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BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF

BY CRYSTAL RHYNO ADVOCATE STAFF Letters are in the mail for the 2,000 households that made the cut in the city’s new Green Cart pilot.

Starting on April 23, residents will be able to dump their food scraps, soiled paper, pet waste and other organics into a green cart. It will be picked up on regular garbage collection day.

The pilot will run for two years and it may go city-wide in 2017.

The homes were randomly selected to reflect a variety of demographics. They were further broken down by neighbourhood, home assessment value, back alley or front collection and the year the home was built.

About 600 carts will be picked up on either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday at selected homes on a variety of neighbourhood streets.

Janet Whitesell, the city’s waste management superintendent, said some people may be across the street from a home in a pilot and may question the efficiency and why their house isn’t on the pilot. She said the city wanted the pilot to represent the city as whole.

“We had some of those conversations as we were designing it and it may make sense on the map,” said Whitesell. “But then we may have too many houses built in the 1990s compare to what the rest of the city is like.”

Whitesell said choosing the number of homes in the pilot and trying to be efficient were challenges.

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River Lawrence, 8, right, takes some careful steps as his brother Trystin, 11, looks on as the two boys play on the web structure at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Wednesday. The two were taking advantage of their Easter break from school and enjoying the fine weather Wednesday as they played in the Imagination Grove play space at the centre.

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Provincial funding for Red Deer’s pilot program to monitor domestic violence offenders with GPS ankle bracelets has come to an end.

But a GPS panic button program for domestic violence victims will continue, along with domestic violence treatment for offenders, the community’s collaborative approach between agencies assisting victims, local RCMP, and Crown prosecutors, and high-risk case conferencing.

Ian Wheeliker, executive director of Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter, said the offender monitoring program will wind down this month with the last two offenders finishing up their probation.

“I don’t think that during this election campaign we’re going to have any good news about new money or new programs,” Wheeliker said.

He said a grant application was made through Family and Community Safety programs, but $20 million available from the province was cut down to about $4 million in last provincial month’s budget.

Since January, the ankle bracelet program has been running on surplus funding accumulated when it wasn’t running at full capacity and when it was temporarily shut down last spring.

The three-year, $450,000 project officially ended in March 2013. Since then funding was extended twice.

Ten ankle monitors were available through the program for serious domestic violence offenders who were found guilty and had probation orders.

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Pass the hat: Centrefest appealing for public support Centrefest organizers must pull off some fundraising acrobatics if the summer street performers’ festival is to fly this year.

Less grant money and fewer business sponsorships are leaving Centrefest’s director Janice Shimek appealing for public support.

“It’s a struggle every year to find enough sponsorship money,” said Shimek, but this year’s tighter economy has made things even more challenging.

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Centrefest is held this summer by supporting two fundraising raffles — as well as the Mosaic of Hope campaign in Parkland Mall, where Centrefest is one of three non-profit beneficiaries (along with Loaves and Fishes and the Kiwanis Club’s Harmony Garden).

Shimek said members of the public can buy painted tile for $5 to make up a temporary mosaic at the mall.

The three participating charities get to keep proceeds from each tile sold for their mosaics. As well, an extra contribution will be made by Parkland Mall, depending on the number of tiles sold

by April 27, when all three mosaics will be revealed.

She hopes to raise $7,500 by sell-

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“It’ll go a long way for us. ... We were lucky we were chosen” for the campaign, Shimek added.

The festival brings international street performers to entertain crowds in Red Deer’s downtown. It has been going for 15 years with an annual budget of about $200,000 — half of which is made up of donations in kind.

But cash is also needed to cover honourariums and other performer-related expenses, needed street closures and public works costs, and Shimek’s part-time salary as the only paid organizer.

She said the amount of grant money for the annual festival declined last

year when the Downtown Business Association stopped funding it, saying it’s no longer a new event. The City of Red Deer gave the festival a smaller feefor-service grant this year — $20,000 instead of the $26,000 received in 2014, she added.

As well, a number of businesses have stated they can’t sponsor Centrefest in 2015. “People that I thought had come on board, have said, ‘I just can’t do it.’ What can you do?”

Shimek said 2014’s Centrefest ended with a small deficit that was covered with some reserve funds. “But we can’t afford to end in a deficit again.”

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Bailey England plays outside of the Mac store at Boyce Street and Gaetz Avenue in Red Deer on Wednesday. Although England accepts tips, she says she plays for giggles and smiles.

Young Winnipeg woman offers piece of her liver to girl with rare disease WINNIPEG — A 24-year-old Winnipeg woman is getting ready to head to Toronto in the hopes she’ll be able to donate part of her liver to an 11-year-old girl she doesn’t know.

Samantha Lussier says she wanted to help because her own mother, Tina Lussier, has also struggled with liver disease.

Lussier says she found out from doctors this week that she may be able to help little Allexis Siebrecht, who needs a transplant within a year because she suffers from billiary atresia, a rare liver disease.

Lussier has met most of the requirements to become a live donor but now will undergo more tests in Toronto next week before getting cleared to donate to Allexis.

If all goes well, the surgery could happen within a week. mental Master Plans that aim to reduce the garbage that is sent to the landfill.

Many municipalities across Alberta and Canada operate similar collection programs, including Calgary, Airdrie and Leduc. crhyno@reddeeradvocate.com

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GREEN CART: 40% of household waste is organic MONITORS: Tracked constantly She said 2,000 is a high number for a pilot, representing nearly seven per cent of the city’s 30,000 single-family homes.

“If you’re only doing 500 households, you will not get enough of the demographics,” said Whitesell.

“And it’s not going to be efficient to have a truck.

Certainly it was challenging to balance.”

Carts will be picked up in Highland Green, West Park, Oriole Park and West Lake on Monday.

On Tuesday the trucks will pick up carts in Glendale, Pines, Timberlands, Kentwood, Mustang Acres and College Park.

On Wednesday, it travels to Parkvale, Grandview, Mountview, Sunnybrook and Inglewood.

About 40 per cent of all household waste is organic and can be diverted from the landfill.

“It is really exciting for us,” said Whitesell. “It’s a big win if you think you can get 40 per cent of what’s in your garbage out of it and divert it to composting, that’s pretty awesome. The pilot will help us iron out and design the best program that we can. The folks on the pilot have a chance to be leaders in our community and help us learn from their experiences.”

A contractor will pick up the carts and transport them to Stickland Farms, a composting facility, west of Penhold. The resulting compost will be used on local agricultural land.

Homes in the pilot will not be charged for the service but once the city-wide program is launched, a fee will be tacked on to residential utility bills.

Carts will be delivered between April 20 and 23.

An official launch to kick off the pilot is slated for April 20.

The pilot is one of the initiatives that aligns with the city’s Waste Management Master and Environ-

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Ankle monitors, equipped with a built-in cellphone and radio frequency, were tracked constantly.

They alerted police if offenders went near or into an area they were not allowed (like a victim’s house or workplace), disobeyed court-ordered curfews, and if monitors were damaged in an effort to take them off.

Wheeliker said the program has so much potential in the field of corrections and domestic violence that he expects it’s just a question of time before bracelets are in use again and expanded throughout the province.

“There is one type of offender and victim it made a huge difference for. That is what I call the relentless domestic violence offender. They’re like a stalker. They continuously monitor the activity at the house or monitor her and follow her around. This technology was very effective in dealing with that particular type of domestic case and gave the victim in those cases the ability to sleep at night.

“For that relentless abuser, it will save the system money. You cannot convince me otherwise because those abusers are the ones police get the calls on time after time. It ties up police investigation time, police call time. It ties up the courts.”

He said there were few relentless offenders monitored during the pilot program, but tracking data on those offenders could not be disputed.

The panic button program, which connects women to 911 with the push of a button on a small cellphone device, will continue this year with $10,000 from the Victims of Crime funding and $10,000 from the local

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Friends of Chain Lakes is holding a public meeting to draw attention to diminishing water quality in the popular natural area southeast of Ponoka.

A 2014 Riparian Health Study and results of water quality analysis and a fish count will be focused on in presentations on April 29 beginning at 7 p.m. at the Scott School Hall east of Ponoka off Hwy 53.

Joanne McMillan, Friends of Chain Lakes chair, said the riparian study was undertaken by Cows and Fish: Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society.

The organization says on its website that its mission is to education on how improvements in grazing and other management of riparian areas can enhance landscape health and productivity.

Besides its involvement in the Chain Lakes meeting, Cows and Fish is launching a Ponoka Riparian Restoration Program beginning today at 4:30 p.m. at Ponoka’s Kinsmen Community Centre as part of its work around the Battle River and its tributaries.

Alberta Lake Management Society results of water quality analysis for the three Chain Lakes shows there is room for concern. A key indicator of lake health, such as phosphorous loads, have tripled from levels recorded in the Lower Lake in 2001 to levels recorded in the Upper Lake in 2011, said McMillan.

Other chemical markers, such as nitrogen and ammonia, have also shown significant increases.

McMillan said the goal of the meeting is to raise awareness about the issues being faced by the lakes at community and political levels.

“I’d be looking for an answer on what’s causing deterioration of the water, and then address it,” she said when asked what the group would like to see come out of the meeting and its discussions.

A key question is why Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Development is not more involved in preserving lake quality, she said.

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The program has been running for five years with 30 GPS devices in Central Alberta and there’s been about 10 times when police were required.

Unlike the offender bracelet program that only operated in Red Deer, panic buttons alert 911, which contacts the police jurisdiction operating wherever that woman is in Canada.

Wheeliker said police respond in about 15 minutes and there has been no serious situations where someone has been harmed.

“The times where (women) needed it, it has worked. They really feel there is value in that program so we’re happy we’re able to continue on with that.” szielinski@reddeeradvocate.com

CENTREFEST: Difficult to charge admission While the festival draws thousands of people to Red Deer’s downtown, a gate fee can’t be charged because it would be difficult to gate off all access to Ross Street, said Shimek.

She believes the only way to make this year’s festival possible is to raise $20,000 to $30,000 by the end of May, through sponsorships, donations and raffles.

“Join us in sustaining a robust arts and culture scene in Red Deer. Centrefest needs your support,” said Shimek.

Tickets for the first raffle (available from Comforts the Sole and Housewarmings) offer a chance to win a first-prize bundle of $100 gift certificates from 25 Red Deer restaurants, and a second prize of a $1,000 “bucket of cheer,” filled with of liquor and spirits.

The second raffle will be announced on Centrefest’s website.

For more information, to become a sponsor or make a donation, call 403-872-3361. lmichelin@reddeeradvocate.com

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — It’s an unfamiliar sound in Calgary — cheering supporters chanting “N-D-P.” The southern city has been a Progressive Conservative fortress for decades, but the new leader of the Alberta New Democrats thinks her party is due for a breakthrough when voters go to the polls on May 5.

While the NDP has long managed to get people elected in Edmonton, it’s been 22 years since a New Democrat last held a seat in Calgary.

“I’m here for a reason,” Rachel Notley told about 200 people at a campaign event Wednesday.

“Calgary is a special place — it’s a place of innovation. This is not a city where people simply accept the status quo. There’s a feeling of change in the air — Albertans want a new premier, and I’m here to tell you that I’m applying for the job.”

Support for the NDP in Alberta peaked in the late 1980s when the party held 16 seats provincially. It had four seats at dissolution.

The party lost its last two seats in Calgary in 1993.

Bob Hawkesworth held one of those. He said Notley has similar attributes to another famous Calgary politician.

“I see Rachel’s ability to connect with voters is the same as Ralph Klein had,” Hawkesworth said.

“He was able to connect with ordinary voters in the same way.”

Hawkesworth believes it was unaligned progressive voters that helped vault former PC premier Alison Redford into office over the Wildrose in the last provincial election. He said those voters are likely going to move to the NDP. “Realistically this is a choice between what I would call Grim Jim and Radiant Rachel. It’s a clear choice for Albertans and at the end of the day she will at least be the leader of the official Opposition,” he said.

Notley told her supporters that the ruling PC government has used up its political capital and the latest budget puts all of the financial burden on the backs of working Albertans.

“We can repeat the mistakes of the past or we can chart a new way forward. People here in Calgary are taking a hard look at this PC government,” she said.

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Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley (centre), Calgary East candidate Robyn Luff and her daughter Vesper, eight-months-old, and Calgary-Fort NDP candidate Joe Ceci attend a campaign event Ceci’s campaign headquarters in Calgary, Wednesday.

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“They’re seeing a party that has let them down time and time again and now when many of you are worried about your jobs and family budgets Jim Prentice wants you to shoulder the burden of this PC government’s failed priorities.”

Notley said an NDP government would get the

province off the roller coaster of up and down oil prices created by a PC government that never saved for a rainy day.

“Are they the guys that you trust to turn off the roller coaster? We don’t have to keep riding this roller coaster.”

senior government officials.

The changes Jean are proposing include legislation to prohibit MLAs from floor crossing without a byelection. Wildrose was gutted last December when former leader Danielle Smith and eight Wildrose MLAs cross the floor to join the government of Premier Jim Prentice.

fault.

Swann told reporters the party would be much better prepared if it had an extra year of prep time.

The province, by law, was not supposed to have an election until the spring of 2016.

However, Prentice has called it for May 5th, saying he needs a mandate to pass his budget.

Swann says they’re still hoping to get more candidates, but will focus their campaign on becoming the official Opposition.

The NDP and the PCs have full slates of candidates while the Wildrose has 65 candidates despite losing almost all of its caucus in a mass floor-crossing.

Alberta Party platform calls for higher corporate taxes, no school fees

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EDMONTON — The Alberta Party is calling for higher corporate taxes and phasing out school fees.

EDMONTON — Alberta Liberal Leader David The measures are just two of the planks of the Swann says his party has just 31 candidates so far party’s campaign platform it hopes will attract the for the election, but says it’s Premier Jim Prentice’s attention of voters.

The Alberta Party, which didn’t have a seat in the legislature before the May 5 election was called, plans to run 40 candidates, mainly in urban areas.

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The weight of evidence DUFFY DIDN’T COME TO THE COURTROOM ALONE, AND NOR DID THE CROWN Two floors below, the charges include assault, assault with a weapon and uttering threats.

As the morning evolved, the outcasts and the frightened floated into Ottawa’s Provincial Courthouse, waiting to be summoned by loudspeaker to the room where their date with justice awaited.

Into this daily TIM maelstrom that HARPER unfolds largely unchronicled, history entered in the name of Mike Duffy, Canada’s one-time schmoozer of the century, the man who never met a back unworthy of a slap, the man who spent a lifetime seeking the camera, the microphone and the spotlight.

Instead this morning, in Courtroom 33, he stood stone-faced as a court clerk of uncommon stamina read out 31 charges against him, a catalogue of criminality and malfeasance that stretched through the mid-morning silence, so minute in detail it listed expense forms T640508, T6420166, T640124, drip, drip, drip.

The clerk’s soliloquy took nearly a quarter hour.

“I am not guilty, your Honour,’’ Duffy proclaimed, when finally allowed to answer, using the broadcaster baritone that was loud and clear with a hint of defiance.

Some 40 or more sitting days later, we’ll find out whether he is.

But Duffy didn’t just enter the courtroom with his wife, Heather, and lawyer Donald Bayne in tow, of course, he was dragging the Stephen Harper government, the prime minister’s onetime inner circle and the Conservative leadership in the Senate into the tiny courtroom with him.

If there was any doubt, Bayne made that clear at the end of a day that contained two warring, diametrically opposed versions of the suspended senator, who sat patiently, wife Heather sitting a row behind.

All through the morning, Crown attorney Mark Holmes painted Duffy as a serial expense abuser who was essentially running a slush fund, visiting family, attending funerals and even heading to Peterborough to shop for puppies with the discredited and convicted former parliamentary secretary to the prime minister, Dean Del Mastro.

He called that one a meeting with local officials on broadcasting issues, but all trips were charged on the public dime.

Never once did Duffy glance backward or sideward in the courtroom to

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acknowledge the throng watching this spectacle, among them many of his former colleagues.

As he returned for the afternoon, in anticipation of playing on his turf, he brightened, leaning back to acknowledge an old friend sitting beside his spouse, later in the afternoon even trying to amplify a point Bayne was making until his counsel subtly shushed him with a quick back of the hand.

There was no puppy, Bayne said.

Another event was cancelled, meaning under the Senate rules Duffy was entitled to full reimbursement. And these family visits? Well, family reunification is not only allowed under the rules, but encouraged under the rules.

The primary residence in Prince Edward Island, the home at 10 Friendly Lane that Holmes had described as uninhabitable for much of the year, was exactly what it was, Bayne said. The primary residence is the residence in which the senator had been appointed, Bayne said, during an afternoon that hinged heavily on Senate rules, which he painted as arcane, fuzzy and poorly

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Bring back Red Deer’s falcon cam, keep the focus on raptor’s revival I am passionate about all raptors, but the peregrine falcon is my ultimate, all-time favourite. It all started in approximately 1960 when a falconer brought a young female peregrine falcon to our school and carefully explained that due to the widespread use of chemical pesticides, that her species had a very bleak and uncertain future.

My classmates and I were devastated by this heart-wrenching story and we lovingly named this beautiful creature “Cobalt“ for her gorgeous dark blue-grey colour.

I have had a passionate place in my heart for the peregrine falcon ever since and have faithfully followed their recovery from the brink of extinction. Thanks to the banning of the pesticide DDT in Canada and the U.S. in the 1970s, and to the tireless work of conservationists and biologists like Dr. Gordon Court of Edmonton, they have made a dramatic comeback.

Through hard work and total dedication to the cause, we have amazingly come from one remaining breeding pair of peregrine falcons in all of Alberta in the 1970s, to an estimated 70 breeding pairs today.

It has been a miraculous recovery, but there is still so much more to do.

Our Telus Communications Tower in north Red Deer played an important part in that recovery for 14-plus years, and two of those years (2010, 2011 and part of 2012) were broadcast live via the Red Deer River Naturalists (RDRN) webcams.

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enforced, the antithesis of common sense.

Duffy is really a victim, Bayne said.

His client was alone facing justice for playing by rules that applied to all 105 senators, a man who, “as every Canadian knows,” had a unique position in the Senate and was used to great advantage for partisan purposes by Harper.

Much of this is a sideshow to Canadians, if not Duffy, who is in very deep trouble.

If there is one thing that Canadians outside Ottawa still find compelling, it is the question of why Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright, other operatives in the PMO and the Senate leadership went to such great lengths to try to protect Duffy and make their “public agony” go away instead of just standing up and saying he cheated and must pay the money back and face the consequences.

Why would Wright take it upon himself to ante up $90,000 from his own chequing account?

Duffy was an equal partner in the

In the two-plus short seasons of their existence, these web cams generated 673,690 web hits from all corners of the world, via the Internet. Included in those numbers were many teachers and their classes logging in to join in the chat about the falcons for their nature talks. We need these younger generations to help preserve this beautiful heritage.

Since 2010, we have had ground people monitoring the tower (with photo and video) but especially since 2011 (the last season the cams were in operation), we have kept these precious falcons in our memories with our ground cameras, videos and, during 2014 an RRP Forum, so that people from around the world, can still stay up to date in our pefa escapades.

But unfortunately, the most exciting parts — the 24-hour observations of the egg laying, the hatching, the first three to four weeks of life, the feather development, the fledging procedure, etc,, are missing for us and all of our dedicated viewers worldwide.

It is such an incredible shame and disappointment if these cams are to no longer be. We need your help to petition Telus, RDRN and any other major players to get on the band wagon to continue and to support this precious project.

Telus, for example, openly boasts of their 12 million satisfied customers. If Telus were to, on just one occasion, hold back $0.001 (one one-hundredth of a cent or one one-thousandth of a dollar) from each of those 12 million Telus bills, it would have more than sufficient funds ($12,000) to purchase new cameras, a new computer and the set up of a network thereof (on their very own tower, by the way!).

Another gigantic plus for Telus would be to have their name associated with this natural precious peregrine life, and with this eco and environmentally friendly project; and having it broadcast all over the world via the Internet. Not a bad advertising

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$90,000 plot, “if not the instigator,” the Crown contends. He is a man who agreed to repay the money only if someone else paid it.

No, said the defence, he was “extorted,” a man who succumbed to pressure from Wright and his gang of coconspirators.

And Wright, according to testimony read into the record by Bayne, agreed that Duffy may have been playing by the rules and he thought he might be forcing a man to pay back money he didn’t owe.

That was something the prime minister had to know, Wright said, should it ever come up again with another caucus member.

It was all right there in the mountain of emails and documents Bayne has, a mountain he dropped on the table with a theatrical thud.

A tease, or a smoking gun?

The old Duff knows and he has waited a long time to tell his story.

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And for purpose of advertising, having our own native, homegrown peregrine falcons would have a much better impact and association with Alberta and Canada and the northern U.S. than the currently TV advertised hippopotami or giraffes or lizards of South Africa.

It would also be very nice to get something back for all the Telus bills I have so faithfully paid like clockwork every month for the last 45 years.

Some links to help prove that I am not just blowing smoke from under my hat, check out what we, a few local individual falcon lovers, have accomplished: ● Summerfly’s Shutterfly: https://suumerflys.shutterfly.com — a collection of gorgeous photos, videos and tower news events beginning in 2010 to the current. ● Dusty Musicians song and video: http://www. youtube.com/watch?v=sTF-BddT_Ug — a beautiful song and video written, recorded and performed by Dustywings, one of our faithful viewers from Jackson County, Mich. ● Raptor Resource Project: http://www.raptorresource.org/forum/index.php/topic,1859.0.html — a specific forum we created after the cams went down, to report daily ground news happenings and events for our thousands of viewer fans whom expressed such a strong desire to stay in touch. ● The Alberta Gold Story: http://rdrn.ca/wp-content/ uploads/2014/12/December-2014-.pdf — a newsletter and picture story published in the RDRN December 2014 issue (story appears on Page 3) written about a once in a lifetime experience we had with one of the four 2014 baby’s on his inaugural fledgling flight.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Cabinet ministers would see their pay docked five per cent if the federal government fails to balance its books under proposed legislation critics denounced Wednesday as symbolic at best, hypocrisy at worst.

In a politely received preelection speech, Finance Minister Joe Oliver announced plans for a balanced-budget law promised by the Conservatives in the 2013 throne speech.

“The only acceptable deficit would be one that responds to a recession or to an ’extraordinary’ circumstance — that is war or a natural di- Joe Oliver saster with a cost exceeding $3 billion in one year,” Oliver told the Economic Club.

“The proposed bill would acknowledge the potential need for deficits to counter economic decline.”

In addition to the ministerial pay cut, a deficit would spark an automatic operating freeze, Oliver

said.

Observers, however, suggested the Tories were looking to score political points by appealing to their constituents.

“It’s largely symbolic,” said Ian Lee, a business professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. “They have all kinds of ways of getting around it.”

Such legislation — already in effect in many provinces and American states — is popular among conservatives trying to show themselves to be sound fiscal managers.

Oliver, in fact, made several references to the “reckless” spending in the 1970s under then-Liberal prime minister Pierre Trudeau, and warned against a government under his son, Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau.

“Trudeau-era debt clung to Canada like a bad flu,” Oliver said. “(And Justin Trudeau) wants to spend money we do not have, increase taxes Canadians cannot afford, and repeal tax cuts families depend on.”

Both Opposition parties were scornful of what they called a death-bed repentance from a government that has racked up seven straight budget deficits since Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised in 2008 he would never run a shortfall.

The Liberal leader, who refused to say whether his party would oppose the legislation, called it “fairly ridiculous” the government would now be

talking about balanced budgets — five years after the recession and just before an election.

“It’s a great example of how this government simply cannot be taken seriously,” Trudeau said in Saguenay, Que. Liberal finance critic Scott Brison noted Harper came to office running a surplus but has added $150 billion to the national debt and accused him of demonstrating “toxic levels of hypocrisy” by touting the proposed legislation.

The NDP’s Matthew Kellway called Oliver’s announcement “full of bitter ironies.”

Wayne Simpson, an economics professor at the University of Manitoba, said balanced-budget legislation in general has little impact.

Staying out of the red — particularly if the legislation demands balanced budgets every year as opposed to averaged over several years — means squirreling away large sums of cash to weather bad times.

“It does indicate the kind of fiscal prudence that you might like to see in a government but it kind of puts them in a straitjacket,” Simpson said. “I don’t think it really means very much.”

Manitoba had pioneering legislation that docked ministerial pay by 20 per cent for running a shortfall, Simpson said. However, the legislature suspended the law in 2009 because of the recession, even though the province probably didn’t need to do so, he said.

Duffy lawyer uses dictionary in dissecting residence rules

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Audcent acknowledged during cross-examination by Duffy’s lawyer Donald Bayne.

Bayne put pages of the concise Oxford English Dictionary in front of Audcent, having him read the definition of primary as “of chief importance or principal.”

So, since the constitutionality of Duffy’s appointment hinged on him being a resident of P.E.I., it must de facto be his “primary” residence, Bayne said.

“The minute his status changed form being a private journalist broadcaster to being a parliamentary, an appointed senator, the chiefly important residence for his status was P.E.I.,” said Bayne.

“The one he needs to maintain, yes,” answered Audcent, who had earlier told the court that in terms of determining residence there was no minimum number of days required to be spent in a home province.

Audcent was shown a memo which the policy adviser for then-government leader in the Senate Marjory LeBreton had sent Duffy and Pamela Wallin, who was appointed the same day as Duffy.

The memo dealt with the section of the Constitution that talks about the need for a senator to be resident in the province represented.

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OTTAWA — In a trial expected to delve deep into the often murky rules of the Senate, an ordinary dictionary played a key role Wednesday during suspended senator Mike Duffy’s second day in court.

The definition both sides were in search of: what it means for a place to be someone’s primary residence.

It’s a key element in Duffy’s case. The 31 charges he faces include allegations that he fraudulently claimed living expenses for a home in an Ottawa suburb, where he spent most of his time, while declaring a summer house in P.E.I. as his primary residence.

Retired Senate law clerk Mark Audcent was the Crown’s first witness in the case, telling the court that as part of his job, he briefed every new senator as part of an orientation process designed to provide an overview of the requirements of the job.

To be appointed a senator, court heard, a person must meet certain criteria, including being a resident of the province from which they were appointed.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced on

Dec. 22, 2008 that Duffy, a popular television personality, would become a senator for Prince Edward Island.

Audcent told the court that in Duffy’s orientation session — which took place the next day — he wouldn’t have gone specifically over what it means to be a resident, saving such detailed discussions for if or when a senator asked for more information.

But by his own estimation, Audcent said, determining residency requires considering a set of indicators, among them where a person primarily lives, where they pay their taxes and get government services such as a health care and where they socialize, doing things like going to church or bowling.

“Every indicator is just part of a package, residence is a question of fact,” he said. “You gather these indicators together and you look at the whole picture. There is no indicator that is absolute.”

Audcent said, however, that it wasn’t the job of Senate administrators to police whether someone met the requirements to be a senator — that would have been taken care of prior to the person being appointed.

But the meaning of residence has never been defined, either in the Constitution or by the Senate,

A6 RED DEER ADVOCATE Thursday, April 9, 2015

Canadian jets bomb Syria Defence late Wednesday said the Canadian jets were part of a larger formation of 10 coalition aircraft, including six U.S. warplanes. The nationality of the two remaining aircraft was not disclosed.

Since last September, only the U.S. and at least three Persian Gulf countries had been bombing Syria, which has been riven by a brutal four-yearlong civil war.

None of Canada’s Commonwealth allies, including Britain and Australia, are following suit.

The Defence Department statement also said that even though Wednesday’s bombing was the first airstrike in Syria since the mission expansion, it was not the first air sortie and the previous over flights helped pilots assess the new area.

“Three previous sorties have taken place over Syria since the Government expanded the CAF’s participation in the international coalition against ISIL,” said the statement.

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BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canadian warplanes have bombed their first targets in Syria, Defence Minister Jason Kenney announced online late Wednesday.

The milestone event came out via the minister’s Twitter account and even seemed to get out ahead of the military, which had not posted news of the strike on its website before it hit social media.

Kenney says on Twitter that two CF-18s struck an ISIL garrison in ArRaqqah, which is about 160 kilometres east of the embattled city of Aleppo.

