Vancouver at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s results Edmonton 16 Rochester 3 Toronto 12 Calgary 10

WEEK 14 Friday, April 3 Rochester at Toronto, 5 p.m.

New England at Minnesota, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 4 New England at Buffalo, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

WEEK 15 Friday, April 10 Vancouver at Toronto, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 11 Colorado at Rochester, 5:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Sunday, April 12 Vancouver at New England, 11 a.m.

Golf PGA-Valero Texas Open Sunday At TPC San Antonio, Oaks Course San Antonio Purse: $6.2 million Yardage: 7,435; Par: 72 Final Jimmy Walker, $1,116,00071-67-69-70 — Jordan Spieth, $669,600 71-69-71-70 —

277 281

Billy Horschel, $421,600 72-70-71-71 — 284 Chesson Hadley, $272,80071-72-71-71 — 285 Daniel Summerhays, $272,80071-73-72-69— 285 Dustin Johnson, $215,45078-72-68-68 — 286 Ryan Palmer, $215,450 70-75-73-68 — 286 Chris Kirk, $179,800 71-71-73-72 — 287 Scott Pinckney, $179,800 73-72-69-73 — 287 Brendan Steele, $179,80074-68-72-73 — 287 Charley Hoffman, $136,40067-72-79-70 — 288

Jason Kokrak, $136,400 72-71-71-74 John Peterson, $136,400 74-72-74-68 Kyle Reifers, $136,400 77-68-75-68 K.J. Choi, $99,200 75-70-73-71 Matt Kuchar, $99,200 72-74-74-69 John Merrick, $99,200 72-72-72-73 Carlos Ortiz, $99,200 79-67-70-73 Cameron Percy, $99,200 72-74-74-69 George McNeill, $67,167 74-70-75-71

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LPGA-Kia Classic Sunday At Aviara Golf Club Course Carlsbad, Calif.

Purse: $1.7 million Yardage: 6,593; Par: 72 Final Cristie Kerr, $255,000 67-68-68-65 Mirim Lee, $156,242 65-69-66-70

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Lydia Ko, $113,342 67-70-67-67 Alison Lee, $87,679 69-66-66-71 Inbee Park, $70,572 68-70-68-67 Hyo Joo Kim, $53,036 68-68-72-66 Ha Na Jang, $53,036 70-69-67-68 Moriya Jutanugarn, $40,20569-69-69-68 Sakura Yokomine, $40,20569-67-67-72 Ilhee Lee, $30,213 71-71-70-64 Anna Nordqvist, $30,213 72-69-68-67

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Nguyen finishes fifth for Canada CANADIAN TEAM FINISHES WITH TWO MEDALS FROM WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS SHANGHAI — Canadian teenager Nam Nguyen narrowly missed the medal podium Saturday, finishing fifth in men’s singles at the world figure skating championships.

The former world junior champion landed his quadruple jump to roar back from a ninth-place finish in the short program. “In the long program, I needed to be more aggressive,� said the 16-year-old from Toronto. “I achieved that today and I’m really happy with myself.�

Javier Fernandez cleanly landed two quad jumps in his free skate to edge his training partner and friend Yuzuru Hanyu and become the first Spanish men’s champion. “I’m so lucky because I come from Spain and we don’t have this history,� the 23-year-old Madrid native said. “I’m trying to grow the sport in Spain as I’m trying to grow myself in this sport.�

Both Fernandez and Hanyu train with Nguyen in Toronto under Canadian coach Brian Orser.

Hanyu, who edged Canada’s Patrick Chan to win Olympic gold last year in Sochi, had little time to prepare for the world championships after undergoing surgery on his bladder in late December and then promptly spraining his ankle when he returned to practice in February.

He was away from Orser, and his training base in Toronto as he recovered at home in Japan.

Though his artistry hadn’t suffered from the two months away, his timing was noticeably off on his jumps, particularly the difficult quads. Both Hanyu and Fernandez fell on quad

jumps in their free skate programs, but the Spaniard landed two others while the Japanese skater doubled his quad Salchow.

Fernandez scored 273.90 to top Hanyu by less than three points. Kazakhstan’s Denis Ten took the bronze.

Jeremy Ten of Vancouver was 22nd.

Hanyu said he was thrilled for his training partner. “We’ve been competing together for a long time and always Javier told me, ’Congratulations, I’m so proud of you’ (when I won) and now I’m in the opposite position,� Hanyu said. “Now I realize how happy you feel when your teammate makes such a good result, so I’m very proud of him.�

Fernandez said he’s not only put in the training time on the ice, he also has a new relationship that has provided him with valuable perspective on competing at the top level — he’s dating two-time world champion Miki Ando of Japan.

In the women’s event, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva of Russia wrapped up the most successful season of her promising young career by winning the women’s gold by more than 15 points over Satoko Miyahara of Japan.

Alaine Chartrand of Prescott, Ont., was 11th, while Gabrielle Daleman of Newmarket, Ont., was 21st. “Pretty much every performance I do I feel I could do better,� Chartrand said. “But today was not the performance I wanted. It didn’t flow as well as in the short and that caused some mistakes.�

The Canadian team headed home with two medals — Meagan Duhamel of Lively, Ont., and Eric Radford of Balmertown, Ont., won gold in pairs, while Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje of Waterloo, Ont., claimed bronze in ice dance.

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Nam Nguyen of Canada performs during the Men Free Skating event in the ISU World Figure Skating Championship 2015 held at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China, Saturday.

Queens volleyball team shore up roster for next year

BY JOSH ALDRICH ADVOCATE STAFF The group of girls charged with defending the Red Deer College Queens two-year run atop the CCAA women’s volleyball world, will look little like the one that put it there.

With nine players moving on from this year’s Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championship, including five starters and the nationals MVP, head coach Talbot Walton has already found seven players that will attempt to fill those shoes.

Stepping onto the roster are Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference transfers setter Megan Kuzyk (NAIT Ooks) and middle Neal Murphy (Grande Prairie Regional College Wolves). He has also added local high school standouts at outside hitter, Cherisse Johannson (Hunting Hills High School), Danya Brachman (Ponoka) and McKenna Barthel (Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School), while also adding Kelsey Paton out of Sherwood Park. Walton also has tapped into the Australian pipeline that the Kings opened up, nabbing outside hitter Jessica Jones. “We are very fortunate that a few of these people were interested in us early on and we were able to get some commitments as far back as December and then the rest of the pieces we were able to assemble in the second half of the season,� said Walton.

Leaving the program reads as a who’s who of the Queens. South All-Conference Team members Alex Donaghy, Maddi Quinn, and Bronwyn Hawkes are all moving on, as is CCAA championship MVP Leah Koot. Captain Megan Schmidt is joining in the exodus as are Marisa Neufeld, Kendra Sorensen, Kelsey Ewashkiw and Rylee Lang.

It wasn’t just starters leaving, but also players who had been groomed to fill in for when the starters did leave.

Getting two ACAC veterans in at key positions is huge, though Walton says returning setter Ashley Fehr will get first crack at the starting job due to her years put into the program and understanding of the Queens’ systems. “It’s huge when you get that transfer student,� said Walton. “They already understand the league, they already understand what it means to train everyday and with the length of the season how important it is to take care of academics and their bodies.�

The Queens also continue to make good use of the fertile volleyball grounds of Central Alberta with another strong class to join other local players like Fehr (Innisfail), Hanna Delemont (Hunting Hills) and Olivia Barnes (Sylvan Lake) still on the roster. “Every year when we look at our program and say, ‘hey we had a strong year, chances are it was because of Central Alberta athletes,� said Walton. “The upside to recruiting Central Alberta athletes is that they know Queens volleyball ... Somewhere along the line they’ve seen us or had me coach them, so they have that culture already and it’s not like we have to program that into them, they already know what we’re about.�

Jones is a bit of a wild card for the Queens as

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THUNDER COUNTRY GYMNASTICS The Thunder Country Trampoline and Gymnastics club dominated at the second Alberta Cup national championship qualifier in Airdrie on the weekend, bringing back 10 gold medals, five silver and four bronze.

Kalena Soehn, (junior women), Zachary Blakely (junior men), Logan Chaput (level 6 men), and Ashton Henfrey (level 5 men) all doubled up in gold medals in the individual trampoline and the doublemini trampoline. Kyle Soehn (senior men) and Kiera Hofer (level 1 women 10 and under) added single gold medals in the individual trampoline. Henfrey also added a fourth place in level 2 men’s tumbling.

Alexandra Potter (level 6 women) added a silver in the individual trampoline and a fifth in the DMT; Kayden Levis (level 2 men) silver in individual, fourth in DMT and fourth in level 1 men’s tumbling; Taelum Henfrey (level 1 men) silver in individual, fifth in DMT; Jesse Starchuk (level 2 men) a silver in the DMT and fourth in individual; and Ebony Campbell who earned silver in DMT. Keegan Soehn (senior men) earned bronze in both individual and DMT while Gabi Clarke (level 2 women) took bronze in individual and fourth in DMT, and Vivien Hawryscko (level 1 women), was third in DMT. In other Top 5 results Eion Wolfe level 2 men) finish fifth in both the DMT and tumbling and Madison Ruf (level 1 women) was fifth in individual.

