Red Deer Advocate, April 06, 2015

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SEASON OVER The Red Deer Rebels simply couldn’t buy a goal and thus their WHL season ended Saturday in Medicine Hat

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More than 1,760 moccasin ‘vamps’ have been made to honour missing and murdered indigenous women.

Walking with our sisters ART INSTALLATION TIED TO TRAGEDY OF MISSING, MURDERED ABORIGINAL WOMEN BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF

Manitobans to drag Red River again ‘WE KNOW THAT TINA FONTAINE’S

Red Deer is about to be the only community in Alberta to witness part of a unique art memorial’s seven-year journey aimed at honouring missing and murdered indigenous women. Walking With Our Sisters, a commemorative art installation unlike anything seen here before, is tied to the tragedy of so many aboriginal women who are long gone, but also to those who continue to be lost. A peaceful vigil Thursday in Red Deer was part of a nationwide protest that day in support of Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old prostitute found dead in Edmonton five years ago. In its own way, her death is linked to the spirit of Walking With Our Sisters. Last month an Ontario truck driver was acquitted of murder charges, but on the same day of the protests, which called for justice for aboriginal women, Alberta prosecutors announced they were appealing the decision. The outrage was not only about concern that Gladue’s First Nations status and at-risk lifestyle might have been a factor in the jury decision, but also because of human tissue evidence presented in court and seen as disrespectful to the victim. That evidence has been widely reported elsewhere previously, including in this newspaper. About 80 women, men and children gathered outside the Red Deer Provincial Court House, and included a ceremony and prayers. The vigil was a sorrowful forerunner to the Walking With Our Sisters Red Deer installation, which will appear at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery from June 1 to 21. The seven-year travelling project (from 2013 until 2019) mixes community conversations with art and hands-on participation. It is crowd-sourced funded and participants are all volunteers.

WINNIPEG — A group of volunteers plan to dredge the Red River again this year, hoping to find anything that will bring closure to the families of missing and murdered aboriginal women. Bernadette Smith, whose sister Claudette Osborne went missing seven years ago, spearheaded the search last year after the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was found in the river wrapped in a bag. Volunteers went out on boats with hooks that combed the bottom of the river that flows through Winnipeg, hoping to dig up clues about women who have vanished. This year, Smith said the operation is more sophisticated. The dragging bars are better made and Smith has bought a boat out of her own pocket. The group is also fundraising for another boat and rain gear through a GoFundMe webpage. But the intent is the same — to get answers for the loved ones of those who have gone missing or been murdered. Last year, Smith said seven bodies were pulled from the water. “That’s the highest ever in a year — four while we were dragging,” Smith said. “We weren’t the ones that pulled the bodies out but we felt like our dragging efforts had something to do with those bodies being dislodged and those loved ones being brought home.” Relatives of these missing women often feel helpless, Smith said. When her sister went missing, Smith said a busload of volunteers gathered to search for her because police didn’t seem to be doing enough. Years later, Smith is still searching for answers. Getting out on the river gives many a sense of purpose and community, she said. It shows that

BODY WASN’T THE FIRST ONE FOUND IN THE RIVER. WE DON’T KNOW HOW MANY ARE IN THERE. WE’RE GOING TO CONTINUE AS LONG AS WE CAN.’

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the lives of the estimated 1,200 missing and murdered aboriginal women have meaning. “It’s very empowering to be doing this kind of work,” she said. “It’s getting people up off the couch to say I can make a difference.” For Kyle Kematch, like so many of the searchers, the work is personal. His sister, Amber Guiboche, went missing without a trace in 2010. Kematch quit his job last year to devote all his time to dragging the river. Every time his hooks hit a snag, Kematch’s heart leaps into his throat. As much as he wants to bring closure to grieving families, “your mind starts going all over the place,” he said. “I pray that I don’t find her in there.” The group wants Winnipeg police to do more than just monitor the volunteers from a boat and actually join in the search. So far, police have declined, saying only that they will support the group “from a safety standpoint.” Both Smith and Kematch said they will continue going out on the river every year for as long as it takes, with or without the police. “We know that Tina Fontaine’s body wasn’t the first one found in the river,” Smith said. “We don’t know how many are in there. We’re going to continue as long as we can.”

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Men’s group helps out community BY MARY-ANN BARR ADVOCATE STAFF You never know when a simple chat with a good friend is going to end up inspirational. Jest Sidloski’s pal in Saskatchewan had told him about a fundraising idea. It was something the Red Deer man hadn’t heard about. “Well that day I was so inspired I had a website built, a Facebook and Twitter page built, and already 20 sign-ups. It just inspired me so much because I thought, ‘Hey this is such a simple cool idea. It’s easy.’” The “idea” turned into 100 Men Red Deer, similar to his friend’s idea. 100 Men is a no frills, no middleman, group of men that commit to donating $100 four times a year to a local charitable organization. Sidloski, who founded the local group, said they made their first donation of $10,600 to the Red Deer Food Bank last week. Members come from the city and surrounding areas.

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Red Deer Food Bank worker Donovan Bruno piles boxes of peppers in the warehouse recently. A group called 100 Men Red Deer have just donated over $10,000 to the Red Deer Food Bank.

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Man dead following shooting incident in eastern Newfoundland Police in Newfoundland and Labrador are not confirming reports that a shooting incident that left a man dead on Sunday is linked to an alleged threat against the province’s premier. The RCMP issued a news release Sunday saying the 59-year-old man died in Mitchells Brook, about 80 kilometres southwest of St. John’s. The statement says a member of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary was in the area conducting an investigation, but does not elaborate. The Mounties wouldn’t comment on reports that the RNC officer was investigating an alleged threat against Premier Paul Davis. A source close to the investigation tells The Canadian Press that the officer is a member of the premier’s security detail. The RCMP isn’t releasing the identity of the dead man, but does say he is not a police officer and no officers were injured.

Patient tests negative for Ebola after transfer to Toronto hospital TORONTO — A patient who was admitted to Toronto’s Sunnybrook hospital with symptoms consistent with the Ebola virus has tested negative for the disease. The patient had recently returned from West Africa and was admitted to the Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre in Barrie Saturday morning. In the evening the patient was transferred to Sunnybrook, which is a designated Ebola response centre. Sunnybrook spokesperson Sybil Millar confirmed this morning that the patient’s test results had come back negative.

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100 MEN: Want to change the city and make it better “We had guys from everywhere. There was oil workers, there was bankers ... politicians, retail workers, business owners. The youngest guy there was 21, to 70-plus. It was really the whole deck of cards, which was really great.” “Those are the guys that want to change the city and make it better. That to me was just as fantastic,” Sidloski said. “With how busy people’s lives are in Alberta it’s just difficult to commit hours a week, so that’s why this really struck a chord with me and the other men, because it’s once a quarter and we are directly affecting a charity. ... It’s just a beautiful thing.” Sidloski, 25, said when he started 100 Men Red Deer he didn’t know that a similar group, 100 Women Who Care — Red Deer, had recently been started earlier. “We’re not affiliated in any way. In fact I didn’t even know of 100 Women until I got mine out there and I came across it and I thought, ‘Wow, fantastic! This is great.’ There is no agency or organization. Every group is 100 per cent individual that can set their own rules.” There were some businesses that stepped up to cover costs like the website and printing, Sidloski said. The men who belong to 100 Men (they actually have more than 100 members) agree to make the cash donations. Then they can nominate charities. The three top nominated charities are asked to make a short presentation to a meeting of the donors, who can ask questions before they vote on who should get the funds. Sidloski said at the first meeting, held at Fionn MacCool’s in Red Deer a week ago, the voting was very close. The Red Deer Action Group Society, which helps people with mobility problems, came second, followed by Big Brothers and Sisters. The charities didn’t get money “but they did talk to 100 of Red Deer’s caring individuals.” Sidloski has lived in Red Deer for two and a half years and is no stranger to community work. Before

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River Symons, 1, finds an chocolate egg hidden in the grass during an Easter Egg Hunt at Heritage Ranch on Saturday. Participants of the Easter Egg Hunts held throughout the weekend were taken to an undisclosed location by horse-drawn carriages and wagons to hunt for eggs. that he lived in Lacombe briefly where he won the Big Brother of the Year award. He is currently on the board of directors of Women’s Outreach in Red Deer. 100 Men Red Deer’s next donation is June 8. For more information go the website 100MenRedDeer.com and community Facebook page 100 Men Red Deer. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

SISTERS: Installations is beautiful, moving The number seven represents First Nations seven sacred teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility, truth. Sheila Bannerman, who serves on the museum board, is a semi-retired historian and on several Walking With Our Sisters Red Deer committees, said the installation will be quite powerful. “It’s a memorial installation, an incredibly beautiful and moving installation intended to honour the missing and murdered aboriginal women all across Canada.” Ontario artist Christi Belcourt wanted to draw attention to the fact that many of the case files on these women — murdered or missing over the past 20 years — have not being investigated, said Bannerman. “And if the murders were being investigated they were kind of tossed off as at risk, who cares, you know, that kind of thing. She wanted to draw attention to this so she asked for people anywhere to send her embroidered or beaded moccasins vamps (the top decorative part of moccasins).” The idea was that each pair would represent one missing or murdered woman. Belcourt was hoping she might get 600 pairs but she got over 1,800 pairs, including some that represent children. “It was mind blowing, so significant that she wanted to put it in something that other people would see and would experience the emotion of it. So she designed this memorial installation.” The organization, Walking With Our Sisters, only exists because of the memorial work and it’s been booked by museums and galleries across Canada, Bannerman said. She got involved because she is a museum board

member but pretty quickly realized: “I was there because I was a woman. I think this is a women’s issue and I don’t think it matters where you are in the world, women’s issues are women’s issues.” “And then I kept going and kept getting a deeper and deeper understanding of what this really means to the First Nations community, and now to me, as a non First Nations person, I’m just drawn in. ... That’s what our committee is hoping will happen for people when they experience the installation ... that they will bridge that place between intellectually knowing that this is happening and understanding how significant this is.” A number of First Nations-driven community conversations, which include elders, have taken place. The seventh conversation is April 14, at 7 p.m. at the museum. focusing on youth. It is open to everyone. The conversations start with a smudge and prayer, and usually there’s a focus. People don’t have to speak. As for the installation, the moccasin tops are laid out in pairs on red cloth, as in they were walking along a path. The museum will represent a ceremonial lodge. There will be ceremonial objects in the room as well as ceremonial medicines such as cedar and sage. “It’s up to our local First Nations community how they would like to have it laid out so we don’t know what it’s going to look like just yet,” Bannerman said. When visitors arrive, elders will orient about the significance. Visitors will be asked to remove their shoes because walking barefoot is a sign of humility and respect. They will walk along with the vamps as they walk through the installation. The vamps represent unfinished lives, said Bannerman. Belcourt wanted the beautiful part of the moccasin “because it represents the loss of beauty that we’ll never know, what we might have had in our world, since we don’t have these women.” “I have never seen anything like this. Never ever ever,” said Bannerman. After people view the installation, which can be quite emotionally powerful, there will be spaces set aside for recovery and counselling, and food and beverages for people just to relax. “I think the installation will be beyond anything what you can even imagine.” For more information go to: walkingwithoursisters. ca website; or the Facebook community page Walking With Our Sisters Red Deer. barr@reddeeradvocate.com

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CIA tried to stop arrest, torture BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ARLINGTON, Va. — A former spy has described the debate within the CIA over the arrest, rendition and torture of Canadian Maher Arar, saying multiple colleagues warned against it because they were convinced they were punishing an innocent man. The account from former CIA officer John Kiriakou sheds new light on decade-old events that caused a public inquiry in Canada, a $10 million payout from the federal government, and unsuccessful lawsuits in the U.S. It’s a rare peek into discussions within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency — whose role in the 2002-03 events has never been publicly examined, having remained off-limits in Canada’s inquiry. It came during an interview at the ex-spy’s Virginia home, where he described how he went from being the head of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan after 9-11, to becoming the first CIA employee to publicly question the use of torture, to eventually spending two years in jail for leaking agency secrets. During that interview, Kiriakou declined to discuss whether he’d interacted with Canada’s spy services — because, he said, revealing details about a foreign partner remains a cardinal sin in the world of espionage. But he added: “We can talk about Maher Arar.” Kiriakou expressed disgust with his country’s role in sending the engineer to be tortured in his native Syria, and with its continuing failure to issue an apology like Canada has. He described a dynamic within the agency in which one mid-to-high-level officer ignored repeated objections from her subordinates, and insisted on pushing ahead. “I can tell you that a lot of people inside the CIA objected to this,” Kiriakou said. “(They said), ’This is the wrong guy. He hasn’t done anything.”’ Arar was grabbed during a New York airport layover and flown to a notorious Syrian prison. He has described a year-long ordeal that included being beaten and stuffed into a body-sized slot in a windowless dungeon. Arar likened it to being buried alive. At the time, Kiriakou was a branch chief within the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center. While he won’t discuss the branch name, he says it fell under the broader Osama bin Laden unit and the Arar file was being handled by another branch within the center. He says an officer, one level above branch chief, was determined to make the arrest. “I remember hearing some of the conversations

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A former spy has described the debate within the CIA over the arrest, rendition and torture of Canadian Maher Arar (above), saying multiple colleagues warned against it because they were convinced they were punishing an innocent man. — that, ’This is the wrong guy, this is a mistake.’ And then one officer in particular (was) saying, ’No, this is not the wrong guy. We’re going to take him.’ “She was certain that we had the right guy. That Maher Arar was an al-Qaida whatever-he-was — a facilitator, or whatever — and we were moving forward with it.” He wouldn’t identify the officer. He’s just spent two years in prison for leaking agent details to the media — though Kiriakou insists the government punished him for blowing the whistle on torture. Kiriakou only referred vaguely to her general status within the agency. He also made a fleeting reference to a Hollywood hit: “As you may have seen in the movie ’Zero Dark Thirty,’ there were certain people inside the CIA who insisted on pushing forward.” He refused to say whether she was the officer who inspired that movie’s main character — who was named in some media reports, and was linked in the Senate’s torture study to the wrongful rendition of another innocent man, Khaled el-Masri. The CIA declined to comment for this story. So did Arar, although his U.S. lawyer says it’s about time these details emerged.

“Nothing has ever come out here about the CIA involvement,” said Maria LaHood. “He’s never received an apology from the United States... His name continues to be smeared. As far as we know, he’s still on a watch list. “It’s not too late for accountability here. It would be nice, at least, to do some naming and shaming... It doesn’t provide redress but at least it puts a light on what happened, and why it happened, and how it happened, to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.” Another advocate for Arar said the same is true for Canada. Canadians who passed on information to the CIA continued law-enforcement careers and got promotions, said Kerry Pither, who wrote a book about the rendition of Arar and three other Canadians. “We as Canadians need to know: who was it? Who was convincing, who was pressing this (CIA) agent?” Pither said. The federal inquiry concluded it was likely that U.S. authorities relied on information from the RCMP — although it never had access to U.S. intelligence.

Jason MacLeod with the Alma Fire Department says crews were called to a house fire in Mount William, near New Glasgow, around 11:20 p.m. and had the fire under control around midnight. He says because of the barking dog, along with the home’s smoke detectors, everyone inside was able to escape safely. The Canadian Red Cross says it is assisting a man, a woman and their five children with food, clothing and shelter after the fire. MacLeod says the dog also made it out of the burning home. The fire department says the house was not destroyed but it is not clear when the family will be able to return.

Government confirms Canadians evacuated from Yemen OTTAWA — The federal government is confirming that an undisclosed number of Canadians have been taken out of Yemen, amid Russian state media reports that the Kremlin had helped them leave. Russian news agency TASS reported Friday that two Russian planes brought 284 people from Yemen to Moscow on Thursday including Canadian and Polish citizens. Foreign Affairs spokesman John Babcock would not confirm Russian involvement.

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Ambulance impediment AMBULANCE FEES ARE AN OBSTACLE ON THE ROAD TO CARE FOR MANY CANADIANS BY RYAN MEILI AND CAROLYN NOWRY SPECIAL TO THE ADVOCATE Imagine you’re a physician seeing a six-month-old child in clinic. She has a fever and cough, she’s working hard to breathe and her oxygen levels are falling. You know she needs assessment in the emergency room and requires transportation in an ambulance in case her condition worsens en route. Her family understands the urgency of the situation, but asks, “Could we take her there in our car?” Experiencing a medical emergency is an incredibly stressful experience for patients and their families. This stress should not be compounded by worries about getting an ambulance bill they can’t afford. As physicians, we know the importance of the first few minutes of an emergency situation, and the crucial role of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in saving lives. And yet ambulance fees remain a significant barrier to people receiving necessary care across Canada. One young mother recently spoke to the Saskatchewan press about receiving a bill for $7,000 after several ambulance trips were required for her severely-ill daughter.