It is nominally considered the capital of the extremist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and has been on the receiving end of American air strikes in the past.

Kenney provided no other details, other than to say Canada’s role in Syria is to help ensure the group has no safe haven.

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ers have returned safely to base.

After an acrimonious public debate, the House of Commons last week approved a year-long extension to Canada’s combat mission and the expansion of airstrikes into Syria.

New Democrats argued against extending the mission, saying that only dictator Bashar al-Assad would benefit from the bombing campaign. The Liberals also voted against the motion on the basis that the Harper government had no long-term strategy for the campaign against extremists who’ve overrun vast stretches of both Syria and Iraq.

The last reported strikes of Canadian jets came on April 4, when they hit targets west of Mosul, in northern Iraq, where extremists had established a roadside bomb-making facility.

The commander of Canada’s combat operations in the Middle East warned just before the holiday weekend that strikes into Syria were imminent.

Brig.-Gen. Dan Constable, speaking in a conference call from Kuwait, said

Canada’s allies were “excited” the CF18 jets would expand their operations beyond Iraq, where they have been conducting missions for six months.

Avoiding Syrian air defence and early warning radar has been a preoccupation of coalition military planners, including Canadians.

Constable said the threat level of operations in Syria was going to be very similar to the dozens of strikes carried out in Iraq.

The Islamic State has no significant anti-aircraft defence, aside from shoulder-launched missiles, which don’t have the range to meet high-flying jets that are using laser-guided or GPSaimed munitions.

Kenney has said in the past that the strikes will take place in areas where there is no Syrian air-defence radar, but open-source technical reports show as many as five of the country’s 31 early warning sites are located in the region.

Whether they are still operational is unclear.

Foreign aid spending declining

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CANADA NEAR BOTTOM OF PACK: OECD ‘CANADIAN CLAIMS TO LEADERSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ARE CONTRADICTED BY OUR RELATIVE STINGINESS.’

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — Canada ranked in the lower half of the pack in a world survey of foreign aid spending released Wednesday.

The annual ranking by the Parisbased Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Canada’s aid spending dropped to 0.24 per cent of GDP in 2014, down from 0.27 per cent the previous year.

That’s well below the United Nations target of 0.7 per cent of GDP, a goal that Secretary General Ban Kimoon urged all OECD countries to meet when he shared a podium with Prime Minister Stephen Harper last year in Toronto.

The OECD average was 0.29 per cent of GDP with 13 countries increasing their development assistance spending, while 15, including Canada, showed a decline.

The Harper government imposed a five-year freeze on foreign aid to 2015 in order to fight the deficit and aid agencies hope there will be some new spending in the April 21 federal budget.

A spokesman for International Development Minister Christian Paradis said Canada increased its humanitarian aid spending — short-term emergency spending on natural disasters, acute food insecurity and conflict — by 62 per cent last year.

— STEPHEN BROWN UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA

Louis Longchamps also said Canada is a world leader on improving maternal newborn and child health in the developing world.

Last year, Harper committed $3.5 billion over five years to 2020 to his signature aid initiative, which aims to reduce deaths among mothers and newborns in the developing world.

Julie Delahanty, Oxfam Canada executive director, said the initiative is worthy, but with overall aid numbers falling, it raises questions about what is being cut in other areas.

“The entire international development community has been asking and is consistently asking them to make good on the commitment,” said Delahanty.

Stephen Brown, a University of Ottawa development specialist, said aid spending has not been this low since 1996. Countries with economies weaker than Canada’s, including the U.K., are

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putting the country to shame, he said.

“Canadian claims to leadership in international development are contradicted by our relative stinginess,” said Brown. “We lack credibility on the international stage when we are unwilling to back up our words with actual cash.”

Liberal foreign affairs critic Marc Garneau said Canada may responsive to crises, but it needs a longer-term development strategy.

Overall, the OECD reported that the aid spending by its 28 member countries remained relative stable at $135.2 billion U.S., down 0.5 per cent from the previous year. It pegged Canada’s annual contribution at $4.2 billion U.S. Despite that overall relative stability, the amount of aid flowing to the poorest of countries continued to fall, the OECD said.

“Our challenge as we finalize post-2015 development goals this year will be to find ways to get more of this aid to the countries that need it most and to ensure we are getting as much as we can out of every dollar spent,” OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria said in a statement.

Some of the most familiar tricks from the hacker playbook are taking on another life, according to a new report that suggests junk emails have once again become a security threat.

Websense, a U.S.-based firm which monitors data theft in the business community, says malicious software practices from the 1990s are experiencing a resurgence in popularity.

Think of the days when companies warned their employees not to open email attachments because they risked exposing the entire computer system to security vulnerabilities.

While that might seem like another technology era to many people, the risk of computer users falling victim to these “old school” tactics has spiked, Bob Hansmann, director of product marketing at Websense, said.

“We took our eye off of it,” he said.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015

There’s always next season. rial Cup as an elite team and that has Yes there is, and for the Red Deer to be our motivation for the summer.”

Rebels the 2015-16 Western Hockey To that end, the Rebels should be League season will be the most spot- among the league contenders next sealighted and noteworthy in franchise son, armed with an emerging roster history. that, for the most part, can And yet, GM/head coach build off a disappointing yet Brent Sutter reminded his somewhat impressive firstplayers during exit meetround playoff series versus ings earlier this week that the Medicine Hat Tigers this hosting the Memorial Cup spring, a hard-fought set that tournament in the spring lasted five games but could of 2016 won’t be the club’s easily have gone seven. premier focus next win“When you look at where ter. He wants to go into the the team was at the start of Canadian Hockey League the year and where the team championship through the is now, we’re certainly in a front door. better place today in terms of “It’s going to be a big personnel,” said Sutter, who GREG year for our team and orremade his defence with the ganization. It’s great that acquisitions of Nelson NoMEACHEM (the Memorial Cup) is begier and Colton Bobyk and ing hosted here, it’s great watched the likes of Josh Mafor the city, our fans and hura and Austin Strand dethe organization,” Sutter velop into dependable bluesaid Wednesday. liners with great upside.

“But the reality is, as I told them The Rebels are in a better place (players), we have to have the mindset in terms of experience, too. Netmindthat it doesn’t matter where it’s being ers Rylan Toth and Taz Burman came played. We have to want to win our along nicely as the season progressed league next year, be an elite team in and will be among three stoppers — our league. We want to go to the Memo- with Trevor Martin joining the fray —

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battling for two positions next fall.

It’s difficult to imagine that Toth will draw the short straw, and in fact will come into camp as the No. 1 guy.

But that doesn’t mean that he’ll be handed the job based solely on his 2014-15 performance. Sutter wants to see a leaner, meaner Toth.

“Like Tother, when a player gets through his first year here, he gets to understand what the expectations are,” said the Rebels boss. “So now there’s a different mindset when you’re training through the summer. Tother has to become a guy who’s more committed to off-ice training, become more fit that way. He knows that now.”

That message has also been delivered to and digested by the likes of Mahura and forward Jeff de Wit, both coming off their rookie season.

“Both of them understand this is not the midget level, this is major junior level and the next level is pro,” said Sutter.

“They have to train the right way and make sure everything they do off ice is right, including their eating habits.”

The Rebels will return the lion’s share of their roster next season, and the coaching staff will be looking for

bigger things from Burman and forwards Meyer Nell, Adam Musil and Grayson Pawlenchuk, all of whom just completed their sophomore season and all of whom were somewhat inconsistent after showing such promise as rookies.

Pawlenchuk, on a positive note, was one of the club’s better players in the brief post-season, and Musil, strong through the first half of the season, was starting to turn the corner after a so-so second half when he suffered a serious ankle injury late in late March. Burman struggled until December, then, following a talk with Sutter, returned after the Christmas break and was a different netminder.

Sutter will miss graduating overagers defenceman Brett Cote and forwards Brooks Maxwell and Riley Sheen, all key components of the squad in 2014-15.

Filling their spots as final-season WHLers will be defenceman Kayle Doetzel and two of forwards Wyatt Johnson, Presten Kopeck, Scott Feser and Connor Gay, with Johnson and perhaps Kopeck the favourites to emerge from that foursome.

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Bullpen blows it for Blue Jays

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yankees 4 Blue Jays 3 NEW YORK — Chase Headley hit a tiebreaking single that deflected off the wrist of reliever Brett Cecil, and the New York Yankees rallied for three runs in the eighth inning to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 Wednesday night.

Michael Pineda pitched six solid innings for the Yankees on a frigid night, and Jacoby Ellsbury scored twice and reached base safely all four times up.

New York took advantage of mistakes

by Toronto’s bullpen, fighting back from a two-run deficit for its first victory of the season after knuckleballer R.A. Dickey gave the Blue Jays 6 1-3 effective innings.

Andrew Miller worked a perfect ninth for the save in his Yankees debut, the second of his big league career, before New York’s smallest crowd for a home game in 11 years.

Toronto pushed its lead to 3-1 in the eighth when Jose Bautista scored on a throwing error by catcher Brian McCann. But the bullpen couldn’t hold it.

Pinch-hitter Chris Young opened the bottom half with a bloop double that eluded rookie second baseman Devon Travis.

Ellsbury singled, and Aaron Loup (0-1) loaded the bases when he hit Brett

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New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira, left, watches the ball thrown by catcher Brian McCann go into left field for an error as Toronto Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion, right, went to second during the eighth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, at Yankee Stadium in New York.

Gardner with a pitch.

Young scored on a wild pitch by Cecil, who forced in the tying run when he plunked McCann with a pitch.

Headley hit a one-hopper that caromed off Cecil’s right wrist and past shortstop to give the Yankees a 4-3 lead.

Dellin Betances (1-0) got the win.

Many players wore knit hats and hooded sweat shirts during batting practice, and the game began in a steady drizzle on a 44-degree night at a mostly empty Yankee Stadium. The announced crowd of 31,020 was New York’s smallest at home since Sept. 23, 2004, at the old ballpark across 161st St.

The rain soon stopped, but the wind picked up and the raw chill never dissipated.

Pitching in short sleeves, Pineda held the Blue Jays to two runs and six hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked one.

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McIlroy, Woods raise the interest for different reasons at Masters

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods was the exception. Ben Crenshaw was closer to the rule.

Woods joined up with Crenshaw to play the back nine Wednesday on the final day of practice for a Masters that is shaping up as a mystery in many ways. They are Masters champions with multiple green jackets. What separates them is how soon they got them.

Crenshaw had to suffer a little before he could celebrate his first major. He was a runner-up four times in the majors, including a playoff loss to David Graham at the PGA Championship, before he broke through in 1984 at Augusta National. He won another one in 1995.

Woods wasted no time. He won the first major he played as a pro by setting 20 records in his 1997 Masters victory, and that was only the start. He already had eight majors before he recorded his first runner-up finish.

He had four green jackets before he turned 30.

More players have taken the Crenshaw route.

Tom Watson. Nick Price. Phil Mick-

MORE MASTERS COVERAGE B5 elson. Adam Scott. The group even includes Jack Nicklaus, who was a 20-year-old amateur when he finished second behind Arnold Palmer in the 1960 U.S. Open. Nicklaus played that day with Ben Hogan, who also had a chance to win until he hit into the water on the 17th hole at Cherry Hills.

Hogan said after the round, “Don’t feel sorry for me. I played with a kid today who could have won this Open by 10 shots if he had known now.”

Nicklaus figured it out.

Also on that list is Rory McIlroy, who returns to the scene of his greatest lesson in a major.

He was a 21-year-old with a four-shot lead at the Masters in 2011, ready to be crowned the next big thing in golf, when he shot 80 in the final round. He handled the collapse with remarkable poise, said he would learn from his mistakes. And then he posted scoring records at Congressional two months later in the U.S. Open.

“A lot of that win has to do with what happened at Augusta,” McIlroy said.

The Masters is even more meaning-

ful now.

It the only major keeping him from the career Grand Slam, and McIlroy will be the clear favourite when the Masters begins Thursday.

“Everything I’ve done, all the work I’ve done gearing up for this week has been good,” McIlroy said. “I’m just ready for the gun to go off on Thursday.”

The expectations are higher than ever for McIlroy, and lower than ever for Woods, who is competing for the first time since Feb. 5. That’s when he walked off the course at Torrey Pines to work on a game that had become so bad that hardly anyone recognized it.

Woods has shown much improvement in three days of practice, including the nine holes he played with Crenshaw and Jordan Spieth.

McIlroy and Woods, even at different ends of the spectrum, have dominated the talk so much this week that a large group of contenders have largely been ignored.

Bubba Watson is the defending champion and going for his third green jacket in four years. Adam Scott is back to the long putter he used to win in 2013. Spieth and Jimmy Walker might be the hottest players on the PGA Tour

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— Walker is the only player with two wins this season, Spieth has won, finished second and lost in a playoff his last three starts.

The question for Spieth is whether he already paid his major dues.

A year ago, he was on the verge at age 20 of becoming the youngest Masters champion when he had a two-shot lead with 11 holes to play. Two bogeys put behind going into the back nine, and he never caught up to Watson.

“How much value do I take out of losing? A lot,” Spieth said.

“But I’m not one of those people who believe it was better for me not to win. I don’t think I would have handled it the wrong way. I don’t think Rory would have if he had won. He was saying he didn’t feel ready to close that out and found out what he was doing wrong.

“I take a lot out of what happened, but I don’t necessarily think it was better for me.”

Padraig Harrington is another major champion who lost before he could win.

“The best preparation for winning is contending,” Harrington said.

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Flames get ready for pivotal game FACE THE LOS ANGELES KINGS IN GAME WITH BIG PLAYOFF IMPLICATIONS

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS CALGARY — A plucky Canadian team a win away from ending their NHL playoff drought and the defending Stanley Cup champions facing possible elimination provides Thursday’s game in Calgary with an intriguing double-barrelled plot.

A win and the Flames are in the post-season for the first time since 2009. Calgary can also end the Los Angeles Kings’ bid for back-to-back Cups — and a third in four years — with a victory in regulation time.

Calgary sits third in the Pacific Division at 95 points and two points up on Los Angeles.

A team like the Kings that earns a pair of Stanley Cups over a three-year span knows how to pull out wins at crucial times. Calgary’s roster is thinner on that type of experience.

“It’s going to be the toughest two points we have to get all season,” Flames forward Matt Stajan said Wednesday.

Playing their third road game in four days, Los Angeles arrives following with a 4-2 loss in Edmonton after thumping those same Oilers 8-2 at home a week ago.

According to their own stats, their chances of making the playoffs dropped from 40.3 per cent to 21.6 with the defeat. The Kings intend to draw on their extensive battle experience at Scotiabank Saddledome.

“This is the biggest game of our season by far,” Kings defenceman Drew Doughty said. “This is basically a Game 7 for us. We’re going to treat it that way.

“I’m completely confident in this group. We’ve been in so many big games and come through in so many big games. This is another one.

“Even though we’ve done it in the past we can’t just assume we’re going to go out there and it’s going to happen. We’ve got to get back to the things we know we can do, play the way we have in the past and that’s how we’re going to have to win.”

Other post-season options were

still in play for both clubs Wednesday. But if the Kings get a single point in Calgary, a Winnipeg Jets win over the Avalanche in Denver on Thursday eliminates Los Angeles from wild-card contention in the Western Conference.

Calgary posted a 3-1 record versus the Kings this season, including a pair of overtime wins. A pivotal point in the Flames’ season was their first game against the Kings in Los Angeles back on Dec. 22.

On an eight-game losing streak, Calgary trailed 3-0 late in the second when Johnny Gaudreau scored the first goal of a natural hat trick to tie the game.

Captain Mark Giordano’s overtime winner capped a stunning comeback.

Calgary didn’t lose more than three in a row the rest of their season.

“It was maybe a turning point in our season,” Gaudreau said. “Going in to play the Kings in their barn, the Stanley Cup champions, to come out with a win there . . . I think it was a huge part of our success the rest of the year.”

The Kings gave up a point in that game they could use now, but Doughty

wouldn’t give that loss more weight than others that have put Los Angeles in their precarious playoff position.

“That game, they got pretty lucky in that game to be honest,” he said.

“You can look back at that game and say it affected where we are in the standings right now, but there’s been so many games like that too that affected where we are.”

Los Angeles played backup Martin Jones in Edmonton, so Jonathan Quick will be rested for Thursday.

Jonas Hiller is familiar with many Kings’ shooters having played for Anaheim for seven seasons prior to his arrival in Calgary last summer.

“I’ve played those guys probably more than any other team,” the Flames goaltender said. “It definitely makes it a little different, especially knowing they’re the defending Stanley Cup champions. They’ve been in the playoffs for the last few years all the time.

“It makes it a little special, but at the same time I definitely know it’s not going to be an easy game. They’re going to put everything out there.”

Titans Rugby Club hosting international rugby stop TOP WOMENS TEAMS PLAYING CANADA DAY The Red Deer Titans Rugby Club will host an impressive Canada Day celebration.

Four of the world’s top-six ranked women’s sides will clash July 1 at Titans Rugby Park as part of the Four Nations tournament. No. 1 England will take on No. 2 New Zealand at 4 p.m., and Canada, ranked fourth, will tangle with No. 6 United States at 6 p.m.

“No question, it’s a great opportunity for the people of Red Deer to see some excellent rugby,” Matt Tidcombe of Rugby Canada said Wednesdsay.

“Edmonton hosted the women’s World Cup back in ‘06, so Albertans are used to top-flight rugby, to some extent.”

The three-city tournament, also featuring matches June 27 in Calgary and July 5 at Edmonton, will provide entertainment for rugby fans along the province’s main corridor.

“Playing in three different cities is a tremendous opportunity, rather than

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REBELS: More offense Of the 20s, whomever is deemed as expendable will undoubtedly find another locale in the league via the trade route. Regardless, Sutter won’t be required to make that decision until Oct. 20, or he could complete a deal or two through the summer.

The Rebels boss would also prefer to find more offence during the offseason. In a perfect world he would land two top-six forwards in the June 30 European draft, but if that scenario doesn’t look promising by the time the Rebels get to their turn in the second round, Sutter will keep Mario Grman, who plays a physical game and can play both forward and defence, as one of his two imports.

Sutter will also explore his trade options during the spring and summer, and then again — if necessary — at next January’s trade deadline. He’ll have two overage players and perhaps a goaltender to dangle, as well as the (2016) first- and (2015) second-round bantam draft picks he acquired from the Regina Pats in January.

For now, he knows Conner Bleackley will almost certainly be back as the club’s top forward — although he might be a bit late reporting back from the Colorado Avalanche — and he’ll expect Pawlenchuk, Musil and Reese Johnson, who showed great promise after being brought in late in the season, to play larger roles.

Evan Polei, one of the league’s top pugilists, will return as a power forward with the potential to score 20 to 25 goals, while six-foot-two, 205-pound American Austin Pratt, who signed with the Rebels which will be announced Friday, will get a spot. Pratt, in fact, might be the lone 16-year-old on the club next season, a notion that Sutter, however, would not confirm as fact.

The back end is set with the likely return of Carolina Hurricanes 2015 first-round draft pick Haydn Fleury,

just picking, say, one of the three,” said Tidcombe.

Canadian national team members Barbara Mervin, Brittany Waters and Maria Samson, who hails from Calgary, visited Notre Dame and Lindsay Thurber high schools Wednesday to promote the event and women’s rugby in general.

Tidcombe couldn’t say if the Four Nations tourney will become an annual event, particularly in Canada.

“I would suggest, though, that in time it might be held every year just because women’s rugby has become so good,” he said. “Canada might not necessarily host on a regular basis, but it could certainly be played in different countries.”

The Canadian side on display July 1 at Titans Park will feature the likes of back row competitor Kelly Russell, one of the premier players in the world, and wing Magali Harvey, who last year was named player of the year for women’s world rugby.

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Five Rebels named in Central Scouting’s final rankings Red Deer Rebels forward Adam Musil will go into the NHL entry draft June 26-27 at Sunrise, Fla., as the 61st-ranked player by Central Scouting among North American prospects.

Musil is one of five Rebels listed in Central Scouting’s final rankings released Wednesday, with defenceman Austin Strand at No. 101, forwards Grayson Pawlenchuk and Evan Polei at Nos. 169 and 197, respectively, and Rylan Toth No. 14 among North American goaltenders.

Brandon Wheat Kings defenceman Ivan Provorov is the top-ranked WHL player at No. 7. Also ranked in the top 20 are forwards Mathew Barzal of the Seattle Thunderbirds (11th), Jansen Harkins of the Prince George Cougars (15th) and Jake DeBrusk of the Swift Current Broncos (19th). who elevated his game to another level over the last two months of the season, Doetzel, Mahura, Strand, Bobyk and Nogier. Ryan Pouliot, who recently signed with the team, is a prime candidate to land another spot as a 17-yearold, and Cale Chalifoux, also 17, will be given a chance to fill the eighth blueline position.

“You never get over the fact you didn’t win your last game of the season,” said Sutter. “It’s always disappointing, but you have to be a realist too.

“We played a very good Medicine Hat team in the playoffs and were right there with them all the way, and they were certainly a lot older team than us. But we can take a lot out of the fact that was the best hockey we played the whole season. Because we knew we were facing a potent offensive team, we changed some things up before the series with some different ways of how we want to play, and we can carry that

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Yankees: CC Sabathia, coming off knee surgery, makes his first start since May 2014 in the series finale. The 34-year-old lefty, who was 3-4 with a 5.28 ERA in eight outings last season, is 10-1 with a 2.81 ERA in his past 12 games against Toronto.

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JAYS: Pine tar The last time Pineda took the mound on a cold April night, he was caught using pine tar in Boston to get a better grip and suspended 10 games.

“I’m sure we’ll have a lot of eyes on him tonight,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said with a chuckle. “I think he understands, yes. I hope.”

Alex Rodriguez went 0 for 4 in his second game since returning from a yearlong drug suspension. With the Yankees already ahead, he struck out with the bases loaded in the eighth against 20-year-old Roberto Osuna, who was making his major league debut.

UP NEXT Blue Jays: Rookie LHP Daniel Norris gets his second major league start Thursday night. The 21-year-old from Tennessee received plenty of attention in spring training for his unusual, rustic lifestyle — he was living out of his 1978 Volkswagen van in a Wal-Mart parking lot and cooking on a portable

The Irishman made bogey on the final hole at the 2002 British Open that cost him a spot in the playoff at Muirfield. He finished with three straight bogeys at Winged Foot in 2006 and finished two shots behind in the U.S. Open.

A year later, he won the first of his three majors, going back-to-back at the end of 2008.

“You do need to be in that situation a couple of times to be comfortable,” Harrington said. “That’s not true for everyone. But for most players, you have to lose a few before you can win a few.”

Maybe that explains why no Masters rookie has won a green jacket since Fuzzy Zoeller in 1979. Or why the Masters has the fewest number of first-time champions compared with the other three majors over the last 20 years.

McIlroy paid a steep price four years ago and found redemption in other majors right away. Still missing, however, is the green jacket.

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“All of the experience we went though, especially the players, will be beneficial next year. We know where the expectations are, that we can be an elite team if we play a certain way and we have to use that experience to our advantage.

“All of the players were really good in the exit meetings. We had a great group, tremendously coachable, and now we just have to build off that and get ready for next season.” gmeachem@reddeeradvocate.com

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Team Canadian Rugby team member Brittany Waters, right, makes a pass during a drill with athletes from Lindsay Thurber High School Wednesday afternoon. The team Canada players were in the city Wednesday conducting clinics for young players and to promote the Four Nations Tournament happening this summer in Alberta. Women’s teams from Canada, USA, England, and New Zealand will play games in Calgary and Edmonton and then play the final at the Titans Park in Red Deer on July 1st 2015.

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Raptors take the sting out of Hornets

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Raptors 92 Hornets 74 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Toronto Raptors were determined to beat the Charlotte Hornets for the first time in seven games Wednesday night.

Taking control midway through the second quarter, the Raptors led by as many as 29 points and rolled to a 92-74 victory that likely quashed the Hornets’ slim playoff hopes.

“The first quarter wasn’t very good,” Toronto coach Dwane Casey said. “But I thought in the second quarter we set the tone of how we want to play. We started the second quarter and finished the game doing what we wanted to do defensively.”

DeMar DeRozan scored 18 points for Toronto, Lou Williams and Greivis Vasquez had 16 points, and Tyler Hansbrough added 12 points and 12 rebounds.

“For some reason, we’ve always had bad luck against this team, especially playing here (in Charlotte),” DeRozan said. “But it felt good to get a win against this team at a critical time for us.”

Kemba Walker had 15 points for Charlotte. The Hornets are 11th in the Eastern Conference, three games out of the eighth and final playoff spot.

Mo Williams added 10 points for Charlotte, playing without three injured starters.

“We just had no juice,” Charlotte coach Steve Clifford said. “We’re going to have to find a way to be professional. I think our team has stood for effort and purposeful play all year long, and we’re going to have to find a way to do that over these last four games.”

The Raptors took the lead for good at 15-13 on Hansbrough’s two free throws with 4:31 left in the first quarter. Lou Williams made a 3-pointer

early in the second quarter to stretch the lead to double digits for the first time, 29-19, and it was 47-31 at the half.

Toronto led by 28 in the third quarter took a 69-45 advantage into the fourth.

The Hornets made just 17 of 60 fieldgoal attempts through the first three quarters for 28 per cent, including 3 of 13 from 3-point range. During that span, the Raptors were 24 of 61 from the field and 10 of 23 on 3s, with DeRozan and Lou Williams hitting three each.

“It was an all-around game against a depleted team,” Casey said. “It’s a good ’W,’ but they had a lot of their guys out. We’ve got to keep that same focus. Consistency is what we’ve been building for. It’s one game, so let’s do it again.”

MVP OF NIGHT? Casey singled out the aggressive play around the basket by Hansbrough at both ends of the court as a key to the Toronto victory.

“Tyler, I thought, was the MVP. He gave us all we wanted inside. He gave us toughness and energy and quickness that you need,” Casey said. “He had a few opportunities around the basket that he missed, but his energy was infectious. He got in there and made things tough for everybody.”

TIP-INS Raptors: Amir Johnson (right ankle sprain) and Kyle Lowry (back spasms) sat out.

Hornets: Lance Stephenson (right toe sprain) was ruled out before the game, joining previously injured teammates Al Jefferson (sore right new), Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (left ankle sprain) and Cody Zeller (sore right shoulder) on the sideline.

UP NEXT Raptors: At Orlando on Friday night.

Hornets: At Atlanta on Friday night.

Dallas Stars executive Nill chosen to GM Canada for world championship nadian players,” Nill said. “I think we’re going to kind of see that as we put the team together. I think it’s kind ERIE, Pa. — The world hockey of a new generation of players that are championships have changed since taking the next step.”

Nill would like to start with a few Jim Nill helped Canada win back-toback medals, but Hockey Canada be- of his own players in Dallas. First-line lieves he still has what it takes to bring forwards Jamie Benn and Tyler Seguin are candidates to play for Canada, as is another title home.

Hockey Canada named the Dallas 26-year-old right-shooting defenceman Stars general manager as head of its Jason Demers.

Two of the more intriguing possimanagement team for the 2015 tournament in Prague, overseeing a group bilities are Florida Panthers rookie that’s made up of former Washington defenceman Aaron Ekblad and draftCapitals GM George McPhee, former eligible junior star Connor McDavid.

Toronto Maple Leafs assistant GM Nill said those players are “definitely Claude Loiselle, Arizona Coyotes goal- options” and that he plans on reachtending coach Sean Burke, Tampa Bay ing out to McDavid’s agency to broach Lightning assistant GM Pat Verbeek the topic, even while wishing the Erie Otters stay alive in the Ontario Hockey and Hockey Canada’s Scott Salmond.

Nill won gold at the world cham- League playoffs and reach the Memorial Cup. pionships as director “I’m going to leave of player personnel in ‘YOU’D LIKE TO HAVE that door open, talk 2003 and GM in 2004, and while the tourna- THE MAJORITY OF THE with his agent and just mention to him that ment has changed a bit since then, it doesn’t TEAM PICKED BEFORE there’s a possibility,” said. “Preferably hurt Canada to have YOU HEAD OVER TO Nill he can’t, I hope they go someone who knows how the process works. PLAY THE EXHIBITION to the Memorial Cup, “It’s like the Olym- GAMES. THE QUICKER good for him, but if something happens, pics, you need to live it once to understand it YOU COME TOGETHER it’s something we’ll reach out to (do).” sometimes,” Nill said AS A TEAM, THE McDavid said in a phone interview Wednesday. “It’s a BETTER YOUR CHANCE Wednesday after practice that he hadn’t short tournament and OF SUCCESS..’ given any thought to an intense tournament.