Walton is not as familiar with the five-foot-10 outside hitter as he is the local talent he is bringing in. But if the success of the men’s program can be duplicated — they have three elite players out of Australia — then she will become a weapon that can slide right in opposite of returning all-conference power Miranda Dawe. “She understands the game quite well,� said Walton. “It was an opportunity for us to try something a little different. Typically we’re always within that core of Central Alberta where we can find our athletes, to have an opportunity to add someone internationally will be a little bit unique for us.�

One advantage Walton has at his disposal in the recruiting fields is the ability to drop two CCAA gold medals from the last two years on the table. However, he says much of his recruiting was done prior to the beginning of this year’s post-season, already locking up all of his high school players. “It doesn’t hurt, though there seems to be a bit of a lag process ... I think a lot of interest came from the year previous,� said Walton. “It’s almost a half season behind when the winning takes over and becomes effective.� jaldrich@reddeeradvocate.com

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‘Wolves are still very much misunderstood’ BIOLOGIST VISITS CENTRAL ALBERTA TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF OFTEN PERSECUTED ANIMAL Biologist Sadie Parr grew up in Toronto thinking she would one day help save gorillas and elephants.

Then she came West, and one day found herself in Golden, B.C., at a wolf education centre. The effect on her was profound.

“With every ounce of my being, fibre, I began learning about them and learning how I could effectively contribute to wolf conservation across Canada.”

Parr, 37, is the execuMARY-ANN tive director BARR of Wolf Awareness in Golden.

She was in Central Alberta last week giving presentations about wolves at schools in Benalto and Sylvan Lake. While here, she met with Alberta wolf conservation groups.

In the schools, she told children about wolves and the important role they have in the environment, as a “keystone” species that affects many other species and processes in healthy eco systems.

The intelligence, sensitivity and social bonds of wolves is fascinating, says Parr.

“Wolves are still very much misunderstood, and highly persecuted, but I have to admit I have been thrilled in the school delivery programs where kids know a lot more about wolves than adults do.

“The key message is ... these animals are extremely intelligent and sensitive and emotional and they have high intrinsic value in and of themselves, as well as a very important ecological role in maintaining health and balance in ecosystems.

“So that when we are causing harm to wolves specifically, many other species and systems will invariably suffer directly and indirectly as well.”

Wolves have been a hot topic in Alberta and B.C., as the two governments have undertaken major wolf kill programs to protect caribou.

In Alberta, the province has approved the killing of nearly 1,000 wolves since 2006 to protect the small Little Smoky caribou herd north of Edmonton. Unfortunately, industry has disturbed about 95 per cent of the range area of the caribou, which has made them more vulnerable to wolf predation.

The Canadian Press reported recently that three other caribou ranges in the same area have disturbance rates from 50 to 95 per cent — far higher than federal guidelines for usable caribou habitat. And energy leases are still being sold on those ranges. Forestry also continues.

In B.C., the province has approved the killing of 184 wolves in the South Selkirk and South Peace caribou herd ranges, said Parr.

Those ranges have also been affected by human activity, she said. In Alberta it’s oil and pipelines, and in B.C. it’s been logging in the past but now it’s commercial pursuits such as snowmobiling, and industrial development.

“Kill all the wolves you want, those caribou are not going to survive,” Parr believes.

“They (caribou) are a very sensitive species that can be disturbed and displaced by all of the activities that humans continue to do in those areas.

“If we kill wolves for caribou, we are going to create a whole bunch of other environmental problems that we’re going to have to deal with as well.”

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When the top predator is removed, the ungulate population increases, stops moving and disease spreads.

“Killing wolves in the name of caribou recovery is going to have many adverse affects on the environment,” said Parr.

So how can the caribou be protected?

“Ideally, we need to go back in time and protect the habitat for all of the species ... we’re not doing that. I do not support killing one species in the name of another one. I do not think that is an ethically sound decision.

“I see no evidence in the history of science where ... killing wolves has increased ungulate populations in the long term.

“We are still destroying and fragmenting essential caribou habitat. We can kill as many wolves as we would like, in certain areas caribou are not going to recover because they don’t have the area to raise their young, to find the food they need and to avoid natural predators, of which wolves are only one of them.”

Wolves are a top predator. Their presence on a landscape influences many natural systems. Wolves not only help control the ungulate population, they also cause ungulates to move. This changes ungulate behaviour and feeding patterns, which helps vegetation and trees grow, which then creates shade for streams, which help fish and provides habitat for insects and butterflies and song birds, said Parr.

“It’s that tinkering with a keystone species — the wolf as a keystone species affects many, many other species that it shares that environment with.”

If wolves were left completely alone, “of course there wouldn’t be an overpopulation because look at the hundreds of thousands of years where predator and prey have lived in balance,” Parr says.

She is studying wolves in a remote and protected area with little human activity in the Chilcotin region of B.C. The study will provide baseline information on what wolves are eating there. The area is also home to wild horses, plus other large carnivores such as bears. The results will be compared with the adjacent Nemaiah Valley area, which has more human activity.

Parr hopes the study will lead to better management practices for longterm conservation.

She says the Southern Selkirk caribou herd is in “an island of extinction” because it is in an isolated patch of habitat cut off from the larger northern herds, so they have no migration and no new gene flow.

“Killing wolves is the most cost-effective way to say we’re doing something to help recover caribou. ... It would be a lot more expensive to deactivate roads and restore the habitat, and a large amount of time.

“If we start killing wolves now, are we prepared to kill them for the next 20 to 30 years, if not indefinitely, to keep those caribou on the life support that we’ve put them on in that small habitat that we have set aside for them?”

There are other predators in B.C. — wolverines and grizzly bears — that kill more caribou calves than wolves do, she said.

But killing grizzly bears has become publicly unacceptable. The grizzly’s profile has been raised in Alberta and that needs to be done for wolves too, she said.

Many people are surprised that wolves are not a threat to people, she said. In the past 200 years, there have been few documented cases in North America of people being killed by a wolf.

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Wolf biologist Sadie Parr gives a presentation to students at Mother Teresa Catholic School in Sylvan Lake recently

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The Bow Valley Wolves was a wolf family living in the Bow Valley of Banff National Park.

But more people are starting to understand the true nature of wolves, she says.

Parr’s priority is education and as

long as people want to learn about wolves, “I’m just continuing to carry this torch.” barr@reddeeradvocate.com

Red Deer principal named in top 40 list

BY KELSEY OSTER ADVOCATE STAFF Collaboration and teamwork are the hallmarks of a Red Deer school principal who has been named one of the top 40 in the country.

Cathy Gukert, principal at Ecole Mountview School, received the honour from a national organization.

Vice-principal Cam Pizzey, one of five people who nominated Gukert for the award, says she seeks input and is always looking to make improvements.

Everyone feels they have a say and that really makes a difference, Pizzey said.

Gukert says people work with her, not for her. She said she gets energy from the people she works with.

“I am a leader, not a boss,” said Gukert, who believes in maintaining good working relationships.

She has also helped show the way for others, with three of her previous vice-principals going on to become principals themselves.

Although she has been an administrator for 18 years, Gukert enjoys stepping back into the classroom. She has spent 37 years in education.

A favourite part of her day is teaching a French class at the school.

She still enjoys the whirlwind of du-

ties facing a principal.

“I love the buzz,” she said.

Over the years of being a principal, she said she has learned to have thicker skin and to separate herself from the work a bit more.

Gukert has two grown children; a 30-year-old son who is an electrician and a 27-year-old daughter who is a teacher.

As part of being named one of the Top 40 Principals in Canada by The Learning Partnership, Gukert was flown to Toronto.

The Learning Partnership is a national organization that supports, promotes and advances public education in Canada.

Gukert and the other 39 principals selected were honoured at a dinner and received a week of training at Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

One aspect of the training that stuck with her was the 21st century competencies that focus on creating students who are engaged thinkers and ethical citizens.

Gukert said what she learned in Toronto has given her a renewed vision.

Although honoured to be named a top principal, Gukert said the real honour was learning that five of her past and present colleagues had nominated her for the award.

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Reigan Ramsey, Reeva Ramsey, Raechel Wielmer, Emma Guidolin, Emma Skjaveland, Max Guidolin, Olivia Skjaveland, Ava Farion, Gina Pimm and Alex Wielmer pose with their principal Cathy Gukert in front of the Ecole Mountview School in Red Deer on March 26. Gukert was named one of the Top 40 Principals in Canada by a national organization.

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Future Shop stores closed SOME STORES WILL BE CONVERTED INTO BEST BUY

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Future Shop stores across Canada are closing effective immediately, to the shock of customers and dismay of hundreds of employees losing full and part-time jobs.

Best Buy Canada, a subsidiary of Best Buy Co. Inc. that owns and operates both Best Buy and Future Shop stores, said in a statement Saturday that it will be closing 66 Future Shops for good, while 65 others will be converted into Best Buys.

The move will result in the loss of 500 full-time and 1,000 part-time jobs.

The affected employees will receive severance, employee assistance and outplacement support, the company said.

Brandon Buchanan, a former Future Shop employee in Toronto who worked in the mobile audio section in 2012, said he was shocked to hear the stores are closing.

“That happened kind of suddenly, because a lot of the people I still know work here, apparently they showed up this morning and it was just locked out,” he said.

The company said there will now be a total of 192 Best Buys in Canada, including 56 Best Buy Mobile stores, and the converted stores will reopen after a one-week closure. Stores in Toronto were locked and covered with signs telling customers to shop at nearby Best Buy stores. Posters at a downtown Vancouver location said it was hiring and would reopen April 4. For Ben McLeod, who took a city bus to buy a TV from a downtown Edmonton Future Shop, the news the store wouldn’t reopen until next week was particularly frustrating.

“I spent 10 bucks on a bus pass for no reason and end up coming here and finding the store’s actually closed,” said McLeod. “It’s stupid they would do that and not tell anyone in advance.”

The decision to close the Future Shop stores was made after the company said it reviewed its “real estate footprint,” adding a significant number of Future Shop and Best Buy stores are located next to each other, often in the same parking lot. Best Buy bought Future Shop in 2001.