Connie Newman of the Manitoba Association of Seniors Centres recently described to reporters the plight of an elderly woman who walked to the hospital in -40C because she could not afford an ambulance. How often are people forced to choose the unsafe option of driving themselves or their loved ones to hospital simply because they cannot afford to pay? A recent CBC Marketplace survey revealed that 19 per cent of Canadians did not call an ambulance due to cost. Clearly, this is an issue that our provincial and territorial health ministers need to address. A look across our provinces and territories reveals a patchwork system for financing ambulance services. New Brunswick has recently removed ambulance fees for anyone who does not have private insurance coverage. All other provinces and territories in Canada — with the exception of the Yukon — charge ambulance fees. The burden of cost to patients is highest in the Prairies: Manitoba charges up to $530 per trip, and Saskatchewan tacks on fees for interhospital transfers on top of the $245 to $325 fee for an ambulance pick-up from home. In Ontario, the cost is typically much

lower at $45 per trip, but increases to $240 if the receiving physician deems it unnecessary. The reality on the ground violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the Canada Health Act: equal access to physician and hospital services means little if safe passage to them is anything but. There are a variety of options to reduce this inequity in access. One option is to follow New Brunswick’s lead and offer full coverage. An alternative would be to only charge users if the ambulance ride is deemed medically unnecessary. However, differentiating ‘appropriate’ from ‘inappropriate’ ambulance use isn’t straightforward, and can vary between providers. What’s more, evidence suggests that institutions schools, long-term care facilities, hospitals and police services - more often initiate potentially unnecessary ambulance services than do individuals, as a result of compliance with internal policy or protocol. As with other areas of health care, user fees are a blunt tool: they reduce both necessary and unnecessary use of services. The risk of footing the bill could deter people, especially those living in poverty, from calling for help. This would deny them not only safe transport to hospital, but also the ini-

tial emergency interventions by paramedics that can mean the difference between life and death. Public education and enhanced availability of primary care are more effective ways to decrease unnecessary ambulance use. Ideally, ambulance services should be fully covered for everyone. This would, however, require provincial governments to take on more of the costs. In Nova Scotia, that cost is an estimated $9.7 million, according to the Nova Scotia Citizen’s Health Care Network. This is a drop in the bucket of the $6.2 billion Nova Scotia healthcare budget; a small investment to ensure everyone, regardless of income, has access to vital emergency care. The variety and inequity of ambulance charges in Canada is a policy mess. Canada’s health ministers should work together to establish a consistent and compassionate approach that balances cost with the need to remove barriers to care. Ryan Meili is an expert advisor with EvidenceNetwork.ca, a family physician in Saskatoon and founder of Upstream: Institute for A Healthy Society. Carolyn Nowry is a family physician in Calgary. They are both board members with Canadian Doctors for Medicare. This column was supplied by Troy Media (www.troymedia.com).

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Water is life; we can’t afford to waste it How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing, the threat to your life might only come from people who can’t stand the smell. But most people won’t live for more than three days without water to drink. It makes sense: our bodies are about 65 per cent water. According to the United Nations, about 750 million people lack access to safe water — that’s one in nine! One child dies every minute from a water-related disease and DAVID 1.2 billion people, a fifth of SUZUKI the global population, live in areas where water is scarce. And it’s not just in other countries. As of January, at least 1,838 drinking water advisories were in effect in Canada, including 169 in 126 First Nations communities — some ongoing for years. With Canada’s abundant glaciers, lakes, rivers and streams, we often take water for granted. (In my home province, we give it away to large corporations that bottle and sell it back to us at exorbitant prices!) We shouldn’t be so complacent. People in California thought they had enough water to fill swimming pools, water gardens and yards, support a fertile agricultural industry and shoot massive volumes into the ground to fracture shale deposits to release the oil they contain. Now, with

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the state in its fourth year of severe drought, regulators are considering emergency legislation and have imposed restrictions to deal with shortages. Droughts in California and elsewhere are serious warnings about what we could face in Canada and around the world as growing human populations and industry require ever more water, and as climate change wreaks havoc on the Earth’s hydrologic cycle, causing drought in some areas and flooding in others. According to a UN report, as water supplies dwindle, demand from manufacturing, thermal electricity generation and domestic uses will increase 55 per cent by 2050. The report, Water for a Sustainable World, says that unless we find better ways to manage water, the world could face a 40 per cent shortfall by 2030. About 20 per cent of the world’s aquifers are already overexploited. Water shortages and unsafe water lead to many problems, including food scarcity and crop failure, increased poverty and disease, ecosystem collapse, problems for industry and increasing conflicts over dwindling supplies. As individuals, we should do everything possible to conserve water, but avoiding massive shortages of clean water will take concerted action at all levels of society. The UN report concludes: “The global water crisis is one of governance, much more than of resource availability, and this is where the bulk of the action is required in order to achieve a water secure world.” Water conservation is the best way to ensure we have enough to go around. Recycling wastewater and reserving clean water for drinking, moving away from water-intensive agricultural practices, reduc-

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ing water pollution and avoiding industrial activities that use excessive amounts of water are also important. The report states that the growing demand for meat, large homes, motor vehicles, appliances and other energy-consuming devices “involves increased water consumption for both production and use.” And while population is a factor, the report shows the increase in water demand is double the rate of population growth. At the policy level, better supply and sanitation infrastructure and improved management are essential. Protecting natural assets such as forests and wetlands that purify and store water and reduce flooding will help, especially in light of expected increases in natural disasters as the world continues to warm. Of course, doing all we can to reduce climate change and its consequences is also crucial. The report also notes the world’s current obsession with economic growth has “come at a significant social and environmental cost,” including greater demands on water resources. Getting a handle on water management and conservation concerns us all. It’s also about social justice, as the poor feel the brunt of negative impacts from water pollution and shortages. As the UN report points out, “It is now universally accepted that water is an essential primary natural resource upon which nearly all social and economic activities and ecosystem functions depend.” Water makes life possible. We must never take it for granted. Scientist, author and broadcaster David Suzuki wrote this column with Ian Hanington. Learn more at www.davidsuzuki.org.

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CSIS sets up secret-swapping forum OTTAWA — The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has set up a “multilateral forum of trusted partners” to share information on suspected extremists travelling abroad — a group that extends beyond its customary Five Eyes spy network, a newly released memo says. In the memo, “CSIS Response: Addressing the Terrorist Travel Threat,” Canada’s spy agency also flags a concern about the challenges it faces in going further to build relationships with “non-traditional partners.” The September CSIS memo evokes the kind of information-sharing that led to the overseas torture of four Arab-Canadians following the 9/11 attacks, said Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada. “The very term ‘terrorist travel’ is uncertain and loaded,” Neve said. “Who, exactly, would be covered?” The memo was drafted just weeks before a jihadi-inspired gunman fatally shot a soldier at the National War Memorial and stormed Parliament Hill last October. Those events prompted introduction of sweeping new security legislation to crack down on homegrown extremists, including those intent on heading abroad to join foreign battles. The government has also brought in a bill that would give CSIS more latitude to

obtain a court-ordered warrant authorizing security investigations in other countries. CSIS fears extremists who head to Syria or Iraq may return to Canada to wage attacks. The traveller phenomenon is a “priority collection” requirement for the spy service, the memo says. “Obtaining the required intelligence on this threat to advise the Government requires extensive and resource-intensive investigations at home and abroad given the issue has both international and domestic components.” A heavily censored copy of the fivepage, top-secret memo was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. A full page of proposals “Under Development or Consideration” was withheld from release. CSIS and Canada’s Five Eyes partners — the United States, Britain, Australia and New Zealand — routinely share intelligence on the terrorist travel phenomenon and specific individuals of interest, the memo says. “In addition to Five-Eyes co-operation, Canada engages in regular intelligence sharing on this issue via a multilateral forum of trusted partners initiated by CSIS to address this issue.” CSIS had no immediate answers to questions about the forum. “Investigating and assessing terrorist travel requires close co-operation with allies, including non-traditional

Uber has no plans to give up on Canada BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The strong-arm tactics that some Canadian cities have been using against virtual ride-hailing company Uber have prompted the organization to try to mend fences with local officials even as it maintains hope for further expansion. Municipal governments across the country have launched everything from political salvos to court injunctions against the San Francisco-based tech giant in a bid to keep its fleet of both licensed and unlicensed vehicles off city streets. While Toronto Mayor John Tory has publicly defended Uber, saying companies like it are here to stay, a recent blitz by a lone city cop saw 11 charges laid against UberX drivers in a single weekend. Uber’s opponents have occasionally

succeeded. While the company maintains a presence in Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City and Halifax, it was forced to shut up shop after brief sojourns in Vancouver and Calgary. Uber says there’s an effort afoot to cool tensions with the cities it serves before it pursues new locations. “Uber wants to be everywhere and we are constantly evaluating new opportunities,” said Jeff Weshler, Uber Canada’s General Manager for Regional Expansion. Uber has met with varying levels of resistance in nearly every Canadian city it has operated in even as it has won plaudits for its innovative business model. Municipal officials from Vancouver to Halifax have accused the company of operating illegally at best and endangering the lives of passengers at worst.

partners,” the document points out. But it then goes on to warn: “Canada’s allies are strengthening a number of existing authorities and capabilities to respond to this threat” — in contrast to Canada, where “operational challenges and resource pressures are compounded” by factors that were scrubbed from the memo. Sharing information with “nontraditional partners” substantially increases the risk of abuses, given the likelihood that many of those countries almost certainly have notorious human rights records, Neve said. Similarly, the reference to regular information exchanges in a multilateral forum of trusted partners “raises questions and concerns about what is being shared, about whom and with which countries,” Neve said. Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was detained in New York in September 2002 and deported soon after by U.S. authorities — winding up in a Damascus prison. Under torture, he gave false confessions to Syrian military intelligence officers about involvement with al-Qaida. A federal inquiry concluded that inaccurate information the RCMP passed to the United States very likely led to the Ottawa engineer’s year-long nightmare. A subsequent inquiry headed by former Supreme Court judge Frank Iacobucci into the imprisonment of three other Arab-Canadian men during the same period found Canadian

officials had a hand in their torture in Syria through the sharing of information with foreign intelligence and police agencies. In one case, Canadian officials provided questions to Syrian military intelligence. Even so, Neve noted, a 2011 directive from the public safety minister allows CSIS to share material with other countries even in circumstances that raise significant concerns about torture. A decision on whether to share must be referred to the CSIS director when there is a substantial risk that sending information to — or soliciting information from — a foreign agency would cause harm to someone. The spy service may soon have a wider array of intelligence at its fingertips because the main anti-terrorism bill before Parliament could make available all federally held information about someone of interest to as many as 17 government agencies — including CSIS — with national-security roles. Neve said he might feel reassured if the Conservative government improved oversight of national security activities. The government has consistently rejected the idea during debate of its proposed anti-terrorism measures, saying the existing Security Intelligence Review Committee, which keeps an eye on CSIS, is the envy of the world.

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Rebels’ season ends on close loss to Tigers BY GREG MEACHEM ADVOCATE SPORTS EDITOR Tigers 4 Rebels 3 The Red Deer Rebels were on the short end of the ledger in four of basically five one-goal games, and thus their Western Hockey League season ended Saturday in Medicine Hat. The Rebels simply couldn’t get a break or buy a goal at the most opportune time during the series. Saturday’s game at the old Arena was no exception, as Tigers forward Trevor Cox scored with just under two minutes remaining to give his club a 4-3 victory and a 4-1 win in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference quarter-final. It was a series in which the Rebels could have prevailed in five games. It was that close. “I can’t really put into words how good it felt,” Cox told Ryan McCracken of the Medicine Hat News, in reference to his series-clinching goal. “It was so tight, every game. We saw games that were tied for most of the series. A lot of effort was put into this.” Rebels GM/head coach Brent Sutter was proud of the manner in which his team performed in Saturday’s do-ordie outing. “I felt we played really well again last night, we pushed a lot of the play,” he said Sunday. “We got back to playing like we had been in the series. Outside of 30 minutes of Game 4 (a 5-3 Tigers win Thursday in Red Deer that included an empty-net goal) we were good in this series.” Goaltending was somewhat of a problem for the Rebels Saturday, as Rylan Toth looked out of place in comparison to his previous four starts in the series. “Tother had a tough night, which is too bad because he played well all series. He just fought it last night,” said Sutter. “It was one of those games where he wasn’t as sharp as we would have liked him to be, but he had a good year and played well for the better part of the playoffs for us. “We did a lot of good things last night, but I’m sure that he’d like to have two or three of those goals back, as would our team, but we can’t do anything about it.” Cole Sanford opened the scoring for the Tigers with a power-play goal 6:18 into the contest and Riley Sheen answered for the Rebels with his first goal of the series — also on the power play — just over four minutes later. From there, Steve Owre regained the Tigers’ lead with his second of playoffs at 15:16 of the opening frame and Colton Bobyk pulled Red Deer even 69 seconds later. Evan Polei gave the Rebels their only lead of the contest with a powerplay tally at 3:29 of the second period, setting the stage for Owre’s equalizer — and second of the game — with two minutes left in the middle frame, and then Cox’s late winner. Toth finished with 32 saves, while Marek Langhamer blocked 28 shots at

the other end. Despite Toth’s struggles in Game 5, Sutter wasn’t throwing the rookie stopper under the bus. On the contrary . . . “He learned a lot this year and hopefully going through this experience will make him a better goalie moving forward,” said the Rebels bench boss, who then made a reference to Shane Bendera, who helped the Rebels win a Memorial Cup in 2001 in just his second season as a starter. “When Bendera came in as a 17-year-old he went through some tremendous growing pains his first year and then the following year he won us a Memorial Cup,” said Sutter. The Rebels’ defence was solid through the series, but the club’s biggest guns didn’t provide enough offence. “The craziest thing about this is we gave up only 13 goals — and one was an empty-netter — and we lose four games to one,” said Sutter. “That’s the hardest part for everybody, the fact that it was probably the best hockey we’ve played all year.” Except for the club’s offence, which didn’t produce when needed. The Rebels’s top three forwards — Conner Bleackley, Riley Sheen and Brooks Maxwell — combined for four points, while the Tigers top three — Cox, Sanford and Steve Owre — recorded a combined 20 points. “We had a tough time scoring, our elite players had a tough time scoring,” said Sutter. “With Bleacks, it’s too bad he got hurt before playoffs because he never got the rhythm of the pace of what playoff hockey is until the third period in Game 4 and last night he played well. Sheener, the same thing. He just couldn’t find the net and then last night he was able to. “Max had a tough time offensively in the series. (Presten) Kopeck, too. (Wyatt) Johnson got a couple goals. Our top forwards didn’t give us the production that we would have liked to have. “But the work ethic and commitment to playing hard was there. But we needed some offence from these guys and nothing seemed to work. We tried to change things up to try and get one or two of them going and just couldn’t seem to find a match that seemed to work, not only to get some offensive production but be able to shut down their top guys.”

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Team Canada skip Pat Simmons smiles as he watches his last rock in bronze medal game action against Finland at the men’s world curling championships in Halifax on Sunday. Canada won 8-4.

Canada downs Finland for worlds bronze BY THE CANADIAN PRESS HALIFAX — Canada lead Nolan Thiessen remembers how it felt to make the long journey home from last year’s world men’s curling championship after missing the podium. He didn’t want a repeat performance this year. Skip Pat Simmons and the rest of the Canadian team made sure they got some hardware this time around. Canada bounced back from an ugly semifinal loss to beat Finland’s Aku Kauste 8-4 in the bronze-medal game Sunday morning at Scotiabank Centre. “We wanted to be playing (for gold) this afternoon,” Thiessen said. “So it still stings from last night. But you don’t want to go home empty-handed. Last year, we stood out there at the closing ceremonies while everybody else walked up on the podium. That’s the biggest kick in the head there is. “We found a way and we medalled and we can be proud of that.” The Canadians posted a 10-1 roundrobin record before falling to 2014 champion Thomas Ulsrud of Norway in the Page playoff 1-2 game on Friday. They followed that defeat with their worst showing of the tournament in a loss to Sweden’s Niklas Edin on Saturday night. Edin went on to defeat Ulsrud 9-5 in the gold-medal game Sunday after-

noon for his second world title in three years. The Swedish rink had a mediocre start to the tournament but finished strong. “We focused on our game strategy, opening up the ice, and we picked it up so that we could make the playoffs,” Edin said. “And we felt really strong going into the playoffs and obviously we didn’t make many mistakes there.” Simmons, meanwhile, showed his form had returned in the first end against Finland by nailing a draw to the four-foot for a single. He also delivered a nice hit and roll in the second end to set up a steal and Canada was on its way. “Nice to play like we had all week again,” Simmons said. “We lost this game a year ago and that really didn’t feel good. So we wanted to pull together and fight hard today.” Simmons, Thiessen and second Carter Rycroft teamed with Kevin Koe at last year’s event in Beijing. They made the playoffs but fell to Switzerland in the third-place game. Koe had told the team before the competition that he would be moving on with a new team at the end of the season. The fourth-place result was a big disappointment but not entirely unexpected.

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Alex Anthopoulos will do right by Blue Jays Alex Anthopoulos is home. Well, he’s in a hotel lobby in Montreal, talking on the phone, before the second game of Toronto’s now-annual contribution to the suffusing nostalgic love for the Expos. This is his home city, and he can speak to the loss of Nos Amours in both languages. This time, though, at least new Jays catcher Russell Martin speaks French, too. So Anthopoulos has some time. How much, is the question. The Toronto Blue Jays seem to have arrived at a crossroads, and Anthopoulos is in the middle of the road. It appears to be an article of faith that the Jays and their general manager are facing that simple, shortsighted task: playoffs or bust. In one way, you can see it: the Jays have a top10 payroll, and have lost in the two straight years they have tried to win. (The Jays finished five games clear of BRUCE the playoffs last ARTHUR season, but it felt like more.) Playoffs or bust can incentivize selfishness, and ignores big-picture planning, too. But Anthopoulos’s promoter and protector, Jays president Paul Beeston, spent his off-season avoiding the clumsy, fumbling shivs of his bosses. He found out he was being replaced when his old friend Jerry

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Reinsdorf called to say Rogers had called to hire White Sox executive Kenny Williams, for Beeston’s job. The mess ended with a one-year goodbye for Beeston, and maybe Anthopoulos. Strange days, but the once-boy wonder can’t think like that. “I don’t. I’m 37 years old, and I still think I’m young in my career, and I never sit down and look at my status or my career,” says Anthopoulos. “I guess I feel it’s like a jumping-off point — jumping off in a good way, moving upwards. Because the nucleus we have in place has a chance to be together for a long time. And I think we can continue to add because we’ll have even more

financial flexibility a year from now. There’s a ton of young talent on the team; there’s more on the way. “So I feel like we’re finally in a position to go on a long run with some of the young talent that’s starting to emerge.” That’s a convenient line of thought, but there’s something there. The Jays have young arms, power bats in their prime, one contract that lasts past 2016. They have between $20 million-$30 million (U.S.) coming off the books next summer, after they finally dipped into free agency this winter. There’s not enough depth, and they’re leaning too hard on the kids, probably. The divi-

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sion’s mediocre; maybe there’s enough, and maybe not. But there’s something here. Still, playoffs or bust would loom for most people. Anthopoulos is one of those people who feels like making the best decision helps him sleep at night: as he puts it, “I think something is right or wrong because the process is right or wrong.” He wants to do the right thing. But things go wrong. He’s made mistakes; he’s had bad luck. He’s already had Ricky Romero and Josh Johnson implode on his watch, and when the doctors told him Marcus Stroman would miss the season with a torn ACL, Anthopoulos asked the relevant questions, got his answers, then walked out to his rental car and went for a drive down a Florida highway, past the water, quiet. He didn’t throw his cellphone out the window, or kick the tires. Anthopoulos just let the news that his best pitcher was gone sink in. Then he turned around, and drove back to work. He’s always been this way. Toronto’s boy wonder is five years in, and he spent three years driving away from what the Jays were, and two tough years trying to turn around, and the whole time his answer to everything has been to get back to work. He’s not a political animal; he handles his responsibility, and he stays in the box.