—JIM NILL ON PUTTING TOGETHER playing for Canada at I think that’s where TEAM CANADA FOR THE WORLD the world championthe experience really HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS ships. His focus is on helps.”

Erie’s upcoming series Nill, a native of Hanna, and members of his staff have against the London Knights.

Nill said the process of choosing been in contact almost daily as they’ve begun to consider what the roster will a coaching staff is just getting under look like when Canada opens against way. Last year Dave Tippett of the AriLatvia on May 1. Tight playoff races in zona Coyotes was the head coach, with the NHL make it uncertain what play- Paul Maurice of the Winnipeg Jets and ers will even be available, and then Peter DeBoer of the New Jersey Devils there’s the possibility of adding those serving as his assistants.

Los Angeles Kings assistant GM Rob who get eliminated in the first round.

In a perfect world, Nill said, man- Blake ran the management team for agement will have much of its team put the 2014 tournament in Minsk, with together sooner rather than waiting help from the Flames’ Brad Treliving, Philadelphia Flyers’ Ron Hextall and until the last minute.

“You’d like to have the majority of Hockey Canada’s Brad Pascall, now the team picked before you head over one of Treliving’s assistants in Calgary.

Nill said he’ll count on McPhee’s to play the exhibition games,” Nill said. “The quicker you come together expertise this time around and lean on as a team, the better your chance of the others for varying viewpoints.

“Pat Verbeek, Claude Loiselle and success.”

The world championships have be- Sean Burke all bring something differcome for Canada more of a showcase ent,” he said. “The nice thing is they’re of young players than in the past, and out there seeing games every night. this year will be no different. Natural They know the players, they’re welltargets are players 26 years of age and respected in the game, a lot of them younger, of which there’s no shortage have international experience. It’s a good group, they’ve done a good job of top-end talent.

“We’re seeing kind of a turning of identifying the players, so we’re lookthe page of the new generation of Ca- ing forward to it.”

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Toronto Raptors forward Tyler Hansbrough, left, dunks over Charlotte Hornets forward Gerald Henderson in an NBA game Wednesday, in Charlotte, N.C.

SPORTS

BRIEFS

Bouchard ousted in first round at Family Circle Eugenie Bouchard knew she was pointed to bigger things at the Family Circle Cup last spring. After the top-seeded Bouchard fell to unseeded American Lauren Davis in her opening match this time around, the Canadian star isn’t sure where she’s heading.

Bouchard, ranked seventh in the world, lost 6-3, 6-1 on Wednesday, a thorough beating that left her bothered and dissecting every aspect of her game.

“As soon as it was over, definitely a bit of anger, but also kind of this confusion, slash, like quest to find what’s wrong, like this kind of searching feeling that, ’OK, like I know something’s off,”’ Bouchard said. “I know something’s not right. So I want to find it.”

A year ago, everything was going right for Bouchard. She reached the semifinals here, starting a run where she advanced to the French Open semifinals and Wimbledon final. Bouchard has not played like that this year, losing her opening tournament match for a second straight event after falling to Tatjana Maria at the Miami Open.

Davis, a 21-year-old American, was the aggressor throughout, something Bouchard didn’t fully understand.

“I was definitely a little bit slow today, overpowered,” Bouchard said.

“Usually, I’m the one dominating. So it was definitely, just, I don’t know, just not good.”

Davis had lost the only career meeting with Bouchard, but was in control much of the way against the world’s seventh-ranked player.

Bouchard was a semifinalist last year and, along with No. 2 seed Ekaterina Makarova, one of only two top-10 players in the field. She wore a black wrap around her right ankle.

Jacobs cruising, Edin struggling at Players’ Championship curling event Brad Jacobs of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., is off to a good start at the Players’ Championship Grand Slam of curling event after picking up two wins on Wednesday.

Jacobs (2-0) downed Glenn Howard of Penetanguishene, Ont., 10-5 in the evening draw after toppling Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton 7-1 in the afternoon.

Toronto’s John Epping, Winnipeg’s Mike McEwen and Calgary’s Kevin Koe are also undefeated after the first five draws.

Epping began his day with 7-3 win ove Winnipeg’s Reid Carruthers (0-2) and edged Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton (0-2), 5-4 in the late draw, McEwen was an 8-3 victor over Edmonton’s Brendan Bottcher in Draw 4, and Koe handed world champion Niklas Edin his second loss at the Players’ Championship, beating the Swede 8-5 in Wednesday’s afternoon draw.

Bottcher upset Edin 11-5 in Wednesday’s morning draw to sit at 1-1.

In the other men’s results, Brad Gushue of St. John’s, N.L., (1-1) beat Switzerland’s Sven Michel 7-2 (0-2), and Saskatoon’s Steve Laycock (1-1) edged Carruthers 6-5.

In women’s action, Ottawa’s Rachel clibed to 2-0 with a 9-4 win over Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni (1-1). Homan shares the top spot with Alina Paetz of Switzerland, who beat fellow countryman Binia Feltscher 9-3 in the evening draw.

Reigning Olympic champion Jennifer Jones of Winnipeg is 0-2. She fell 9-2 to Scotland’s Eve Muirhead (1-1) in the late draw and 5-2 to Edmonton’s Heather Nedohin (1-1) earlier in the day. Nedohin dropped her first match, 7-4 to Russia’s Anna Sidorova (1-1).

Habs’ Pacioretty has upper body injury, will miss next two games The Montreal Canadiens wouldn’t say much about the injury that will keep scoring leader Max Pacioretty out of the final two games of the regular season, but they hope to have him back for the playoffs.

Coach Michel Therrien said Pacioretty saw the team doctor on Wednesday and has an upper body injury, and that his condition will be evaluated next week. Pacioretty fell against the boards after a check from Dmitry Kulikov early in Montreal’s 4-1 victory in Florida on Sunday. He may have suffered a concussion, but it could also have been a neck or shoulder problem.

“We know exactly what he’s got,” the coach said. “We have to protect the players.That’s the most important thing for us. There are things that we can’t tell (you). We’re a week away from the playoffs.”

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SCOREBOARD Baseball Boston (Masterson 0-0) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

GB — 1/2 1/2 1/2 1

Detroit Kansas City Cleveland Chicago Minnesota

Central Division W L Pct 2 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 1 1 .500 0 2 .000 0 2 .000

GB — — 1 2 2

Los Angeles Oakland Houston Seattle Texas

West Division W L Pct 2 1 .667 2 1 .667 1 1 .500 1 2 .333 1 2 .333

GB — — 1/2 1 1

Friday’s Games Chicago Cubs at Colorado, 2:10 p.m.

Washington at Philadelphia, 5:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Cincinnati, 5:10 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets at Atlanta, 5:35 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, 7:40 p.m.

San Francisco at San Diego, 8:10 p.m.

Wednesday’s Major League Linescores AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota 000 000 000 — 0 4 1 Detroit 003 420 11x — 11 15 0 Nolasco, Stauffer (4), Graham (5), A.Thompson (6), Boyer (8) and K.Suzuki; An.Sanchez, Nesbitt (7), Krol (8), Alburquerque (9), Soria (9) and Avila, J.McCann. W—An.Sanchez 1-0. L—Nolasco 0-1.

Toronto 001 010 010 — 3 7 0 NYY 000 001 03x — 4 7 2 Dickey, M.Castro (7), Loup (8), Cecil (8), Osuna (8) and R.Martin; Pineda, Ch.Martin (7), Betances (8), A.Miller (9) and B.McCann. W—Betances 1-0. L— Loup 0-1. Sv—A.Miller (1).

Tuesday’s Games Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 5 Texas 3, Oakland 1 L.A. Angels 2, Seattle 0

Baltimore 000 000 000 — 0 3 0 Tampa Bay 000 001 01x — 2 5 0 Mi.Gonzalez, Matusz (6), Jas.Garcia (7), Brach (8), W.Wright (8) and Lavarnway; Odorizzi, Beliveau (7), Jepsen (8), Boxberger (9) and Rivera. W—Odorizzi 1-0. L—Mi.Gonzalez 0-1. Sv—Boxberger (1).

Wednesday’s Games Detroit 11, Minnesota 0 Philadelphia 4, Boston 2 N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3 Tampa Bay 2, Baltimore 0 Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 5 Cleveland 2, Houston 0 Oakland 10, Texas 0 L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 3 Thursday’s Games Minnesota (Gibson 0-0) at Detroit (Greene 0-0), 11:08 a.m.

Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-0) at Kansas City (Volquez 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 0-0) at Houston (Wojciechowski 0-0), 12:10 p.m.

Texas (N.Martinez 0-0) at Oakland (Graveman 0-0), 1:35 p.m.

Boston (Masterson 0-0) at Philadelphia (Buchanan 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Toronto (Da.Norris 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-0), 5:05 p.m.

Friday’s Games Toronto at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m.

Houston at Texas, 2:05 p.m.

Detroit at Cleveland, 2:10 p.m.

Minnesota at Chicago White Sox, 2:10 p.m.

Boston at N.Y. Yankees, 5:05 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Miami, 5:10 p.m.

Kansas City at L.A. Angels, 8:05 p.m.

Seattle at Oakland, 8:05 p.m.

Chicago 030 101 000 — 5 10 0 Kansas City103 010 02x — 7 14 0 Quintana, Guerra (6), Duke (7), Putnam (8) and Flowers; D.Duffy, Frasor (6), K.Herrera (7), W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. W—W.Davis 1-0.

L—Putnam 0-1. Sv—G.Holland (1). HRs—Chicago, Flowers (1). Kansas City, Hosmer (1), L.Cain (1).

Cleveland 000 100 010 — 2 7 0 Houston 000 000 000 — 0 4 0 Carrasco, Hagadone (7), Rzepczynski (7), Shaw (8), Allen (9) and Y.Gomes; Feldman, Thatcher (7), Neshek (8), Harris (9) and J.Castro. W—Carrasco 1-0. L—Feldman 0-1. Sv—Allen (1). HRs—Cleveland, C.Santana (1), Aviles (1).

Texas 000 000 000 — 0 3 4 Oakland 005 121 10x — 10 14 1 Detwiler, Verrett (5), Klein (8) and Chirinos; Kazmir, Otero (8), R.Alvarez (9) and Phegley. W—Kazmir 1-0. L—Detwiler 0-1.

LA Angels 410 000 000 — 5 10 0 Seattle 001 002 000 — 3 9 1 Shoemaker, J.Alvarez (7), Morin (7), J.Smith (8), Street (9) and Iannetta; Iwakuma, Olson (7), C.Smith (7), Farquhar (9) and Zunino. W—Shoemaker 1-0.

L—Iwakuma 0-1. Sv—Street (2). HRs—Los Angeles, Pujols (1). Seattle, B.Miller (1), Seager (1).

Atlanta New York Philadelphia Washington Miami

National League East Division W L Pct 3 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 0 3 .000

GB — 1 1/2 1 1/2 1 1/2 3

INTERLEAGUE Boston 000 000 020 — 2 3 2 Phila.

000 003 10x — 4 6 2 Porcello, Ross Jr. (7), Ogando (8) and Hanigan; Harang, J.Gomez (7), Giles (8), Papelbon (8) and Ruiz.

W—Harang 1-0. L—Porcello 0-1. Sv—Papelbon (1).

HRs—Philadelphia, Francoeur (1).

Cincinnati Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Milwaukee

Central Division W L Pct 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 0 1 .000 0 3 .000

GB — 1/2 1/2 1 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 000 000 000 — 0 3 1 Chicago 000 000 20x — 2 2 1 Lynn, Siegrist (7), Belisle (8) and Molina; Arrieta, Coke (8), N.Ramirez (8), Strop (8), H.Rondon (9) and M.Montero. W—Arrieta 1-0. L—Lynn 0-1. Sv— H.Rondon (1).

GB — 1 1 1/2 1 1/2 2

NY Mets 010 000 000 — 1 6 0 Wash.

200 000 00x — 2 7 0 deGrom, R.Montero (7) and d’Arnaud; Zimmermann, Stammen (7), Treinen (8), Storen (9) and W.Ramos.

W—Zimmermann 1-0. L—deGrom 0-1. Sv—Storen (1). HRs—Washington, Zimmerman (1).

West Division W L Pct 3 0 1.000 2 1 .667 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 2 .333

Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 12, Miami 2 St. Louis at Chicago, ppd., rain Colorado 5, Milwaukee 2 Arizona 7, San Francisco 6 San Diego 7, L.A. Dodgers 3

Atlanta 000 000 200 — 2 6 0 Miami 000 000 000 — 0 6 0 S.Miller, Cunniff (6), Avilan (7), Ji.Johnson (8), Grilli (9) and Pierzynski; Koehler, A.Ramos (7), Morris (8), Dunn (9) and Mathis. W—Cunniff 1-0. L—Koehler 0-1. Sv—Grilli (2). HRs—Atlanta, Pierzynski (1).

Wednesday’s Games Chicago Cubs 2, St. Louis 0 Philadelphia 4, Boston 2 Washington 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Atlanta 2, Miami 0 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, late Colorado 5, Milwaukee 4, 10 innings San Francisco 5, Arizona 2 San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, late

Colorado 000 010 120 1 — 510 0 Milwaukee 002 000 002 0 — 4 8 0 (10 innings) E.Butler, Friedrich (6), B.Brown (7), Ottavino (8), Hawkins (9), Axford (10) and Hundley; W.Peralta, Broxton (8), Jeffress (9), F.Rodriguez (10) and Lucroy. W—Hawkins 1-0. L—F.Rodriguez 0-1.

Sv—Axford (1). HRs—Colorado, Dickerson (2), C.Gonzalez (1), Rosario (1). Milwaukee, Lind (1).

Thursday’s Games Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-0) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 0-0), 10:35 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-0) at Washington (Strasburg 0-0), 11:05 a.m.

San Francisco (T.Hudson 0-0) at San Diego (Kennedy 0-0), 4:40 p.m.

San Fran. 020 010 002 — 5 14 1 Arizona 100 001 000 — 2 5 1 Heston, Machi (7), Romo (8), Casilla (9) and H.Sanchez; Hellickson, D.Hudson (5), Delgado (7), E.Marshall (8), O.Perez (9) and Laird, Pacheco.

W—Heston 1-0. L—Hellickson 0-1. Sv—Casilla (2).

HRs—San Francisco, McGehee (1).

Basketball National Basketball Association EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB y-Toronto 46 32 .590 — Boston 36 42 .462 10 Brooklyn 36 42 .462 10 Philadelphia 18 61 .228 28 New York 15 63 .192 31

Phoenix 39 Sacramento 27 L.A. Lakers 20 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference 1/2

Southeast Division W L Pct GB z-Atlanta 59 19 .756 — x-Washington 45 33 .577 14 Miami 35 43 .449 24 Charlotte 33 45 .423 26 Orlando 25 53 .321 34

y-Cleveland x-Chicago Milwaukee Indiana Detroit

Central Division W L Pct 51 27 .654 46 32 .590 38 40 .487 35 43 .449 30 48 .385

GB — 5 13 16 21

GB — 10

24 36 43

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Tuesday’s Games Atlanta 96, Phoenix 69 Miami 105, Charlotte 100 New Orleans 103, Golden State 100 San Antonio 113, Oklahoma City 88 Sacramento 116, Minnesota 111 L.A. Clippers 105, L.A. Lakers 100

Thursday’s Games Chicago at Miami, 6 p.m.

Portland at Golden State, 8:30 p.m.

Northwest Division W L Pct GB y-Portland 51 27 .654 — Oklahoma City 42 36 .538 9 Utah 36 42 .462 15 Denver 29 49 .372 22 Minnesota 16 62 .205 35

z-Golden State x-L.A. Clippers

40 .494 51 .346 58 .256

Wednesday’s Games Washington 119, Philadelphia 90 Orlando 105, Chicago 103 Boston 113, Detroit 103 Toronto 92, Charlotte 74 Atlanta 114, Brooklyn 111 Indiana 102, New York 86 Memphis 110, New Orleans 74 Cleveland 104, Milwaukee 99 San Antonio 110, Houston 98 Denver 119, L.A. Lakers 101 Utah 103, Sacramento 91 Dallas 107, Phoenix 104 Portland 116, Minnesota 91

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division W L Pct GB x-Memphis 53 25 .679 — x-Houston 53 25 .679 — x-San Antonio 53 26 .671 1/2 x-Dallas 47 31 .603 6 New Orleans 42 36 .538 11

Pacific Division W L Pct 63 15 .808 53 26 .671

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015

Hockey

Major League Baseball American League East Division W L Pct Baltimore 2 1 .667 Boston 1 1 .500 New York 1 1 .500 Toronto 1 1 .500 Tampa Bay 1 2 .333

Colorado San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego Arizona

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Friday’s Games Toronto at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Charlotte at Atlanta, 5:30 p.m.

Indiana at Detroit, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

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

Phoenix at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Houston, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Denver, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Utah, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Erie Otters file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, insists it won’t affect team The Erie Otters filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, a move owner Sherry Bassin insisted would not affect the Ontario Hockey League team’s immediate future.

Bassin said Erie Hockey Club Limited filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a way to prevent Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz’s Ontario Major Junior Hockey Corporation from holding its own private sale of the Otters and their assets.

Bassin still plans to sell the team and pay off creditors, including Katz, but said filing was to protect the organization.

The Otters open their second-round series at home Thursday against the London Knights. Bassin met with players and staff Wednesday morning to assure them the team wasn’t going under and that nothing would change as far as day-to-day operations.

McDavid said this news could have come out at any time and it would not have been a distraction to the team. Bassin expects to complete the sale of the team in the next two or three months, by which time McDavid will be well on his way to the NHL. Katz and Bassin are involved in court action that in part prompted the decision to file for bankruptcy. The Otters said in a statement that the team’s creditors would all be paid off when a sale goes through, with payments to Katz’s company put in escrow until litigation is finished.

Bassin said he has already been in contact with potential buyers, and the team’s statement said the Otters are expected to sell at a value in line with other OHL franchises recently. Whenever a sale goes through, Bassin expects the team to remain in Erie.

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) (Calgary wins series 4-3) 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 Calgary 6 Kootenay 2 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 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) 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) Everett (1) vs. Spokane (4) (Everett wins series 4-2)

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 2 Spokane 1 (OT)

offs; w — qualifies for playoffs through wild card

Portland (2) vs. Seattle (3) (Portland wins series 4-2) 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 5 Seattle 4 (OT)

Wednesday’s results Columbus 5 Toronto 0 Washington 3 Boston 0 Dallas at Anaheim, late

Tuesday’s results NY Rangers 4 New Jersey 2 Philadelphia 5 NY Islanders 4 Detroit 3 Carolina 2 Ottawa 4 Pittsburgh 3 (OT) Winnipeg 1 St. Louis 0 Minnesota 2 Chicago 1 Colorado 3 Nashville 2 Calgary 3 Arizona 2 Edmonton 4 Los Angeles 2

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt x-Montreal 80 48 22 10 213 183 106 x-Tampa Bay 80 48 24 8 255 206 104 Detroit 80 42 25 13 230 217 97 Metropolitan Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt z-NY Rangers 80 52 21 7 248 187 111 x-Washington 81 45 25 11 240 199 101 NY Islanders 80 46 28 6 245 224 98

Pittsburgh Boston Ottawa Florida Columbus Philadelphia New Jersey Carolina Toronto Buffalo

x-St. Louis x-Nashville x-Chicago

GP 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 80 81 80

WILD CARD W L OL 42 26 12 41 26 13 41 26 13 36 29 15 40 35 5 33 29 18 32 35 13 29 40 11 30 44 7 23 49 8

GF 218 209 232 199 227 213 176 185 208 159

GA 207 204 214 219 244 228 209 223 258 268

Pt 96 95 95 87 85 84 77 69 67 54

Western Conference Central Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt 80 49 24 7 242 198 105 80 47 23 10 229 200 104 80 48 26 6 226 184 102

Thursday’s games Ottawa at NY Rangers, 5 p.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 5 p.m.

New Jersey at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.

Boston at Florida, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 5:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Nashville, 6 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 6 p.m.

Winnipeg at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 7:30 p.m.

Arizona at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Friday’s games Buffalo at Columbus, 5 p.m.

NY Islanders at Pittsburgh, 5 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Blue Jackets 5, Maple Leafs 0 First Period 1. Columbus, Anisimov 7 (Dubinsky, Foligno) 13:51.

2. Columbus, Jenner 8 (Johansen, Johnson) 15:56.

3. Columbus, Hartnell 27 (Dano) 19:00.

Penalties — Falk Clb (hooking) 16:27.

Second Period 4. Columbus, Murray 1 (Dubinsky, Hartnell) 3:30 (pp).

5. Columbus, Morin 2 (Letestu, Goloubef) 16:34.

Penalties — Brewer Tor (hooking) 2:23, Clb Bench (too many men) 5:21, Wennberg Clb (tripping) 10:01.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Erixon Tor (holding) 0:19, Foligno Clb (tripping) 6:56.

Shots on goal Toronto 8 15 12 — 35 Columbus 14 13 6 — 33 Goal — Toronto: Reimer (L, 9-16-1); Columbus: Bobrovsky (W, 29-17-3).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Toronto: 0-4; Columbus: 1-2.

WILD CARD GP W L OL GF GA Pt x-Minnesota 80 45 27 8 225 195 98 Winnipeg 80 42 26 12 225 208 96 Los Angeles 80 39 26 15 215 201 93 Dallas 80 39 31 10 253 259 88 San Jose 80 39 32 9 224 227 87 Colorado 80 37 31 12 215 225 86 Edmonton 80 24 43 13 192 274 61 Arizona 80 24 48 8 169 265 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 play-

Capitals 3, Bruins 0 First Period 1. Washington, Carlson 12 (Backstrom, Johansson) 4:49.

2. Washington, Niskanen 4 (Backstrom, Brouwer) 7:06.

Penalties — None.

Second Period 3. Washington, Johansson 20 (Kuznetsov, Brouwer) 17:47.

Penalties — Connolly Bos (hooking) 3:14.

Third Period No Scoring.

Penalties — Krug Bos (interference) 12:42, Connolly Bos (holding) 19:42.

Shots on goal Boston 10 12 5 — 27 Washington 16 10 7 — 33 Goal — Boston: Rask (L, 34-20-12); Washington: Holtby (W, 41-19-10).

Power plays (goal-chances) — Boston: 0-0; Washington: 0-3.

OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Signed RHP Joe Riley.

SUSSEX COUNTY MINERS — Acquired RHP Jason Postill from Normal for a player to be named.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Named Dalphie Correa hitting coach. Signed RHP Will Oliver to a contract extension and LHP Logan Ehlers and LHP Manuel Rivera.

GATEWAY GRIZZLIES — Signed RHP Andrew Reidt.

JOLIET SLAMMERS — Signed SS Alfredo Rodriguez and C Dante Rosenberg.

NORMAL CORNBELTERS — Signed RHP Jose Flores.

ROCKFORD AVIATORS — Signed RHPs Michael Holback and Tony Rizzotti and INF Tanner Witt.

TRAVERSE CITY BEACH BUMS — Signed RHP Andrew Brockett.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Recalled F Kyle Anderson from Austin (NBADL).

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Named Peter Griffiths chief operating officer of NFL International.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Released DT Amobi Okoye.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Released T Aaron Adams.

NEW YORK JETS — Signed LB Erin Henderson.

Agreed to terms with RB Stevan Ridley on a one-

year contract.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Re-Signed Ss Larry Asante and Brandian Ross, WRs Andre Holmes and Rod Streater, P Marquette King, DE Denico Autry, TE Brain Leonhardt, T Matt McCants, RB Jamize Olawale and CB Neiko Thorpe.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Henrik Samuelsson on an emergency basis from Portland (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES — Recalled D Keegan Lowe from Charlotte (AHL). Reassigned D Danny Biega to Charlotte.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Agreed to terms with D Kyle Burroughs on a three-year, entry-level contract that will take effect in the 2015-16 season.

American Hockey League ALBANY DEVILS — Signed F Brandon Baddock to an amateur tryout agreement.

BRIDGEPORT SOUND TIGERS — Signed F Tanner Eberle to a professional tryout contract.

Announced N.Y. Islanders has assigned D Kevin Czuczman to Florida (ECHL).

HAMILTON BULLDOGS — Announced Montreal (NHL) has assigned F Tim Bozon to the team from Kootenay (WHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer MLS — Suspended San Jose F Innocent Emeghara one game and fined him an undisclosed amount for endangering the safety of an opponent in a game against Real Salt Lake on April 5.

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Pacific Division GP W L OL GF GA Pt 80 50 23 7 234 221 107 80 46 29 5 231 217 97 80 44 29 7 237 210 95

Transactions Wednesday’s Sports Transactions BASEBALL American League DETROIT TIGERS — Placed RHP Justin Verlander on the 15-day DL, retroactive to March 29. Recalled LHP Kyle Lobstein from Toledo (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Assigned C Austin Romine outright to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

OAKLAND ATHLETICS — Agreed to terms with OF Cody Ross on a one-year contract. Optioned OF Billy Burns to Nashville (PCL). Designated OF Alex Hassan for assignment.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Placed 1B James Loney on the 15-day DL. Selected the contract of 1B Allan Dykstra from Durham (IL). Recalled RHP Burch Smith from Durham and placed him on the 60-day DL. National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with 3B Josh Harrison on a four-year contract.

American Association LAREDO LEMURS — Signed RHP Ryan Beckman and RHP Joan Montero.

LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Released INF Luis Nunez.

SIOUX CITY EXPLORERS — Signed C Matt Koch.

Released INF Chris McClendon and RHP Greg Holt.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed OF Jamal Austin.

McDavid listed as NHL’s top prospect over Eichel

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS ERIE, Pa. — Connor McDavid is the projected No. 1 pick in this year’s NHL draft, so it’s no surprise that he’s the top-ranked North American prospect on Central Scouting’s final list.

As expected, McDavid topped the rankings released Wednesday, ahead of Boston University centre Jack Eichel. Boston College defenceman Noah Hanifin was third.

“It’s a pretty special thing,” McDavid said Wednesday after practising with the Erie Otters. “You’re honoured to be the top-ranked guy, I guess. It’s a good position to be in, but there’s still a lot of work to be done and still a lot of time from now to the draft. Anything could happen.”

McDavid, from Newmarket, Ont., finished fourth in Ontario Hockey League scoring with 120 points in just 47 games. His 44 goals were tied for fourth in the OHL. McDavid also tied for the scoring lead at the 2015 world junior championship with 11 points in seven games as Canada won the gold medal.

He and the Otters will face fellow gold-medal winner Max Domi and the London Knights in the Ontario Hockey League playoffs beginning Thursday.

Eichel is also considered a top talent entering the 2015 draft, which will be held June 26-27 at BB&T Center in Sunrise, Fla. He leads NCAA players with 67 points and is of three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award, given to college hockey’s best player.

“Jack is a tremendous future NHLer, he’s an all-star, he’s big, he can skate, he’s competitive,” Toronto Maple Leafs scout and BU alum

Adrian Gonzalez hits 3 solo homers for Dodgers in game against Padres Adrian Gonzalez homered three times for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night, making him the first player in major league history with five in the season’s first three games.

His third homer leading off the fifth inning extended the Dodgers’ lead to 6-2. All three

John Lilley said Tuesday. “Whoever gets him in this upcoming draft has certainly got an unbelievable building block at the centre position.”

Behind McDavid, Eichel and Hanifin is OHL leading scorer Dylan Strome, Erie’s secondline centre. The brother of New York Islanders forward Ryan Strome put up 45 goals and 84 assists for a league-best 129 points.

“It’s just another notch. It doesn’t really affect me too much,” Strome said. “It’s just kind of cool for people when they look back in history at the scoring titles of the league and see some of the people that won, (Islanders captain John) Tavares and guys like that. it’s pretty cool to be part of that elite company.”

McDavid was glad Strome was shown the appreciation of being ranked so high.