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Future Shop closure ’inevitable’ but doesn’t spell end of tech retailers: expert

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A Red Deer man takes a picture of the closure sign outside of Future Shop on Saturday morning during a time the store would normally be opening for business. Best Buy, which bought Future Shop in 2001, announced early Saturday morning that 66 locations would be closed permanently, with the remaining turned into Best Buy outlets. Roughly 500 full-time and 1,000 part-time jobs will be eliminated. up going south and it’s not good for the economy, for us,” said Michelle Derue, who tried to buy headphones at a downtown Toronto store on Saturday.

“The poor workers that are in these places that actually do get sold out to American companies — it’s not a good thing for them, they’ve got families.”

Best Buy Canada President and COO Ron Wilson said the stores will continue to have a “strong store presence” across Canada, adding the move will not change the fact that 80 per cent of customers are within a 15-minute drive to a store.

“Any decisions that impact our people are never taken lightly; our first priority is to support them through this change,” Wilson said in the statement.

The company also said that all Future Shop gift cards will be accepted at any Best Buy Canada location and online, while product orders, service appointments and warranties will continue to be honoured and Future Shop purchases to be returned or exchanged will also be accepted at any Best Buy. “It doesn’t surprise me actually because I know the same company owns both stores so at some point I expected them to merge into one,” said Guy McLoughlin, a Future Shop customer.

“I would always go to both stores anyways to comparison shop because occasionally one would be cheaper than the other. I guess I lose that option now but otherwise I’m just thankful we’ve got something like that still in Canada.”

The elimination of the Future Shop brand may be the end of an era for the once-successful Canadian retailer, but it does not foretell the end for stand-alone electronics stores, says one business expert.

Mark Satov says closing Future Shop was an “inevitable” move for Best Buy, the American company that bought the Canadian retailer in 2001.

“Best Buy is a big U.S. brand so if they had to shutter one brand in Canada it would certainly be Future Shop,” said Satov, a business adviser on customer strategy with Satov Consultants in Toronto.

Best Buy Canada announced on Saturday the closure of 66 Future Shop locations, with the remaining 65 stores to be re-branded as Best Buy. Satov says while electronics are often purchased online, he predicts customers will continue to value stores on the ground.

“If you are retaining bricks-and-mortar it’s going after a different segment, it’s providing a different experience, making sure to have the expertise and other things in the store that you just can’t get online,” said Satov.

“Not everybody is going to go get that experience and feel right about then going online and buying it from somebody else, especially when a place like Best Buy is ready to match the online price in the store.”

Retail analyst Maureen Atkinson says more than a third of electronics purchases are made online, making it the second largest Internet retail category after entertainment purchases like books and music.

She says the Future Shop closures are part of a bigger retail trend.

“Best Buy was very adamant that running the two banners actually gave them additional revenue. But that was before I think the impact of online shopping had really taken hold,” said Atkinson, an analyst with J.C. Williams Group.

“Best Buy started off by shrinking their stores, reducing the size of their stores in a lot of cases. Now obviously they’ve decided that wasn’t enough and that merging the brands would make more sense.”

Crowd-sourcing in native healthcare

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS VANCOUVER — A long and dark list materializes when tabulating the health problems plaguing First Nations communities across Canada: HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis, nutritional deficits, alcohol and drug dependency, suicide.

Some innovative thinkers say they believe a brilliant solution could cost as little as $25,000.

An accounting firm and new tech outfit have paired to try to inspire problem-solvers from around the world to generate cost-effective ideas that might prove to be the magic elixir for the health care challenges facing First Nations.

MNP LLP has adopted a strategy that’s also being used by Google as it tries to send a robot to the moon — combining crowd-sourcing and cash

incentives to find solutions.

“Everybody will say, ’Let’s throw more money at this problem,”’ said Clayton Norris, an executive with the Calgary-based MNP. “But that’s not what we’re saying here.”

The firm is putting up just $25,000 as first prize, and two smaller prizes of $5,000, for the best ideas that will be judged by a panel of health experts and its own representative. The challenge is dubbed “Operation Blue Sky.” First Nations health advisors say the avant-garde use of crowd-sourcing, referring to the process of soliciting a multitude of micro-ideas using the expansive reach of 21st century communications, is a first for aboriginal healthcare in Canada.

Finding an affordable way to address the many health problems faced

by First Nations is a big ask, Norris admitted.

But his firm was inspired to try

something different by the online platform that’s hosting the challenge.

The company, called HeroX, is a forprofit spinoff of the XPrize Foundation, which is running Google’s higherstakes $30 million competition urging teams to design a cheap lunar robot by the end of 2016.

“It’s a bit of a leap of faith for us.

Because, what can we do? We see firsthand the challenges in the community,” Norris said.

“Maybe if we can spur some change or find out about something really good that’s happening in another region in Canada, or in a tribal organization in the U.S., or Australia or New Zealand.

“Maybe it’s just a very basic idea that can benefit as many people as possible.”

Norris said the competition stems from MNP’s desire to give back to its clients — more than 150 First Nations across the country. The deadline for

proposals is Aug. 12.

Anyone can submit a solution, although the firm is encouraging entries from aboriginal Canadians who already have some experience providing community healthcare. MNP funds the prize, while also paying a small percentage to HeroX. Crowd-sourcing solutions to the native health dilemma has potential to produce profound results, said HeroX vice-president Emily Fowler.

She points to the invitation for aboriginal people to participate, rather than be merely subjected to another plan imposed from the outside.

“It’s a matter of taking on something that could be seen as touchy, or debatable, or contentious.

“It’s about saying, ’Let’s put aside any of that, let’s create something together by sourcing those ideas together.”’

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Avoid these common tax mistakes Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Based on Einstein’s definition, Canadians are a little crazy when it comes to claiming some expenses on their income tax returns.

“Maybe Canada’s tax code is enough to make us all a bit insane, because year after year Canadians make TALBOT the same misBOGGS takes on their tax returns,” said Caroline Battista, senior tax analyst with H&R Block.

According to results from a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) review program, Canadians consistently make mistakes when claiming employment, public transit, moving and medical expenses. These expenses are the most often adjusted tax credits that the CRA makes. Seventy-five per cent of employment expenses filed by taxpayers are adjusted by the agency.

For example, you cannot claim em-

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ployment expenses unless you have a signed T2200 form from your employer.

If you are entitled to claim car expenses you must keep a travel log and you cannot claim the mileage from home to your office.

If you plan to claim expenses for transit passes, they must be for unlimited travel within Canada. Short-term passes are eligible but each pass must entitle you to unlimited travel for at least five consecutive days and you must buy enough of these passes for unlimited travel for at least 20 out of 28 days. If the pass does not indicate the price, you must also keep your receipt as proof for the CRA. Moving expenses only can be claimed against income from a new job. Expenses to move to be closer to your existing job do not count.

Medical expenses are another area of error. They should be claimed by the lower income spouse unless that person does not need any non-refundable credits. If you pay extended health premiums through payroll deductions, you can still claim this as a medical expense.

In a survey by H&R Block, 37 per cent of those surveyed incorrectly believed that they could choose whether or not to file their returns as commonlaw partners and 34 per cent just didn’t know.

Half of those surveyed believe that married couples can file a joint return and pay less tax and only 34 per cent knew that if they have children they and their partner are considered common law from the day they move in together.

Relationships, whether it is getting married, living common law or ending a relationship, all have tax implications. A lot of Canadians may not be aware of what actually constitutes a couple and may not know that you must report any change in your marital status on your tax return, whether you are recently married, divorced or have entered into a common-law relationship. It’s imperative that you declare any change whether you are entering or ending a relationship.

In Canada, spouses and commonlaw partners of the same or different gender are treated the same when it comes to taxation.

A spouse is the person to whom you are legally married and you are considered to be common-law partners if you have lived together as a couple for a period of 12 months. In both cases, each person must file a tax return.

As a couple, you may transfer certain tax credits to your spouse, including the age, pension income, charitable donation, disability and Canada child tax credits, and married and common-

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law couples can transfer assets when they die to their partners without paying capital gains tax.

The H&R Block survey also showed Canadians have a number of other misconceptions about tax rules.

Employed Canadians, for example, are confused about the taxable status of their registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) contributions, with 41 per cent saying these deposits are taxable.

Most Canadians were not aware of the new first-time donor tax credit for charitable donations and some 61 per cent did not know the implications of charitable donations over $200 on their tax bill.

Under the new credit, a first-time donor will be allowed a 40 per cent federal credit for donations of $200 or less and a 54 per cent federal credit for the portion of donations over $200 but not exceeding $1,000. The new credit can be claimed once from the 2013 to 2017 taxation years.

If in doubt, check out the CRA website for rules or consult a tax professional. It may just help you keep your sanity.

Talbot Boggs is a Toronto-based business communications professional who has worked with national news organizations, magazines and corporations in the finance, retail, manufacturing and other industrial sectors.

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PLANS TO WIND UP ALL STORES BY MID-APRIL

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Target Corp. is planning to close all of its Canadian stores even faster than originally planned.

A court-appointed monitor overseeing the windup of the Target Canada stores says all 133 locations across the country will be permanently shut down by “as early as mid-April,” which is about a month ahead of schedule.

Some locations have already ceased operations — 17 stores closed in the middle of March. Another six Target locations will shutter on Monday, while 23 are slated for closure on April 1, and 32 more on April 2.

“It is anticipated that the pace of delivery of vacate notices ... will continue to increase over the next two weeks,” the monitor wrote in an update filed with the court.

“All stores are expected to be closed to the public as early as midApril 2015.”

Target Corp. announced in January that it was making plans to leave Canada, saying it would take years to turn a profit after a bungled launch hurt its reputation with consumers. The company is in the process of closing all 133 stores across the country, most which opened in 2013.

A liquidation has been underway since last month, while lawyers are in court trying to iron out the details of

Target’s departure. A variety of creditors that include landlords, suppliers and others impacted by the closures, are trying to determine what will happen to money they’re owed.