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Flames burn up Oilers in series finale HILLER STOPS 27 AS CALGARY PICK UP CRUCIAL POINTS IN PLAYOFF RACE BY THE CANADIAN PRESS Flames 4 Oilers 0 EDMONTON — The Calgary Flames are continuing to do their part in order to maintain a precarious playoff position. Dennis Wideman had a goal and two assists and Jonas Hiller made 27 saves for the shutout as Calgary earned some crucial points with a 4-0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. Markus Granlund had a pair of goals and Joe Colborne also scored for the Flames (43-29-7), who have won three of their last four. Calgary is also holding on to one of the final playoff positions in the Western Conference with just three games to play. “With the way that everyone else is playing around us and how tight it is, this was pretty much a must-win for us,” Wideman said. “We definitely couldn’t afford to drop this one. We saw Winnipeg had won earlier and Los Angeles won, so we knew we had to win this game.” The Flames didn’t come out with the kind of jump that one would expect for such an important contest, but came around as the game went on. “We could have been a bit better in the first,” said Calgary defenceman Kris Russell. “Hiller had to come in and make some big stops for us.” Karri Ramo started in net for Calgary, but appeared to pull a muscle in his left leg just 58 seconds into the game and had to be helped off the ice. Jonas Hiller came off the bench in relief. “It’s tough to see someone go down,” Hiller said. “The good thing is that it was early so I was still warm from the warm-up. You go from being a spectator to suddenly being the goalie out there. But it worked out well.”

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REBELS: Happy Sutter was tickled with his team’s blueline play. “I was really happy with our defence. I thought Haydn (Fleury), (Kayle) Doetzel, (Nelson) Nogier and (Josh) Mahura were outstanding, and there’s a good chance all four will be back next year,” said Sutter. “And Bobs (Colton Bobyk) gave us everything he could, but unfortunately he’s been playing injured the whole year. Now he’ll get done what needs to get done and hopefully he’ll come back and be at the level he wants to be at and where we need him to be at next season.” Bobyk will undergo knee surgery and should be ready for training camp in August. Sutter will conduct exit meeting with his players today. gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

WORLDS: Good dynamic “It was the worst flight (home) ever,” Thiessen recalled. “I mean it was like an 18-hour flight of hell. But this year we came out and we found a way.” John Morris replaced Koe this season and spent most of the campaign as skip before moving to third after a poor start at the Tim Hortons Brier. A crowd of 2,801 watched a Canadian side that looked more like the team that went on a late tear to win the national title and then finished tied atop the round-robin standings against the world’s best. Kauste got on the board with a point in the third end but Simmons pulled away in the fourth with a draw for three. A deuce in the sixth end essentially sealed the win. The miscues that plagued the Canadian side in the semifinal clunker were replaced by a steady rhythm and confidence. The slumped shoulders and exasperated looks that were common a night earlier were also gone. “They were nice and together,” said coach Earle Morris. “The good dynamic was back in vogue. I really was proud of them.”

The Oilers (23-43-13) have lost three in a row and were swept in their fivegame season series against the Flames. “We wanted this one bad, we talked about it before the game,” said Oilers defenceman Justin Schultz. “This was a huge game for them and it would have been nice to steal a couple of points and kick them a little bit, but that’s the way it goes.” The Flames started the scoring two minutes in, as Colborne was able to direct in a bouncing puck that got behind Edmonton goalie Ben Scrivens. Calgary had the bulk of the second period chances, with Josh Jooris being stopped on a breakaway after a Taylor Hall giveaway. Scrivens also made an acrobatic save to stop Sean Monahan during a scramble. The Flames finally capitalized with two minutes left in the second as Granlund had trouble handling a Jooris pass, but it worked in his favour as Scrivens went down, allowing him to lift it into the net and make it 2-0. Calgary gave itself some breathing room on a power play early in the third as Wideman blasted a shot from the top of the circle off the post and in. Granlund added his second of the game with just over a minute to play. Both teams are off until Tuesday when the Flames return home to face Arizona and the Oilers play the second game of their final three-game homestand against the Los Angeles Kings. Notes: The last time the Flames swept their season series against Edmonton was in 2009-2010, also the last time Calgary made the playoffs... Oilers forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was a late scratch with a foot injury... With the injuries on the Edmonton blueline, the average age of its defencemen for the game was 23.5... There was speculation that 2014 fourth-overall draft pick Sam Bennett would play for Calgary, but he was a healthy scratch. Like hockey, it’s gold or bust for Canada at international curling events. Simmons is still looking for that elusive first world title. Canada hasn’t won world gold since Glenn Howard took the 2012 championship in Basel, Switzerland. Attendance was 4,812 for the final and 56,837 for the week. The venue holds 10,500 for curling.

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FORT MCMURRAY — The Central Alberta Sting placed sixth in the U19 division of the Canadian ringette championships which concluded Saturday. The Sting posted a 4-4 record which included three consecutive wins to open the national championship. Gillian Dreger fired five goals as the Sting won their first match 8-7 over Quebec 2. Shae-Lynn Baxter, Ashlynn Morrison and Kristin Demale also scored for the winners, who got a 37-save outing from Grace Romansky. The Sting followed up with a 7-5 win over Manitoba, then slipped past the Alberta Zone 5 Grit 4-3. Dreger was in on every goal versus Manitoba, scoring six times and assisting on the Sting’s seventh marker by Baxter. Baylee Schulhauser made 28 saves as the winning netminder. Baxter tallied twice and Morrison and Emily Renneberg also connected against Zone 5, while Schulhauser turned aside 17 shots. From there, the Sting dropped respective 6-2, 5-2, 5-4 and 6-4 decisions to Ontario, the Edmonton Elite, Team Saskatchewan and the eventual champion Nepean, Ont., Raiders.. Dreger and Melissa Misutka provided the goals in the loss to Ontario, with Romansky making 34 saves. Baxter and Dreger scored against Edmonton and Romansky blocked 30 shots, and Dreger scored twice, Morrison and Demale added singles and Schulhauser stopped 26 shots versus Saskatchewan. Baxter potted two goals, Renneberg and Emma West each scored once and Romansky made 29 saves in the loss to the Raiders. The Sting slipped past Team Manitoba 7-6 in their final match, getting two goals and a pair of helpers from Dreger. Demale also scored twice, while Renneberg, who added two helpers, and Baxter rounded out the Central attack and Schulhauser made 27

saves. Nepean blanked Team Alberta 3-0 in the gold-medal game. The St. Albert Mission won bronze with a 3-2 victory over British Columbia. ● The U16 Central Alberta Sting placed 10th in the nationals with a 3-5 record. The Sting opened with a 6-1 loss to Quebec, their lone goal coming from Sydney Cherniak. Sally Buzzing made 31 saves in a losing cause. Reese Pollitt and Brianna Abel each tallied twice, Makenna Tonery and Emily LeMasurier each had a goal and Cherniak contributed three assists as the Sting followed with a 6-3 win over the Manitoba Magic. Buzzing stopped 20 shots. The Sting improved to 2-1 with a 7-6 victory over the Edmonton Elite, getting three goals and an assist from Cherniak, additional markers from LeMasurier, Pollitt, Sara Kelly and McKenna Causey and a 28-save performance from Buzzing. The Central Alberta squad then dropped four of their final five games, falling 6-2 to Ontario, 6-3 to the Alberta Zone 5 Pack, 10-5 to the Manitoba Magic and 3-1 to the Pack. The Sting also defeated the Saskatoon Selects 6-2 as Cherniak and Causey each notched two goals, Pollitt and Erin Musselman added singles and Buzzing made 20 saves. Buzzing stopped 20 shots in the loss to Ontario, while Pollitt and Kailyn Smalley provided the goals, and LeMasurier, Causey and Abel scored against Zone 5 with Buzzing turning aside 36 shots. In the loss to Manitoba, Pollitt potted two goals, Cherniak, Smalley and LeMasurier also scored and Buzzing made 24 saves. Smalley scored the lone Central Alberta goal against Zone 5, while Buzzing got in front of 29 shots. Manitoba defeated Ontario 6-4 in the U16 gold-medal contest. Alberta edged the Calgary Pursuit 5-4 in overtime to take bronze.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres couldn’t start the season without yet another blockbuster deal by firstyear general manager A.J. Preller. Preller pushed ahead with his remarkable makeover of the Padres on Sunday when he acquired All-Star closer Craig Kimbrel and outfielder Melvin Upton from the Atlanta Braves for outfielders Carlos Quentin and Cameron Maybin, plus two minor leaguers and a draft pick. While Upton will be reunited with his younger brother, Padres left fielder Justin Upton, this deal centred around Kimbrel. The Padres take on $80.35 million in guaranteed salaries to Kimbrel and Upton while shedding the $24 million guaranteed still owed to the oft-injured Quentin and Maybin. “With the chance to acquire Kimbrel, who’s one of the best in the game, if not the best, it was a price we were willing to pay,” Preller said. “He’s an A-level performer. He’s 26 years old. It’s an opportunity to strengthen our club.” Taking on the remaining $46.35 million on Melvin Upton’s contract appeared to be the price for landing Kimbrel, who is owed a guaranteed $34 million. Melvin Upton was placed on the disabled list Saturday with a left foot injury. Kimbrel led the NL for the second-straight year with 47 saves after saving 50 games in 2013, which tied Baltimore’s Jim Johnson for the major league lead. Kimbrel was tied for most in the NL in both 2011 (46) and 2012 (42). Since his first full season in 2011, when he won the NL Rookie of the Year award, Kimbrel leads all big league closers with 185 saves.

Wranglers fall in bronze medal game at provincials JUNIOR B HOCKEY STONY PLAIN — The Blackfalds Wranglers blew a three-goal lead and fell 4-3 to the Fairview Flyers in Sunday’s bronze-medal game of the Alberta junior B hockey championship. The Wranglers were up 3-0 on goals from Bryce Boguski, Wally Samson and Trent Hermary when the Flyers mounted their comeback. Fairview pulled even with three consecutive second-period markers, then scored the lone goal of the third to nail down the come-from-behind victory. The Wranglers closed out pool play Saturday morning by battling the Cold Lake Ice to a 2-2 draw. Bryce Marshall and Hermary scored for Blackfalds, while Thomas Isaman made 20 saves for the Wranglers who dominated the Ice on the shot clock by a 60-22 margin. Blackfalds finished with a 1-1-1 record in Pool B and qualified for the playoffs, only to be edged 4-3 by the North Edmonton Red Wings in a Saturday evening semifinal. Hermary, with two goals, Samson and Tyler Loomer tallied in a losing cause. Kyle Baumgardner made 35 saves for the Wranglers, who held a slim 41-40 advantage in shots. Edmonton North captured the provincial title with a 3-1 win over the Peace River Navigators.

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A pick-off throw from Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross gets past second baseman Arismendy Alcantara, left, as St. Louis Cardinals pinch-runner Peter Bourjos steals second safely and advances to third on the error in ninth inning during a Major League Baseball season-opening game in Chicago, Sunday. The Cardinals won the game 3-0.

Stars ready for sunshine as opening day thaws frozen fields BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS No team lost more games in spring training than the champion San Francisco Giants, hardly any pitcher struggled more than World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner. So what? Throw out those stats — it’s time to play ball for real. Come Monday, Clayton Kershaw and Masahiro Tanaka will be on the mound, Mike Trout and David Ortiz will be at the plate, Max Scherzer and Pablo Sandoval will be on new teams. In all, 28 teams in action, all hoping to make the Final Ten come October. “If you can play every day like opening day and get yourself up like you do for opening day, you’re probably going to have a good year,” said Giants manager Bruce Bochy, whose club visits Arizona. “That’s how we like to play every game, that it’s the most important game of the year. Opening day is that day. It’s an important game. It probably helps set the tone a little bit,” he said. The 2015 big league season started Sunday night with St. Louis taking on the Chicago Cubs at renovated Wrigley Field. Jason Heyward of the Cardinals got the first hit of the year, a double off Jon Lester in the first inning. Even before Paul Molitor becomes the latest Hall of Famer to try managing or Ortiz tries to stick in the batter’s box under Major League Baseball’s new pace of play rules, some stars had

MLB ALL-STAR GAME Commissioner Rob Manfred intends to announce Monday that Washington’s Nationals Park will host the 2018 AllStar Game, a person familiar with Major League Baseball’s plans told The Associated Press. The person spoke Sunday to the AP on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the site of the game ahead of the official announcement.Washington would be the fourth consecutive National League

already emerged. David Mellor, Jason Griffeth, Derek Gauger and Jedi Saverse, among them. Never heard of ’em? They’re the full-time groundskeepers at Fenway Park and have gotten the diamond ready despite the snowiest winter in Boston since the city began keeping such records. “I was never worried about getting ready for opening day,” said Mellor, director of grounds for the Red Sox. “The field is in great shape. It is looking better with each passing day.” Across the Northeast and Midwest, ballparks were battered by a harsh winter. Blizzards, below-zero temperatures, sheets of ice and wicked winds made preparations even tougher. Chalk this up to baseball’s good fortune: In Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Kansas City and other places that endured a long winter, it’s forecast to be clear enough and in the 60s and 70s on opening day. Quite a contrast from a couple of months ago. At Fenway, up to 40 inches of snow blanketed the field at one point. Mellor and his crew used a half-ton of black sand — like ground-up tires, it absorbs heat and helps the melting process — to clear the crush. Boston was hit with more than 9 feet overall. “When we had all the snow, I thought I’m glad we aren’t opening at home,” Mellor said. “But because of all the hard work of my co-workers, we are actually ready to play now.”

Red Sox newcomers Hanley Ramirez and Sandoval play Monday at Philadelphia. The Fenway home opener is April 13 against Washington. Washington outfielder Bryce Harper was pleasantly surprised when he took his position at Nationals Park on Saturday for an exhibition vs. the New York Yankees. The NHL held the Winter Classic at the ballpark on Jan. 1, and Washington was enveloped by frosty conditions. “It feels fine. I thought it was great,” Harper said. “Someone was telling me that when the NHL does it, they actually have to re-do the whole field or something like that. So that was brandnew grass out there. It was beautiful. It played great.” Harper, Scherzer and the Nationals host the New York Mets on Monday. Tanaka, Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees will be home to play Toronto. Pitcher Adam Warren was eager to see how well the grounds crew had done at Yankee Stadium, especially since the city’s new Major League Soccer team recently played on the grass. “I know they’ve been working hard. The kind of weather that I’ve been hearing that New York has been having, for them to get it in great shape is pretty remarkable,” Warren said Sunday after a Yankees minor league intrasquad game in Tampa, Florida. “I’ll definitely have to give someone a pat on the back for getting the stadium ready, the big league field ready to go after all that snow,” he said.

team to host baseball’s All-Star Game, following the Cincinnati Reds this year, the San Diego Padres in 2016 and the Miami Marlins in 2017. When Miami’s turn to have the game was announced in February, MLB said leagues will continue to alternate who bats last, no matter what city stages the All-Star game. So the American League will bat last in the 2016 game at San Diego and in the 2018 game at Washington. Manfred is scheduled to be at Nationals Park on Monday, when defending NL East champion Washington begins its season against the New

York Mets. The nation’s capital has hosted the All-Star Game four times previously — in 1937, 1956, 1962 and 1969. That most recent one was at RFK Stadium, the first ballpark used by the Nationals when they left Montreal and arrived in Washington in 2005. With Nationals Park, which cost more than $600 million and opened in 2008, getting its first All-Star Game, three existing stadiums have yet to be assigned one by MLB: the homes of the New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Philadelphia Phillies.