“After the year he had, it’s hard not to put him up there,” Erie’s captain said. “I think he can be even higher than that. He’s a great player, and I’m very glad that he’s been able to show that this year.”

Canadian world-junior winger Lawson Crouse of the Kingston Frontenacs rounded out the top five North American skaters. Mikko Rantanan, who starred for Finland at that tournament, was ranked as the top European skater.

Mackenzie Blackwood of the OHL’s Barrie Colts topped the list of North American goaltenders, while Russian Ilya Samsonov was ranked the top international goaltender.

The top 120 prospects will be invited to attend NHL scouting combine, which will take place in Buffalo, N.Y., for the first time. It will run from June 1-6 at the Sabres’ arena, First Niagara Center, and the new HarborCenter facility. came off Padres starter Andrew Cashner.

Gonzalez homered in the first and again leading off the third, giving him homers in four consecutive at-bats dating to Tuesday. He singled in the sixth. It’s the first three-homer game of the 32-year-old first baseman’s career. Gonzalez is the first Dodger to hit three in a game since teammate Juan Uribe did so against Arizona on Sept. 9, 2013.

Gonzalez’s five homers in the first three games made major league history, according to information provided to the Dodgers by the Elias Sports Bureau.

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Crenshaw bids farewell to the Masters

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AUGUSTA, Ga. — Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth were already on the 18th green, ready to hit a few putts. Ben Crenshaw was back down the fairway, still 100 yards or so away, after driving his tee shot into a tree.

Yep, it’s time for Gentle Ben to go.

“I probably should have stopped playing a couple of years ago,” Crenshaw moaned Wednesday, standing outside the Augusta National clubhouse after getting in nine holes.

The two-time Masters champion will finally put away his clubs at age 63, after playing the tournament one last time with long-time caddie Carl Jackson by his side.

At every hole, they’ll be remembering all the good times. The first green jacket in 1984. The out-of-nowhere victory in 1995, when Crenshaw collapsed into tears after making the final putt, remembering his mentor, Harvey Penick, who passed away just days earlier.

It was a touching scene — Crenshaw buckled over, face buried in his hands, while Jackson came up from behind to provide a consoling pat on the back.

“A lifetime is going to flash in front of me,” Jackson said.

Crenshaw’s final Masters will be his 44th, tied with Sam Sneed and surpassed by only four other players — Gary Player, Arnold Palmer, Doug Ford and Raymond Floyd.

Not bad company.

“I started thinking a while back about this week,” said Crenshaw, never one to hide his emotions and sure to shed a few more tears before this week is out. “I’m going to get through it the best way I can.”

Crenshaw’s last official practice round at Augusta National was one of the ages. The fading veteran was joined by Woods, the middle-aged star trying to recapture his form at age 39, and the up-and-coming Spieth, only 21 but already one of the top players on the PGA Tour.

“That’s the way life goes,” Crenshaw said. “Those guys are so strong, so young, so eager. We all remember when we felt like that.”

The night before, Crenshaw arranged a practice round with Spieth, a fellow Texan who led last year’s Masters on the front nine Sunday before fading down the stretch. Then, after learning that Woods didn’t have a

Streelman wins Masters Par 3 in sudden-death playoff over Villegas

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Ben Crenshaw shakes hands with spectators during the Par 3 contest at the Masters golf tournament Wednesday, in Augusta, Ga. partner, they asked the 14-time major champion to make it a threesome.

“You know how particular I am,” Crenshaw joked.

After playing the back side, down through Amen Corner and back again, Crenshaw grabbed some lunch, rested up a bit, and headed back out for the Par 3 Contest. He played with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, a worthy fill-in for 85-year-old Arnold Palmer, who’s still rehabbing from shoulder surgery but turned up at the first tee to dole out a few good-natured insults.

When Crenshaw missed the green with his first shot, Palmer blurted out, “Nice shot, Ben!” They both had a good laugh.

“You know how special this place is,” Crenshaw said. “I love everything about it. Always have.”

Like so many past champions, Crenshaw looks forward to returning to Augusta in the years to come. He’ll attend the Champions Dinner, play a practice round every now and then, yuk it up with young and old in the Par 3 Contest. Maybe one day, he’ll take over as an honorary starter, a role currently held by Nicklaus, Player and Palmer.

Back in 1972, when Crenshaw qualified for his first Masters as an amateur, the ceremonial first shots were hit by Jock Hutchison and Fred McLeod.

“Freddie McLeod won the 1908 U.S. Open, and I think Jock won the 1921 British Open,” Crenshaw said, showing his extensive knowledge of golf history. “They were 88 and 86, respectively.

That was one of my dear memories.

They hit it off and went down the hill.”

Crenshaw will be remembered for his relationship with Jackson, stretching back to the days when the Masters required every player to use one of the club’s caddies. When that changed, most players started bringing their regular loopers. But Crenshaw always stuck with Jackson, gleaning every little bit of his extensive course knowledge.

Jackson no longer works at Augusta National but always returns for Masters week, donning the white coveralls and throwing Crenshaw’s bag over his shoulder.

There was no way he was missing this one.

“Carl means as much to what I’ve done here as me,” Crenshaw said.

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Kevin Streelman beat Camilo Villegas on the third hole of a sudden-death playoff Wednesday to win the Par 3 tournament on the last day to relax at Augusta National.

Streelman and Villegas finished the nine holes tied at 5 under. They each opened with a par then a birdie before Streelman topped Villegas, who had not one, but two holesin-one through his first eight holes.

Streelman tied for 42nd last year in his best finish in three appearances at the Masters.

Winning the Par 3 contest has been considered a bad omen since no one has won both that title and the Masters in the same week.

Streelman called it a fun day where his focus was on helping Ethan from the Make-a-Wish Foundation have a great day.

“Done all I can do,” Streelman said. “Now I’ve just got to go out and have fun and play.”

Villegas got his first ace on No. 4 along with Jack Nicklaus and Matias Dominguez of Chile. The Colombian followed that with his second holein-one of the day on the 120-yard No. 8, taking him to 5-under 22 and tying Streelman.

Tiger Woods had company playing the Par 3 for the first time since 2004. His 6-year-old son, Charlie, and 7-year-old daughter, Sam, caddied for him with girlfriend, Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn, joining them.

“I’ll always have memories of my pop at Augusta and now Sam & Charlie,” Woods wrote on Twitter.

“An amazing day.”

Family time is the best part of this event.

Ernie Els let his daughter Samantha putt. Caleb Watson looked adorable in his caddie suit and green hat following his daddy, two-time Masters champ Bubba from hole to hole.

Nicklaus, the six-time Masters champ, looked like he just might win his first Par 3 title at the age of 75 after a hole-in-one on No. 4.

Converts pushed back 20 yards under new rule changes

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — Scott Milanovich and other CFL coaches will have much more to consider this season.

The league’s board of governors approved several significant rule changes Wednesday, including pushing converts back 20 yards while moving up two-point attempts two yards. But one modification that could dramatically impact games is defensive backs being unable to contact receivers more than five yards downfield, giving passcatchers a less obstructed path to the football.

“How that’s going to be called is going to be very important,” said Milanovich, the Toronto Argonauts head coach. “It’s going to make it difficult for teams to play essentially offman coverage.

“That one’s going to be interesting.

I know receivers are pleased and defensive backs are upset but everybody will adjust.”

Wally Buono, the B.C. Lions GM and vice-president of football operations, said the new contact rule creates a more level playing field between CFL offences and defences.

“Our game has evolved to a point now where defences have a lot more advantages in disrupting the quarter-

back and receiver,” he said. “The NFL did away with it and it’s opened up scoring and we believe by doing the same it’s going to hopefully open up scoring and make the game more exciting.

“Good defence is exciting but people want to see touchdowns.”

Buono said the new rule will result in CFL teams looking for more athletic defenders.

“Now you’re going to have to get guys that I believe are going to be able break on the ball or catch up to it,” he said. “Those guys are out there it’s just a matter now of going out and getting them.”

Starting this season, extra points will kicked from the 32-yard line instead of the 12-yard line to try and make converts less of a foregone conclusion. Last year, 99.4 per cent of convert kicks were successful.

The league is also making the prospect of a two-point convert more intriguing to coaches. Now the ball will be scrimmaged from the three-yard line instead of the five-yard line.

“From the five, you can run four, four and a half yards and still be short,” Buono said. “On the three, if you spread out and run the football the likelihood of success is greater.

“On a windy day you might not want to try from 32 yards out. It does make the game a little bit more thoughtful and for the fan more exciting.”

Added Milanovich: “There’s going

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to be some strategy involved especially when the weather is bad. I think you’ll definitely see more two-point conversions than you’ve seen in the past. I just haven’t wrapped my head around how we’re going to handle that one yet.”

But the board of governors rejected the idea of testing a three-point convert during the exhibition season if a team successfully ran or passed the football into the endzone from the 10-yard line.

“I kind of liked the thought of it,” Buono said. “It was the idea you could, even if you were down by nine, which is really two scores, you could still tie the game, which hopefully puts you into overtime and creates more excitement.”

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HOW MANY TIMES CAN WE RUN ACROSS CANADA?

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Students, staff and some parents take part in the Oriole Park Elementary School Terry Fox Run. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope by running on Sunday, April 12. People can participate in How Many Times Can We Run Across Canada by signing up online to run one km to 10 km. The event is sponsored by the local Running Room. The distance each participant runs will be added to the national total. The event aims to raise awareness for cancer research and an eventual cure. The Terry Fox Foundation has raised nearly $700 million worldwide since it was created in 1988. To sign up to run, visit www.runningroom.com/marathon-of-hopecelebration. For more information, visit www.terryfox.org.

CALENDAR THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS

Friday ● First Friday’s lineup on April 10 includes: Take a Second Look at Your Plate — photographs by Anne Marie Resta of Edmonton at Kiwanis Gallery, refreshments and live entertainment by Cat Piano; Find it in the Parks, encauastic paintings by Jordan Pearson at Harris Warke Gallery from 6 to 8 p.m.; what moves us, mixed media by Wendy Meeres at The Olive from 6 to 8 p.m.; In Bloom, encaustic paintings by Emily Thomson from 4 to 6 p.m. at The Hub on Ross Gallery. ● A Night at the Jubilee — Dinner, Live Entertainment and Carnival Fun is featured at Holiday Inn Gasoline Alley on April 10 in support of Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre education and prevention programs. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m., dinner to follow. Dress is business casual. Live entertainment by Porter with amazing top of the line carnival inspired food and treats. Silent auction and prizes. Tickets cost $100 or $800 for a bundle of eight. Phone 403-340-1124. ● Silver Blades senior skating is offered on Fridays, 2 to 3:30 p.m., and Seniors Skating will be offered on Tuesdays from 2:30 to 3:30, both usually at the Red Deer Arena.

Ages 50 years plus. Cost is $3 for drop-in.

Please note for Fridays, April 10, 17 and 24, the group will skate at Kinsmen Arenas while the Tuesday skate will be held at Red Deer Arena. ● Red Deer Legion Branch #35 year round events: Singles Bridge on Thursdays at 1 p.m. (all levels welcome, including beginners) and Texas Hold ‘Em on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.; meat draws on Fridays at 5 p.m., and Saturdays at 4 p.m. Phone 403-3420035. ● Parkland Mall Mosaics of Hope Fundraiser will be held April 6 to 27. This annual event has three charitable organizations — Loaves and Fishes, Kiwanis Club Harmony Garden, and Centrefest — selling $5 pieces of a large mosaic mural to raise money for their programs. To find out more, www.parklandmall.ca, under What’s New.

Saturday ● Spring Break Beach Party with summery snacks, crafts, music and activities is offered at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library on April 11 from 1 to 2:30 p.m. ● Senior Citizens Downtown House has several upcoming events, regular card games and tournaments and special tournaments: Cribbage every Thursday at 1:30 p.m.; Whist every Friday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on April 17; 500 every Monday and Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. with a tournament on April 27; Fun Contract Bridge every Wednesday at 1 p.m. Games cost $3. Tournaments cost $6. A Turkey Supper will be held on April 17 at 5:30 p.m. for $15. Dutch auction to follow.

A Jam Session will be held on April 11 at 1:30 p.m. for $2.50. Phone 403-346-4043. ● ‘50s and ‘60s Rock and Roll Dance at Valley Centre Hall will be held on April 11 from 8 to 11:30 p.m. at the hall located at 38062 Range Road 260 in Red Deer County.

JukeBox Rock, a live four-piece rock and roll

band, will provide entertainment. Admission is $15 at the door including lunch. Teens, seniors, and adults welcome. Non-alcoholic beverages for purchase. Contact Doug at 403-728-3333. Hosted by Town and Country Dance Club. ● Science Saturday with Miss Frizzle features Magic School Bus themed science activities for children ages seven years and up at Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library on April 11 from 2 to 3 p.m. ● Royal Canadian Air Force Association members meet at noon on the second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant for a luncheon and business meeting. Guests are welcome. Next meeting is April 11. The association preserves and perpetuates the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and advocates a proficient and well equipped air force in Canada. The local 703 Wing provides a forum for serving former participants in military and civil aviation and a meeting of like minded people. Contact Al at 403-341-3253, or email to amlow@shaw.ca.

Sunday ● Dance Magic Dance-A-Thon in support of Canadian Tire’s Jumpstart charity takes place on April 12 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Dance Magic North Studio and features guest artist Chris Jones from Los Angeles, who has danced with Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, and Beyonce, choreographed for One Direction, Willow Smith and One Call, and more. Register as a team or as a single, and help all kids afford dance and sports. To register see http://reddeerdancemagic.com/ dance-a-thon-2015/ ● Olds Evergreen Jams are held on the second and fourth Sunday of every month at the Olds Evergreen Centre from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $2. Snacks included. Call Bonnie at 403-556-7844 for more information.

Jams are held April 12 and 26. ● Norwegian Laft Hus Society offers rosemaling painting class with Karen Westly on April 12, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for $50, a yarn necklace class on April 25 from 1 to 4 p.m. for $10, and a Norwegian knitting class with Anne Manca on April 26 from 1 to 5 p.m. for $35. For more information and to register, contact norwegianlafthus@gmail.com, or 403-347-0255.

Monday ● Mezz Movie Makers: Creating Characters and Storyboards goes April 13 from 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. in Waskasoo/Kiwanis Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Teens will create a movie from start to finish over the next three weeks. ● Coffee Break @ the Timberlands Branch of Red Deer Public Library for adults is offered Mondays and Fridays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Enjoy a hot beverage and a comfy chair and a good read. ● The Parkland Handweavers and Spinners Guild meets the second Monday of each month at Sunnybrook Farm Museum at 7 p.m., next on April 13. New and experienced weavers welcome. For more information contact Red Deer Weavers at reddeer-

weavers@gmail.com or Darlene at 403-7493054, Amy at 403-309-4026 or Margaret at 403-346-8289.

Tuesday ● Story Fun at Red Deer College will be held on April 14 from 10:30 to 11 a.m.

Preschoolers aged two to six years and their parents/caregivers are welcome to Red Deer College Library Information Common upstairs to enjoy stories and activities by Red Deer Public Library Children’s Services. Phone 403-346-4688 to find out details. ● The Central Alberta Mopar Association (CAMA) Car Club meets on the second Tuesday of every month at 7 p.m. at Humpty’s Classic Restaurant in Gasoline Alley, next on April 14. Admirers and owners of Chrysler family vehicles are welcome. Yearly membership is $20 for new members and $15 for current members. For more information contact Glen at 403-318-8388 or visit centralalbertamopar.com ● Writers’ Ink — Red Deer and District Writers’ group for authors of all genres 18 years and older — meets every Tuesday, 7 to 9 p.m., year round at Sunnybrook Farm Museum. First three visits free. Small membership and drop in fees apply. Call Carol at 403-350-7480 and email to studio2@telus.net for more information.

Wednesday ● Red Deer Legion Old-Time Dance with Black Velvet is on April 15 at 7 p.m. Cost is $7, or $13.95 with buffet starting at 5 p.m.

Phone 403-342-0035. ● Nerdcraft 101: Custom Bookendz for teens will be held on April 15, 4 to 5:15 p.m. in the mezz at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library. ● Seniors United Now present the movie The Seniors Care Crisis in Alberta on April 15, 1:30 p.m. at First Christian Reformed Church. Discussion to follow. ● Epilepsy Association of Central Alberta located at 4811 48 Street holds monthly support group meetings at 5:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month. The next meeting is April 15. The Association offers used books and videos for sale at The Hub on Ross. All items are $2 each. Presentations on epilepsy are available for organizations.

Phone 403-358-3358 or email normak@epi-

lepsycalgary.com. ● Central Alberta Historical Society will meet on April 15, 7 p.m. Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery. Guest speaker Dennis Moffat, Red Deer Farmer’s Market manager, speaking on the history of the market. Contact Leanne at 403-309-8405.

Thursday ● Stettler Old Tyme Dance is held on the third Thursday of every month, next April 16 with Black Velvet Band, at The Hub upstairs at Stettler Recreation Centre. Live bands each time. Dance from 5 to 6 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Hot supper from 6 to 7 p.m. Tickets at the door cost $20 per person, $10 for dance only, $14 for supper only. Phone 403742-5640. All ages welcome. ● Friends of the Red Deer Public Library Spring Book Sale will be held at Downtown Branch of Red Deer Public Library on April 16 from 5 to 9 p.m. for members.

Memberships are available at the door. The sale continues on April 17 and 18, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. for the general public. All proceeds to the library. Payment by cash or cheque only. Book and audiovisual donations are gratefully accepted at the downtown branch during regular business hours. ● Red Deer and District Garden Club meets on April 16 at Kerry Wood Nature Centre at 7 p.m. Guest speaker will be Janet Melrose, Calgary’s Cottage Gardener talking about heirloom edible gardening in Alberta. Coming up, the club presents Lyndon Penner, horticultural consultant, speaking on The Edible Yard at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre on May 20, 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 for garden club members or $15 for non-members from Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery or at garden club meetings. More information at www.reddeergardenclub.ca or www.facebook.com/RedDeerGardenClub.

For more information call Noreen at 403-3574071. ● Central Alberta Prostate Awareness and Support Group meets the third Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Gaetz Memorial United Church in the parlour. The next meeting is April 16. This group has experience and information to share. Knowing about the prostate, symptoms of prostate cancer, and other prostate diseases can save your life. Men and spouses are welcome.

Phone 403-350-5511.

REGISTRATIONS LOCAL EVENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS ● Hivernant Métis Cultural Society Annual Spring Fling will be held on May 2 starting at 4 p.m. at Jubilee Hall in Big Valley.

Enjoy stew and bannock supper at 6 p.m., entertainment, dance, and live band. Tickets are $10 per person for 13 years and up, or $6 for youth ages six to 12 years, and free for five years and under. Tickets at the door. Visit www.hivenantmetisculturesociety.net or call 1-800-267-5844. ● Amazing Race 2015 will be held on June 6 starting at 12:30 p.m. at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch in the children’s department. Children ages six years and up and their teams will compete to be the fastest to find clues in downtown Red Deer.

A minimum of one adult must be on each team. Registration is required. Phone 403346-4688. Please bring a digital camera or phone. Celebration to follow at 4 p.m. ● Art of Friendship is a program for those who feel lonely or isolated, or have lost friends, or who have experienced difficult experiences and need to brush up on their friendship skills. The course is offered by the Canadian Mental Health Association for eight weeks on Thursdays at Dawe Branch of Red Deer Public Library. Participants must speak with Vicki before April 9 at 403-342-2266.

Cost is $25. Subsidies may be available.

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Longtime archbishop of Montreal dies

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS MONTREAL — Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte, who oversaw the funerals of NHL great Maurice (Rocket) Richard and former prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau during his 22 years as archbishop of Montreal, died early Wednesday after a lengthy illness. He was 78.

The Montreal native was hospitalized in the summer of 2014 and was admitted to a palliative care unit last March 24.

A statement from the archdiocese of Montreal said Turcotte died at Marie-Clarac Hospital in the city.

The current Archbishop of Montreal remembered his predecessor as a man who always respected the liberty of others while maintaining his own beliefs.

Christian Lepine said Turcotte “was on the same wavelength” as Pope Francis, who since assuming the papacy has tried to soften some of the church’s positions on issues such as homosexuality.

“He saw people as human beings and in the image of God,” Lepine said Wednesday. “You can promote values, but you cannot judge the person. It was the reason why people thought (Turcotte) was so welcoming, but at the same time he was conscious of his convictions.”

Turcotte had two main issues he loved to engage in — discussion of Christ and a desire to help the poor, Lepine said.

“Even in the last few months of his life, when I was going to see him, he was always speaking about

legislature on Canada Day two years ago.

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Retired judge to oversee investigation into fatal police shooting

BRIEFS

Lawyer suggests cop steered accused terrorist to quicker plan VANCOUVER — A key witness in a terrorism trial underway in British Columbia has denied playing a heavy-handed role in encouraging the man accused of building pressure-cooker bombs.

Defence lawyer Marilyn Sandford suggested the undercover police officer directed John Nuttall away from his proposal to assemble handcrafted rockets and toward a quicker, more feasible plan that was “not a fantasy.”

“You knew that he had none of the equipment, the materials or anything to further his rocket plan,” Sandford said Wednesday.

“I was given the directive to discourage Mr. Nuttall from making homemade explosives and that’s what I did,” replied the officer whose name is covered by a publication ban.

“And to encourage him to actually do something that actually did pose a public safety risk, building a pressure-cooker device,” Sandford said.

“No,” the officer replied.

Nuttall and his wife Amanda Korody have pleaded not guilty to four terrorism-related charges stemming from an alleged plan to attack the provincial

● The Hub on Ross has several upcoming events. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder/Shake the Blues Network hosts Explore Your Artistic Side, free workshop of drawing exercises — Blind Contours and Continuous Lines — on April 21, 7 to 9 p.m.

Stories of success for a humanitarian cause educational evening of gratitude and inspiration with award winner Zainab Mohamoud will be held on April 22 from 5 to 7 p.m. Supper provided. Donations accepted. Please RSVP to The Hub on Ross by April 20 at 403-3404869. Red Deer Action Group Donate a Ride campaign will be launched on April 27 at 11:30 a.m. to provide transit tickets for people in crisis. Phone 403-343-1198. Music Camps with Justine Vandergrift are available to learn more about signing, song writing, and playing instruments. Home visits available. Unless stated otherwise, see www.hubpdd.com or call 403-340-4869 to find out more. ● Lacombe Legion Ladies Auxiliary Bazaar and Bake Sale will be offered on April 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Coffee and lunch available. For information, or to book a table, contact Irene at 403-343-1129 or Anita at 403-782-2481. ● Medicine River Wildlife Centre needs a blender, Brita or similar water jugs, rubber or welder or mechanic’s gloves, white 2006 Dodge Dakota Sport truck topper and a GPS tracker. Tax receipts available for fair market value. All donations gratefully accepted. For a complete list of needs see www.mrwc.ca. The Wildlife Centre reminds the public not to remove baby animals that appear abandoned.

Call 403-728-3467 before intervening. ● Alberta Parks —The David Thompson Corridor presents — Guided Backcountry Hiking Series 2015. Four trips offered with up to 12 participants per hike for $80 per person per hike. Hikes as follows: June 6 — Survey Hill, Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve (novice, 14 km, 110 m eleva-

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A retired provincial Supreme Court judge will report on the investigation into the shooting death of a man by a Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer on the premier’s security team.

The RCMP is leading the probe and says David Riche will fully assess its independence and thoroughness.

Don Dunphy, 59, was shot dead Sunday by an unnamed officer investigating perceived threats against provincial politicians on Twitter.

Riche was appointed to the bench in 1982 and retired as a judge in 1999.

His oversight is “in the interest of transparency and public confidence,” RCMP Sgt. Greg Hicks said Wednesday. It’s too early to estimate how long the probe will take, he added.

Riche’s conclusions will be publicly released with some restrictions to protect privacy and internal procedures, Hicks said.

Premier Paul Davis has said his staff alerted police about the Twitter posts Friday out of concern they could be threats against his family and that of a cabinet minister.

Davis said he was unaware of the online comments until after Dunphy was killed.

Grieving family members asked Wednesday for privacy as they wait for more details from police.

“Our hearts are broken as a result of the tragic and untimely death of our father and brother,” said

tion gain); July 5 — Eagle Mountain, Bighorn Backcountry (intermediate, 15 km, 750 m elevation gain); Aug. 2 – Tuff Puff, Kootenay Plains Ecological Reserve (advanced, 15 km, 975 m elevation gain); Sept. 6 — Windy Point Scramble, Bighorn Backcountry (advanced, 6 km, 700 m elevation gain). Preregistration required. See www.albertaparks.ca. Contact Graham Thursfield, graham.thursfield@gov. ab.ca, 403-845-8309. Cost includes home made lunch and snacks provided by The Miners’ Cafe in Nordegg. ● German Canadian Club of Red Deer meets in the new German Club Hall, on Highway 280 towards Fort Normandeau. German school for adults is being offered along with German card games and lessons on Mondays. Call 403-391-2735 for more information. ● Red Deer Arts Council now accepting applications for emerging artists. See https://reddeerartscouncil.wordpress.com under Scholarship and Awards for criteria and more. The deadline is May 15. ● Red Deer Legion Pipe Band and Red Deer Royal Canadian Legion present the play Jake’s Gift on April 21. The play is a surprisingly funny, moving, and powerful one-act one-woman play about a Canadian WWII veteran’s reluctant return to Juno Beach. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Pipe Band will play at 6:45 p.m. followed by the play at 7 p.m. Purchase tickets for $20 at the Red Deer Legion front desk, or call Arnie at 403-782-7183. ● Shalom Counselling Centre Spring Dessert Gala will take place April 25, 7 p.m. at Balmoral Bible Chapel. Guest entertainer will be local singer/songwriter Randi Boulton, and other highlights include fine desserts, silent and live auctions, and family fun. Funds raised at the Spring Gala will subsidize the cost of counselling to make services accessible and affordable to all who call for help.

Guests and volunteers sought. Tickets are $20 each from Country Cupboard, Scott’s Parable Christian Stores, Shalom Counselling Centre. For more information, call 403-342-

File photo by THE CANADIAN PRESS

Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte stands next to a portrait of Brother André, prior to a news conference in Montreal on Feb. 19, 2010. Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte has died after a lengthy illness at the age of 78. a statement.

The Mounties say the plainclothes officer consulted police databases and local RCMP, who have jurisdiction where Dunphy lived, before heading alone to his house in Mitchells Brook, about 80 kilometres southwest of St. John’s.

Canadian diplomat’s son told Miami police about other drug rip-offs MIAMI — A Canadian teenager accused of involvement in a drug-related rip-off in Miami that left his older brother dead said they had pulled similar stunts in Canada, police documents state.

The documents obtained by The Canadian Press also show Marc Wabafiyebazu, son of a veteran diplomat, was brandishing a handgun outside a residence when police arrested him. “(Wabafiyebazu) stated that he went to the house to steal the drugs while he waited in the car, but then his brother got killed,” police say in an arrest affidavit.

“Defendant continued to state that he was from Canada and they had done the same type of thing in Canada and had also done other drug rip-offs in Miami.”

Wabafiyebazu, 15, of Ottawa, appeared in a Miami court briefly on Wednesday. The prosecution said a grand jury would consider whether to bring formal felony murder or other charges against him.

Assistant State Attorney Marie Mato said the grand jury could also decide to charge him as an adult.

0339 or email info@shalomcounselling.com. ● Multiple Sclerosis Society has two fundraisers coming up. Johnson MS Bike will be held on Aug. 29 starting at 9 a.m. to Aug. 30 at 5 p.m. at Penhold Regional Multiplex. See www.msbike.ca, or contact Heidi Hastings, heidi.hastings@mssociety.ca, 403346-0290. Earl’s MS Golf Classic takes place Sept. 14 at the Red Deer Golf and Country Club. Check in at 8 a.m., tee off at 9:30 a.m.

Registration $250 per golfer or register for free with a minimum of $250 in fundraising.