On Monday, the court will consider approving the US$2.22-million sale of a variety of intellectual property assets from Target Canada back to its U.S. parent company, including both instore and outside signs, 28,000 branded shopping carts, and 912,000 shopping bags.

Court documents say that unlike other items owned by the stores, which include electric scooters and shopping cart corrals, the Target-branded items can’t be sold in the liquidation process because they’re all permanently stamped with the company’s name.

“It is not possible to remove the Target branding from most of the (intellectual property assets) without destroying or substantially decreasing their value,” the monitor said, noting an outside appraiser was involved in the process.

“The external signage cannot be repurposed and in any event has no value based on the third party bids (and) estimates of value that have been received.”

In addition to the sales price, Target Canada believes it will save an extra $1.9 million by shifting the responsibility for removing and disposing of the branded items over to Target Corp.

Five things to watch for in Canadian business this week THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Here are five things to look for in Canadian business this week:

The price of oil.

Often a big factor in determining direction on the Toronto Stock Exchange, oil has been on a wild ride recently. Five straight winning sessions, prompted among other things by renewed tensions in the Middle East, saw it top the $50-a-barrel mark last week before falling back $2.56 to US$48.87 on Friday.

January GDP data.

Statistics Canada issues its report on gross domestic product for January on Tuesday. The consensus estimate of economists is that it will show GDP declined 0.2 per cent in January, according to Thomson Reuters. Regardless of the results, the numbers will likely fuel further debate on whether Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz will move on the overnight interest rate next month.

BMO annual meeting

The Bank of Montreal holds is annual meeting on Tuesday. The bank reported last month that its first-quarter profit was down compared with a year ago. BMO chief executive Bill Downe said at the time that the “current operating environment poses both challenges and opportunities.”

Auto sales

Automakers are expected to report their March sales results this week.

Canadians continued the flock to auto dealerships last month and helped push sales to their best February since 2008, with truck sales leading the way.

Trade data.

Statistics Canada reports international merchandise trade results for February on Thursday. Economists expect the country to have posted a trade deficit of $1.8 billion.

Canada’s trade numbers have taken a hit in recent months, due in larger part to the sharp drop in oil prices from highs of US$107 a barrel last summer.

NYC fighting the home-as-hotel rentals trend

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — From an office by the Brooklyn Bridge, a specialized team of investigators tackles a fastgrowing concern in the nation’s biggest city: apartments being rented like hotel rooms.

Building and fire inspectors, police, lawyers, city tax specialists and others combine door-knocking, digital sleuthing and even video surveillance in an uncommon approach to an issue bubbling up around the country.

New York’s investigators have cited over 7,000 fire and building code violations, shut down over 200 short-term apartments and sued several operators — ending an additional 250 short-term rentals — over the last nine years, according to the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement. With Airbnb and other websites sparking a short-term rental boom, some lawmakers now want to triple the illegal-hotel investigation staff and have it go beyond answering complaints to scour the web for suspect listings.

“The problem has skyrocketed

in the past few years,” and enforcement must keep pace, says City Council Housing and Buildings Committee Chairman Jumaane Williams.

But some proprietors have called the city’s tactics heavy-handed. Airbnb says New York unfairly lumps occasional users in with hotel-scale operators, although officials say enforcement focuses on big players.

“It can get overzealous,” says Airbnb public policy head David Hantman, who wants New York laws changed to exempt people renting out their own homes and “target the truly bad actors.”

It’s largely illegal in New York to rent entire apartments for under 30 days, though it can be OK to rent out spare rooms if a resident also stays home.

Yet vacation rental sites boast many apartments. The city fielded 1,150 illegal-hotel complaints last year, up 62 per cent from 2013.

Hosts say “home sharing” helps them pay bills and makes travelling funkier and cheaper. But city officials note that guests generally don’t get fire sprinklers and other safety features

required in hotels, and residents contend with rotating casts of strangers.

“You get on the elevator, and you don’t even know who’s going to get on,” says Audrey Smaltz, a fashion-industry entrepreneur whose Manhattan apartment building has been used as a $500-a-night hotel, according to a city lawsuit. “I don’t feel safe.”

Countless travellers have learned the front-door entry code, and a stranger wandered onto the roof and stared at Smaltz through her penthouse terrace window one night last fall, she said. There are no short-term rentals in the building now, the owner said in court papers. Many cities are addressing, and sometimes allowing, shortterm vacation rentals. San Francisco is now crafting rules permitting some home-as-hotel stays and determining enforcement procedures. In Chicago, a business and consumer department handles unlicensed vacation rental complaints and can issue fines.

New York, meanwhile, uses its multi-agency Mayor’s Office for Special Enforcement.

Investigations generally start with a police officer, fire inspector and

building inspector knocking on doors and asking denizens whether they live there, acting director Elan Parra says.

When investigators find a paying visitor, they’ll request booking details.

That can lead to violation notices, fines, follow-up inspections and evacuations, if inspectors declare a serious safety threat.

The consequences might not end there. Using software to cross-reference information, investigators look for patterns in complaints, listings, lessees, building owners, managers, companies or other factors that might point to a multiple-apartment operation and warrant not just administrative fines but a lawsuit for damages. Occasionally, investigators will stake out a building with video cameras, Parra said.

“We focus on the places where people are complaining, where there are clearly presented concerns and issues. ... We want to make sure that we’re allocating our resources to getting and eradicating the absolute worst operators” and safety risks, Parra said.

This month, his office shut down three Brooklyn dwellings it said were bunkbed-stuffed, fire-hazard hostels.

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“a community of common destiny” that would contribute to world prosperity.

“We need to make sure all countries respect one another and treat each other as equals,” Xi said. “Countries may differ in size, strength, level of development, but they are all equal members of the international community with equal right to participate in international affairs.”

At the same time, Xi sought to reassure leaders about the health of China’s economy, which has shifted to annual economic growth levels of about 7 per cent, the slowest in two decades.

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A man walks past the Vancouver Native Health Society in Vancouver, Saturday, An accounting firm and new tech outfit have paired to challenge problem-solvers from around the world to generate cost-effective ideas that might prove to be the magic elixir for the health care challenges facing First Nations.

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MNP: Already been distributed The MNP challenge has already been distributed to a network of 800 people via the First Nations Health Managers Association, said its executive director Marion Crowe.

Solutions could be as simple as designing a community garden combating the higher instances of diabetes charted in native youth, she said.

“We don’t have to invest a million dollars in telehealth technology,” she

said. “Crowd-sourcing hasn’t been done in aboriginal health. Just doing this is innovation itself.”

Chief Medical Officer Dr. Evan Adams, with B.C.’s First Nations Health Authority, urged “sophisticated” proposals showing a clear understanding of the complex issues.

“For us, it is very colonial when people say, ’Oh, you know what you Indians need to do? You need to eat your vegetables, so let me start up a program where we teach your kids,”’ he said.

“A very evolved conversation would be. ... We can work together. Rather than me coming in like a superhero, helicoptering in and telling all of you how to live your lives, let’s decide together.”

BOAO, China — Chinese President Xi Jinping argued Saturday for strong China-led efforts to promote Asian economic and political co-operation while opening a major regional economic conference. Xi delivered the keynote address at the Boao Forum on Hainan island in the country’s south, at which he lauded the promise of the Chinese economy despite slowing growth.

He celebrated what he said was a multipolar world in which all countries play equal roles in regional development and security. The comment comes as China challenges U.S. leadership in Asia by promoting its own projects such as the U.S.-shunned Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank and assertively staking territorial claims around the continent.

With hundreds of regional leaders listening, Xi said Asia needed to build

John Baird lands job as international adviser to Barrick Gold, company says TORONTO — Former foreign affairs minister John Baird has become a special international adviser to Barrick Gold Corp. The Toronto-based mining giant (TSX:ABX), in its annual report issued Friday, lists Baird as a member of its international advisory board.

Baird, 45, announced in February that he was leaving cabinet.

He also said he would not run in the federal election expected in the fall and has resigned as the member of Parliament for Ottawa-West Nepean.

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In this image released by DreamWorks Animation, characters Oh, voiced by Jim Parsons, left, and Tip, voiced by Rihanna appear in a scene from the animated film Home.

Home debuts on top of box office

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Business was brisk at the weekend box-office, where the DreamWorks animated alien adventure Home beat out the Will FerrellKevin Hart comedy Get Hard with a resounding debut of $54 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

While the two films had been expected to vie for the top spot at North American theatres, Home came in well above expectations, handing DreamWorks Animation a much-needed hit.

Though a distant second, Get Hard also opened strongly with an estimated $34.6 million, rewarding the Warner Bros. pairing of two of the most bankable stars in comedy.

Last week’s top film, the young-adult sequel The Divergent Series: Insurgent, slid to third with $22.1 million.

With a $100 million-plus debut expected next weekend for Furious 7 — a franchise built on street-racing adrenaline and a diverse cast — Hollywood scored with two films that sought a variety of audiences.

Get Hard united the fans of Hart and Ferrell, albeit while finding some criticism for its racial humour. And Home is the rare animated film led by an African-American girl protagonist

(voiced by Rihanna). She plays a teenage girl left alone after an alien invasion of Earth. Jim Parsons, Jennifer Lopez and Steve Martin round out the cast.

“It’s a diverse cast and we drew a diverse audience, which I think is really special and something you don’t see in animated films,” said Chris Aronson, domestic distribution head for 20th Century Fox, the film’s distributor. “That just ends up broadening the appeal of the film.”

Minorities made up more than half of the audience for Home, according to Fox. The strong performance of an original release, based on a children’s book by Adam Rex, provides Jeffrey Katzenberg’s DreamWorks with a welcome lift. After a series of box-office disappointments, the studio cut about 500 jobs earlier this year.