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WHL Playoffs First Round Division Semifinals (Best-of-7) Brandon (1) vs. Edmonton (4) (Brandon wins series 4-1) 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 3 Edmonton 2 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Brandon 3 Edmonton 2 (OT) Regina (2) vs. Swift Current (3) (Regina wins series 4-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Regina 4 Swift Current 2 Saturday, Mar. 28 Regina 3 Swift Current 2 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Regina 5 Swift Current 4 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 1 Regina 4 Swift Current 0 Calgary (1) vs. Kootenay (4) (Series tied 3-3) Friday, Mar. 27 Kootenay 4 Calgary 3 Sunday, Mar. 29 Calgary 3 Kootenay 2 (OT) Tuesday, Mar. 31 Calgary 8 Kootenay 7 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 1 Calgary 7 Kootenay 2 Friday, Apr. 3 Kootenay 5 Calgary 4 (OT) Saturday, Apr. 4 Kootenay 4 Calgary 2 Monday, Apr. 6 Kootenay at Calgary, 7 p.m. Medicine Hat (2) vs. Red Deer (3) (Medicine Hat wins series 4-1) Saturday, Mar. 28 Medicine Hat 2 Red Deer 1 Sunday, Mar. 29 Medicine Hat 1 Red Deer 0 (OT) Wednesday, Apr. 1 Red Deer 2 Medicine Hat 1 Thursday, Apr. 2 Medicine Hat 5 Red Deer 3 Saturday, Apr. 4 Medicine Hat 4 Red Deer 3

Staples MH (unsportsmanlike cnd.) 9:17. Shots on goal Red Deer 10 13 8 — 31 Medicine Hat 15 12 9 — 36 Goal — Red Deer: Toth (L, 1-3-1); Medicine Hat: Langhamer (W, 4-1-0). Power plays (goal-chances)Red Deer: 2-7; Medicine Hat: 1-5. NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF x-Montreal 80 48 22 10 213 x-Tampa Bay 80 48 24 8 255 Boston 79 41 25 13 209

GA Pt 183 106 206 104 201 95

Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF y-NY Rangers 78 50 21 7 240 x-Washington 80 44 25 11 237 NY Islanders 79 46 27 6 241

GA Pt 182 107 199 99 219 98

WILD CARD W L OL 42 26 11 41 25 13 40 26 13 36 29 15 39 35 4 32 29 18 32 34 13 29 38 11 30 43 7 22 49 8

Pittsburgh Detroit Ottawa Florida Columbus Philadelphia New Jersey Carolina Toronto Buffalo

GP 79 79 79 80 78 79 79 78 80 79

GF 215 227 228 199 219 208 174 180 208 155

GA 203 215 211 219 240 224 205 216 253 265

Pt 95 95 93 87 82 82 77 69 67 52

x-St. Louis x-Nashville x-Chicago

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF 79 49 23 7 242 79 47 22 10 227 79 48 25 6 225

GA Pt 197 105 197 104 182 102

y-Anaheim Vancouver Calgary

Pacific Division GP W L OL GF 80 50 23 7 234 79 45 29 5 229 79 43 29 7 234

GA Pt 221 107 216 95 208 93

WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt Minnesota 78 44 26 8 223 192 96 Los Angeles 78 39 25 14 212 195 92 Winnipeg 78 40 26 12 222 208 92 San Jose 79 39 31 9 223 222 87 Dallas 79 38 31 10 248 258 86 Colorado 79 36 31 12 212 223 84 Edmonton 79 23 43 13 188 272 59 Arizona 79 24 47 8 167 262 56 Note: a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns. d — automatically qualifies for playoffs; w — qualifies for playoffs through wild card

Kelowna (1) vs. Tri-City (4) (Kelowna wins series 4-0) Friday, Mar. 27 Kelowna 6 Tri-City 0 Saturday, Mar. 28 Kelowna 3 Tri-City 0 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Kelowna 5 Tri-City 3 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Kelowna 5 Tri-City 4 (OT)

Saturday’s results Carolina 3 Philadelphia 2 (SO) Columbus 5 Pittsburgh 3 Winnipeg 5 Vancouver 4 Detroit 3 Minnesota 2 (SO) Ottawa 4 Washington 3 (OT) NY Islanders 3 Buffalo 0 Boston 2 Toronto 1 (SO) Tampa Bay 4 Florida 0 NY Rangers 6 New Jersey 1 Dallas 4 Nashville 3 (OT) Arizona 5 San Jose 3 Los Angeles 3 Colorado 1 Calgary 4 Edmonton 0

Victoria (2) vs. Prince George (3) (Victoria wins series 4-1) Friday, Mar. 27 Victoria 5 Prince George 3 Saturday, Mar. 28 Victoria 5 Prince George 4 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Prince George 4 Victoria 2 Thursday, Apr. 2 Victoria 3 Prince George 0 Saturday, Apr. 4 Victoria 5 Prince George 4 (OT)

Monday’s games Carolina at Buffalo, 5 p.m. Columbus at NY Rangers, 5 p.m. Winnipeg at Minnesota, 6 p.m. Los Angeles at Vancouver, 8 p.m. Dallas at San Jose, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday’s games NY Rangers at New Jersey, 5 p.m. NY Islanders at Philadelphia, 5 p.m. Carolina at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Ottawa, 5:30 p.m. Winnipeg at St. Louis, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Nashville at Colorado, 7 p.m. Arizona at Calgary, 7 p.m. Los Angeles at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Portland (2) vs. Seattle (3) (Portland leads series 3-2) Saturday, Mar. 28 Seattle 4 Portland 3 Sunday, Mar. 29 Portland 3 Seattle 0 Tuesday, Mar. 31 Seattle 5 Portland 2 Thursday, Apr. 2 Portland 8 Seattle 5 Saturday, Apr. 4 Portland 5 Seattle 3 Tuesday, Apr. 7 Portland at Seattle, 8:05 p.m. x — if necessary. Saturday’s summary Tigers 4, Rebels 3 First Period 1. Medicine Hat, Sanford 4 (Cox, Owre) 6:18 (pp). 2. Red Deer, Sheen 1 (Cote, Bleackley) 10:53 (pp). 3. Medicine Hat, Owre 2 (unassisted) 15:16. 4. Red Deer, Bobyk 1 (Mahura, Polei) 16:35. Penalties — Nogier RD (cross-checking) 2:54, Cote RD (slashing) 6:13, Owre MH (hooking) 10:22, Bench RD (too many men) 18:04. Second Period 5. Red Deer, Polei 1 (Sheen, Cote) 3:29 (pp). 6. Medicine Hat, Owre 3 (Sanford, Vannelli) 18:03. Penalties — Hunt MH (charging) 1:59, Lewington MH (high-sticking) 2:34, Penner MH (tripping) 7:54, Lewington MH (hooking) 11:26, Bobyk RD (slashing) 13:42, Owre MH (interference) 14:45. Third Period 7. Medicine Hat, Cox 3 (Burroughs, Becker) 18:14. Penalties — Bench RD (too many men) 6:14, Polei RD (roughing) 9:17, Staples MH (roughing) 9:17,

2. Ottawa, Karlsson 21 (Turris, Stone) 7:15 (pp). 3. Toronto, van Riemsdyk 27 (Holland, Brewer) 12:42. Penalties — Panik Tor (hooking) 1:51, MacWilliam Tor (tripping) 7:06, Kessel Tor (tripping) 8:15, Smith Ott (roughing) 11:09, Panik Tor (roughing) 11:09, Panik Tor (holding) 19:40. Third Period 4. Ottawa, Stone 22 (Turris, MacArthur) 1:09 (pp). Penalties — Holland Tor (tripping) 3:07, Ott Bench (interference) 17:11. Overtime No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shootout — Toronto wins 2-1 Ottawa : Zibanejad goal, Turris miss, Stone miss, Ryan miss, Hoffman miss, MacArthur miss, Karlsson miss. Toronto : Bozak miss, Lupul goal, Lindstrom miss, van Riemsdyk miss, Kessel miss, Kadri miss, Holland goal. Shots on goal Ottawa 12 17 14 2 — 45 Toronto 22 6 8 2 — 38 Goal — Ottawa: Hammond (LO, 17-1-2); Toronto: Bernier (W, 21-28-6). Power plays (goal-chances) — Ottawa: 2-5; Toronto: 0-2. Blues 2, Blackhawks 1 First Period 1. Chicago, Versteeg 14 (Hossa) 14:12. Penalties — Crawford Chi (delay of game) 10:00. Second Period 2. St. Louis, Backes 26 (Schwartz, Shattenkirk) 6:07 (pp). 3. St. Louis, Jokinen 4 (Rattie, Pietrangelo) 15:12. Penalties — Pietrangelo StL (slashing) 1:14, Shaw Chi (charging) 2:16, Rozsival Chi (boarding) 5:35, Bouwmeester StL (hooking) 17:21. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shots on goal St. Louis 16 12 5 — 33 Chicago 12 15 12 — 39 Goal — St. Louis: Allen (W, 21-6-4); Chicago: Crawford (L, 32-18-5). Power plays (goal-chances) — St. Louis: 1-3; Chicago: 0-2. Flyers 4, Penguins 1 First Period 1. Pittsburgh, Sutter 19 (Perron, Cole) 16:21 (pp). 2. Philadelphia, Voracek 22 (Streit, B. Schenn) 19:18 (pp). Penalties — Raffl Pha (hooking) 14:36, Winnik Pgh (cross-checking) 18:31. Second Period 3. Philadelphia, B. Schenn 17 (Voracek, Streit) 12:20 (pp). Penalties — Streit Pha (interference) 7:52, Comeau Pgh (hooking) 12:02. Third Period 4. Philadelphia, White 6 (Couturier, Raffl) 15:05. 5. Philadelphia, Del Zotto 10 (B. Schenn, Giroux) 19:50 (pp). Penalties — Bennett Pgh (tripping) 5:39, Giroux Pha (roughing) 5:39, Voracek Pha (misconduct) 5:39, Bennett Pgh (goaltender interference) 17:22, Hornqvist Pgh (goaltender interference) 19:16. Shots on goal Pittsburgh 22 14 11 — 47 Philadelphia 4 9 7 — 20 Goal — Pittsburgh: Greiss (L, 9-6-3); Philadelphia: Mason (W, 17-17-11). Power plays (goal-chances) — Pittsburgh: 1-2; Philadelphia: 3-4. Capitals 2, Red Wings 1 First Period 1. Washington, Kuznetsov 11 (Niskanen, Green) 3:38 (pp). Penalties — Cleary Det (high-sticking) 1:51, Ovechkin Wash (holding) 10:18. Second Period 2. Washington, Green 10 (Gleason, Ovechkin) 4:42. 3. Detroit, Helm 14 (Datsyuk, Pulkkinen) 12:59 (pp). Penalties — Orpik Wash (tripping) 1:56, Det Bench (too many men) 5:38, Zidlicky Det (clipping) 10:28, Ward Wash (goaltender interference) 12:14, Green Wash (delay of game) 15:45, Brouwer Wash (closing hand on puck) 16:14. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — None. Shots on goal Washington 14 6 8 — 28 Detroit 10 16 10 — 36 Goal — Washington: Holtby (W, 40-19-10); Detroit: Mrazek (L, 15-9-2). Power plays (goal-chances) — Washington: 1-3; Detroit: 1-5.

Sunday’s results Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 1 Washington 2 Detroit 1 Montreal 4 Florida 1 Toronto 3 Ottawa 2 (SO) St. Louis 2 Chicago 1

Everett (1) vs. Spokane (4) (Everett leads series 3-2) Friday, Mar. 27 Everett 5 Spokane 1 Saturday, Mar. 28 Spokane 6 Everett 2 Wednesday, Apr. 1 Everett 2 Spokane 1 (OT) Friday, Apr. 3 Everett 3 Spokane 1 Saturday, Apr. 4 Spokane 4 Everett 3 (OT) Tuesday, Apr. 7 Everett at Spokane, 8:05 p.m.

Saturday’s summary Flames 4, Oilers 0 First Period 1. Calgary, Colborne 8 (Raymond, Wideman) 1:59. Penalties — None. Second Period 2. Calgary, Granlund 7 (Jooris, Wideman) 17:56. Penalties — None. Third Period 3. Calgary, Wideman 15 (Russell, Monahan) 2:16 (pp). 4. Calgary, Granlund 8 (Jooris) 18:52. Penalties — Aulie Edm (cross-checking) 2:10. Shots on goal Calgary 8 11 10 — 29 Edmonton 11 6 10 — 27 Goal — Calgary: Hiller (W, 24-19-4); Edmonton: Scrivens (L, 15-26-10). Power plays (goal-chances) — Calgary: 1-1; Edmonton: 0-0. Sunday’s summaries Maple Leafs 3, Senators 2 (SO) First Period 1. Toronto, Lupul 10 (Brewer, Komarov) 3:10. Penalties — Condra Ott (hooking) 15:48. Second Period

Canadiens 4, Panthers 1 First Period 1. Montreal, Plekanec 24 (Markov, Galchenyuk) 6:36 (pp). Penalties — Kulikov Fla (interference) 5:48, Gudbranson Fla (high-sticking) 5:51, Pirri Fla (hooking) 14:05, Petry Mtl (hooking) 18:31. Second Period 2. Florida, Ekblad 12 (Huberdeau, Barkov) 6:20 (pp). 3. Montreal, Gallagher 24 (Subban, Plekanec) 7:06. 4. Montreal, Parenteau 8 (Petry, Plekanec) 11:27. 5. Montreal, Smith-Pelly 6 (Parenteau) 17:42. Penalties — Jokinen Fla (tripping) 0:51, Weise Mtl (delay of game) 6:15. Third Period No Scoring. Penalties — Huberdeau Fla (tripping) 3:13, Mackenzie Fla (tripping) 4:29, Smith-Pelly Mtl (tripping) 11:08, Barkov Fla (goaltender interference) 11:34, Beaulieu Mtl (high-sticking) 17:22. Shots on goal Montreal 12 9 7 — 28 Florida 4 12 9 — 25 Goal — Montreal: Price (W, 42-16-6); Florida: Ellis (L, 4-3-1). Power plays (goal-chances) — Montreal: 1-7; Florida: 1-4.

Baseball Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 0 0 .000 Boston 0 0 .000 New York 0 0 .000 Tampa Bay 0 0 .000 Toronto 0 0 .000 Central Division W L Pct Chicago 0 0 .000 Cleveland 0 0 .000 Detroit 0 0 .000 Kansas City 0 0 .000 Minnesota 0 0 .000 West Division W L Pct Houston 0 0 .000 Los Angeles 0 0 .000 Oakland 0 0 .000 Seattle 0 0 .000 Texas 0 0 .000

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Monday’s Games Toronto (Hutchison 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Tanaka 0-0), 11:05 a.m. Minnesota (Hughes 0-0) at Detroit (Price 0-0), 11:08 a.m. Boston (Buchholz 0-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 0-0), 1:05 p.m. Baltimore (Tillman 0-0) at Tampa Bay (Archer 0-0),

1:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Samardzija 0-0) at Kansas City (Ventura 0-0), 2:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Weaver 0-0) at Seattle (Hernandez 0-0), 2:10 p.m. Cleveland (Kluber 0-0) at Houston (Keuchel 0-0), 5:10 p.m. Texas (Gallardo 0-0) at Oakland (Gray 0-0), 8:05 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Baltimore at Tampa Bay, 5:10 p.m. Texas at Oakland, 8:05 p.m. L.A. Angels at Seattle, 8:10 p.m.

Atlanta Miami New York Philadelphia Washington St. Louis Cincinnati Milwaukee Pittsburgh Chicago

National League East Division W L Pct 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 .000 West Division W L Pct

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Sunday’s Games St. Louis 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Monday’s Games Colorado (Kendrick 0-0) at Milwaukee (Lohse 0-0), 12:10 p.m. Boston (Buchholz 0-0) at Philadelphia (Hamels 0-0), 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Colon 0-0) at Washington (Scherzer 0-0), 2:05 p.m. Atlanta (Teheran 0-0) at Miami (Alvarez 0-0), 2:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Liriano 0-0) at Cincinnati (Cueto 0-0), 2:10 p.m. San Diego (Shields 0-0) at L.A. Dodgers (Kershaw 0-0), 2:10 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 0-0) at Arizona (Collmenter 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Atlanta at Miami, 5:10 p.m. St. Louis at Chicago Cubs, 6:05 p.m. Colorado at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m. San Francisco at Arizona, 7:40 p.m. San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

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Transactions Sunday’s Sports Transactions HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned D Brandon Gormley to Portland (AHL). WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Recalled C Andre Burakovsky from Hershey (AHL). ECHL ECHL — Suspended Elmira F Ryan Rashid one game. ALASKA ACES — Released F Tanner Sorensen. RAPID CITY RUSH — Released D Sean Erickson. TULSA OILERS — Added G Ian Keserich as emergency backup. BASEBALL American League TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Placed OF Michael Saunders and INF Maicer Izturis on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27, and RHP Marcus Stroman on the 60-day DL. Designated LHP Juan Oramas for assignment. Selected the contracts of RHPs Miguel Castro and Roberto Osuna and 2B Devon Travis from Buffalo (IL). Optioned INF Ryan Goins to Buffalo. BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Placed INFs J.J. Hardy and Jimmy Paredes, OF David Lough and C Matt Wieters on the 15-day DL; Hardy, Lough and Wieters to March 27 and Paredes to April 1. Optioned LHP T.J. McFarland to Norfolk (IL). Reassigned C Ryan Lavarnway and OF Nolan Reimould to minor league camp. BOSTON RED SOX — Placed RHP Koji Uehara and LHP Edwin Escobar on the 15-day DL; Uehara retroactive to March 27 and Escobar to March 29. Reassigned LHP Brian Johnson, Cs Luke Montz and Humberto Quintero, INFs Jeff Bianchi and

Ryu on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27. MIAMI MARLINS — Reassigned C Jhonatan Solano and INF Jordany Valdespin to minor league camp. Placed RHPs Jose Fernandez and Aaron Crow on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of INF/OF Don Kelly from New Orleans (PCL). NEW YORK METS — Placed LHP Josh Edgin and RHPs Bobby Parnell, Zack Wheeler and Vic Black on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Optioned OF Jordan Danks to Lehigh Valley (IL). Placed RHPs Chad Billingsley and Jonathan Pettibone on the 15-day DL and LHP Mario Hollands on the 60-day DL. Selected the contracts of RHP Jeanmar Gomez, LHP Cesar Jimenez, INF Andres Blanco and OF Jeff Francoeur from Lehigh Valley. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Optioned RHPs Brandon Maurer and Kevin Quackenbush to El Paso (PCL). Placed LHP Cory Luebke and RHP Josh Johnson on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of C Wil Nieves from El Paso. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Placed RHP Erik Cordier, INF Travis Ishikawa and OF Hunter Pence on the 15-day DL; Cordier and Pence retroactive to March 27, Ishikawa to March 30. Designated INF Ehire Adrianza for assignment. WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Placed RHPs Erik Davis and Casey Janssen, INF Anthony Rendon and OFs Nate McLouth, Denard Span and Jayson Werth on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27. Selected the contracts of 1B Clint Robinson, 2B Dan Uggla and OF Reed Johnson from Syracuse (IL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Suspended Golden State G Shaun Livingston one game for hitting Dallas F Dirk Nowitzki in the groin.