Both events accepting participants and volunteers. See www.msgolf.ca. For each contact info@mssociety.ca. ● Ducks Unlimited Fundraising Dinner will be held on May 2 at Pidherney Curling Centre. Cocktails at 5:30 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. There will be an auction of a rare wildlife artist proof book appraised at $5,000. Tickets are $50 per person or $400 for reserved table of eight. Contact Christen 403-340-4689, christensweet@yahoo.ca, or Brenda, 403340-0512, b_m@shaw.ca. ● Red Deer College offers day camps and stay camps for children and teens running July 5 to Aug. 21 in music, visual art, dance, science, film, video game design, sports — and new this year — trades such as carpentry and welding. For details go online to www.rdc.ab.ca/summercamps, or call 403357-3663. ● Physical Literacy and Fundamental Movement Skills Summit will take place at Red Deer College at Be Fit For Life Centre on April 18, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Community leaders, teachers, students, parents, recreation coordinators, anyone working with children and athletes will benefit from this workshop. Registration is $50 per person at 403-357-3663. ● GrammaLink-Africa Fabric Sale, in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation’s Grandmother to Grandmother Campaign will be held on April 18 at Gaetz Memorial United Church. Donations of fabric, one metre or more, wool, yarns, notions and patterns are

all accepted for this sale until April 10. For pick-up of donations or more information, call Mary Ellen at 403-340-1365 or Shirley at 403347-5958. ● A Better World Canada Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration will be held at Burman University and Lacombe Memorial Centre on April 25 with events starting at 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. including guest speakers, lunch, book launch by Red Deer Advocate editor Cameron Kennedy at 3 p.m. and more. See www.abwcanada.ca for itinerary. Register for lunch tickets by April 17 by calling Julie at 403-782-0325. ● Memorial Society of Red Deer and District offers information on funeral options.

An annual membership costs $25 and can be transferred to other societies in North America at little or no cost. To purchase a membership, or find out more, phone 403-340-3898, or go to www.memorialsocietyrd.ca, or email to info@memorialsocietyrd.ca. ● Sundre Snake Hill Slam 5km Obstacle Race takes place on Sept. 19 and is a fundraiser for Greenwood Neighbourhood Place and Sundre Call to Action. Runners, volunteers and sponsors are sought to participate in team challenges, family participation, don costumes, and more. Sign up as an individual or in a team of four. Cost is $30 for adults or $20 for youth ages 18 years and under, and includes event T-shirt, water bottle and finishing prize. Snake Hill Mini Slam Obstacle Race for kids will be offered free of charge. Battle of the Bands is a new event on the main stage. See www.snakehillslam, contact 403-638-1011, kim@mygnp.org. ● Around the World with Central Alberta Refugee Effort is a fundraising event with international cuisine, keynote speaker, passport challenge, silent and live auctions, prizes, cultural music and dance taking place on April 24, 5 to 10:30 p.m. at Holiday Inn on Gasoline Alley. Tickets cost $100 or $750 per table of eight. Guest tourists are welcome to dress in casual attire. For tickets and information, call 403-346-8818. Volunteers welcome.

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Jesus Christ, so it was really he had Jesus Christ in his bones,” he added.

“But also the poor. He always had an interest in the poor, supporting the poor, supporting the organizations or institutions that organize themselves to help the poor.”

Pope Francis expressed his condolences in a statement.

“As we celebrate the resurrection of Christ, I ask him to welcome into the light of eternal life this faithful priest who served the church with devotion,” the statement said.

The hospital’s chief doctor praised the way Turcotte faced death.

“Rarely do you see such dignity in someone who is dying,” said Maria Karas. “He always had a magnificent little smile...he had faith. The cardinal really died with dignity.”

Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed his sadness, saying Turcotte will be remembered for his compassion, humility and leadership.

“His Eminence was a man of deep principle and service who lived his life according to the Catholic faith,” Harper said in a statement.

“Over a lifetime, his ministering helped thousands including the homeless and the poor, which is why he became known as ’the people’s priest’ and a shepherd to the people of Montreal.”

The funeral will take place April 17.

On Wednesday afternoon Lepine held a mass in honour of Turcotte at Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral in downtown Montreal. About 300 people attended.

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B8 Sometimes you have to let go

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015

WOMAN UPSET THAT LOVER JUST WANTS TO BE FRIENDS Dear Annie: Eight months ago, I met the love of my life online. Everything started off great. “Jay” and I chatted every day.

However, at one point, a past lover of his intervened and warned me about some of his “issues.”

I became a little bit paranoid and asked Jay to explain his side of things. He didn’t want to at first, but he finally relented, and we continued on. I told him I loved him.

Three months ago, Jay decided there was no way we could be anything more than MITCHELL friends. & SUGAR I struggled with just being friends, but eventually, I accepted it.

Now, Jay seems to be making more and more friends and is phasing me out.

One of my dearest friends died last week, and Jay hasn’t bothered to provide any comfort.

I would cease all communication, but it would be difficult because the Internet community we belong to includes many mutual friends and chat forums.

Should I remain so-called friends or just let him go? — Confused Web Reader

ANNIE ANNIE

HOROSCOPES Thursday, April 9 CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DATE: Dennis Quaid, 61; Elle Fanning, 17; Cynthia Nixon, 49 THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Today’s planetary aspects encourage being active and adventurous.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: Born on the zodiac’s Day of Excess, you tend to overdo pretty much everything. 2015 is the year to get the balance right between being strong and sensitive; courageous and kind.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Personal projects are favoured, as you make the most of the terrific JOANNE fire trine. Creativity and motivation are also high so get going Rams — MADELEINE with plenty of passion, energy and MOORE’ enthusiasm.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Today’s fiery energy gives tired Bulls a welcome energy surge. So use your imagination to boost productivity — and your intuition to help solve a domestic or family problem.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Open and honest communication is the secret to a successful day. There’ll be opportunities to expand your peer group, but don’t neglect your long-term friends in the process.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Business ventures are favoured, as you combine common sense with intuition to achieve a positive result.

Don’t wait for opportunities to appear — be proactive about chasing your dreams.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a fabulous fire trine, so Cats are keen to socialize and circulate; mix and mingle; imagine and create.

Jupiter encourages you to let your hair down and overdo just about everything!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re in the mood to help a loved one through a rough patch or cheer up a friend who is down-in-the-dumps.

Listen to your inner voice Virgo — it will point you in the right direction.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): With Mercury moving through your relationship zone, it’s time to get talking with your nearest and dearest. Single Librans — look for a lover who you can really communicate with.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): It’s a terrific time to initiate a financial, business or work project as the fire trine helps you tackle tasks with extra energy and enthusiasm.

Travel and foreign connections are also favoured.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Matters involving education, publishing, travel or international connections have been frustrating but things should start to improve as Jupiter — your ruling planet — moves forwards again.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There’s fun and laughter to be had at home, as Mercury visits your domestic zone. If things have been tense with a family member, now’s the time to swallow your pride and get talking.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Today’s fiery planetary aspects will help you communicate your avant-garde Aquarian ideas with extra power and passion, as you connect with like-minded souls in your peer group.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’re impatient to get things moving financially but don’t proceed until all parties agree to the changes. If you’re confused about money matters, then voice your concerns to those involved.

Dear Confused: Please let him go. Jay is not the love of your life.

You have confused the excitement of your initial contact with love, but now you have seen Jay’s true character.

He isn’t interested in having a romantic relationship with you. If you think you can remain part of the same Internet community and not pine over him, fine.

Try to ignore him as best you can. Otherwise, please expand your online presence so you aren’t as dependent on this particular community of people.

Dear Annie: I dread going to my niece’s first baby shower.

At the last one I went to that included our family, there were older mothers who proceeded to tell horror stories about labor and delivery.

No one needs to hear the in-depth details of their birth process, and especially not a first-time mother.

Some people speak before they think.

How can I politely get them to shut up? — Dreading Showers Dear Showers: If someone should start replaying the details of their birth experience, it’s perfectly OK to say, in mock horror, “Heavens!

Please don’t discuss that in front of all of us! A baby is a wonderful gift, and we all want ‘Suzie’ to look forward to the experience.

I know you don’t mean to be so negative about it.”

They may insist they are only being informative, but new mothers are nervous enough without adding to their worries by relaying stories about what could possibly go wrong.

Of course, some stories are funny or uplifting, and those should be encouraged.

Dear Annie: Thanks for printing the letter from Magi Linscott, encouraging kids not to smoke.

I quit smoking more than eight years ago, and I am so glad.

I now know what my late father used to experience after he quit and then smelled cigarette smoke: He got sick.

I do, too. I cannot believe this is what I used to smell like.

My wife told me I stopped wheezing in my sleep within two weeks of quitting.

And my VA health care providers are very happy with me.

If you’re still smoking, STOP! Don’t say it’s impossible. I smoked two packs a day for 40 years.

Thanks for letting me vent, Annie. — Grateful ExSmoker in Campbellsville, Ky. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailbox@ comcast.net, or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

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BRIEF What a Whopper! Burger King to pay for the wedding of Mr. Burger and Ms. King in Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Burger King is paying the expenses and providing gifts for the wedding of an Illinois couple with an interesting connection to the fast food restaurant chain.

Joel Burger and Ashley King accepted the company’s proposal Monday.

The State Journal-Register reports that the couple has been known as Burger-King since they were in the fifth grade together, in New Berlin near Springfield.

The couple announced their engagement this spring with a photo next to the sign at a local Burger King restaurant.

Although a woman’s name usually comes first in an engagement announcement, they decided to flip their names.

A Burger King spokesman says the company felt an overwhelming urge to help the happy couple celebrate their upcoming marriage.

The Burger-King nuptials will be held July 17 in nearby Jacksonville.

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Notice anything? The first mountain bluebird has arrived on this bluebird trail.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015

No trip home for TFW TRANSPORTATION GUARANTEE ONLY APPLIES TO THOSE IN LOW-SKILL STREAM

BY MURRAY CRAWFORD ADVOCATE STAFF Caught in limbo, a laid off temporary foreign worker is too highly-skilled to have his employer be required to pay for his plane ticket home.

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program requires that employers who bring lower-skilled workers to Canada must pay for the employees’ transportation to and from Canada.

However, that is not a requirement of those hired under the program’s higher-skilled occupations stream.

Wayne and Teresa Wilson, originally from South Africa, came to Canada less than two years ago.

Wayne was hired as an electrician, a high-skilled occupation under the program.

A year into his term, he was laid off. Since then he has been on Employment Insurance while his wife has worked.

Wayne has tried to get a job but despite multiple offers, he is his work permit is not transferable. Under the program, he has a closed work permit, meaning he can only work for the company that recruited him.

He was recruited while living in New Zealand.

The Wilsons have been able to just get by, between EI payments and Teresa’s earnings. The NZ$36,000 (about $34,000 Canadian) they had has been

spent trying to stay in Canada.

An email from Pierre Nolet, a spokesperson with Employment and Social Development Canada, said the employer is responsible for transportation cost until the TFW’s work permit expires. However, that only applies to low-skilled occupations.

Under the stream for low-wage positions starting on April 30, transportation costs must always be paid by employers.

Wayne Wilson is a high-skilled worker who has his Canadian Red Seal qualifications as an electrician.

However, under the high-skilled occupations stream of the program, employers may choose to cover transportation costs, but are not required to.

The couple does not have a Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program certificate, which would enable Wayne to get an open work permit and stay. And they haven’t been able to find an employer willing to try the new Labour Market Impact Assessment required to hire new temporary foreign workers.

Wayne came to Canada under the old Labour Market Option model.

Seeking advanced education or some kind of job-skills training in Canada isn’t an option as they would have to change their work permits, leaving Teresa ineligible eligible to work.

Wayne has been taking courses in industrial engineering through an Australian education program. mcrawford@reddeeradvocate.com

FIRE BLAMED ON WELDING

GULL LAKE

Boat launch upgrades planned by county

BY PAUL COWLEY ADVOCATE STAFF

Photo by CRYSTAL RHYNO/Advocate staff

Red Deer Emergency Services crews clear out the damage from a garage fire in Morrisroe on Wednesday morning. Crews responded to the call around 9:23 a.m. A 74-year-old man was treated in hospital for minor injuries. The fire was contained to the garage and a vehicle within, causing $30,000 in damages. Investigators have determined the cause to be accidental, as a result of welding too close to combustible materials. Emergency Services reminds the public to clear combustible materials away from welding tools and to ensure proper ventilation. The man has since been released from hospital.

SATURDAY AT BOWER PLACE

City’s Let’s Talk event offers answers, census links, library survey and more Residents will have the opportunity to learn about the city’s summer construction plans and other city projects at Let’s Talk 2015 at Bower Place shopping centre on Saturday.

From 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Red Deer city council and staff from 30 city departments and agencies will be available to residents who have questions about recreation, culture, electricity, roads and construction, policing, animal services, permits and licensing, Red Deer’s airport and more.

Tara Shand, acting director of communications and strategic planning, said residents who drop by can find out about the continuation of upgrades to Taylor Drive, as well as work at 67th Street and 30th Avenue, where a roundabout will be built.

“They are going to see a lot happening in that particular area this summer so we’re using it as an opportunity as we get into summer construction sea-

son,” Shand said on Wednesday.

For the first time at Let’s Talk, residents can fill out the 2015 online city census at computers set up at the mall.

Census data is gathered to determine the population, assist in planning the city’s future and to calculate grants.

She said people can find out about plans for the $8.8 million North Red Deer Regional Community Centre, Red Deer’s preparations to host the 2019 Canada Winter Games.

And they can participate in a Red Deer Public Library survey to help the library determine its priorities.

City representatives will be located in hallways throughout the mall during Let’s Talk.

Shand said there will be people on hand to answer a range of questions.

Ponoka County is sinking some serious cash into boat launches.

About $300,000 was spent recently restoring a public boat launch between Meridian Beach and Raymond Shores at the end of Meridian Road at the northeast corner of Gull Lake.

County chief administrative officer Charlie Cutforth said the launch was built more than a decade ago by the developer of the nearby Raymond Shores subdivision.

Over time, the concrete had taken a beating from vehicles and boat trailers.

“It just got to the point where it really needed to be replaced,” said Cutforth.

He said the project, which required both federal and provincial approval, was complicated by the need to protect fish populations.

“Of course, the timing is critical so that there is no fish habitat destroyed and you can’t do it, certainly, during spawning times.”

Similar concerns are involved in a second project to build a $600,000 public boat launch and related road work on the west side of the lake off Westlake Road.

That project has yet to receive all of the necessary approvals from higher levels of government and has now likely missed the spring construction window when fish aren’t spawning.

The approval process took longer because it is a new launch rather than a replacement and the necessary paperwork has not yet been received.

Cutforth said the county and boaters were hoping the launch would be ready for this season to add a public option along with two other private launches in the area.

As part of the project, some paving and intersection work will be done that will cost around $300,000. pcowley@reddeeradvocate.com

Stettler shooting hospitalizes man A 29-year-old Red Deer man is recovering from a gunshot wound in Foothills Hospital in Calgary.

Stettler RCMP responded to a report of an assault at a residence in the northwest area of the town around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Around the same time, police received a report from the Stettler Hospital that a man was being treated for gunshot wounds. Investigators determined that the man was the same one identified in the assault investigation.

The shooting victim was transported by STARS air ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.

A 27-year-old man, a 22-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman, from the Stettler residence, were arrested without incident. Charges are pending.

Police said this was not a random incident and all persons involved in the investigation are known to police. RCMP believe there is no further risk to the public.

Due to the ongoing nature of the investigation, police will not release further details at this time.

Carolyn Martindale, City Editor, 403-314-4326 Fax 403-341-6560 E-mail editorial@reddeeradvocate.com

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Keddy was granted his release on March 25 in the form of a $5,000 surety.

The person who provided the surety came forward on April 1 and asked to be removed as surety in Red Deer provincial court, a request that was granted.

Keddy was arrested on Dec. 20 behind the Village Mall, at 6320 50th Ave. in Red Deer. RCMP said they found several firearms in his possession, including a handgun and two sawed-off shotguns.

He was held in custody at the Red Deer Remand Centre. During his stay, it is alleged that he was found attempting to dig a hole into a wall at the centre.

Keddy faces numerous firearm, drug and stolen property related charges.

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BRIEFS Stabbing-related charges withdrawn against man Charges against a Red Deer man accused in a stabbing in March have been withdrawn by Crown prosecutors.

Keith Andre Pratt, 29, was charged with assault with a weapon on March 29.

The charge stemmed from an altercation between two individuals behind Loaves and Fishes that spread over to a parking lot at 60th Street and 54th Avenue.

The charge of assault with a weapon was withdrawn on Tuesday in Red Deer provincial court before Judge James Glass.

Provincial election forum for Red Deer ridings April 27

Women-only fundraiser for heart and stroke Learn about heart health for women while having fun on May 7 at the Hearts Desire fundraising gala.

The vent is being put on by the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

The evening will feature a local violinist, cocktails, appetizers and a fun fitness demo from Only Women’s Fitness.

There will also be a silent auction with nearly 150 pairs of shoes and purses.

The event takes place at the Holiday Inn and Suites in Gasoline Alley.

Women are encouraged to wear a red dress to the women-only cocktail party.

Individuals who wear red will be entered to win a prize.

Cocktails are served at 6:30 p.m., and appetizers are served and the auction starts at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $75 per person or $500 for a table of eight.

For tickets, visit ATB Financial in the Bower Place shopping centre, at 4900 Molly Banister Dr. in Red Deer.

For further information, contact Karen at 587-951-7104.

Alix wins $5,000 grant for Earth Hour success Three municipalities in Central Alberta received grants totaling $5,000 for reducing their electricity consumption during Earth Hour.

Alix, Glenwood and Lamont received the grant money from FortisAlberta for reducing their electricity by the highest percentage of participating municipalities.

Alix will use the funds for new LED bulbs for infrastructure, Glenwood will retrofit library lights with LED bulbs and Lamont will use it for lights for the fire hall and rec centre.

Alix reduced their electricity by 39 per cent, Glenwood by 21 per cent and Lamont by 15 per cent.

Of the 25 communities that participated, there was an average eight per cent decrease in consumption saving 18, 796 kWh of power. That is enough to power 20,000 average homes for an hour.

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Getting in his first strokes of the season, Andrew Tennant also got the chance to give his new golf clubs a try at River Bend Golf and Recreation Area on Tuesday while hitting balls with his father Kevin. The driving range at the course is open each day this week and the golf course should open on Friday. Check the River Bend website or Facebook page, or call the course to be sure before heading out to play a round.

Olds pharmacy break-in probed by police Olds RCMP are looking for a male suspect who broke into a pharmacy to likely steal prescription drugs on April 3.

Police received a complaint of multiple alarm hits at the Olds Preferred Pharmacy at 4601 50th Ave. in the early hours.

Police found the front glass door smashed in. The building was searched but the suspect had fled before police arrived.

They believe the suspect was looking to steal pharmaceutical drugs but nothing was taken.

RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying the suspect. If anyone has any information, call Olds detachment at 403-556-3324 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

Bank robbery suspect back in court on April 22 Resolution discussions have begun for a man accused of a bank robbery in March.

Patrice Gauthier, 56, has been charged with armed robbery with a firearm, wearing a disguise with intent to commit an offence and failing to comply with a probation order.

His counsel Kevin Schollie, told

Judge Jim Hunter on Wednesday in Red Deer provincial court that he had been in discussions with the Red Deer Crown prosecutors’ office to resolve the charges against his client.

Red Deer RCMP say a man walked into the BMO at 61st Street and 67th Avenue in Red Deer on March 14 armed with a handgun and demanded cash from the teller.

Gauthier will return to Red Deer provincial court on April 22.

Warrant issued for man facing firearms charges A judge has issued a warrant for the arrest of a man facing more than 30 charges stemming from multiple incidents, including an attempt to break out of the Red Deer Remand Centre two weeks after he was granted bail.

Jeremy Keddy, 35, did not appear in Red Deer provincial court on Wednesday as he was scheduled. Crown prosecutor Carolyn Ayre sought a warrant and Judge Jim Hunter granted the

A provincial election forum for Red Deer’s two constituencies is slated for April 27.

The Chamber of Commerce will host the Red Deer North and Red Deer South candidates at the Memorial Centre, at 4214 58th St. The official list of candidates for all provincial constituencies will be announced following the close of nominations on April 17.

Red Deer North MLA Mary Anne Jablonski and Red Deer South MLA Cal Dallas will not seek another term.

The forum runs from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Doors open at 6. It is free of charge and open to the public.

Albertans will go to the provincial polls on May 5.

MP Calkins in southeast Asia for security, trade meetings A tour of Vietnam, Thailand and Southeast Asia has a Central Alberta MP working with parliamentarians from around the world on issues including global security.

From March 25 to April 1, Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins was in Hanoi, Vietnam, at the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly as part of a delegation representing Canada.

Calkins was part of a committee that drafted a resolution on cyber warfare and played a part in an emergency resolution on global terrorism.

“With the rise of terrorism globally, it was critical to advance Canada’s position with our IPU partners, through our dialogue with colleagues from Australia, Malaysia, Chad, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Morocco, Venezuela, Belgium and Mexico we were able to draft resolutions that ... condemned all terrorist acts,” said Calkins in a statement.

Then on Wednesday, Calkins met with the Thai Board of Trade and the Thai-Canadian Friendship Group for discussions about trade and investment, as well as free and fair elections.

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Signs of the season Somebody gave me a new saying for weather times like these: “If we get April in March, we’ll get March in April.” Similar, that one, to my favourite: “If we don’t get winter when we should, we’ll get it when we shouldn’t.”

This year, for the first in many, I missed my annual April fool slalom up roads winding north and west along the North Raven River seeking signs of spring, and also any indication that the threat BOB of gravel pits at SCAMMELL the headwaters springs of Alberta’s top trout stream had been called off.

But April Fool’s was too grey, gloomy, windy and snowy to be much pleasure, or picturesque, in the sense of bright, sharp, publishable pictures, so we stayed home.

But signs of spring there were, right outside the door: blooming wild crocuses, the earliest ever (the same day the first were found 350 km south on the family ranch west of Pincher Creek), and robins, foxed on fermented mountain ash berries, singing off-key like tavern tosspots as they crash into anything (mostly the house) between them and the crabapple cider tree in the back yard.

Suddenly the season’s open! This year the first report of anyone going fishing and actually catching fish comes from friend and fellow stump rancher, Ken Short, from three west Central Alberta streams, the North Raven, of course, and Prairie Creek, where he caught some prime brown trout, mostly on streamers, and a topsecret spring creek where he took, on a dry fly, a gorgeous little brook trout that had been rising for a hatch of tiny Blue-winged olives.

The past two year’s Season’s Open! winning fish have been holdover stocked rainbow trout from Blood Indian Creek Reservoir way out there in east Central Alberta’s HannaYoungstown-Oyen country.

This spring what I am hearing from Blood Indian regulars is great concern about carp in the reservoir, no doubt illegally planted there by the bonehead bait bucket “biologists,” of which

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Alberta has more than its fair share.

The problem is that, at certain water levels, the reservoir spills into the creek, which eventually empties into the Red Deer River.

Out there, the warm water kills the escaped rainbows, but the carp, a warm water species, would probably survive and eventually infest the whole Red Deer system with a bottom-feeding, scum-sucking, non-native fish to compete with our native fish, the populations of most of which are already in serious trouble.

In days not so long past, a crew of biologists and technicians would electro fish, net and trap the reservoir to determine how many carp were there, then probably poison it out with rotenone and start over.

But that requires equipment, materials, manpower and money, and an informed person, who had best remain anonymous, doesn’t know if either Environment-Sustainable Resource Development or the Alberta Conservation Association has enough of any of it for this type of project.

Meanwhile, we do have money galore to inspect pleasure boats entering Alberta to see if they bear any trace of zebra mussels, for example, or Didymos, aka “rock snot.

The Blood Indian carp solution? Introduce yet another non-native fish to do the job for us. Informed Person believes “they” are going to introduce tiger trout, a brown-brook trout hybrid to control the carp, a job the resident pike apparently can’t handle.

Albertans are starting to get the message about ATVs and the damage they do to public land, including the beds and shores of rivers, lakes and streams.

Two ATV “events” scheduled for public land near Cochrane and Coleman in May and July respectively have been cancelled because of concerns raised by neighbouring private landowners and the Alberta Wilderness Association.

Better still, reader Wayne Howse sends me materials indicating provincial court judges in Rocky Mountain House are getting fed up with people charged with ATV offences on public land, particularly stream beds and shores, and are levying stiff fines, starting at $1,000 and occasionally ordering forfeiture of the ATV to the Crown.

Most of the charges are under the excellent section 54 of the Public Lands Act, which has languished unused for far too long, and which states, in part:

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“54(1) No person shall cause, permit or suffer (a.2) activities on, or the use of, public land that is likely to result in loss or damage to public land, (d) the doing of any act on public land that may injuriously affect watershed capacity, (e) the disturbance of any public land in any manner that results or is likely to result in injury to the bed or shore of any river, stream, watercourse, lake or other body of water or

land in the vicinity of that public land, or (f) the creation of any condition on public land which is likely to result in soil erosion.”

I live for the day when the clear cutters, the major destroyers of Alberta’s headwaters, start getting charged under this section.

Bob Scammell is an award-winning columnist who lives in Red Deer. He can be reached at bscam@telusplanet.net.

Following the Norwegian example “Think of all the trouble [the big oil companies] would have if they couldn’t come to Canada and play God and get away with it.”

— Rolf Wiborg, former principal engineer at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate You know that awful feeling that hits when you realize that you’ve lost something really valuable? Like a wallet that’s no longer in a pocket? Or a bicycle that’s no longer locked to a bike rack?

Or the initial EVAN bounce of an BEDFORD exceedingly small car part that flies out of your hand and disappears into the dust and grime of the garage floor?

I certainly remember those feelings.

But now I’ve got them again, doing re-

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search for this column on Norway’s oil wealth.

How did their oil wealth fund get up to a trillion dollars, while ours sits at a mere $17 billion?

How did they manage to sock away an average of $40 billion per year, while we managed to sock away an average of only $425 million? (That’s a savings rate almost 95 times greater than ours.)

Is it because of their Viking heritage? Did that enable them to stand up to the pressures of the international oil companies?

Or are they just smarter than us? Or maybe a bit of both?

Actually, those are better explanations than anyone from Don Getty to Alison Redford ever came up with.

And the writer Mitchell Anderson — who interviewed Rolf Wiberg to get the quote — fleshes it out quite well.

In one of his essays on Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, he writes not only about the Viking habit of not taking BS from anyone, but also about the so-called “panic laws” enacted by the Norwegians in 1906.

The panic laws came about as a response to pressure from foreign speculators wanting to buy up their remote

fjords and valleys. What were the remote fjords and valleys good for, you ask? Well, if you dammed them up, you could generate electricity at a handsome profit.

Now, the Norwegians weren’t against progress and rural electrification. But they were against foreigners telling them what to do.

Which brings me to Premier Jim Prentice.

And while I warmly applaud his recent initiative to eventually get 50 per cent of oil royalties into the muchneglected Heritage Savings and Trust Fund, I have to wonder why he didn’t see fit to tweak royalty rates or corporate taxes at the same time. Sure, we’ve all heard of the metaphor of the goose that lays the golden eggs (the goose being the foreign oil companies, and the eggs being the barrels of oil).

But what if the goose is obese and can easily afford to go on a diet? Or what if there are many geese out there, and we can afford to pick and choose?

The royalty review in 2007 recommended higher rates, which were put into place. And this resulted in higher government revenues, but only for a couple of years, during which the oil companies protested loudly.

They threatened to leave town unless the rates got reduced. So the government of the day backed down.

Contrast that attitude to Norway’s, where a similar shoving match came to a remarkably different conclusion.

This time, Anderson quotes Professor Einar Lie from the University of Oslo: “[The oil companies] were furious when they heard about the new taxation law.

And then they started a media campaign saying that they would leave Norway and that it was impossible to work in a socialist country like this that does not understand the rules of international capitalism.”

But at the end of the day, none of them left. At the end of the day, they remembered who really owned those eggs.

Admittedly, there is probably less wiggle room for royalties and taxation when oil is only $45 per barrel, but will Prentice remember the Norwegian lesson when oil goes back up past $100?

Evan Bedford is a local environmentalist. Direct comments, questions and suggestions to wyddfa23@telus.net. Visit the Energy and Ecology website at www. evanbedford.com.