Aronson called the success of Home ”indicative of the direction, qualitywise, that DreamWorks is going to get back to.“ One of the film’s producers, Mireille Soria, was in January named co-president of DreamWorks Animation, along with How to Train Your Dragon producer Bonnie Arnold.

Despite the lure of March Madness on TV screens, Home (which capitalized on the relative dearth of familyfriendly options) and Get Hard drove

moviegoers to theatres. Overall, the box office was up about 8 per cent from last year, according to box-office data firm Rentrak.

Get Hard had been dogged by controversy, as some questioned the tastefulness of humour that critics called homophobic and racist.

The directorial debut of Etan Cohen, it stars Ferrell as a hedge fund manager sentenced to a maximum security prison for fraud. To prepare for life in prison, he turns to the only black person in his orbit, a family man played by Hart.

“When Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart get together, you hope to have some criticism,” said Dan Fellman, head of domestic distribution for Warner Bros.

He added that it’s the biggest R-rated opening for both Hart and Ferrell.

The wild card of the weekend was It Follows, a critically acclaimed indie horror film from Radius, the Weinstein Company label.

After the film drew packed theatres in limited release, plans for a subsequent video-on-demand release were postponed and It Follows expanded to 1,218 theatres over the weekend. It pulled in $4 million over the weekend.

“It’s an interesting test case,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Rentrak, who applauded

Radius for having the confidence in a small, very low budget movie. “It’s rare for a horror film to enjoy those kind of reviews. Ordinarily, you don’t see a platform building of theatres for a horror movie. Usually, you see them drop like a rock in the second week.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theatres, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. Home, $54 million ($24 million international).

2. Get Hard, $34.6 million ($4.6 million international).

3. The Divergent Series: Insurgent, $22.1 million ($29.9 million international).

4. Cinderella, $17.5 million ($38.7 million international).

5. It Follows, $4 million.

6. Kingsman: The Secret Service, $3.1 million ($25 million international).

7. Run All Night, $2.2 million ($2.1 million international).

8. Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, $2.2 million ($2.3 million international).

9. Do You Believe? $2.2 million.

10. The Gunman, $2 million

Iqaluit students learn to remix throat songs

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nine-yearold Alexis Vincent-Wolfe learned the ancient Inuit art of throat-singing from her grandmother, but there’s no telling what grandma would make of what Alexis is doing now.

“I never told her yet,” said the student at Iqaluit’s Nakasuk School, adding a mischievous giggle.

Students at Nakasuk’s throat-singing club have been working with southern experts to remix the chants, grunts, hums and breaths of the traditional art with the latest technology. The result is a mesmerizing mix of primordial and funky.

“They’re looping their voices and they’re learning how to become artistic and creative in a new and interesting way,” said Nelson Tagoona, 21, from Baker Lake, Nunavut, who combines throat-singing and beat-boxing in his own music and who led the Nakasuk sessions.

“It is so interesting using technology to make little changes to throat songs, looping throat songs and creating lay-

ers.”

The project originated last year when teacher Elizabeth Ryan was doing her practicum at the school. Walking around the playground, she noticed little girls teaching each other to throat sing.

Girls as young as six were standing face to face, holding each other’s elbows in the traditional way, and working out the intricacies of songs their great-grandmothers sang by the light of seal-oil lamps.

“I heard it from my friends and I started practising and I thought it was super-cool,” said Talia Armstrong, 10, who started at age four.

Ryan, a throat-singer herself, sensed this was something to build on.

“I wondered, is there a place where these girls can go throat-sing together and learn more songs and come together and practise?”

Now back at Nakasuk as a full-time staffer, Ryan started a throat-singing club that has up to 45 members — mostly girls, since it’s traditionally a female practice, but a few boys as well.

Ryan has figured out a way to teach the technique.

“There aren’t exactly music notes or words so I break (the songs) down into sounds or syllables. We build up to putting two syllables together and we practise the two syllables together and how it should sound and then we add more syllables.”

Enter Actua, an Ottawa-based charity that promotes science and technology education.

Largely funded by Google, Actua has been running workshops and programs called Codemakers across the North to get kids working with computers.

“What we want to do is give them the skills and exposure to computer science and them let them be the creators of the final product,” said Actua head Jennifer Flanagan.

Actua instructors visited the throatsinging club and worked with members

and other Nakasuk students to show them how to use a simple computer program to record their songs, chop them up, recombine them, add bits from their friends’ songs and blend different elements together.

“The throat-singing activity is a perfect example of what we’re trying to do with Codemakers more broadly, which is getting kids engaged in computer science in a way that’s relevant to them and in a way that’s culturally and community based.”

In a territory with Canada’s worst school attendance, it helps to keep kids engaged, too, said Nakasuk principal Tracey MacMillan.

“Anything we can do to promote students’ attachment to school is a good thing,” she said.

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Steven Wheeler, right, and Red Deer College instructor Malcolm Bell perform on the marimba during a Mostly Acoustic performance at the Arts Centre on Thursday. Organized by the performing arts students at the college the afternoon event featured several performances by students. Wheeler and Bell performed Sonata No. 1 by Georg Philipp Telemann. Some of the upcoming events planned by the Red Deer College performing arts department include Giants of Jazz an evening with the RDC Big Band on the Mainstage of the Arts Centre tonight (Friday March 27) at 7:30 p.m. The RDC Chamber Choir and the RDC Symphonic Winds will perform A Touch of Class April 2nd at 7:30 p.m. at the Arts Centre and finally the Graduation Recital will take place at the Welikoklad Event Centre downtown on April 22 at &:30 p.m. where soprano Jazden Smith and Corey Gomez on guitar will perform.

Teen doesn’t want to lose best friend after he came out Dear Annie: I am a 13-yearold boy, and I’m too embarrassed to talk to my parents about this.

I have been best friends with “Danny” since the first grade. We are like brothers.

A few weeks ago, Danny and I were at my house, and he said he had something to tell me but was afraid of my reaction. I finally got him to confess that he thinks he is gay and in love with me. I was MITCHELL shocked. He said he wanted to & SUGAR kiss me to see what it was like.

I didn’t want to, but agreed to try. We sat on my bed and kissed for about a minute. I wasn’t grossed out by it, but it seemed weird and uncomfortable. When I told him that, he bolted.

The next day at school, I tried to talk to him, but he wouldn’t even look at me. After a few days of this, he finally came by my house. We talked about what happened, and I told him it doesn’t matter that he’s gay, because he is still my best friend. But he said if I can’t be his boyfriend, he doesn’t want to be friends anymore. He said it would hurt too much. I told him I can’t change the fact that I’m straight. He said he hates me and left.

I don’t know what I did wrong. Danny won’t even speak to me. I finally worked up the nerve to tell my older brother, who said it’s just like when you get dumped by a girl — you don’t really want to be

friends with her afterward.

I can’t accept losing my best friend over this. What can I do to get him back? — Confused Best Friend Dear Confused: Your brother is probably right that Danny is too hurt to be around you right now. He also may be embarrassed by his admission that he loves you. That made him vulnerable, and he has retreated to protect himself. He also may not know how to behave around you, no matter how accepting you are.

He, too, is confused.

We suggest you give Danny some space. He needs time to process the rejection and then decide whether he can still be your friend. Continue to act as normally as possible around him. We hope he eventually can find his way back, but please understand that not all friendships go the distance.

Dear Annie: Would you please do everyone a favor by reminding them to keep to the right side on sidewalks, concourses, escalators, etc.? It would improve our ability to go from one place to another.

Walking in airports or at sporting events can be very difficult. You have to buck the traffic coming toward you. — R.M. in PA Dear R.M.: You make an excellent point. When driving, we keep to the right. If we did the same when walking busy streets, concourses and stadiums, etc., we could prevent a lot of pedestrian accidents.

And one more thing: Please don’t hog the sidewalk by walking with six of your friends side-by-side. It’s annoying.

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.

Oregon farmers find solutions sluggish for slug problem

Some farmers say the decline of field burning and the rise of reduced-tillage farming in recent decades has left more vegetative shelter for slugs in fields But other farmers report persistent slug problems despite tilling heavily and burning fields.

Growers say a crop may sometimes be devastated by slugs despite the use of poison bait, but the same field will do well with the bait in other years.

Slugs that survive one commonly used chemical quickly develop an aversion to it, Oregon State University researcher George Hoffman said. The summit was told it’s unlikely more toxic pesticides will enter the market because of harmful consequences for other species. Disrupting the pest’s reproduction with pheromones or releasing natural predators are viable options, but these measures must be employed in concert to be effective, said Paul Jepson, director of Oregon State’s Integrated Plant Protection Center.

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SALEM, Ore. — Farmers in Oregon’s Willamette Valley hate slugs, slimy mollusks that munch their way through crops.

But as familiar as farmers are with the mollusks, they acknowledge they’re often baffled. And answers to their questions have come, shall we say, sluggishly. Growers and researchers at a recent Oregon State University “Slug Summit” in Salem agreed that the pests are causing more problems these days. But they have no good explanation why that’s so. And the agricultural publication The Capital Press reports that they came down from the summit with an unanswered question: What to do?