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Saturday’s Games Charlotte 92, Philadelphia 91 Atlanta 131, Brooklyn 99 Boston 117, Toronto 116, OT Detroit 99, Miami 98 Washington 92, Memphis 83 Golden State 123, Dallas 110 Orlando 97, Milwaukee 90 L.A. Clippers 107, Denver 92 Phoenix 87, Utah 85 Portland 99, New Orleans 90 Sunday’s Games Houston 115, Oklahoma City 112 Cleveland 99, Chicago 94 Indiana 112, Miami 89 San Antonio 107, Golden State 92 New York 101, Philadelphia 91 Utah 101, Sacramento 95 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers, late

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB x-Houston 53 24 .688 — x-Memphis 52 25 .675 1 x-San Antonio 51 26 .662 2 Dallas 46 31 .597 7 New Orleans 41 35 .539 11 1/2 Northwest Division W L Pct GB y-Portland 50 26 .658 — Oklahoma City 42 35 .545 8 1/2 Utah 35 42 .455 15 1/2 Denver 28 49 .364 22 1/2 Minnesota 16 60 .211 34 Pacific Division W L Pct GB

Monday’s Games Portland at Brooklyn, 5 p.m. Tuesday’s Games Phoenix at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m. Charlotte at Miami, 5:30 p.m. Golden State at New Orleans, 6 p.m. San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Sacramento, 8 p.m. L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 8:30 p.m.

Soccer Salt Lake at Kansas City, 6:30 p.m. Vancouver at San Jose, 8:30 p.m.

MLS Eastern Conference GP W L T GF D.C. 4 3 1 0 3 New York 3 2 0 1 5 New England 5 2 2 1 4 Chicago 5 2 3 0 5 New York City 4 1 1 2 3 Orlando 5 1 2 2 4 Columbus 3 1 2 0 3 Toronto 4 1 3 0 6 Montreal 3 0 1 2 2 Philadelphia 5 0 3 2 5

GA 2 2 6 7 2 5 3 8 3 9

Pt 9 7 7 6 5 5 3 3 2 2

Western Conference GP W L T GF 5 4 1 0 7 5 3 1 1 7 4 2 0 2 6 5 2 1 2 6 4 2 1 1 6 5 2 3 0 6 5 1 1 3 6 5 1 2 2 5 5 1 2 2 2 4 0 1 3 0

GA 4 4 4 6 3 7 5 6 3 2

Pt 12 10 8 8 7 6 6 5 5 3

Vancouver Dallas Salt Lake Kansas City Seattle San Jose Portland Los Angeles Houston Colorado

Saturday’s results Chicago 3 Toronto 2 Colorado 0 New England 2 Vancouver 2 Los Angeles 0 Seattle 1 Houston 0 Portland 3 Dallas 1

Sunday, April 12 Orlando at Portland, 3 p.m. Seattle at Los Angeles, 5 p.m. English Premier League GP W D L GF GA Pts 30 21 7 2 63 26 70 31 19 6 6 62 32 63 31 18 8 5 55 28 62 30 18 7 5 62 28 61 31 16 6 9 45 36 54 31 16 6 9 50 45 54 31 16 5 10 42 22 53 31 13 7 11 37 39 46 31 11 9 11 41 39 42 31 12 6 13 35 39 42 31 9 10 12 39 42 37 30 9 9 12 36 41 36 31 9 8 14 33 49 35 31 8 9 14 28 43 33 31 5 14 12 24 44 29 31 6 10 15 29 43 28 31 7 7 17 20 42 28 31 5 11 15 26 49 26 31 7 4 20 35 55 25 30 5 7 18 29 49 22

Chelsea Arsenal Man. United Manchester City Liverpool Tottenham Southampton Swansea West Ham Stoke Everton Crystal Palace Newcastle West Brom Sunderland Hull City Aston Villa Burnley QPR Leicester City

Saturday, April 4 Arsenal 4, Liverpool 1 Everton 1, Southampton 0 Leicester City 2, West Ham 1 Manchester United 3, Aston Villa 1 Swansea 3, Hull City 1 West Brom 1, Queens Park Rangers 4 Chelsea 2, Stoke 1

Sunday’s results San Jose 0 Salt Lake 1 Kansas City 3 Philadelphia 2 Wednesday’s games Columbus at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 5 Burnley 0, Tottenham 0 Sunderland 1, Newcastle 0

Friday, April 10 Colorado at Dallas, 5 p.m.

Monday, April 6 Crystal Palace vs. Manchester City, 1900 GMT

Saturday, April 11 Columbus at New England, 1 p.m. New York City at Philadelphia, 2 p.m. New York at D.C., 5 p.m. Montreal at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7 Aston Villa vs. Queens Park Rangers, 1845 GMT

Golf PGA-Houston Open Sunday At Golf Club of Houston, The Tournament Humble, Texas Purse: $5.9 million Yardage: 7,441; Par: 72 Final (x-won on 2nd playoff hole) x-J.B. Holmes, $1,188,000 65-70-73-64 — Jordan Spieth, $580,800 69-66-67-70 — Johnson Wagner, $580,800 69-68-66-69 — Russell Henley, $316,800 69-68-68-69 — Keegan Bradley, $231,825 70-66-70-69 — Brendon de Jonge, $231,825 73-67-68-67 — Charles Howell III, $231,825 66-70-69-70 — Cameron Tringale, $231,825 68-70-69-68 — Paul Casey, $191,400 68-69-68-71 — Scott Piercy, $178,200 63-74-66-74 — Alex Cejka, $135,300 65-72-70-71 — Chad Collins, $135,300 69-69-70-70 — Austin Cook, $135,300 68-65-70-75 — Charley Hoffman, $135,300 69-68-74-67 — Pat Perez, $135,300 71-68-72-67 — Kyle Reifers, $135,300 71-69-70-68 — Charlie Beljan, $83,490 71-69-70-69 — Jason Bohn, $83,490 71-67-72-69 — Victor Dubuisson, $83,490 67-68-78-66 — Luke Guthrie, $83,490 66-68-73-72 — John Huh, $83,490 68-70-73-68 — Phil Mickelson, $83,490 66-67-75-71 — Patrick Reed, $83,490 68-71-67-73 — Chris Stroud, $83,490 68-68-74-69 — Daniel Berger, $44,330 70-70-68-72 — Jonas Blixt, $44,330 68-68-74-70 — Adam Hadwin, $44,330 70-70-71-69 — David Hearn, $44,330 69-70-73-68 — Whee Kim, $44,330 70-70-70-70 — Hunter Mahan, $44,330 67-68-72-73 — Andrew Putnam, $44,330 67-65-76-72 — Michael Putnam, $44,330 68-68-71-73 — Brendan Steele, $44,330 71-67-73-69 — Shawn Stefani, $44,330 66-69-69-76 — Nick Watney, $44,330 69-68-73-70 — Mark Wilson, $44,330 69-66-76-69 — Scott Brown, $29,700 68-72-70-71 — Ben Crane, $29,700 69-71-72-69 —

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Sergio Garcia, $29,700 Chez Reavie, $29,700 Justin Rose, $29,700 Kelvin Day, $21,236 Graham DeLaet, $21,236 G. Fdez-Castano, $21,236 Tony Finau, $21,236 Cody Gribble, $21,236 Alex Prugh, $21,236 Charl Schwartzel, $21,236 Kevin Streelman, $21,236 K.J. Choi, $15,919 Stewart Cink, $15,919 Chesson Hadley, $15,919 S.J. Park, $15,919 Justin Thomas, $15,919 Erik Compton, $15,114 Jhonattan Vegas, $15,114

67-71-69-74 68-72-72-69 69-68-72-72 68-69-68-77 67-67-75-73 70-68-71-73 69-68-77-68 69-69-71-73 67-69-75-71 70-68-72-72 70-69-69-74 71-69-68-75 72-68-72-71 72-66-75-70 68-72-72-71 71-68-73-71 73-66-72-73 69-69-71-75

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LPGA-ANA Inspiration Sunday At Mission Hills Country Club, Dinah Shore Tournament Course Rancho Mirage, Calif. Purse: $2.5 million Yardage: 6,769; Par: 72 Final a-denotes amateur (x-won on 3rd playoff hole) x-Brittany Lincicome, $375,00072-68-70-69 — 279 Stacy Lewis, $231,449 72-69-68-70 — 279 Morgan Pressel, $167,900 67-72-71-70 — 280 Carlota Ciganda, $106,653 74-71-68-68 — 281 Anna Nordqvist, $106,653 71-72-69-69 — 281 Sei Young Kim, $106,653 72-65-69-75 — 281 Lexi Thompson, $71,595 72-69-71-70 — 282 Suzann Pettersen, $56,812 76-68-72-67 — 283 Mi Hyang Lee, $56,812 74-68-70-71 — 283 Shanshan Feng, $56,812 71-70-70-72 — 283 Angela Stanford, $37,606 72-69-76-67 — 284 Karine Icher, $37,606 74-72-70-68 — 284 Christina Kim, $37,606 73-70-72-69 — 284 Hyo Joo Kim, $37,606 71-74-70-69 — 284 Catriona Matthew, $37,606 71-69-74-70 — 284 Mirim Lee, $37,606 71-70-72-71 — 284 Inbee Park, $37,606 74-69-70-71 — 284

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East Division W L Pct 11 4 .733 9 4 .692 7 7 .500 5 9 .357 4 8 .333

West Division GP W L Pct x-Edmonton 13 9 4 .692 x-Colorado 14 8 6 .571 Vancouver 13 4 9 .308 Calgary 14 4 10 .286 x — clinched playoff berth. WEEK 14 Saturday’s results

Jemile Weeks and OF Quintin Berry to minor league camp. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Placed C Oscar Hernandez, LHP Patrick Corbin and RHPs Matt Stites and David Hernandez on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27, and RHP Bronson Arroyo on the 60-day DL. Released OF Cody Ross. Optioned OF Yasmany Tomas to Reno (PCL). Selected the contracts of C Gerald Laird and INF Jordan Pacheco from Reno and RHP Archie Bradley from Mobile (SL). ATLANTA BRAVES — Acquired OFs Cameron Maybin, Carlos Quentin and Jordan Paroubeck and RHP Matt Wisler and the 41st overall selection in the 2015 first-year player draft from San Diego for OF Melvin Upton, Jr. and RHP Craig Kimbrel. Placed LHP Mike Minor and OFs Melvin Upton Jr. and Joey Terdoslavich on the 15-day DL, Terdoslavich retroactive to April 2. Placed RHPs Shae Simmons and Dan Winkler on the 60-day DL. Placed RHP Arodys Vizcaino and OF Dian Toscano on the restricted list. Selected the contracts of RHP Cody Martin, LHP Eric Stults and OFs Kelly Johnson and Eric Young Jr. from Gwinnett (IL). CHICAGO CUBS — Selected the contract of INF Jonathan Herrera from Iowa (PCL). Designated OF Ryan Sweeney for assignment. Placed RHPs Dallas Beeler and Jacob Turner, LHP Tsuyoshi Wada and OF Chris Denorfia on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 27. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Optioned OF Chris Heisey, INF/OF Kike Hernandez and LHP Adam Liberatore to Oklahoma City (PCL). Reassigned RHPs David Aardsma and Sergio Santos and LHP David Huff to minor league camp. Placed RHPs Kenley Jansen and Brandon League and LHP Hyun-Jin

z-Golden State 63 x-L.A. Clippers 51 Phoenix 39 Sacramento 26 L.A. Lakers 20 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference

National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Toronto 45 32 .584 — Brooklyn 35 41 .461 9 1/2 Boston 35 42 .455 10 Philadelphia 18 60 .231 27 1/2 New York 15 62 .195 30 Southeast Division W L Pct GB z-Atlanta 57 19 .750 — x-Washington 44 33 .571 13 1/2 Miami 34 43 .442 23 1/2 Charlotte 33 43 .434 24 Orlando 24 53 .312 33 1/2 Central Division W L Pct GB x-Cleveland 50 27 .649 — x-Chicago 46 31 .597 4 Milwaukee 38 39 .494 12 Indiana 34 43 .442 16 Detroit 30 47 .390 20

GF 191 142 167 145 133

GA GB 159 — 129 1 171 3 1/2 176 5 1/2 159 5 1/2

GF 180 174 162 170

GA GB 125 — 168 1 1/2 198 5 179 5 1/2

New England 12 Buffalo 11 Rochester 10 Minnesota 2 Calgary 14 Colorado 9 Edmonton 17 Vancouver 10 Friday’s results Colorado 9 Calgary 8 (OT) Edmonton 15 Vancouver 14 (OT) Minnesota 12 New England 8 Rochester 11 Toronto 7 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.

5-PIN BOWLING PROVINCIALS SHERWOOD PARK — Red Deer’s Greg Gigliuk captured the men’s singles title in the Alberta 5 Pin Bowlers Association Open Championships. Gigliuk cruised through the 10-game qualifying with a 288 average. Defending men’s singles champ Gary Baird of Blackfalds was runner-up in qualifying with a 277 average. The top five bowlers from the field of 15 entrants then competed in a stepladder to determine the provincial representative in the nationals June 3-6 in Oshawa, Ont., and Gigliuk advanced to the final and dominated Derek Home of Calgary to the tune of 354-200. Home reached the championship game with a semifinal win over Baird. Gigliuk was a double winner in the provincials, helping the Central contingent take the men’s team crown. The other Central team members are Baird, Victor Fobert of Drayton Valley, Gene Ziebarth of Millet, Brandon Cockburn of Leduc and Eric Kjos of Wetaskiwin. The Central women’s team settled for silver and the Central mixed team took bronze. Central gathered a total of 31 aggregate points and lost the provincial banner to Calgary by two points.

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Holmes takes Houston Open in playoff HOUSTON — J.B. Holmes used a strong start Sunday for a Houston Open victory in a three-way playoff against Jordan Spieth and Johnson Wagner. The 32-year-old Holmes birdied the first five holes and nine of the first 12 after starting the day six shots back of Jordan Spieth. He had a 64, the day’s low round, and won on the second playoff hole for his fourth PGA Tour victory and the $1,188,000 check. Although Holmes’ missed birdie putt had given Wagner another chance, his short putt for par lipped out. “I knew I had to play a really low round and I started out great,” Holmes said. “It worked out for me.” Spieth, the hottest player on the Tour heading into the Masters, was trying to win his second playoff in three weeks, sandwiched around a runnerup finish in the Texas Open last Sunday. But he bowed out on the first playoff hole after his approach shot landed in a bunker and, lying two, he couldn’t get anywhere close to the cup on his chip. Wagner, who got into the field only through a sponsor’s exemption, admitted being “pretty bummed” by falling short but said he was hopeful his career is pointed in the right direction again. He was trying to become only the second player to get into the Masters on the weekend before, having done it previously by winning Houston in 2008. Holmes’ final-day rally was the biggest on the Tour since Matt Jones also came from six down to beat Matt Kuchar in a playoff last April. The Houston Open has featured more playoffs than any tournament on the circuit. Wagner and Holmes hit perfect drives on the first playoff hole — both were on No. 18 — while Spieth almost landed in the water, then wound up buried in the sand. “I’m not sure what happened,” he said. “I heard something or maybe it was just me. It’s not an excuse. I got down in the sand and caught it fat and didn’t give myself a chance to continue in the playoff. But it was a great Easter Sunday.” Earlier, Spieth had seemingly shot himself out of contention with a poor approach on No. 18, the hardest hole

on the course. He wound up with a steep downhill lie and a bunker to clear. However, he chipped within 11 ½ feet, then calmly made the putt. Spieth was trying to become the second-youngest player after Tiger Woods to win a third PGA Tour event before his 22nd birthday. He also could have passed Jimmy Walker, who pulled out of the tournament before it began citing illness, for the current season’s points-standing lead. Still, Spieth thinks he’s well positioned to contend this week in the Masters. He finished second to Bubba Watson last year. “I felt very comfortable with more and more pressure going into Augusta, which has the most pressure anywhere,” he said. Spieth earned his first PGA victory before he turned 20, but he’s still pursuing a breakthrough in one of the majors. Beginning the final round with a single-stroke lead over three players, Spieth didn’t make a lot of noise early. Meanwhile, Holmes was shuffling the leaderboard deck, negating a birdie on the third hole with a bogey on the sixth, then stringing together six pars together. But he reclaimed a piece of first place with birdies on 13 and 14, giving his fans, including his parents who had come down from Dallas on Sunday, a jolt of energy. Holmes began the day as an afterthought, tied for 18. But he turned the corner having shot a 29, tying the tournament course record for the front nine. His birdie on No. 8 pulled him even with Spieth and another on No. 9, coupled with a Spieth bogey back on six, gave him a lead he wouldn’t relinquish before he left the course to await his fate. “I’ve been working on taking it one shot at a time,” Holmes said. “I did a pretty good job of that today.” When he got to 9 under through only 12 holes, speculation began as to whether he might have a 59 in him. He didn’t. A bogey on the par-3 16th hole also cost him a shot at breaking the 18-hole course record of 63. Adam Hadwin and David Hearn were the top Canadians in the tournament, finishing tied for 25th spot at 8-under for the tournament. Hadwin, from Abbotsford, B.C., shot a 3-under 69 on the final day while Hearn, of Brantford, Ont., shot a 4-un-

Adam Scott going back to long putter for best odds at Masters title AUGUSTA, Ga. — Adam Scott showed up at Augusta National on Sunday with a familiar friend — his long putter. Scott said the Masters is too important for him to keep experimenting with the short putter that he used during the Florida swing with mixed results. The anchored stroke used for the long putter will be outlawed starting in 2016, and the Australian appeared to be getting an early start in making the change. But just not for this week. And probably not in June, July or August for the other majors. “It just seemed like the sensible thing to do,” Scott said. “I’m not here to just see what happens. I’m here to get the job done, and the odds are more in my favour of doing that with the longer putter considering I’ve used it the last four years.” Scott tied for fourth on the fast greens of Doral. He then missed a series of short putts at Innisbrook and missed the cut for the first time in nearly three years on the PGA Tour. His putting was suspect a week later at Bay Hill when a good start turned into a tie for 35th. Going back to the long putter was hardly a problem, and Scott smiled when asked if it was similar to going back to an old girlfriend. “Depends on the girlfriend,” said Scott, who got married right after the Masters last year. He didn’t start playing this year

der 68. Weyburn, Sask. native Graham DeLaet placed 42nd at 6-under. Of the three players tied for second through 54 holes, only Wagner contended Sunday. Scott Piercy, who had tied the tournament course record with a 63 Thursday for the first-round lead, faded gradually and wound up five shots back. Austin Cook, one of four qualifiers to earn spots in the field, got to 15 under through eight holes but struggled with bogeys the rest of the way

— including the last three holes — to finish six behind in 11th place in just his second PGA Tour event. Three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson was only a shot off the lead through 36 holes. But he began the day, like Holmes, six strokes back, having shot 75 Saturday with three consecutive closing birdies. Although he birdied the first hole, the tournament’s 2011 winner never made a serious move and posted a 71 to wind up in a 17th-place tie, seven shots behind Holmes.