Enjoy the weather but don’t rush spring Warm weather lures people outside.

Gardeners have a strong desire to get active and speed the season along.

There are two cautions: One, start slowly and vary the activities and muscle groups used.

By doing this, there is less strain on one set of muscles and less chance of injury.

The second is to stay off the ground until it LINDA is dry. Walking TOMLINSON on wet ground compacts the soil, making it harder for plants to grow. The best example of this is paths that are warn in lawns.

Raking a lawn that is too wet will rip the crowns and grass roots, damaging the plants and slowing down the

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greening process.

Digging in wet soil will also compact the soil, causing it to form hard lumps that roots will have trouble penetrating.

Most gardens have micro climates with areas drying out at different rates.

Complete the work in the dry areas first and move onwards when the others are dry.

Do not fertilize until the crowns of grass start to turn green. When the lawn is growing, the roots are more likely to absorb the nutrients and less fertilizer will leach away.

Prune deciduous trees with the exception of elms now. Start by removing everything that is dead and damaged.

The next step is to look for branches that are rubbing. Keep the one that will enhance the plant. In the case of a shrub, it will be pointed towards the outside of the plant, not the centre. In a tree, keep the branch that gives the plant the best shape.

When pruning, always cut back to the main stem, branch or bud.

Early blooming shrubs set their flowerbuds the previous growing sea-

son. Pruning them now will remove their blooms. People often wait to prune these plants until after they bloom.

Remove all dead materials left on perennials, cutting them back to the ground to let the new growth emerge quickly. Start removing mulch that protected plants overwinter, leaving the material over the very tender plants for another week or two.

It is also a good time to spread up to an inch (2.5 cm) of compost or wellrotted manure on top of the soil. It can be worked in lightly or left on top for the worms to work in. Using more is not necessarily better, depending on the nutrients that are in the product.

Businesses that sell a large amount of compost annually are licensed and provide the buyer with a breakdown of nutrients and other components contained in the material. Small operators are not required to do this. When purchasing from a small operator, ask enough questions to know what the original product was. Herbicides used to treat select weeds will flow through the animal and remain active in the

soil for a number of years, inhibiting broad-leaf plant growth. Some chemicals will stay on plant material and be in the soil once the plant material has decomposed.

When planning on planting annuals, read the package and if it says to sprinkle the seeds out as soon as the ground thaws, do it now. The seeds will start to germinate when the ground becomes the correct temperature.

Sweet peas can be planted in the fall or very early spring. Soaking them overnight to soften the outer shell will help with the germination.

Planting pansies outside either in the ground or in planters will add colour to the landscape.

They will withstand frost and snow.

The plants should flower until the heat of mid-summer causes them to become lanky.

Go out, enjoy the warm weather but don’t rush the season. Take care not to injure the soil or yourself.

Linda Tomlinson is a horticulturalist who lives near Rocky Mountain House.

She can be reached at your_garden@hotmail.com.

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SERVUS CEO WARNS AGAINST PESSIMISM FOR ALBERTA ECONOMY, OPTIMISM FOR FUTURE

BY HARLEY RICHARDS ADVOCATE BUSINESS EDITOR Don’t get too pessimistic about the current state of Alberta’s economy; but don’t be too optimistic about its future, either.

Ian Glassford, Servus Credit Union’s chief financial officer, planned to offer this seemingly contrary bit of advice to a gathering of Servus members in Red Deer on Wednesday evening. Speaking to the Advocate prior to his presentation, he cautioned against placing too much credence in doom-and-gloom reports about Alberta’s economy.

“It’s not in collapse right now,” he said, noting that Servus is off to a good start this year despite the supposed downturn.

“We’re seeing no loan losses resulting from oil at all.”

The impact of oilpatch layoffs hasn’t really trickled through to the rest of the economy, said Glassford. Many of those cut loose were contract workers from other provinces, and most received severance packages that’s enabled them to keep spending.

As a result, stores and restaurants remain busy.

In the real estate market, a rise in listings and a drop in sales aren’t har-

bingers of a housing sector collapse, continued Glassford. Sellers are simply looking to take advantage of current high prices and buyers are standing back in hopes that prices will slide.

“That doesn’t mean you’re going to see a collapse in real estate.”

But Glassford tempers this positive viewpoint with a disconcerting analogy: before a tsunami hits the water recedes.

“There’s still a big wave coming to Alberta, eventually.”

Oil prices could remain lower and for longer than many people anticipate, warned Glassford, and the resulting pain may not dissipate quickly.

“Our experience has been when oil goes up — for us, not for every industry — it’s about two years that we continue to see the impact of people going bankrupt and things like that.”

His advice is to prepare for the worst, so that any surprises are good ones.

“Adjust your lifestyle to what’s coming in, and be prepared for lower, longer.”

Glassford added that the province has weathered economic downturns before, and will survive this one.

“Alberta has a pretty good history of being able to work through this stuff.

“It’s remarkably resilient.” hrichards@reddeeradvocate.com

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Servus Credit Union CFO Ian Glassford, left, and Garett Cupples of Red Deer speak outside a customer appreciation event at the Holiday Inn at Gasoline Alley on Wednesday.

Hackers taking an ‘old school’ approach to computer break-ins

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JUNK EMAILS ARE ONCE AGAIN BECOMING A THREAT

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Some of the most familiar tricks from the hacker playbook are taking on another life, according to a new report that suggests junk emails have once again become a security threat.

Websense, a U.S.-based firm which monitors data theft in the business community, says malicious software practices from the 1990s are experiencing a resurgence in popularity with criminals.

Think of the days when companies warned their employees not to open email attachments because they risked exposing the entire computer system to security vulnerabilities.

While that might seem like another technology era to many people, the risk of computer users falling victim to these “old school” tactics has spiked, Bob Hansmann, director of product marketing at Websense, said in an interview.

Websense’s annual Threat Report suggests that hackers are adopting new variations of the email attachment attack that challenge even the most secure corporate systems.

The way it works is unsuspecting users open an email attachment that seems legitimate, such as a Microsoft Word document or Excel spreadsheet that looks like it was sent by a colleague.

The file then unleashes “macro code” which instructs the computer to contact a website and download an executable file that makes the machine vulnerable to security attacks without the user even knowing it.

While these types of attacks seemed to be mostly resolved for years, many IT departments have shifted their fo-

cus to other security priorities, which puts them at greater risk, Hansmann said.

“We took our eye off of it,” he said.

“The trouble with security is there’s so many things we need to watch.”

At one time, macro viruses were primarily used by computer experts, but the Websense report said a variety of tools now now being created by “specialized threat-kit brokers” who then buy or subcontract the technology to outsiders.

“Macro viruses came in 1995 and died off rather quickly, so seeing those things all of the sudden being used in new ways ... is making it very difficult for security solutions,” said Hansmann.

Some corporate internal security systems are so modern they don’t even search for macro code violations, he added.

The Websense report suggested that businesses reconsider the role email can play in security attacks.

Last year, Websense said it found 81 per cent of all email scanned by its services was identified as “unwanted,” which was a 25 per cent jump from 2013.

The company said that of the 11,000 businesses it services, Websense detected 28 per cent of malicious email messages before most antivirus monitors notified their computer software programs.

That left computers exposed for about 17.5 hours on average, Websense suggested.

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TORONTO — Baby boomers continue to drive sales in the luxury real estate market, upsizing their homes while also helping their Gen-Y offspring with home purchases, according to a new report.

The study by Sotheby’s International Realty Canada, which involved interviews with leading realtors in specific markets, examined generational differences between buyers of luxury real estate in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal.

It says when looking for top-tier real estate, baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 gravitate towards traditionally prestigious neighbourhoods such as Toronto’s Forest Hill and Vancouver’s Kerrisdale.

Meanwhile, family-driven buyers from Generation X, the generation born right after the baby boomers, tend to prioritize neighbourhoods with high-quality schools in vibrant communities. When looking for high-end homes, homebuyers from Generation Y, also referred to as Millennials, tend to prioritize trendy, urban neighbourhoods with high walkability scores.

Sotheby’s president and CEO Ross McCredie says he was surprised to discover how much baby boomer parents are helping their Gen-Y kids with home purchases.

Not only are parents chipping in financially, they also tend to be heavily involved in the process. McCredie says he was also surprised to discover how important transit is to Gen-Y homebuyers, even in the high-end real estate segment. Meanwhile, many baby boomers — who were widely expected to downsize in retirement and snatch up condos in droves — are choosing instead to upsize, the report found.

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Work continues on exterior renovations to the commercial building at 2127 Gaetz Ave. Existing tenants Visions Electronic Superstore and Mac’s Convenience Store remain open during the construction, while new tenant Anytime Fitness, a 24/7 gym, is expected to commence operations there later this month. Also preparing to open at the site is a second outlet for Totally Refreshed Steam and Spa, which currently operates at 6200 67A St., with a May 1 start-up anticipated.

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Nearly 40 per cent of anglophone Canadians were using Netflix this past fall, according to a new report.

The Media Technology Monitor surveyed 4,002 English-speaking consumers by phone between Oct. 8 and Dec. 12 and found 39 per cent said they were Netflix subscribers, up from 26 per cent when a similar poll was conducted in the fall of 2013.

A majority of the respondents polled this fall said they had been using Netflix for at least a year. About 38 per cent said they had been streaming content on Netflix for at least two years and 31 per cent said they had been subscribing for a year or two.

Most Netflix subscribers said they were frequent users of the online service.

About 82 per cent said they typically streamed something on Netflix weekly and, on average, estimated they spent about six hours a week logged in.

Most said they typically only watched Netflix on one screen (about 44 per cent), while 25 per cent said they used more than one device, 20 per cent said they used three and 10 per cent answered four.

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The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 24.76 points at 15,213.60, extending a rally that began over a week ago.

The Canadian dollar was down 0.21 of a U.S. cent at 79.76 cents.

Buoying the market in part were TSX financials, which rose 0.6 per cent, with nearly all of the major banks higher.

The metals and mining sector gained 1.2 per cent, while the price of copper edged back 3.2 cents to US$2.73 a pound.

Energy stocks took a hit overall, with the sector dropping 2.3 per cent following the latest oil inventory report that showed U.S. crude stockpiles registered the largest single-week jump since 2001. The Energy Information Administration said crude inventories rose by 10.9 million barrels to 482.4 million.

The May crude contract settled down $3.56 at US$50.42 a barrel.

Gold stocks were lower as the June bullion contract was down $7.50 at US$1,203.10 an ounce.

New York markets were higher as investors pondered minutes from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s March 17-18 meeting on interest rates, which showed Fed officials were in wide disagreement over when the next rate hike should occur.

Several looked to a hike in June, but others, concerned about lower inflation, favoured waiting until later this year while still others said the U.S. economy was not strong enough to support a hike until 2016.

BMO Capital Markets analyst Michael Gregory suggested that while the Fed minutes show a lean towards starting rate hikes as soon as June, there are several other factors that should be considered.

“The fact that the acknowl-

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“All (Fed) eyes are on the economic growth and inflation consequences of an appreciating greenback.”

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average closed ahead 27.09 points at 17,902.51, the Nasdaq soared 40.59 points to 4,950.82 and the S&P 500 rose 5.57 points to 2,081.90.

Traders in the United States will be focused on the wave of first-quarter earnings reports due in the coming weeks, and widely expect to see signs of weakness.

“This is the first time in many years where the earnings are going to be down year-over-year,” said Ian Nakamoto, director of research at 3MACS. “Though it is energy specific, investors are cautious to see what the rest of the landscape will look like.”

Alcoa was the first major company to report its results after stock markets closed. The metals company beat analyst expectations with quarterly earnings of 28 cents a share, though its revenue came in slightly below estimates at US$5.82 billion.

On Thursday, both Postmedia Network Inc. (TSX:PNC.B), owner of the National Post, and cable channel operator Corus Entertainment (TSX:CJR.B) are scheduled to issue their secondquarter results, while Scotiabank (TSX:BNS) will hold its annual meeting in Ottawa.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS Highlights at the close of Wednesday at world financial market trading.

Stocks: S&P/TSX Composite Index — 15,213.60, up 24.76 points Dow — 17,902.51, up 27.09 points S&P 500 — 2,081.90, up

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5.57 points Nasdaq — 4,950.82, up 40.59 points Currencies: Cdn — 79.76 cents US, down 0.21 of a cent Pound — C$1.8640, up 1.02 cents Euro — C$1.3521, down 0.04 of a cent Euro — US$1.0784, down 0.33 of a cent Oil futures: US$50.42 per barrel, down $3.56 (May contract) Gold futures: US$1,203.10 per oz., down $7.50 (June contract) Canadian Fine Silver Handy and Harman: $21.315 oz., down 61.2 cents $685.28 kg., down $19.67 ICE FUTURES CANADA WINNIPEG — ICE Futures Canada closing prices: Canola: May ’15 $0.40 lower $453.40; July ’15 $0.70 lower $453.40; Nov ’15 $0.60 lower $445.30; Jan. ’16 $0.50 lower $445.80; March ’16 $1.00 lower $445.30; May ’16 $1.00 lower $446.00; July ’16 $1.00 lower $446.50; Nov. ’16 $2.50 lower $441.10; Jan. ’17 $2.50 lower $441.10; March ’17 $2.50 lower $441.10; May ’17 $2.50 lower $441.10.

Barley (Western): May ’15 unchanged $205.00; July ’15 unchanged $204.00; Oct. ’15 unchanged $189.00; Dec. ’15 unchanged $189.00; March ’16 unchanged $189.00; May ’16 unchanged $189.00; July ’16 unchanged $189.00; Oct. ’16 unchanged $189.00; Dec. ’16 unchanged $189.00; March ’17 unchanged $189.00; May ’17 unchanged $189.00.

Wednesday’s estimated volume of trade: 293,780 tonnes of canola; 0 tonnes of barley (Western Barley) Total: 293,780.

Shell-BG deal could weigh on B.C. LNG plans

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half of LNG clients.

“There’s an awful lot of proposed LNG projects and simply not enough need for all of them.”

“Shell and BG will now be presumably looking to consolidate different assets, including potentially assets in the LNG space.”

A report by Moody’s Investors Service earlier this week predicted the “vast majority” of projects planned in the United States and Canada are likely to be cancelled as the price advantage of LNG is “wiped out,” although plants under construction are still likely to go ahead.

BG has liquefaction plants in Australia, Egypt and Trinidad and Tobago and another is being developed in Louisiana.

Privacy commissioner not yet satisfied with Bell’s about-face on ad tracking

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS

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The Office of the Privacy Commissioner is not yet satisfied with Bell’s commitment on seeking customer consent before tracking cellphone use to deliver targeted online advertising.

The federal agency met Wednesday with the telecom giant, a day after the company said it would accept the commissioner’s recommendation to get explicit consent or opt-in before using private viewing patterns and sensitive personal information to create profiles that are sold to advertisers.

Privacy commissioner spokeswoman Tobi Cohen said talks are continuing, but the commissioner is keeping open the option of pursuing the matter in Federal Court “if a solution cannot be reached to our satisfaction.”

“Suffice it to say that it would be premature to say that we have arrived at a solution on the issue of opt-in,” she said.

Bell Canada (TSX:BCE) later declined to specify the areas of disagreement, but said it was “working co-operatively” with the privacy commissioner.

“Bell is moving to the opt-in approach as confirmed yesterday,” said spokesman Mark Langton. “We hope these rules will apply to international companies competing here, like Google and Facebook, in the same way they do to Canadian companies like Bell.”

The privacy commissioner’s report, issued Tuesday, declined to comment on these examples raised by Bell, saying each investigation must be determined on its own merits.

“Further, it goes without saying that the fact that other industry players may be engaged in similar privacy

practices does not render those practices acceptable if they are in contravention of (the act),” said the report.

The agency also said it was not aware of any other telecom company pursuing a program similar to Bell’s.

It said Telus (TSX:T) has indicated it would not use personal information of customers without express consent.

Despite the commissioner’s efforts, the issue of Bell Canada tracking cellphone use remains unresolved until the CRTC rules on complaints filed by consumer groups.

Calling the practice an abuse of privacy, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre has filed a complaint with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, arguing Bell has gone beyond its role as a provider of telecom services.

Executive director John Lawford said telecom legislation prohibits Bell from using confidential information to support a new business that secures revenues from selling to advertisers the interest profiles of its customers.

“I doubt the genuineness of (Bell’s) climb-down too,” he said after Bell signalled it would accept the commissioner’s recommendation. “I’m happy that they are, but it’s not the end of the story.”

Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien had urged Bell to review its approach after releasing the results of an investigation prompted by an “unprecedented” 170 privacy complaints.

It determined Bell shouldn’t assume that customers are consenting to have vast amounts of their personal information tracked simply because they haven’t explicitly objected.

Mobile app for drivers raises privacy concerns

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A Canadian insurance company has developed a mobile app that purports to evaluate a user’s driving behaviour and offer discounts on their premiums if their skills are up to snuff. But at least one privacy lawyer is urging caution when downloading the Ajusto app developed by Desjardins Insurance.

Desjardins says iPhone and Android users can download Ajusto for free to have it start scoring driving performance. The company says Ajusto’s score is calculated by monitoring a driver’s speed, smoothness and travel distance, as well as logging what time of day the user is most often on the road. Privacy lawyer David Young says drivers shouldn’t start using the app before understanding what they may be getting into.

He says users should be very clear on what purpose their personal information will be used for, as well as how Desjardins plans to keep it secure and for how long. Young adds that Ajusto’s developers could be doing more to make sure customers are well informed when they sign up.

He says a review of Desjardins’ own privacy policies suggests that the company is in compliance with federal regulations on app use, but he believes users should look at the bigger picture when allowing mobile devices to monitor behaviour as personal as driving pat-

terns and travel times and locations.

“Desjardins is not going to use this data except for very specific purposes, but if somebody else gains access to it, what are the implications of that?”

Young said in a telephone interview.

“The more data there is, the more risk there is.” A description of the app on the Ajusto website states that users will never be financially penalized for a low driving score and could save up to 25 per cent on their insurance premiums if they perform well.

Desjardins said the information obtained from the Ajusto program “can never be used” to penalize clients, cancel an insurance policy, refuse a renewal or increase a premium.

“We only use the data for calculating the discount at renewal for that specific driver/customer. We don’t collect it for any other purpose nor do we share it with any third parties,” Denis Cote, the company’s vice-president of offer management said in an email.

CALGARY — There may be fewer contenders vying to export liquefied natural gas from Canada’s West Coast once Royal Dutch Shell acquires Britain’s BG Group in a deal worth US$70 billion.

Both Shell and BG have a big global presence when it comes to LNG— natural gas that is chilled into a liquid state so that it can be transported overseas by tanker.

In some areas there could be too much overlap once the deal closes.

“Shell would want to make sure they’re not competing against themselves,” said Geoff Hill, partner with Deloitte’s oil and gas practice.

Each company has been eyeing British Columbia for an LNG export terminal. Shell leads a consortium of companies planning the LNG Canada project in Kitimat, which could cost up to US$40 billion. BG has its own project near Prince Rupert in the hopper, but or. last fall decided to pause chat, push do ve li r o F work on it due to market uncertainty.

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Whole grains could save your life

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DRS. OZ AND ROIZEN cause the outer layer, called the bran, isn’t polished off. Whole grains also have more protein, a smidge of good fat and a rainbow of good-for-you vitamins and minerals (like magnesium, selenium, copper and manganese) because the nutrient-rich germ is intact, too.

And they deliver a slow drip (rather than a spike) of energizing carbs found in the grain’s endosperm layer.

These bonus nutrients that make up the “whole” in whole grains do plenty of important jobs in your body. Fibre slows the digestion of carbohydrates, so blood sugar rises more slowly. One type — soluble fibre — can lower your cholesterol.

Another type — insoluble fibre — helps keep you regular. Phytochemicals in the germ discourage lousy LDL cholesterol from turning into artery-clog-

Guinea may provide Ebola vaccine answers

BY THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO — When research teams planning clinical trials of Ebola vaccines were divvying up West Africa last fall, no one wanted Guinea.

Six months later the last player chosen seems likely to be the only one capable of crossing the finish line. The best hope this outbreak will prove an Ebola vaccine works now rests with the West African country where it began.

“We are firmly convinced we will get results,” says Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, a senior World Health Organization official who is principal investigator of the Guinea vaccine trials, which are testing a vaccine made at Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg.

“There are enough cases. We are scaling up.”

Kieny, who is spearheading the WHO’s efforts to develop and deploy Ebola vaccines and drugs, says there were fears Guineans might resist being vaccinated, but that hasn’t been the case. “Absolutely no problem,” she reports.

The irony of the situation — that Guinea might provide the till-now elusive answer — isn’t lost on the partners in the consortium conducting the trials there. They include the WHO, Guinea’s Ministry of Health, Medecins Sans Frontieres and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Funding comes from a variety of sources, including Canada and the British charity Wellcome Trust.

When parties planning the studies met at the

WHO’s Geneva headquarters in October, Liberia and Sierra Leone appeared to be far more fertile ground.

Guinea’s health infrastructure was considered too rudimentary, and villages in some affected parts of the country were refusing to co-operate with Ebola response teams.

Scientists from the U.S. National Institutes of Health selected Liberia for a large randomized trial testing the two leading vaccines, one designed at the NIH and developed by GSK, the other created at Winnipeg and developed by NewLink Genetics and Merck.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control opted for Sierra Leone, where it will test only one vaccine, the Winnipeg lab’s rVSV-ZEBOV. But leaving out Guinea was both politically indefensible and unfair. So a consortium led by the WHO agreed to conduct two trials there — one involving vaccination of front-line workers and the other a ring vaccination scheme designed to see if Ebola’s spread could be stopped by vaccinating people who had been in contact with cases.

Some rings of contacts of new cases are being offered vaccine immediately while others are randomly assigned to receive vaccine after a three-week delay.

There should be fewer secondary cases among the immediately vaccinated contacts if the vaccine works.

It is this trial that is now expected to provide evidence of effectiveness — if rVSV-ZEBOV protects people as well as it protects primates from Ebola.

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Twelve months after being diagnosed with mononucleosis (mono), a mother brought in her 11-year-old daughter to my clinic with concerns of her continually being sick and an abnormal amount of fatigue.

There was no explanation except that she had just not been the same since having the mono infection.

The fatigue, dizziness, nausea and low-immune function were to the point of interferSHANE ing with this young girl’s abilJOHNSON ity to function as a normal 11-year-old. These persistent NATUROPATHIC health concerns had finally MEDICINE reached a tipping point. The patient and her mother needed a solution to this ongoing health crisis. I felt bad for this young girl as she sat slumped in the chair in my office during the entire office visit, looking exhausted.

She had a full and appropriate assessment from her family doctor but nothing was showing up positive on her blood work or urine tests.

Their family doctor told them that he had no alternative options or treatments at this time, leaving them feeling hopeless, with many unanswered questions and fears.

Unfortunately, I see this situation of lingering mono symptoms more often than one would think.

The good news is that as a naturopathic doctor, I have a couple great options with a high success rate to treat these cases.

Mono is a common viral infection in adolescents and young adults, historically known as the “kissing disease.” The acute illness usually lasts one to two weeks but fatigue can persist up to six months in nine to 22 per cent of cases. To put how persistent this condition can be into context, an athlete can require six to eight months of recovery time prior to fitness level. It is those patients who have persistent symptoms who often come to my clinic looking for help.

Since mono is initiated by a virus, medicines such as antibiotics are not prescribed. Furthermore, there has not been success of treatment with antiviral drugs.

This is where herbal medicine and intravenous vitamin C therapy have an advantage.

Vitamin C is known to have great anti-viral abilities, which is why so many of us start loading up at home on vitamin C at the onset of a cold or flu.

The only limitation to vitamin C is that we can only handle so much per day before it causes loose stools or diarrhea.

Most people can handle three to four grams per day before getting these adverse side effects. However, in my experience this is not enough vitamin C to see change in someone with chronic mono symptoms. This is why I use it in an IV form.

With IVs, we can get 100 per cent absorption of the vitamin C and doses closer to 13 grams per treatment without the unpleasant side effects, maximizing the anti-viral effects of this nutrient. This in turn gets a patient feeling better faster.

As a naturopathic doctor, we also can use many herbs with anti-viral abilities to boost the immune system to overcome this viral infection.

It is the combination of IV vitamin C and herbs that had this 11-year-old patient improving dramatically in just four weeks. Both her and her mother recognized a substantial improvement in energy and her nausea and dizziness were completely gone.

This young patient was so happy to be back acting like a normal young girl and participating again in her regular day-to-day activities, including making it through her dance classes.

The treatments described above can also be used for someone with a recent infection of mono to help rid their symptoms quicker and prevent them from ending up in the category of nine to 22 per cent of people who suffer from lingering symptoms.

If you know of someone still suffering months after a mono infection, try proposing naturopathic medicine as it can provide a great treatment to help them start feeling back to normal.

Dr. Shane Johnson ND was born and raised in Red Deer and is the owner of Aspire Natural Medicine. He completed his naturopathic medical training at Bastyr University, and is among only a handful of naturopathic doctors in Alberta to complete an additional one-year residency in family medicine. For more detailed information on naturopathic medicine visit www.aspiremedicine.ca.

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ging plaque, while phytoestrogens may help fight off some cancers.

So why not try a new 100 per cent whole grain this week? These tips can point you in the right direction, whether you’re a newcomer to whole-grain goodness or a long-time fan looking for something completely different.

Go for fast-cooking whole grains. Dr. Mike likes to cook up a big pot of brown rice, barley or quinoa on Sundays and then keep it in the fridge for fast meals during the week. Another option is grains that cook in 10 to 15 minutes, such as quick pearl barley, bulgur or quick-cooking farro. You also can look for ready-to-heat, precooked grains in pouches.

Make an easy switch. Instead of white bread, go for 100 per cent whole grain; boot white pasta for 100 per cent whole-grain noodles; pick a 100 per cent whole-grain breakfast cereal. Don’t buy any product based on the words “whole grain” on the label; it doesn’t mean 100 per cent whole grain unless it says “100 per cent” on the ingredients list.

Try a new taste. Already in love with 100 per cent whole grains? Branch out. Serve an ancient grain, like quinoa (it’s actually a grass but has all the virtues of grain), millet, amaranth or spelt. Each has its own strengths. Quinoa is high in protein, millet’s tiny grains are rich in magnesium, and amaranth cooks into a creamy porridge that’s delicious on cold winter mornings. You can buy these grains as flour to add to muffins. Now, there’s a great way to start a hot new trend in your house!

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Whole grains are red-hot! Seventy-five per cent of supermarket shoppers (including you, we hope) say they’re looking to buy more. The National Restaurant Association just announced that going with the grain is a top food trend for 2015, ahead of artisanal ice cream, exotic herbs and food trucks.

And now, a massive new study shows they can save your heart and your life.

Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health tracked the diet and health of 117,000 women and men for 25 years to uncover this whole-grain connection. People who ate more — as in whole-grain bread, oatmeal, brown rice or barley (or another whole grain), even 100 per cent whole-grain crackers and pasta — had a nine per cent lower mortality rate during the study’s time period.

Their heart health was superior, too. For every daily serving they munched, risk of dying from a heart attack, stroke or related problem dropped five per cent. On average, they ate enough grains to lower heart-related deaths 15 per cent.

That’s a huge benefit from one of the easiest food groups to love. And it’s not the only advantage. Other studies have already shown that choosing foods made with fibre-rich, nutrient-packed grains instead of the refined kind can slash your risk for Type 2 diabetes by as much as 30 per cent, reduce stroke risk up to 36 per cent, cut odds for heart disease by 28 per cent and help banish belly fat. Inviting more whole grains over for meals (and cutting back on refined grains) may even lower your risk for asthma, colon cancer, gum disease and high blood pressure!

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Jon Snow, portrayed by Kit Harington, left, appears with Mance Rayder, portrayed by Ciaran Hinds in a scene from Season 4 of ‘Game of Thrones.’ The Season 5 premiere airs on Sunday.

You know nothing of Jon Snow KIT HARINGTON THE QUIET FORCE BEHIND THE BROODING WARRIOR HERO NEW YORK — Shhhh!

“Quiet” and “still” aren’t words you might associate with “Game of Thrones.” HBO’s epic fantasy, set in the make-believe continent of Westeros, typically swirls with warring armies, forbidding landscape, even fire-breathing dragons.