Monday, March 30 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Warren Beatty 78; Helena Mattsson 31; Celine Dion 47 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s stars promise some positive and profound insights.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Happy birthday Aries. 2015 is the year to focus on creative and proactive ways to boost your cash flow. Use your imagination!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Rams make marvellous leaders, but you can come on too strong. Today’s stars encourage you to assert yourself in a positive manner that doesn’t intimidate others — or scare them away.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Pluto helps you morph out of a typical Taurus rut. So step outside your comfort zone and try something that you’ve never done before, as you transform from one phase to the next.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Love, conversation and laughter are highlighted so take the opportunity to romance, relax and relate. For some Geminis, a special relationship has a decidedly deja-vu feel at the moment.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): There’ll be opportunities to share your dreams with others, as you discuss past experiences and make plans for the future. The power of the group is on your side so make sure you join in.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Moon’s in razzle-dazzle Leo so you’re fired up and ready to go. Plus the buoyant Sun and Jupiter aspects put a bounce in your step and a smile on your dial. So seize the day Cats!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If a current problem is bothering you, strive to come up with a smart solution your head and your heart. With a twofold approach, you’ll be back on track again ASAP. JOANNE LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): MADELEINE Have you been having trouble MOORE’ communicating with a loved one? It’s time to try a totally different approach. With a fresh attitude, you’ll transform the relationship in positive ways.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Pluto power could transform a major relationship today. There is the opportunity to take a new love affair to a deeper level, or to experience a major breakthrough in a long-term union.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): All types of work and business projects are favoured, as you find positive new ways to connect with colleagues, customers or clients. If you are looking for a job, then dress to impress.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A relationship with a child, teenager or friend has the opportunity to move to a more profound level, as you dig beneath the surface and discover the root cause of current problems.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A subtle and strategic approach works wonders today Aquarius — especially when dealing with family members. The more you discuss matters on a deep level, the better you’ll feel.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): All types of business, commerce and social networking are favoured today Pisces, as your communication skills kick in and you make promising links with prominent people.

Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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Odd bills on Florida legislature floor TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida legislators filed more than 1,700 bills for consideration during their two-month session that ends in May. Some are routine, some deal with high-profile issues such as abortion and guns, and some are just odd.

UNDERWEAR, OVERWEAR It would be illegal for stores to let customers try on intimate apparel unless they do so over their clothes or with a protective shield. The bill describes intimate apparel as “lower undergarments, including lingerie and swimsuit bottoms.”

SHAKING UP SHACKING UP An 1868 law bans shacking up, and a new bill would repeal the outdated restriction. The law allows for a punishment of a $500 fine and 60 days in jail when an unmarried man and woman live together and have sex — but it is no longer enforced.

SLUNGSHOTS? SURE A slungshot is a maritime tool — essentially a rope with a weight that’s wrapped in a knot called a monkey fist. Its intended purpose is to help sailors toss lines, but they were outlawed after they became a popular weapon among 19th-century street gangs.

The bill would legalize the tool, which is popular with survivalists.

ANOTHER HOLIDAY The second Monday in October would become Sir Lancelot Jones Day. Jones was born on the bottom of a small boat off the coast of Miami in 1898. He lived on Porgy Key in Biscayne Bay and was a key lime farmer and fishing guide to several presidents. He is credited with leading the movement to create Biscayne National Park.

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MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015

VOW STRIKES IN YEMEN WILL CONTINUE UNTIL REBELS WITHDRAW

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — A two-day Arab summit ended Sunday with a vow to defeat Iranian-backed Shiite rebels in Yemen and the formal unveiling of plans to form a joint Arab intervention force, setting the stage for a potentially dangerous clash between U.S.-allied Arab states and Tehran over influence in the region.

Arab leaders taking turns to address the gathering spoke repeatedly of the threat posed to the region’s Arab identity by what they called moves by “foreign” or “outside parties” to stoke sectarian, ethnic or religious rivalries in Arab states — all thinly-veiled references to Iran, which has in recent years consolidated its hold in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and now Yemen.

The summit’s final communique made similarly vague references, but the Arab League chief, Nabil Elaraby, was unequivocal during a news conference later, singling out Iran for what he said was its intervention “in many nations.”

A summit resolution said the newly unveiled joint Arab defence force would be deployed at the request of any Arab nation facing a national security threat and that it would also be used to combat terrorist groups.

The agreement came as U.S. and other Western diplomats were pushing to meet a Tuesday deadline to reach a deal with Iran that would restrict its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

The Saudis and their allies in the Gulf fear that a nuclear deal between Washington and Tehran will free Iran’s

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hands to bolster its influence in places like Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and in Sunniruled Bahrain, which has a Shiite majority. They believe the air campaign in Yemen and a joint Arab force would empower them to stand up to what they see as Iran’s bullying. The United States has sought to offer reassurances that a nuclear deal does not mean that Washington will abandon them, but they remain skeptical.

The Houthis swept down from their northern strongholds last year and captured Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, in September. Embattled Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a close U.S. ally against a powerful local al-Qaida affiliate, first fled to the southern city of Aden before fleeing the country last week as the rebels closed in.

Speaking at the summit on Saturday, Hadi accused Iran of being behind the Houthi offensive, raising the spectre of a regional conflict. Iran and the Houthis deny that Tehran arms the rebel movement, though both acknowledge the Islamic Republic is providing humanitarian and other aid.

On Sunday, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., Adel al-Jubeir, said the Lebanese Hezbollah militia was also supporting the Houthis. The Saudi-led campaign, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” is to protect Yemen’s “legitimate government from a group that is allied and supported by Iran and Hezbollah.”

A Saudi-led coalition began bombing Yemen on Thursday, saying it was targeting the Houthis and their allies, which include forces loyal to Yemen’s former leader, Ali Abdullah Saleh.

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and if a ground operation is needed, Yassin said. “This is a comprehensive operation and (any ground offensive) will depend on the calculations of the military,” he said.

Iran has condemned the airstrikes against its Yemeni allies but so far has not responded with military action, though diplomatic and military officials said Iranian retaliation could not be ruled out.

“Iran for the first time in a very long time is basically seeing a counterattack. The Iranians were not expecting that Gulf monarchies, like Saudi Arabia, would be so bold as to confront this head on,” one Gulf official said.

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the campaign could pave the way for a possible ground invasion, a development that Egyptian military officials say would likely commence after the airstrikes significantly diminish the military capabilities of the Houthis and their allies.

Yemen’s foreign minister, Riad Yassin, said the air campaign, codenamed Operation Decisive Storm, had prevented the rebels from using the weaponry they seized to attack Yemeni cities or to target neighbouring Saudi Arabia with missiles. It also stopped Iran’s supply line to the rebels, he told a news conference Sunday.

Military experts will decide when

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Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, wearing an army uniform, ride on an armed truck to patrol the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday. Yemen’s President Abed Raboo Mansour Hadi, speaking at an Arab summit in Egypt on Saturday, called Shiite rebels who forced him to flee the country “puppets of Iran,” directly blaming the Islamic Republic for the chaos there and demanding airstrikes against rebel positions continue until they surrender.

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Nigeria vote a critically close contest PEOPLE CAST BALLOTS AFTER TECHNICAL HITCHES AND DESPITE EXTREMIST VIOLENCE, PROTESTS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ABUJA, Nigeria — Boko Haram fighters attacked poll stations in northeast Nigeria and a governor demanded elections be cancelled in an oil-rich southern state Sunday as the count started for a presidential election too close to call.

Two electoral workers were killed Saturday in Boko Haram’s campaign to disrupt the elections, chairman Attahiru Jega of the Independent National Electoral Commission told reporters.

Voting continued in certain areas on Sunday after technical glitches with new biometric card readers prevented some people from casting ballots on Saturday.

The high-stakes contest to govern Africa’s richest and most populous nation has come down to a critically close contest between President Goodluck Jonathan, a 57-year-old Christian from the south, and former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari, 72, from the predominantly Muslim north.

Results are expected by late Monday. If there is no clear winner, a runoff must be held.

Suspected Boko Haram extremists attacked polling stations and destroyed election material in two northeastern towns Sunday, then advanced on Bauchi city, according to fleeing residents.

Soldiers engaged them in heavy gunfire, and a jet fighter patrolled skies above the city, they said.

Police spokesman Haruna Muhammad said security forces had halted the convoy of 10 vehicles holding “unidentified gunmen” at Dindima village, 10 kilometres (6 miles) from Bauchi.

But gunshots erupted in Bauchi before nightfall Sunday, and authorities declared a curfew.

Muhammad said the gunmen attacked polling stations in Kirfi and Alkaleri towns earlier in the day.

Boko Haram extremists killed at least 41 people, including a legislator, and scared hundreds of people from polling stations in three states in the northeast on Saturday.

Voters also are electing 360 legislators to the House of Assembly, where the opposition currently has a slight edge over Jonathan’s party. Voting for 13 constituencies was postponed until April because of shortages of ballot papers, electoral officials said.

Nigeria’s political landscape was transformed two years ago when the main opposition parties formed a coalition and for the first time united behind one candidate, Buhari. Dozens of legislators defected from Jonathan’s party, including Rivers State Gov. Rotimi Amaechi.

Since then, Rivers has become a hotbed of political thuggery.

On Sunday, thousands took the streets of the state capital of Port Har-

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A man casts his ballot as Nigerians vote for a second day in Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday. Voting in Nigeria’s elections continued in certain areas on Sunday after technical problems prevented some people from casting their ballots on Saturday and despite extremist violence in the northeast and protests in the south. court to protest alleged killings of opposition campaign workers and voting irregularities. Police in riot gear and armoured cars moved in but the demonstration ended peacefully.

Police reported the electoral commission’s office in Port Harcourt was bombed Sunday, and that three people, including a soldier, were shot dead Saturday. But the opposition coalition said scores of its members have been killed and blames “ethnic militias” working for Jonathan’s party.

It also alleged that about 100 opposition members were detained by police on Saturday. Police did not immediately respond to those charges.

“We are concerned about what seems to be happening in Rivers State (where) there are many alleged cases of malpractices,” electoral chairman Jega told a news conference. He said they were investigating and would respond to a party request for the elections there to be cancelled and rescheduled.

Jonathan’s party charged that the card readers failed mostly in its strongholds and asked if this was contrived.