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until his wife gave birth to their first child in February. His putts — two of them actually — are part of the lore at Masters. Scott made a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole in 2013 that ultimately got him into a playoff with Angel Cabrera. He then sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the second extra hole to become the first Australian in a green jacket. He went to No. 1 in the world a year later. Scott first went to the long putter in 2011, though what gets overlooked is that his overall game improved. He ranked among the top 30 in total driving (distance and accuracy) from 2011 through 2014, compared with only one year in the top 30 dating to 2003. The putter became a big part of his identity, however, especially winning the first major. That will have to change in 2016, and Scott appeared to be working toward the change at the start of this year. Scott, however, is at a stage in his career where he is trying to add majors. There are only four a year, starting at Augusta. “I certainly think I’ll be putting with the longer putter later on this year,” he said. “It’s a process. I’ve got time up my sleeve to change. If you call the last few weeks a bit of an experiment, it’s good to know that I learned things about what I was doing and what I think about and what my principles are in the putting.” Scott was wearing his green jacket on Sunday to help present trophies to the winners of the Drive, Chip and Putt contest in its second year.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Brittany Lincicome made a surprise victory leap into Poppie’s Pond for the second time in her career early Sunday night in the ANA Inspiration. Lincicome eagled the par-5 18th in regulation to pull even with Stacy Lewis and outlasted her U.S. Solheim Cup teammate with a two-putt par in fading light on the third extra hole. “Super emotional,” Lincicome said at the 18th green after the victory. “I’m standing here, physically shaking like a leaf still. It’s over and I’m still shaking.” Lewis had three chances to win on the 18th. She missed birdie putts from 13 feet in regulation, 15 feet on the first extra hole and 12 feet on the second. “The initial reaction is disappointed, obviously,” Lewis said. “But I played great and I hit some really good putts there, especially at the end. ... I just played solid all day, so I have to remind myself of that and not get too frustrated. It just wasn’t quite meant to be today.” On the third extra hole, Lewis left her 103-yard approach from a sandfilled divot short of the green and her chip stopped 12 feet in front of the pin. Her par putt came up an inch short,

and Lincicome two-putted for the victory — missing a 10-footer and holing out from 1 ½ feet. Playing a group ahead of Lewis, Lincicome hit a 5-iron from 190 yards to 10 feet to set up her closing eagle that matched Lewis at 9-under 279. “The first time it felt fairly easy because I thought I was so far out of the tournament that I never had a chance,” Lincicome said. “I wasn’t nervous at all.” The long-hitting Lincicome, also the 2009 winner, finished with a 69. Lewis, the 2011 champion, closed with a 70 in tricky windy conditions. “Once we got back in that corner around 13, 14, the wind just kind of went crazy on us,” Lewis said. “Couldn’t figure out which direction it was going. It was changing directions. It changed when we were on 10. It changed when we were on 16. It changed when we were on 18, multiple times during the playoff. The wind was all over the place. I think that was the biggest challenge.” Lincicome lost a playoff to Inbee Park last year in the LPGA Championship, one of the tour’s five majors. The 29-year-old Florida player, a six-time winner on the LPGA Tour, is projected to jump from 18th to sixth in the world ranking. Two strokes ahead of playing partner Sei Young Kim and four ahead of Lincicome with five holes left, Lewis missed a chance for her third major title.

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Wisconsin players celebrate after an NCAA Final Four tournament college basketball semifinal game against Kentucky Saturday, in Indianapolis. Wisconsin won 71-64 and will play Duke in the NCAA college basketball final. The Badgers will going for their first title since 1941. As if they needed any more motivation, Krzyzewski has been waving his 2010 title ring in their faces all tournament. He earned it in Indianapolis, in the same building as this year’s Final Four, and steps away from where he won his first championship at the Hoosier Dome in 1991. “That’s what we want to get,” Okafor said, glancing at the glittering ring on Coach K’s hand. “We’ve always talked about us having an opportunity to have a national championship ring.” The loveable goofballs from Wisconsin (36-3) are standing in their way, and nobody can argue they haven’t earned the right. Only three other teams have faced the highest possible seed in every game on the way to the championship since the field expanded to 64 in 1985. Two of those lost in the title game.

None had to face another No. 1 seed. “They know they have a chance to make a mark in history. They understand that,” Ryan said Sunday. “But they’re enjoying it while they do it, and that’s important, too.” Indeed, the Badgers have become the clown princes of the NCAA Tournament. From messing with stenographers to podium hijinks, to their penchant for playing Super Smash Bros., the free-spirited Big Ten champs have taken an entire fan base — and plenty of casual fans — on quite ride. “That’s just how we are,” explained the Badgers’ Sam Dekker. “Some people tell us on Twitter, ’Focus, guys!’ But that’s just us. We know when to focus.” Or, as teammate Nigel Hayes put it, “We don’t try to be ourselves. We just ARE ourselves.” What they are is an offensive pow-

U.S. downs Canada for women’s world hockey title BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MALMO, Sweden — The memory of Sochi fuelled the United States as they fought off Canada 7-5 to win the women’s world hockey championship Saturday. Tournament MVP Hilary Knight was one of 13 players on the U.S. team who experienced heartbreak in last year’s Olympic final in Sochi, Russia. They led 2-0 with four minutes to go, but Canada tied the game and took the gold in overtime. So when the Canadians came back from a three-goal deficit Saturday to tie the game 5-5 heading into the third, the U.S. did not let world championship gold slip away. “Huge motivator,” Knight said. “We had the hump on our back, the monkey on our back from Sochi and that didn’t feel good. We came out with a win and it feels really good.” Canada may have won the last four Olympic gold medals, but the Americans have now taken five of the last six world championships. They defended the title they won in Ottawa in 2013. The U.S. and Canada have met in all 16 world finals with this year’s the highest scoring. Canada won the first eight, but the U.S. has now beaten them in six of the last eight.

“We haven’t been as successful in the world championships,” Canadian head coach Dough Derraugh acknowledged. “It’s definitely something we’ll have to look at and plan better and figure out what is causing us to get behind the U.S. in these events.” Brianna Decker scored the winner at 11:42 of the third period with Kendall Coyne adding a power-play insurance marker at 13:18. The U.S. went undefeated through the tournament and scored three power-play goals in the final. They were lethal with an extra attacker throughout the tournament with a 44 per cent success rate. The Americans had contributions from seven different scorers in the final as Knight, Anne Pankowski, Megan Keller, Anne Schleper and Haley Skarupa also scored. Rebecca Johnston of Sudbury, Ont., countered for Canada with a pair of goals. Montreal’s Ouellette, Marie-Philip Poulin of Beauceville, Que., and Brigette Lacquette of Mallard, Man., also scored in front of an announced 1,533 at Malmo Isstadion. Canadian starter Anne-Renee Desbiens of La Malbaie, Que., was replaced after one period by Genevieve Lacasse after stopping 16 of 20. Lacasse, from Kingston, Ont., turned away 13 of 16.

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INDIANAPOLIS — Duke languished in the shadows of Kentucky all season, the big blue juggernaut that nobody seemed to be talking about. It was a rarity for a program with such a championship pedigree, not to mention a record-setting coach and superstar freshmen. They can thank Wisconsin for finally returning to the limelight. The fun-loving Badgers ended the Wildcats’ pursuit of perfection in the national semifinals, and set up an intriguing showdown in Monday night’s title game: Duke trying to give Mike Krzyzewski his fifth national championship, Wisconsin trying to capture its first in 74 years. “I don’t think basketball fans that I know would ever say that Duke didn’t have a good team,” countered Badgers coach Bo Ryan, who won four Division III titles at Wisconsin-Platteville. “A lot of people thought they had a pretty good team because they spanked our team at our place in December,” he said. “I can’t say that they were ignored, that’s for sure.” Yet the buzz at the Final Four this week was focused on Kentucky. The only folks giving the Badgers much of a chance were wearing red and white and scarfing down cheese. Along with the coach in the other locker room. “Coming into the year, I thought they’d be the best team in the country, and they have been,” Krzyzewski said. “It’s just that Kentucky’s undefeated performance has overshadowed just how good Wisconsin has been, until (Saturday) night. There aren’t any shadows anymore.” Only spotlights. The Blue Devils (34-4) have run roughshod through the NCAA Tournament, relying on suffocating defence and game-changing freshman Jahlil Okafor to shut down opponents. They’re allowing just 55 points per game, one of the finest defensive performances in tournament history. Meanwhile, Okafor and his merry band of freshmen — Justise Winslow, Tyus Jones and Grayson Allen — have risen to the challenge of the game’s biggest stage. The four led the way in a semifinal blowout of Michigan State, a game never in question after the first 5 minutes. “We want to be one of those teams that coach is bragging about five, seven years later,” senior guard Quinn Cook said. “So that’s the motivation for us, to be special.”

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here was plenty of tail-wagging and doggie love and affection this past weekend at the Red Deer and District Kennel Club’s annual Spring Dog Show. Over 900 dogs of all ages, breeds, and sizes headed into Westerner Park’s UFA Agricentre to strut their looks and structure before judges in conformation showing. Others demonstrated their good behaviour, training, and listening skills during Obedience and Rally Obedience, also called Rally-O, trials. Awards for Best in Show, Best Puppy in Show, Best Brace in Show, and Best Baby Puppy in Show were handed out at the conclusion of each day. While there were plenty of well-groomed dogs and puppies to look at in the rings, potential dog owners and those looking to add another furry friend to their family, were invited to see the dogs up-close for themselves, and talk to the different owners and handlers about the different breeds, and differences between them. Echocardiogram Clinics, Scent Hurdle Racing competitions and a fun rally match were also held. The Red Deer and District Kennel Club will host their next dog show on Friday, Oct. 30 through Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015.

TOP: Jenna Macatangay grooms three-month-old shih tzu, Diva. ABOVE: May Blary grooms Chouchou, a dandie dinmont terrier.

CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: Gwen Haynes and her dog Lana, a 3-and-a-half year old Rotweiler go through an Obediance trial; Handlers adjust the stance of their German Short-Haired Pointer dogs during Conformation; Danny DeTonnancour takes a moment to brush his Pekingese dog, Grand Champion Weitoi Daragon (or Dhar for short) during Conformation.

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Wood heating gains favour BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ATHENS, N.Y. — With the touch of a finger on an iPod-style screen, Eric Besenfelder can monitor and troubleshoot the shiny, wood-pellet furnace that heats Athens Elementary School in the Hudson Valley. Like the smoky, outdoor wood boilers that have proliferated in rural areas over the past 20 years, the wood furnace at Athens is housed in a shed behind the building. But that’s where the similarity ends. “This burns very cleanly and produces very little ash,” said Besenfelder, director of facilities for the Coxsackie-Athens School District, beside the Hudson River 30 miles south of Albany. “It takes no more maintenance than an oil boiler. Everything’s automated.” Athens is among a growing number of schools, government buildings, nature centres and homes that have switched from fossil fuels to renewable wood heat in Northern states to save money and sup-

port the local forestry economy. At least 10 states offer incentives including grants, low-interest loans, tax credits and training programs to promote biomass heating, according to the Alliance for Green Heat. The New York Energy Research and Development Authority is offering homeowners 25 per cent of the installed cost of an advanced wood-pellet boiler up to $20,000, with a $4,000 bonus if they’re replacing a smoky old-fashioned wood boiler. Large commercial installations can get 25 per cent of the cost, up to $150,000. The Northern Forest Center, a non-profit based in Concord, New Hampshire, is promoting the biomass heat industry by subsidizing the installation of highefficiency pellet boilers in “model neighbourhoods.” The idea is to create a critical mass of users to increase familiarity with the systems and demonstrate their value. The first such neighbourhood was launched in Berlin, New Hampshire, in 2011, and includes 40 homes, an arts centre and two housing complexes. Homeowners have saved close to $160,000 on heating

fuel by switching to pellets from oil heat, according to Northern Forest Center director Maura Adams. The idea is catching on beyond the model neighbourhood, with about 300 pellet boiler installations statewide, she said. Model neighbourhoods have also been launched in Maine and Vermont, and most recently, in the Adirondacks, where the project subsidized a pellet boiler in the Saranac Town Hall last November. Jerry Delaney, a Saranac councilman, said the town expects to save $1,000 a year by heating with pellets instead of oil. According to the Northern Forest Center, the Northeast consumes more than 80 per cent of the U.S. supply of home heating oil and spends more than $6 billion annually on fossil fuels. Rural areas usually have no access to natural gas, the cheapest and cleanest-burning fossil fuel, and must rely on oil and propane delivered by truck.

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Craig Hames, of Evansville, Ind., participates in a demonstration with other opponents of Indiana Senate Bill 101, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, in Indianapolis on Saturday. Protesters are pushing for a state law that specifically bars discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Protesters march to NCAA Final Four site to call for gay rights BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INDIANAPOLIS — Hundreds of people calling for Indiana to add protections for gays and lesbians to the state’s civil-rights laws marched through downtown Indianapolis Saturday, attracting the attention basketball fans attending the NCAA Final Four, some of whom offered the protesters cheers of support. The march came two days after Indiana lawmakers responded to an uproar over a new religious objections law and tweaked the law to address concerns that it would allow discrimination against gays and lesbians. March organizer Dominic Dorsey II told the crowd as it gathered on the steps of the city’s Monument Circle that the Legislature’s move was only a beginning. He said lawmakers now need to add legal protections to state law to prohibit workplace discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. “This new language that they’ve added is like stabbing somebody in the back and then pulling it out three inches and saying, ’You’re all right, right? We’re good now, right?” he told crowd, which shouted back “no!” Dorsey then led the gathering in chanting “Hoosiers don’t discriminate! — No more Band-Aids masking hate!” as they began a march that carried them several blocks past the city’s business district, bars and restaurants to the Lucas Oil Stadium, home of this year’s men’s Final Four. Dozens of the marchers carried rainbow flags, American flags and Indiana state flags as well as signs reading “No hate in our state,” ”Equal rights for all“ and other messages. Some pushed baby strollers with their children, others had dogs on

leashes and many wore blue T-shirts reading ”Indy Welcomes All.“ Police officers who blocked intersections so the protesters could march along downtown streets without incident estimated that between 500 and 600 people took part in the march. There were no arrests and the protest was “very peaceful,” said Indianapolis police spokesman Lt. Richard Riddle. As the crowd approached Lucas Oil Stadium chanting, college basketball fans watched the passing spectacle under cool, sunny skies. Their response to the march was generally positive, with some appearing amused, others cheering the crowd on and many using their smartphone to record the moment. There were no signs during the march of supporters of Indiana’s religious objections law. When the marchers began chanting “No hate in our state!” Wisconsin Badgers fan Tammy Holtan Arnol clapped and cheered and then shouted back at the passing procession “No hate in your state!” The 46-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin, who was in town for Saturday’s semifinal between Wisconsin and Kentucky with her husband and their 7-year-old son, said she believes Indiana’s law was “hateful.” She said the changes Indiana lawmakers made to the law in response to sharp criticism from around the nation and concerns raised by major corporations was just an effort to obscure the law’s real intentions. “It was a shallow move to make it seem like it wasn’t to discriminate, but it really was,” she said. Her 57-year-old husband, Tom Arnol, noted that Wisconsin, like Indiana’s doesn’t have protections for the LGBT community, even though he said many Wisconsin residents want such protections in place.

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TORONTO — Here are five things to look for in Canadian business this week: — Hudson’s Bay Co. earnings. The Canadian retail sector has had a rough start to the year. Target and Future Shop were the biggest names to announced their closing, but they weren’t alone. Investors will be looking to see how the country’s oldest retailer (TSX:HBC) fared when it reports its results on Tuesday. — Joe Oliver. The country’s finance minister is expected to deliver a speech to the Economic Club of Canada in Toronto on Wednesday. Oliver has pledged to deliver a balanced budget, but revealed little else when he announced the date last week. Watch the speech for any details about what Oliver might have in store on April 21. — Media earnings. Two of Canada’s major media companies will report their financial results on Thursday. Results from both Postmedia Network Inc. (TSX:PNC.B), owner of the National Post and various other newspapers, and cable channel owner Corus Entertainment (TSX:CJR.B) will provide some insight into whether the sluggish advertising market is showing any signs of recovery. — Housing data. The health of Canada’s real estate market is always the focus of much attention. Statistics Canada is expected to deliver the latest numbers on building permits and its new housing price index for February on Thursday. Meanwhile, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. will release preliminary housing start numbers for March on Friday. — Jobs numbers. Statistics Canada delivers its labour force survey for March on Friday. The numbers will provide a key piece of information about how the economy fared in the first quarter. Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz has warned the quarter would be “atrocious,” but many private sector economists have suggested it might not be quite that bad.