But Jon Snow embodies the meditative quality that regularly quells words and movement by the characters in favour of a moody immersion in this vast realm for the audience.

Through this universe roams Jon Snow, the illegitimate son of Lord Ned Stark and an outcast, a brooding warrior with haunted eyes, shaggy curls and a rosebud mouth from which few words issue.

That’s the way Kit Harington, who plays Jon, likes it, as Thrones begins its fifth season Sunday on HBO. “He’s not a complicated character,” says Harington, a compact but buff Brit of 28 whose earnest, subdued manner at an interview this week seems not so far removed from Jon’s.

But that, perhaps, is where the similarity ends.

“There’s a lot of turmoil, a lot of frustration and rage churning inside Jon — and that’s where he keeps it,” says Harington. “He doesn’t overthink what’s going on with him. He’s not a modern man. He’s not seeing a shrink.”

Jon Snow looms large in a crush of characters portrayed by an evolving ensemble of stars who also include Peter Dinklage, Lena Headey, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Emilia Clarke. And while the scale of the series is vast, so is the inspiration: the five-and-counting novels by George R.R. Martin in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.

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Harington was signed for Game of Thrones at its pilot stage following his run in the West End production of the hit play War Horse — which he had landed soon after graduating from London’s Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Thrones became his first television role.

It might have just been fate.

“What I’ve always responded to when watching actors is their stillness.

When they’re not making too many choices. When they’re concentrating on what’s going on up here” — he taps his temple — “rather than showing everybody what’s going on with gestures.

I believe in stillness, and that’s how I like acting myself. Not doing too much.

“Maybe that’s what they wanted for Jon.” Go figure: an action hero known for his stillness, and, by the way, an unwitting heartthrob. Welcome to Harington’s world.

But what is it he enjoys about this line of work?

“I keep asking myself that,” he laughs before hazarding an answer. “I like the moments: moments in a performance, moments of truth,” he says, declaring himself helpless to be any clearer. “The moments you find that no one else will ever know about — I like those best.”

Moments — another breed of moments that continue to surprise him — have compounded for Harington with his nearly instant stardom in a TV sensation.

“What’s that LIKE?” he says, echoing the interviewer’s question with a rare, broad grin. “I achieved it — or got given it — a YEAR out of drama school! It’s amazing, too big a thing to process.”

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TORONTO — A Ukrainian-born pianist who has been barred from performing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra over what it called her “deeply offensive” comments will still be playing with an orchestra in Calgary later this year.

Despite being at the centre of a controversy that has triggered a flurry of online commentary, Valentina Lisitsa will perform with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra as scheduled, the group said Wednesday.

Valentina Lisitsa “Whether or not one agrees with Ms. Lisitsa’s political views, at this time at the CPO, our agreement with her is as a guest artist, to perform Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with our orchestra in June,” Heather Slater, the orchestra’s director of artistic planning told The Canadian Press.

Lisitsa announced in a lengthy Facebook post on Monday morning that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra had asked her not to play at performances scheduled for this week.

Lisitsa, an ethnic Russian born in Ukraine who now lives in the United States, said she had been accused by the orchestra of “inciting hatred” on Twitter because of her comments on the conflict in Ukraine.

She said she had been exercising her right to free speech as she spoke out against the “atrocities” of the civil war in the country, particularly those committed against the Russian minority in Ukraine’s eastern and southern regions.

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, however, defended its decision.

Symphony president and CEO Jeff Melanson said Tuesday that Lisitsa was replaced following complaints from “hundreds” of people and after the TSO compiled seven pages of “offensive” Twitter posts.

“This is not about free speech, this is not about a political perspective or persuasion, this is about very offensive, intolerant comments about people,” he said.

The incident has unleashed a firestorm of divisive online commentary, with many taking sides on Twitter and Facebook over whether Lisitsa should have been dropped from the Toronto orchestra.

The discussion generated was seen by at least one observer as a welcome development as it aired a variety of perspectives on the armed conflict in Ukraine.

“It actually brought a conflict which was far away from Canada to Canada itself,” said Ivan Katchanovski, a University of Ottawa professor who conducts research on Ukraine.

“I do not endorse her take on the conflict but I think it’s important to allow different views on the conflict to be expressed in Canada.”

The federal government’s foreign policy on Ukraine has presented the conflict in the European country as one solely between Ukraine and Russia, Katchanovski said, but the situation is more complex than that.

“There is no political debate in Canada on this issue,” he said. “This is an internal Ukrainian conflict, there are different points of view...it’s not a black and white conflict.”

The still simmering discussion over Lisitsa being turfed from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has even forced the Canadian pianist who was initially scheduled to replace her to withdraw from the engagement.

Stewart Goodyear said he was “bullied” into turning down an opportunity he had seen as a dream come true.

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CURRIE John 1925 - 2015 Mr. John Currie of Red Deer, Alberta passed away peacefully at Bethany CollegeSide, Red Deer on Friday, March 27, 2015, at the age of 90 years. John was born on February 15, 1925 at Dominion No. 1, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, son of John and Mary Currie.

He married his beautiful wife, Carmen and they were able to celebrate fifty-eight years of marriage. John and Carmen were blessed with four children, three sons and a daughter. As a teacher of Education, John’s career spanned forty-three years.

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The majority of his career was spent with the Red Deer Separate Schools as a principal, teacher and trustee.

John enjoyed reading, gardening, scrabble, and doing crossword puzzles. He devoted countless hours volunteering to support numerous organizations in the City of Red Deer. John will be lovingly remembered by his wife, Carmen; his children, Glenn (Joan), Rob (Lisa), Karen (Bill) and John Kerry (Judy); as well as eleven grandchildren. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta on Friday, April 10, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. with The Reverend Father Les Drewicki, celebrant. If desired, Memorial Donations in John’s honor may be made directly to the Red Deer Regional Hospital Foundation at www.rdrhfoundation.com/don ate-now, Unit 26-Pediatrics; or to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, 6 McMillan Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, T4N 5X8.

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Qualifications include: CLASSIFICATIONS Engineering degree from Restaurant/ 700-920 accredited university and Hotel registered Professional Engineer in Alberta with a minimum of 7 years chemical, mechanical Dental and/or process engineering experience in BOWER DENTAL implementing projects and CENTER providing operational req’s a full time Registered support for gas and NGL Dental Assistant who is a processing facilities. motivated, committed and Please visit passionate individual. We www.keyera.com to view run a high paced practice the complete job posting. where experience is an asset, but new grads are LOCAL SERVICE CO. welcome. Must be avail. on in Red Deer REQ’S EXP. evenings and one Sat. per VACUUM TRUCK month. Very rewarding OPERATOR position. Please send Must have Class 3 licence resume to: w/air & all oilfield tickets. ebakleh@yahoo.com or Fax resume w/drivers apply within office. abstract to 403-886-4475

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BECKER Donald Clarke (Don) Donald Clarke Becker passed away peacefully with his wife by his side at the Red Deer Hospice on Sunday, April 5, 2015, after a short but vicious battle with brain cancer. Don was born on April 19, 1934 in Rocky Mountain House to Les and Marguerite Becker. He will be sadly missed by his wife, Estelle, three daughters: Leslie (Mark) Patrick of Calgary, Nancy (Stephen) Hallford of Dundas, ON, Amy Becker of Lacombe; three grandchildren: Stephanie (Mike Migliara) Patrick, Daniel and Nicole (Dustin) McMullen and their father, John McMullen. He will also be lovingly remembered by his sister, Shirley Spoor, several nieces and nephews and their families. It was at Don’s request that there be no funeral service. Memorial donations in Don’s honour may be made directly to the Red Deer Hospice Society, 99 Arnot Avenue, Red Deer, AB, T4R 3S6.

Condolences may be forwarded to the family by visiting www.eventidefuneralchapels.com.

Arrangements entrusted to EVENTIDE FUNERAL CHAPEL 4820 - 45 Street, Red Deer.

Phone (403) 347-2222

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BURK Roze 1946 - 2015 Mrs. Roze Marie Burk of Red Deer, Alberta, sadly passed away at Evansburg, Alberta on Friday, March 27, 2015 at the age of 68 years. She will be lovingly remembered by her sons; Darren (Sheena) In Memoriam and Wayd (Tamara), all of ln Loving Memory of Red Deer; her grand daughters, Breanna and DOROTHY M. LUND Sophie; as well as numerous Feb. 25, 1940 - April 9,2011 family and dear friends. A & Funeral Service will be held RALPH W. LUND at the Seventh Day Adventist Church, 37370 Range Road Dec. 18, 1935 - Feb. 22,2010 274A, (McKenzie Road) Red Deer, Alberta on Monday, Those we love remain with us For love itself lives on April 13, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. If And cherished memories desired, Memorial Donations never fade in Roze’s honor may be made directly to the Heart Because our Ioved ones gone Those we love can never be and Stroke Foundation of More than a thought apart Alberta and N.W.T. at For as long as there is memory www.heartandstroke.ab.ca or They will always live on in to the Red Deer and District our hearts S.P.C.A., 4505 - 77 Street, Red Deer, Alberta, T4P 2J1.

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Accounting

1010

Eavestroughing

1130

Massage Therapy

1280

EAVES CLEANED MASSAGE ABOVE ALL INDIVIDUAL & BUSINESS Residential/Commercial WALK-INS WELCOME Accounting, 30 yrs. of exp.

Free quotes. 403-506-4822 4709 Gaetz Ave. 346-1161 with oilfield service companies, other small businesses and individuals GUTTERS CLEANED & Misc.

REPAIRED. 403-391-2169 RW Smith, 346-9351

Services

Caregivers

1060

WILL care for 1 or 2 children in my home, Mon. - Fri., good rate. 403-346-6773

Contractors

1100

BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/Patios/RV pads Sidewalks/Driveways Dean 403-505-2542

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Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 COUNTERTOPS & kitchen renovations.

Wes 403-302-1648 DALE’S Home Reno’s Free estimates for all your reno needs. 403-506-4301

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For more information, Call Lori, 403-348-5556

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REMOVAL of old concrete, Garage/RV pads, driveways, patios, bsmt. Dave 352-7285 SIDING, soffit, fascia and custom cladding. Call Dean @ 403-302-9210.

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Escorts

KAYLA 403-392-0891 INDEPENDENT w/own car

1200

Handyman Services

BEAT THE RUSH! Book now for your home projects.

Reno’s, flooring, painting, small concrete/rock work, landscaping, small tree cutting, fencing & decking.

Call James 403-341-0617

Landscaping

1240

GROUND Up Bobcat & Landscaping Ltd. For free quote call 403-848-0153

Massage Therapy

1280

FANTASY SPA

Elite Retreat, Finest in VIP Treatment.

10 - 2am Private back entry

403-341-4445

1290

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

403-358-1614 Property clean ups and all junk removal. 403-550-2502

Moving & Storage

1300

MOVING? Boxes? Appls. removal. 403-986-1315 CELEBRATIONS HAPPEN EVERY DAY IN CLASSIFIEDS

Painters/ Decorators

1310

JG PAINTING, 25 yrs. exp.

Free Est. 403-872-8888

Personal Services

1315

MEDICAL CONDITION? Get up to $40,000 from the Canadian government.

ALL conditions qualify.

Call Alberta Benefits *** 1(800) 211-3550

Roofing

1370

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 Central Alberta’s Largest Car Lot in Classifieds

Seniors’ Services

1372

HELPING HANDS Home Supports for Seniors.

Cooking, cleaning, companionship. At home or facility. 403-346-7777

Window Cleaning

1420

RESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL Free quotes.

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Yard Care

1430

SPRING cleaning, weekly mows, anything yards we do. familyyards.com or call 587-876-8969

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820

Trades

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Truckers/ Drivers

880

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Children's Items

1580

JJAM Management (1987) NOW HIRING NEED EXPERIENCED SOURCE ADULT VIDEO HIKING shoes, child’s Ltd., o/a Tim Horton’s 2 - Tile Setters $25/hr Class 1 drivers for short requires mature P/T help sz. 13, Columbia brand, Requires to work at these 5 - Floor Covering and long haul. Full Time.

Fri & Sat. and Thurs. 3 very good cond. $10.

Red Deer, AB locations: Installers $25/hr Runs AB., SASK, Manitoba pm-11 pm. Graveyard 403-314-9603 & BC. Please call 5111 22 St. Min 3 years exp./ 40hrs/wk Shift. 11 pm -7 am. e-mail HOODY, Ed Hardy, childs PROMAX TRANSPORT resume to: nwoods1976@ sz. M. $15. 403-314-9603 37444 HWY 2 S 3 - Construction Labourers at 227-2712 or fax resume hotmail.com, fax to: 37543 HWY 2N $20/hr. No exp required. w/abstract 403-227-2743 403-346-9099 or drop off at: 700 3020 22 St. Full time perm position FOOD ATTENDANT with Valid Driver’s Licence 3301-Gaetz Avenue EquipmentReq’d permanent shift Email Resume to: Heavy Misc. weekend day and evening cat1employment@ Employment both full and part time. gmail.com Help TRAILERS for sale or rent 16 Vacancies, $10.25/hr. + or drop off resume at Training Job site, office, well site or benefits. Start ASAP. Central Alberta Tile One ACADEMIC Express storage. Skidded or Job description 7619 50 Ave #9 Red Deer wheeled. Call 347-7721.

ADULT EDUCATION www.timhortons.com AND TRAINING Education and experience YEAR-ROUND employment TRAINING CENTRE in Central Alberta, exp. not req’d.

OILFIELD TICKETS maintenance grader SPRING START Apply in person or fax Industries #1 Choice! Firewood operator required. resume to: 403-314-1303 “Low Cost” Quality Training Reply to Box 1106, c/o • GED Preparation AFFORDABLE RED DEER ADVOCATE, 403.341.4544 2950 Bremner Ave., Red 24 Hours Homestead Firewood • Women in the Trades Toll Free 1.888.533.4544 Deer, AB T4R 1M9 Spruce, Pine, Birch -Split.

Trades Program avail. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 Looking for a place R H2S Alive (ENFORM) to live?

• Math and Science for R First Aid/CPR APPOX. 1 cord of birch GOODMEN Take a tour through the the Trades Program firewood R Confined Space ROOFING LTD. CLASSIFIEDS $40 403-343-8662 R WHMIS & TDG Requires Gov’t of Alberta Funding R Ground Disturbance B.C. Birch, Aspen, may be available.

R (ENFORM) D&C B.O.P. Spruce/Pine. Delivery avail.

SLOPED ROOFERS Truckers/ R D&C (LEL) PH. Lyle 403-783-2275 LABOURERS 403-340-1930 Drivers & FLAT ROOFERS #204, 7819 - 50 Ave. FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, www.academicexpress.ca (across from Totem) (across from Rona North) Can deliver Valid Driver’s Licence 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227 preferred. Fax or email info@goodmenroofing.ca LOGS or (403)341-6722 Semi loads of pine, spruce, NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging SHUNDA LUBE TECH 403-318-4346 CONSTRUCTION wanted for busy Requires Full Time dealership, possible CLASSIFICATIONS Household chance for advancement Equipment CENTRAL AB based into apprenticeship.

1500-1990 Operator Appliances Q Endorsement preferred. trucking company requires Must have drivers license.

Fax resume to 341-5066 CONTRACT Competitive Wages DRYER, Inglis HD, white & Benefits. ext. large capacity, DRIVERS Start your career!

Auctions Fax resumes & ref’s to: Electric. $100. in AB. Home the odd night.

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Stereos TV's, VCRs

Advocate Opportunities

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For Afternoon Delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward 2 Days/Week (Wed. & Fri.)

GLENDALE Gehrke Close & 71 St.

ORIOLE PARK

ORIOLE PARK

CARRIERS REQUIRED

Olsen St. ALSO Overdown Dr. ALSO Owens & Osmond Close

To deliver the CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week in:

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For More Information Call Joanne at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4308

INNISFAIL Penhold Olds Sylvan Lake Please call Debbie for details 403-314-4307

ADULT or YOUTH CARRIERS NEEDED For delivery of Flyers, Express and Friday Forward ONLY 2 DAYS A WEEK in GRANDVIEW AREA 4400 Blks. of 40A Ave. and 41 Ave. and 1 Blk. each of 46 and 47 Streets area

CARRIERS REQUIRED

DEER PARK AREA

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Dennison Cres. & 1 Block of Davison Dr. ALSO Durand Cr. & Drummond Ave. $69./mo.

ALSO Drummond Cl. & Dowd Cl. $59./mo.

CENTRAL AB LIFE & LACOMBE EXPRESS 1 day a week in: LACOMBE BLACKFALDS Please call Rick for details 403-314-4303 CARRIERS NEEDED FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

MICHENER AREA 50A. St. between 40 Ave. & 42 A Ave, 50, 51, 51A & 52 St. between 40 Ave. & 43 Ave. and Michener Drive area. $209.00/mo.

3 days per week, no weekends ROUTES IN:

ANDERS AREA Alexander Cres., Arnold Close, Ackerman Cres. Ammeter Close, Addington Drive, Atlee / Ansett Cres.

Allsop Ave. / Allsop Cres.

BOWER AREA Boyce St. / Byer Close Barrett Drive INGLEWOOD AREA Isaacson Cres. / Irwin Ave. Iverson Close MORRISROE AREA

For More Information Call Jamie at the Red Deer Advocate 403-314-4306

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18 QT. electric roasting oven $20, 14” color flat screen tv like new $30, 1/2” 19V cordless variable spd. reversible drill $45, Craftsman spiral cut out saw $50, Dremel 16” scroll saw $75 403-347-2603 1998, 1999 (5) & 2000 (4) CALGARY Stampede Posters, 36’x23’. $5. ea.

403-347-7405 75 - 9” DINNER PLATES, $1.00 each or $50.00 for all 403-728-3485 Beswick, horses, porcelain, with Welsh Colts rearing, made in England. $175. DCSHOES Cap, sz. 7 3/8, like new. $18.

403-352-8811 INVACARE scooter, $600.

403-347-4003 QUILT, king size with 4 matching decorative cushions plus 2 pillow shams. $60. 403-348-6449 ROYAL Dux Bohemian Cat, porcelain, mint cond. $35.

Merrill Ortholight shoe, sz.

6.5, air cushion, women’s, like new. $40.

Maui Jim Sunglasses, Makaha, with brown sport case, brand new. $100.

403-352-8811

Sporting Goods

1860

TX390 TREADMILL, all power, like new, $200.

SOLD

Travel Packages

1900

TRAVEL ALBERTA Alberta offers SOMETHING for everyone.

Make your travel plans now.

3 days per week, no weekends

Ammeter Close Ackerman Cres.

BOWER AREA Beatty Close 54 Bell St. INGLEWOOD AREA

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Savoy Close / Sydney Close

SUNNYBROOK AREA Sherwood Cres. / Stirling Close Selkirk Blvd. / Sherwood Cres.

Sunnyside Cres.

LANCASTER AREA

LANCASTER AREA

Lord Close

Lancaster Drive

SOUTHBROOK AREA

SOUTHBROOK AREA

Sorrensen/Sisson Ave.

Sutherland Cres.

VANIER AREA

VANIER AREA

Victor Close Viscount Drive

Viscount Drive Voisin Close

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

rentals

homes

CLASSIFICATIONS

FOR RENT • 3000-3200 WANTED • 3250-3390

3020

Houses/ Duplexes

AGRICULTURAL

CLASSIFICATIONS 2000-2290

Farm Equipment

2010

6200 24 FT. I.H. factory transport, 510 - I.H. wheel drill, #10 I.H. wheel drill, and 14 ft. I.H. deep tillage cultivator. 780-919-9985

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WEST PARK Just completely reno’d. 3 bdrm., 2 bath, 4 appls., large fenced yard, $1400 mo. $1000. d.d.

Avail. now or May 1.

403-304-5337

Condos/ Townhouses

3030

5000-5300

HERE TO HELP & HERE TO SERVE

Call GORD ING at RE/MAX real estate central alberta 403-341-9995 gord.ing@remax.net

Houses For Sale

SEIBEL PROPERTY

4020

www.seibelprperty.com Ph: 403-304-7576 or 403-347-7545 6 locations in Red Deer ~ Halman Heights ~ Riverfront Estates

Antique & Classic Autos

5020

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION, 5th Annual Edmonton Motor Show Collector Car Auction, Indoors, Expo Centre, April 10 -12, over 80,000 spectators, 90% sold last year, all consignments welcome, call 888-296-0528 ext. 102 or e-mail egauctions.com

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Cars

~ Westpark

~ Kitson Close ~ Kyte & Kelloway Cres. ~ Holmes St. S.D. $1000 Rent $1195 to $1395 3 bdrm. townhouses, 1.5 bath, 4 & 5 appls., blinds, lrg. balconies, no dogs.

N/S, no utils. incl.

Avail. immed. & Apr. 1 References required.

SOUTHWOOD PARK 3110-47TH Avenue, 2 & 3 bdrm. townhouses, generously sized, 1 1/2 baths, fenced yards, full bsmts. 403-347-7473, Sorry no pets. www.greatapartments.ca

3050

4 Plexes/ 6 Plexes

LIMITED TIME OFFER: First Month’s Rent FREE! 1 & 2 bedroom suites available in central location. Heat & water included. Cat friendly.

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“COMING SOON” BY

SERGE’S HOMES Duplex in Red Deer Close to Schools and Recreation Center. For More Info Call Bob 403-505-8050

GLENDALE reno’d 2 bdrm. apartments, avail. immed, rent $875 403-596-6000 LARGE, 1 & 2 BDRM. SUITES. 25+, adults only n/s, no pets 403-346-7111

NOW RENTING 1 & 2 BDRM. APT’S. 2936 50th AVE. Red Deer Newer bldg. secure entry w/onsite manager, 3 appls., incl. heat & hot water, washer/dryer hookup, infloor heating, a/c., car plug ins & balconies.

Call 403-343-7955

2005 BLUE Chrysler, PT Cruiser convertible $3800 403-309-9486 1999 BUICK Regal, loaded 156,000 km. SOLD 1994 INTREPID, 4 dr.,runs good, red. 403-318-3040

BENALTO HOME

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Trucks

By owner. in quiet hamlet. 2003 F350 7.3L Diesel, FX4 Lariat, 289,000 kms., 1187 sq ft. fully dev., 4 bdrms., 3 baths, vaulted $14,000.obo 403-704-3714 ceiling, hardwood/tile. large windows, custom blinds, 825 sq. ft. dble.

Motorcycles det. garage, built 2003. $369.000.

2011 HARLEY Sportster 403-746-3346, 302-7751 $9,000. 403-598-4131

5080

DOWNSIZING TO A DUPLEX? 90 Rowell Close, quiet neighbourhood.

3 bdrm, 3bath, hardwood, carpet, finished basement, infloor heat, shed.

No fees. $389,000 or consider offer 403 346 2174

3060

Suites

GRAND THEFT AT THE LAKE Executive 5 bdrm., 3 bath, Att. 4 + Garage.

Secluded, Quiet. Boat Dock, Beyond affordable, BELOW Replacement @ $749k. Dori Westin, Coldwell Banker Ontrack Realty 403-357-9010

2006 HONDA GOLDWING TRIKE w/Lehman Monarch 2 trike kit. This unit is loaded with all options plus lots of extra chrome. 49,500 kms.

Bike was triked in 2011.

Asking $33,000.

Call (403)318-4653

5110

Fifth Wheels

2005 SPRINTER, model 293, 32’ with 2 slides, exc. cond. $14,000.

403-886-4751 2004 CORSAIR 26.5’, 1 large slide, well maint., ready for trip. $16,900.

403-227-6794

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Utility Trailers

MOVE IN TODAY 1550 sq. ft. bi-level w/dbl. att. garage $499,900 403-588-2550 RENO’D FULL DUPLEX in Ponoka.

3 bdrm., 1 bath per side. $257,000. 403-963-0204

SYLVAN LAKE, Private bdrm. +. Cable, fridge, etc. $550/mo. 403-880-0210

2013 4x6, Black Utility Trailer $500.00 403 309-9486

5160

Boats & Marine

THE NORDIC

1 & 2 bdrm. adult building, N/S. No pets.

403-596-2444

Roommates Wanted

3080

BOWER 1 BDRM., shared kitchen & living rm., $450./mo. 403-872-9168 Something for Everyone Everyday in Classifieds

Rooms For Rent

3090

$450 MO/D.D. incl. everything. 403-342-1834 or 587-877-1883 after 2:30 Avail Immed: 1 fully furn bedroom for rent, $250. d.d., $500/mo.

Call 403-396-2468

Mobile Lot

3190

PADS $450/mo.

Brand new park in Lacombe.

Spec Mobiles. 3 Bdrm., 2 bath. As Low as $75,000.

Down payment $4000. Call at anytime. 403-588-8820 TOO MUCH STUFF? Let Classifieds help you sell it.

RISER HOMES Spring into summer special. 3 bdrm. 2 bath Modified bi-level w/walkout Too many upgrades to mention. $430,000 inclds.

GST, legal fees, sod, tree and appls. Call LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

WatersEdge Marina Full Title Boat Slips Starting at $58,000 Located in Brand New Marina, Downtown Sylvan Lake, AB www.watersedgeslyvan.com

Tires, Parts Acces.

RISER HOMES, Spring into summer Special. Beautiful 2 story with amazing master ensuite, 3 bdrms. 2 1/2 baths, hardwood/tile, Many upgrades: legal fees, GST, sod, tree and appls. All for the price of $389,000. A must see!

Call LLOYD FIDDLER 403-391-9294

Condos/ Townhouses

4040

OPEN HOUSE SAT. & SUN. 1-5 639 OAK ST. Springbrook 403-588-2550

Acreages

4050

HIGH and DRY 4 Acres, 1 Mile E of Caroline, Trees on N Property Line, Power to Property, $129,000.

Dori Westin, Coldwell Banker ONTRACK Realty 403-357-9010

Tour These Fine Homes

5180

PEFORMANCE tires, (2) 245552R18, (2) 23550R18, All Eagle RSA Goodyear. $200. ea.

403-782-7336 TWO SIZE 17 Firehawk GT 225/50R17, m/s, $120; 403-309-7387 403-392-6138

WANTED 700R4 GM Trans. Also, have 350 GM trans. w/ Lokar floor shift, $425. for sale. 403-350-1777

Auto Wreckers

5190

RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

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REDUCED! OPEN HOUSE Sun. 2 pm - 4 pm 2 ARDELL CLOSE Immaculate Executive Home w/4 bdrms. 3 Baths w/bonus room & lots of features, total of 3100 sq. ft. MLS CA0050955 $549,000 Margaret Comeau RE/MAX 403.391.3399

Realtors & Services

SYLVAN LAKE: fully furnished, inclds dishes, bedding, 50” tv, utils.

Avail. now from $1100. to $1300. 403-880-0210.

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4000-4190

Residential Building Lots in a Gated, Maintenance Free Golf & Lake Bedroom community, 25 minutes from Red Deer. Lots starting from 99K Contact Mike at 1-403-588-0218

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Open House SE Red Deer

CLASSIFICATIONS

4160

3 BDRM. 3 bath, house in Inglwood. 1250 sq.ft., dbl. garage. 403-886-4735

MASTER BDRM. w ens. $600/mo./dd.

403-342-4604

ROUTES IN:

Ingle Close Inglis Cres.

Irving Cres.

TO ORDER HOME DELIVERY OF THE ADVOCATE CALL OUR CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 403-314-4300

Misc. for Sale

CARRIERS NEEDED

ANDERS AREA

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PS2 with 10 games $60, stereo w/cassettes $70, Game Cube with 2 games $60 403-782-3847 ORIOLE PARK Wii with drums, games, 3 bdrm., 1-1/2 bath, $1175. and dance mat rent, s.d. $650, incl water $140 403-782-3847 sewer and garbage. Avail.

May 1st. 403-304-5337

FOR FLYERS, FRIDAY FORWARD & EXPRESS

McCullough Cres.

McDougall Cres.

Call Prodie @ 403- 314-4301 for more info **********************

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Meticulous & Unique 2184 Sq. Ft. 2 Bdrm., 3 Bath, 2.69 Acres.