“Sadly the damage that the failure of the card readers has caused to the fortunes of our supporters and party is

immense,” media director Femi FaniKayode said.

Jega said the commission had been “alarmed” by the number of card reader failures, but that the actual percentage was only 0.5, or 374 of more than 150,000 readers.

He told a news conference that other irregularities being investigated include electoral officials disappearing with results sheets and electoral officials being substituted in Rivers and Lagos states.

While voting has generally been relatively peaceful there are fears that violence will erupt when results are announced, as happened after 2011 elections when Jonathan defeated Buhari. More than 1,000 people died in violence between Muslims and Christians in the north.

The International Criminal Court has sent warnings to Nigeria that it is watching the elections and could prosecute anyone who incites violence.

Contested election results have led to mass ethnic bloodshed in Kenya and brought civil war to the capital of Ivory Coast.

Many Christian Nigerians attended Palm Sunday church services in which they prayed for a peaceful outcome for

the elections.

Nearly 60 million Nigerians have cards to vote and for the first time there is a possibility that a challenger can defeat a sitting president in the high-stakes contest to govern Africa’s richest and most populous nation.

A major campaign issue has been Boko Haram’s Islamic insurgency. The failure of Jonathan’s administration to curb the rebellion, which killed about 10,000 people last year, has angered many Nigerians.

International outrage has grown over another failure — the government’s inability to rescue 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram nearly a year ago. The extremists have abducted hundreds more people since then, using them as sex slaves and fighters.

Nigeria’s military declared on Friday it had cleared Boko Haram out of its strongholds in northeast Nigeria, a claim that could not be verified and seemed unlikely.

The Islamic uprising has exacerbated relations between Christians like Jonathan, who dominate the oil-rich south, and Muslims like Buhari, who are the majority in the agricultural and cattle-herding lands of the north.

Leading suspect in Tunisia museum Three West African countries ramp attack killed in anti-terrorism raids up efforts to end Ebola outbreak

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisian security forces decimated the leadership of a Tunisian jihadi group linked to al-Qaida’s North African branch, including the man identified as the “operational chief” of the attack this month on the National Bardo Museum that killed 22 people, mostly foreign tourists, the interior minister said Sunday.

Najem Gharsalli said Khaled Ben Hamadi Chaieb, also known as Lokman Abou Sakhr, an Algerian, handled the operational end of the March 18 attack. Two gunmen were killed in the attack.

Dozens of arrests have been made, five security officials fired and an officer charged with surveying the museum jailed.

Two other Algerians were among nine people killed Saturday by security forces in Gafsa, near the Algerian border, the minister told reporters, saying the leadership of the Okba Ignou Nafaa Brigade, which has killed dozens of security forces, was decimated.

Gharsalli proclaimed the “beginning of the war against terrorism,” and revealed that Tunisia has acquired

new equipment, “including drones.”

The announcement came as tens of thousands of Tunisians marched, joined by a handful of foreign leaders for a ceremony after the march to the National Bardo Museum. Among those present were French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.

The international visitors were showing solidarity with Tunisia, whose fragile new democracy was deeply shaken by the museum attack.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the Bardo attack, and it was unclear what ties the Tunisian brigade may have with the group that has distinguished itself in Iraq and Syria through its conquests, horrific beheadings and the quick spread of groups claiming affiliation in Libya and elsewhere.

The presence of Algerians in the Okba Ibnou Nafaa Brigade, a Tunisian extremist group, underscores the links with al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, the Algerian-based affiliate that in 2012 took over northern Mali.

Tunisian protesters unleashed revolts across the region known as the Arab Spring, and Tunisia is the only country to have built a democratic system as a result.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CONAKRY, Guinea — The West African countries hit hardest by Ebola are ramping up efforts to eradicate the deadly disease using lockdowns, restrictions on burials and a warning to survivors about the potential dangers of unprotected sex.

The region’s Ebola outbreak has killed more than 10,000 people since cases were first recorded more than a year ago, with most of the dead coming from Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Sierra Leone, which has seen the most cases, imposed a three-day lockdown that officials hoped would help the country get “total control” over Ebola. The lockdown was expected to conclude on Sunday.

Neighbouring Guinea could soon

be holding its own lockdowns after President Alpha Conde announced that emergency steps would be “reinforced” for a 45-day period in five districts in the west of the country.

All burials in the affected areas will need to be secured by Red Cross or security forces, and all dead bodies will be systematically tested, Conde said in an address on state television Saturday night. Mourning ceremonies will be restricted to close family.

Conde also said lockdown measures could be implemented as needed.

In Liberia, the government issued a statement Sunday warning survivors of Ebola to abstain from unprotected sex even beyond the 90-day period earlier recommended. The statement was prompted by continued confusion over how the country’s latest Ebola patient — its first in weeks — came down with the disease.

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1885 — Cree chief Poundmaker attacks and surrounds Battleford with 200 warriors; local settlers are forced to seek shelter in NWMP barracks for a month. A formidable soldier,

Poundmaker had participated in the signing of Treaty 6, and in 1881 had guided the Marquis of Lorne from Battleford to Calgary. But he was distressed at the treatment given the Cree people, and had agitated for fulfilment of the promises made under treaty.

1976 — Ottawa announces plans to immunize about 12 million Canadians against ‘swine flu’ in the autumn.

1972 — Last daily rum ration issued to Canadian naval personnel.

1954 — Toronto Transit Commission opens Yonge Street subway, the first line in Canada.

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sors cautioned claims might net just 3 or 4 cents on the dollar.

Claimants had long been told losses would be adjusted for inflation. When an investor offered to buy Chester’s claim for a fraction of its original $489,000 value, she grew angry and began devoting hours to studying records.

In December, Chester listened as Obama spoke of rewriting policy “rooted in events that took place before most of us were born.”

To Chester, the speech signalled the desire of politicians and corporations to look beyond the claims.

But Castro didn’t merely take property, she says. He stole her parents’ financial security, her father’s health — and her inheritance.

Fifty-six years later, she says, “I’m not going to let him take from me again.”

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showed co-workers her Cuba photos.

One day, a colleague mentioned that law school professors were researching claims for confiscated Cuban property. Hadn’t Castro taken the Chesters’ property, too?

——— In 2005, U.S. officials commissioned a study of the claims and strategies for settling them. A group at Creighton won the job.

Professors pored over old claims. Two flew to Cuba, searching for the properties.

Some were mouldering, others gone.

“These are people’s lives, the things that they lost,” political science professor Rick Witmer says.

But Cuba doesn’t have the money to pay claims in full, law professor Michael Kelly says.

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NEW YORK — Emergency workers found a second body Sunday in the mass of rubble left behind by an apparent gas explosion three days earlier in Manhattan’s East Village, police said.

The names of the two dead were not immediately released; a medical examiner was to determine the identifications.

Authorities had been looking for signs of two missing men, both believed to have been inside a ground floor sushi restaurant at the time of the explosion: 26-yearold Moises Lucon, who worked at the restaurant, and 23-year-old Nicholas Figueroa, a bowling alley worker who had been there on a date.

During the day, workers raked through piles of loose brick and wood; rescue workers sent search dogs over debris where three apartment buildings once stood.

Several members of Figueroa’s family visited the blast site Sunday, holding flowers and crying.

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“Many of them never recovered financially,” Tamargo says.

—— Edmund Chester, in his early 60s with three young children, put his remaining savings into chicken farms that were “a financial disaster,” son Edmund Jr. says.

Stress weighed on the elder Chester, whose mental faculties were fading. He feared Castro’s men were coming to kill him. At night, he awoke screaming.

Before dying in 1975, he invested hopes in winning compensation for property seizures that were “so sudden, so violent, and so complete.”

Enna Chester’s death in 2001 left her daughter with old home movies, dense paperwork and debts.

After moving to Omaha in 2006, Carolyn Chester got a job at Creighton University and

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TOP; In this undated photo provided by Carolyn Chester, her parents, Edmund and Enna Chester and their daughter, Patricia, arrive in Cuba on a flight from Florida. When Fidel Castro’s government began confiscating the property of thousands of U.S. citizens and companies in 1959, the Chesters lost an 80-acre farm and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock.

RIGHT; In this Feb. 9, 2015 photo, Carolyn Chester holds stock certificates for the Cuban Telephone Company in her Omaha, Neb. home. “I always heard about Cuba,” she says, “and all this money that we lost and ‘Maybe one day,’ but I didn’t understand it.” Now, the decision by the U.S. and Cuba to resume diplomatic ties means that day could be closer for Chester and other Americans whose property was confiscated by the Castro government decades ago.

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OMAHA, Neb. — The smell of Cuban coffee drifts from the kitchen as Carolyn Chester digs through faded photos that fill boxes spread across the dining table.

Friends linked arm-in-arm on a Cuban beach.

Men in suits and women in evening gowns at a Havana nightclub.

And in almost every frame, an American man with a saltand-pepper moustache and a raven-haired woman — Chester’s parents — smiling at the good fortune that, they could not know, would soon be snatched away.

“I always heard about Cuba ... and all this money that we lost and ’Maybe one day,’ but I didn’t understand it,” Chester says.

Six decades later, that day may finally be nearing for Chester and others like her.

To reach it, though, diplomacy will have to settle very old scores.

After Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, Cuba confiscated property belonging to thousands of American citizens and companies. Edmund and Enna Chester lost an 80-acre (32-hectare) farm, thousands of dollars’ worth of stock, and a Buick that, who knows, may still be plying Havana’s streets.

In 1996, Congress passed a law insisting Cuba pay for confiscated property, valued today at $7 billion, before lifting the U.S. embargo.

That went unmentioned in President Barack Obama’s December announcement that the countries would resume diplomatic ties. Given Cuba’s frail economy, experts say companies whose property was taken might settle for rights to do business there and move on.