Greek finance minister to meet IMF head, U.S. Treasury officials ATHENS, Greece — Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will travel to Washington to meet with International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and unspecified US Treasury officials, the Greek government has announced. Varoufakis will meet Lagarde Sunday evening and the Treasury officials Monday. Greece is locked into difficult negotiations with its creditors over its bailout program and this has delayed the disbursement of a 7.2 billion euro ($7.9 billion euros) aid tranche and led to a cash crunch, forcing the government to tap into reserves to meet its obligations.

Revenge-porn website operator sentenced to 18 years in state prison SAN DIEGO — The California attorney general says a San Diego man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for operating a “revenge porn” website and charging victims to remove the images. Attorney General Kamala Harris said Friday that Kevin Bollaert’s sentence shows there are severe consequences for exploiting people online. Bollaert was convicted in February of identity theft and extortion in San Diego Superior Court. Prosecutors say he ran the website ugotposted. com, where people put nude photos of ex-lovers, who then had to pay Bollaert to take down the images.

Tax considerations for contract/freelance workers The world of work in Canada is changing, but not necessarily for the better. A recent report from CIBC World Markets shows job quality in Canada is at a record low and doesn’t show any signs of turning around soon as more and more Canadians turn to self-employment, contract and freelance work. The number of self-employed Canadians has been rising for the last 25 years and last year grew at a rate four times faster than the number of paid employees. Self-emTALBOT ployment is considered to be BOGGS lower quality because it generally pays less than salaried positions. Other surveys and data indicate that temporary and contract work is growing faster than permanent work, particularly for younger

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Canadians who are having difficulty finding full-time positions after graduation, and for people who have lost their jobs due to cutbacks or other reasons and are turning to freelancing and/or contract work. These non-full-time working arrangements have some special tax considerations associated with them. “If you are going to work in a part-time or freelance situation it’s a good idea to be aware of the tax implications when you first get started,” advises Caroline Battista, a senior tax analyst with H&R Block. “Get a good system of record keeping right from the beginning and start your business by knowing how you are being paid and tracking your expenses.” Freelancers, for example, don’t have money withheld from their pay for taxes, so they must put aside money for income taxes. If your taxes are over a certain amount for a period of two years, the government usually will demand that you pay taxes quarterly based on the amount of tax you paid the previous year. As a self-employed person, you are responsible for paying both the business and personal portion of

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your Canada Pension Plan contributions. If your self-employment income exceeds $30,000 a year you will be required to collect and remit GST/ HST to the government. You can opt to pay GST/HST quarterly, which makes managing your tax obligations easier and will avoid you getting hit with a big tax bill at the end of the year. Once you apply for a GST/HST account you have to start collecting the tax. As a self-employed person, you are allowed to claim more deductions than a salaried employee, such as home office expenses, travel and vehicle expenses and equipment, but the expenses must help you earn income and you must have itemized receipts. Credit card statements are not enough. Your self-employed expenses must relate to a workspace that is either your principal place of business or used exclusively for the purpose of earning income from the business. Principal usually is interpreted as being more than 50 per cent of your time.

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Pemex restoring production BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s state-run oil company continues to search for three missing workers from a platform fireball that killed four others, while beginning to restore production at the damaged Gulf of Mexico facility, officials said Sunday. Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, will start processing 170,000 barrels of crude by Monday and expects to restore 80 per cent of the pre-fire production in the coming week, said Gustavo Hernandez, general director of exploration and production. The Abkatun platform was handling 220,000 barrels of crude when a fire hit on Wednesday, causing the evacuation of 301 workers, some of whom were forced to leap into the sea to escape the flames. Some 45 people sought medical attention, according to Pemex statistics shown in a press conference. Hernandez said the accident, whose cause is still under investigation, won’t affect production projections from that region of the gulf of 646,000 barrels of crude a day and 1.4 billion cubic feet of gas. He said the Navy continues to help in the search for three missing workers, one from Pemex and two from the contractor, Cotemar. “The effort won’t stop until we find them,” he said. The Abkatun A platform largely serves to separate gas, oil and other petroleum products, and pump them to refineries onshore. Pemex said it managed to avert any significant oil spill because the fire happened on a processing platform where the feeder lines could be turned off, rather than at an active oil well

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HEAT: Filling a void For the advanced pellet boilers, fuel is delivered by a converted oil or grain truck and blown into a storage hopper. Automated augurs feed the pellets into the burner and remove fine ash, which can be spread as a fertilizer on farm fields. Heat circulates through the building via hot-water radiators. “This one project will do three significant things,” said Maura Adams, director of the Northern Forest Center. “It will help businesses and homeowners lower their heating costs; it will increase demand for wood pellets, which supports jobs in our forest-based businesses; and it will keep money circulating in the local economy rather than being exported.” The pellets burned in Saranac come from Curran Renewable Energy’s pellet mill in Massena along the St. Lawrence River. Co-owner Pat Curran said sister company Seaway Timber Harvesting cuts trees, predominantly hardwood, and chips them to supply the pellet plant. Bark and branches are shredded and sold to fuel a power plant at Fort Drum. The biomass fuel industry is filling a void left by declines in the paper and board markets, Curran said, allowing the company to expand from 80 to 116

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Emergency boats works to put out a fire at the Abkatun-A Permanente shallow-water oil platform in the Campeche Sound on Thursday, April 2, 2015. Three workers are missing following the huge blaze on the platform in the Gulf of Mexico that killed four workers and burned for hours, Mexico’s state oil company said. with a virtually unlimited amount of fuel flowing up from the seabed. Previous spills from Mexican facilities have usually occurred at active offshore wells, not processing stations. The Abkatun platform lies off the coast of the states of Campeche and Tabasco. It is farther out to sea than the platform involved in the last severe fire in the area, a 2007 blaze at the Kab 121 offshore rig. That accident was caused by high waves that hit the rig, sending a boom crashing into a valve assembly. The blaze killed at least 21 workers and the rig spilled crude and natural gas for almost two months. Mexico’s worst major spill in the

Gulf was in June 1979, when an offshore drilling rig in Mexican waters, the Ixtoc I, blew up, releasing 140 million gallons of oil. It took Pemex and a series of U.S. contractors nearly nine months to cap the well. Hernandez said the Abkatun fire

full-time employees. “At least half of the workforce is related to the biomass industry,” he said. Athens gets its pellets from a mill in Massachusetts for $220 a ton, including delivery. The school burned 46 tons of pellets in the winter of 2013-14, which equals 4,600 gallons of fuel oil then priced at $3.30 a gallon, netting a savings of $5,043, Besenfelder said. The school’s boiler was manufactured in Schenectady by Advanced Climate Technologies, a spinoff of a traditional fossil fuel commercial boiler maker. Larry Farrelly, the company’s president, said they’ve built and sold more than 30 commercial size pellet boilers from Maine to Alaska. “We’re optimistic it will be a viable market segment moving forward,” Farrelly said. “It’s a matter of communicating the efficiency and the fully automated nature.”

dom, for everybody’s rights,” he said to cheers. “So it isn’t just our state, it’s all our states that we’re fighting for together.” Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player, said on Saturday that the NCAA should avoid putting future Final Four championships in states that do not protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

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TAXES: Know what is permissible If you qualify to claim home office expenses, you can deduct a portion of the operating costs of your home. If your office takes 20 per cent of the total area of your home, for example, you can deduct 20 per cent of some of your home’s expenses, such as property

taxes, heat, hydro, water, home insurance, maintenance costs and mortgage interest, but not the principal. These expenses cannot be used to create a business loss, however. The key is to know at the outset of your new working situation what is and is not permissible, and then make sure that you keep good, accurate and official records of your expenses and deductions. “We have seen cases where a young person was unaware that they were considered self-employed and have very few business deductions as a result,” said Battista. “The deductions help lower the tax obligation, so every piece of paper is important.” 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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ENTERTAINMENT Satire targets antiMuslim prejudice tion and dialogue, then that is a job well done for us,” he said. The title is an homage to the 1970s LOS ANGELES — Aasif Mandvi is sitcom All in the Family, Mandvi said, bringing the satire he’s honed on The a “pivotal show in dealing with social Daily Show to a sitcom parody with and cultural issues that was really revolutionary at the time.” a serious goal: unraveling Halal in the Family is part anti-Muslim prejudice. of a larger campaign to fight The four-episode Halal in ignorance and discriminathe Family, starring Mandvi tion involving Muslims, said as the patriarch of an “allLillian LaSalle, Mandvi’s American Muslim family,” manager and collaborator. debuts April 9 on the huA website also launching mourwebsite Funny or Die, April 9, www.halalinthethe actor and writer said. family.tv, will offer more inThe episodes, five minformation on the series and utes each, use sitcom consocial action campaigns. ventions to address issues Themes for the faux sitincluding FBI surveillance com emerged through conof Muslims in America, sultation with the project’s cyberbullying and hate Aasif Mandvi advisory council consisting groups, and media bias, of Muslim, interfaith and Mandvi said. Problems facing the Halal clan will be resolved, in civil rights organizations, LaSalle said. classic sitcom fashion, by each epi- Among them are the Center for New Community Muslim Advocates and Ausode’s end. “I don’t know if we’re going to sweep burn Seminary. “This was a really challenging proacross and change people’s attitudes 100 per cent. ... If it inspires conversa- cess,” she said, with board members BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

holding “different opinions about what was too offensive, what was effective.” “It was very important to Aasif that you don’t water down the funny. We weren’t making a PSA (public service announcement),” LaSalle added. “We wanted to make a really comic piece that would move people.” The Indian-born Mandvi, the “senior Muslim correspondent” on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, has appeared in films including Spider-Man 2, Margin Call and Million Dollar Arm. He said he was compelled to combine activism with his career. “What happened to me is what happened to a lot of American Muslims, which is 9-11. Suddenly, the people I care about, my family and others I know, are being demonized,” he said, recalling the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “I wasn’t on The Daily Show then and didn’t have that platform,” he said. But when he joined the Comedy Central program, “I realized there is a power that comedy has and satire has as an access point for people to deal with incredibly difficult issues.”

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Joni Mitchell ‘getting stronger every day’ LOS ANGELES — The latest posting on Joni Mitchell’s website says the Canadian folk icon is continuing to improve and getting stronger every day. The 71-year-old was found unconscious in her home Tuesday and was taken to a L.A. hospital by ambulance. She remains under observation and the website says Mitchell is resting comfortably.

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LOS ANGELES — The high-octane Furious 7 peeled out of the gates in its opening weekend, picking up a stunning $143.6 million from 4,004 locations to easily top the domestic box office, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday. The expectation-shattering sum is a studio and franchise best for the homegrown car-obsessed series, which has continued to grow over the past few films. Furious 7, now the ninth-biggest opening of all time, also unseats previous April record-holder Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which opened to $95 million on the same weekend last year. While the Fast and Furious films have grown in popularity over the past three films, the mega-opening for Furious 7 was also at least partially tied to audience interest in star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in Nov. 2013 before the film was completed. Production on Furious 7 was halted while the filmmakers and Universal decided whether or not to proceed with the film. The team ultimately de-

cided to delay the release from its originally scheduled July 2014 date. “It probably created some curiosity, but, at the same time, (the film) fits in so well with the overall continuing saga of the Fast and Furious franchise,” Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution, said of Walker. “It’s a motivator, but it’s not by any means the prime motivator the see the movie,” he added. There is also a sense that massive openings like Furious 7 point to the creeping of summer blockbuster season, which seems to be starting earlier and earlier as studios try to stake their claim on prime dates. But for Carpou, in a 52-week-a-year release strategy, the demarcation of a summer blockbuster is almost irrelevant when it comes to getting audiences to turn out in droves for a film. “It’s that corny old adage that if you build it, they will come,” he said, adding that the impressive February debut of Fifty Shades of Grey helps prove his point. Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for box office firm Rentrak, thinks that this is a liberating trend for studios who once clamoured for the first weekend in May release date.

“Studios are finding tremendous value in putting their movies in nontraditional corridors,” he said. As the most ambitious release in Universal’s history, Furious 7 opened on 10,005 screens internationally as well, picking up $240.4 million from 63 territories for a $384 million worldwide debut — a 48 per cent increase over Fast & Furious 6. The film will also debut in Russia, Poland, Japan, and China in the coming weeks. Holdovers populated the rest of the top spots with DreamWorks Animation’s Home earning $27.4 to take a distant second place. Get Hard brought in an estimated $12.9 million, while Cin-

derella and The Divergent Series: Insurgent rounded out the top five with $10.3 million and $10 million, respectively. But it’s all about Furious 7 for the next few weeks. The film has the roads to itself until Disney and Marvel’s The Avengers: Age of Ultron hits theatres on May 1. “This could be the first in the franchise to flirt with the billion dollar mark,” Dergarabedian said. 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.

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HOROSCOPES TAURUS (April 20May 20): Expect some unexpected complications today Taurus — especially involving travel, education or legal matters. When it comes to a family member, aim for open and honest communication. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Issues involving finances could cause some confusion today. If your money is tied up with someone else — personally or professionally — then keep the lines of communication open. CANCER (June 21-July 22): It won’t take much to unsettle you today. A personal or professional relationship will also be intense, as the planets bring unresolved issues to the surface. Try to clear the air and move on.

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BRIEF Many U.S. campuses grappling with racism COLLEGE PARK, Md. — College students and administrators are struggling to deal with racist incidents on campus despite repeated condemnations. This week alone, Bucknell University expelled three students for making racist comments during a campus radio broadcast, and Duke University said one of its students placed a noose in a tree on campus. Earlier, spray-painted swastikas and nooses were found at the State University of New York’s Purchase campus, and a former University of Mississippi student was indicted for tying a noose on the statue of the university’s first black student. National attention turned to the issue earlier this year after a University of Oklahoma fraternity was caught on video singing a racist chant. University administrators say they are working with students to confront racism, and are punishing perpetrators.

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SUN SIGNS LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Don’t let overconfidence trip you up today Lions. You’ve got ambitious plans and schemes but they’ll only work if you can get others on side. A positive and buoyant approach brings benefits. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Be careful in the way you communicate with others. If you are negative and critical, they for this.” Police eventually found the man who turned out to be a 26-year-old local resident with multiple convictions for burglaries. The police did not say when the burglary happened.

will be offended. Jupiter encourages you to take a broader view and adopt a more optimistic attitude. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Expect friction with a family member, as they assert their authority. Don’t over-react — but don’t let them walk all over you either. It’s time for laid back Librans to be firm as well as flexible. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The more you try to control others today Scorpio, the more they are likely to resist. If you want to avoid problems and power struggles, you’ll have to learn how

CHATHAM, N.Y. — Some craft brewers are bridging the gap between tree tap and bar tap. Local syrup adds a touch of woodsy sweetness to the maple amber made by Chatham Brewing. The amount of syrup destined for pint glasses from this spring’s maple run is a relative trickle, but maple beers offer something for both local food lovers and craft beers aficionados. Many maple brews are often offered seasonally to coincide with spring maple runs or autumnal leaf falls. Chatham’s maple amber is a year-round offering. Chatham head brewer

MOSCOW — A burglar in a small town in Siberia has broken into a house and left his photograph with a note of apology. The burglar in Prokopyevsk, about 3,100 kilometres east of Moscow, picked the lock on the front door and stole a chain saw as well as several blocks of cigarette packs, the Interior Ministry’s department in the Kemerovo region said on Friday. The owner of the house found a photo of the burglar lying on the desk with a handwritten note on the back which said: “I’m going to give myself up today. Please forgive me. I hate myself

controversial or heavyduty conversation topics, as things could get uncomfortably intense. Instead, look for fun ways you can contribute more within your local community. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avoid group activities and team sports today Pisces, as things are likely to become intense and complicated. Keep the mood light and breezy, as you enjoy being in the great outdoors. Joanne Madeline Moore is an internationally syndicated astrologer and columnist. Her column appears daily in the Advocate.

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LADY, petite, enjoys walking, reading, dancing, travelling, cycling, looking for a gentleman, n/s, age 60ish, active with varied interests. Reply to Box 1105, c/o RED DEER ADVOCATE, 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Deer, AB T4R 1M9

EHOLZER-O’HARA Brigitte It is with broken hearts that our family announces that Brigitte passed away suddenly on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at Red Deer Hospital at the age of 64. Left to cherish her memory is Patrick, her devoted husband of 43 years, and her loving children and grandchildren: Timothy and Krystell O’Hara of Fort McMurray: Kimberley and David Heinemann, Piper, Lucas and Kaitlin of Winnipeg; Serena and Joseph Pfisterer, Brooke and Jazden of Blackfalds. She will also be missed by her parents, Alfred and Katharina, her sisters and brother, Anita, Roswitha, and Alfred, her nieces and nephews and their families, and also by her many friends. A celebration of Brigitte’s life will be held at 11 am on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at Wilson’s Funeral Chapel, 6120 Highway 2A, Lacombe. Expressions of sympathy may be made by visiting www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca WILSON’S FUNERAL CHAPEL & CREMATORIUM, of Lacombe and Rimbey in charge of the arrangements. 403-782-3366 403-843-3388 “A Caring Family, Caring For Families”

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is currently seeking a Field Engineer to join our Ricinus Gas Plant. The successful candidate will provide operations engineering expertise to maximize the efficient, safe and profitable operation of the facility. Suitable living locations for this position include: Rocky Mountain House, Caroline, Sundre and surrounding areas. Qualifications include: Engineering degree from accredited university and registered Professional Engineer in Alberta with a minimum of 7 years chemical, mechanical and/or process engineering experience in implementing projects and providing operational support for gas and NGL processing facilities. Please visit www.keyera.com to view the complete job posting. LOCAL SERVICE CO. in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. VACUUM TRUCK OPERATOR Must have Class 3 licence w/air & all oilfield tickets. Fax resume w/drivers abstract to 403-886-4475

Restaurant/ Hotel

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CALKINS CONSULTING o/a Tim Hortons 15 vacancies at each location for FOOD COUNTER ATTENDANTS for 3 locations $10.88/hr. + benefits. F/T & P/T positions. Permanent shift work, weekends, days, nights, evenings. Start date as soon as possible. No experience or education req’d. Job description avail. at www.timhortons.com Apply in person to 6620 Orr Drive. Red Deer, 6017 Parkwood Road, Blackfalds, or 4924-46 St. Lacombe. Fax: 403-782-9685 or Call 403-848-2356

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JJAM Management (1987) Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s Requires to work at these Red Deer, AB locations: 5111 22 St. 37444 HWY 2 S 37543 HWY 2N 700 3020 22 St. Manager/Food Services Permanent P/T, F/T shift. Wknd, day, night & eves. Start date ASAP $19.23/hr. 40 hrs/week, + benefits , 1 Vacancy, 3-5 yrs. exp., criminal record check req’d. Req’d education some secondary. Apply in person or fax resume to: 403-314-1303 For full job description visit www. timhortons.com

TAP HOUSE BAR & GRILL NORTH is now taking applications for Full Time/Part time COOK, Bring resume to 7101 Gaetz Ave. Red Deer between 2-4 pm.