Heated Shop. Tranquil Crick trickles thru. Mins. to Sundre. $437,000 Dori Westin, Coldwell Banker ONTRACK Realty 403-357-9010

Commercial Property

4110

4800 SQ. FT. BUILDING at Red Deer Airport.

403-886-2201

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A hive of misery and tuberculosis PRISONS IN WAR-TORN EAST UKRAINE HAVE SEEN MEDICAL SUPPLIES RUN OUT DESPITE A SCOURGE

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In this photo taken on March 26, 2015 prisoners of Zhdanivskaya prison listen to a lecture by a social worker in the village of Zhdanivka, eastern Ukraine. Medical supplies have been in short supply, threatening the lives of nearly 400 prisoners who need treatment. The principal scourge: Tuberculosis. The disease spreads prodigiously in jails and develops into hardto-treat forms unless properly addressed. “TB is so common within the penitentiary system that many inmates don’t see it as a deadly disease — they see catching TB as a normal part of life in prison,” Doctors Without Borders said in a recent situation report. “Some even tell us they don’t care if they die or not.”

Specialists have been forced into flight by unrest and the uncertainty of life under the rebel rule.

“We had two young bacteriologists, two young women ... I might have to speak politics here,” she said, cautiously peering at the minder. “They went to Ukraine. And I am here alone.”

Unable to manage on her own, Zagrebayeva has come to rely overwhelmingly on MSF, which has been running tuberculosis and HIV prevention and treatment programs at the prison for the past three years.

The collection of specimens for tuberculosis tests is done through a glass window. On one side, a prisoner coughs up and spits phlegm into a jar, which he then passes through a small opening to a nurse on the other side.

In another wing, an MSF social worker in a surgical mask held consultations with prisoners due for imminent release. The aim of the talks is to help prepare inmates mentally for life on the outside and to emphasize the importance of further treatment.

“Those who survive are not the healthiest,” said MSF social worker Irina Vasilyevna, “but those with the strongest spirit.”

MSF works on both sides of the front line between rebel and government forces, giving them better access to patients than either Ukraine or rebel authorities have.

“Some have finished their sentence but are still not healthy, so our job is to make sure than when they are free,” Vasilyevna said. “They receive their full treatment and are cured completely.”

In countries battling TB outbreaks, prisons are a cause for special concern because they can serve as breeding grounds for the most resilient strains.

Once outside, former convicts risk spreading their illness more widely.

Rebel areas are already illequipped to deal with the medical catastrophe triggered by a war that has killed more than 6,000 people, at a conservative U.N. estimate.

No official body has been tasked with gathering mortality data in sepa-

Ambush that killed 15 police in western Mexico could signal cartel’s offensive against state

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions on Mexico’s violent and growing Jalisco New Generation cartel a day after the gang mounted a bloody ambush that killed 15 Mexican police officers.

On Monday, the Jalisco cartel stopped a police convoy on a rural highway and opened fire, killing 15 officers and wounding five in the bloodiest single attack on Mexican law enforcement in recent memory.

The cartel and a related gang, the Cuinis, were placed on the U.S. Foreign Narcotics Kingpin list Tuesday.

The designation seizes the property and interests of the gangs and their leaders in the United States and prohibits U.S. citizens from engaging in transactions with them.

“These two organizations have rapidly expanded their criminal empire in recent years through the use of violence and corruption,” said John E. Smith, acting director of the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. “They now rank among the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in Mexico.”

The cartel originated in Jalisco, the

western state once dominated by Sinaloa cartel leader Ignacio “Nacho” Coronel until his death in a shootout in 2010. But since then, the cartel “has expanded beyond Jalisco to other Mexican states,” Smith’s office wrote in a press statement, and “has also further developed its ties to other criminal organizations around the world, including in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.”

Monday’s assault on a Jalisco state police convoy on a rural road between the Pacific coast resort of Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara, the state capital, was the latest in a series of attacks by cartel gunmen that some analysts say amounts to a military-style offensive against the government.

While officials have been loath to publicly name the cartel involved in Monday’s attack, an official of the state prosecutors’ office who was not authorized to speak on the record, confirmed that all evidence indicates that Jalisco New Generation carried out the ambush, as well as a previous string of attacks over the last two weeks. Last week, cartel gunmen made a failed attempt to kill state Security Commissioner Alejandro Solorio, and on March 19, they ambushed a federal police patrol, killing five officers.

Zhdanivskaya prison physician prepares samples for testing at a prison laboratory in the village of Zhdanivka, eastern Ukraine. ratist-held territory. But anecdotal evidence suggests that deaths have risen sharply among the elderly as a result of unrest exacerbating stress-related conditions. Weeks and months spent in damp and stuffy basements, cowering from shelling, have also spelled doom for those suffering from respiratory conditions.

Many prisoners who are released find themselves on the streets without money, spare clothes, documents or a home to go to. Without identification documents, it is difficult for them to leave rebel-held areas, so release from prison is a prelude to another entrapment.

While painting this picture, MSF worker Vasilyevna stopped mid-sentence as the minder approached with a curt suggestion that all such matters be discussed with the prison director.

One detention facility worker, who spoke on strict condition of anonymity, said that if it had not been for MSF, the stock of drugs would have long dried up and even more prisoners would have died. The worker spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of losing her job.

“If it had kept on going on as before,” the worker said, “the patients would have started dropping like flies.”

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Talk in the prison is that inmates ate them when food deliveries stopped.

Medical supplies have also been in short supply, threatening the lives of nearly 400 prisoners who need treatment. The principal scourge: tuberculosis. The disease spreads prodigiously in jails and develops into hard-to-treat forms unless properly addressed.

“TB is so common within the penitentiary system that many inmates don’t see it as a deadly disease — they see catching TB as a normal part of life in prison,” Doctors Without Borders said in a recent report. “Some even tell us they don’t care if they die or not.”

The grey, squat, three-story building stands inside a perimeter lined with barbed wire and observation towers.

Zhdanivka has since last year been under the control of the armed Russianbacked separatists who established the would-be breakaway state of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Supplies from the Ukrainian government have ground to a halt — and the ragtag rebel authorities have been at a loss to fill shortfalls.

Prison authorities allowed Associated Press journalists to visit the hospital at the Zhdanivka prison last week, albeit under close supervision.

The deputy prison director, dressed in a military-style uniform and seated under a black-blue-and-red Donetsk People’s Republic flag, coldly explained the rules: No walking without escort. No contact with prisoners. No filming of prison walls or towers. After being handed sanitary masks and passes, visitors entered detention wings while being followed closely by a prison minder.

The minder frequently restricted AP movements: “You cannot film there” ...

“Don’t go there, repair work going on” ... “That employee is off-limits.” Most prisoners were friendly and happy to talk, but were prevented from doing so by wardens. “My folks probably think I’m dead by now,” says one prisoner, before the conversation is cut short by a minder.

The only prisoners unwilling to speak were in Block 3 — a group of around 70 who rejected medical treatment in protest who said they are afraid doctors are testing unregistered drugs on them.

Responsibility for treating inmates in the underfunded prison shifted as early as 2011 to organizations like Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF. But the group’s role — and its burden — has grown sharply since war broke out last year.

MSF says 170 patients under treatment at five pre-detention centres and jails in areas surrounding the conflict zone have developed drug-resistant TB. Janette Olson, field co-ordinator of the MSF multidrug-resistant TB program, said prisoners are refusing to take drugs with unpleasant side effects, making long-term treatment complicated. MSF says that while the official death rate from tuberculosis in Ukraine is 15 per 100,000 people, the number is 10 times higher among prisoners.

A church built by prisoners sits behind the walls of the jail. Sick inmates go there daily to pray. Few distractions ease the monotony of life. Prisoners float like ghosts through the unlit corridors of the hospital and prison wards.

A sign on the door to the medical testing unit reads “Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory” against a blue-and-yellow Ukrainian flag. The minder rushed up to flip it around, as he did with other signs, because it shows allegiance to Ukraine. “We should have done this ages ago,” he said.

Larissa Zagrebayeva, the laboratory head, said she has been working in the prison for 36 years, and things have rarely been this grim. “Our staff has left,” she said. “They quit.”

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MAYOR PROMISES BODY CAMERAS AFTER FLEEING BLACK MAN SHOT IN THE BACK

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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — A white South Carolina police officer who claimed he killed a black man in self-defence has been fired and faces murder charges after a bystander’s video recorded him firing eight shots at the man’s back as he ran away. The city’s mayor also said he’s ordered body cameras to be worn by every single officer on the force.

The officer, Michael Thomas Slager, has been fired, but the town will continue to pay for his health insurance because his wife is eight-month’s pregnant, said North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey, who called it a tragedy for two families.

Police Chief Eddie Diggers said he was “sickened” by what he saw on the video, but his explanations were repeatedly interrupted by shouts of “no justice, no peace!” and other hard questions that he said he couldn’t answer. The mayor then took back the podium and threatened to close the news conference.

Protests began within hours of the murder charge against Slager, which was announced Tuesday, the same day the video was released to the media. About 75 people gathered outside City Hall in North Charleston, led by a Black Lives Matter, a group formed after the fatal shooting of another black man in Ferguson, Missouri.

“Eight shots in the back!” local organizer Muhiydin D’Baha hollered through a bullhorn, and the crowd yelled “In the back!” in response.

The video recorded by an unidentified bystander shows North Charleston Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager dropping his stun gun, pulling out his handgun and firing at Walter Lamer Scott from a distance as he runs away.

The 50-year-old man falls after the eighth shot, fired after a brief pause.

The dead man’s father, Walter Scott Sr. said Wednesday that the officer “looked like he was trying to kill a deer running through the woods.” He also told NBC’s Today Show that his son may have tried to flee because he

victed of murder.

The shooting comes amid a plunge in trust between law enforcement and minorities after the officer-involved killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner on Staten Island, New York. Nationwide protests intensified after grand juries declined to indict the officers in both cases.

“We have to take a stand on stuff like this ... we can’t just shake our heads at our computer screens,” said Lance Braye, 23, who helped organize Wednesday’s demonstration.

Scott’s family and their attorney, L. Chris Stewart, appealed to keep the protests peaceful, saying the swift murder charge shows that the justice system is working so far in this case.

But Stewart said the video alone forced authorities to act decisively.

“What if there was no video? What if there was no witness, or hero as I call him, to come forward?” asked Stewart, adding that the family plans to sue the police.

The video, shot over a chain link fence and through some trees, begins after Scott has left his car. Slager follows him, reaching at the man with an object that appears to be a stun gun.

As Scott pulls away, the object falls to the ground and Slager pulls out his handgun as Scott runs away.

The final shot sends Scott falling face-down about 30 feet away. Slager then slowly walks toward him and orders Scott to put his hands behind his back, but the man doesn’t move, so he pulls Scott’s arms back and cuffs his hands. The officer then walks briskly back to where he fired the shots, speaking into his radio. He picks up the same object that fell to the ground before and returns to Scott’s prone body, dropping the object near Scott’s feet as another officer enters the scene.

Scott had four children, was engaged and had been honourably discharged from the U.S. Coast Guard.

There were no violent offences on his record, Stewart said.

Photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A sign calling for justice is attached to a fence near the site where Walter Scott was killed in North Charleston, S.C., Wednesday. Scott was killed by a North Charleston police officer after a traffic stop on Saturday. The officer, Michael Thomas Slager, has been charged with murder. owed child support and didn’t want to go back to jail.

The video is “the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen,” said Judy Scott, the slain man’s mother, on ABC’s Good Morning America.

“I almost couldn’t look at it to see my son running defencelessly, being shot. It just tore my heart to pieces,” she said.

The bystander is assisting investigators after providing the video to Scott’s family and lawyers.

Deflecting many of the questions from a hostile audience at Wednesday’s news conference, Summey said state investigators have the case.

Police initially released a statement

that promised a full investigation but relied largely on the officer’s description of the confrontation, which began with a traffic stop Saturday as Slager pulled Scott over for a faulty brake light.

Slager’s then-attorney David Aylor released another statement Monday saying the officer felt threatened and fired because Scott was trying to grab his stun gun.

Aylor dropped Slager as a client after the video surfaced, and the officer, a five-year veteran with the North Charleston police, appeared without a lawyer at his first appearance Tuesday. He was denied bond and could face 30 years to life in prison if con-

Tsarnaev convicted in Boston Marathon bombing JURY TO WEIGH POSSIBLE DEATH SENTENCE out the attack with his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.

The two shrapnel-packed presBOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sure-cooker bombs that exploded convicted Wednesday in the Boston near the finish line on April 15, 2013, killed three spectators and Marathon bombing by a wounded more than 260 othfederal jury that now must er people, turning the tradidecide whether the 21-yeartionally celebratory home old former college student stretch of the world-famous should be executed. race into a scene of carnage Tsarnaev kept his hands and putting the city on edge folded in front of him and for days. looked down at the deIn the next phase of the fence table as listened to trial, the jury will hear evithe verdict, reached after a dence on whether Tsarnaev day and a half of deliberashould get the death pentions. He was found guilty alty or spend the rest of his on charges that included life in prison. conspiracy and use of a In a bid to save Tsarnaev weapon of mass destruction Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from a death sentence, de— offences punishable by fence attorney Judy Clarke death.

His conviction was practically a has argued that Tsarnaev, then 19, fell foregone conclusion, given his law- under the influence of his radicalized yer’s startling admission during open- brother. Tamerlan, 26, died when he ing statements that Tsarnaev carried was shot by police and run over by his

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brother during a chaotic getaway attempt days after the bombing.

“If not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened,” Clarke told the jury during closing arguments.

Prosecutors, however, portrayed the brothers — ethnic Chechens who moved to the U.S. from Russia more than a decade ago — as full partners in a plan to punish the U.S. for its wars in Muslim countries. Jihadist writings, lectures and videos were found on both their computers, though the defence argued that Tamerlan downloaded the material and sent it to his brother.

The government called 92 witnesses over 15 days, painting a hellish scene of torn-off limbs, blood-spattered pavement, ghastly screams and the smell of sulfur and burned hair. Survivors gave heartbreaking testimony about losing legs in the blasts or watching people die. The father of an 8-year-old boy described making the agonizing decision to leave his mortally wounded son so he could get help for their 6-year-old

daughter, whose leg had been blown off.

Killed were Lingzi Lu, a 23-yearold Chinese graduate student at Boston University; Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager; and Martin Richard, the 8-year-old. Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier was shot and killed during the brothers’ getaway attempt.

Some of the most damning evidence included video showing Tsarnaev planting a backpack containing one of the bombs near where the 8-year-old was standing, and incriminating statements scrawled inside the dry-docked boat where a wounded and bleeding Tsarnaev was captured days after the tragedy.

“Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop,” he wrote.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers barely cross-examined the government’s witnesses and called just four people to the stand over less than two days.

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ISIL frees captive Yazidis

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group released more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday after holding them for eight months, the latest mass release of captives by the extremists targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes and an Iraqi ground offensive.

Gen. Hiwa Abdullah, a peshmerga commander in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, said most of the freed 216 prisoners were in poor health and bore signs of abuse and neglect. He added that about 40 children are among those released, while the rest were elderly.

No reason was given for the release of the prisoners who were originally abducted from the area around Sinjar in the country’s north. The handover took place in Himera just southwest of Kirkuk, 290 kilometres (180 miles) north of Baghdad.

The freed captives wept and called out to God when greeted by their families, some so weak they lay on the arid ground. Women wiped away tears with their long headscarves.

“We are very happy now,” said Mahmoud Haji, one of the released Yazidis. “We were worried that they were taking us to Syria and Raqqa,” the Islamic State group’s de facto capital.

Those needing medical care were taken away by ambulances and buses to receive treatment.

Also among those released was Jar-Allah Frensis, a 88-year-old Christian farmer, and his wife.

Frensis said the militants broke into his house in Sinjar and arrested him along with his wife and son. Then, the family was separated and the son was taken away. He said he still doesn’t know what happened to his son.

“The militants took all of our money and jewelry.

We have been living under constant fear till our release,” Frensis told The Associated Press.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the release, his spokesman said.

“Obviously, any release of innocent civilians is to be welcomed and I think one couldn’t help but being moved by the pictures” of the Yazidis after they were freed, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

Tens of thousands of Yazidis fled in August when the Islamic State group captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. But hundreds were taken captive by the group, with some Yazidi women forced into slavery, according to international rights groups and Iraqi officials.

In January, the Islamic State group released some 200 Yazidi prisoners. At the time, Kurdish military officials said they believed the extremists released the prisoners as they were too much of a burden.

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Yazidis released by Islamic State group militants arrive in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 8, 2015. The Islamic State group released more than 200 Yazidis on Wednesday after holding them for eight months, an Iraqi Kurdish security official said, the latest mass release of captives by the extremists.

This latest release comes after Iraqi ground forces, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, retook the city of Tikrit, Saddam Hussein’s hometown.

The Islamic State group still holds about a third of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in its self-declared caliphate. The U.S. launched the airstrikes and humanitarian aid drops in Iraq on Aug. 8, partly in response to the Yazidi crisis.

The Sunni militant group views Yazidis and Shiite Muslims as apostates deserving of death, and has demanded Christians either convert to Islam or pay

a special tax. The group has massacred hundreds of captive soldiers and tribal fighters who have risen up against it, publicizing the killings in sleek online photos and videos.

In other violence Wednesday in Iraq, police and hospital officials said a bomb exploded near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s southeastern suburb of Nahrwan, killing four people and wounding 10. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

ing Somalia. Four gunmen killed 148 people and then also died when Kenyan security forces regained control of the campus later in the day.

“You should pray for your enemies, so that they can change,” said Teresa Kiiru, whose cousin, 22-year-old Obeddy Oking, died in the attack. “As Christians, we are told to forgive those who sin against us.”

Many family members have described, sometimes bitterly, the death of a child in the Garissa slaughter as not just an emotional blow, but also the loss of an “investment” into which they had poured money and hopes. Making it to university is a big achievement in Kenya, where many people don’t get opportunities

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Some home villages of the dead students, seen as bright stars who were making their communities proud, are reportedly experiencing collective grief.

On Wednesday, the morgue began releasing bodies to grieving families, who prepared to take the coffins on long bus journeys for burial at home.

“Take courage and do not give up,” Njue told relatives sitting under a tent at Nairobi’s Chiromo Funeral Parlour. “These are the challenges that come in our lives. Some of them are most probably too heavy ... heavier than we can be able to bear, humanly speaking. But let us try what we can.”

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Violence still a problem for Afghan women DESPITE GAINS, VIOLENCE REMAINS ENTRENCHED IN CULTURE KABUL — For the past year, the 17-year-old has lived in a shelter in Afghanistan’s capital, hoping for a new life away from the sexual abuse that turned her family inside out.

Her father sexually abused her from when she was nine years old and let his friends to do the same. She didn’t tell anyone, she said, because she didn’t understand what was happening to her. But any pretense of family normality imploded when medical examinations revealed that her brother was infertile and her father was also the father of her brother’s sons.

She then fled from her home village, in northern Afghanistan, and made her way to Kabul. There, she was taken in by a taxi driver and his family. But after a few days he and his friends — all heroin addicts — locked her up with three other girls and used them as sex slaves, she said.

“I came across to the same thing I was running from. Every day a new man used to come to me,” the teen told The Associated Press. The AP does not identify victims of sexual abuse.

The teen said she was speaking out in hopes it would prevent abuse of others.

The girl’s story may be on the extremes of brutality, but rights workers say violence and abuse against women remains one of Afghanistan’s most deeply entrenched problems, even as the government tries to build greater rights for women. Even measuring the extent of abuse is difficult.

In 2014, for example, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission received 2,026 reports of violence against women, up from previous years. But Hussain Mohsen, of the group’s investigation department, said variations from year to year are usually just technical blips and that the problem in general is more pervasive.

“The violence is so high and was high in the past as well,” Mohsen told AP. Out of all the violence reports the group receives from women, less than 10 per cent concern sexual violence, a reflection of the powerful taboos against discussing it. Sexual violence “is usually kept secret. For this reason most incidents of sexual violence remain unreported,” the group said in a March 8 report. The reports said violence against women “is one of the most serious human rights issues” facing the country, ranging from physical and sexual violence, “honour killings” and immolation.

Amnesty International released a report on Tuesday detailing an increase in violence and abuse directed at women rights activists. They face threats, violence, sexual assaults and killing as they go about their work, and yet their complaints are consistently ignored by Afghan authorities despite legal protections, it said. “The lack of protection is simply shocking,” said Salil Shetty, Amnesty’s secretary general.

In Afghanistan’s deeply conservative society, girls and women are often regarded as inferior to men and are forced to live within narrow social strictures. Many do not leave their homes are not permitted to work and are married off young to earn money for their families. Many are born, live and die as virtual prisoners, first of

their fathers and then their husbands.

The closed atmosphere gives broad license for abuses of women — almost always with impunity.

During the 1996-2001 rule of the Taliban, woman were banned from school or work or from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a male relative — and while those rules have been lifted since their fall, the overwhelming social restrictions remain.

Governments since the Taliban ouster have struggled to make progress.

President Ashraf Ghani made protection and expansion of women’s rights a platform of his election campaign in 2014 and has helped forge a public profile for his wife, Rula, as first lady, something not seen in recent Afghan history. She has spoken out publicly, both at home and abroad, on behalf of women’s rights. Still. promises to include women in government have yet to be fulfilled in the numbers A 17-year-old Afghan girl speaks during an interview with The the president originally pledged, leadAssociated Press, in Kabul, Afghanistan. For the past year, she ing to doubts both about his sincerity has lived in a shelter in Afghanistan’s capital, after escaping and his ability to rally political support for the cause. a lifetime of sexual abuse, first by her father since the age of New laws have been passed, but ennine, then by a man who purported to help her. Her story is suring they are applied is a tougher prospect, and there remains resistance extreme, but it typifies the problem of violence against women, in parliament to the laws protecting which activists say remains deeply entrenched in the country women from violence.

Still, experts and activists say efdespite efforts at change. forts to change attitudes ingrained Photos by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS over centuries are showing results.

“Afghan women have made a huge amount of progress since 2001. Millions of women have sent their daughters to school, studied themselves, gone out to work, participated in elections, or even just started leaving the house freely — none of which they could do under the Taliban,” said Heather Barr, senior researcher on women’s rights in Asia.

Still, she said, activists for women’s rights have been killed, violence against women goes largely unpunished, and half of girls still don’t go to school.“ Mohsen, of the AIHRC, said that at least more women now know more about their rights.

“There were so many awareness programs by different government and non-government or- Executive director for Afghan Women’s Network (AWN), Hasina Safi, centre, raises her hand to ask a ganizations, which question during a press conference by Amnesty International announcing their report on threats to were so effective,” women activists in Kabul, Afghanistan. Amnesty International says the activists, who are working to he said.

T h e c a s e o f improve the human rights situation in their country, face increased violence, including threats, sexual the 17-year-old at assault and assassinations. the Kabul shelter When she was trapped in the taxi a dozen nationwide. Their creation reshowed the incremental advances and how far there is mains stigmatized, with religious con- driver’s Kabul house, the teen manto go. Neither her father nor the taxi servatives regularly describing them aged to call a friend in her home town, driver were arrested over the reported as brothels. who then helped her find a place in abuse — a sign of the near complete Few women who run away from the shelter. impunity for offenders.

Now, she said, “I am more relaxed abusers find shelter. If they are found Still, the teen is one of the lucky by police, they can end up in prison and I am not forced to do what I don’t ones in that she found shelter from — ostensibly for their own protection want to do anymore, and secondly here her abuses. Shelters for women are — or often are sent home under ar- I can continue my studies, all opportunew, opening in the past decade, and nities are here and I can move on with remain few — with likely only around rangements by local arbiters intent on my studies.” maintaining the status quo.

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Staying sharp

Michael DeManche, 69, spars with his son Devin (in black mask) at the Royal Fencing Academy in Damascus, Md.; what might set fencing apart from other sports is that it requires learning a variety of complex motor functions.

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CERTAIN SPORTS MAY AID THE AGING BRAIN

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ter overall than their nonathlete peers.

And even though the older fencers had slower reaction times than the younger ones, their accuracy was the same.

Last year, researchers in Taiwan conducted a study that looked at cognitive function in 60 participants whose average age was 69. Those who exercised regularly were broken into two groups: people who practiced openskill sports and those who favored closed-skill activities.

The study found that regular exercisers had faster reaction times on an Eriksen flanker test, a cognitive task that requires a quick response to a central target image shown on a computer screen surrounded by distraction stimuli. Both exercise groups had similar response speeds, but the open-skill exercisers showed greater neural efficiency than the closed-skill exercisers.

Neural efficiency is the idea that better performers use fewer neurons and show lower brain activation when working on a cognitive task than poorer performers do. In other words, the open-skill athletes used less brainpower to do the same thing than the closedskill exercisers did.

“Physical activity involving continuous exposure to cognitively challenging situations can be associated with greater efficiency of neural circuits in older adults,” the authors concluded in the study.

What might set fencing apart from other sports is that it requires learning a variety of complex motor functions, according to neuroscientist Arthur Kramer, who was not associated with either the Italian or the Taiwanese study. For example, a fencer has to think through several ways of attacking, not to mention rapidly choosing from among nine different types of par-

The two fencers pull on their meshfront masks and face each other behind two “en garde” lines. At their coach’s signal, they raise their sabres and the practice bout begins in a flurry.

Michael DeManche, 69, is fencing his son Devin, 20, who not only has youth on his side but at 6-foot-5 also has a much longer reach.

Father and son move rapidly, advancing, retreating and attacking with precision. The skirmish continues until the score is tied at four points. Then in a flash, Devin prevails with a swift hit on his dad’s mask.

Despite their age difference, the two are well matched. Although Devin is more agile physically, Michael’s tactic for winning during their Wednesday night matches at the Royal Fencing In a study, fencing and other sports were found to boost cognitive functions such Academy in Damascus, Md., is to outas attention and processing. think his son in moves and positioning.

“When I’m fencing, I’m completely fories when fending off an opponent. and memory, and it deteriorates with cused,” Michael says.

“All of that gets quite complex and age.

Science may be able to explain has to be executed very quickly,” said While there’s no definitive evidence what’s going on in Michael’s aging Kramer, director of the Beckman Insti- that fencing is better than other types brain when he’s on the fencing strip. tute for Advanced Science and Tech- of physical activity, various research A small but growing body of research nology at the University of Illinois at findings seem to indicate that opensuggests that fencing and other sports Urbana-Champaign. skill sports are good for young and old that require quick decision-making One of Kramer’s primary research brains alike. may improve cognition in both young interests is how exercise affects the Michael DeManche, who, with his and old people, and help stave off cerbrain. In two studies published in 2014, son, began fencing in 2011, said he tain mental declines associated with Kramer and his colleagues reported can’t be sure whether his cognition aging. that physical activity was associated has improved in those four years. He In a study published in 2012, rewith more-compact and fibrous white picked up the sport to get in shape searchers led by Francesco Di Russo matter in the brains of children and after having heart-bypass surgery 15 of the Foro Italico University of Rome older adults. White matter is the stuff years ago. He plans to keep up the hypothesized that sports in which parthat carries signals from one brain sport as long as he’s physically able ticipants must constantly move and region to another, and more-compact — or he’ll quit when his son does. His adapt to changes around them might white matter is linked to faster and mind may not be what it used to be, he counteract age-related breakdowns more efficient nerve activity. White joked, but he’s able to keep up with a in learning, memory and processing matter also plays a role in attention 20-year-old after all. speeds. They found that fencing, “which requires fast decisions and . . . places high demands on visual attention and flexibility,” was associated with improvement of certain cognitive functions, such as attention and processing, that naturally decline with aging.

“We wanted to see whether this sport may keep the brain fast and accurate, reducing cognitive aging,” Di Russo said.

In addition to fencing, sports that use what are called “open motor skills” include basketball, hockey, football and table tennis. “Closed motor skills” are those used in a stable, predictable setting in which the performer typically chooses when to start using the skill and knows GREAT THINGS HAPPEN WHEN YOU GO NORTH exactly what to do. Closedskill sports, which include biking, bowling, golf and gymnastics, involve selfpaced movements.

Di Russo’s study involved 20 fencers and a control group of 20 nonathletes. In both groups, half were in their mid-20s and the other half had an average age of 50.

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