But corporations don’t cling to memories like families can.

That’s clear inside Chester’s 832-square-foot (77-squaremeter) bungalow, where her mother’s gold-framed portrait watches over the yellowing property deed and worthless stock certificates — reminders that Cuba before Castro is history.

But bitterness over what came after lingers on.

——— Inside a little-known federal agency, 5,900 claims files tally property that once belonged to Americans in Cuba.

But really, the claims are stories of lives left behind.

Edmund Chester’s story began when he returned to Louisville, Kentucky, from the Army and found work as a newspaper reporter. He taught himself Spanish and in 1929 was hired by The Associated Press, which dispatched him to Havana.

Chester spent a decade reporting from the Caribbean and Latin America, time that seeded two crucial relationships.

The first came after cov-

ering a 1933 revolt that put a former sergeant, Fulgencio Batista, in charge of Cuba’s military. In the 1950s, when Batista was Cuba’s dictator, he trusted Chester — by then a confidante and no longer a journalist — to write his biography.

The second began when Chester covered a 1939 earthquake in Chile and spotted Enna at a hotel swimming pool.

In 1940, CBS hired Chester as chief of radio broadcasting for Latin America. Eventually, he became the network’s director of news in New York.

Chester returned to Cuba in 1952, buying a chain of radio stations on an island that was a U.S. economic outpost and a hedonistic getaway for Americans, including celebrities like Frank Sinatra.

Chester eventually sold the stations, but the family continued splitting time between Havana and Florida.

He opened a public relations agency in Cuba and bought an 80-acre farm there.

In 1957, the Chesters acquired $250,000 worth of Cuban Telephone Co shares.

But Edmund Chester, then Batista’s speechwriter, grew uneasy as Castro gained ground.

“I agree that we ought to make (a) complete break with Cuba at the earliest possible moment,” he wrote Enna in 1958.

He rejoined the family in Florida before Christmas. Batista fled days later, and Castro seized control.

When the Soviet Union began shipping oil to Cuba, the U.S. ordered island refineries, most American-owned, not to process its archrival’s crude.

Cuba seized the refineries.

The U.S. eliminated price protection for Cuban sugar, which earned 90 per cent of the island’s hard currency. By the time President John F. Kennedy imposed the embargo in 1962, Cuba had confiscated scores of properties.

Marooned, Edmund Chester wrote that his nest egg had been “whipped into a batch of Cuban scrambled eggs by the tyranny of Fidel Castro.”

—— The federal Foreign Claims Settlement Commission fielded thousands of claims for confiscated Cuban property.

The largest came from corporations, led by U.S.-owned Cuban Electric Company, for power plants valued at $268 million.

But most came from individuals and families.

Experts differ on what to make of the American claims, protected by international law.

“You’re now dealing in the realm of memory more than anything else,” says Robert Muse, an attorney representing companies with claims.

But Mauricio Tamargo, commission chairman until 2010 and now a Washington attorney representing claimants, said confiscations inflicted lasting damage on families.

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New Ken Burns doc looks at mysteries of cancer

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PASADENA, Calif. — There’s a mystery to cancer, in large part because of fear, that PBS tries to unravel in next week’s six-hour documentary “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies.”

“We’re not really honest with each other,” filmmaker Ken Burns said. “We know about heart disease. We know about diabetes. We know about other things, but there’s a kind of resistance because cancer is so scary.”

Burns, who was 11 when his mother died of breast cancer, is executive producer of the film, directed by Barak Goodman. It’s one of the few times Burns has been involved in a project that he didn’t instigate.

The film airs over three consecutive nights beginning on March 30 and is inspired by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title. Starting at its most elemental — how cancer got its name — the documentary tells the story of advances and setbacks in years of research on how the disease develops and is treated, through developments since Mukherjee’s book was published in 2010.

Mukherjee sees it as a State of the Union address on cancer, a topic with a reach and complexity that can make the entirety of the federal government seem simple in comparison.

The film softens the science with individual stories of people fighting for their survival.

Cancer proves an elusive and resilient enemy. Much of the promising research has been done since the 1970s, establishing that the cell mutations that characterize the disease can be triggered by genetics, the environment or a virus. Treatments that once seemed promising proved disappointing. Some had limited success. Immu-

notherapy, the use of a person’s own immune system to fight cancer cells, is so new that it barely received a mention in Mukheerjee’s book but gets a thorough telling in the film.

The film follows the story of the very first child ever to receive a new treatment to attack cancer cells.

“The history of cancer has been littered with false dawns with, as our film discusses, moments of great optimism followed by immediately crashing disillusionment,” Goodman said. “So we did have to be very careful about those we chose to follow.”

Often, the doctors and scientists are pushed by patients themselves.

The story of radical mastectomy for breast cancer is particularly illuminating, how it went from the universally accepted treatment with naysayers ridiculed until other, less invasive approaches were proven effective.

The film discusses the groundbreaking surgeon general’s report in the 1960s strongly linking cigarette smoking to cancer and the slow but steady reduction, at least in the United States, of probably the best-known carcinogen.

“You could say, ’Does that matter?”’

Mukherjee said. “Trust me, in the next 10 years we will find yet another new carcinogen being somewhere that we don’t know about and a company that’s eager to obfuscate on its origins, and the lessons from what we learned about cigarettes will apply all over again.”

Sharon Rockefeller, president and CEO of PBS’ influential Washington affiliate WETA, read Mukherjee’s book while she was being treated for colon cancer, caught just weeks before becoming incurable. With Laura Ziskin, the late cofounder of Stand Up to Cancer, they resolved to see the book turned into a film.

The documentary is one that its own

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In this Tuesday, March 24, 2015, file photo, executive producer Ken Burns attends a preview screening of “Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,” at the Time Warner Center, in New York. The three-part series will premiere on PBS, on Monday, March 30. makers hope becomes outdated quickly by the advance of new research. Perhaps it can have an impact on a trend that Mukherjee sees as particularly alarming: funding cuts to cancer research at a crucial moment for understanding the disease.

He’s concerned that the best scientists will be drawn to more lucrative

work. Still, Mukherjee was positive when asked if he was more or less optimistic about the fight against cancer than when he was writing his book.

“I’m immensely optimistic not because politics has proved that way, but because patient advocacy and science have moved that way,” he said. “I’m optimistic despite the political realm.”

Germanwings crash raises issue of psychiatric disclosure DO DOCTORS HAVE A DUTY TO WARN?

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Emerging evidence in the investigation into Germanwings copilot Andreas Lubitz is raising suspicions he may have suffered from mental health problems which he hid from his employer.

And that, in turn, is raising questions of whether a mental health professional has a duty to warn authorities if he or she thinks a patient is likely to be a threat to others.

The short answer to that question is yes.

Let’s take a look at this issue: Q: What is the evidence that suggests Lubitz had mental health problems?

A: It’s early in the investigation, and information could change. But German media are reporting the co-pilot had been treated for depression. And the New York Times is reporting that among Lubitz’s papers were several doctors notes stating he was too ill to work, including one for the day he seems to have deliberately crashed the plane he was co-piloting.

Q: If Lubitz was under the care of a mental health professional, was that person duty-bound to warn authorities if it appeared Lubitz posed a risk to his airline’s passengers?

A: Psychiatrists, like other medical professionals, are bound by laws of confidentiality. They must keep private the information they learn from their patients. That said, courts have ruled that at times the duty to a patient

is superseded by the duty to warn or protect others.

Q: How has this played out in the courts?

A: A pivotal case occurred in the 1970s and involved a California psychologist who was counselling a student at the University of California at Berkeley. In counselling, the student threatened to kill another student, Tatiana Tarasoff. The therapist took the threat seriously and alerted campus police. They briefly detained the student, but let him go. No one warned Tarasoff, and in October 1969 she was murdered. Her parents sued.

From this case came the understanding that health professionals not only had a duty to warn that a patient might be a threat to others, but that warning wasn’t enough if it didn’t protect the possible victim.

Q: What have the courts said in Canada?

A: Here the rules are guided by a Supreme Court decision from 1999 in a case called Smith vs. Jones. A psychiatrist, John Smith, did a psychiatric evaluation at the behest of the defence lawyers for James Jones, accused of aggravated sexual assault. During the session, Jones disclosed plans to kidnap, rape and kill prostitutes.

Smith applied to the courts for the right to disclose the confidential information. Lawyers for Jones attempted to block Smith. The case ended up before the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled that doctor-patient confidentiality is not absolute and may have to be

breached if there is a danger to the public.

Q: How is that applied here?

A: It is spelled out in a policy paper from the Canadian Psychiatric Association entitled The Duty to Protect.

The association interprets the Supreme Court ruling to mean that doctors do have a duty to disclose information they’ve been told by patients if they believe those patients pose a danger. And it tells members to warn patients that there are limits to confidentiality.

The association notes the Supreme Court did not stipulate exactly how medical professionals should discharge their duty to protect, but says the steps could include detaining a patient believed to be dangerous, treating that patient or breaching confidentiality by informing the police or the intended target of the violence.

Q: If a doctor felt that Lubitz should

not have been working, is writing a sick note an adequate response?

A: No, says Dr. Jeff Daskalakis, chief of the mood and anxiety division at the Toronto’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Daskalakis says if a doctor felt the pilot wasn’t well enough to work, that doctor should have informed the airline.

“Without laying blame on anyone, doesn’t it behoove the individual person who is making that decision to contact the proper authorities to ensure that those kinds of critical decisions are communicated properly?” Daskalakis asks.

“If you feel that there’s a remote risk that this person has any kind of violent ideas and they’re flying a plane, then I think it’s essential, it behooves you to contact and notify the right authorities to make sure that both the person and the people that this person is responsible for are safe.”

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