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STREAMLINE INSPECTION requires NDT Assistants JJAM Management (1987) for our Red Deer location Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s to collaborate with our Requires to work at these certified NDT Technicians Red Deer, AB locations: traveling to and from sites 5111 22 St. CLASSIFICATIONS to perform inspections 37444 HWY 2 S throughout Canada. Prefer 37543 HWY 2N 700-920 some NDE experience. 700 3020 22 St. Please email your resume FOOD ATTENDANT to hr@ Req’d permanent shift streamlineinspection.com weekend day and evening YEAR-ROUND employment Dental in Central Alberta, exp. or fax to (403) 454-6628. both full and part time. maintenance grader 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + STREAMLINE Inspection is operator required. BOWER DENTAL benefits. Start ASAP. looking for certifi ed CGSB Reply to Box 1106, c/o CENTER Job description UTI, UTII technicians for RED DEER ADVOCATE, req’s a full time Registered www.timhortons.com our Red Deer, Alberta 2950 Bremner Ave., Red Dental Assistant who is a Education and experience branch location. Email Deer, AB T4R 1M9 motivated, committed and not req’d. resume to hr@ passionate individual. We Apply in person or fax Classifieds...costs so little streamlineinspection. run a high paced practice resume to: 403-314-1303 Saves you so much! com or fax (403) 454-6628. where experience is an asset, but new grads are welcome. Must be avail. on Employment evenings and one Sat. per Professionals Training month. Very rewarding position. Please send resume to: ebakleh@yahoo.com or apply within office.

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5* JUNK REMOVAL Property clean up 505-4777 GARAGE DOOR SERVICE All yard & bobcat services, junk/tree removal. 403-358-1614

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PRECISE ROOFING LTD. 15 Yrs. Exp., Ref’s Avail. 403-896-4869 QUALITY work at an affordable price. Joe’s Roofing. Re-roofing specialist. Fully insured. Insurance claims welcome. 10 yr. warranty on all work. 403-350-7602

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HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors. Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

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WWI inscriptions revive soldiers’ wartime experience BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NAOURS, France — A headlamp cuts through the darkness of a rough-hewn passage 100 feet underground to reveal an inscription: “James Cockburn 8th Durham L.I.” It’s cut so clean it could have been left yesterday. Only the date next to it — April 1, 1917 — roots it in the horrors of World War I. The piece of graffiti by a soldier in a British infantry unit is just one of nearly 2,000 century-old inscriptions that have recently come to light in Naours, a two-hour drive north of Paris. Many marked a note for posterity in the face of the doom that trench warfare a few dozen miles away would bring to many. “It shows how soldiers form a sense of place and an understanding of their role in a harsh and hostile environment,” said historian Ross Wilson of Chichester University in Britain. Etchings, even scratched bas-reliefs, were left by many soldiers during the war. But those in Naours “would be one of the highest concentrations of inscriptions on the Western Front” that stretches from Switzerland to the North Sea, said Wilson. The site’s proximity to the Somme battlefields, where more than a million men were killed or wounded, adds to the discovery’s importance. “It provides insight into how they found a sense of meaning in the conflict,” said Wilson. Naours’ underground city is a 3-kilometre (2-mile) -long complex of tunnels with hundreds of chambers dug out over centuries in the chalky Picardy plateau. During the Middle Ages villagers took

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ABOVE; In this image from Feb. 20, 2015 shows names engraved on the walls of a former chalk quarry, at the Cite Souterraine, Underground City, in Naours, northern France by 9th Batt Australians, G. Fitzhenry of Paddington, Sydney from 1916 July and Alistair Ross, Lismore, Australia. The names are just some of nearly 2,000 First World War inscriptions that have recently come to light here, a two-hour drive north of Paris. RIGHT; Jeffrey Gusky, a photographer and physician from Texas points at graffitis in a former chalk quarry, at the Cite Souterraine. Gusky began photographing the site last December and has tallied 1,821 individual names: 731 Australians, 339 British, 55 Americans, a handful of French and Canadians and 662 others whose nationalities have yet to be traced. shelter there from marauding armies crisscrossing northern France. By the 18th century the quarry’s entrance was blocked off and forgotten. In 1887 a local priest rediscovered the site and it eventually became a tourist attraction. That’s what likely drew the soldiers to it during the war, said Gilles Prilaux, an archaeologist for France’s national archaeology institute. He began a three-year study of the tunnels last July, intending to focus on the site’s medieval past — only to stumble upon this more recent slice of history. “It was a big surprise,” Prilaux said of the discovery of the World War I graffiti left by

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soldiers from Australia, Britain, Canada and the U.S. Soldiers left similar inscriptions in tunnels at Arras and Vimy. But unlike those sites, Naours is well back from the front lines. And it wasn’t known to have been used as a shelter or hospital like other Western Front quarries. Photographer Jeff Gusky has tallied 1,821 individual names: 731 Australians, 339 British, 55 Americans, a handful of French and Canadians and 662 others whose nationalities have yet to be traced. “All these guys wanted to be remembered,” Gusky says, pointing out examples from Texas and Florida. Naours is only a few miles

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the college to fight the gunmen, Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper reported Sunday. When the specially trained police finally went in, it took them only 30 minutes to kill the four attackers and stop the siege, the paper said. Army barracks are just 500 metres (540 yards) from the college, and military officers said they could handle the attack, said a police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Only after three soldiers were killed did the army call in the police tactical unit, he said. Before the massacre, northeastern Kenya had seen other deadly attacks by al-Shabab against Christians. Several hundred grieving Christians marked Easter Sunday at a Catholic church in Garissa, where Bishop Joseph Alessandro drew a parallel between the ordeal of Jesus Christ and that of the stricken town. “We join the sufferings of the relatives and the victims with the sufferings of Jesus,” he told the congregation at Our Lady of Consolation Church. “The victims will rise again with Christ.” As for al-Shabab’s followers, Alessandro said, “You don’t know who they are. They could be your neighbours.” Security forces patrolled the perimeter of the church, the site of a grenade attack by militants three years ago that wounded worshipers. “We just keep on praying that God can help us, to comfort us in this difficult time,” said Dominick Odhiambo, a worshipper who said he planned to abandon his job as a plumber in Garissa and leave for his hometown because he was afraid.

GARISSA, Kenya — One of the gunmen who slaughtered 148 people at a college in Kenya was identified Sunday as the law-school-educated son of a Kenyan government official, underscoring the inroads Islamic extremists have made in recruiting young people to carry out attacks against their own country. Abdirahim Mohammed Abdullahi, who was killed by security forces Thursday along with the three other militants who stormed Garissa University College, was the son of a government chief in Mandera County, which borders Somalia, Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka told The Associated Press. The chief had reported his son missing last year and feared he had gone to Somalia, Njoka said. Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group claimed responsibility for the bloodbath, saying it was retribution for Kenya’s sending of troops to Somalia to fight the extremists. The attackers separated Christian students from Muslim ones and massacred the Christians. The news that one of the gunmen was Kenyan highlights the challenges faced by the government in preventing terrorist attacks. The danger comes not only from neighbouring Somalia but also from within Kenya. Kenyans make up the largest number of foreign fighters in al-Shabab, according to experts. Hundreds of Kenyan youths have trained with al-Shabab and then returned to Kenya, posing a major security threat, according to former police chief Mathew Iteere. Kenya’s government has said another source of instability is the country’s refugee camps, with more than 423,000 Somali refugees. Abdullahi graduated from the University of Nairobi with a law degree in 2013 and was seen as a “brilliant upcoming lawyer,” according to Njoka. Njoka said it is important for parents to inform authorities if their children disappear or seem to be embracing extremism. Meanwhile, questions have been raised about the security response to the Garissa attack. Police waited seven TELUS OPTIK TV hours before sending a special tactical unit into

SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni Shiite rebels, making an aggressive bid for power in the impoverished Gulf state, arrested more than a hundred members from a rival Islamist Sunni political party, including two leaders, the party said in a statement Sunday. The Islah party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s branch in Yemen and a traditional power player in Yemen, had declared its support for the Saudi-led coalition bombing campaign against the rebels and their allies. The Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, have been joined by security forces loyal to the ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh — whose loyalists control elite forces and large combat units in Yemen’s military. The Saudi-led campaign in its 11th day aims to thwart the advances of the rebels, who took over the capital Sanaa in September and eventually forced President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee to Aden, Yemen’s second largest city in the south, after putting him under house arrest. The combined force of Houthis and Saleh loyalists is now advancing on Aden and seeking to tighten their hold on this nation of 25 million on Saudi Arabia’s southern border. Hadi has since fled to Saudi Arabia, and the coalition campaign has yet to stop the rebels’ push to take control of the south. The overnight arrest campaign rounded up leading members of the Islah party, Mohammed Qahtan and Hassan al-Yaeri, along with more than 120 others, the group said in a statement on its website. Also on Sunday, medical officials said coalition airstrikes in Dhale, a southern city the rebels are trying to control in order to open a corridor to Aden, killed at least five civilians, apparently when an errant missile hit a residential area. The officials spoke on

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Pope wishes for peace at Easter mass BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY — In an Easter peace wish, Pope Francis on Sunday praised the framework nuclear agreement with Iran as an opportunity to make the world safer, while expressing deep worry about bloodshed in Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. Cautious hope ran through Francis’ “Urbi et Orbi” Easter message, a kind of papal commentary on the state of the world’s affairs, which he delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Square. He had just celebrated Mass in rainwhipped St. Peter’s Square for tens of thousands of people, who huddled under umbrellas or braved the downpour in thin, plastic rain-slickers. Easter day is “so beautiful, and so ugly because of the rain,” Francis said after Mass about Christianity’s most important feast day. He expressed thanks for the flowers which bedecked the square and which were donated by the Netherlands, but the bright hues of the azaleas and other blossoms seemed muted by the grey skies. Francis made his first public comments about the recent framework for an accord, reached in Lausanne, Switzerland, and aimed at ensuring Iran doesn’t develop a nuclear weapon. “In hope we entrust to the merciful Lord the framework recently agreed to in Lausanne, that it may be a definitive step toward a more secure and fraternal world.”

Decrying the plentitude of weapons in the world in general, Francis said: “And we ask for peace for this world subjected to arms dealers, who earn their living with the blood of men and women.” He denounced “absurd bloodshed and all barbarous acts of violence” in Libya, convulsed by fighting fueled by tribal and militia rivalries. He hoped “a common desire for peace” would prevail in Yemen, wracked by civil warfare. Francis prayed that the “roar of arms may cease” in Syria and Iraq, and that peace would come in Africa for Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan and Congo. He recalled the young people, many of them targeted because they were Christians, killed last week in a Kenyan university, and lamented kidnappings, by Islamic extremists, that have plagued parts of Africa, including Nigeria. He also cited bloodshed closer to home, in Ukraine, praying that the Eastern European nation would “rediscover peace and hope thanks to the commitment of all interested parties.” Government forces have been battling Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine, months after a cease-fire was proclaimed following international diplomatic efforts. On Good Friday, Francis chastised the international community for what he called the complicit silence about the killing of Christians. On Easter he prayed that God would alleviate “the suffering of so many of our brothers

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The downpour petered out to a drizzle, and by the end of the ceremony, the rain had stopped. Francis, wearing a white overcoat, was driven through the square in the open-sided popemobile so he could wave to the faithful.

Israel urges world powers to step up pressure on Iran BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister on Sunday urged world powers to step up pressure on Iran as they finalize a nuclear deal in the coming months, saying there was still time to improve what he said was a deeply flawed framework agreement reached last week. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appearances on multiple American TV news programs on Sunday signalled the launch of what is expected to be a furious lobbying effort to scuttle or reshape a deal that he has criticized as “bad” and a threat to Israel’s very existence. A document drawn up by experts in Netanyahu’s office, obtained by The Associated Press, gives a glimpse of the arguments the Israeli leader is going to raise, targeting vague language in the system of inspections and its failure to address issues beyond the nuclear program. The framework agreement was announced on Thursday in Lausanne, Switzerland, by U.S.-led world powers and Iran after years of negotiations. The deal aims to cut significantly into Iran’s bomb-making technology while giving Tehran relief from international sanctions. The commitments, if implemented, would substantially pare down Iranian nuclear assets for a decade and restrict others for an additional five years. Netanyahu believes the deal leaves too much of Iran’s suspect nuclear program intact, would give it quick relief from economic sanctions and create an easy path for the Islamic Republic to gain the ability to produce a bomb. He also says the deal fails to address Iran’s support for militant groups across the

LONDON — British police say a teenage boy and girl have been arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. Greater Manchester Police said Sunday a 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl have been arrested following two separate police raids that took place Thursday and Friday. Police say they had warrants for both searches. The two teens have not been named and both have been freed on bail until a May 28 court hearing. Police say they were arrested on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism as part of an ongoing investigation. Separately, police are questioning six people arrested earlier Friday in the port city of Dover, which has extensive ferry service linking England to France. Five men and one woman in their 20s were arrested in a departure lounge there Friday night. Police have been given permission to question the six until Friday before they have to charged, released, or subjected to another warrant.

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It also claims the agreement is vague about what happens to Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium, a key ingredient in producing nuclear bombs, or how sanctions might be re-imposed if Iran violates the deal. While Iran is not supposed to enrich uranium with its advanced centrifuges for 10 years, the deal permits limited “research and development” of the advanced centrifuges, according to the U.S. document. Israeli officials say this means that Iran could immediately put these centrifuges into action after the deal expires or breaks down. They also want Iran “to come clean” about its past nuclear weapons efforts. Iran insists its nuclear program is solely for peaceful purposes, a claim that is widely disputed. As Netanyahu lobbies against the deal, he is expected to urge the world to take action against Iran’s non-nuclear activities as well.

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First human studies promising for made in Canada Ebola vaccine BYTHE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — The first human trials of a designed-in-Canada Ebola vaccine suggest it is safe and triggers a rapid immune response, studies published Wednesday reveal. The work, based on six different clinical trials in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, Gabon and Kenya, found the vaccine quickly generates antibodies in people who receive it. Whether those antibodies protect against infection remains to be seen, but early evidence suggests that is a strong possibility. The vaccine is called rVSV-ZEBOV and was designed by scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, part of the Public Health Agency of Canada. It is being developed by U.S. biotech NewLink Genetics and pharma giant Merck. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the research describes Phase 1 clinical trials and shows for the first time what happens when this

vaccine is given to a number of people. Phase 1 trials are designed to show if an experimental product is safe and to help determine what an appropriate dose should be. They are too small to answer the question: Does this vaccine work? It is hoped the answer will come from larger Phase 3 trials currently underway in West Africa. The research, grouped into two reports, shows people who received the vaccine started to generate antibodies quickly. That is an attractive feature in a vaccine that would be used to quell future Ebola outbreaks, if it makes it through the licensing process. “There were pretty positive signals of immunogenicity at 14 days post vaccination across both of the (vaccine) doses that are reported,” said Col. Stephen Thomas, a senior author of the article describing the findings of the two U.S. trials. Those two trials were conducted at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, both located in

Bethesda, Md. By Day 28, all the vaccinated volunteers had shown an antibody response. The article reporting on data from the European and African trials revealed that blood from vaccinated subjects contained antibodies that neutralized or killed Ebola virus — a finding that adds weight to the belief that this vaccine should protect against infection. The vaccine often induces side-effects such as fever, muscle aches and even arthritis-like joint pain on occasion. But the side-effect profile was deemed to be acceptable, especially given the lethality of the disease the vaccine aims to protect against. The combined work also points to a pattern of side-effect development that may relieve some experts who had worried about using the vaccine in a setting where Ebola actually circulates. They have been concerned that a vaccine that induces fever might make it more difficult to detect Ebola infections early, given that fever is often the first sign of disease.

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Health Canada warns of side-effects from hepatitis C-heart drug combo Health Canada is warning that a drug combination involving new hepatitis C drugs can lead to a seriously slow heart rate and should be avoided. Nine cases of the reaction have been reported, including two in Canada. Of those nine cases, one was fatal and three others required insertion of a pacemaker. The department says people should not take new hepatitis C drugs Harvoni or Sovaldi in combination with another antiviral drug and a heart rhythm drug called amiodarone. Health Canada is working with Gilead Sciences to update the warnings on the packaging of Sovaldi and Harvoni. Symptoms of the reaction include fainting or nearly fainting, dizziness or lightheadedness, malaise and weakness, shortness of breath and chest pain.

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